Commercial and upmarket fiction with emotional depth, narrative momentum, heart, humor, and a bit of strangeness. Fantasy stories that are character-driven and emotionally rich, horror that is surreal, psychological, or darkly funny, historical dramas with strong voice and deep friendship, contemporary fiction exploring grief, identity, relationships, and quirky life things.
Heavy romance (some romance ok, not romance that happens to be set in a fantasy world); Gore-heavy/gratuitous/purely shock-value horror; Real-world war/military stuff; Novels in verse.
Sidney Boker joined InkWell Management in 2022 after freelance work with Kirkus Reviews and Pegasus Books. They graduated from the Columbia Publishing Course and Mount Holyoke College with a BA in English and minors in psychology and anthropology. They represent YA through adult fiction across a variety of genres, with a preference for commercial and upmarket fiction that balances emotional depth with narrative momentum.
Submissions should be emailed to [email protected] Queries should be emailed to the submission email address provided. In the body of your email, please include a query letter and a short writing sample (1-2 chapters) and address the email to Sidney Boker either at the beginning of the e-mail, or put it at my attention in the subject line.
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