Really been craving more nature-centric stories with blends of cozy magic, botany/alchemy, horror, fantasy, & speculative. #MSWL

🕯️ Horror (that lingers): If it's atmospheric, unsettling, or emotionally resonant, I'm in! I'm drawn to nuanced stories where the "monster" says something about us.

Also always open to genre-blends!

Reminder to #agents that I'm still on the lookout for more adult horror in my inbox! Give me all the gore, psychological suspense, grounded sci-fi, body horror, haunted objects/houses! #mswl I want it all!

My current #MSWL :
Adult Narrative Nonfiction (NOT memoir), Adult Fiction: Thriller, Suspense, Horror, Romance.
YA Fiction: Thriller, Suspense, Horror, Rom-com,
Boarding school settings, Fantasy.
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Heading into summer reading, updated #MSWL , on #QueryManager . Would like to see more YA, NA, and Adult science fiction, family saga, and unique retellings. Can have subgenres in historical, horror, magical realism, military, speculative, environmental/climate, & extinction.

I've been hearing about "genre-bending horror" a lot, particularly horror-romance and horror-comedy. I'm curious to see some novels in those categories! I'm looking for both YA and Adult horror novels.
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I'm open to new genres and categories! First up: Horror.

I love literary, psychological horror. I've described my taste as "Is the magic a metaphor? Oh no, it's real and she's literally eating her abusive ex." Huge fan of folk horror and speculative explorations of structural marginalization.
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Team howlandlit.bsky.social made me a gorgeous new #MSWL brochure. Here’s what I’m looking for when I open back up to queries in May.

Now that it’s PW official! I’m so excited to announce that I’ve joined jenazantian.bsky.social’s wonderful agency as an associate agent 🥰

And yes, I’m open to queries! Please check out my MSWL and submit to me via QueryTracker!
azantianlitagency.com/about-us/shelly-romero

I would LOVE genre blends in horror - romance, sci Fi, speculative, supernatural, literary

No true Romance at the moment or straight Sci Fi. Not currently asking for more GN unless it is from an author/illustrator or an author who already has an illustrator attached

#ya
Horror
Contemporary
Novel in verse
Thriller/mystery/suspense
Select fantasy/historical fantasy
Historical in non western countries/dual time periods 1800/1900s

#adult
Horror
Thriller/mystery/suspense
Historical fantasy
Fantasy
Women's fiction/book club

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

Some specific holes I'm looking to fill on my list #mswl

- adult/NA cozy fantasy (w/romance)
- ya thriller/mystery & horror
- adult & ya romantasy, fantasy, epic fantasy
- more fantasy books that appeal to a masculine audience w/o relying on frustrating clichés

This might be preposterous but….DRAGON HORROR. Imagine if they were rightfully feared, if the lore was deep & truly terrifying. #MSWL

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Some specific #MSWL cravings I’ve had these days for my YA list:

-high-concept post apocalyptic
-a romantic gothic/horror mystery
-beautiful, voicey trans/genderqueer anything
-yearning/longing vibes
-enemies/rivals to lovers
-twisted romance
-dark academia in a non-European setting

On horror romance specifically, it can be tragic, no HEA necessary but for all other forms I need an HEA. For sci-fi: I want Event Horizon, political intrigue and first contact (but in the way Arrival did it)

Monsters, historical, trans and POC horror, horror romance, space survival. Onto fantasy: give me epic, political, sweeping and expansive. Murder mysteries at court, backstabbing gentry, fantasy of manners…

Horror! Proper, stop me from sleeping horror! Not for the general fic reader! I want aquatic, cults, folk, haunted house, urban legends, creepypastas, backrooms, religious sects, ‘is this still consecrated ground’ vibes, eldritch, cosmic, isolation, ‘good for her’, found footage,