Hillary Fazzari

About Me:

Hi!  I’m Hillary (she/her), and I’m an agent at the Bradford Literary Agency! As an agent, I’m a generalist and acquire widely across genres, age bands, and book types. I am not always open to unsolicited queries in all of the areas I represent, however.

At the moment I am open to unsolicited queries in:

• Picture Books
• Graphic Novels (for kids)
• Middle-Grade
• YA
• New Adult
• Commercial Adult Fiction

And I have areas of current high focus in each of these.

For Picture books, I’m most looking for:

• Funny, unexpected, character-centric picture books (like ELIOSE or DON’T LET THE PIGEON DRIVE THE BUS!) for young readers aged 1-5.
• Offbeat or unexpected ecosystem-centric books (like CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS or BROWN BEAR WOOD: IT’S BUSY DOWN IN THE WOODS TODAY) for young readers aged 1-6.
• Interactive books (like I SPY or WHERE’S WALDO) for elementary aged kids.
• Nonfiction, myth, and history books for readers aged 6-8.

For Middle-grade, I’m most looking for:

• Stories for kids who are “scrollers” and need consistent input to transition to reading.
• Interactive, interesting format, and illustrated stories: this includes LitRPG, Choose Your Own Adventure stories, stories that include a Search & Find or “solve this mystery” element, alternate formats, combined formats, fun and/or goofy illustrations, and more!
• Adventure, quest, and mystery books with interesting, especially offbeat or lovable oddball protagonists. (THE FOURTH STALL, TIMMY FAILURE, SPACE CASE, DRAGON RUN, and the FUNJUNGLE books are very indicative of my taste). I also like both big adventure and school-adventure (THE WORST SCHOOL TRIP EVER, TAPPER TWINS, THE CHRONICLES OF EGG, and anything with great humor!).
• Crossover books for lower middle grade readers and upper middle grade readers (humor is often a big element I look for especially in lower middle grade with drama something I love seeing in upper middle grade).
• Oddball stories (like ANIMORPHS) that hook into things kids are interested in.

For YA and New Adult, I’m most looking for:

• Compelling fantasy of all types with big relationships (and ships!)
• High impact, addictive-to-read, dangerous books (like HUNGERGAMES and not necessarily in only dystopia; I’d love to see fantasy or sci-fi with that same sort of can’t-put-down vibe).
• Big world urban fantasy
• Big, dangerous sci-fi (think STRANGER THINGS, books set in space or off our planet, or futuristic)
• High drama and fun, soapy material (GOSSIP GIRL, TO ALL THE BOYS I’VE LOVED BEFORE, and in terms of TV comps TEEN WOLF)
• Books with not just great romances but great bromances as well (in terms of TV comps MERLIN and TEEN WOLF)

For Adult fiction, I’m most looking for:

• Compelling fantasy with or without big romance that keeps me on the edge of my seat!
• Thrillers with bite and something new to say.
• Horror that weaves in romance and humanity (I’d love an adult RAVEN BOYS and I adored THE RESURRECTIONIST).
• Weird, dark, feminist-centric, critique-of-capitalism genre work
• Witty horror-tinged fantasy, including cozy
• Futuristic worlds (cozy included)

For Graphic Novels, I only represent graphic novels for kids and am most looking for projects from author-illustrators with:

• Material with an element of fantasy.
• Material deeply hooked into what kids are interested in (be it elementary readers, middle school readers, or high school readers).
• Hybrid material that may utilize both graphic novel and prose (or some other format or element) combined.

Submission Guidelines

I only accept queries through QueryManager.  You can reach my QueryManager page from here: https://bradfordlit.com/submission-guidelines

No use of Generative AI:

Protecting author’s and illustrators’ work is extremely important to me; I never use AI to review or read queries/submissions and do not represent material that has been created or edited by generative AI either.

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