Nikki Carrero
The Rights Factory
My Manuscript Wish List®
My Manuscript Wish List® Items
Nikki is an Assistant Agent at The Rights Factory with a background in publishing, event planning, marketing, social media marketing, and education. Driven by her love for the written word, Nikki has shifted careers to make books her entire personality. She has previously held positions as a social media coach, personal assistant to various authors, social media manager at a publishing house, and simultaneously works in marketing and PR for books while she agents.
She loves working with both established and debut authors and has a passion for stories that feature characters with disabilities, chronic illnesses, mental illnesses, are neurodivergent, LGBTQIA+, or are a part of other marginalized communities.
Fun facts about me:
- I am disabled and live with a chronic illness.
- I’m also a writer.
- I read approximately 150 books each year.
- I used to teach high school English.
- I have an adorable puppy named Mochi.
Submission Guidelines
Currently Looking For:
- A young adult or new adult amateur sleuth mystery in the vein of Veronica Mars.
- A humorous horror novel.
- Magical realism or grounded speculative romance like Ashley Poston, Rebecca Serle, Kristy Greenwood, etc.
- Upmarket magical realism in the vein of The Measure, The Midnight Library, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, The Time Traveler’s Wife, etc.
- Paranormal romance in the vein of Good Spirits by B.K. Borison and Haunted Ever After by Jen DeLuca.
- Romantic suspense like Catherine Cowles.
- Light dark romance / comedic dark romance / dark romantic comedy in the vein of Lights Out by Navessa Allen.
- Psychological dark romance in the vein of Still Beating by Jennifer Hartmann.
- Psychological thriller like Vera Kurian, Lisa Jewell, Jennifer Hillier, Gillian Flynn, Shari Lapena, Liv Constantine, etc.
- Paranormal thriller like Lisa Unger or Simone St. James.
- Emotionally devastating romance stories (young adult, new adult, or adult) like Jennifer Hartmann, Cara Bastone, Tillie Cole, etc.
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Open to all levels of spice.
Open to single, dual, or multi POV.
Open to multiple timelines.​​​
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Please do NOT send me the following, as I will not be a good fit for them:
- Nonfiction
- Historical Fiction
- Historical or Regency Romance
- Mid- or High-Fantasy / Romantasy
- Science-Fiction
- Political or War Fiction
I have a passion for reading and representing books with characters that have disabilities, chronic illnesses, mental illnesses, are neurodivergent, LGBTQIA++, or are a part of other marginalized communities.
Please query me through QueryTracker with your query and sample. I will not consider emailed queries.
Vital Info
Favorite sub-genres:
#Dis, #ownvoices, Adult, Adult Rom Com, Books about books, Category Romance, Commercial Women's Fiction, Commercial YA, Commercial adult fiction, Contemporary Romance, Contemporary YA, Contemporary Young Adult, Crime & Thriller, Crime Fiction, Dark Humor, Detective, Disability, Diversity, Domestic Fiction, Domestic Suspense, Domestic Suspense/Thriller, Epistolary, Hauntings, LGBT YA, LGBTQ Romance, LGBTQ+ rom coms, Literary Thriller, Magical Realism, Marginalized Voices, Mental Health, Multicultural Romance, Multicultural and Diverse Thriller and Mystery, Mystery / Crime, New Adult, Paranormal Romance, Paranormal Thriller, Psychological Horror, Psychological Suspense, Psychological Thrillers, RomCom, Romance, Romantic Comedy, Romantic Drama, Romantic Suspense, Romantic Thriller, Same-Sex Romance, Speculative, Speculative Fiction, Speculative Thriller, Steamy RomComs, Strong Females, Supernatural Horror, Tech Thrillers, Thriller, Thrillers, Time Travel, Time Travel Romance, Underrepresented Voices, Western Romance, Whodunit, Women's Fiction, YA Contemporary, YA Contemporary Romance, YA Contemporary Romance with layers, YA Mystery, YA Rom-Coms, YA RomCom, YA Romance, YA Thrillers, YA rom com, YA thriller/mystery, Zombies, book club fiction, coming of age, contemporary women's fiction, dark academia, diverse and own voices, diverse voices, domestic thrillers, enemies to lovers, epistolary novels, erotic romance, found family, friendship, inspirational romance, inspirational romantic suspense, invisible disability, just one bed, just... all the tropes, literary suspense, locked room, love stories, realistic fiction, rivals to lovers, rom-coms, romantic New Adult, romantic suspense/mystery, slow burn, slow burn romance, small-town romance, sweet romance, traditional mysteries, tropes tropes tropes, two people one bed, visible disability, who did this to you, whodunnit, witchcraft, witches
I’d like the next…
in romance:
- Ashley Poston
- Abby Jimenez
- Lynn Painter
- Catherine Cowles
- Elsie Silver
- Hannah Bonam-Young
- Sarah Adams
- Ali Hazelwood
- Tessa Bailey
- Meghan Quinn
- Christina Lauren
- Rachel Lynn Solomon
in thriller/mystery:
- Ashley Winstead
- Samantha Downing
- Lisa Gardner
- Allison Brennan
- Lisa Jewell
- Shari Lapena
- Jennifer Hillier
- Simone St. James
- Jeneva Rose
- Vera Kurian
in YA
- Holly Jackson
- Dustin Thao
- Lynn Painter
- Rachel Lynn Solomon
- David Levithan
- Rachael Lippincott
- Nicola Yoon
- Karen M. McManus
My favorites include…
Books
- The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
- The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab
- You’ve Reached Sam by Dustin Thao
- Archer’s Voice by Mia Sheridan
- Love and Other Words by Christina Lauren
- Yours Truly by Abby Jimenez
- Out on a Limb by Hannah Bonam-Young
- A Thousand Boy Kisses by Tillie Cole
- The Measure by Nikki Erlick
- Tillie in Technicolor by Mazey Eddings
- Today, Tonight, Tomorrow by Rachel Lynn Solomon
- Tattered Stars by Catherine Cowles
- The Perfect Marriage by Jeneva Rose
- Then She Was Gone by Lisa Jewell
- Look Closer by David Ellis
TV
- Friends
- How I Met Your Mother
- Grey’s Anatomy
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer
- Switched at Birth
- The Fosters / Good Trouble
- New Girl
- White Collar
- Scrubs
- Bones
