Agent Alert: Kristina Pérez of Pérez Literary & Entertainment
Literary agent alerts (with this spotlight featuring Kristina Pérez of Pérez Literary & Entertainment) are golden opportunities for new writers because each one is a literary agent who is likely building his or her client list.
Kristina Pérez is the managing director and literary agent for her newly formed agency: Pérez Literary & Entertainment. She has held positions at the National University of Singapore and the University of Hong Kong. Her academic work is rooted in feminist, queer and postcolonial theory and she remains keenly interested in those fields. Her monograph, The Myth of Morgan la Fey was published by Palgrave Macmillan, using feminist psychoanalysis to recenter the famed sorceress at the heart of the Arthurian tradition.
Kristina has also written several novels for young adults. The Sweet Black Waves trilogy (Imprint/Macmillan) draws on Kristina’s expertise in medieval literature to retell the legend of Tristan and Isolde, while The Tesla Legacy (Tor Teen) reimagines the classic superhero origin story with a precocious female scientist at its helm. Kristina’s first novel for adults, The Many Lies of Veronica Hawkins is forthcoming from Little, Brown UK.
Being both an agent and an author allows Kristina to fully guide her clients through every step of the publishing process. She loves launching debut authors’ careers as well as working with mid-career authors looking for new challenges. Kristina sees each client relationship as a true partnership in which they develop the right strategy for a client’s career together. Author care is paramount and she prides herself on using her multifaceted understanding of the industry to help her clients achieve their goals. She is eager to work with writers from around the globe.
Currently Seeking
Kristina is currently looking for commercial and book club fiction, upmarket fiction, crime and thriller, and crossover YA romance and fantasy.
For nonfiction, she is primarily looking for current affairs, cultural history, and popular science. She is also always looking for feminist criticism.
However, she does not represent autobiography or memoir at the moment.
She says, "With my diverse background, my tastes in books are equally eclectic. As an author myself, I am an editorial agent and enjoy polishing manuscripts until they shine like the top of the Chrysler Building!"
How to Submit
Prospective writers can query Kristina via her Query Manager form here.
Find her full submission guidelines here.
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Robert Lee Brewer is Senior Editor of Writer's Digest, which includes managing the content on WritersDigest.com and programming virtual conferences. He's the author of 40 Plot Twist Prompts for Writers: Writing Ideas for Bending Stories in New Directions, The Complete Guide of Poetic Forms: 100+ Poetic Form Definitions and Examples for Poets, Poem-a-Day: 365 Poetry Writing Prompts for a Year of Poeming, and more. Also, he's the editor of Writer's Market, Poet's Market, and Guide to Literary Agents. Follow him on Twitter @robertleebrewer.
