Age Category:

I’m mostly targeting adult books. However, I’ve written YA in the past, and I would be open to taking on the right YA project.

Wishlist:

First and foremost, I’m interested in speculative fiction of all types with an upmarket or literary lean. This might be the near-future climate fiction of Hum by Helen Phillips, the sweeping fantasy apocalypse of NK Jemisin’s Broken Earth trilogy, or the sapphic horror of Feast While You Can by Mikaella Clements and Onjuli Datta. I love a book that’s going to explore theme through plot and character conflicts. Bring me your sweeping fantasies, personal dystopias, and speculative alternate histories.

I’m also interested in upmarket or literary stories about queer characters without speculative elements. I love When We Lost Our Heads by Heather O’Neill and the work of Sarah Waters on the historical side. I’d also be so excited about a contemporary queer interpersonal drama in the vein of Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters.

In all genres, I’m drawn to stories that explore gender expression and identity.  I’m a gender non-conforming lesbian – and if you thought “that’s redundant,” I want to read your work.

I want to also explicitly state that “upmarket” and “literary” are not synonymous with “polished” – if you are feeling self-conscious labeling your work as literary or upmarket because you aren’t sure if you’re there yet, I want to stress that these words are about a register and focus, not a state of doneness. Send me your rough drafts, talk to me about your ambitions – I want to help you get where you’re going. If you think I might be interested in your book but there are placeholders in place of transitions or scenes that are mostly outline, I’m open to working on something that’s in a rougher state and seeing it through an early stage of the journey.