Devanshi Sharma
White Arrow Books
My Manuscript Wish List®
My Manuscript Wish List® Items
Fun facts about me:
- Absolutely adore Barbie movies and the beautiful worlds it paints about believing in ordinary magic.
- I am actively always searching for young protagonists in my novels who are deliberately kind in a cruel world. Think, hope-core protagonists. e.g. Alizeh from This Woven Kingdom
- I also have a deep, enduring interest in geopolitics, current world happenings, and how it intersects with culture and literature
- My favourite nonfic postcolonial writer has to be Edward Said
- Since my locality is filled with orange cats, I’m fond of animal companions in books
- Absolutely adore complex sibling relationships in media
- Found family is my top favourite trope.
- I am a writer myself. Always loved weaving subplot romances through a larger world
Submission Guidelines
- Email subject should be: QUERY: [Project Title] by [Your Full Name]
- You can introduce yourself in the email body. I’d love to hear about your work, writing etc.
Please collate the following information into a single Word document:
- Font: 12-point Times New Roman
- (Tentative) word count of your project
- Details about the genre, age category (YA/NA/Adult) and demographics
- Plot outlineÂ
- Cast of characters
- Excerpts or 2 sample chaptersÂ
- Comp titles, for each
- A short bio of yourself
Vital Info
Favorite sub-genres:
#ownvoices, AAPI Fantasy, AAPI Horror, AAPI Sci-Fi, Adult Rom Com, Adult Romantasy, Adult SFF, Adventure, African Diaspora, African Fantasy, African Sci-Fi, Artificial Intelligence, Asian Diaspora, Asian Fantasy, Asian Horror, Asian Sci-Fi, BIPOC Fantasy, BIPOC Horror, BIPOC Mystery, BIPOC Sci-Fi, Books about books, Character-driven SciFi, Children's and Young Adult Fiction and Nonfiction, Christian romance, Classic retellings with BIPOC characters, Cli-Fi, Climate Fiction, Commercial YA, Concept SF, Contemporary Culture, Contemporary Fantasy, Contemporary Inspirational Romance, Contemporary Romance, Contemporary YA, Contemporary Young Adult, Cozy Fantasy, Cozy Mystery, Cozy mysteries, Cyberpunk, Disability, Dystopia, Dystopian, East Asian Literature, Ecology, Epic Fantasy, Epistolary, Fairytale Retellings, Fantasy, Fantasy Grounded in Reality, Fantasy Romance, Fantasy YA, Female Friendships, Feminism, Feminist, Feminist SF/F, Found Families, Gothic Fantasy, Gothic Horror, Hard Science Fiction, High Fantasy, High-concept YA, Historical Fantasy, Historical Fiction, Historical Fiction YA, Historical RomCom, Historical Women's Fiction, Historical mysteries, Humor, Humor YA, Indigenous Futurism, Indigenous Sciences, Intersectional Feminism, Intersectionality, LGBT YA, LGBTQ Contemporary, LGBTQ Romance, LGBTQ+, LGBTQ+ Fantasy, LGBTQ+ Sci-Fi, LGBTQ+ rom coms, LGBTQIA, LGBTQIAP, Latinx Fantasy, Layered Rom-Coms and Comedy of Manners with a cultural component, Literary Fantasy, Literary Thriller, Low Fantasy, Magic Realism, Magical Realism, Magical Realism YA, Marginalized Voices, Military Sci-Fi, Multicultural, Multigenerational, Multiple POV, Nature, Nature Writing, Neo-Victorian, Neurodiversity, New Adult, Regency Romance, Retellings, Rom-com, STEM, SciFi Romance, Science Fiction YA, Science Fiction and Fantasy Favorite sub-genres: Absolutely all of them!, Self-help for teens, Soft Fantasy, Soft Science Fiction, Solarpunk, South Asian, South East Asian Literature, Speculative, Speculative Fiction, Steampunk, Strategy books for teens, Time Travel Romance, Upmarket YA, Urban Fantasy, YA Contemporary, YA Contemporary Romance, YA Contemporary Romance with layers, YA Crossover, YA Fantasy, YA Historical Fantasy, YA Rom-Coms, YA RomCom, YA Romance, YA Romantasy, YA SF/F, YA Sci-fi, YA Science Fiction, YA fantasy/light sci-fi, YA rom com, Young Adult Fiction (Historical Fiction only), Young Adult Narrative Non-Fiction (Both Contemporary and Historical Narrative Non-Fiction), Young Adult Non-Fiction, character-focused fiction, character-focused stories, classic retellings, coming of age, contemporary women's fiction, court intrigue, dark academia, diverse, diverse and own voices, diverse heroines, diverse voices, eco-fiction, epistolary novels, fairy tales, fantasy of manners, found family, friendship, friendship stories, fun SF/F, gaslamp fantasy, historical mystery, historical romance, hopepunk, immigration, inclusive sf/f, indigenous futurisms, just... all the tropes, light Sci-Fi, light fantasy, music, near-future science fiction, non-Western fantasy, non-Western historical fiction, non-western settings, realistic fiction, rivals to lovers, romantacy, romantasy, romantic New Adult, romantic fantasy, sci-fi, science fantasy, science fiction epic, slow burn, speculative slice of life, stories that don't fit neatly into a genre, upmarket/book club with female protagonist
I’d like the next…
My favorites include…
BOOKS
- The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
- Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo
- This Woven Kingdom series by Tahereh Mafi
- Shatter Me series by Tahereh Mafi
- Humankind by Rutger Bregman
- A Psalm for the Wild Built by Becky Chambers
- Once Upon a Broken Heart by Stephanie Garber
- If You Could See the Sun and I Could Give You the Moon by Ann Liang
- The Ones who Walk Away from Omelas by Ursula K. Le Guin
- The Herbwitch Princess by Ireen Chau
- The Infernal Devices by Cassandra Clare
- Percy Jackson by Rick Riordan
- The Martian by Andy Weir
- Legendborn series by Tracey Deonn
- Anything in YA romance like Emma Mills
MOVIES:
- All Barbie movies. But especially The 12 Dancing Princesses, Princess Charm School. Think pink, princesses, magic and you have me hooked
- Any show with complex geopolitical dynamics, whether fantasy or not
- Stories with heartfelt BIPOC representation
- Pride and Prejudice
- The Other Bennet Sister
- Enola Holmes series
TV SHOWS:
- Bridgerton
- The Nuremberg Trials
- World War II in Colour
- Anne with an E
K-DRAMAS
- Hotel del Luna
- Vincenzo
- Crash Landing on You
- All of Us Are Dead
