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Estelle Laure

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Folio Literary Management·US

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Represents
new adultyoung adultmiddle gradepicture booksromantasymystery
+3 morespeculative fictioncomedyromantic comedy
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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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Looking forLauren Hall is especially interested in wide-ranging nonfiction, including big idea books, high-concept and outward-facing memoir, pop culture, pop science, psychology, philosophy, voicey prescriptive projects, ecology, cultural and social history, deeply reported narrative, investigative journalism, biography, essays and criticism, and select design-driven books and cookbooks. She is also interested in select literary and commercial fiction, particularly absurdist or surreal but not fantastical narratives and characters with vivid inner lives.
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