SPEAKER

Connor Smith

Connor Smith

LITERARY AGENT & FOUNDING MEMBER OF HESPERIDES LITERARY

Connor Smith is a restless creative. 

As a literary agent and founding member of Hesperides Literary, Smith leverages his extensive experience as a professional writer, ghostwriter, and editor to routinely hop into the trenches with writers to help them produce the polished work necessary to secure publication. Because writing is and always should be fun.

Smith has spent years as a ghostwriter in a multitude of genres, edited numerous manuscripts that later secured representation and publishing deals, managed several businesses, served as Chief Editor and Client Success Coach at major copywriting companies, has published award-winning short stories, delivered lectures and keynote addresses at various universities and conferences, and is currently the Narrative Director and Writer for Inevitable Studios, where he leads all narrative design, implementation, and writing processes for their upcoming narrative-driven platformer, Always in Mind.

Genres:

  • Sci-fi, fantasy, and magical realism, particularly those that have a literary bent.
  • Powerfully written horror, speculative, romance (all subgenres except fantasy), YA, humor, and meta-fiction. In these genres, I am looking for fast-paced plots penned with style and verve.
  • Nonfiction that expands a reader’s understanding of the world. Please have a well-structured proposal for nonfiction queries. 

He does not accept memoirs, cookbooks, children’s books, historical fiction, or medical fiction.

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