WISHLIST

Keir is seeking YA & Adult SFFH and YA contemporary novels. She is ONLY open to receiving queries from writers who identify as belonging to a marginalized or underrepresented community.

Please include any content and trigger warnings in your query.

Please DO NOT SEND

- Novelizations of your tabletop campaign

- Books with gratuitous gore

- Splatter or slasher fiction

- Books that employ fridging

- [Copaganda](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copaganda)

- Military science fiction

- Nazi romance, fantasy nazi romance

- Adult contemporary without a speculative component

- Middle grade

- Novellas or short story collections

MSWL

Keir’s favorite traits and tropes include:

- Found family

- Protags that are too smart for their own good

- Stories about embracing your identity

- Stories that center BIPOC and queer happiness

- Queernorm settings/worlds/communities

- Disabilitynorm settings/worlds/communities

- Enemies to friends/unlikely friendships

- Nonbinary MCs tasting power and choosing chaos

- Grump & sunshine/stabby & cinnamon roll pairings

- Femme villains corrupting cinnamon rolls/himbos

- Non-white power couples/non-white love interests

- Sapphic everything

- Enemies to lovers & friends to lovers

- Slow burn & second chance romance

- Heists

- D R A G O N S

Keir’s hobbies, background and identity deeply inform what they love. Some examples of how this influences their taste include work that:

- Burns down the patriarchy and/or colonizers

- Contains D&D or other TTRPG Easter eggs, or inside jokes for games like Hades, Devil May Cry, or Final Fantasy.

- Has the emotional resonance of games like Gris or Old Man’s Journey

- Has the political complexity and ethical realities of anime like Gundam or Full Metal Alchemist

Keir is currently craving (in no particular order):

- Kink- and poly-positive work

- Sapphic power couples. Think Korra & Asami (The Legend of Korra) or Michiru & Haruka (Sailor Moon)

- Cozy stories that feel like Studio Ghibli (both adult and YA)

- Not-so-cozy stories that feel like Studio Ghibli (think Princess Mononoke)

- *Queenmaker* as a sapphic political fantasy or science fiction

- A book that feels like Poker Face or Knives Out

- A YA protagonist of any gender identity or orientation who can be comped to Miles Morales (Into the Spiderverse, Across the Spiderverse)

- BIPOC vampires

- Dark academia, but replace “academia” with e-sports or tabletop gaming

- Dark academia featuring working class protagonists who explore institutions of power as outsiders. Protagonists do not need to be students, and can hold other relationships to the institute.

- Contemporary or contemporary SFFH that engages deeply and authentically with the gaming, anime, cosplay, streaming, or convention communities (within one or multiple fandoms)

- Dragons! They were a dragon-obsessed child and continue to be a dragon-obsessed adult

- Stories where emotional intelligence is just as valuable as other skills

- Stories where cognitively disabled characters contribute to the plot, story, and victory but are not fetishized or relegated to a comedic role

You can keep up with what they're craving in the #MSWL on their Instagram Highlights

In YA Contemporary, Keir prefers books where the romance is secondary but identity and self-love are primary, like TJ POWAR HAS SOMETHING TO PROVE. Keir would also love work like with queer love and found family, or like HUNGRY GHOST where strength is not about being perfect and alone but flawed and surrounded by community. They are looking for diverse representations of queerness and love that runs deep even without a romantic element.

In fantasy, they love immersive worlds that are based outside of western cultures like THE JASMINE THRONE, IRON WIDOW, KAIKEYI, or RAYBEARER. In general, Keir would love to see books with BIPOC leads that use fae and folktales from non-western cultures. She’s particularly excited to see West Indian culture and mythology. Keir is also a big fan of cozy reads and would love to see more in the vein of LEGENDS & LATTES or THE VERY SECRET SOCIETY OF IRREGULAR WITCHES in both YA and adult. Keir accepts all sub-genres of adult and young adult fantasy.

In science fiction, Keir is primarily interested in seeing SF that forces us to explore the human condition, like the XUYA UNIVERSE or THE SPACE BETWEEN WORLDS and THOSE BEYOND THE WALL. They're also a fan of N.K. Jemisin and Becky Chambers and will consume anything like their work. Though Keir’s SF tastes do lean toward Adult, they would welcome YA work that explores such ideas and makes her crave adventure. Keir accepts all subgenres of adult and young adult science fiction, except military science fiction. DO NOT send them military science fiction.

In horror, she prefers work that makes her feel disturbed or unsettled rather than gore or jump scares. If your book reads like a Black Mirror episode, she probably wants to see it. Moody, atmospheric and creepy are all up her alley but they are not opposed to camp, either. Horror that blends genres is particularly of interest to them. Keir accepts all subgenres of adult and young adult horror except splatter and slasher. DO NOT send her splatter or slasher horror.

Across all genres Keir likes emotionally complex characters, whether they are particularly sharp, have critically low common sense, or both.

Genre blending and/or bending books are welcome.

Retellings or re-imaginings that match this wish list are welcome.