Rebecca Johns
Wildhouse Fiction
My Manuscript Wish List®
Fun facts about me:
I’m a novelist and a university professor in my abundant free time. I wrote for women’s magazines for many years and once rode an elevator with JFK Jr. when he was publishing George.
Submission Guidelines
Wildhouse Fiction is a new imprint of Wildhouse Publishing, a small Boston-based publisher. Have you run into a brick wall with the Big Five? Send your work to us! We are looking for stories with a spiritual bent, but within those (very loose) guidelines what we want most is the next great book that will launch our press with a bang. We have a royalty structure that competes with the big guys and a full-time publicist, along with the marketing and distribution structure to get your book onto actual bookstore shelves.
Novels are preferrable, but we will consider story collections if they’re wildly original.
From September 1 – October 1, 2024 we will only be accepting fiction submissions for our Fiction Contest, judged by Rebecca Makkai. See guidelines at www.wildhousepublishing.com/wifi. Our open submission period is January 1 – February 1 each year. Please use our Submittable page (https://whp.submittable.com/submit) for all submissions .
Vital Info
Favorite sub-genres:
Adult, Apocalyptic, Artificial Intelligence, Character -Driven History, Character-driven SciFi, Commercial Women's Fiction, Commercial adult fiction, Commercial and Literary, Cross-genre, Dark Female Friendships, Dark Humor, Dark topics with a light touch, Domestic Fiction, Dystopia, Ensemble Casts, Fabulism, Female Friendships, Feminist, Feminist SF/F, High Concept, High-Concept Literary Commercial Fiction, Historical Women's Fiction, Historical mysteries, Layered Family Stories with multiple narrators, Literary Crossover, Literary Fiction, Literary Science Fiction, Literary Thriller, Magic Realism, Minority Voices, Mothers and Daughters, Multigenerational, Multiple POV, Multiple Timelines, Mystery / Crime, Near future, New Weird, Politics/Current Affairs, Post-apocalyptic, Psychological Suspense, Psychological Thrillers, Racial Justice, Relationships, Relic/Artifact Action/Adventure, Religion, Retellings, Robots/A.I., Rom-com, Romantic Comedy, Shakespeare Retellings, Slipstream, Social Justice, Soft Science Fiction, Southern Gothic, Southern Literary, Speculative Fiction, Speculative Thriller, Spirituality, Strong Females, Suspense, Time Travel, Time Travel Romance, Underrepresented Voices, Upmarket Commercial Fiction, Upmarket Fiction, Upmarket Women's Fiction, WWI, WWII, Women's Fiction, Women's Issues, alternate history, comedy, contemporary women's fiction, crossover, diverse, domestic thrillers, dramedy, epic, epistolary novels, family stories, friendship, fun SF/F, high-concept science fiction, historical, inclusive sf/f, literary, literary mystery, literary suspense, metafiction, quirky, sci-fi, space adventure, stories that don't fit neatly into a genre, upmarket genre fiction, upmarket/book club with female protagonist, weird fiction
I’d like the next…
The Sparrow, Gilead, Blindness, The Handmaid’s Tale, The Great Believers, Possession
My favorites include…
Books: Housekeeping, Marilynne Robinson; Cloud Atlas, David Mitchell; Blindness, Jose Saramago, Possession, A.S.Byatt; Time Will Darken It, William Maxwell; The Transit of Venus, Shirley Hazzard; A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole
TV: Fleabag, The Bear, Yellowjackets, Abbott Elementary, Lost, X-Files, Godless, Mare of Easttown, The Boys
Movies: Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Amelie, The Piano, Lone Star
