Samantha Fabien
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Root Literary
✞ 🇭🇹 literary agent @rootliterary || pan🌈 || i’m the ultimate hype woman™️ for great people & great books—she/her✨📚🌗

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TODAY @TODAYshow
A pair of international pageant winners are showing love knows no boundaries.Miss Argentina 2020 Mariana Varela and Miss Puerto Rico 2020 Fabiola Valentin said they got married last month.
📸: @fabiolavalentinpr via Instagram on.today.com/3h0i6TL pic.twitter.com/DF5jUFA7Fp
#MSWL for a rom-com inspired by this 🥹❤️🔥🏳️🌈

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Putting out an #MSWL call for marginalized creators and all of the beautiful intersections therein 🧡
I'd love to see more projects in book club fiction, thrillers, mysteries, suspense, romance, SFF, and horror for middle-grade, YA, & adult readers! Genre blends too!

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#DoRevenge on Netflix was so good!! Exactly what I’m in the mood for—campy but fresh YA. #mswl

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ok...😅...so after procrastinating for months, I've finally updated my website #MSWL. it's more a formatting change than content, but feel free to take a peek and query me 🤗💛
querymanager.com/query/samantha…

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#MSWL boost & update.
I'm currently in the mood for:
-more Fantasy Romance, please!
-Crime fiction featuring marginalized POVs and/or by marginalized creators for all ages!
-Anything comped to The Picture of Dorian Gray and/or The Count of Monte Cristo
-LGBTQIA+ fiction🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️

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Also #MSWL for books that feel or align with the following tv shows/movies:
-Turning Red (Disney+)
-Only Murders in the Building (Hulu)
-The Afterparty (AppleTV)
-Ted Lasso (AppleTV)
-Good Girls (Netflix)
-Severance (AppleTV)

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Putting out an #MSWL call for QBIPOC romance in YA and adult. I want all the steam/heat, yearning, humor, and heart.
pls pls pls send me your f/f romance or rom-coms with diverse MCs in a one-night stand, forced proximity, or in any trope really. ❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥 #romancelandia

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Happy vDay! 💘 Love is in the air and also up, down, & around my #mswl 😂
Bring me all of your inclusive enemies to lovers, second chance, friends to lovers, only one bed, fake dating, grump, sunshine, one night stand but whoops here we are again, romance/romcoms, pls! ❤️🔥

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Root Literary @RootLiterary
If you are querying Melanie Figueroa (@wellmelsbells) or Samantha Fabien (@samanthashnh) directly, you can now reach them via their QM forms, links to which are available on our submissions page: rootliterary.com/submissionsThe news is out! Melanie and I will be testing QM! FYI—those who originally queried via e-mail will still be reviewed by us. And for my #MSWL, you can still visit: samanthafabien.com/mswl
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Ok, ok, ok, I think I’ve gone on enough. For more details into my #MSWL, visit samanthafabien.com/mswl
I can’t wait to see your amazing stories! 💛
6/6

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Miscellaneous things I’d love in my inbox? 📥
• horror pied piper reimagining!
• queer Dorian Gray
• queer MG 💚
• sex-positive, body positive YA rom-coms
• BIPOC witches, seers, and mediums
• BIPOC in and writing crime fiction & speculative fic
• isolated thrillers
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In speculative fiction (light sci-fi, horror, fantasy), I need worlds that I can settle into easily.
Fresh takes on classic tropes, dynamic characters, unique magic systems, atmospheric writing & undeniably high stakes ✨Think: R.F. Kuang, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Rory Power
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I’d love to see more crime fiction! 🔪🖤
If it reads like a true crime doc or headline, I’m into it. 🚫 police, gov’t officials, detectives (past or present).
I also love speculative twists and psychological elements like Riley Sager, Vera Kurian, & Tiffany D. Jackson!
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Romance has been such a joy to work on, so I’d love to see more! Especially in the YA space—think: Jenny Han, Sandhya Menon, Jason June & Adiba Jaigirdar ❤️🔥
And I will ALWAYS love a little bit of romance in my fantasy 🥰
Will never be sick of it, I swear.
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New year, time to share a new #MSWL thread of things I’d love to see this year.
I am actively looking for: Adult, YA & MG.
And I am eager to support commercial and high stakes stories featuring BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, disability, and neurodiversity representation.
(A thread)
1/?

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hi, just tweeting out that since #JulieandThePhantoms was canceled and I've been thinking about it ever since... 😭
#MSWL for a fun YA ghost story with similar feel-good vibes and messages about healing through your grief 💛

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Hi #amquerying #amwriting folks!
Just a friendly reminder that I am desperately seeking some more contemporary stories in the adult, YA & MG space.
My detailed #MSWL can be found here: bit.ly/3iZE47U 🖤

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hi #amquerying & #WritingCommunity folx,
i’d love to see more:
• contemporary stories for MG-Adult
• rom-coms, especially in YA (queer & diverse). I want a BIPOC f/f story so badly!
• twisty YA thrillers and horror (& adult, always!)
#mswl

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OK, can we have more romances where the love interest doesn't have "rippling abs" or "taut muscles," but is instead curvy, warm, soft, and teddy-bear like pls? #MSWL