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Paige Terlip represents all categories of children’s books from picture books to young adult, as well as select adult fiction, including thrillers/psychological suspense, fantasy/sci-fi, horror, upmarket fiction, romance, and mysteries, and platform-based nonfiction. Regardless of genre, she is seeking inclusive, intersectional voices and gorgeous line-level writing with emotionally compelling narratives.


Some of Paige’s specific wish list items include:


Adult:

  • Horror that dismantles the gender binary (and societal norms)

  • Stories that examine contemporary issues using horror/speculative elements as the vehicle (think Jordan Peele or Stephen Graham Jones)

  • Sentient forests or natural settings with a sinister undertone (a la Annihilation)

  • Cozy mysteries that center BIPOC and/or queer characters

  • Queer and/or BIPOC romance (with conflict that CAN'T be solved with one conversation)

  • Exploring a magical matrilineal inheritance through a trans POV

  • Real burgeoning science taken to the next level

  • Platform-based nonfiction centering underrepresented voices in the health and wellness space 

  • Nonfiction about LGBTQIA+ sex and relationships or self-help by queer authors 


Please note: Paige is closed to picture book and MG queries except for referrals or conference attendees. 


For additional wish list details please visit: paigeterlip.com.


Paige has worked at ABLA since 2017. She comes to agenting with a background in marketing, design, and freelance editorial. She’s worked at Charlesbridge Publishing, The National Renewable Energy Laboratory, and a ranch in the Rockies. She has an MA in Children's Literature and an MFA in Writing for Children from Simmons University. If she’s not reading, you'll find her training for long distance open water swims, re-watching the Great British Baking Show, or hiking with her Husky-Shepherd mix.

RECENT DEALS
Tigest Girma's debut IMMORTAL DARK, a dark academia fantasy about the 19-year-old heiress to a fallen legacy, who must infiltrate the society of vampires she fled as a child to find her kidnapped sister and share a house with the alluring vampire she suspects killed her family, to Little, Brown Children's, in a major deal, at auction, in a three-book deal, for publication in fall 2024

Kate Cochrane's debut WAKE UP, NAT & DARCY, a sapphic romance in which two former hockey teammates turned rivals with unresolved feelings for one another are paired to host a popular morning show's Olympic coverage and must remain professional amid a nation of fans closely scrutinizing their incredible chemistry, to Harlequin Carina Adores, for publication in 2024.

Peter Cheong's WHERE WE CAN HEAR THE GIANTS SING, in which a young girl is given a magical gift to explore underwater mysteries alongside a new friend with the gentle and loving reminder that home is always a place you can come back to, to Holt Children's, at auction, for publication in fall 2024.

Rosalyn Ransaw's SMOKE & MIRRORS, pitched as FROM THE DESK OF ZOE WASHINGTON meets THE PARKER INHERITANCE, in which a Black boy is forced to spend his summer refurbishing an old mansion and in the process is pulled into the unsolved mystery of the previous owner, a famous magician who disappeared without a trace, to Amulet, for publication in fall 2024.

Ally Russell's MYSTERY JAMES DIGS HER OWN GRAVE and sequel, that follows a 13-year-old who was abandoned in a cemetery, raised in a funeral home, and can smell ghosts; when a priceless heirloom goes missing and her family's funeral home is in danger of closing, she embarks on an adventure to clear their good name—and is exposed to a world of vampiric ghosts, sleep demons, and grave-robbing conspiracies, to Delacorte, in a two-book deal, for publication in fall 2025.

Emily Varga's YA fantasy, FOR SHE IS WRATH, pitched as a Pakistani Count of Monte Cristo fantasy, following a girl determined to exact her revenge after being accused of a crime she didn't commit, but when the person standing in her way is the ex-lover who condemned her, retribution becomes a complicated game of cat and mouse; and an untitled YA fantasy, pitched as an anti-colonial Indiana Jones meets A COURT OF THORNS AND ROSES, to Wednesday Books, in a two-book deal, for publication in Winter 2024 and Winter 2025.

Bex Glendining's INDIGO PORT, a YA graphic novel in which a young woman struggling with the grief of losing her estranged grandmother discovers there was more to her grandmother than meets the eye, taking her down a magical rabbit hole of love and forgiveness, to Abrams Amulet, for publication in spring 2025.
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Queer love

Carnivorous plants

Petrichor

Dog-friendly hikes

Secret passages

Martial arts

Give me swoon-y romance–contemporary, fantasy, mystery/thriller, etc.—make me laugh or take me on an adventure, but above all give me a happily ever after!
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I love well-plotted twists, being a little bit scared, and stories that explore the fluidity of gender and bring the queer experience
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