Alex Grana

I am open to queries from the 1st through 7th of every month. 

I am mainly looking for middle grade and young adult projects at this time, but am also open to select adult manuscripts. I love gothic fiction of all kinds and crave horror through immersive atmosphere and prose. I’m drawn to big, messy feelings and characters screwing up over and over before succeeding.

Across the Board:

• Science fiction, fantasy, and horror! 
• Queer narratives, queer characters, queer authors
• Sisterhood stories
• Stories set in the PNW, Appalachia, or arctic
• Indigenous stories
• Stories about our relationships to our environments through a solarpunk lens
• Mother-daughter stories
• Gothic fiction of all kinds
• Mysteries involving puzzles/code breaking
• Swim team books

Middle Grade:

• Stories reminiscent of Spirited Away
• Scary stories that keep you up at night
• Stories about self-discovery through community building

Young Adult:

• Dual timeline mysteries
• Feral girl protagonists
• High concept contemporary stories about teenage firsts
• Psychological thrillers
• Girl gangs

Adult:

• Gothic horror, horroromance, and romantasy with teeth!
• Upmarket horror featuring body horror, religious themes or deconstruction, and cults
• Narratives inspired by reality TV or featuring reality TV!
• Historical fiction centering marginalized experiences, from queer and BIPOC perspectives to exploring class structures and anticolonialism

I’m happy to consider projects that do not exactly match any of the above elements. I am not a good fit for space operas, historical fiction about war, or procedural thrillers.

Submission Guidelines

Please share your query letter, 1-2 page synopsis, and the first ten pages of your manuscript using my query form.

Unsolicited submissions sent via email will not be considered. Submissions that utilize AI in any part will not be considered.

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