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Jennifer joined the Andrea Brown Literary Agency in 2016, after a career in marketing and public relations. Agenting is her dream job, and she is proud to represent NYTimes bestselling and award-winning authors, as well as talented debuts she believes will be stars someday. She loves working with writers and illustrators, and nothing gives her greater joy than to help an author elevate their story. She is most drawn to emotionally compelling voices and fresh perspectives underrepresented in literature.
Please send Jennifer:
YA novels in any genre (horror, thrillers, gothic, grounded science fiction, humor, hints of magic in our world), but especially literary stories about ordinary teens dealing with life, family, relationships, sexuality, mental health, or recovery from addiction. A blend of genre and literary would be best of all-- and even better if she gets to fall in love (or lust).
Adult literary psychological thrillers, horror, gothic, and grounded science fiction (she is a suspense junkie, who loves to be scared). She enjoys dual timeline stories where one's youth and decisions affect (brighten or haunt) one's adult life. Throw in dash of (bad) romance, and she’s hooked.
Stories that blur the lines between the real and the imagined.
Beautiful writing at the line level that she can't help but stop to savor the craft.
Projects that comp to TV/film horrors: Yellowjackets, Companion, Barbarian, Watcher, Parasite, Late Night with the Devil, Get Out, The Perfection, Nocturne, It Follows, Santa Sangre (I love Psycho retellings), Candy Land (2022), Saint Maud, and more.
She will read (or watch) any horror with the word "mother" in the title. She is fascinated with the horror of motherhood, the horror of being mothered. (Ex. Leslie J. Anderson's The Unmothers), and how parents can pass down their own demons to their children.
Horroromance. Dating can be a nightmare. Make it terrifying, or better yet, add humor to make it campy and fun.
She is eager to find stories with rural settings: woods, farms, ranches, mountains, lonely highways.
She would love to find a creepy doll story.
Please no picture books, MG, or YA second world fantasy at this time. Her list is currently very full.
Note: Sadly, Jennifer is not the best fit for novels-in-verse, as those forms are not her editorial strength. Please consider one of her wonderful colleagues instead.
That’s her wish list, but you might have something she has never considered before, and it might be absolutely perfect for her. Surprise her. She loves to read a good story and hopes to read yours!
RECENT DEALS
Cofounder of Pacific Islanders in Publishing and hapa Native Hawaiian debut author Keala Kendall's THAT WHICH FEEDS US, pitched as MEXICAN GOTHIC meets SHE IS A HAUNTING, following a teen girl whose search for her missing twin leads her to an ultra-exclusive remote island resort, where she uncovers the sinister side of paradise with horrors both real and supernatural, and a second YA gothic novel, WHERE TANGLED ROOTS LIE. Sold to Random House Children's, in a significant deal, at auction, for publication in summer 2026.
Birukti Tsige's TOO PRETTY TO LIE, a heist-revenge novel pitched in the vein of PORTRAIT OF A THIEF, following a hustler as she infiltrates the Harvard elite to steal from the sons and daughters of the rich and powerful. Sold to Viking.
Author-illustrator Sas Milledge to adapt BLUE LILY, LILY BLUE and THE RAVEN KING, books three and four in Maggie Stiefvater's the Raven Cycle YA series, about four private school boys, a psychic's daughter, and a Welsh legend who lies dormant beneath the mountains of a sleepy Virginia town. Sold to Viking Children's.
Author-illustrator Mars Lauderbaugh's BRIGHTER STARS, in which an 18-year-old rule-breaking flight academy cadet discovers the alien alliance they were raised to hate might not be the ones behind the terrorist attacks threatening their home planet—and anyone could be the true enemy, even their closest friend. Sold to Feiwel and Friends in an exclusive submission, for publication in spring 2028.
THINGS I LOVE:
Hidden rooms
Haunted houses
Unlikely love interests
Origin stories
Silver linings
I fall hard for protagonists who make bad decisions for the right (and occasionally the wrong) reasons.
REPRESENTATIVE TITLES
When a story raises a captivating question
(or two or three),
I will read until 3 a.m. to find out what happens
(and then offer rep!).
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