Hi! I’m Hillary, and I rep a broad array of fiction and nonfiction from picture books to commercial, upmarket, and literary adult material, plus the occasional book for the academic market.

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Right now, I’m most looking for:

▶ Adult Narrative Nonfiction, particularly in areas of history, pop culture, and lifestyle.

▶ MG and YA that takes me back to simple, exciting premises that exist outside of trends.

▶ Adult Literary and Upmarket fiction, particularly in genre areas (e.g.: hauntingly dark literary thrillers; character-driven upmarket mysteries; literary horror; upmarket historical works with strong hooks; speculative upmarket and literary projects – and I am especially interested in stories that genre-mix, feature feminism, or complicated female or queer protagonists). I also love unhinged characters paired with glorious writing.

▶ High-concept, Commercial Fiction with strong “strange attractor” elements for both kids and adults. Here, I’m loosely following Terry Rossio’s definition with “strange attractor” being a combination of “strange” (or “unique”) and “attractor” (from “attractive”, though in publishing this can also mean “familiar” because familiar can be attractive). So an example of a storyline with a strong “strange attractor” element would be Rossio’s own Disney cartoon Aladdin, which is a combination of the familiar, original story of Aladdin (from One Thousand and One Nights) mixed with the character of Aladdin as a My Fair Lady figure in a way that rewrites the old into something unique, strangely attractive, and compelling. Or Jurassic Park, which combines two things that shouldn't go together -- theme parks and dinosaurs -- into something unexpected and deliciously fun!

▶ Genre mixing stories of all kinds, for all ages, again with high concepts and strong “strange attractor” elements. So I’m specifically looking for stories that combine elements that might not otherwise go together: e.g., My Fair Lady in space formatted as a murder mystery; a dark academia with a thriller plotline; a cozy fantasy set on a space ship; Doctor Who but make it a time-travel rom-com instead.

▶ Fanfiction writers interested in transitioning high-concept, novel-length, strange-attractor-based fanfiction out of the fanfiction sphere and into the traditional market via reworking their writing into projects unconnected to their original fandom(s).

These days I am rarely looking for:

• Low-concept material (though I am very happy to look at high-concept, character-driven work!).

The types of work I acquire include:

• Picture books, fiction & nonfiction though at this point only from author-illustrators who write and illustrate their own work.
• Graphic novels for kids, again at this point only from author-illustrators who write and illustrate their own work.
• Chapter books (for young readers, with or without illustrations)
• Middle-grade fiction (with or without illustrations, including upper middle-grade and unique format books)
• YA fiction (including lower YA and upper YA crossover)
• New Adult/crossover fiction
• Adult fiction (literary, upmarket, and commercial)
• Adult nonfiction (history, lifestyle, pop culture, and occasional memoirs and other categories)