I represent young adult and adult fiction and am especially interested in books with crossover potential in the new adult age range. First and foremost, I am a lover of stories. I love that raw, heart-wrenching feeling, the moments of audible gasps and cheers, and that feeling when I just can’t put the book down regardless of whether it ends in a cliffhanger. I want a book to be obsessed with, and a book that can reflect aspects of the real world in a digestible format. Give me real issues you’d face in a setting that keeps me thinking about the story and characters after I put the book down.
Young Adult
In young adult fantasy, I want rich world building with a strong and clear magic system. I enjoy romance and am open to it being a central point of the story along the lines of A BALLAD OF NEVER AFTER, SERPENT AND DOVE, and RED QUEEN. I love retellings of classic stories: fairy tales, myths, parables, pantheons, Shakespearean stories, etc. I love blending fantasy with existing stories from our past in a new and dynamic way like A COURT OF THORNS AND ROSES, A SONG OF WRAITHS AND RUIN, LORE OLYMPUS, etc. I am a particularly huge fan of Hades and Persephone and Beauty and the Beast retellings. I’d love to see realistic fiction with mystery, thriller, heist/ spies. Give me complex, intelligent, and cunning characters who you can’t trust fully. Adult I am seeking adult books in the younger age range, for new adult readers. For adult fantasy, I am looking for books with crossover potential from young adult. I am looking for commercial new adult stories with characters who are still figuring out their lives, young in their careers, post grads, etc. I want to see characters dealing with adult concepts for the first time like in FANGIRL, THE SEX LIVES OF COLLEGE GIRLS, THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA, and THE LOVE HYPOTHESIS. Contemporary romance. I want to see nerdy protagonists with varying love interests. I want dynamic male love interests that don’t fall into the same archetypes of muscled, toned, morally grey. Give me tropes! I’m a big fan of the various enemies-to-lovers/ rivals to lovers. I want to see real enemies-to-lovers (no one-sided pining from the male’s perspective with misunderstanding tropes). Give me smut a-la Ali Hazelwood or Tessa Bailey.
In Both YA and NA
I’m looking for books that are plot forward. Generational stories such as THE HOUSE OF THE SPIRITS and DREAMING IN CUBAN. Give me female-driven stories with complex families and multiple POV’s. Speculative fiction with clear, concrete settings in the real world, a la THEY BOTH DIE IN THE END. Magical realism, especially when linked to its Hispanic origins. I want a world with subtle magic that is genuinely never questioned or explained. *NOT LIGHT FANTASY* Please properly label stories when using this tag. Think THE INHERITANCE OF ORQUIDEA DIVINA and DREAMING IN CUBAN. Underrepresented voices with specific interest in Latinx/Hispanic/Indigenous characters and authors. Their ethnicity and heritage does NOT have to be the main focus of the story. I am looking for dynamic Latinx characters facing intersectional issues.
Niche Requests
OUTERBANKS X GLASS ONION within small towns with a young cast of characters solving mysteries and riddles. Something with fluff that gives you the same heartwarming, feet-kicking feeling of a teen movie from the early 2000s. Travel adventures with lots of banter a la THE LOST CITY. Contemporary romance or YA romance that has the classic gamer guy and reader girl in enemies to lovers come together because of a game, competition, or TTRPG. Submission Guidelines Please follow the link to my page for submissions. Any unsolicited submissions sent directly to my email will be deleted.
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