{"id":2232,"name":"Lily Kovacs","url":"lily-kovacs","department":{"id":2,"name":"Books","url":"books"},"email":"lily.kovacs@curtisbrown.co.uk","summary":"","bio":"<p>I work across\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.curtisbrown.co.uk\/section\/heritage\" target=\"\">Heritage<\/a>\u00a0and the <a href=\"https:\/\/curtisbrown.co.uk\/section\/sci-fi-fantasy\" target=\"\">SFF Department<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p><p>In terms of fiction, my favourite kind of stories blend narratives around suspense, mystery and psychological drama, and I especially love when this involves post-apocalyptic or survival plot lines. I'm also a big fan of a Gothic atmosphere, multigenerational sagas or morally ambiguous characters, as well as exploration of the queer experience.\u00a0<span>In non-fiction, I enjoy the riveting investigative journalism of (<\/span><i>Empire of Pain)<\/i><span>, and raw vulnerability (<\/span><i>Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?).<\/i><\/p><p>Across the wider SFF genre, I\u2019m drawn to character-driven adventures, intricate and memorable world building, well-developed side characters, lots of banter, and slow reveals backed by subtle foreshadowing. Think <i>Game of Thrones<\/i> or <i>Throne of Glass<\/i>. I lean more towards fantasy than sci-fi, preferring varied and distinctive magic systems \u00e0 la <i>The Atlas Six<\/i>, and am particularly on the lookout for a unique, non-elemental concept. I would love to find a speculative dark academia (<i>Babel<\/i>), an adult urban fantasy with a variety of magical creatures (<i>The Shadowhunter Chronicles<\/i>) and a magical realism-infused historical fiction (<i>The Water Dancer<\/i>).<br\/><\/p>","profile_photo":96000,"show_clients":true,"links":{},"meta_tags":"","media_urls":{"96000":{"uuid":"c145b98b-5d75-47fe-bd5a-518222ecbc25","protected":false,"urls":{"original":"\/media\/c145b98b-5d75-47fe-bd5a-518222ecbc25\/show\/original","horizontal":"\/media\/c145b98b-5d75-47fe-bd5a-518222ecbc25\/show\/horizontal","700x373":"\/media\/c145b98b-5d75-47fe-bd5a-518222ecbc25\/show\/700x373","262x140":"\/media\/c145b98b-5d75-47fe-bd5a-518222ecbc25\/show\/262x140","square":"\/media\/c145b98b-5d75-47fe-bd5a-518222ecbc25\/show\/square","700x700":"\/media\/c145b98b-5d75-47fe-bd5a-518222ecbc25\/show\/700x700","328x328":"\/media\/c145b98b-5d75-47fe-bd5a-518222ecbc25\/show\/328x328","139x139":"\/media\/c145b98b-5d75-47fe-bd5a-518222ecbc25\/show\/139x139","73x73":"\/media\/c145b98b-5d75-47fe-bd5a-518222ecbc25\/show\/73x73","vertical":"\/media\/c145b98b-5d75-47fe-bd5a-518222ecbc25\/show\/vertical","600x732":"\/media\/c145b98b-5d75-47fe-bd5a-518222ecbc25\/show\/600x732","300x360":"\/media\/c145b98b-5d75-47fe-bd5a-518222ecbc25\/show\/300x360","650x650":"\/media\/c145b98b-5d75-47fe-bd5a-518222ecbc25\/show\/650x650"}}}}