Representing ADULT Fiction and NONFICTION
Biography
Brenna English-Loeb works with authors of adult genre fiction and adult nonfiction, with select YA and crossover clients. She joined the Transatlantic in 2019 after working for several years at Janklow & Nesbit Associates and Writers House, where I had the pleasure of working with New York Times bestselling and award-winning authors across multiple genres. Brenna grew up in beautiful Upstate New York and studied English and Theatre at Bucknell University.
Brenna is also the owner of BEL Tower Editorial, where she works with authors as a developmental editor on such big-picture issues as world-building, plot and character development, pacing and theme, among other areas of concern, such as query and synopsis critiques.
Submissions
Brenna is open to submissions for the month of May.
For fiction:
Brenna is looking for adult fantasy, science fiction, and mystery queries. In every genre she prioritizes beautiful writing, exciting characters, and thought-provoking world building. She gravitates towards relationship-driven plots with personal stakes, and she loves stories with a sense of fun and adventure, even if they’re tackling serious subjects.
She is specifically looking for upmarket commercial works in the following subgenres:
- High fantasy with unique worldbuilding
- Cozy fantasy with an edge
- Secondary world fantasy
- Murder mysteries in a fantasy setting
- Gothic fantasy
- Horror fantasy
- Space adventure set in the far future
- Space opera with personal stakes and set in the far future
- Cozy scifi set in the far future
- Murder mysteries set in the far future
- Classic mysteries
- Structurally inventive mysteries or crime novels
For nonfiction, Brenna is looking for propulsive narrative nonfiction and pop science.
In all categories, she is always looking for works by authors from underrepresented groups and identities.
Please send the first twenty pages of your manuscript in the body of the email, along with your query letter.
Clients
- Abbott, Elizabeth
- Berube, Dana
- Campbell, Melodie
- Churchland, Marian
- Dimova, Genoveva
- Edmonds, Sarah
- Elbein, Asher
- Goldberg, Chris
- Goode, Laura
- Hallahan, Katie
- Hess, R. Renee
- Jones, Scott Alexander
- Ketchum, Alex
- Krotz, Larry
- Kwan, Andrew Sebastian
- Machado, Mario
- Mattson, Greggor
- Molnar, Petra
- Niedermeyer, Kylie
- Perez, Sabina
- Pladek, B.
- Schaefer, R.E.
- Shammas, Natalie
- Shay, K. S.
- Spring, Kelly
- Sully, George
- Radke, Cheri
- Rae, Inez
- Wilson, Joseph
- Winn, Cortney