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What Nicole is looking for
Nicole is seeking literary, upmarket, and book club fiction. Across genres, she falls in love at the level of the line first, and wants to be dazzled by the quality, control, and creativity of the language itself. She’s drawn to fiction that’s immersive, smart, and voice-driven, and better yet if it combines a propulsive plot with deep dive character work. She loves upmarket novels with a magical or speculative bent (including some very grounded fantasy), thrillers with a strong sense of place, book club with a beating heart and a razor-sharp bite, and literary or upmarket fiction with a romance at its center. She’d love to find more fiction at the sweet spot of literary sensibility with a h
Notable sales & clients
- Trouble the Living by Francesca McDonnell Capossela
- The Thirteenth Husband by Greer Macallister
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Is Nicole Cunningham open to queries right now?
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What genres does Nicole Cunningham represent?
Nicole Cunningham represents Fantasy, Speculative Fiction, Romance, Thriller, Upmarket Fiction, Book Club Fiction, Narrative Nonfiction.
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