Stacia Decker is an active literary agent at Dunow, Carlson & Lerner Literary Agency, currently open to submissions. She specializes in grounded speculative fiction, including science fiction, fantasy, horror, and select literary fiction for both adult and young adult audiences.
About Stacia Decker
Stacia Decker has been an agent since 2009. Previously, she worked at the Donald Maass Literary Agency and, as an editor, at Harcourt. She began her career as an intern and then editorial assistant at Farrar, Straus & Giroux after earning an MFA in nonfiction writing from Columbia University and an AB in Government and English from Georgetown University.
She represents grounded SFF, speculative fiction, horror, some romance, and select literary fiction in adult and YA. She is looking for ambitious worldbuilding, strong voices, fast-paced plotting, cross-genre elements, dark romance, and anything slightly unhinged.
QUERIES AND SUBMISSIONS
CONTACT
Please email query letters to mail@dclagency.com and paste the first ten pages of your manuscript below your letter. We encourage you to address your email to a specific agent who you think might be the right fit. Submitting to more than one agent at a time is permitted, but please indicate in your letter which agents you are querying.
Emails with attachments will not be opened. Due to the high volume of submissions the agency receives, they are unable to respond to all queries.
Although email is preferred, query letters may also be sent by mail. Please include a self-addressed stamped envelope with adequate postage if you would like your materials returned.