Victoria Marini began her career as a literary agent at Gelfman Schneider and ICM Partners before joining the Irene Goodman Agency in 2016. Originally from rural Pennsylvania, she moved to New York in 2003, and began her literary career as an assistant at Sterling Lord in 2007. She is interested in both Upmarket & Commercial Adult, Middle Grade, and Young Adult and fiction with compulsive hooks, strong plotting, and well-drawn characters. From Literary page-turners, to commercial suspense, to magical realism, whimsical adventure, edgy sci-fi & grounded fantasy, she is always looking for unforgettable off-the-page characters, high concepts, and unique voices. She is a sucker for quirk, mystery, small town hysteria, atmosphere, secrets, things that go bump in the night, a bit of charm, a twist of magic, or a dash of humor.

What to Submit to Victoria:

Victoria is looking for Upmarket commercial and literary Adult, Middle Grade and select Young Adult fiction. She represents suspense, thrillers, speculative fiction, fantasy, sci-fi, magical realism & fabulism, horror, rom-coms and very select narrative non-fiction. Victoria would not be the best fit for prescriptive non-fiction, memoir, new age/religious/spirituality, popular science, new adult, picture books or regency romances.

Open to Queries. Victoria is seeking Adult, Young Adult, and Middle Grade fiction across all genres with a particular emphasis on high concept contemporary fiction, genre adjacent book club fiction, and all things fantastical. Her MSWL can be found here. To query her, please submit through query tracker here.