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This book introduces ethical relationship concepts in an engaging way. The narrator is a smart and honest teen trying to do her best at school, at work, and for her loved ones. Her struggles with heartbreak, long-distance love, bullying, and prejudice will resonate with any reader. Highly recommended for its modeling of conversations concerning love, sex, and consent. Also highly recommended for its easy, casual inclusion of queerness and disability. Be aware that there is explicit sexual content.
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It’s not impossible to write and publish a great young-adult novel that centers on a polyamorous relationship.
It’s improbable.
Gabrielle Harbowy nailed it.
One of things I like best about this book–aside from the dry wit and the deep sweetness–is the naturalistic placement of high-school polyamory into a world where high-school polyamory has consequences. And especially the fact that the consequences are not lazily predictable ones.
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I bought a copy for my classroom, since we do SSR and ninth graders are always forgetting their “fun books.” It made its rounds of girls, and then a couple of boys. Now it has gone missing, so I hope it connected with someone who needed to feel seen. Time to buy another copy!
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It takes a certain sort of book to really capture the chaotic emotional turmoil of youth, but Hearts are Jerks meets the challenge with finesse and enthusiasm, instilling its tale of a heroine just trying to be happy and make her loved ones happy with dramatic verisimilitude. The characters are believably young and unwise, and make foolhardy decisions with the best of intentions, never expecting the harshness of real life to crash down on them.
The novel confronts and challenges the difficulties of its sometimes heavy subject matter with seriousness and grace. Too often we dismiss bullying and harassment as “harmless” or “don’t feed the trolls”, but this story shows us that sometimes such actions have real consequences for everyone involved, and it’s extremely cathartic to see.
Also, ethical polyamory rules. 🙂
I learned a great deal from this book, and I hope you will too.
Thrilled to announce that I’ve been promoted to Associate Literary Agent at Corvisiero Literary Agency! You can still find my full #MSWL (manuscript wish list) and query link at http://www.corvisieroagency.com.
Very pleased to announce that my story “All the Light in the Room” is now available in the anthology Interdimensions Vol. 1: 2024 (a GenCon Writers Symposium Anthology) from Atthis Arts, edited by Toiya Kristen Finley.
You can click on the cover image (or click: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DD7CGG59/) to go to Amazon and give it a peek!
I’m so pleased to announce, Marisa Corvisiero and I have co-signed Hailey Spencer for representation! Hailey (IG: @outofloveinspring, haileyspencerwrites.com) has written a brilliant and gorgeously dark fantasy/horror fairytale retelling that I fell in love with at first sight. I’m very excited to be able to help her share her talent with the world!
I’m pleased to share that I’ve been invited to participate in PhiladelphiaStories Pitch Fest. You can reserve a spot to pitch an agent online — not just me — on June 30, at this link: https://philadelphiastories.org/june-2024-pitch-fest/.
If you’re a querying author with a complete manuscript, please come and check it out!
I’m so pleased to participate in Can*Con Online — it’s one of my favorite conventions, and this year I can be a small part of it without the travel to Ottawa (though being in Ottawa is one of my favorite parts, too!).
You can register at https://can-con.org/cancon-virtual/ to attend this panel and a whole day of exciting literary programming!
A new post on gendered / gender neutral vocabulary, free to read on my patreon page. For more content like this, please follow/subscribe over there!
https://www.patreon.com/posts/challenging-one-99540266
I’m pleased to announce my promotion at Corvisiero Literary Agency to Literary Agent Apprentice. I am now able to start signing clients and building my list, and I am accepting queries! Please click here to see my full wishlist.
I don’t have my own query box at this time, so when you query me, it will show as querying Marisa Corvisiero. This is correct! Just address your query to me (“Dear Gabrielle” is sufficient) and it will be routed to me. Please don’t list me in the referral field, just in the query letter field. Unaddressed queries are assumed to be for Marisa.
Please don’t query multiple agents at Corvisiero. We share queries, so it isn’t necessary. Also, a no from one of us is a no from all. We do accept re-querying with the same manuscript after about 6 months, and only if the manuscript has undergone significant revision.
As an agency, we are currently not accepting novellas, short fiction collections, or poetry. My specific preferences (and that of our other agents) are available through the links above. If you think someone else is a better fit, I won’t be upset if you query them instead. We want you to find the best agent for your project!
Please don’t query by email, over social media, or through anything but the official channel. It’s important for record-keeping reasons and to make sure no queries fall through the cracks. We do read all queries and consider the sample pages.
Let the adventure begin!
Visit my Patreon to see my latest post, about a friend I recently lost and the story I wrote for her. Free to read; please consider following or subscribing.
https://www.patreon.com/posts/80720646?pr=true
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