ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Better known online as @emolabs, I’m an award-winning writer whose works have been praised by the likes of Buzzfeed and Instagram for their youthful resonance and cultural cachet.

Now turning this lens towards fiction for the first time, I’m actively seeking representation for the commercial fiction debuts seen below.

Sunburn: The Circle meets Leave The World Behind

Cam E. Leon: Catch Me If You Can meets Talented Mr. Ripley

The Century Man: The Nix meets The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store

For more information or complete manuscripts, please contact me at tony@tonyciampa.com, and together we can take a trip to the bestseller lists.

SUNBURN

For fans of The Circle, Leave The World Behind, and Something New Under The Sun.

When superstar ad exec Ray Ray Burns is forced to hightail it north from Texas after climate disasters torch her home, she’s shocked to discover an unexpected upside: global warming is...kind of awesome. Sure, the barren southwest is a hellscape of heat and wildfires, but everywhere else? It’s paradise. The once cold cities—NYC, Boston, DC—are now basking in endless summers, with winter practically a thing of the past. And just like that, her next big idea begins to take shape.

With the help of the deep-pocketed premier of Quebec—who falls for her pitch hook, line and sinker—she resettles in the long forgotten city of Saguenay as its Chief of Growth and gets busy creating campaigns to get everyone down south to move north for the new climate renaissance. For years, Saguenay booms under Ray Ray’s brilliant campaigns and comes to represent the bright side of global warming—a prosperous, utopian haven where equality, expansion and happiness reign. 

But in one fateful night, the climate catastrophe erupts for the first time in the wealthiest enclaves down south. Suddenly, her fragile paradise in Saguenay is overrun by hordes of privileged refugees—who all have curiously close ties to her boss—kicking off a descent into madcap, classist chaos. As homes are invaded and private planes fall from the sky, Ray Ray discovers her investors’ intentions may not be as pure as she had once believed, and she must scramble to spin a new narrative that can outpace the destructive forces of both man and mother nature—or watch as the silver lining she promised to the world leaves her to be remembered instead as the pitchwoman of the apocalypse.

CAM E. LEON

Eleanor Oliphant & Less meets Catch Me If You Can & The Talented Mr. Ripley

Nothing is permanent to CAM E. LEON—not even his own name. He can fit in anywhere, pretend to be anyone he wants to be. So, in pursuit of a more interesting life, he embarks on a plan to reinvent himself entirely every few months—name, personality, location and all. Soon he’s romping around the world in a series of accidentally high stakes misadventures that sees him trying his hand as a braggadocious yacht salesman’s assistant in Monaco, a subservient chauffeur driver for war criminals in The Hague, and even a daft paparazzi photographer to the stars in London—all the while trying to outrun comeuppance from every shady figure he mistakenly screws over along the way.

However, the pursuit of impermanence quickly becomes even messier when he meets traveling saleswoman Izzy Parker and continues to fall harder and harder for her as they fatefully cross paths in every new iteration of his life. Suddenly the allure of constant reinvention, the only aspect of his life that excites him, could also be the reason he loses the first person he’s ever hoped to keep around forever.

Now Querying, for more information, please contact me at tony@tonyciampa.com.

THE CENTURY MAN

A young female journalist and an old male prison warden square off in a calamitous cultural firestorm after it's discovered that the new oldest man alive is a 117 year old prison inmate who’s been locked up for nearly 100 years.

When the world’s oldest woman passes away, a young female journalist named Macy Eberhart is the first to discover that the new oldest person alive is a 117 year old Black prison inmate who’s been locked up for nearly 100 years—the longest life sentence in history. With this discovery, she is thrust into the middle of a cultural firestorm that rages over what should be done with him—and pitted against a prickly white male prison warden in Tennessee who is hell bent on neutralizing the story at all costs.

Macy’s writing captivates the national psyche, drawing battle lines and attracting widespread attention from politicians, pop stars, podcasters and Pulitzer winners who start asking big questions like, “did he really even kill that white cop way back when?” “Is there a limit to how long a life sentence can last?” And, “can’t he just die already so we can pretend like none of this ever happened?”

Now Querying, for more information, please contact me at tony@tonyciampa.com.