ITEM 22 - Suzie Townsend: QUERY + FIRST CHAPTER CRITIQUE

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WHAT SUZIE IS OFFERING

I know you're excited about this auction. I definitely am! My super agent Suzie Townsend will critique your query letter and the first chapter of your manuscript. (And, if you didn't know, her notes are GOLD). Don't miss out on this one!

Suzie Townsend

After teaching high school English for several years, Suzie Townsend started publishing at FinePrint Literary Management in January 2009 and worked her way up from intern to agent. Now an agent at New Leaf Literary, she represents adult and children's fiction. She is actively looking to build her list. In adult, she's specifically looking for romance (historical and paranormal), and fantasy (urban fantasy, science fiction, steampunk, epic fantasy). In Childrens' she loves YA (all subgenres) and is dying to find great Middle Grade projects (especially something akin to the recent movie SUPER 8). She's an active member of AAR, RWA, and SCBWI.

She’s interested in strong characters and voice driven stories: she’s particularly keen on strong female protagonists, complex plot lines with underlying political, moral, or philosophical issues, and stories which break out of the typical tropes of their genre. Some of her favorite novels (that she doesn't represent) are Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card, When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead, How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff, Jellicoe Road and Finnikin of the Rock by Melina Marchetta, The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger, Jeaniene Frost's Vampire Huntress series, Anne Bishop’s Black Jewels series, and Jacqueline Carey’s Kushiel series.

She drinks too much diet orange soda, has a Starbucks problem (those soy chai lattes are addictive), and lives in New York with two dogs who know that chewing on shoes is okay but chewing on books is not.

More information on Suzie can be found on publisher’s marketplace (http://www.publishersmarketplace.com/members/sztownsend81/). She also keeps a blog at http://confessionsofawanderingheart.blogspot.com/ and tweets @sztownsend81.

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