Enrichetta Frezzato

Submission Guidelines

Submissions should be emailed to enrichetta.submissions@redkiteliterary.com

Please send the first three chapters or the first 10,000 words of your manuscript to either en********************@*************ry.com along with a synopsis and include a pitch and bio in the body of your email. For the subject line please use the format: TITLE/name and surname. If you receive a request for a full manuscript or an offer of representation, please follow up adding “offer of representation” or “full ms request” in the subject line.

I’m currently focusing on growing the children’s side of my list and my goal is to represent books that will engage children and young readers. At the moment, I would particularly love to see submissions in the chapter book and YA space.

Young middle-grade and chapter books: I’m keen to find great books for first readers and for those children who are learning to read but also still like to be read to, think Claude, or Murray and Bun. I’d love to find an Isadora Moon for boys, ideally by an author illustrator. I’m also keen to see anything with animal characters in the Holly Webb or Dick King Smith space.

YA: I’m looking for true YA written for teenagers, I’m not the right person for cross-over and YA that could sit on an adult list. I’d love to see dystopia in the vein of Songlight, high concept fiction, an unexpected premise, including romance, retellings with a twist (think Finding Her Edge), thrillers, doomed legacy stories à la Inheritance Games. I love a good yearning story and of my favourite YA fantasy novels is Hotel Magnifique, so if that’s what you’ve written I’d love to see it!

Picture books: I’m mostly looking for author-illustrators and illustrators, and will be very selective about text only. On the illustration side, I’d like to see bright and bold pre-school styles, mixed-media, anything in the vein of Chris Haughton or Flavia Drago. What I want to see in a picture book is a really funny idea or simple but impactful story. Some recent favourites of mine include: Sleep Tight, Disgusting Blob, and Raindrops.

Graphic novels: I’d love to see graphic novels in the younger space, think Pablo and Splash, Blue, Barry and Pancake, Tiny Hercules. An improbable duo, an unlikely hero, the key word is funny. I’m not considering script only for graphic novels.

Middle-grade: funny, silly, disgusting, adventurous, witchy, spooky. I’m voice-drive and keen to see anything in this space that has a strong hook, a propulsive narrative, and series potential. I have a soft spot for animal bonds, ghosts, and dragons. In particular, I’d love to find a great story with a boy protagonist and lots of humour in the vein of Loki or Wimpy Kid, an action-packed adventure for readers of Percy Jackson and Lockwood & Co, and a great story with Wednesday vibes. And if you’ve written the next Skandar, please do send it my way!

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