Eleonore Fisher
Roaring Brook Press / Macmillan Publishers
My Manuscript Wish List®
I’m hungry for submissions that express big ideas and feelings with beautiful language, humor, and vulnerability. I want stories that readers will carry with them long after reading. I am especially interested in submissions from creators of marginalized identities.
picture books
I’m looking for weird, irreverent stories about mischief, misbehaving, and danger.
middle grade
I’d love to see gothic boarding school mysteries, cozy fantasy graphic novels, tender coming-of-age tales, speculative fiction exploring difficult truths, and stories about make-believe games turned real, with supernatural elements, high stakes, and lots of emotion.
young adult
Please send me any combination of elements on this list: atmospheric speculative fiction, unsettling ghost stories and fairy tales, graphic novels with romance tropes, epic fantasy stories with thoughtful worldbuilding and complex characters, all things southern gothic, queer characters but especially witches/vampires/monsters, messy characters making huge mistakes, life-defining friendships, sweeping romance, revenge, heists, stolen identities, and unreliable narrators.
what I’m not looking for
I’m not the right editor for chapter books, anthologies, circus stories, time travel set in our world (unless it’s used for hijinks in a picture book), or sports- or music-focused novels (unless they’re thrillers or horror).
Submission Guidelines
Roaring Brook Press only accepts agented submissions.
Vital Info
I’d like the next…
picture books
- Pokko and the Drum by Matthew Forsythe
- The Skull by Jon Klassen
middle grade
- The Swifts: A Dictionary of Scoundrels by Beth Lincoln with illustrations by Claire Powell
- When You Trap a Tiger by Tae Keller
young adult
- Legendborn by Tracy Deonn
- Hell Followed with Us by Andrew Joseph White
- A Study in Drowning by Ava Reid
- All Our Hidden Gifts by Caroline O’Donoghue
graphic novels
- The Moth Keeper by K. O’Neil
- Allergic by Megan Wagner Lloyd
My favorites include…
TV: I May Destroy You, Chewing Gum, Succession, Better Call Saul, Midnight Mass, The Haunting of Hill House, Severance
Movies: Everything Everywhere All At Once, Drop Dead Gorgeous, Parasite, Late Night with the Devil, Give Me Your Hand, Winter’s Bone, Clueless
