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Get a critique of your query letter and first 25 pages by Literary Agent Connor Goldsmith! 

Connor is currently closed to unsolicited submissions, so this is a great opportunity to get his expert eyes on your work.

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About Connor: 

Connor Goldsmith is an Agent at Fuse Literary. He began his career in publishing in 2012 at Lowenstein Associates, where he was promoted to Associate Agent in March 2013. He joined Fuse in early 2014 and was promoted to Agent in November 2015. Prior to transitioning into the world of books, he spent a year as a full-time intern and relief assistant in the commercial film and television department at Abrams Artists Agency.

Born and raised in New York, Connor lived for a brief stint in the Midwest studying English and the Classics at Oberlin College in Ohio. He is passionate about narrative fiction across all media as a vehicle for social progress, and received a Master’s Degree in Media Studies from The New School for Public Engagement


About Fuse Literary:

Fuse Literary is a full-service, hybrid literary agency based in the Silicon Valley with offices in New York, Chicago, Dallas, North Dakota, and Vancouver. We blend the tried-and-true methods of traditional publishing with the brash new opportunities engendered by digital publishing, emerging technologies, and an evolving author-agent relationship. Fuse manages a wide variety of clients, from bestsellers to debut authors, working with fiction and non-fiction for children and adults worldwide. We combine technical efficiency with outside-the-covers creative thinking so that each individual client’s career is specifically fine-tuned for them. We are not an agency that sells a book and then washes our hands of the project. We realize that our ongoing success directly results from that of our clients, so we remain at their side to cultivate and strategize throughout the many lives of each book, both before and after the initial sale.

Innovations, such as our Short Fuse publishing program, help bridge the gaps between books, growing and maintaining the author’s fan base without lag. The partners launched Fuse following tenures at established agencies, bringing with them experience in writing, teaching, professional editing, book marketing, blogging and social media, running high-tech companies, and marketing new technologies. A boutique, collaborative agency, Fuse provides each client with the expertise and forward vision of the group. We pride ourselves on our flexibility and passion for progression in an ever-changing publishing environment. We believe that the agency of the future will not just react to change but will actively create change, pushing markets and advancing formats to provide authors with the best possible outlets for their art. 

Fuse Literary: Igniting Author Careers.


Connor's clients include: 

Claire Humphrey, author of SPELLS OF BLOOD AND KIN

Alex White, author of EVERY MOUNTAIN MADE LOW

Lara Elena Donnelly, author of AMBERLOUGH

Cass Morris, author of FROM UNSEEN FIRE

Margaret Killjoy, author of THE LAMB WILL SLAUGHTER THE LION


Connor's recent sales include:

Alex White's ALIEN: THE COLD FORGE, fifth in Titan's series of original novels set in the world of Ridley Scott's ALIEN, about a disabled scientist who finds her xenomorph experiments turning on her and a company mercenary out for her blood, with no defense but a robot she controls remotely from her bed. (Titan Books)


Alex White's A BIG SHIP AT THE EDGE OF THE UNIVERSE, first in THE SALVAGERS space-opera series, about relic hunters who must recover an ancient superweapon to save the galaxy from suffering the same fate as their home planet, pitched as Firefly meets Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy. (Orbit)


Lara Elena Donnelly's two sequels to AMBERLOUGH, set in her Art Deco fantasy world of hedonism, intrigue, and spies confronting fascism. (Tor)


Florida State University Creative Writing PhD student SJ Sindu's MARRIAGE OF A THOUSAND LIES, about a Tamil-American lesbian married to a gay male friend to satisfy their traditional Sri Lankan families, who cannot bring herself to continue the sham after her first love agrees to her own arranged marriage with a man, pitched as Alison Bechdel meets Jhumpa Lahiri. (Soho)


Jeffe Kennedy's THE PAGES OF THE MIND, the first in a new series set in the world of THE MARK OF THE TALA, about a scholar finds herself trapped in a foreign land by a warrior king who cannot understand her clever words. (Kensington)


http://www.fuseliterary.com/connor-goldsmith/

Twitter: @dreamoforgonon 


All proceeds benefit the 501(c)3 nonprofit SFWF and EveryLibrary, America’s first and only 501(c)4 social welfare organization dedicated to protecting public libraries as the federal government tries to completely defund them.