Hana Tzou

*Agented Submissions Only. Submissions from Authors Will Not Be Considered*

Bio

Hana Tzou is an assistant editor at Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group, acquiring titles for multiple imprints. A California native and an alum of Tufts University, she currently haunts the Amtrak between Boston and New York City. Hana is a hot yoga fanatic, voracious knitter, amateur birder, and proud AMC A-Lister.

Wishlist

Hana acquires hooky, high concept fiction across all children’s age levels. She loves gentle and sentimental picture books with “indie bookstore” art; mischievous, precocious, and funny middle grade; and swoony, voice-y, atmospheric YA. Hana will also consider the occasional adult submission, mainly commercial and crossover romance/romantasy. 

Regardless of genre, Hana prioritizes punchy voice, big feelings, and immersive settings (time and place, please!), and is especially excited by anything weird, subversive, absurd, and bizarre—and anything truly laugh-out-loud funny. She loves a love story, especially if it’s unexpected, messy, and irresistible. She’s always looking for magical realism, tingly romance, campy horror, clever wordplay, irreverent twists, genre benders, sharp social commentary, and underrepresented voices from diverse backgrounds.

Hyper-Specific Wishlist

cowboy romance ✦ whodunits à la Agatha Christie and Maureen Johnson ✦ whimsical fantasy in a cranberry bog ✦ Practical Magic energy + New England hauntings ✦ rage and revenge stories ✦ biracial/Asian American identity explorations ✦ soft boy love interests ✦ anachronistic historical fiction/fantasy ✦ that National Treasure feeling ✦ deadpan/black comedy ✦ Sinners or Jennifer’s Body for teens ✦ locked-room murder mysteries ✦ 

Submission Guidelines

Agented submissions only.