AvantGuilders: Meet Literary Agent Nadia Cornier

Today on mediabistro.com’s main site, Rachel Kramer Bussel gets insider tips from Firebrand Literary Agency, as founder Nadia Cornier explains what works best when submitting your queries to her office. “I dislike being told what to think,” she says, “such as, ‘This is gonna be the biggest book, this is going to be the next Harry Potter.’ I do like when people say things like, ‘This will attract the same audience as X, Y, and Z book’ but leave it up to the writing to stand on its own.” Though the company’s client roster is heavy on YA books and “paranormal adult fiction,” Cornier says she’s got her eye on a certain type of nonfiction, too: “I love business books for women that are not ‘You’re a woman but you can succeed in a man’s world’ but more like ‘you’re a woman and you can decide what success means to you.’”

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