Meet the agents who will critique your LGBTQ+ Romance entries!
Peters Fraser and Dunlop Group
Silvia Molteni is the head of the children’s and YA books department at PFD. She manages her own list of clients alongside selling foreign rights in our children’s and YA titles worldwide. Silvia also handles all audio rights for the agency. The Bookseller named Silvia 2019’s Rising Star. Across MG and YA fiction, Silvia is drawn to voice-driven and character-driven narratives, LGBTQI story-lines and characters, endearing narrators, magical realism and upmarket literary fiction.
Brower Literary and Management
Having grown up with the same name as her favorite Sweet Valley High twin, Jess has always had a love for books, especially those that feature child psychopaths, platonic friendships between men and women, a romance that makes her heart beat faster, and serial killers. She has a BFA in Writing for Film and Television from the University of the Arts and worked in entertainment for eight years before returning to her home state of NY where she worked at a literary agency for two years before joining Brower Literary & Management.
Peters Fraser and Dunlop Group
Lucy Irvine is an Associate Agent, working primarily on PFD’s children’s list. After graduating from University College London with an MA in Issues in Modern Culture in 2017, she interned at Agora Books, PFD’s publishing arm, before becoming assistant to CEO Caroline Michel. She began building her own list in the summer of 2019. Alongside building her own list of clients, Lucy sells foreign rights in children’s and YA titles in Eastern Europe and Russia, and handles audio narration rights for the agency. Lucy is always looking for diverse protagonists across race, sexuality and gender. Lucy is particularly keen on fantasy, sci-fi, and speculative fiction, and in these genres will read submissions aimed at adults as well as children’s and YA.
Details for March 2021 Pass or Pages:
Entry starts: Monday, March 1st at 6 a.m. Eastern
Entry ends: Friday, March 5 at 6 p.m. Eastern
Category/Genre: LGBTQ+ Romance!
How To Enter: Fill out the entry form on the
contest post when it goes live on March 1.
What Is Required: Your query (NO BIO or
personalization for agents), your first 250 words, a complete and polished MS
You can also read more about the rules here.
The winning entries with agent commentary will
be posted on Operation Awesome the week of March 15th, one entry each day. If
you aren't comfortable with having your entry (which will be anonymous) shared
on the blog, please don't enter Pass or Pages!
If you have any questions, please ask in the
comments or tweet @OpAwesome6. Also,
feel free to chat about the contest with fellow participants with the hashtag
#PassOrPages.
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