I’m looking for uplifting adult nonfiction that helps us live in better relationship with ourselves, each other, and the world around us.
My top priority is acquiring highly engaging personal growth/self-improvement from established thought leaders, professionals, and influencers in evergreen topics like parenting, productivity/planning, personal growth, health & wellness, and positive psychology. I’m also interested in narrative nonfiction with an investigative edge that sheds new light on a piece of history, society, or the natural world; and breathtaking memoirs of personal resilience, empowerment, and connection.
Please do not send me children’s books, illustrated/gift/coffee table books, fiction, or poetry.
Submission Guidelines
Submissions should be emailed to ariel.curry@sourcebooks.com
Please email a completed proposal with 2-3 sample chapters (including the Introduction/Prologue) attached as a Word document.
Non-Fiction:
Biography, Health, Humor, Journalism, LGBTQ, Memoir, Parenting, Psychology, Relationships and family, Science, Self-help, Travel, Wellness
Favorite sub-genres:
Health, Health and Wellness, Health and healing, Immigrant Experiences, Immigrant Voices, Inspirational Memoir, Mental Health, Mind/Body/Spirit, Narrative, Nature, Nature Writing, Outdoors, Pop Culture, Self-help, Trauma, Wellness, memoir, narrative non-fiction, nonfiction, psychology
I’d like the next…
Prescriptive Nonfiction:
- The Deepest Well by Nadine Burke-Harris
- It Didn’t Start With You by Mark Wolynn
- The Mind-Gut Connection by Emeran Mayer
- Raising Good Humans by Hunter Clarke-Fields
- Good Inside by Dr. Becky Kennedy
Memoir:
- Grayson by Lynne Cox
- The Many Lives of Mama Love by Lara Love Hardin
- How to Stay Married by Harrison Scott Key
- What My Bones Know by Stephanie Foo
Narrative Nonfiction:
- The Woman They Could Not Silence by Kate Moore
- Beneath a Scarlet Sky by Mark Sullivan
- The Auschwitz Photographer by Luca Crippa and Maurizio Onnis
My favorites include…
Jane Eyre, The Walking Dead, The Crown, The Office