Emily Forney

You can also find out more specifics about my #mswl on my website 🤍
emilykaitlin.com/manuscript-wishlist

To be honest, I’m also just super open at the moment. I want to feel emotion. Look at erased stories. Fall in love deeply. Find the next beach read. Sob at a twist ending. Work on an epic series. Create standalone stories with interconnected characters. Absorb lush worlds.

I do a lot of romantasy, and I love it. But I need a high concept hook. Something unique. Pushing the mold. Experimenting with genre. A few of my own author’s books are here.

Fantasies with immersive, epic magic systems. Family dynasties. Incredibly well written villains who aren’t just evil for the sake of it. Something dark. Bloody. Ambitious. Not taking the high road. Fighting your oppressors. Stories that alter our belief in right and wrong

Shorter, kitschy, high concept books that celebrate adolescence for young readers. Books that speak to their big emotions and daydreams. Humorous and playful and adventurous and classic. Think of what media used to be like in the early 2000s-memorable, lovable, serialized

Love stories across all genres that feel timeless, escapist, all consuming, and maybe even a little unconventional. Partners who are fated in the stars, who make questionable choices for each other, who redefine how we say I love you.

Maybe it’s because of the state of the world, maybe it’s because I’m in my luteal phase. Whomst knows. But I’m very much looking for emotionally driven, thoughtful, painful stories. Books that make you feel and pain that resonates and evolves into hope. A book club contender

✨finger guns✨ Hi there, fiction writers and #amquerying I’m officially back open to queries!

Have a cool book? I like books. Have a rad idea for a series? Send it my way.

Check out below for some #mswl highlights on romance, fantasy, and everything between 🤍

And to authors: if you queried me in the past and I wasn’t the right fit at the time, but your book has gone through changes or you’ve adjusted your materials, please feel free to send it again. I can’t promise anything, but I know queries and pages change as much as I do

Something dark. Something speculative. Something testing and scary and creepy and thoughtful and bloody and romantic and ambitious and terrifying and mesmerizing.

YA and Middle Grade Fiction

Light-hearted, action adventure, character driven, coming of age books that can tackle big themes and doesn’t shy away from important topics. Books with romance but are romances. Thoughtful stories about character over spectacle.

Children’s Lit

Book with series potential that follow a play pattern, i.e. a format to follow with the story and remain invested: shipping wars, districts/factions/houses, mysteries, patterns that serve as a through line for the book, a calling card

Stories that follow the villain. Stories that convert the hero from good to bad. Stories that alter our belief systems of right and wrong. The villain gets the girl. The big bad is well and truly not moral. Fighting your oppressors. Enacting revenge. Not taking the high road.

Adult Fantasy

Villains being truly and genuinely villainous, romance at the forefront but politics at the core, family dynasties, high stakes adventure, historical dramas, highly aesthetic spaces, thoughtfully done ensemble casts with series potential. Give me more Fourth Wing

YA and NA crossover fantasy

Stories with big hooks, escapist realities, political intrigue, messy characters making the wrong decisions, gamification, rage, and atmospheric environments

Adult Book Club fiction

I want to capture what Greta Gerwig does on screen, but in book form. Stories about young women reclaiming their stories, confronting their family legacies, and exploring their identities. Coming of age stories past adolescence.

💕Adult Romance💕

I love books that straddle the line between women’s fiction and romance. Books with a lot of heart and deep connections between characters. Summer nights. Escapist environments. Friend groups. Big emotions and high concept. Interconnected standalones. Angst.

🤍Adult Romance🤍
Contemporary college stories
Interconnected standalone series
Heartbreaking stories about young women finding their identities
Deals gone wrong
Marriage of convenience
✨Romantasy✨
Campy genre fiction
Fated mates
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Incredibly lush and deeply atmospheric books. I'm especially looking for writers who can take these big plots and craft well developed character arcs that don't sacrifice world building for quickened pacing.
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Dark speculative work. Thrillers. Academies. Murder mysteries. Occult studies. Haunted museums. Gothic mansions. An atmosphere to fall in love with opulent richness of the dark.
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