Question & Agent: Julie Gourinchas of Bell Lomax Moreton

Question & Agent: Julie Gourinchas of Bell Lomax Moreton

Welcome to Debutiful’s Agent Week! We gathered some of our favorite literary agents representing the most exciting debut books and asked them questions about what makes them love a submission, their agenting style, and the books they’re working on.

Julie Gourinchas is a literary agent at Bell Lomax Moreton in the UK. Writers she works with have won or been nominated for the British Book Awards, the Hugo Awards, the Stoker Awards, the BSFA Awards, the Betty Trask Award, and the Saltire National Book Awards, among others.

We dug into why she loves “weird girl lit,” the differences between agent work in the US and the UK, and why she’s an atmospher-first reader.

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Question & Agent: Emma Dries from Triangle House

Question & Agent: Emma Dries from Triangle House

Welcome to Debutiful’s Agent Week! We gathered some of our favorite literary agents representing the most exciting debut books and asked them questions about what makes them love a submission, their agenting style, and the books they’re working on.

Emma Dries is a writer and editor whose work has appeared in Outside, Lit HubBookforum, and Dwell. As an agent for Triangle House, her clients have published at imprints including. Alfred A. Knopf, Doubleday Books, and Ecco. The first book she sold was the debut breakout The Hounding by Xenobe Purvis.

We dug into what stands out in query letters, her approach with editorial as an agent, and why climate fiction is so important.

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