Lisa Abellera
Kimberley Cameron & Associates
My Manuscript Wish List®
Lisa Abellera joined Kimberley Cameron and Associates in 2013 with a background in management, marketing, and finance. She has studied creative writing, design, and business, earning her BA in Strategic Management from Dominican University of CA and her MFA in Creative Writing from University of San Francisco. She is a member of AALA and an alumna of Voices of Our Nations Arts (VONA).
Lisa is committed to uplifting underrepresented voices and infusing more diversity and inclusion in books, so she is actively looking for strong female characters, diverse characters, and stories by BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, and other authors who identify with marginalized or underrepresented communities. She is particularly interested in upmarket/book club, women’s fiction, historical fiction, mystery, suspense, thrillers, science fiction, fantasy, and crossover speculative fiction. She is drawn to well-crafted prose, strong hooks, high personal stakes, complex and sympathetic characters, a tangible sense of place and lush world-building, non-Western cultural aspects, and emotionally-immersive fiction.Â
Submission Guidelines
When Lisa is open to submission, please submit using the online form at:
https://querytracker.net/query/LisaAbellera
Please note, unsolicited submissions that are emailed are deleted unread.
Vital Info
Favorite sub-genres:
AAPI Fantasy, AAPI Horror, AAPI Sci-Fi, BIPOC, BIPOC Fantasy, BIPOC Horror, BIPOC Mystery, BIPOC Sci-Fi, Climate Fiction, Epic Fantasy, Female Friendships, Gothic, Historical Fantasy, Historical Women's Fiction, Near future, Same-Sex Romance, Sci-fi Thriller, SciFi Romance, Space Opera, Speculative Fiction, Speculative Thriller, Suspense, Tech Thrillers, Upmarket Fiction, beach reads, dark fantasy, found family, friendship, non-Western fantasy, non-Western historical fiction, non-western settings, queer, romantic fantasy, romantic suspense/mystery, science fantasy, upmarket/book club with female protagonist, witches
I’d like the next…
The Fifth Season, The Lost Apothecary, Mexican Gothic, The Other Black Girl, Trail of Lightning, The City of Brass, BIPOC-authored Leaphorn and Chee, American Spy, Gideon the Ninth, Binti, Such a Fun Age, BIPOC and/or queer Practical Magic
My favorites include…
Books (in no particular order): Yangze Choo’s The Fox Wife and The Night Tiger, Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells, The Golum and the Jinni by Helene Wecker, Erin Morgenstern’s The Starless Sea and The Night Circus, The Poppy War by R.F. Kuang, Piranesi by Susanna Clarke, Sue Lynn Tan’s Daughter of the Moon Goddess and Heart of the Sun Warrior, Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt, Paraic O’Donnell’s The House on Vesper Sands and Naming of the Birds, There There by Tommy Orange, Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead, An American Marriage by Tayari Jones, The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride, The Jasmine Throne by Tasha Suri, Ancilliary Justice by Ann Leckie, N.K. Jemison’s Broken Earth Trilogy, and The Great Cities Duology, The Meadow by James Galvin, The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by Maggie O’Farrell, The Scent Keeper by Erica Bauermeister, Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng
TV and Movies (in no particular order): Down Cemetery Lane, Only Murders in the Building, Ponies, Dept. Q, Dark Winds, Black Doves, Silo, Severence, Murderbot, Gilded Age, Belgravia, The Bletchley Circle, Bong Joon-Ho, Wes Anderson, Hayao Miyazaki, Everything Everywhere All at Once, Russian Doll, Orphan Black, The Expanse, The Shawshank Redemption, Princess Bride, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Love & Friendship, The Farewell
