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Ernie Chiara

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Fuse Literary·US

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Represents
adult fantasyyoung adult fantasyscience fictionhorrorspeculative fictionupmarket fiction
+5 moreliterary fictionmysterythrillercrime fictionyoung adult contemporary
Looking for
Query Letter, First Twenty Pages, Synopsis, Comparable Books
How to submit
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Ernie Chiara is a literary agent at Fuse Literary based in US. Their list focuses on genres including adult fantasy, young adult fantasy, and science fiction. Currently closed to submissions. Submissions via QueryManager. For current guidelines, check the agent's own submission page linked below.

Age Categories

Young Adult, Adult

Notes

Ernie Chiara does not represent nonfiction, faith-based or religious manuscripts, poetry, short stories, novellas, chapter books, picture books, women's fiction, romance, or erotica.

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How to submitQuery Gordon Warnock by email at querygordon@fuseliterary.com or through conferences he attends. For text-based works, paste the first chapter below the query, for memoir, paste the first chapter, for graphic nonfiction or graphic novels, attach a 10-page sequential PDF excerpt of finished artwork not exceeding 50 MB. Unsolicited submissions by paper mail or social media will be discarded unread.
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