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Hillary Fazzari (she/her) joined the Bradford Literary Agency as the agency’s assistant in 2022 before moving into agenting in 2023. Prior to that, she served as a long-term reader and editor for another literary agency, interned at Writers House, and worked for Scholastic. She’s a highly editorial agent and details on what she is looking for at any given time can be found on her Manuscript Wishlist Page.

Right now, she is most looking for:

Adult Narrative Nonfiction, particularly in areas of history and lifestyle.

Adult Literary and Upmarket Fiction, particularly in genre areas (e.g.: hauntingly dark literary thrillers; character-driven upmarket mysteries; literary horror; upmarket historical works with strong hooks; speculative upmarket with interesting premises – and she’s especially keen to see stories that genre-mix, feature feminism, and/or have complicated female or queer protagonists).

High-concept, Commercial Fiction with strong “strange attractor” elements for all ages.  Here, she’s loosely following Terry Rossio’s definition with “strange attractor” being a combination of “strange” (or “unique”) and “attractor” (from “attractive”, though in publishing this can also mean “familiar” because familiar can be attractive and can therefore attract readers/editors). So an example of a storyline with a strong “strange attractor” element would be Rossio’s own Disney cartoon Aladdin, which is a combination of the familiar, original story of Aladdin (often associated with One Thousand and One Nights) with the character of Aladdin as My Fair Lady in a way that rewrites the old into something unique, strangely attractive, and compelling though the added My Fair Lady, will-his-real-identity-be-found-out lens. Or the How To Train Your Dragon books, which are different than the movies, and approach the concept of the “strange attractor” by asking combining questions: “Could the Vikings in this world actually just be weirdos?” — aka a combination of “cool Viking lore” with “weird behavior”; “Could, in this world, the protagonist have a tiny dragon that is 100% just a really obnoxious cat?” — aka a combination of familiar dragon tropes with familiar cat tropes in a way that makes a hybrid concept that’s strangely unique and compelling.

Genre-mixed stories of all kinds, for all ages, again with a high concept and a strong “strange attractor” element. Which means she’s specifically looking for stories that combine elements that might not otherwise go together into new, compelling premises: e.g., My Fair Lady in space formatted as a murder mystery; a dark academia with a thriller plotline; a cozy fantasy set on a space ship; Doctor Who but make it a time-travel rom-com instead. 

For fiction and non-fiction, see our agency submission guidelines.