I am most interested in mentoring general adult fiction, women's fiction/upmarket fiction & young adult fiction, particularly within the speculative (incl. SFF), contemporary, historical, romance, and thriller sub-genres, though I'm a fan of genre blending as well! I would especially love to see stories centered on BIPOC, LGBTQIA+ and other historically marginalized voices/perspectives, along with ambitious storytelling, character-driven stories, lush settings, and immersive/non-Western worldbuilding.

In general, some themes/tropes/elements I love...

• Boarding school settings
• Buried secrets coming to light
• Coming of age stories (incl. second coming of age - i.e. embracing queer identity later in life)
• Complex mother-daughter relationships
• Diaspora and displacement
• Ensemble casts
• Food as a love language
• Found families
• Hidden histories (especially featuring historically overlooked communities), all subgenres of historical fiction (incl. alternate history, historical fantasy, parallel past/present narratives, etc.)
• Intergenerational stories, multigenerational, sprawling family sagas
• International settings
• LGBTQIA+ stories that don't solely focus on coming out/using identity as a plot twist
• Millennial book club fiction
• Psychological thrillers (especially featuring unreliable narrators) and morally gray protagonists (a la "I support women's rights, but also women's wrongs")
• Ride-or-die female friendships
• Revenge tales  
• Road trip novels
• Second-chance romances, childhood sweethearts, friends/enemies/rivals-to-lovers, grumpy x sunshine, marriage of convenience, fake dating, mutual pining, slow-burn, battle couples, OT3's
• Setting as a character (i.e. the haunted house is alive and its ghosts want you to join them)
• Unique formats (i.e. mixed media, epistolary novels, oral history stories a la Daisy Jones & The Six or The Final Revival of Opal & Nev)

Some favorite reads...

Adult: American Hagwon by Min Jin Lee, Mothsblood by Lynn D. Jung, King of Ashes by S.A. Cosby, Julie Chan is Dead by Liann Zhang, The Winged Game by Sophie Kim, This Monster of Mine by Shalini Abeysekara, Dominion by Jean Kwok, The Poet Empress by Shen Tao, Love by the Book by Jessica George, Seek Immediate Shelter by Vincent Yu, Babylon, South Dakota by Tom Lin, Her Name is Knight by Yasmin Angoe, Portrait of a Thief by Grace D. Li, Maya's Laws of Love by Alina Khawaja, Central Places by Delia Cai, A Love Song for Ricki Wilde by Tia Williams, Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters, Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid, Love is a Warsong by Danica Nava, Match Me If You Can by Swati Hedge, A Princess in Theory by Alyssa Cole, Jade City by Fonda Lee, Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia, The Cartographers by Peng Shepherd, Water Moon by Samantha Sotto Yambao, The Blood of Flowers by Anita Amirrezvani, and anything by Don Lee, Jamie Ford or Roselle Lim

Young Adult: Behind Five Willows by June Hur, Hollow by Taylor Grothe, All The Tomorrows After by Joanne Yi, The Oks are Not Okay by Grace K. Shim, Always Be My Bibi, by Priyanka Taslim, As You Walk On By by Julian Winters, House of the Beast by Michelle Wong, The Charmed List by Julie Abe, The Court of Miracles by Kester Grant, Darker By Four by June CL Tan, Hawk & Sparrow by Ayana Gray, The Davenports by Krystal Marquis, Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins, Dread Nation by Justina Ireland, Empress of a Thousand Skies by Rhoda Belleza, Firekeeper's Daughter by Angeline Boulley, The Great Destroyers by Caroline Tung Richmond, The Jasmine Project by Meredith Ireland, I Kissed Shara Wheeler by Casey McQuiston, Prophecy by Ellen Oh, Rogue Heart by Axie Oh, These Violent Delights by Chloe Gong, You Should See Me in a Crown by Leah Johnson, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz, and anything by Jenny Han

I am not the best fit for...

• Angels/demons
• Animal protagonists
• Gore/slasher horror
• Issues-centric books
• Stories that magically 'fix' disabilities
• Racism/sexism/oppression as the main plot device of the story