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Anne is looking for:

Adult Modern Day Mystery: Contemporary Police Procedural, Professional investigators preferred, but not mandatory. Just a good cop, or P.I., or reporter, doing a good job, with a great mystery element.

Adult Modern Day Horror: Psychological, Gothic, Literary and Upmarket

Adult Fantasy Horror: Not Fantasy, Not Science Fiction - but Fantasy Horror -> that's a Fantasy setting, but with a Horror plot. Vampires/Werewolves etc only count if the story takes place in a Fantasy World.

Automatic No's:

No manuscripts less than 70k words or more than 125k words

No self-published or previously published works

No erotica

No poetry

No short story collections

No picture books, chapter books, middle grade, or YA

Anne does not represent any of those categories or genres.

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