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

📚 Fiction #MSWL : I’m looking for emotionally resonant, high-concept stories with strong hooks and commercial appeal. Think speculative with soul, literary-commercial crossovers, or romantic-adjacent stories that are smart, voicey, unputdownable.

Cozy Smalltown college romance #MSWL

an F1 Romance with Ali Hazelwood/Hannah Grace vibes #mswl

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

and Carrie Pestritto is looking to spice things up!

@kgisondi .bsky.social is also in a cozy mood - with a twist!

suddenlyjen.bsky.social is looking for a romance with a very particular setting...

First up, tajmccoy.bsky.social is looking for a spicy romantic mystery!

#mswl

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)

For romantasy: no more high fae, I have a full list! Give me more dramoine, Lumoine (iykyk), monster romance, angels (biblically accurate or otherwise), ghosts, paranormal Y2K vibes. Still I plead for orc romance, please someone send me some.

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…

And all the way up to Crossover and #NA - more of the same! College level stories. Cosy, epic, heartwarming romance.

I’d love a dark academia New Adult/Adult spicy Romance. Think a Doechii-like persona as a romantic lead. LGBTQ is (clearly) a bonus. #MSWL

Would really love to see some romance with strong hooks in my inbox 👀🩷 #MSWL

I also would really love something really romantic for young adult readers, particularly with those swoony, first romantic encounters for readers not quite ready for the spicy, full-on stuff! #MSWL

okay @bsky .app #amquerying community, send me your romantic literary novels! i am READY. give me that literary fiction with a gorgeous, moving, i’d die for this romance at its center. #mswl

Not just office romance—Jessica wants workplace fiction with real stakes. Power struggles, high-pressure environments, complications that cut deep. Give her tension, drama, and narrative gold. #MSWL