Alex Land
Associate Literary Agent
Alex Land is a Locus Award finalist who loves rooting for the Final Girl—especially if she’s a monster. Alex’s YA Horror Comedy debut, Damned If You Do, was a Junior Library Gold Standard Selection and was also placed on Taysha’s Reading List. Alex is the co-editor of Night of the Living Queers and the editor of The House Where Death Lives, a YA Horror anthology that also received the JLG Gold Standard distinction.
Alex served as a mentor in Pitch Wars and Author Mentor Match and is passionate about working with writers to amplify the heart of their stories. Alex loves collaboration and is excited about working with her clients to form sustainable, long-term careers in publishing. Alex has worked with New York Times Bestselling authors, Stonewall Honors recipients, and many other critically acclaimed authors on various projects. She’s aways ready to root for and brag about all of her clients.
Wishlist
Adult, YA, and MG
Final Girls who are also monsters, diaspora stories, horror of any kind, stories that will make her laugh/cry/wonder if something is lurking in the darkness, anything that hints at what might be hiding in the ocean, witches, rom coms, witchy rom coms, women/enby/POC-lead thrillers that leave her on the edge of her seat, queer horror, queer rom coms, queer anything, stories written by and for folks from underrepresented/marginalized identities, ghost stories, weird stories, weird ghost stories, time loops, heists, the sensibilities of Grady Hendrix, and anything speculative/fabulist.
Some favorite titles in each age category:
Adult: Fantasticland (if you have anything like this book, I’d like it immediately!!!), Vampires of El Norte, The Only Good Indians, The Luminous Dead, Sundial, The Rehearsals, Portrait of a Thief, Yellowface
Young Adult: Bianca Torre Is Afraid of Everything, She is a Haunting, The Valley and the Flood, There’s No Way I’d Die First, The Memory Eater, A Thousand Steps into Night, Violet Made of Thorns, The Getaway, Midnight Strikes, Graceling, Midnights with You, Inheritance of Scars, Together We Rot
Middle Grade: The Otherwoods, Ravenous Things, Hide and Seeker, The Curse of Eelgrass Bog, Paola Santiago and the River of Tears, Freddie vs. The Family Curse
