Fiction Genre: Folklore
Alex Brown’s Evergreen Wishlist!
Across Adult, YA, and MG, I am particularly drawn to: Final Girls who are also monsters, diaspora stories, horror of any kind, stories that will make her laugh/cry/wonder if something is lurking in the darkness, anything that hints at what might be hiding in the ocean, witches, rom coms, witchy rom coms, women/enby/POC-lead thrillers that … Read more
Jo’s Manuscript Wishlist
For fiction, Jo is seeking books that subvert genre expectations or combine genres in innovative and twisty ways. They’re particularly searching for speculative fiction/light sci-fi (Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro, Annihilation by Jeff Vandermeer), eco-fiction/cli-fi (The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler, A Psalm for the Wild Built by Becky Chambers), interesting workplaces with an ensemble … Read more
Very short sports themed novellas for middle grade or teen readers from Canadian authors
I am seeking novellas of c. 8000 words or c. 16,000 words with simplified language for striving readers on sports themes. Extra points if they are also cross genre with fantasy, horror, science fiction or adventure etc. Advance paying contracts