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Represents
new adultyoung adultmiddle gradepicture booksromantasymystery
+3 morespeculative fictioncomedyromantic comedy
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Recently verified·Last verified: 25 May 2026

Estelle Laure is a literary agent at Folio Literary Management based in US. Their list focuses on genres including new adult, young adult, and middle grade. Currently open to submissions. Submissions via Email. For current guidelines, check the agent's own submission page linked below.

Age Categories

Picture Books, Middle Grade, Young Adult, New Adult

Notes

Not currently looking for board books, novelty, picture book texts, chapter books, hard science fiction, message books, broadly silly middle grade, or road-trip or questing-through-the-forest middle grade adventures.

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How to submitEmail queries to jenna@foliolit.com. Jenna Land Free says she cannot reply to every submission individually, if you have not heard back within four weeks, it was not the best fit for her.
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Folio Literary Management

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