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What Valentina is looking for
Valentina is looking for fresh, enticing fiction in sf/f/h genres! Valentina's favorite genre to read is horror, and she is looking for lots of different flavors here. Whether it’s spooky, eerie, disorienting, thrilling, existential, or horror-lite, she wants to read it. Blends with sci-fi/fantasy are also welcome, but the book should still feel at home on the horror shelf! She particularly loves stories featuring ghosts, haunted houses, monsters, witches, and demons, but she really wants to see fresh takes on them with unexpected twists. Other elements she enjoys include body horror, cults or secret societies, natural phenomena like fungi and flora, and settings that make her feel claustrop
Notable sales & clients
- The Last Gifts of the Universe by Riley August
- Mr. Breakfast by Jonathan Carroll
- The Middling Affliction by Alex Shvartsman
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Frequently asked questions
Is Valentina Sainato open to queries right now?
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What genres does Valentina Sainato represent?
Valentina Sainato represents Fantasy, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Thriller, Horror.
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