Manuscript Wishlist

Loves to be chilled, thrilled, and disturbed. Open to pretty much everything but extreme, gratuitous gore.

• Slashers (Dark, comedic - both!)

• Haunted anything-but-a house. Apartment buildings, convenience stores, photobooth, skate parks.

• Gothic and bonus points if you can get us into crowded cesspool as chilling as an isolated manor.

• Unlikable narrators, preferably child-free by choice.

• Is this real or did I make it up? like the tv show with supernatural origins in Mister Magic by Kiersten White and I Saw A TV Glow

• Mixed Media (transcripts, articles, documentary footage etc)

• Meta-horror narratives

Books loved:

Cuckoo by Gretchen Felker-Martin

Bat Eater and Other Names For Cora Zeng by Kylie Lee Baker

rekt by Alex Gonzalez

Itch by Gemma Amor

You Weren’t Meant to Be Human by Andrew J. White

Malice House by Megan Shepherd

Movies/TV loved:

Swarm
Archive 81
From
Marianne (French)
Talk to Me
Caddo Lake
Heretic
The Substance
The Village
Abigail
Mr. Crockett

Obsessed with deadly secrets, backstabbing co-dependent friendships, and an irrational thirst for blood. Would rather see genre tropes turned on their head between bartenders at an underground club than middle class housewives in the suburbs.

Think:

• Speculative genre-blends like The Echo Wife by Sarah Gailey

• Cruel Intentions but murder (not rich people specific)

• Backstabbing and betrayal featuring a chaotic lesbian friend group

• non-rural small towns generational beef

• High-control groups (social, athletic, religious)

Titles like:

Too Old for This by Samantha Downing

Barbed Wire Heart by Tess Sharpe

Don’t Let Him In by Lisa Jewell

One of Us Knows by Alyssa Cole

Friends Like These by Kimberly McCreight

You Know What You Did by K.T. Nguyen

The less moral-save-the-world-with-personal-sacrifice and more intimate and selfish the stakes, the better.

• Prefer standalone and duologies

• Grounded contemporary worlds or non-western second worlds

• Bonus points if there’s less swords and fire-light and more modern/technologically advanced worlds

• Not a fan of shadow daddies

Think:

• Black Water Sister by Zen Cho

• The Unbroken by C.L. Clark

• Five Broken Blades by Mai Corland

Solely interested in BIPOC and queer stories that highlight the lives of millennial queer folks of color within the modern world. This can be exhibited in contemporary, speculative, or other genres.

Think shows like:

• Michaela Coel’s HBO series I MAY DESTROY YOU as the tonally vibrant genre-bending, voicey project I’m looking for.

• Showtime’s WORK IN PROGRESS which centers co-creator Abby McEnany’s fictionalized self as a 46 year old self-identified fat, queer dyke which balances the levity of mental illness with comedic punch.

Let’s have fun, and get dark, get personal, while also showcasing BIPOC and queer lives outside of singular arcs of pain and suffering.

I want the after coming out, the messy, hilarious, poignant moments that make up the little pieces of our lives.

I want BIPOC lives within BIPOC communities in stories that don’t center navigating whiteness.

I want it all: slice of life, coming-of-age, romance! Not a fan of rigid social hierarchies.

Think:

• Call Your Boyfriend by Olivia A. Cole & Ashley Woodfolk

• Thirsty by Jas Hammonds

• This Is Me Trying by Racquel Marie

• Hold Still by Nina LaCour

Give me the sneaky, snarky, devious misfits terrorizing or being terrorized. I want all the drama, the angst, the impulse.

Mega-wishlist:

• Book like the video game Oxenfree

• a version of I Saw A TV Glow where the characters are actually stuck in a spell/supernatural prison they have to escape to get back to their real lives

Books Loved:

• Hell Followed with Us by Andrew Jacob White

• If We Survive This by Racquel Marie

• There’s No Way I’d Die First by Lisa Springer

• Girls Who Play Dead by Joelle Wellington

• Come Out, Come Out by Natalie C. Parker

• Delicious Monsters by Liselle Sambury

• Twin Tides by Hien Nguyen

• Old Wounds by Logan-Ashley Kisner

• Extasia by Claire Legrand

• Rules for Vanishing by Alice Kate Marshall

  
  

Toxic friendships, relationships, situationships. Secrets that break friends and make friends. Hidden desires that threaten sisterhood.

Think:

• Have You Seen This Girl by Nita Tyndall

• Wander In The Dark by Jumata Emill

• The Scammer by Tiffany D. Jackson

• They’ll Never Catch Us by Jessica Goodman

• Under This Red Rock by Mindy McGinnis

• Darkly by Marisha Pessl

Open to select titles. Looking for something that feels fresh; unlikely protagonists, locations, and premises. Dipping my feet into romantasy and dark academia, but looking for a twist or different look into the genre.

Think:

• Realm Breaker by Victoria Aveyard

• Deadly Ever After by Brittany Johnson

• An Arcane Inheritance by Kamilah Cole

• A Lesson in Vengeance by Victoria Lee