Gabrielle Harbowy

Genres of Interest:

• Science fiction with feels: hard sci-fi, space travel, literary sci-fi, and hopepunk (but not military, time travel, or climate sci-fi)
• Immersive Fantasy: historical, urban, epic, and everything in between, with a preference for secondary worlds (but not a fit for portal stories)
• Heists, especially with paranormal/supernatural elements
• Genuine Magical Realism (as distinct from urban fantasy)
• Queer/Sapphic Romance and alternative relationship structures like polyamory (preferably with speculative elements, but willing to consider contemporary as well)
• Speculative fiction that falls between the genre cracks

In Adult and Young Adult/New Adult, Gabrielle enjoys:

• Underrepresented own voices
• Non-Western perspectives (like in the work of Tade Thompson or Fonda Lee)
• Anti-colonialism themes (like in the work of Ciel Pierlot or CL Clark)
• Disability representation and use of assistive devices (like in the work of Megan O’Keefe or Peadar Ó Guilín)
• Neurodivergence
• Characters with agency
• LGBTQ+ and nonbinary characters
• Sentient non-human (and non-animal) protagonists (like in the work of Aliette de Bodard or AK Larkwood)

In Middle Grade, Gabrielle hopes to find:

• LGBTQ+ stories and alternative family structures
• Self-discovery journeys and found family
• A strong sense of childhood wonder, not the cynicism or relative omniscience of an adult
• Stories where the pet doesn’t die

In Biography / Memoir, Gabrielle is extremely selective, but hopes to find stand-out narratively-written stories that are powerful and hopeful, centered around some combination of:

• queer identity
• disability
• intersectionality

especially involving:

• people in STEM
• people in the video- and tabletop-gaming spaces

She is not looking to acquire: non-fiction, graphic novels, horror, mystery or historical without speculative elements, children’s books, or religious fiction.

Elements she is not a fit for include: dystopia, post-apocalyptic, global disaster, superheroes, child abuse, sexual assault, actual Christian-style angels and/or devils, animal brutality, science-fantasy, time travel, portal stories, cozy fantasy.

Some favorite books (by authors not already mentioned above) include:

• The Wanderers by Meg Howrey
• City of Dark Magic by Magnus Flyte
• The Expanse series by James S.A. Corey
• Hardwired by Walter Jon Williams
• The Broken Earth series by N.K. Jemisin
• Warped State by Jo Miles

Submission Guidelines

Corvisiero Literary Agency does not represent poetry, short story collections, or novella-length fiction at this time.

Please submit through the “guidelines and details” link below, in order to reach Gabrielle’s Query Manager page.

Guidelines & Details