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Smart Search List of the Day

Fee-Free Novels

Smart Search is one of several search options for our members. It enables you to search for publishers and agents using the most common options and provides a short list of results that's curated and updated daily. This helps you find that gold nugget in the stream with as little effort as possible. Although you aren't a member yet, we are giving you a free preview of our Smart Search below. Read our Guide to Smart Search for more information about this feature.

Note: These are the results of a previous Smart Search List of the Day. Today's Smart Search is General Literary Flash Fiction.
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Haley Casey

Haley Casey has always had a special place in her heart for stories, but it was when she wrote her first chapter book in fifth grade that her true love of literature was realized. In 2015, she graduated from The University of Kansas with a bachelor’s degree in creative writing, and that fall, she attended the Denver Publishing Institute. She began her full-time career at Ogden Publications, where she was an editor for four years…
Genres:       General, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery/Crime, Romance, Science Fiction.
Lengths: Novel.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 10.3 days.
Acceptances: Unknown. None reported yet in fiction.

Alexander Cochran

Alex is actively building his list and is always on the lookout for new writers of speculative fiction, commercial fiction, literary fiction, crime and thriller and serious non-fiction. A random selection of authors he loves includes Cormac McCarthy, Michael Pye, Joe Abercrombie, Peter Ackroyd, Chris Whitaker, Ruth Ware, Claire Vaye Watkins, Raymond Chandler, Richard Swan, Barbara Demick, Gillian Flynn, Cathy O’Neill, Emily St John Mandel, Blake Crouch, James SA Corey, Naomi Alderman, Pierce…
Genres:         Open to all/most genres, including: General, Action-Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery/Crime, Science Fiction, Suspense/Thriller.
Lengths:    Novelette, Novella, Novel.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 41.1 days.
Acceptances: Unknown. None reported yet in fiction.

Rach Crawford  Wildcard

Rach Crawford joined Wolf Literary Services in 2016, having worked previously at Fletcher and Company (now UTA), Sterling Lord Literistic, and as a publicist for a small press. At Wolf Lit, she is an agent and the foreign rights manager. Rach’s clients have won Walkley Awards, are Fulbright Scholars, have been shortlisted for the Stella Prize, the Commonwealth Writers Prize, a Lambda Literary Award, nominated for Pushcart Prizes, and have appeared in Best American Short Stories, and on the…
Genres:     General, Horror, Science Fiction, Suspense/Thriller.
Lengths: Novel.
Avg. Response: Slower than average responder. 123.3 days.

Grace Demyan

Grace joined the Harvey Klinger Literary Agency in 2025, where she is thrilled to begin building a list as an Associate Agent. She is interested in a wide range of fiction and always on the lookout for underrepresented authors. In general, she loves quirky-off beat storytelling that can deliver heartfelt and thoughtful messaging, characters with richly developed relationships, and stories that center around a fantastical or often-overlooked setting…
Genres:       General, Fantasy, Horror, Romance, Science Fiction, Suspense/Thriller.
Lengths: Novel.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 3.9 days.
Acceptances: Unknown. None reported yet in fiction.

Hillary Jacobson

Hillary Jacobson represents a wide array of adult and young adult fiction, as well as select non-fiction. She began her career at ICM in 2015 and joined CAA in 2022 following the agency’s acquisition of ICM. A lifelong obsessive reader, she is always on the hunt for writing that provokes a strong emotional reaction, adds an important perspective to the cultural conversation, or challenges the reader's beliefs…
Genres:       General, Fantasy, Horror, Romance, Science Fiction, Suspense/Thriller.
Lengths: Novel.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 52.9 days.
Acceptances: Unknown. None reported yet in fiction.

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.

LVP Publications

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LVP Publications publishes horror, dark fiction, thrillers and pulp fiction with supernatural, paranormal, psychological or occult elements.
Genres:    General, Horror, Suspense/Thriller.
Lengths:    Novella, Fiction Collection, Novel.
Payment: + Unknown advance. Unknown royalties.
Avg. Response: Average responder. 117.3 days.
Acceptances: Approachable. 30.8% of fiction submissions accepted.

Jennifer March Soloway

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Jennifer March Soloway is a co-founder and agent at Starling Literary + Media. After an initial career in marketing and public relations, Jennifer shifted to publishing in 2013. She became an agent in 2016 at the Andrea Brown Literary Agency, where she was a senior agent, before co-founding Starling in 2025 with her dear friends and colleagues, Jemiscoe Chambers-Black and Paige Terlip…
Genres:       Open to all/most genres, including: General, Fantasy, Horror, Romance, Suspense/Thriller.
Lengths: Novel.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 45.8 days.
Acceptances: Unknown. None reported yet in fiction.

Kate McKean

Kate McKean joined HMLA, Inc. in 2006. She earned her master’s degree in fiction writing at the University of Southern Mississippi and began her publishing career at the University Press of Florida. She is proud to work with authors in a wide variety of genres including NYT best seller Alix E. Harrow’s The Once and Future Witches, NYT best seller Daniel M. Lavery’s Texts from Jane Eyre, E.J…
Genres:      General, Fantasy, Horror, Romance, Science Fiction.
Lengths: Novel.
Avg. Response: Slower than average responder. 149.4 days.
Acceptances: Unknown. None reported yet in fiction.

Laura Zats

For over a decade, Laura has worked with books in every way from bookselling to editing to self-publishing. A literary agent since 2014, she finds the most joy in working closely with authors to build their long-term careers in ways that contribute positively to their financial and mental health, as well as the greater community…
Genres:      Open to all/most genres, including: Fantasy, Horror, Romance, Science Fiction.
Lengths: Novel.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 41.6 days.
Acceptances: Unknown. None reported yet in fiction.

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