nonfiction
In non-fiction, I am looking to work with platform- or expertise-driven authors in food, drink, home & design, wellness, pop culture, social justice, art, humor, parenting, activism, social science, psychology, pop history, nature, investigative journalism, environmentalism, sports, pop science, women’s health or any subject that elevates the social discourse. I champion books with practical elements and actionable takeaways, those that inform as much as they inspire.
Specific proposals I’d love to see right now:
Wellness, relationships, and self-improvement specifically aimed at millennials
Girlhood, the power of young women/teenagers (economic, social, cultural)
Politics, science, or history from the 1980s to today
Water shortage and the future of the West
Anthropological deep dives into contemporary subjects: social media, entertainment, politics, language, and more.
fiction
In fiction, I’ll consider all adult genres (but Romance and Fantasy), that are character-forward, strong in style and sentence-level construction. I’m particularly focused now on Horror and Upmarket/Literary Fiction. I am most drawn to fiction about bodies, mothers, and women coming apart. If you were to review my long reading history on Goodreads, here is what you’d see:
Motherhood as horror, not sentiment: what institutions do to mothers.
Weird-girl literary fiction/body horror: transformation, appetite, and the female body doing something it has been told not to.
Sylvia Plath fixation
Woman-unraveling autofiction: I’m a millennial so this seems a given.
Diaspora fiction and books in Translation: particularly Caribbean, Central America, Western Africa, Southeast Asia, and East Asia.
Across fiction and nonfiction alike: intimate, first-person-feeling, concerned with family, place, inheritance, and structural harm landing on individual lives.
i’d like the next:
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