Meriam Metoui
Viking Children's Books/PYR
My Manuscript Wish List®
I gravitate toward stories that break my heart before (just barely) putting the pieces back together. Ones built around human connection and maybe even a little bit of magic. If that’s feeling a bit vague, then I’m always looking for lyrical or funny picture books that balance heart and humor, grim and adventurous MG graphic novels and illustrated chapter books, and a wide variety of YA graphic novels too difficult to narrow down but know that I love dark, fantastical, and emotional storytelling and have always had a soft spot for magical realism and the slightly speculative.
Though I’m not looking for prose at the moment, I’m especially hungry for picture books and YA graphic novels. For more information on my MSWL, visit my website at: Editor — Meriam Metoui
Note that I may not be the best fit for historical, sci-fi, or high fantasy but I’ve been known to make an exception for the right art style.
Submission Guidelines
Viking Children’s Books does not accept unsolicited submissions. Agented submissions only.
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Vital Info
Favorite sub-genres:
Contemporary YA, Dark Humor, Diversity, Illustrated, LGBT YA, Magical Realism, Modernized Mythologies, Nonfiction Picture Books, Novels in Verse, Speculative Fiction, YA/MG graphic novel, children's graphic novels, picture books, whimsical
I’d like the next…
of anything on my favorites list.
My favorites include…
Books: I Talk Like a River, My Strange Shrinking Parents, The Skull, Kafka and the Doll, Girl on a Motorcycle, The Uncorker of Ocean Bottles, Once Upon an Alphabet, The Rabbit Listened, Roller Girl, The Invention of Hugo Cabret, Heartstopper, Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me, A Guest in the House, Bloom, This One Summer
TV: Fleabag, Normal People, Heartstopper, My Lady Jane, Bridgerton (but only season 2), Schitt’s Creek, Ramy, Pushing Daisies, Sense8, The OA, The Bear, Our Flag Means Death, We Are Lady Parts, Miracle Workers, Ted Lasso, What We Do in the Shadows, One Day, Killing Eve, The Haunting of Hill House.
Movies: Swiss Army Man, Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind, La La Land, Comet, Whiplash, Blue Valentine, August: Osage County, The Fall, The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby, Jo Jo Rabbit, Booksmart, The Truman Show, Parasite, Twilight, Gone Girl, Anna Karenina, Penelope, Sound of Metal, Bottoms, Inception, Fantastic Mr. Fox, All of Us Strangers, Musica, Princess Bride
