Jonathan Villegas

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The Agent:

• I’m a Literary Associate with Olswanger Literary.
• I started building my list in 2025.
• I’m gay and Latino.

Writers:

If you wrote something in literary fiction or genre fiction, I would love to review it.

• I am prioritizing Latino/Hispanic, LGBT+, Asian American, and African American writers. However, any writer can submit. I am open to read anything, if it is compelling, you will hear from me.

Genre preferences:

I prefer fiction written that combines literary fiction and commercial fiction.

• If it’s literary, it should be situated in a historical or contemporary setting. If it includes magical realism, even better.
• If it’s genre fiction, I would love to review romance, mystery, thriller, LitRPG, epic/high fantasy, and dystopian.
• For nonfiction, I welcome works on history, pop culture, lifestyle, well-being, and spirituality. If it is focused on Asia or Latin America, even better.

Submission Guidelines

Submissions should be emailed to jonathan@olswangerliterary.com

Please paste your query in the email body and send the 40,000 words of your manuscript as a Word document. Use this subject line: Query + Adult / Genre or Nonfiction. If I am interested, I will request the complete manuscript.

I will confirm receipt of your query within one week. If you don’t hear from me, you can follow up. I take three to four months to respond to your sample pages. (The same amount of time applies for the review of a manuscript.)

Please submit only manuscripts with word counts between 70,000 and 85,000 words.

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