Annie Bomke

Please note, I am currently closed to queries. Any queries received during this period will go unread. I’ll remove this notice when I reopen. Thanks everyone!

I represent mostly adult fiction, and the occasional adult nonfiction or YA fiction project.  (All of the things on my fiction wishlist apply to adult and YA.)  I’m passionate about #OwnVoices books that celebrate all kinds of diversity.  I want strong characters and rich emotions.

I gravitate more towards upmarket and literary fiction, though I also enjoy commercial fiction with a strong voice (especially if it’s funny!).  I like serious fiction and weird/quirky/funny fiction.

I love all kinds of mysteries—from hilarious cozies to dark literary suspense to psychological thrillers to locked room mysteries.

I love literary, psychological horror, folk horror, and horror mashups (horror mysteries, horror historical, horror romance, horror comedy, horror westerns).

I love all manner of speculative fiction, including magical realism, surrealism, fabulism, and grounded speculative fiction, but I’m not the right agent for straight up fantasy or sci-fi.  I like myth/folklore retellings.

I love contemporary fiction and historical fiction of the 19^th and 20^th century (especially centered around diverse characters).

More specific fiction wants:

-a novel about the dancing plague of 1518

-doppelgangers

-creepy dolls

-Twin Peaks/David Lynch vibes

-evil children (ala The Bad Seed)

I’m looking for prescriptive (business, self-help, health) and narrative nonfiction (memoir, hybrid memoirs, current events, psychology) with a strong platform.

More specifically for nonfiction, I’m looking for books on animal or plant psychology/behavior (such as The Hidden Life of Trees or Inside of a Dog), behavioral economics (such as The Secret Language of Money or Predictably Irrational), the connection between mind and body/between emotion and biology, narrative nonfiction about the history of something universal (like Rain: A Natural and Cultural History), American cultural studies that won’t be irrelevant in a few years, (such as studies on race (like The Color of Success or Pushout) and gender, Islamophobia, white supremacy/white extremists/the alt-right, Black Lives Matter, rape culture and the treatment of rape victims/rape accusers, cat-calling, the dark side of social media (like So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed), and any other topics that are culturally relevant).

Submission Guidelines

Submissions should be emailed to submissions@abliterary.com

Submission guidelines for fiction:
For all fiction submissions, please send a query letter, synopsis, and the first 20 pages of your manuscript pasted in the body of the email.

Submission guidelines for nonfiction:
For all nonfiction submissions, please send a query letter and proposal pasted in the body of the email.

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