Gracie Freeman Lifschutz

As I build my list, I’m looking for projects across a few major categories in Fiction and a few categories specifically in Nonfiction. No matter the type of project, I prioritize underrepresented voices, #OwnVoices works, and intersectional perspectives. I’m drawn to fiction that captures the pains of growing into oneself and the complexity of interpersonal relationships. For nonfiction, I would most like to see projects that dive into pop culture, social justice issues, and cultural criticism.

Across all categories, but especially in YA and younger Adult narratives, I love a good hook that makes a book fit a little more askance into a genre. Think: Jennifer’s Body, Joy McCullough’s Enter the Body, Ally Carter’s Gallagher Girls series, etc. If you’re taking classic tropes and turning them on their head, I want to see it!

I’m drawn in large part as well to prose that I consider “delicious”; books I love tend to make me want to eat their sentences or tattoo them on my eyelids, just so they can become a part of my being.

In Fiction, I’m looking for, specifically:

• Contemporary Romance and romantic comedies: particularly those that feature body positive/neutral rep, demi-spectrum rep, late bloomers
• Folk horror or Gothic horror that examines issues in our world while still being accessible
• Young Adult: thrillers, contemporary fiction, and rom-coms
• Stories that feature demi-spectrum representation, mental illness, and disability authentically
• Deep friendships, friends as family, non-traditional families (think: family is who you choose, the complexity of having difficult bio family, etc.)
• Jewish representation where religion isn’t the focus (think: Crossing Delancey or The Nanny, moreso than Unorthodox)
• Feminist psychological thrillers
• Complicated and messy heroines
• Light magical realism
• Grounded genre fiction

In Nonfiction:

• Cultural criticism
• Pop Culture-focused social analysis
• Social Justice narratives
• Food systems and culture
• Deep dives! Give me your books on weird conspiracy theories, cults, metaphorical wikipedia wormholes
• The intersection of all of the above

Please no:

• Second world sci-fi
• Hard fantasy
• Post-climate apocalypse narratives
• Military fiction
• Legal or political espionage thrillers
• Holocaust fiction
• Stories featuring assault or abuse
• Redemption of hate group members
• Dystopian fiction

It would be impossible to list out all the minutiae of my likes and dislikes here, so please view this as a guide for best general fit.

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