Jessica Sharpe

Baker Publishing Group

My Manuscript Wish List®

Senior Acquisitions Editor primarily looking for no-spice romance in most categories.

Submission Guidelines

Submissions should be emailed to jsharpe@bakerpublishinggroup.com

Please send only a query letter, not a full proposal. Include your book’s category/genre, spice level, tropes, and hooks, along with your personal publishing history (if any). Please know it may take me several weeks to respond. Thank you for your patience!

Vital Info

jsharpe@bakerpublishinggroup.com

Website

Editor

Fiction:

BIPOC Literature, Folklore, Romance, Romcom

Favorite sub-genres:

#ownvoices, 1800s+ historical, AAPI Fantasy, Action-Adventure, Adult, Adult Rom Com, Adult Romantasy, Adventure, African Diaspora, African Fantasy, Amateur Sleuth Mysteries, Asian American Literature, Asian Diaspora, Asian Fantasy, BIPOC, BIPOC Fantasy, Book Club, Books about books, Category Romance, Chick Lit, Chicklit, Commercial adult fiction, Contemporary Fantasy, Contemporary Romance, Cozy Fantasy, Cozy Mystery, Cozy mysteries, Cross-genre, Diverse Protagonists, Diversity, Domestic Suspense, Domestic Suspense/Thriller, Fairytale Retellings, Fantasy, Fantasy Grounded in Reality, Fantasy Romance, Gothic Fantasy, Grounded fantasy, Historical (as long as the period is of consequence), Historical Fantasy, Historical Fantasy; Fantasy Grounded In Reality, Historical Fiction, Historical RomCom, Immigrant Experiences, Immigrant Voices, Layered Rom-Coms and Comedy of Manners with a cultural component, Low Fantasy, Magical Realism, Marginalized Voices, Modern Retellings of Fairy Tales, Multicultural, Multicultural Romance, Regency Romance, Rom-com, RomCom, Romance, Romantic Comedy, Romantic Drama, Romantic Suspense, Romantic Thriller, Shakespeare Retellings, Smart Beach Reads, Soft Fantasy, South Asian, Southern Fiction, Southern Gothic, Speculative Fiction, Time Travel Romance, Underrepresented Voices, Urban Fantasy, WWI, WWII, Western Romance, Westerns, beach reads, book club fiction, celebrity, contemporary, diverse, diverse and own voices, diverse heroines, diverse voices, domestic thrillers, enemies to lovers, fairy tales, fantastical, found family, gaslamp fantasy, gothic romance, historical, historical romance, light fantasy, rivals to lovers, rom-coms, romantasy, romantic New Adult, romantic fantasy, romantic suspense/mystery, slow burn romance, small-town romance, sweet romance