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Here's what I'm currently looking for:

• Literary/commercial novels that tackle timely issues and uncomfortable or complicated relationship dynamics and leave the reader grappling long after the last page is read (Intermezzo, Little Fires Everywhere, All Adults Here)

• High-concept, character-driven novels with one foot squarely in genre (Wool, Bird Box, Station 11)

• Absolutely delightful and emotionally engaging novels that can be read over and over again because experiencing that world and those characters is a joy (Remarkably Bright Creatures, The Wedding People, Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand, Less)

• Character-driven novels in the thriller, speculative, or science fiction and fantasy realm that illuminate the world we live in through the lens of an imagined world (The Fifth Season, Mexican Gothic,The Maid, The Thursday Night Murder Club)

• Historical novels that feature a narrative voice and story that is under-represented in history or a story never before told (Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, The Downstairs Girl)

• Young-adult novels that pack a serious or a delightful emotional punch delivered in a contemporary setting, #ownvoices, or in a past, future, or imagined world

• I am not currently looking at submissions for middle-grade novels or picture books.

Please do not send me the following:

• Memoir, nonfiction, screenplays, short-story collections, poetry, or material for the Christian/inspirational market

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