Samantha Fabien
Root Literary
Likely Open
Updated: 9/19/2025
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Agent Information
Agent Bio
Samantha is looking for high-concept commercial and upmarket fiction for adult, young adult, and middle grade readers that features diverse, marginalized, and/or underrepresented voices with all-or-nothing stakes.
She lives for the rollercoaster of emotions that characters and stories can take her on, wanting to feel strongly enough about a project that she desperately needs to share it with the world.
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Submission Requirements
Fiction Requirements
Nonfiction Requirements
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Genres
Genres Represented
Fiction
- Book Club
- Commercial Fiction
- Fantasy
- Horror
- Middle Grade
- Speculative Fiction
- Upmarket Fiction
- Young Adult
Nonfiction
- Middle Grade
- Young Adult
Genres Not Represented
- Screenplays
- Poetry
- Novellas
- Short Stories
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About Root Literary
Agency Profile
Root Literary represents authors and illustrators, offering a big-agency business perspective and a boutique hands-on approach to literary representation. They’re more than just literary agents—they’re career builders.
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