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What John is looking for
John’s fiction tastes are varied, but he is particularly drawn to beautiful and unusual literary fiction, ambitious and expansive novels about family or love, and anything formally innovative or compulsively page-turning. In nonfiction, his writers cover areas as diverse as the history of the European peasantry, the art market, new theories of friendship, antiquarian bookselling, and the concept of narcissism. He is open to submissions of literary and general fiction, as well as a wide range of nonfiction.
Notable sales & clients
- Pretty Boys Are Poisonous by Megan Fox
- Once Upon a Tome by Oliver Darkshire
- The Doloriad by Missouri Williams
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What genres does John Ash represent?
John Ash represents Literary Fiction, Nonfiction.
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