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What Molly is looking for
Managing Director and Literary Agent Molly Ker Hawn is looking for exceptional middle-grade and young adult fiction with global commercial appeal, as well as graphic novels for children and young adults with illustrations in place and fantasy, science fiction and speculative fiction for adults. For children’s and YA, she’s open to any genre and almost any topic: contemporary, historical, fantasy, science fiction, romance, horror. For adult fantasy, science fiction and speculative fiction, she’s looking for fast-paced stories that would appeal to a broad audience, set either in new worlds or one that could be our own, with vividly drawn characters.
Actively seeking
- I like wit, not snark.
- I like books that play with form and narrative.
- Nothing hooks me like writing that shows a real mastery of language.
- I love love. Romantic love, family love, the love of friendship — authentic-feeling bonds between characters can carry me through almost any story.
- I like books that make me feel changed by the end of them, like my world is bigger, and I understand it a little better.
- I’m not interested in “misery lit.” I don’t like to finish a book feeling hopeless about the characters.
- Fantasy was my first love: Ruth Chew, Lloyd Alexander, Susan Cooper, Anne McCaffrey, and Sylvia Engdahl made me the reader I am today. But those influences mean my standards are high — I need solid worldbuilding, intelligent dialogue and real emotion in fantasy.
- My taste in fantasy doesn’t run to angels/demons, vampires/werewolves, or similar “paranormal” tropes.
Hear from Molly: interviews & talks
The fastest way to understand what an agent responds to is to hear them talk about it.
- 🎙 Cuppa and a Catch-up with Guest Agent Molly Ker Hawn — Literaticast
- Molly Ker Hawn and Kat Ellis on Research, Compatibility, and Finding Your Match — Manuscript Wish List
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What genres does Molly Ker Hawn represent?
Molly Ker Hawn represents Fantasy, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Young Adult, Middle Grade, Graphic Novels, Romance, Horror.
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