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What Michelle is looking for
Michelle has built her career finding underserved clients with major talent and helping them jump their careers to the next level. She wants to boost underrepresented voices in her favorite genres to break through and create lasting change in both their writing careers and the publishing industry. She is especially eager to find high-concept crime fiction with catchy hooks, twisty plots, and complex lead characters. She’s a sucker for fiction that taps into her emotions, with the kind of voice that instantly identifies a book as that author’s. BIPOC, LGBTQ, and disabled voices in fiction are welcome. Michelle loves lots of twists, unreliable narrators, stories of family secrets, friendships,
Notable sales & clients
- The Bennet Women by Eden Appiah-Kubi
- One Night Gone by Tara Laskowski
- Mom Babble by Mary Katherine Backstrom
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What genres does Michelle Richter represent?
Michelle Richter represents Crime.
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