WISHLIST

YOUNG ADULT & MIDDLE-GRADE

T.S. is looking for young adult and middle grade fiction across all genres. He is especially attracted to the following (in both age groups, unless otherwise specified):

• Plot that grabs you and won't let go

• Fresh, unique written voices/books where voice is the star

• Lyrical writing (think Laini Taylor) – please call this out in your query

• High concept hooks (if it can be described in 1-2 lines)

• Dark and edgy stories (including, but not limited, to horror)

• Atmospheric horror (where the voice/writing conveys a sense of suspense or dread or terror)

• Stories that can be comped to The Addams Family, Coraline, or Nightmare Before Christmas

• YA horror that doesn't hold back

• Retellings (esp. fairy tales and mythology)

• Commercial middle grade with series potential

• Fantasy that feels new and different from what's been done before

• Fantasy with epic worldbuilding

• Action-adventure

• Queer stories across all identities

Stories by and about under-represented voices of all identities and intersectionalities across all genres I represent (marginalized identity and/or pain doesn't have to be the focus)

• Perspectives we haven't seen before (something akin to when villain origin stories first started cropping up)

• Unique formats such as epistolary (think Rules for Vanishing by Kate Alice Marshall, Code Name Verity, or a YA Daisy Jones & The Six)

• Commercial (preferable speculative) graphic novels (strong preference for authors who are also the illustrator)

• Unlikeable characters

• Characters with smart mouths, who aren't afraid to stand up to authority, and kids who can outsmart the adults in the room

ANTI-MSWL

• High sci-fi (books with that are 5-minutes-in-the-future or light sci-fi elements, like Adam Silvera's books, are OK)

• Sports-centric books

• Books about faith or organized religion

• Non-fiction

• Novels-in-verse

He is not acquiring for the picture book, chapter book/early reader, or adult markets at this time.