Writing as M.A. Wardell, LAMBDA Literary Award nominee Matt writes spicy queer rom-coms and his self-published TEACHER OF THE YEAR has been a viral sensation.

His goal is to tell adult gay love stories with a diverse representation of flawed and damaged characters who find healing through love.

Matt loves rom-coms and has always wished for better representation, so he’s writing the stories he wishes existed. The queer men in his stories are flawed and messy. Helping them find their HEA is Matt’s passion.

For more, check out the author’s website.

Agent Contact: Stevie Finegan

United Kingdom and British Commonwealth only: Represented in these territories on behalf of  Jabberwocky Literary Agency.

MJ Wassmer grew up in the suburbs of Memphis, Tennessee. He’s worked as a UPS package handler, professional treadmill cleaner, steakhouse busboy, and Spider-Man for children’s birthday parties. Following ten years in corporate, Michael left to start his own business while focusing on his true passion—writing silly things. His debut novel is ZERO STARS, DO NOT RECOMMEND.

Find MJ on his website or on Twitter @mj_wassmer.

Agent Contact: Stevie Finegan

Author Photo Credit: Greg Campbell

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Catelyn writes YA Fantasy with a splash of romance. She loves incorporating mythology into her books and firmly believes morally grey is the way to any woman’s heart. She has an unhealthy obsession with Jane Austen, sunscreen, and animals. Catelyn lives in Texas with her husband and mini-Aussie, Churro.

Catelyn’s first novel is ALL THE DEVILS, due to be published by Penguin Michael Joseph in September 2024.

You can follow her on Tiktok and on Instagram, where she hosts giveaways and posts snippets of her upcoming work.’

Agent Contact: Stevie Finegan

Gary Wigglesworth was a bookseller for many years and now works in publishing. In normal times he hosts a monthly book quiz at The Betsey Trotwood in Farringdon, London. THE BOOK LOVER’S QUIZ BOOK his first quiz book, was published in 2020 by Robinson (Little, Brown). For more information, updates on future quizzes and to see what Gary is currently reading, visit his website.

THE BOOK LOVER’S QUIZ BOOK 2 is published in October 2023, also published by Robinson.

Agent Contact: Stevie Finegan

Jasmine Wigham grew up reading any book that she could get her hands on and fell in love with fantasy and its many worlds. She writes novels inspired by her home in County Durham and the people that she grew up with. She enjoys writing about local and regional areas that she doesn’t see very much in fiction.

She has loved writing ever since she was a child, but only recently started writing again after finishing her BA in History and English Literature. She was a recent finalist in the Penguin 2020 Write Now scheme, which aims to champion promising new writers who are so far underrepresented in the publishing landscape, with her debut crossover fantasy, CRADLE OF SECRETS.

Some of her favourite authors include Leigh Bardugo, Adiba Jaigirdar, Marissa Meyer, and Chloe Gong. When she is not reading or writing she enjoys walking along the coast or watching period dramas.

You can find out more about Jasmine and follow her on social media: Twitter and Instragram

Agent Contact: Stevie Finegan

Yudhanjaya Wijeratne is a Nebula-nominated science fiction author and data scientist from Colombo, Sri Lanka. His fiction includes THE SLOW SAD SUICIDE OF ROHAN WIJERATNE, NUMBERCASTE and the Commonwealth Empires trilogy, some of which is part of a five-book deal with HarperCollins. By day he is a senior researcher with the Data, Algorithms and Policy team at LIRNEasia, working at the intersection of technology and government policy. His work spans social networks, misinformation, linguistics, and grounded futurism for the UNDP. He is the co-founder of Watchdog, a fact-checking organization that sprung up in the wake of the April 2019 bombings in Sri Lanka. He built and operates @osunpoet, an experimental Instagram poet using OpenAI technology to test a human+AI collaboration in art — a thesis currently being explored in an entirely separate trilogy of novels.

Yudhanjaya blogs at Yudhanjaya.com, and has written for Slate, Foreign Policy and more besides. You can also find him on Twitter.

Agent Contact: Stevie Finegan

Freda Warrington is known for the lush sensuality of her writing, in which she creates compelling characters and weirdly atmospheric worlds.

Her eighteen novels so far include ELFLAND (2009), A TASTE OF BLOOD WINE (1992), THE JEWELFIRE TRILOGY (1999, 2000, 2001) and THE COURT OF THE MIDNIGHT KING (2003). She won The Dracula Society Award for Best Novel with DRACULA THE UNDEAD (1997), and the British Fantasy Society short-listed THE AMBER CITADEL (1999) for Best Fantasy Novel. Her earlier novels, A BLACKBIRD IN SILVER (1986), A BLACKBIRD IN DARKNESS (1986), A BLACKBIRD IN AMBER (1988) and A BLACKBIRD IN TWILIGHT (1988), have been reissued by Immanion Press in both separate- and omnibus-editions. Her short stories have appeared in various anthologies, the latest of which is Myth-Understandings published by Newcon Press…

Freda has spent most of her life in Leicestershire, England, where she has also worked in graphic design and various arts and crafts.

Her Aetherial Tales novels – ELFLAND, MIDSUMMER NIGHT, and GRAIL OF THE SUMMER STARS — were published in hard cover in the US by Tor (2009-13). In 2009, ELFLAND won the Romantic Times award for Best Fantasy Novel. The novels were re-issued in 2020, as eBooks for the first time.

Be sure to check out Freda’s Website and Blog for more information and news.

In 2013, Titan Books began re-issuing Freda’s Blood Wine series in the UK and US. A TASTE OF BLOOD WINE was published in May 2013; A DANCE IN BLOOD VELVET is due to be published in October 2013 (UK) and April 2014 (US). THE DARK BLOOD OF POPPIES and a new, never-before-released fourth novel in the series, THE DARK ARTS OF BLOOD, are also due to be published in 2014.

Freda was interviewed in 2013 by the Examiner about the Blood Wine series.

Agent Contact: John Berlyne