NEW LITERARY AGENT SPOTLIGHT: Eric Showers of Howard Morhaim Literary Agency

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ABOUT THE AGENT:

Eric Showers (he/him) is an agent at HMLA representing adult speculative fiction and nonfiction.

ERIC IS SEEKING:

“He’s most drawn, in speculative fiction, to narratives that explore hierarchies of power, novel world building in secondary world fantasy, and protagonists with unique voices.”

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The Traitor Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson, The Unspoken Name by A. K. Larkwood, and Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir are books that have hit some of these notes most recently. He’s also looking for stories on the cozier side of speculative fiction, along the lines of Becky Chambers’s The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet or Travis Baldree’s Legends and Lattes.

In nonfiction, he is most interested in history and philosophy.

HOW TO SUBMIT:

As always, please review the agency’s submission guidelines before you submit.

Eric Showers is open to queries — [email protected]
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“To query an agent, please email your query letter and the first three chapters of your novel or your full non-fiction book proposal. Email attachments are acceptable. No snail mail submissions will be considered. You may only query one agent at our agency per project, and please only query one project at a time. Our response time to most queries is 8-12 weeks.”

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