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Fee-Free General Novels

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Color Coding: Purple indicates a Wildcard, Grey indicates a Literary Agent, Green indicates a paying publication, and Blue is everything else.

Kurestin Armada

I love working with creators to form a roadmap for the rest of their career. Talking to people with projects that are ambitious, strange, personal, and just outrageously fun is the spark that keeps me going. I'm here to be their advocate and make sure they can keep writing for years and years to come. My main focus is genre fiction (so speculative in some way) but I enjoy stories that range widely across that spectrum…
Genres: Open to all/most genres, including: General, Fantasy, Horror, Romance, Science Fiction.
Lengths: Novel.
Avg. Response: Slower than average responder. 182.9 days.
Acceptances: Unknown. None reported yet in fiction.

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Lauren Bajek

Lauren Bajek joined Liza Dawson Associates as an assistant in 2021. Previously, she was a bookseller and the science fiction and fantasy buyer for the Elliott Bay Book Company. Lauren represents adult science fiction, fantasy, and horror, as well as upmarket fiction, mystery, and romance with speculative elements. She represents very select science/nature nonfiction, but she does not represent children’s books or YA…
Genres: General, Fantasy, Horror, Science Fiction.
Lengths: Novel.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 54.5 days.
Acceptances: Unknown. None reported yet in fiction.

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Stephen Barr

Writers House has been around for over forty years, and in addition to being an actual house (it's true! Check our website!), it's one of the largest literary agencies in the industry, representing fiction and non-fiction of every stripe. I've been with Writers House for a little over nine years now, and while I'm not an actual house (couldn't get the permits), I'm a pretty omnivorous agent.
Genres: General, Fantasy, Mystery/Crime.
Lengths: Novel.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 22.5 days.
Acceptances: Unknown. None reported yet in fiction.

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Michael Carr Wildcard

With a strong background in editing and writing, Michael enjoys teaching at workshops and conferences to help develop emerging writers. He is fluent in Spanish and speaks conversational French. Before joining Veritas, Michael had professions as diverse as programming simulators for nuclear submarines and owning an inn in Vermont.
Genres: General, Fantasy, Science Fiction.
Lengths: Novel.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 17.0 days.

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Dzanc Books

Dzanc publishes innovative and award-winning literary fiction and nonfiction, including short story collections and novels by accomplished and award-winning writers such as Roy Kesey, Yannick Murphy, Peter Markus, Hesh Kestin, Kyle Minor, Michael Czyzniejewski, Suzanne Burns, Peter Selgin, Laura van den Berg, Robert Lopez, Dawn Raffel, Jeff Parker, Terese Svoboda, and Henning Koch.
Genres: General.
Lengths: Novel.
Payment: + Unknown advance. Unknown royalties.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 64.2 days.
Acceptances: Unknown. None reported yet in fiction.

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CoCo Freeman

CoCo Freeman recently joined the agency. She is a graduate of Bard College with a B.A. in Written Arts. Before joining Linda Chester, CoCo worked for Tom Yoon Productions developing projects and editing existing material. She is looking for smart adult commercial fiction, mysteries, thrillers, historical fiction, young adult, middle grade and select picture books.
Genres: General, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery/Crime, Romance, Suspense/Thriller, Western.
Lengths: Novel.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 12.3 days.
Acceptances: Unknown. None reported yet in fiction.

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Amanda Jain

Amanda came by her love of reading honestly, inheriting it from parents who always had books close to hand. She began her career in publishing at W. W. Norton, where she spent seven years before pursuing a masters degree in history of the decorative arts. She rejoined publishing shortly thereafter at Inklings Literary Agency, and is excited every day to encounter new writers and their stories. Amanda currently lives outside of Washington, DC with her husband and two kids…
Genres: General, Mystery/Crime, Romance.
Lengths: Novel.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 6.9 days.
Acceptances: Unknown. None reported yet in fiction.

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Lauren Khan

Lauren Khan joined FinePrint Literary in 2025 as an Associate Agent following an internship at Triada US Literary Agency. She first entered the publishing world as an author. Prior to transitioning to agenting, she worked for over seven years as a corporate lawyer in New York City. Lauren brings both editorial and transactional expertise to her clients. Lauren lives with her family in her small beach hometown in Florida…
Genres: General, Mystery/Crime, Romance, Suspense/Thriller.
Lengths: Novel.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 0.1 days.
Acceptances: Unknown. None reported yet in fiction.

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Lara Perkins

Lara represents bestselling and award-winning authors and illustrators of board books, picture books, early readers, chapter books, middle grade, and YA fiction and nonfiction, and authors of adult fiction. Lara has a BA in English and Fine Arts from Amherst College and an MA in English Literature from Columbia University, where she studied feminist and postcolonial theory…
Genres: Open to all/most genres, including: General, Fantasy, Mystery/Crime, Science Fiction.
Lengths: Novel.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 20.5 days.
Acceptances: Unknown. None reported yet in fiction.

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Maria Whelan

Before joining Mushens Entertainment in September 2025, Maria Whelan worked at InkWell Management in New York for over 8 years as an assistant and agent. She began her career in publishing as a Foreign Rights Assistant at Janklow & Nesbit in New York. Maria graduated from University College Dublin with a BA in English and Drama, then obtained her Master's in Literature and Modernity from the University of Edinburgh…
Genres: General.
Lengths: Novella, Fiction Collection, Novel.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 57.5 days.
Acceptances: Unknown. None reported yet in fiction.

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