ADULT ROMANCE (2/2)

🔮Paranormal, but ghosts and witches rather than vampires and werewolves

🎬Relationships in the public eye (think THE SEVEN HUSBANDS OF EVELYN HUGO)

💥Unlikable heroines! Enemies-to-lovers!

🔥 All heat levels

ADULT ROMANCE (1/2)

🌹 Low-stakes, realistic contemporary romances

🌈 LGBTQ+ rep! Bi and lesbian women! Trans characters!

🏛️ Historical romances set in unusual settings

🌸 Diverse, funny, and voice-y rom-coms!!!

Before I open to queries next Monday, I thought I'd share my #MSWL:
manuscriptwishlist.com/mswl-post/clar…

Here's a little thread of what I'd love to see in my inbox!

Updated #MSWL !

Thank you for having me, @WriteHereUK!

Find out more about me, my wishlist, and what I want to see in a query letter here 👇

#MSWL #amwriting #amquerying

#MSWL - I need a gripping, chilling YA mystery. A laugh out loud MG. And some striking voices!

And I’d LOVE a great upmarket adult mystery or romantic suspense!

More explicit romances with high concept hooks. Let's crank up the 🔥🔥! #MSWL

Angsty, harsher stories--romance or otherwise--because I've got lots of pent up pandemic frustration that needs an outlet! Maybe it's time for me to explore thrillers? 🧐 #MSWL

Werewolf and vampire romances because I've been feeling super nostalgic lately and it's almost spooky season. #MSWL

"Crime fiction like Louise Penny, Sue Grafton and Janet Evanovich." @CurtisPSLA #MSWL psliterary.com/submissions/

#MSWL — More female friendship female empowerment stories!

Ahem... #MSWL

I’m thrilled to share my #MSWL! Agents, I’d love to connect if we haven’t met yet! 📚📖
manuscriptwishlist.com/mswl-post/Erik…

GIFT BOOKS
Don’t forget me for fun gift books that you'd impulse-buy (like THE COMPENDIUM OF MAGICAL BEASTS), concept-driven photography books (like THE ART OF CLEAN UP, or a devotional with a good hook (like KNIT, PRAY, SHARE)! #MSWL

ADULT FICTION
I’m looking for pageturning thrillers, book club fiction that is engaging and accessible, but still layered and thought-provoking. (You *might* call that “the intersection of commercial and literary.”) Think Taylor Jenkins Reid. I’d also LOVE hooky rom coms. #MSWL

YOUNG ADULT (PT. 2)
Aside from graphic novels, I am still in pursuit of a magical-yet-quiet mermaid novel, so my inbox is a safe cove to any mermaids that would like to swim in. ✨🧜🏼‍♀️
#MSWL

MIDDLE GRADE
I really love finding a good magical MG novel, but I’m open to a wide range here. Voicey contemporaries, mystery, magical realism/contemporary fantasy, graphic novels, historical fiction, verse, epistolary. When in doubt, send it my way! #MSWL

PICTURE BOOKS
In the PB space, I have 3 top priorities:

1. Stories by BIPOC creators in general, particularly family narratives. I love falling in love with a new fictional family!

2. Humor! I need a good laugh. Kids do, too.

3. MAGIC! Send me magical stories!!! ✨

#MSWL

Hey #MSWL, I'm looking for this 👇

My favorite reads/listens this summer & definite #MSWL comps:

THE FINAL REVIVAL OF OPAL & NEV by Dawnie Walton
PEOPLE WE MEET ON VACATION by Emily Henry
YOU WERE THERE TOO by Colleen Oakley