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For adult I’m seeking stylish, character-driven adult horror with a strong aesthetic sensibility and a clear emotional core. I’m especially drawn to gothic, surreal, and moody stories that balance genuine fear with sharp wit or dark absurdity. I love horror that feels cinematic on the page—bold, atmospheric, and confident—without tipping into nihilism. Camp is welcome when it’s intentional.

I’m particularly excited by gothic horror, elevated slashers, and horror-adjacent thrillers with fresh hooks. Haunted houses, cursed places, legacy horrors, and inherited trauma are strong draws, especially when the story engages with art, performance, film, folklore, or history. I love monsters used as metaphor, but I’m equally interested in stories where monsters are allowed to be dangerous, seductive, and strange in their own right. I'm especially hungry for bold, voice-driven horror and thrillers in the vein of *Bury Your Gays*, *Fabulous Bodies*, *Hot Girl Murder Club*, and *Pretty Dead Things*. Give me queer horror, feminist rage, body horror, slashers, dark academia, camp, biting satire, and stories that gleefully blur the line between funny and terrifying. I love commercial, high-concept premises with unforgettable protagonists, sharp social commentary, and the kind of twisty, propulsive storytelling that makes readers cancel their plans.

I'm always looking for unapologetically weird girl lit. Give me the women who are a little too obsessive, a little too intense, a little too strange to fit neatly into the world around them. I want messy fixations, bizarre hobbies, questionable coping mechanisms, and protagonists who make terrible decisions for reasons that make perfect emotional sense. Whether it's unsettling, funny, heartfelt, romantic, or all of the above, I'm drawn to stories that embrace feminine oddity without trying to smooth off the edges. The weirder, more specific, and more unforgettable, the better.

I’m eager to see queer-led narratives, especially those with sapphic protagonists and messy, morally gray women at their center. I gravitate toward obsessive dynamics, rivalries, fraught friendships, and romances. While I’m always open to fantasy and romantasy, I currently have a strong list in those areas and am being more selective. I’m especially interested in speculative and paranormal elements. Send me commercially irresistible romantasy with the kind of emotional intensity readers can't stop talking about. I love sweeping fantasy worlds, crackling romantic tension, found family, reluctant allies, epic quests, magical politics, and characters who would burn kingdoms down for each other. If it feels destined to dominate BookTok, I want to see it.

I will never say no to a slasher rom-com.

I'm particularly drawn to speculative romance in the vein of Ashley Poston—heartfelt, high-concept love stories with a touch of magic. Whether it's magical realism, time travel, ghosts, parallel timelines, or another speculative twist, I want romances that are equal parts emotionally satisfying, charming, and impossible to put down.

While I have a soft spot for speculative and paranormal romance, I'm open to contemporary romance across the board, too.

For YA and MG, I’m especially drawn to fun, sharp, high-energy horror with a strong emotional throughline. I love slasher stories with a playful or romantic edge—think Fear Street vibes, "Scream"-worthy stakes (the Scream TV show), and teen characters navigating both first love and mortal peril. I’m looking for horror that’s scary but accessible, fast-paced, and character-forward, with room for humor, heart, and catharsis alongside the bloodshed.

I’m particularly interested in slasher rom-coms, campy or meta horror, and teen thrillers that mix classic tropes in fresh ways. Summer camps, small towns with dark secrets, cursed friend groups, masked killers, and survival games all appeal to me—especially when the story leans into friendship dynamics, romance, and the heightened emotions of being young and terrified at the same time.

Queer YA is a major draw for me, and ensemble casts of messy, impulsive teens making bad decisions under pressure. I love rivalries, crushes, slow-burn tension, and romances forged in the middle of chaos. Ultimately, I’m looking for YA horror that understands pacing and escalation, embraces fun without losing its edge, and delivers both thrills and emotional payoff.

MG: 30–50k

YA: 70–80k (up to 100k for fantasy/spec)

Adult: 75–100k (up to 120k for fantasy/spec)

I am not the best fit for:Picture books, non-fiction, novellas or short story collections, novels in verse, poetry, COVID stories, terminal illnesses, talking animals, historical fiction in WWI or WWII, robots, or humans against technology, heavy focus on trauma like rape, sexual assault, domestic abuse, or suicide, screenplays, religious texts, true crime, police procedurals

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