AGENTS: Stringer Literary Agency

The Guide to Literary Agents blog has posted an interview with Marlene Stringer. Stringer used to work with Barbara Bova, but started her own agency at the end of 2008.

She likes sci-fi, urban fantasy, and paranormal, and is looking for more romance.

The agency web site is under construction, but the blog interview includes submission guidelines. Here are some relevant bits from the interview:


GLA: I was looking over your recent sales on Publishers Marketplace and (I could be wrong), but I saw a lack of science fiction. It just seems that I see very little science fiction on anybody’s list. Is this a tough sell? Is it tough to find good writers?

MS: Not for lack of looking! I have a particular fondness for earth-based science fiction. Good stories are hard to find. I think in speculative fiction there’s been an emphasis on fantasy over the past decade. I would like to see more science fiction.

GLA: Are you looking for some of the more unique fantasy subgenres, like cyberpunk, splatterpunk and steampunk, etc?

MS: I love steampunk, and I am looking for it.