Amanda Ramirez

…found families. I’m chomping at the bit for more all-female casts and emotionally vulnerable male friendships. Take your favorite 80s-early aughts romcom and turn it into a book. I gravitate…

Claire Friedman

…like YELLOWFACE, MAAME, PINEAPPLE STREET, THE OTHER BLACK GIRL, or LESSONS IN CHEMISTRY. I’ve been especially loving books with a genre twist lately — PORTRAIT OF A THIEF comes to…

Kiana Nguyen

…all have their strengths, weaknesses, and quirks and each are wholly unique in their own ways. Also, COVENS. I’m looking for an achingly bittersweet queer love story with thriller or…