Submission Guidelines I am seeking MG, YA, and adult novels, especially those by BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ authors. Her below is by-no means exhaustive. If your manuscript does not quite fit in with what’s listed below but is still in the vein of, please submit it.
FICTION
horror (almost all the subgenres & especially for all age categories!) Honduran authors thrillers/mysteries commercial fiction slice-of-life à la One Tree Hill, the OG Gossip Girl, The Sandlot, Real Women Have Curves sci-fi spec fic erotic novels, especially featuring BIPOC and/or LGBTQIA characters in kink spaces set during college and non-college post-high school stories coming-of-age cults gothic romance midwestern gothic vampires stories by Latine/x authors from Central America and the Caribbean fantasy (picky with second-world fantasies) high concept comped to classic Disney Channel Original Movies comped to some of my favorite movies or in their same vein southern gothic playing with formatting such as mixed-media & epistolary novels that give the story a “found footage” type of vibe anything comped to Guillermo del Toro, David Cronenberg, or Clive Barker character-driven stories multiple povs historical fiction set during the Edwardian and Victorian eras but featuring BIPOC and queer characters; post-Civil War; in the 80s through the 00s secret societies/clubs/organizations sororities comped to Balder’s Gate 3 or Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
Please don’t send me
picture books, chapter books, or graphic novels historical fiction set during WWII books over 100K words commercial romance stories featuring Nazis, Zionists, ICE, republican government employees, cops, military etc. “clean” teen novels stories centered on religions novels-in-verse deportation fiction & nonfiction nonfiction including business, politics, memoirs, biographers, etc. stories comp’d to the MCU/DCU anything AI/android related Westerns missing women who are BIPOC due to trafficking, murder, honor killings, etc. super gritty dramas
A few of my favorite reads
Goosebumps series by R.L. Stine NINTH HOUSE series by Leigh Bardugo DON’T DATE ROSA SANTOS by Nina Moreno MEXICAN GOTHIC by Silvia Moreno-Garcia CATRACHOS by Roy G. Guzmán FAKE BLOOD by Whitney Gardner A DISOVERY OF WITCHES by Deborah Harkness THE ONLY GOOD INDIANS by Stephen Graham Jones LIBERTAD by Bessie Florez Zaldíver DAISY JONES & THE SIX by Taylor Jenkins Reid
A “few” of my favorite movies
Scream (1996) Event Horizon (1997) The Crow (1994) Constantine (2005) Crimson Peak (2015) Nosferatu (2024) Hellraiser (1987) Knives Out (2019) Pride & Prejudice (2005) Hell House LLC. (2015) Legally Blonde (2001) The Devil Wears Prada (2006) Silent Hill (2006) Crash (1996) The Count of Monte Cristo (2002) Guidelines & Details Vital Info @_smromero ********** @ ** ky.social “>@shellyromero@.social Website Associate Literary Agent
Fiction
Action/Adventure, Children's, Commercial, Fantasy, General, Horror, Humor, LGBTQ, Middle Grade, Mystery, Psychological Thriller, Science Fiction, Thriller, Young Adult
Favorite sub-genres
#ownvoices, #wndb, AAPI Fantasy, AAPI Horror, AAPI Sci-Fi, Adult, Adult Horror, Adult Rom Com, Adult Romantasy, Adult SFF, BIPOC, BIPOC Fantasy, BIPOC Horror, BIPOC Mystery, BIPOC Sci-Fi, Contemporary Romance, Contemporary YA, Diaspora Narratives, Diversity, Gothic Fantasy, Gothic Horror, High Concept, High-concept YA, High-concept YA/MG, Horror Comedy, Humor, LGBT YA, LGBTQ Contemporary, LGBTQ Romance, LGBTQ+, LGBTQ+ Fantasy, LGBTQ+ Sci-Fi, LGBTQ+ rom coms, Latine Diaspora, Latinx Fantasy, Latinx Horror, Latinx Sci-Fi, Latinx stories, MG Action Adventure, MG Fantasy, MG Horror, MG adventure, MG contemporary, MG mystery, Magical Realism, Magical Realism YA, Middle Grade Horror, Monsters, Multiple POV, Mysteries, Own Voices, POC, Paranormal, Paranormal Horror, Paranormal Romance, Paranormal Thriller, Psychological Thrillers, SWANA Fantasy, SWANA Horror, SWANA Sci-Fi, SciFi Romance, Science Fiction YA,