Gabrielle HarbowyGabrielle Harbowy has more than 20 years of experience in the publishing industry, from her entry into the field as a pricing analyst at Scholastic, to becoming a full-time editor and part-time writer. A third-generation reader of fantasy and science fiction, a love for the speculative is in her blood. Gabrielle was Managing Editor at Dragon Moon Press for a decade, has worked with award winners and international bestsellers, and is passionate about elevating the authors around her. A three-time published novelist, short story author, and award-nominated anthologist, Gabrielle has spoken, given workshops, and run D&D and Pathfinder games at numerous conventions. She is a member of SFWA, IAMTW, and the LGBTQ+ Editors Association.
Gabrielle is seeking science fiction, fantasy, paranormal mysteries, queer romance, and genre-bending speculative fiction. She loves reading diverse books, characters that come alive and immersive worlds, and tropes turned on their heads. She would like to see queerness, neurodiversity, and disability represented and normalized, both in the world and on the page. Her passions include music, travel, tabletop roleplaying games, crocheting and needlepoint, tattoo art, everything Finnish (except lutefisk), outer space, and the Oxford comma. |
Gabrielle is currently closed to queries. Emailed submissions will not be considered.
Genres of Interest:
In Adult and Young Adult/New Adult, Gabrielle enjoys:
In Middle Grade, Gabrielle hopes to find:
She is not looking to acquire non-fiction, graphic novels, horror, post-apocalyptic, global disaster, children’s books, or religious fiction.
Some favorite books (by authors not already mentioned above) include:
Genres of Interest:
- Science fiction with feels: hard sci-fi, space travel, literary sci-fi, and hopepunk (but not military, time travel, or climate sci-fi)
- Fantasy: historical, urban, epic, and everything in between. Secondary worlds, but not portal stories.
- Mysteries and heists with paranormal/supernatural elements
- Genuine Magical Realism (as distinct from urban fantasy)
- Queer Romance and alternative relationship structures like polyamory
- Speculative fiction that falls between the genre cracks
In Adult and Young Adult/New Adult, Gabrielle enjoys:
- Underrepresented voices
- Non-Western perspectives (like Tade Thompson or Fonda Lee)
- Anti-colonialism themes (like Ciel Pierlot or CL Clark)
- Disability representation (like Megan O’Keefe or Peadar Ó Guilín)
- Characters with agency
- LGBTQ+ and nonbinary characters
- Sentient non-human protagonists (like Aliette de Bodard or AK Larkwood)
In Middle Grade, Gabrielle hopes to find:
- LGBTQ+ stories and alternative family structures
- Self-discovery journeys and found family
- Stories where the pet doesn’t die
She is not looking to acquire non-fiction, graphic novels, horror, post-apocalyptic, global disaster, children’s books, or religious fiction.
Some favorite books (by authors not already mentioned above) include:
- The Wanderers by Meg Howrey
- City of Dark Magic by Magnus Flyte
- The Expanse series by James S.A. Corey
- Hardwired by Walter Jon Williams
- The Broken Earth series by N.K. Jemisin