 ABOUT THE AGENT: Emily Sacks is a literary assistant at Creative Artists Agency working to build her own list. She is looking for young adult, new adult, fiction, and select nonfiction. EMILY IS SEEKING: Fiction: Romance (contemporary, historical, paranormal, romantasy, “BookTok”), Fantasy (high-fantasy, vast world-building, romantasy), sci-fi (space operas, space westerns), fairy tales/folk tales, and short story collections. “I would love to see books that tell under-represented stories. Historical fiction should feel well-researched and authentic, while any fantasy must have a strong foundation for its world building and setting. I am open to anything that can be comped to the works of Silvia Moreno-Garcia.” Examples include: Assistant to the Villain, The Hating Game, Bride, The Other Boleyn Girl, What the River Knows, Deadly Education, Fourth Wing, Legends and Lattes, Six of Crows, The Familiar, Rendezvous with Rama, Ascension, Thistlefoot, How to Be Eaten, Spinning Silver Nonfiction: History with an emphasis on taking an event or singular topic and expanding on it Examples include: Cleopatra’s Daughter, In Search of Amrit Kaur, The Curse of the Marquis de Sade You can also find Emily’s manuscript wishlist here. HOW TO SUBMIT: Submissions should be emailed to [email protected] Please email your query and the first 50 pages of the manuscript pasted in the body of the email. Please note: When we post a New Agent Spotlight, we try to make sure the agent is open to submissions at the time of posting. But as time goes by, an agent can close and open to submissions at any time. If some time has passed since this spotlight was posted, you will want to check their agency website and/or QueryManager before submitting, to be sure.  Attend a Writers Conference in 2026:
 This post by Chuck Sambuchino, freelance editor and lead director of Writing Day Workshops. Chuck is a former longtime staffer with Writer's Digest, editing the Guide to Literary Agents. He is the author of the writing guides CREATE YOUR WRITER PLATFORM and GET A LITERARY AGENT, as well as the bestselling humor book HOW TO SURVIVE A GARDEN GNOME ATTACK. His most recent books are all about pickleball -- daily tear-off calendars as well as the picture book GOODNIGHT, PICKLEBALL. He is a proud #GirlDad, movie geek, and guitar/piano player. Connect with him through WDW's Instagram and Twitter,
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