Kristina Pérez
- Submission status
- Closed
- Submission route
- QueryTracker
- Response time
- Not stated
- Last checked
- 2 days ago
About
Kristina is managing director and literary agent at Pérez Literary & Entertainment.
She has a decade of experience in publishing as both an author and an agent, with a background in medieval literature and journalism. She has written young adult novels and is publishing her first novel for adults. She sees each client relationship as a partnership, working with clients to develop the right strategy for their careers.
Genres
Looking for
- commercial & Book Club Fiction, including manuscripts that play with form and narrative structure like Daisy Jones & the Six or The Paper Palace
- sweeping multigenerational dramas in the vein of Pachinko or books that take on timely issues such as Emily Edwards' The Herd
- keenly researched historical fiction like Lynne Kutsukake's The Translation of Love or anything by Yangsze Choo
- horror, including folk horror and Gothic tropes with a new twist, horror fantasy, social horror, feminist horror and queer horror, and dark comedies that bleed into horror territory
- crossover young adult/NA Fantasy with strong romantic elements, including a sweeping or epic adventure where the romance propels the plot forward, a queer romance set in an alternate timeline or a well-considered secondary world, and enemies to lovers where the protagonists learn and grow through their relationship
- Paranormal Romance/Urban Fantasy, including fresh takes on Anita Blake or Sookie Stackhouse, stories like Kelley Armstrong's Bitten series with 2020s vibes, dark fae and mythic lore with a feminist bent, and the right kind of zombie hero like Warm Bodies
- Non-Fiction, including narrative popular science on neuroscience, smart thinking in the vein of Cal Newport or Oliver Burkeman, and lesser known female historical figures such as Widow Clicquot by Tilar J. Mazzeo.
Not looking for
- body horror
Agency submission guidelines
Submit only through Query Manager, uploading a query letter and the first ten pages of your novel or the first ten pages of your non-fiction sample chapter. Queries submitted by e-mail or other methods will not be considered or read. Do not send an exclusive query. Only submit the same manuscript to one PLE agent.
Links
- Websiteperezliterary.com/about-us/the-team
- Submissionsperezliterary.com/submit
