Manuscript Wishlist

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Our Fiction Wish List

Overall Vibes: Find new angles to beloved genres, characters, and tropes. Think outside the box. Our tastes skew more literary or bookclub/upmarket that commercial. Give us complex multi-dimensional characters and plots that are tightly constructed but not overly agenda-driven.

  • Smart comedy/dark comedy - think How To Get To Heaven from Belfast

  • Octogenarian escapades - think Jonas Jonasson

  • Genre twists

  • Classic gothic literature - think Daphne DuMaurier

  • Contemporary women’s fiction - give me relatable, complex, deeply flawed, deeply funny, and deeply human women who grow and evolve in dynamic and challenging ways.

  • Messy family dramas that also make me laugh and bring healing

  • Coming of age stories from female protagonists

  • Road trip novels not just set in America

  • Contemporary war dramas (post 1910) particularly with female protagonists.

  • Cold war or contemporary espionage thrillers

  • Fantasy - high fantasy, low fantasy, dragons, romantasy that is plot heavy, New Adult fantasy, satirical fantasy

  • Speculative fiction - give me your take on social and political issues in unexpected ways - think Emily St. John Mandel and N.K. Jemisin

  • Magical realism

  • Alternate realities/parallel universes

  • Temporal twist - give me nonlinear, braided, circular, and antimimetic novels that subvert causality - think The Kingdoms, Crossings, The Rise & Fall of DODO

  • Mysteries - female protagonists, fish out of water sleuths, amateur sleuths that fail comically - think Caimh McDonnell and Slow Horses

  • International locales - take me to interesting places and broaden my world views to new societies

  • LGBTQ fiction that is character driven, not agenda driven.

  • Unreliable narrators

  • Anything set in Ireland or Antarctica

Our Non-Fiction Wish List

  • Business leadership

  • Personal development

  • Thematic memoirs

  • Narrative nonfiction

  • Self-help that is strongly researched

  • Psychology

  • Living with AI

  • Inspirational nonfiction that is open minded

  • Social justice topics

  • Overall wellness

  • Books about time and temporality

  • Macro-economic trends

  • Travel literature

  • Well researched journalism

Overall Vibes: Well researched and focused theses that are easy for readers to apply so they can better their quality of life.

We are not currently seeking

MANUSCRIPTS THAT DO NOT MEET THESE WORD COUNTS WILL AUTOMATICALLY BE REJECTED FOR NOT MEETING INDUSTRY STANDARDS.

  • Novels less than 80k words

  • Nonfiction less than 70k words

  • Novellas and Novelettes

Currently, we are not interested in the following genres:

  • Children’s books

  • Middle Grade books

  • General YA

  • Graphic Novels/Anime/Manga

  • Poetry

  • Overly commercial Fiction

  • Romance

  • Romantasy that is heavy on sex and light on plot

  • Civil War era fiction

  • Hard Sci-Fi/Outer Space Odysseys/Aliens

  • Steampunk fantasy

  • Cozy mysteries

  • Cozy romance

  • Horror/Slashers/Serial Killers

  • Anything occult or paranormal related

  • True Crime

  • Political Nonfiction

  • History and Military Nonfiction

  • STEM Nonfiction

  • Memoirs if less than 100k followers

  • Faith fluff

  • Essays

  • Biographies/Autobiographies

  • Art books/craft books

  • Parenting/Family

  • Cookbooks/Lifestyle books

QUERIES SUBMITTED IN THESE GENRES WILL NOT RECEIVE MANUSCRIPT REQUESTS.