Kaitlyn Sanchez
Bradford Literary Agency
My Manuscript Wish List®
Hi everyone,
I’m so delighted to share that I’m open to submissions until June 21st at midnight EST! I’m searching for awesome picture books and middle grade novels. I’m always looking for books with new perspectives and from underrepresented communities including but not limited to BIPOC, neurosdiverse, and LGBTQ+.
Right now, I’m mainly looking for funny, commercial picture books and middle grade novels including graphic novels with art (no script only please!). But as you know, I also connect to beautiful, lyrical, and/or heartfelt stories especially with content I’ve never heard about before. If you have something unique and fresh in mg or pb please send it my way.
More specifically, I’m really stoked to bring more middle grade to my list, especially big epic titles that can become a beloved series. I love humor and/or heart above all, and I love everything from adventure to low fantasy to mystery to sci-fi to contemporary to historical fiction. I would love a great middle grade dystopian like City of Ember, magical low fantasy like The Impossible Destiny of Cutie Grackle, a middle grade version of a cozy mystery like Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Guide to Murder, a quirky fantasy like Nevermoor, an inspiring contemporary novel like Attack of the Black Rectangles, The Other Half of Happy, or What Happened to Rachel Riley, a great historical fiction like Troublemaker or Nothing Else But Miracles, or anything that can be comped to the movies Little Giants or Now and Then with epic friendships, humor, and heart all wrapped into one story!
For picture books, I’d love a contemporary picture book that inspires and feels like it’s made by kids as much as for kids like Cape, Summer is for Cousin, My Baba’s Garden, Berry Song, Two New Years, or What Happened to You?, a gorgeous wordless picture book like Yellow Butterfly, a fresh comedy like Telephone or How to Count to 1, a fresh story that helps kids discover something new like La Mala Suerte, a fun series like Kittycorn that is just so adorable and fun, an author-illustrated picture book that brilliantly plays with the juxtaposition of words and art like Sam and Dave Dig a Hole, or something wacky and comical like On Account of the Gum.
Please note, the above is just a taste of what I love. To find out more, check out my website (psst, it shows all the books Team Sanchez has created!).
Also, please note, I’m not taking on chapter books, early readers, young adult novels, adult work, or illustrators-only clients right now.
Thanks so much for reading and excited to read your work!
Fun facts about me:
Soccer is my favorite sport; I still play!
I’ve been land sailing.
I was an intern for NASA for 3 summers in college.
I love math just as much as English.
Submission Guidelines
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I’m currently open to submissions through June 21st at midnight EST. Please see my agency website for submission guidelines.
Vital Info
I’d like the next…
I’d love the next
- Fast-paced MG adventure
- Hilarious PB or MG
- The Impossible Destiny of Cutie Grackle
- Middle School, The Worst Years of My Life
- The Mystery of Black Hollow Lane
- MG like the movie Now and Then
- MG like Burden of Truth (or other super cool Erin Brockovich-style story)
- Refugee
- MG version of One of Us is Lying
- Little Giants
- Friday Barnes
- “Funniest book I’ve ever read”
My favorites include…
Some of my favorite picture books are listed above but others include: Dessert Island, Fry Bread, My Papi Has a Motorcycle, The Rabbit Listened, Eyes That Kiss in the Corners, Giraffe Problems, The Bad Seed, I’m Sad, The Silence Slips In, Saturday (Oge Mora), My Shape is Sam, Ned the Knitting Pirate, and Dear Girl. To find out more about picture books I enjoy, check out this post.
Some of my favorite novels are: They Both Die at the End, Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice for Murders, One of Us is Lying, What Happened to Rachel Riley, The Impossible Destiny of Cutie Grackle, Nevermoor, Like a Love Story, Undercover Latina, The Total Eclipse of Nestor Lopez, Enchanter’s Child series, Hatmakers, Skyward series, Refugee, Hello Universe, Friday Barnes, Diamond Eye, A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder, The Other Half of Happy, Nevermoor, The Forgetting, The Knowing, Everland, Imposters, Afterworlds, The Mystery of Black Hollow Lane, Flight Girls, The Witch’s Boy, The Rose Code, anything by David Baldacci (especially King & Maxwell series and the Vega Jane series), The League novels, The Storied Life of A.J. Fickry, The Tattooist of Auschwitz, The Alice Network, That Night, almost anything by Lisa Jewell, Missing Molly, Hunger Games, Harry Potter, Black Boy, The Red Badge of Courage, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Call of the Wild, Divergent…I could go on.
My favorite short story collection is Kim Edward’s The Secrets of a Fire King.
My favorite all-time movie is Remember the Titans! Tristan and Isolde, Now and Then, Zombieland, Frozen, Moana, Fast and Furious Tokyo Drift, and Little Giants are also way up on my list of favorites!
Some of my favorite TV shows: Ted Lasso, Swagger, Young Sheldon, Ashley Garcia Genius in Love, This is Us, Workin’ Moms, Pretty Smart, Heartstopper, The Witcher, How I Met Your Mother, Lockwood & Co., Single Drunk Female, How I Met Your Father, Never Have I Ever, Younger, The Bold Type, The Voice, Gilmore Girls, 13 Reasons Why, Grey’s Anatomy, House, Merlin, Grey’s Anatomy, For Life, The IT Crowd, Mindhunter, Law and Order (including SUV and CI), Miranda, Revenge, Numb3rs, Touch, Everything’s Gonna Be Okay, Leverage, Modern Family, A Million Little Things, The Gifted, The Great, Atypical, One Day at a Time, Glee, and I could go on…
