Karly Dizon is a literary agent with Fuse Literary.

Karly is an agent at Fuse Literary building KidLit universes with stories that matter. She first joined the agency in 2016 as a reader for Tricia Skinner and then promoted to Literary Assistant soon after. In 2019, she was promoted to associate agent. Karly has built a career with a strong background as a freelance editor as well as extensive experience with graphic design and marketing. She is looking to develop long-term career authors and nurture their entire writing journey as a strong editorial agent with marketing, social media, and design support.

Karly’s clients have won or been nominated for such awards as Kirkus Best Books of the Year, NCTE Notable Books List, SLJ Best Book of the Year, and Kirkus Prize Finalist.

In children’s fiction. Karly is aggressively building her client list to boost and give visibility to marginalized voices, experiences, history, culture, folklore, and mythology. She believes that children should be able to see themselves reflected and celebrated within the pages of a book, from contemporary to fantastical adventures. Karly loves stories with grand adventures, imperfect characters, but most importantly, a strong voice that hooks a reader within the first page. If you can make her cry or laugh out loud, bonus points!

She is seeking picture books, graphic novels, middle grade, young adult, and illustrators.

She does not represent: adult fiction, satire, memoir, or faith-based works.

Haley Moe is a literary agent at The Rudy Agency.

Haley has always been passionate about the written-word and drawn to the transformative power of storytelling. Her love of reading naturally grew into a passion for helping authors share their voices with the world.

She is drawn to stories with flawed and complex characters, plots that challenge traditional tropes, and worlds carved of original imagination. In fiction, she is seeking: fantasy, adult fantasy, science fiction, new takes on mythology, adventure, children’s, young adult, and new adult.

She also welcomes nonfiction projects that bring fresh perspectives and engaging education. For nonfiction, she is seeking projects in science, health, business, leadership, and children’s topics.

Jeanne De Vita is a literary agent with Martin Literary Management.

Before moving onto the agency side of the business, I worked in publishing for over a decade as an acquisitions editor and developmental editor for traditional publishers and authors. I’ve worked with hundreds of new and aspiring authors as well as established NYT bestsellers across the genres. I understand the mechanics of a great story and am looking for un-putdownable voice, expert structure/pacing, and a premise that I want to stay up late reading.

I still teach writing and editing craft at the college level, so I’m a technician who reads quickly and assesses books based on how successfully the submission meets the expectations of the genre, sub-genre, or niche. Are you a superfan of the genre you are writing? Can we swap excited stories about our favorite books and have honest conversations about the business, the process, and the work that goes into creating great stories? I have an editorial approach, a practical perspective on the business, and a deep passion for this work.

I’m currently open to most commercial genre fiction, and I especially encourage new authors, indie authors, and authors underrepresented in traditional publishing to query. I am always open to LGBTQIA+ authors and #OwnVoices stories.

Genre fiction is my happy place: romance, romantasy, thriller, horror, mysteries, speculative fiction, and more.

But I’m not a great fit for some genres, so please do not query the following:

no contemporary YA (fantasy, dystopian, or romantasy YA is great)
no memoir unless you’re writing something immersive that reads like a novel like Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner or Know My Name by Chanel Miller
no Christian/inspirational/religious novels and nonfiction
no children’s books and middle grade fiction and nonfiction
no grimdark

Fun facts about me: I’m a devoted Critter who loves all things Critical Role. I’m still not over the Campaign 2 loss…I will never forgive Lorenzo! IYKYK. I play video games (badly) and would live in a fantasy universe if I could, although let’s be real… I wouldn’t survive long in a real-world Valheim or 7 Days to Die. I’m more a Stardew Valley-level survivor and builder. I live in Los Angeles but grew up in Chicago and prefer cold and snow to heat. My mother was a trad-pubbed author when I was growing up, so I learned from a young age that writing could be studied, learned, and developed. I am a firm believer in craft, beats, structure, and tropes as tools for impactful fiction.