Life is full of fascinating stories-as one of those native New Yorkers who loves striking up conversations with total strangers, I hear them all the time. I want to see more novels that reflect the diversity of the world. I’ve noticed that a lot of the books I edit include “found families” and strong friendships. I have a particular interest in Jewish characters and stories. I am interested in historical fiction set outside Europe and the US, particularly along trade routes. In mystery, I prefer a professional investigator of some kind to an amateur sleuth and I’m not the right editor for humorous mysteries.

Eager to see non-European cultures, religions, and populations and their equivalents.įor Forge, I am interested in disaster fiction–both natural and man-made–and in mysteries. In science fiction, I’m also interested in space exploration.

In both fantasy and science fiction, give me quests, bands of scrappy heroes out to right a wrong, conquerors and/or the resistance (sometimes the attempted conqueror is right), coming-of-age and coming-into-one’s-power (which happen to adults too), learning that everything you know is wrong, the meeting of two cultures, trade wars (and actual wars). (That said, I am not the right editor for horror based heavily in Christianity, since I am not Christian and don’t really respond to those stories.)įor Tor Books, I am interested in fantasy and science fiction with an adventurous aspect. I cast a really wide net here–if it’s scary and/or unnerving, if it makes the hair on the back of your neck stand up or makes you turn on the lights or makes you cringe in that special, thrilling way, it’s horror as far as I’m concerned. I’m significantly interested in diversity in horror, in characters, in the source of the horror, and in the methods used to combat it. Supernatural, psychological, body horror, serial killer, monsters both classic and new. For the Nightfire imprint, I am looking for horror fiction of all types.

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