Adult Fiction
Author of BEAST and TURDUCKEN ‘s debut A FLORAL ARRANGEMENT, pitched as Jane Austen meets Bridgerton, a sapphic romance between Charlotte Lucas and Mary Bennet that begins four years after the end of Pride and Prejudice, to Stephanie Doig at Carina Adores, for publication in spring 2025, by Laura Zats at Headwater Literary Management (world English).
Author of the forthcoming A GOOD HAPPY GIRL ‘s SWEETENER, a novel about two recently separated wives, both named Rebecca, who turn to a sugaring app in the wake of their breakup and begin, unknowingly, dating the same woman, to Alicia Kroell at Catapult, by Katie Grimm at Don Congdon Associates (NA).
Author of REVENGE ARC ‘s THE DESERT ISLAND GAME, a sapphic horror in which two women survive the apocalypse on an island paradise, to David-Jack Fletcher at Slashic Horror Press, in a nice deal, in an exclusive submission, for publication in January 2024 (world English).
Sydney-based author, artist, and screenwriter Dylin Hardcastle’s A LANGUAGE OF LIMBS, tracing the lives of two women—one openly queer, the other suppressing her desires—as they almost intersect over three heartbreaking yet euphoric decades before they finally collide; subverting the will-they-won’t-they love story to explore the weight of a choice, the love of community, and how joy is found in even the darkest corners, to Pilar Garcia-Brown at Dutton, by Stacy Testa at Writers House (NA).
Author of THE PRINCE’S HEART ‘s MAROONED, about a determined main character on a desert island reality show whose single-minded quest for the million-dollar prize is thrown into disarray by an alluring tribemate, blending survival challenges with a twist of LGBTQIA+ romance, to Alexandria Brown at Rising Action, for publication in April 2026.
‘s MASQUERADE, a queer coming-of-age story set between New York City and Shanghai that follows a lovelorn bartender after his volatile artist friend’s abrupt disappearance—and his discovery of a mysterious novel that seems to offer some clues—asking what happens when the boundaries between fiction and reality, memory and dream begin to blur, to Elizabeth DeMeo at Tin House Books, for publication in fall 2024, by Heather Carr at Friedrich Agency (NA).
Grace Flahive’s PALM MERIDIAN, set over the course of one day at a utopian queer women’s retirement resort in Florida in the year 2062, where a long-time resident, who has recently received a fatal diagnosis, is throwing a raucous end-of-life party while she waits for her estranged lover of 40 years to appear, flashing between her bittersweet final hours among friends at Palm Meridian and the secrets, joys, and betrayals of her past, to Margo Shickmanter at Avid Reader Press, in a significant deal, at auction, by Grainne Fox and Kelly Karczewski at UTA, on behalf of Susan Armstrong at C+W (NA).
Zee Carlstrom’s MAKE SURE YOU DIE SCREAMING, a road trip into America’s heartland of darkness, voiced by a newly nameless narrator who has set fire to both their career and the gender binary and embarked on a reluctant mission to find their missing alt-right conspiracy-theorist father; an interrogation of class rage, economic (im)mobility, the liberal/conservative divide, and toxic masculinity, to Zack Wagman at Flatiron Books, at auction, by Kent Wolf at Neon Literary (NA).
Author of RED X David Demchuk and Corinne Leigh Clark’s debut THE BUTCHER’S DAUGHTER, a queer epistolary thriller that uncovers the story of Mrs. Lovett—Sweeney Todd’s infamous partner in crime—who baked men into pies and sold them in her Fleet Street pie shop, and the young journalist obsessively on her tail, drawing on the original Victorian penny dreadful as source material, to Nick Whitney at Soho Press, by Barbara Berson at B2 Literary (NA). Rights also to Rufus Purdy at Titan Books (UK).
Queer Vietnamese American poet and artist and former Black Mountain Institute fellow Vi Khi Nao’s THE ITALY LETTERS, pitched in the vein of Jean Chen Ho and Nghi Vo, to Mike Lindgren at Melville House (world).
JD GLass and Kris Dresen’s PUNK LIKE ME, a graphic novel about a queer rockstar reminiscing on her teenage years, to Liz Frances at Street Noise, in a nice deal, for publication in spring 2025, by Lane Clarke at ArtHouse Literary Agency (world).
