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Maeve MacLysaght
Aevitas Creative Management
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Maeve (née Em Lysaght) began her career in publishing bouncing between many roles on either side of the publisher/agent divide, before landing in Foreign and Subsidiary rights with companies like Scholastic and Insight Editions. She joined Ladderbird as an Agent in 2019 and is now based out of Oakland, CA. She holds a B.A in Comparative Literature from Occidental College, a publishing certificate from NYU, an MLitt in Ancient Greek Monsters from The University of St Andrews in Scotland, and a handful of college credits from art schools across the US. She reads widely across genre and age range and is particularly looking for queer and POC authors taking on genre tropes in commercial fiction. MSWL: She is NOT looking for:
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Please send the first three chapters, synopsis (detail! spoilers! I want them), and query letter via my submission link below. Please do not email queries. Guidelines & Details Consultations Vital Info mmaclysaght@aevitascreative.com @mmmlysaght Website
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