The agent is looking for emotionally resonant, high-concept nonfiction works with a purposeful message or urgent topic. For fiction, they seek atmospheric, genre-blending stories with big heart, momentum, and series potential, especially in the areas of gothic, horror, historical, fantasy, speculative, dystopian, grounded sci-fi, and romance genres.
Allison Hellegers is a Foreign Rights Director and Literary Agent at Stimola Literary Studio with a background in Journalism and Women's Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She has spent the last 10 years as Foreign Rights Director with Rights People and previously worked as a Literary Scout and with YA packager Alloy Entertainment. She represents books across all age categories and is drawn to projects with emotional resonance, strong narrative hooks, and film/TV or translation potential.
Please submit your query to ALLI (at) SLS-SUBMISSIONS (dot) COM. For fiction for all ages, please send your query letter + 10 pages cut and pasted into the body of the e-mail. For non-fiction for all ages, please send your query letter.
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