WISHLIST

My categories are:

• MG and YA novels of all genres

• Adult SFFH

• Adult romance

  • I am very selective here, and only looking for romance that is about disability, like Kissing Kosher, Can’t Escape Love, and It’s All In Your Head!

Within these categories, I am particularly interested in:

• Stories written by disabled authors or featuring disabled characters. I’m interested in all kinds of disabilities, intersections of disability and other experiences, magic disabilities, undiagnosable disabilities, and metaphorical disabilities! Disabled stories are my central priority. Everything else I would love to see will be extra appealing to me through a disability lens!

• Please send me all your intersectional disability stories! I’m particularly eager for disability stories by BIPOC authors.

• Queer stories, especially ones that trouble compulsory sexuality and amatonormativity. I am very interested in aro and ace stories and would love to read books that center queer identities that have less media representation. I’m very keen to get more genderqueer, trans, and especially transfem protagonists out in the world too!

• I’m drawn to fiction because of characters, and the thing that will make me love a story is deep, flawed characters who have interesting and complicated relationships with each other. I love reading about relationships—messy, insecure, fading, painful—no matter the context.

• New perspectives on romance—as much as I love a good swoony romance, I also want to read romance plots that don’t overwhelm the other relationships in a life, romances that don’t last forever. I want to read books where the romance breaks off before the end, romances that aren’t good for the people in them, and romances that aren’t endgame. I especially want to read stories about the landscape of unrequited feelings and desires that are never acted on.

• Platonic relationships. I love stories that prioritize friendships, that establish other types of life bonds. I love queerplatonic partnerships and applying romance-genre tropes to epic friendships. I love stories where friendships are just as exciting and important as romances.

• Intense interests. I love stories that heavily feature something a protagonist loves, a very serious hobby that shapes their character and the plot, and I love stories about the communities that form around them.

• Fandom culture. I have a special soft spot for books about fanfiction, fanart, fan analysis, cosplay, and conventions. I love the community, and I love reading about internet friendships.

• Stories set outside of the US.

• I love stories about people showing up for their communities and making a difference. I would especially like to see books about non-legislative activism like mutual aid.

• Boy books. Don’t be afraid to send me boy protagonists for MG and especially YA, especially in genres other than romance.

While there’s a short list of favorites below, please consult my Manuscript Wish List page for a regularly-updated list of books, movies, and TV that I love.