Fiction

We love novels of all stripes, and we know what it's like to read a great manuscript into the wee hours of the night.  We represent a wide range of fiction and will take on any novel that sparks our passion, be it a mystery that makes us laugh or creeps us out, a literary novel with an ingenious hook, a romance, or a YA adventure story.

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Harry Dolan

Bad Things Happen

Amy Einhorn Books/Penguin


Dolan’s noir mystery, which James Patterson has called “a very smart, well-written roller-coaster ride that is always threatening to hurl the reader into roaring empty space,” introduces a new series featuring "the man who calls himself David Loogan" and Detective Elizabeth Waishkey.   Editing a literary mystery magazine like Gray Streets can be, it turns out, really deadly.

Amy Sohn

Prospect Park West

Simon & Schuster


Prominent magazine journalist, Amy Sohn’s third novel follows a complicated summer in the lives of four dissatisfied mothers in the new frontier of yuppiedom—Park Slope, Brooklyn. Prospect Park West has received advanced praise from Lauren Weisberger and A. J. Jacobs and has been optioned by HBO and Sarah Jessica Parker’s production company Pretty Matches, with the pilot to be written by Sohn.

D.C. Pierson

The Boy Who Couldn't Sleep And Never Had To

Vintage / Random House


A wildly original and hilarious debut novel about the typical high school experience: the homework, the awkwardness, and the mutant creatures from another galaxy.  The novel was a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers pick.

Gillian Flynn

Sharp Objects

Shaye Areheart Books / Random House


Gillian Flynn’s bestselling debut, which Stephen King called “an admirably nasty piece of work…I found myself dreading the last thirty pages or so but was helpless to stop turning them.”  It’s also been praised by Harlan Coben, Augusten Burroughs, and Kate Atkinson, and it had the distinction of winning the Dagger Award.

Laura Fitzgerald

Veil of Roses

Bantam/Random House


Fitzgerald’s heartfelt debut novel follows an Iranian woman’s search for love and independence in America. Veil of Roses has been endorsed by Kavita Daswani, Lani Diane Rich, and Beth Kendrick, and Publishers Weekly writes, “Watching Tami find her voice through such small comforts as being able to sit alone in a house, walk to school unescorted or buy lingerie with her sister will leave readers rooting for her.”  The book was a Spring ‘07 Target Book Club Pick.

Kristina Springer

The Espressologist

Farrar, Straus, and Giroux (BYR)


Kristina Springer’s debut YA novel is about 17-year old barista Jane Turner’s unique talent for matching couples based upon their favorite coffee drink. Jane calls it “Espressology”, and so far, she’s never been wrong in a match.  But can this be too much of a good thing? Jane is about to find out.  During a televised interview, at the height of her notoriety, she is forced into an impossible dilemma—lose her love interest or lose her credibility? The stakes are high and Jane soon realizes she may be in danger of losing it all—including her best friend.