‘s I THINK THEY LOVE YOU, pitched as a second-chance romance meets Succession, but with a wholesome Schitt’s Creek twist, where in order to convince his high-profile family he’s capable of taking over as CEO of his father’s business, our hero must enlist the help of the ex who broke his heart, to Vicki Lame at St. Martin’s, in a two-book deal, for publication in winter 2025, by Thao Le at Sandra Dijkstra Literary Agency (world English).
Children’s/MG Fiction
Nicole Melleby’s DRESSING UP A JERSEY GIRL, pitched as THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA by way of THE PRINCESS DIARIES with a queer girl twist—the story of a New Jersey orphan who is whisked away to London when it is discovered that her birth mother is one of the most important fashion editors in the world and wants to have a relationship with the child she put up for adoption, to Krestyna Lypen at Algonquin Young Readers, in an exclusive submission, for publication in summer 2025, by Jim McCarthy at Dystel, Goderich & Bourret (world).
‘s THE HOUSE ON YEET STREET, pitched as Stranger Things meets HOLES, a humorous ghost story about a group of 13-year-old boys whose friendship is tested by supernatural forces, secret crushes, and a 100-year-old curse, to Laura Schreiber at Union Square Kids, in an exclusive submission, by Jenny Bent at The Bent Agency (world English).
Young Adult Fiction
‘s HOLLOW, a queer YA horror debut in which a girl returns to her hometown in upstate New York, eager to mask her autism diagnosis from her old friends—but when tensions rise on a backpacking trip to celebrate her homecoming, she wakes to an abandoned campsite and discovers an off-the-grid compound called the Roost, where an enigmatic woodcarver makes her feel for the first time as if she truly belongs, to Ashley Hearn at Peachtree Teen, in a two-book deal, for publication in fall 2025, by Larissa Melo Pienkowski at Jill Grinberg Literary Management (world).
Printz honor-, Stonewall, and Sydney Taylor award-winning author of WHEN THE ANGELS LEFT THE OLD COUNTRY ‘s SOREL, which follows a teenage runaway as she takes on a male identity, but it soon becomes clear that there is a real person who she is imitating––and people want him dead, to Arthur A. Levine Books, for publication in fall 2024, by Rena Rossner at Deborah Harris Agency (world English).
‘s AND THEY WERE ROOMMATES, about a boy who has to keep a low profile at his boys’ boarding school or get kicked out if they realize he’s transgender, only to find his new roommate is the boy who broke his heart at summer camp before he transitioned—and the one person who could reveal his identity, moving to Nicolas Ore-Giron and Connie Hsu at Roaring Brook Press, in a very nice deal, in a two-book deal, for publication in spring 2025, by Natalie Lakosil at Looking Glass Literary & Media (NA).
Maggie Tokuda-Hall’s graphic novel SQUAD 2, the sequel to SQUAD, in which the badass crew of vigilante werewolf girls take on both tangled friendships and summer camp, illustrated by Lisa Sterle, to Martha Mihalick at Greenwillow, in an exclusive submission, for publication in summer 2026, by Jennifer Laughran at Andrea Brown Literary Agency for the author, and by Britt Siess at Britt Siess Creative Management for the illustrator (NA).
Kree Sullivan’s BLACKBLOOD, a queer crossover fantasy in which a teenage smuggler discovers among her truck’s illegal magical artifacts an escaped mage who needs help rescuing their mother, a captive of the magic-hating huntsmen; in order to help the mage, she will need to enlist the aid of the enemy and put her truck and her found family at risk, to Joshua Dean Perry at Tiny Ghost Press, in a nice deal, for publication in spring 2025 (world English).
Dahlia Adler, ed.’s FOR THE REST OF US, an anthology of contemporary short stories about the joy and wonder that the holidays bring, with each story immersing readers in a different national or cultural holiday, featuring stories from Candace Buford, AR Capetta and Cory McCarthy, Preeti Chhibber, Natasha Diaz, Kelly Loy Gilbert, Kosoko Jackson, Aditi Khorana, Katherine Locke, Abdi Nazemian, Laura Pohl, Sonora Reyes, and Karuna Riazi, to Karen Chaplin at Quill Tree, in a very nice deal, for publication in winter 2025, by Patricia Nelson at Marsal Lyon Literary Agency (world).
