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What Lara is looking for
Lara represents bestselling and award-winning authors and illustrators of board books, picture books, early readers, chapter books, middle grade, and YA fiction and nonfiction, and authors of adult fiction. In all categories, Lara relates to outsiders, and her most treasured reads are character-driven stories with sparks of magic (bright or haunting) and fascinating facts interwoven beautifully into the main narrative. She is seeking page-turners, underrepresented perspectives, and anything that makes her do a mental double-take. She loves characters who are fully rendered on the page and deeply human in their dreams, failures, and triumphs. Most of all, she appreciates intersectionality, an
Notable sales & clients
- What Are Your Words? by Katherine Locke
- The Very Impatient Caterpillar by Ross Burach
- All Because You Matter by Tami Charles
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Frequently asked questions
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What genres does Lara Perkins represent?
Lara Perkins represents Young Adult, Middle Grade, Picture Books, Nonfiction.
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