✦ Radically honest. Tenderly vague. ✦
We are your literary bestie, your publishing compass, and the calm voice saying “this chapter isn’t serving the collective arc” while handing you tea.
Our radically gentle why
At Violet & Verity, we believe every manuscript is both a book and a doorway. Sometimes it is also 14,000 words too long. We will tell you all three things.
Our full-heart, market-aware approach pairs uncompromising editorial discernment with an almost medically inadvisable quantity of reassurance.
“We don’t chase trends. We notice where culture is exhaling.”
The agent collective
We bring different lists, lived experiences, and beverage orders to one sacred truth: your pitch should probably open with the hook.
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Founder, CEO & Chief Story Doula
“Books that feel like a handwritten note from your future self.”
Drawn toward: Upmarket fiction with a pulse, speculative stories that ask “what if?” but softly, and voice-forward narratives where healing is practically a setting.
Boundaries: Hard passes are not part of Poppy’s vocabulary. She prefers “not yet in energetic alignment.”
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Senior Agent of Resonance
“I want to miss my train because your first page knew my inner child.”
Drawn toward: Literary suspense without too much suspense, memoir with boundaries, and fantasy where the magic system is actually belonging.
Boundaries: No cynicism unless it is holding hands with hope.
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Agent & Narrative Gardener
“Give me specificity so universal it becomes a warm beverage.”
Drawn toward: Intergenerational yearning, quietly feral women, tender monsters, braided timelines, food as memory, and anything described as luminous.
Boundaries: Please no stories that punch down, sideways, or without checking in first.
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Agent for Expansive Wonder
“Big feelings. Small towns. One impossible thing treated with excellent boundaries.”
Drawn toward: Romantic fantasy with emotional infrastructure, cozy stakes that still matter, and men learning the names of their own feelings.
Boundaries: Grimdark, unless the darkness contains a tiny lamp.
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Agent of Voice & Becoming
“I’m seeking books that arrive barefoot and know exactly who they are.”
Drawn toward: Book-club fiction, diasporic joy, ambitious women behaving interestingly, and commercial concepts wrapped in cashmere sentences.
Boundaries: No trauma without texture. No villains without a morning routine.
Our collective manuscript wishful list
Genre is useful. Vibe is truer. Please use this entirely actionable aura map to determine whether your 92,000-word novel belongs in our inbox.
But someone has just made soup.
● ● ◐ ○Then starts a ceramics practice.
● ● ● ◐Calendars exist. So does desire.
● ● ◐ ○The dragon has done therapy.
● ● ● ●Commercial, but make it cellular.
● ● ● ◐We can always tell.
○ ○ ○ ○The people behind the people
Seven brilliant humans making the magic operational, searchable, and correctly attached.
Assistant to Poppy
Protects the calendar’s softness.
Editorial Assistant
Asks whether every comma feels safe.
Rights Assistant
Takes your story across borders, gently.
Assistant to Julian
Keeper of the reading candle.
Submissions Assistant
Turns attachments into possibility.
Community Assistant
Replies with warmth and one exclamation point too many.
Assistant to Clover Reese
Protects Clover’s capacity to protect Poppy’s calendar’s softness.
The sacred submission pathway
No hidden doors. No secret handshakes. Just four exquisitely named stages.
Send your query, synopsis, and first ten pages. Take one grounding breath.
We read for voice, stakes, market position, and the tiny weather system beneath your prose.
If we fall in resonance, expect candor wrapped in two compliments and a sprig of lavender.
Together, we make the book more itself until publishing can no longer look away.
Your next chapter, emotionally and as a file attachment
We are open to queries during months containing the letter R, Mercury permitting. Send a query, synopsis, and ten pages. No lavender required.
This submission portal is ceremonial. No queries are accepted or transmitted.