I represent Young Adult and Adult Fiction written by, for, and about traditionally underrepresented communities. Specifically, authors of color, neurodivergent authors, disabled authors, and queer authors. I am particularly interested in receiving queries from writers who identify as Pacific Islander, autistic writers, Muslim writers, and trans/nonbinary authors of color.

In all age groups, I gravitate towards upmarket fiction, which I define as stories with commercial hooks that can reel in a wide range of readers and subsequently deliver well-executed, memorable reading experiences on the sentence level.

what to query with:

General Interests

Across the board, strong writing skills are a must. A clear narrative voice, atmospheric prose, and realistic, witty dialogue. Tonally my tastes are broad, but I need there to be personality. I also love a weird, sharp sense of humor – ideally geared towards a generation of readers raised on the internet.

I tend to gravitate towards characters who are in conflict with their world – either as the defense or the prosecution. I am also drawn to stories that center relationships, be it familial, platonic, romantic, or what have you, I enjoy reading about how we interact with each other, even when (or especially when) thrown into impossible circumstances.

The genres I am most comfortable within are contemporary, historical, light/low fantasy, and grounded speculative (sci-fi, horror, thriller, etc.) spaces, but I am open to many sub-genres within these categories, particularly rom-coms, mysteries, and classic/fairytale retellings.

Young Adult

My tastes in YA is simple: I want stories my fifteen-year-old self would’ve dedicated a tumblr blog to. I love anything driven by the emotions present in your teens, whether light or dark, so long as they’re raw and real and explosive. I also adore a world I can get lost in, which could mean an unfamiliar historical epoch; a magical world similar to ours, but not quite; a dystopian future crafted by the poor decisions of today; etc.

To rattle off a list of random desires: anything centered around fandom and fan culture (think dueling Tw*tter Larrys, a K-pop sasaeng thriller, 2010s British YouTuber fangirls, etc.); teenage girls with OCD; meticulously researched historical fiction; anything and everything set in an old-money private school/university from the perspective of the scholarship kid; bubblegum thrillers; queer horror; anything that’s giving animated Barbie movie vibes (bonus points for fairies or mermaids); girls who are disasters; intense, all-consuming yearning; rag-tag teams of misfits united against a common hate. If your MC can be described as a weirdo who feels too much, I want to read about them.

Adult

A lot of my interests in YA can apply here as well, but with less emotional “newness” and underdeveloped frontal lobes. I put extra importance on literary writing when it comes to my adult tastes, and enjoy stories with themes that resonate as profoundly on a societal level as an individual one (rom-coms are sorta kinda an exception, but not really – my favorite rom-coms make you think about more than just romance!)

I’m also interested in adult fiction centered around communities and spaces, be it a public library or a park, an isolated island in the middle of the sea, or a workplace. I want women and other marginalized people who are fed up, and ready to do something about it. I want late-bloomers experiencing their first love, or a lifelong outcast finding people who truly care for them. I want to read about a peasant living through a major historical era, and they have no idea – they just want money to buy bread. I enjoy dark, twisty plots; light, cozy reads; and reflective, atmospheric strolls in equal measure.

**what i’m not looking for:**

I do NOT represent nonfiction/memoirs, picture books, middle grade, or graphic novels of ANY KIND!

Additionaly, please no erotica; high fantasy or space operas; very literary/experimental stories; military/police/modern politics; WW1 or WW2; Greek/Roman/Norse mythology; British historicals (especially Regency Era); sports romance; stories romanticizing gang life or the mafia; explicit depictions of sexual assault, graphic self-harm/suicide attempts, or violent cruelty towards people or animals; or anything where a pet dies.

**what i’m desperately looking for:**

PREMISES

+ A rom-com with an autistic FMC who is not infantilized, and is seen as desirable by both neurotypical and neurodiverse people.

+ Academic fantasy, like Heather Fawcett’s EMILY WILDE series, but for a YA audience and ideally centered around characters of color and non-Western folklore. I would especially love to see various African mythologies or Southeast Asian shamanism here.

+ A reverse Hallmark movie plot: give me a small town farmboy who visits New York City and has a meet-cute with a Fortune 500 #GirlBoss who teaches him how the stock market works.

+ A workplace story set in a early 2010s BuzzFeed-style company, or a zany thriller (or supernatural horror??) taking place at a YouTube convention similar to VidCon or Playlist Live.

+ Anything built around complicated, obnoxious women like Dr. Santos from The Pitt – half the fans love her, half hate her, but we know if she was a man (cough Langdon cough) they’d all be making fan-cams of her on TikTok instead.

+ An adaptation (modern, speculative, whatever – so long as Enjolras and Grantaire are queer) of Les Misérables.

THEMES/ELEMENTS/TROPES

+ Any way you can twist the Chosen One trope into something far from it, I’m here for it – give me fake prophecies, mistaken identities, the ol’ switcharoo, The Guy, or something new!

+ I am bewitched by all forms of things set in the entertainment industry, be it TV, film, theatre, or music – preferably with a light-hearted or dark comedy edge. Think BARRY, Seth Rogen’s THE STUDIO, 30 ROCK.

+ If you’re doing something weird, be weird. There is nothing I despise more than half-baked weirdness; it’s much easier to reign it in than it is to force things out – so please, be a freak if you so choose.

+ Stories that play with time or structure, think One Day by David Nicholl or the structure of The Pitt on Max (how each episode per season is a consecutive hour in a single ER shift). I love a ticking clock.

+ Horrid messy disaster co-dependent friendships/groups, particularly queer ones, particularly consisting of people in their 20s and one random older dude (Girls or Bodies Bodies Bodies).

+ Afrofuturism in the vein of Octavia Butler.

+ Beautiful beautiful ladies with swords.