Send a Query to Rebecca Podos at Neighborhood Literary

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Rebecca Podos (she/they) began her career as a literary agent in 2011 at Rees Literary Agency, and recently moved to Neighborhood Literary. A graduate of the MFA Writing, Literature and Publishing program at Emerson College, she is an author of Young Adult and Adult fiction. A complete list of her clients' published and upcoming projects can be found on her personal website, Rebeccapodos.com.

In YA and Adult Fiction, she’s looking for:

- Character-driven fantasy rooted in folklore and culture, featuring diverse characters, myths, and monsters
- Horror as a vehicle for exploring identity, otherness, and trauma
- Genre crossovers and subgenres written from fresh perspectives (cozy sci-fi, horror romance, speculative mystery, etc.)
- Queer book club fiction with gorgeous prose and a strong hook
- Queer and/or BIPOC romance and romcom. Steam (in adult romance!) is very welcome but not required
- Cozy mysteries and Knives Out-style mysteries for younger readers
- SFF with a strong romantic element, or romance with a strong SFF element. Send your sweeping, sexy Kushiel’s Dart-style epics, please!

In Nonfiction (reading selectively) she’s looking for:

- Deep dives into nerdy topics like TTRPG’s, cosplay, fandoms, and related pop culture
- Kid lit centering queer history
- Explorations of sustainability through an intersectional lens, food justice, urban gardening, and our relationship to the land

Niche requests she'd love to see:

- Grannycore Horror (a knitting club musters to banish a cosmic entity!)
- YA DnD-core fantasy or romantasy
- Queer upmarket survivalist thriller (Iditarod horror?)
- Nancy Drew-but-noir amateur detective vibes, paranormal elements welcome

She is not currently looking for:

- Picture books, chapter books, or MG books
- Self-help or business nonfiction
- Dark romance (heavier themes and discussions are fine, I just prefer the fluffy side)
- Mysteries and thrillers with police protagonists or love interests

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