Moe Ferrara

Atop my wishlist for this year: adult books!

As always, this is just what I’d love to see in my inbox. I always love being surprised by projects I never knew I wanted. So unless your project falls under a no I don’t want this, still reach out and query me!

I do ask, though, if your book deals a lot with parental death (no matter what the age group) to please warn for that in a query. It’s hard to trigger me in general, but that’s one that’s still something I’m dealing with after my father’s passing and I’d rather know what I’m getting into than have it come out of nowhere.

I’m not a good fit for literary fiction, upmarket fiction, hard scifi, epic fantasy, women’s fiction, military fiction, etc.

Above all on my #MSWL are just great books with strong voice and characters I fall in love with. I want strong hooks I can’t put down and characters that have me rooting for them to win (or, sometimes, fail). Send me the books that will have me reading on my iPad until 3AM when I curse that my battery has died 5 pages from the end.

My full #MSWL is on my shiny new website here (www.moeferrara.com/mswl)

ADULT NOVELS

Rom-Coms:

• Queer and straight, I’ll read them all. My biggest pet peeve in any rom-com is when the central conflict could have been solved if the two MCs just talked.
• I do love to have more than just the romance going on in my rom-coms. I want to come for the romance and stay for the plot! Also, any level of heat is just fine by me.
• Sports Romances — My two loves in the sports arena are hockey and football (sigh. fine. soccer.) You’re talking to someone who has been following Hockey since Connor McDavid played for my local OHL team as a teenager. As for football… I’ve been a man united gal since college days. I’m less about rivalries and more about teammates. Give me SidGeno vibes. Or basically any 1OA Canadian and his emotional support forward who he cannot be separated under any circumstances.
• Tropes! Give me the “there was only one bed” or any other forced proximity trope. Fake Dating (followed by ‘didn’t know they were dating’). I love my grumpy meets sunshine ships — or opposites attract. Enemies to friends to enemies to lovers to…
• They don’t have to be strictly contemporary either! I love a good Soulmate book (pick any number of the AUs fandom loves to use and I’ll eat it up). I also don’t mind a touch of the supernatural in my rom-coms as well.
• All the bonus points if you can give me that ever famous fanfic “Oh. Oh.” moment.
• Like on the YA-side, I’m very much here for <insert your fave straight rom-com here> but make it queer.

Romantasy / Fantasy:

• My gateway “drug” to fantasy and romantasy back in the day were both Karen Marie Moning and Anne Bishop (though I will always tell folks to tread carefully with Black Jewels because it’s dark). Do with this knowledge what you will.
• I might not be the best fit for vampires (unless you can give me a really cool take on the lore). Otherwise, I’m fair game for all the supernatural creatures. Even more for the not-usually seen ones. (Selkies anyone?)
• Retellings are one of my guilty pleasures. Take something we know well and twist it in some new way.
• I’m not the best fit for epic fantasy! I don’t mind swordplay (euphemistic or real) or knights — but if you’d comp to Lord of the Rings or Game of Thrones I’m not going to be the best agent for you! I’m also going to tap out after more than 3 POVs and/or more than 2 maps.
• As always, new twists on old ideas to make them fresh. I’d love seeing different creatures and mythologies rather than strictly Western.

Horror:

• I’m not the best fit for slasher novels — nor am I one for lots of jump scares and gratuitous violence. Body horror is fine, so long as it’s furthering the plot.
• My favorite horror projects are those where it’s our world but something is just not quite right. If you’d comp your book to TV shows like Wednesday, The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, The Midnight Club, or Are You Afraid of the Dark? that’s my favorite kind of horror!

GRAPHIC NOVELS (ALL AGES)

Last updated: 1 May 2026

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