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Christopher Combemale is an associate agent at Sterling Lord Literistic, Inc where he has worked since 2019. He is looking for voice driven literary and upmarket fiction, especially any novel with a high concept. He is open to speculative elements as well as genre fiction with an upmarket execution, particularly thriller and fantasy. In non-fiction he is interested in nature, history, science, and expert driven projects with prescriptive takeaways. His clients have won the Carnegie Medal, National Book Award, Baille Gifford, Lambda, and James Beard Award, among others. Select clients include Manon Steffan Ros, Barry Lopez, Wade Davis, Scott Weidensaul, Agnieszka Szpila, Patrick Teahan, Dr. Kara Margolis, and Philip Norman. As a Singaporean/French/American born and raised in London, he is interested in international, cross-cultural perspectives and work in translation. He graduated from UNC-Chapel Hill as a Morehead-Cain Scholar and now lives in Brooklyn.
He is also a pottery teacher and loves anything to do with ceramics, tennis, and cooking.
Christopher is not currently accepting submissions for: children's/picture books, hard sci-fi, memoir
Examples of books he currently represents:
The Blue Book of Nebo by Manon Steffan Ros, Ghost Fish by Stuart Pennebaker, Arctic Dreams by Barry Lopez
Christopher is looking for:
He is looking for voice driven literary and upmarket fiction, especially any novel with a high concept. He is open to speculative elements as well as genre fiction with an upmarket execution, particularly thriller and fantasy. In non-fiction he is interested in nature, history, science, and expert driven projects with prescriptive takeaways.
Christopher is not looking for:
Memoir, historical fiction set in the USA, multi-generational family dramas, literary novels with little plot, commercial romance
Learn more at www.sll.com
Christopher Combemale is an associate agent at Sterling Lord Literistic, Inc where he has worked since 2019. He is looking for voice driven literary and upmarket fiction, especially any novel with a high concept. He is open to speculative elements as well as genre fiction with an upmarket execution, particularly thriller and fantasy. In non-fiction he is interested in nature, history, science, and expert driven projects with prescriptive takeaways. His clients have won the Carnegie Medal, National Book Award, Baille Gifford, Lambda, and James Beard Award, among others. Select clients include Manon Steffan Ros, Barry Lopez, Wade Davis, Scott Weidensaul, Agnieszka Szpila, Patrick Teahan, Dr. Kara Margolis, and Philip Norman. As a Singaporean/French/American born and raised in London, he is interested in international, cross-cultural perspectives and work in translation. He graduated from UNC-Chapel Hill as a Morehead-Cain Scholar and now lives in Brooklyn.
He is also a pottery teacher and loves anything to do with ceramics, tennis, and cooking.
Christopher is not currently accepting submissions for: children's/picture books, hard sci-fi, memoir
Examples of books he currently represents:
The Blue Book of Nebo by Manon Steffan Ros, Ghost Fish by Stuart Pennebaker, Arctic Dreams by Barry Lopez
Christopher is looking for:
He is looking for voice driven literary and upmarket fiction, especially any novel with a high concept. He is open to speculative elements as well as genre fiction with an upmarket execution, particularly thriller and fantasy. In non-fiction he is interested in nature, history, science, and expert driven projects with prescriptive takeaways.
Christopher is not looking for:
Memoir, historical fiction set in the USA, multi-generational family dramas, literary novels with little plot, commercial romance
Learn more at www.sll.com