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Thais Afonso
Azantian Literary Agency
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About
Thais Afonso is a literary agent at Azantian Literary Agency, an agency founded by Jennifer Azantian that focuses on middle grade, young adult, and adult speculative fiction. Afonso joined the agency as she built her own client list with an emphasis on diverse and underrepresented stories.
Currently Looking For
ADULT & YOUNG ADULT FICTION In both Adult and Young Adult Fiction, Thais is looking to represent Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Horror, Contemporary Romance, Mysteries and Thrillers. She’s particularly keen on growing her contemporary and horror list right now, so if you have a project that doesn’t have any of her triggers and hard ‘no’s, send it to her! Even if it doesn’t a match an item in the wishlist. She very much welcomes surprises here (again, as long as there are no elements from her anti-MSWL, especially a heavy law enforcement presence in the story). In Horror, she’s still looking for lesbians, lesbians, lesbians. Plus, the unsettling, the Gothic, folkloric horror, and all the social horror. She would especially love to find a horror-romance that hits the right balance of ‘we’re fighting the monsters and we’re kissing.’ She’s not looking for literary at this time, but focusing on commercial horror. She’s also seeking space horror: anything that could be comped to Alien: Romulus or Ghost Station, and anything underwater. She would love a deep ocean first contact horror!! Lastly, while she’s also not big on gore, she would love to see some gory body horror in the vein of The Substance. In Mysteries and Thrillers, she’s looking for anything pacey, tense, and completely unrelated to law enforcement. She likes predictable but addictive, like Dan Brown’s The Secret of Secrets and Laura Dave’s The First Time I Saw Him. At the same time, she’s enjoying unexpected but clever concepts like Best Offer Wins, Harmless Women, Murder Bimbo, and Don’t Cross Mo Ellery, so feel free to surprise her. The only requirement in thrillers/suspense for her is that it be fast-paced. She’s also still seeking lesbian thrillers, especially anything that could be pitched as Master of the House but lesbian, and anything that could be pitched as BIPOC Dan Brown (meaning that same tight formula and breakneck pace, but with different themes and relationships between the characters and the world). She’s focused on commercial mysteries and thrillers. She’s not a good fit here for upmarket or literary, nor is she seeking psychological thrillers at this time. If there’s an element of the MC imagining things or not, or a big reliance on the narrator being unreliable, it’s not for her. In Contemporary Romance, she’s eager to sign queer authors, and especially lesbians of color like her. Recently, she’s loving what K-dramas are doing with romance and high personal stakes, so think Crash Course in Romance, Tastefully Yours, and Forecasting Love and Weather. Speaking of weather, she’s loving the trend in contemporary romance, so if you can comp your book to B. K. Borison’s And Now Back to You or the upcoming In Stormy Weather by Chelsea Curto, she will probably go straight to the pages! She’s also a huge fan of forced proximity and nerdiness, so please someone send her something like a romance about researchers in Antarctica. In sports romance, she’d still love a rivals-to-lovers, queer roman
Submission Guidelines
Submissions should be emailed to https://QueryManager.com/ThaisAfonso Only queries submitted through Query Manager will be considered. All queries submitted to her email will be deleted without response. Please submit your query letter, a two-page synopsis, and the first 20 pages of your book. If there is triggering content in your manuscript, please add warnings to your submission package. I don’t have a maximum word-count for query letters, so you can add any and all content warnings to the end of the letter. In addition to CWs, I recommend your query letter feature a pitch, your bio, and basic information about the manuscript’s word count, title, and potential audience. Comps are super welcome, but not mandatory. If I requested this submission from a pitch contest, please include a link to the pitch. If there’s a particular item in my MSWL you think your manuscript fills, I’d love for you to highlight it. And don’t worry about mistakes. I’ll give equal consideration to all queries. If you have a query with another agent on my team, please wait until they finish considering your manuscript before submitting to me. Our agency has a policy that you can only query one agent at a time. I also have word-count limits that trigger auto-reject. That’s usually anything above 100k for non-fantasy books and 130k for adult fantasy (120k for YA). Please don’t submit anything above that. If it’s been auto-rejected, it means I won’t consider the manuscript at that word count. You’re welco
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