Gabrielle Harbowy, Literary Agent 🌈

"Don't let our cats boss you around" says the woman who gets up to get a wraparound sweater because her kitty demands to be burritoed against her while we play board games.

Me: Yay, I get to sleep in a house with cats! It's been way too long.

Also me: Miss Floof, you're trapping my legs, please move so I can roll over and get comfortable.

Also me: Awww. You're so soft and cozy.

Also me: ma'am, please let me pee.

You say "three-way dilemma," I say "three-way opportunity."

We are not the same.

I can’t have been the only one who wanted to be in a Barbara Bain/ Catherine Schell as Barbara Bain Metamorph three way dilemma, right? Here’s our chance! www.politico.com/news/2025/08...

That's the DC metro. I extra approve.

No context, just vibes

I sometimes think the only true test of intelligence is not saying "humans are soulless machines" out loud for fear that it will make other soulless machines feel bad.

Eeeee!

Random snippet from group dinner

Them: Did you read the Redwall books as a kid?
Me: I'm flattered that you think I was a kid when the Redwall books came out!

🫶

This whole "travel a day early and catch up on rest before the chaos starts" thing is pretty good, actually!

😂🤣😭

On the plane!

Reading my client's new manuscript at an airport gate at 11:30 at night. The flight before ours is delayed and now overlaps our boarding time. This'll be an adventure.

Hope to see you!

Will 💕

At least there are lots more agents than there are Harvards.

Since becoming a full literary agent (that is, since my promotion from intern to a person who is able to sign clients):

I've processed 1616 queries (1056 in 2024, 560 year to date in 2025)
Requested 72 (56 in 2024, 16 YTD) (that's a 4% request rate)
Offered on 11 (0.6%)
Signed 7 (0.4%)

Yes please??

"This is my favorite lock screen on the Citadel."

Thank you for being my friend despite the things my brain does. 😂🫶

Mildly pleased with my alt text here too, ngl.

No cheating post your lock screen.

Look. We gotta get our giggles where we can. In my case, that's being able to say "my lock screen is uranus."

My favorite comment I've left in a manuscript this week: "This has a demented Gilmore Girls vibe and I am here for it. :D "
#NoContext

We'll be right over. 😊

Same. 💕 Also spending time with my brother shows me exactly which mannerisms we both got from our dad. It's eerie to watch us respond to certain things identically, despite being very different people.

Boots first, then corset.

Coffee first, then docusign.

Sometimes there's just a proper order of things.

"Two score and twenty raccoons ago..."

Begin your day with neutral affirmations like "you have a brain", "you are breathing" and "you are a person to a large extent"

I'm in!

If you see this, I implore you to post a pic from your device without context

Tell her I'll be there soon!