In ADULT 💘Romance:
* Dark or Light*
* HEA required (even if the HEA not everyone's preferred HEA)
* Please indicate the heat level/sensuality in query
* Includes but not limited to: LGBTQ / work from diverse authors / chars with diverse backgrounds

- Esp. Settings in Alaska, Nat'l Parks, Outdoors, Wilderness, etc)
- Romantic Mystery
- Romantic Suspense
- Inspirational Romance (especially suspense: kidnappings, cold cases, witness protection, etc)
- RomCom
- Contemporary
- Historical (including Regency/England early 1800's)
- Paranormal (light/grounded in real world)
- Fantasy (light/grounded in real world), no fae, no dragons.

#MSWL March 2024

#MSWL for March 2024:
In ADULT Fiction:
👁‍🗨 Mystery:
- Cozy
- Traditional (murder) mystery
- Caper (story focus is crime plan/execution
- Crime Mystery (w/ POV of member of criminal underworld)
- Noir (gritty, atmospheric w/professional investigator POV)

DEAR AUTHORS!
Polish up your submissions!
I'm OPENING again to queries in select genres on St. Patrick's Day / 17 March.
I'll be open until the end of March.
*** Razor-sharp humor in any submission is always a plus....
#MSWL follows:

Sports romance with female badass athletes and nerdy shy guys #MSWL

I’m starting a thread of random #MSWL

When I reopen in April, Send me a love triangle like the one in Cardigan, Betty, & August but new adult- first year or two of college

As a cherry on top, if you are bringing THIS vibe to space, please make me so urgently aware

Send me your witches in space, your arcane scheming nun orders in space, your horrible political marriages in space, your most poisonous space court intrigues and most pointed critiques of space imperialism. (And to be fair, you can also send me all of the above: not in space.)

DUNE SEASON means I put my big beautiful blinking PLEASE SEND ME SPACE FANTASY neon sign back up #mswl

#mswl ok but hear me out. A League of Their Own but for esports. Where feminism isn't *the plot* and it's a quirky good time. I know it's different from my usual but somebody have that for me? (And of course filled with diversity lol)

Watching the ONE PIECE live action and I can’t stop thinking about an MG version. Luffy is just such a happy-go-lucky character 🥰

#MSWL when I reopen in April

I've updated my QM page. I'm still closed to queries, but I've included details on what I'll be looking for so that you can prepare in advance (if you're the preparing type). #querystatus #mswl QueryManager.com/jestrudel

In honor of this weekend’s GP, I am once again humbly asking someone to send me a Formula 1 novel (romance or no)

And I'm always happy to see bighearted book club fiction, social horror, narrative nonfiction in the history and science categories, and YA! The best way to get to me is via Query Manager - I'm not currently accepting queries via e-mail unless specifically requested! (/end)

If you have historical fiction like THE DIVORCÉES, DID YOU HEAR ABOUT KITTY KARR, or THE STORM WE MADE and/or histfic set in Asia or Africa, I'm all ears.

I'd also love to see grounded SFF and speculative work - I'm always thinking of BABEL, SHOOT THE MOON, BOOK OF NIGHT, EMILY WILDE'S ENCYCLOPEDIA OF FAERIES, THE MINISTRY OF TIME. (3/

I've also updated my #MSWL page, and am particularly hungry at the moment for mysteries, suspense, and thrillers written by BIPOC writers and featuring main characters of color. Recent faves: AGE OF VICE, THE BANDIT QUEENS, THE VERIFIERS. (2/

Happy March! I am finally caught up on queries (minus 3 requested projects) and so am re-opening to queries, with many thanks for everyone's patience. I know it can be frustrating when agents close to queries, but I'm hoping to be back to my normal response times now! (1/

✨I'm now open to queries!✨

I'm looking forward to reading all of your amazing projects!🤗

My #MSWL has stayed almost exactly the same, just a year older. (But note, I'm no longer taking graphic novels.)

A quick #MSWL of genres I'm keen to see. Cozy fantasy, Romantasy in YA and Adult, and Mystery from marginalized authors.

#mswl instead of taking down the evil king, give me a linguistic fantasy where the plot is recovering the indigenous magic of a dead language that colonial powers tried to erase