Ellen Moore
Corvisiero Literary Agency
My Manuscript Wish List®
YA & Adult Fiction
- Preference for women-led and #ownvoices stories that subvert expectations of genre.
- Horror
- Horror Romance, Gothic horror, folk horror, horror in a historical setting; a focus on BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ stories; paranormal fiction
- The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones; Vampires of El Norte by Isabel Canas; Red Rabbit by Alex Grecian; I Was a Teenage Slasher by Stephen Graham Jones; Lone Women by Victor LaValle; Ring Shout by P. Djeli Clark
- Horror Romance, Gothic horror, folk horror, horror in a historical setting; a focus on BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ stories; paranormal fiction
- Historical Fiction
- Westerns that feature women, LGBTQIA+, and BIPOC challenging the status quo, gender roles, and subverting the classic idea of “the West”; Gothic fiction, medieval fiction
- Lucky Red by Claudia Craven; Sawbones by Melissa Lenhardt; Whiskey When We’re Dry by John Larison; Vengeance Road by Erin Bowman; Where Coyotes Howl by Sandra Dallas; Witch Light by Susan Fletcher; Night Watch by Jayne Anne Phillips; The Good Daughters: A Novel by Brigitte Dale
- Westerns that feature women, LGBTQIA+, and BIPOC challenging the status quo, gender roles, and subverting the classic idea of “the West”; Gothic fiction, medieval fiction
- Romance
- Would love to see bluestocking characters, BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ romantic leads; stories that explore romance inside and outside of the peerage or a combination that challenges class and societal roles; would love to see different historical periods (regency, Victorian, Edwardian, y2k, 70s-90s, 20s); Gothic romance; within YA – coming of age romances in historical settings; paranormal romance
- Historical Romance: When a Scot Ties the Knot by Tessa Dare; Ladies in Hating by Alexandra Vasti; Breathless by Beverly Jenkins; To Woo and to Wed by Martha Waters; Soulless by Gail Carriger
- Would love to see bluestocking characters, BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ romantic leads; stories that explore romance inside and outside of the peerage or a combination that challenges class and societal roles; would love to see different historical periods (regency, Victorian, Edwardian, y2k, 70s-90s, 20s); Gothic romance; within YA – coming of age romances in historical settings; paranormal romance
- Fantasy/Magical Realism
- Stories that feel like they stepped off a Dungeons & Dragons table packing humor along with emotional depth (think Critical Role’s ‘EXU: Calamity’); Fantasy with romance; Dark academia fantasy
- The Incandescent by Emily Tesh; Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels by India Holton; Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinnaman; Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree; Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V.E. Schwab; The Salt Bind by Rebecca Ferrier
- Stories that feel like they stepped off a Dungeons & Dragons table packing humor along with emotional depth (think Critical Role’s ‘EXU: Calamity’); Fantasy with romance; Dark academia fantasy
Vital Info
Favorite sub-genres:
#ownvoices, 1800s+ historical, AAPI Fantasy, AAPI Horror, Adult, Adult Horror, Adult Rom Com, African Fantasy, Asian Fantasy, Asian Horror, BIPOC, BIPOC Fantasy, BIPOC Horror, Character -Driven History, Character-Driven Horror, Cozy Fantasy, Cross-genre, Dark Humor, Disability, Diverse Protagonists, Diversity, Fairytale Retellings, Fantasy Grounded in Reality, Fantasy Romance, Fantasy YA, Female Friendships, Feminist, Feminist Horror, Feminist SF/F, Folklore, Geek Culture, Gothic, Gothic Fantasy, Gothic Horror, High Concept, High Fantasy, High-concept YA, Historical (as long as the period is of consequence), Historical Fantasy, Historical Fantasy; Fantasy Grounded In Reality, Historical Fiction, Historical Fiction YA, Historical RomCom, Historical Women's Fiction, Horror Comedy, Immigrant Voices, LGBT YA, LGBTQ Romance, LGBTQ+, LGBTQ+ Fantasy, LGBTQ+ rom coms, Latinx Fantasy, Latinx Horror, Literary Horror, Magic Realism, Magical Realism, Magical Realism YA, Multiple POV, Mythic Horror, New Adult, Occult Horror, Paranormal Horror, Paranormal Romance, Psychological Horror, Regency Romance, Retellings, Scottish, Shakespeare Retellings, Slice of life, Soft Fantasy, Southern Fiction, Southern Gothic, Southern Literary, Speculative Fiction, Supernatural, Supernatural Elements, Supernatural Horror, Westerns, YA Fantasy, YA Historical Fantasy, YA Romance, YA horror, Young Adult, Young Adult Fiction (Historical Fiction only), Zombies, crossover appeal, dark academia, diverse, diverse and own voices, diverse heroines, diverse voices, enemies to lovers, epistolary novels, feminine narratives, folklore history, friendship stories, gothic romance, high concept fiction, historical, historical romance, horror, inclusive sf/f, non-Western fantasy, non-Western historical fiction, non-western settings, queer, queer horror, queer narratives, rivals to lovers, slow burn romance, sweet romance, traditional fantasy, weird fiction, witchcraft, witches
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