Manuscript Wishlist

I am currently closed to queries as I focus on my wonderful clients. I am also NO LONGER on X (Twitter); my sole public social media account is on Bluesky.

I am a literary agent at Bradford Literary Agency. I represent only Adult Romance, Adult Sci Fi/Fantasy, and select YA Sci Fi/Fantasy.

Things to know about me: I am bi, demisexual, Jewish, disabled, and have aphantasia (meaning I do not create pictures in my head, at all). I also tend to have trouble reading massive blocks of text, so please try to give add reasonable paragraph breaks in your queries.

As of June 5, 2025, I am especially interested in:

  • African and/or Caribbean inspired, anti-colonial fantasy, from authors with African or Caribbean ancestry

  • A really good adventure with fantasy elements - think Indiana Jones or Clive Cussler or Pirates (give me swashbuckling!)

  • Dungeons & Dragons inspired fantasy that has the adventure and whimsy and puzzles and the absolute dumbfuckery of any good D&D game

  • Artemis Fowl but for adults

  • Urban Fantasy - our world plus magic or magic creatures (the vampire next door, magical tattoos, alt. history with magic)

  • Magic Schools, but for parents or teachers

  • Stories that read like fanfic

  • College-based stories (especially romance, but possibly fantasy too)

  • Romances feat. ace, demi, and trans characters

My Always Wishlist

  • Stories of self-discovery & reinvention (particularly those that center gender and sexuality)

  • Strong, realistic friendships that are valued as much as any romantic relationship

  • Queer characters, particularly those with underrepresented identities (such as bi, pan, trans, ace)

  • Jewish characters

  • Diverse, complex characters (race, religion, ethnicity, background, sexuality, gender, etc)

  • Stories from Deaf, chronically ill, or disabled authors

**I will not accept any stories that attempt to “cure” or “fix” a disability in an unrealistic way or through magical means

Romance

  • Queer romance (particularly f/f, or featuring ace, bi, pan, or trans characters)

  • All the tropes: friends to lovers, there was only one bed, grumpy/sunshine, coffee shop/library/bookstore, rivals to lovers, fake dating, marriage of convenience, slow burn, forced proximity.

    • Basically, make me feel like I’m reading the most highly rated fanfic in a fandom.

  • PINING. I love pining, particularly mutual pining. Slow burn & pining are my bread & butter, as someone on the ace-spectrum.

  • Partners of protagonists with chronic illness or disability doing small things to make their lives easier without being asked (in a sweet, not patronizing way)

  • Sub-genres: contemporary/historical/rom-com/New Adult/with elements of magic

  • Stories that combine wonderful friendships with romance, e.g the wholesome group dynamic from Check Please by Ngozi Ukazu, or the close friendships & assorted romances of Fences: Striking Distance by Sara Rees Brennan.

**Note: for a book to be romance, it must have a Happily Ever After or a Happily For Now.

Science Fiction/Fantasy

  • Romantasy (but with the following definition) - books that have equally developed plot/magic/world and romance, think 50% romance, 50% fantasy

    • E.g., A Marvelous Light by Freya Marske, Winter’s Orbit by Evelina Maxwell, and A Strange & Stubborn Endurance by Foz Meadows

  • Stories that cleverly add magic to the real world, shedding light upon and capitalizing on existing inequalities and important issues

  • Stories that ultimately believe that people are good (I read for escapism)

  • Stories that subvert reader expectations by juxtaposing tropes or worlds with something seemingly incompatible, like T.J. Klune’s wholesome post-apocalyptic In the Lives of Puppets, or the emotional family story set in the sci fi/superhero world of Big Hero 6

  • Grounded characters & non-romantic relationships; people who make me love them and want to follow them into the unknown.

    • Among my favorite all time book characters are Royce & Hadrian from Michael Sullivan’s Riyria Revelations, Rin & Kitay from R. F. Kuang’s The Poppy Wars, and Inda/Jeje/Taumad/Evred from Sherwood Smith’s Inda.

    • Stories that feel like BBC Merlin, but without the queer-baiting

  • Pretty much any sub-genre, but NOT grimdark, horror, and paranormal.

Anti-MSWL (all categories)

  • I tend not to connect particularly strongly to the following story elements. Stories that include them are not a definite no, but I may not be the right person for the work.

    • shapeshifters (e.g. werewolves, dragonkind, etc), vampires, fae, Christian-aligned angels/demons.

    • Kidnapping, cheating (by the protagonist), love triangles, or any sort of unbalanced power dynamic.

    • Protagonists who are aligned with American police or military.

    • Prominent focus on Christian themes

  • Please do not query me with books that feature the following:

    • Magical disability cures/fixes

    • Nazi romances

    • Sexual assault/non consensual sexual contact by the protagonist

    • Grimdark or horror

    • On page description of infestation and/or body horror. This is a strong trigger for me, and includes things like rats, bugs, and parasites (think the mind control slug from Wrath of Khan).

*I do have two white whales, a book that I’m dying to rep, but haven’t found yet:

1) Fantasy that is sort of meta, about the process of writing or about characters in a book being written in the novel who become sentient - like Stranger than Fiction, but not just that!

2) A D&D second chance romance where what happens in the game shapes what happens out of it, and neither narrative makes sense without the other