Portrait of Oliver Graham, Literary Agent at Gracewell Literary Agency

Literary Agent

Oliver Graham

Represents genre fiction with serious craft — invented worlds, tight plots, and endings that hold.

About

Oliver Graham reads across fantasy, science fiction, and crime, and believes the best genre novels are also the best-written ones. He is interested in magic systems with a cost, futures with an economy, and mysteries whose solutions reframe everything before them.

He is a structural agent by instinct: outlines, timelines, and pacing maps. He also advises Gracewell clients on series planning and audio and screen adjacent opportunities alongside the agency's rights team.

What I’m Looking For

  • Adult and crossover fantasy with an original cosmology
  • Near-future science fiction grounded in real systems
  • Standalone mysteries with a strong sense of place
  • Literary horror and quiet, unsettling speculative fiction

What I’m Not Looking For

  • Romance-led narratives without genre stakes
  • Memoir and prescriptive nonfiction
  • Fan fiction or work set in another writer's world

Representative Interests

  • Sieges, guilds, and inconvenient prophecies
  • Detectives with a professional conscience
  • Climate futures told at human scale
  • Folklore rewritten for adults

Featured Authors

Represented by Oliver

Portrait of Gracewell author Rohan Mehta

Rohan Mehta

Fantasy

Builds epic fantasy with strict rules, bad bargains, and cities that feel genuinely lived in.

Portrait of Gracewell author Mei-Ling Chen

Mei-Ling Chen

Mystery & Thriller

Writes precise, cold-water suspense about institutions that would rather the truth stayed buried.

Featured Books

Selected titles

Cover of Nine Crowns of Ash by Rohan Mehta

Nine Crowns of Ash

Rohan Mehta

Fantasy

In a city where crowns are forged from the ash of the last dynasty, a guild archivist discovers that the succession she has spent her life documenting was never legitimate. Epic fantasy with a merchant's eye for consequence.

Cover of The Quiet Tenant of Marlow House by Mei-Ling Chen

The Quiet Tenant of Marlow House

Mei-Ling Chen

Mystery

A retired coroner takes a room in a grand house full of people who all claim to have arrived that week. When the landlady disappears, every tenant's story becomes a version of the same lie.

Cover of Everything We Buried by Mei-Ling Chen

Everything We Buried

Mei-Ling Chen

Thriller

A hospital administrator agrees to review one closed case and finds her own signature on the file. A thriller about institutions, complicity, and the cost of remembering accurately.

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