Rebecca Podos

After many months (years? decades? centuries??) I am settled in at Neighborhood Literary, and open to queries! I accept queries through QueryManager here:
querytracker.net/query/BeccaPodos

I mean YEAH, second this #MSWL

And lastly, here's a little mood board of books I've read, reread, and loved over the past few years, and would very happily read comps for 🙏✨

I am *not* currently looking for:
- Picture books, chapter books, or MG books
- Self-help or business nonfiction
- Very dark romance (heavier themes are absolutely fine, I just prefer my ships on the fluffy side)
- Mysteries/thrillers with police protagonists or love interests

- Kid lit centering queer history
- Explorations of sustainability through an intersectional lens, food justice, urban gardening, and our relationship to the land

In NON-FICTION (the new stuff!!) I'm wading in and would love to see:

- Deep dives into nerdy topics like TTRPG’s, cosplay, fandoms, etc.
- A strong narrative voice paired with expertise, with comps like Radium Girls, The Victorian and the Romantic, Why Fish Don’t Exist

- Queer contemp and historical fiction with gorgeous prose and a strong hook
- Queer and/or BIPOC romance across categories. Steam (in adult) is welcome but not required!
- Cozy mysteries for millennials
- SFF with a strong romantic element, or romance with a strong SFF element

In YA and Adult:

- Fantasy rooted in folklore and culture, featuring diverse characters, myths, and monsters
- Horror as a vehicle for exploring identity, otherness, and trauma
- Fresh genre crossovers/subgenres like cozy sci-fi, horror romance, literary historical fantasy, etc.

Folks, I am officially open to queries! It's been A WHILE, I know, so here's an #MSWL refresher, along with some brand-new wishes 🧵

QueryManager.com/BeccaPodos

#MSWL 🔥 (but also, very happy for these actual real people)

Is “send me your book that reads like fanfiction written about your queer dnd party’s adventures” too specific of an #MSWL?

LISTEN, if anybody out there has a queer regency fantasy full of yearning and secrets and also an HEA that's currently sitting in my QM inbox, PLEASE do let me know #MSWL

#MSWL 👀

#MSWL please!! I’m on such a horror kick and would love to see these in my inbox (and if I have yours already, feel free to let me know)

This is a niche ask, but because I’m obsessed with this season of Dimension 20: if anyone has a romcom about two dnd players who can’t stand each other, but it’s advantageous for their characters to fall in love so they flirt in-game, then start to fall for each other irl… #MSWL

Yes please #MSWL

I… #mswl

Ohhhh #mswl

Fuck burying your gays, somebody write a queer zombie novel where all of the folks who never got to be together in life rise from the grave to un-live happily ever after, while eating the brains of homophobes and transphobes 🤝

Look, this might sound unhinged BUT if anybody has a book that *feels* like Euphoria, except it’s set during 18th century France, or during the Russian Revolution, or some such… #MSWL