Daniele Hunter

McIntosh & Otis

I’m Daniele (she/her), a queer, chronically ill, disabled junior agent at McIntosh & Otis, acquiring (in order of priority) YA, MG, and PB. I’m extremely editorially hands-on! I have a BA in English from Drew University, with concentrations in Literary Criticism, Poetry, and Creative Writing. For a sunshiny person, I have very dark taste in books. As an agent, I want to help tell the “hard” stories deeply needed by kids/teens experiencing hardships or with underrepresented identities. While my heart lives in contemporary stories, I also love contemporary fantasy (as well as supernatural elements like ghosts), and am sparingly open to historical and suspense. I’ll be authors’ biggest cheerleader, and value open communication. I strive to be a safe space for marginalized identities/experiences, but don’t force authors to disclose those to me. I’m always open to any accommodations authors need. I’m a member of the AALA and serve on the DEI committee. I’ll be a mentor for my clients, helping them navigate the publishing industry even after an editor signs their books. And though publishing is a business, I know that writing books (especially the dark, raw ones I fall for) is a very intimate endeavor, so I strive to connect with my clients not just on a professional level, but a personal one. Please note that I assist on my boss's list, and I already co-rep some clients with her. So I’m likely to acquire more narrowly at first, but that could change as my role expands! In my spare time, I read way too quickly, sing opera, and put my ambidexterity to good use as a knitter. I live in New Jersey with my spouse and our (perfect) cat.

Subject Focus

Children’s: Middle Grade Fiction
Children’s: Middle Grade Non-Fiction
Children’s: Picture Book
Children’s: Young Adult Fiction
Children’s: Young Adult Non-Fiction
Children’s: General

Experience

6

Years of Industry Experience

2022

Member Since

Submission Requirements

How to successfully present your work

My top focus is "dark," "issue-driven" stories with very lyrical writing (prose or novels-in-verse welcome!). For more about my wishlist, as well as titles I've worked on, visit my website or MSWL page. To send me a query, please use my Query Manager page. I look forward to hearing from you!
https://aalitagents.org/author/dhuntermcintoshandotis-com/
aalitagents.org
CC-MAIN-2024-18
125374
application/http; msgtype=response
sha1:SOJTLAI5VDKCZUJFJYHKG447BNSPD6Y7
<urn:uuid:0e39edcd-01dd-4d26-997e-17b92a5170f2>
2024-04-13T10:02:10Z
23.185.0.1
text/html
sha1:UFSDIG42Q3BSFSABNIAQLMTM4OPWF2J6
<urn:uuid:66f909b5-9e95-4c77-88a2-ccb8c7ac027e>
https://aalitagents.org/author/dhuntermcintoshandotis-com/
response
<urn:uuid:a73771f9-9fe6-49f7-87fd-e08136f11610>
isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2024-18
publisher: Common Crawl
description: Wide crawl of the web for April 2024
operator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)
hostname: ip-10-67-67-234
software: Apache Nutch 1.19 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)
robots: checked via crawler-commons 1.5-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)
format: WARC File Format 1.1
conformsTo: https://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/