Haley Casey

I’ve always had a special place in my soul for stories, but it was when I wrote my first chapter book in fifth grade that my true love of literature was realized!

As an associate agent, I’m looking to fall in love with your engaging writing; your complex, flawed, and dynamic characters; and your plot, which should breathe new life into your favorite clichés. Tell me what makes your manuscript different! I’m especially interested in loose ends that are all tied up at the end, lyrical prose that makes me stop to reread sentences again and again, and characters that make me laugh, cry, and reevaluate what I think I know.

My heart is in YA, first and foremost, and I would love to build my list in that area across genres! However, I’m always looking for that next book club read or MG novel that’ll get someone new into reading, and my personal tastes are varied.

I’d like to represent:

Adult

• Women’s Fiction
  • Liane Moriarty, Brooklyn Thomas Isn’t Here, When Women Were Dragons, or The Bandit Queens
• Book Club Fiction—especially something high-concept that can be pitched in one sentence
  • Killers of a Certain Age or Portrait of a Thief
• Grounded Genre Fiction
  • Fantasy: Gods of Jade and Shadow or The Divine Inheritance of Orquídea Divina
  • Science Fiction: Hammajang Luck, Welcome to Night Vale, or Snowpiercer
  • Paranormal & Horror: The Sun Down Motel or The Last House on Needless Street
• Romance
  • Contemporary
    • Delilah Green Doesn’t Care, Partners in Crime, Love and Other Disasters, or Get a Life, Chloe Brown
  • Paranormal
    • The Night Huntress series, Darkfever, or The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches
• Nonfiction
  • Narrative & Memoir
    • In The Dream House or Land Rich, Cash Poor
  • True Crime
    • I’ll Be Gone in the Dark or Killers of the Flower Moon
  • Cultural, LGBTQ+, and Women’s Issues
    • Hood Feminism, Prisoners of Geography, or All the Single Ladies
  • Environmentalism, Gardening, & Sustainability
    • Braiding Sweetgrass or Weed Free Gardening
  • As a particular niche, I love food history, like The Billionaire’s Vinegar

Young Adult

• Contemporary
  • Hello Girls, Thieves’ Gambit, Challenger Deep, or I Kissed Shara Wheeler
• Mystery & Horror
  • Looking for Smoke, The Honeys, or Trespass Against Us
• Fantasy
  • Elatsoe, Little Thieves, Year of the Reaper, Pet, or What the River Knows
• Accessible Science Fiction
  • Iron Widow or Warcross
• Dystopian
  • Delirium, Uglies, or Scythe
• Nonfiction
  • All Boys Aren’t Blue or America Redux

Middle-Grade

• Contemporary
  • From the Desk of Zoe Washington, King and the Dragonflies, or Other Words for Home
• Fantasy
  • If Rick Riordan Presents would publish it, I’m interested!
  • Amari and the Night Brothers or Gregor the Overlander
• Accessible Mystery, Paranormal, & Science Fiction
  • The Lockwood & Co. series or The Westing Game

I’m keeping a particular focus on championing traditionally marginalized voices, including members of te LGBTQIA+ community, POC authors, and authors with disabilities. I love thoughtful and meaningful magical realism for any age group, nuanced character relationships, urban fantasy, clever fairytale retellings, and reimagined classics (such as Jane Austen, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland​, or The Count of Monte Cristo).

Submission Guidelines

CMA has moved to QueryManager! Please only query one member of our agency at a time, and follow each agent’s unique submission guidelines. You can find me at: https://querymanager.com/query/hcasey. 

I reply to all queries and requested material that I receive, but please allow me about 8 weeks to do so. 

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