Gabrielle Harbowy 

Gabrielle 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.

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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)
• Immersive Fantasy: historical, urban, epic, and everything in between, with a preference for secondary worlds (but not a fit for 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 (preferably with speculative elements, but willing to consider contemporary as well)
• Speculative fiction that falls between the genre cracks

In Adult and Young Adult/New Adult, Gabrielle enjoys:

• Underrepresented own voices
• Non-Western perspectives (like in the work of Tade Thompson or Fonda Lee)
• Anti-colonialism themes (like in the work of Ciel Pierlot or CL Clark)
• Disability representation and use of assistive devices (like in the work of Megan O’Keefe or Peadar Ó Guilín)
• Neurodivergence
• Characters with agency
• LGBTQ+ and nonbinary characters
• Sentient non-human (and non-animal) protagonists (like in the work of 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
• A strong sense of childhood wonder, not the cynicism or relative omniscience of an adult
• Stories where the pet doesn’t die

In Biography / Memoir, Gabrielle is extremely selective, but hopes to find stand-out narratively-written stories that are powerful and hopeful, centered around some combination of:

• queer identity
• disability
• intersectionality

especially involving:

• people in STEM
• people in the video- and tabletop-gaming spaces

She is not looking to acquire: non-fiction, graphic novels, horror, mystery or historical without speculative elements, children’s books, or religious fiction. 

Elements she is not a fit for include: dystopia, post-apocalyptic, global disaster, superheroes, child abuse, sexual assault, actual angels and/or devils, animal brutality, science-fantasy. 

Corvisiero Literary Agency does not represent poetry, short story collections, or novella-length fiction at this time.

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
• Warped State by Jo Miles

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For word count, she hopes to see:
   middle grade between 30-70k words​​
   young adult between 60-90k words
​   adult fiction between 70-100k words

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