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Paige Terlip represents all categories of children’s books from picture books to young adult, as well as select adult fiction, including thrillers/psychological suspense, fantasy/sci-fi, horror, upmarket fiction, romance, and mysteries, and platform-based nonfiction. Regardless of genre, she is seeking inclusive, intersectional voices and gorgeous line-level writing with emotionally compelling narratives.


Some of Paige’s specific wish list items include:


Adult:

  • Horror that dismantles the gender binary (and societal norms)

  • Stories that examine contemporary issues using horror/speculative elements as the vehicle (think Jordan Peele or Stephen Graham Jones)

  • Sentient forests or natural settings with a sinister undertone (a la Annihilation)

  • Cozy mysteries that center BIPOC and/or queer characters

  • Queer and/or BIPOC romance (with conflict that CAN'T be solved with one conversation)

  • Exploring a magical matrilineal inheritance through a trans POV

  • Real burgeoning science taken to the next level

  • Platform-based nonfiction centering underrepresented voices in the health and wellness space 

  • Nonfiction about LGBTQIA+ sex and relationships or self-help by queer authors 


Please note: Paige is closed to picture book and MG queries except for referrals or conference attendees. 


For additional wish list details please visit: paigeterlip.com.


Paige has worked at ABLA since 2017. She comes to agenting with a background in marketing, design, and freelance editorial. She has an MA in Children's Literature and an MFA in Writing for Children from Simmons University, and is currently serving as co-chair on the American Association of Literary Agents' (AALA) Communications Committee. If she’s not reading, you'll find her training for long distance open water swims, re-watching the Great British Baking Show, or hiking with her Husky-Shepherd mix.

RECENT DEALS
Tigest Girma's debut IMMORTAL DARK, a dark academia fantasy about the 19-year-old heiress to a fallen legacy, who must infiltrate the society of vampires she fled as a child to find her kidnapped sister and share a house with the alluring vampire she suspects killed her family, to Little, Brown Children's, in a major deal, at auction, in a three-book deal, for publication in fall 2024

Kate Cochrane's debut WAKE UP, NAT & DARCY, a sapphic romance in which two former hockey teammates turned rivals with unresolved feelings for one another are paired to host a popular morning show's Olympic coverage and must remain professional amid a nation of fans closely scrutinizing their incredible chemistry, to Harlequin Carina Adores, for publication in 2024.

Peter Cheong's WHERE WE CAN HEAR THE GIANTS SING, in which a young girl is given a magical gift to explore underwater mysteries alongside a new friend with the gentle and loving reminder that home is always a place you can come back to, to Holt Children's, at auction, for publication in fall 2024.

Rosalyn Ransaw's SMOKE & MIRRORS, pitched as FROM THE DESK OF ZOE WASHINGTON meets THE PARKER INHERITANCE, in which a Black boy is forced to spend his summer refurbishing an old mansion and in the process is pulled into the unsolved mystery of the previous owner, a famous magician who disappeared without a trace, to Amulet, for publication in fall 2024.

Ally Russell's MYSTERY JAMES DIGS HER OWN GRAVE and sequel, that follows a 13-year-old who was abandoned in a cemetery, raised in a funeral home, and can smell ghosts; when a priceless heirloom goes missing and her family's funeral home is in danger of closing, she embarks on an adventure to clear their good name—and is exposed to a world of vampiric ghosts, sleep demons, and grave-robbing conspiracies, to Delacorte, in a two-book deal, for publication in fall 2025.

Emily Varga's YA fantasy, FOR SHE IS WRATH, pitched as a Pakistani Count of Monte Cristo fantasy, following a girl determined to exact her revenge after being accused of a crime she didn't commit, but when the person standing in her way is the ex-lover who condemned her, retribution becomes a complicated game of cat and mouse; and an untitled YA fantasy, pitched as an anti-colonial Indiana Jones meets A COURT OF THORNS AND ROSES, to Wednesday Books, in a two-book deal, for publication in Winter 2024 and Winter 2025.

Bex Glendining's INDIGO PORT, a YA graphic novel in which a young woman struggling with the grief of losing her estranged grandmother discovers there was more to her grandmother than meets the eye, taking her down a magical rabbit hole of love and forgiveness, to Abrams Amulet, for publication in spring 2025.
THINGS I LOVE:

Queer love

Carnivorous plants

Petrichor

Dog-friendly hikes

Secret passages

Martial arts

Give me swoon-y romance! Make me laugh or take me on an adventure, but above all give me a happily ever after!
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I love well-plotted twists, being a little bit scared, and stories that explore the fluidity of gender and bring the queer experience
to light.
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