Screenwriter Corey Liu’s HORNY LOVER BOYS, a horror story about best friend gaysians, their soft, squishy hearts, and the monsters that want to eat them, pitched as HEARTSTOPPER meets Stephen King, to Erika Turner at Little, Brown Children’s, by Amy Moore-Benson while at Meridian Artists (world).
Author of the Seafire series Natalie C. Parker’s THE ASSASSIN’S GUIDE TO BABYSITTING, a queer adventure in which a teenager and her superpowered friends match wits against an underground league of assassins to find out why they’re targeting the child she’s babysitting, what it has to do with her parents’ murder, and which side her crush (who happens to be her best friend’s sister) is actually on, to Miriam Newman at Candlewick, for publication in spring 2025, by Lara Perkins at Andrea Brown Literary Agency (world).
IT LOOKS LIKE US and TO BREAK A COVENANT author Alison Ames’s THE DEVOURER, in which a young pirate captain hell-bent on revenge crosses the sea in the company of her crew and a girl she hates but can’t keep her eyes off of to find and kill her own brother, only to be waylaid by an eldritch creature looking for vengeance of her own, to Lauren Knowles at Page Street, in an exclusive submission, in a two-book deal, for publication in fall 2024 and fall 2025, by Rena Rossner at Deborah Harris Agency (world English).
Author of ALWAYS THE ALMOST and the forthcoming THIS DAY CHANGES EVERYTHING ‘s IN CASE YOU READ THIS, a rom-com in which two trans boys share an epic missed connection while moving cross-country with their families in opposite directions, then enlist the help of their friends and the magic of the online queer community to find each other again, to Karen Chaplin at Quill Tree, in a very nice deal, for publication in summer 2025, by Patricia Nelson at Marsal Lyon Literary Agency (world English).
Author of the forthcoming EVERY TIME YOU HEAR THAT SONG ‘s SAY A LITTLE PRAYER, a queer story pitched for fans of I KISSED SHARA WHEELER and Easy A, in which a teen girl forced to attend church camp decides to commit all seven deadly sins, and might just find love along the way, to Maggie Rosenthal at Viking Children’s, for publication in spring 2025, by Claire Friedman at Inkwell Management (NA and Spanish language).
Non-Fiction and Poetry
NYRB, LRB, and NYT contributor, author of HAMAS CONTAINED, and former senior analyst at the International Crisis Group ‘s untitled memoir about the author’s upbringing as the grandson of Palestinian refugees in Jordan, reckoning with forbidden first love and the decades-spanning sweep of violence and erasure that his family experienced, and charting his coalescing knowledge and acceptance of his sexual identity along with the birth of his political consciousness and his life as a writer and activist, to Jenny Xu at Washington Square Press, at auction, by Bill Clegg at The Clegg Agency (NA).
Photographer and Lambda Award-winning writer ‘s PRIDE, a photographic celebration of Toronto’s Pride parade, showcasing the joy, strength, ferocity, resilience, and love that has defined Pride since the 1974 march on the Ontario Legislature, when over 100 people called on lawmakers to include sexual orientation in the Ontario Human Rights Code, with an essay by Rowe, to Anna Comfort O’Keeffe at Douglas & McIntyre, by Tim Moore while at The Rights Factory (world).
Queer and nonbinary tarot reader, creator of 3am.tarot, and FINDING THE FOOL author Meg Jones Wall’s TAROT SPREADS: READING, WRITING & REVISING, a resource for working with existing tarot spreads and developing new ones; and THE DEVILS WE KNOW, a historical, cultural, psychological, and magical examination of the tarot’s devil archetype, to Kathryn Sky-Peck at Weiser Books, in an exclusive submission, in a two-book deal, by Jill Marr at Sandra Dijkstra Literary Agency (world).
GLAAD Media Award–winning journalist and former senior editor at The Atlantic Mathew Rodriguez’s TOUGH GUY: MY FATHER’S LIFE WITH HIV, HEROIN, AND A COUNTRY THAT NEVER CARED, a hybrid memoir tracing a son’s search for his often absent and unknowable father, a heroin user whose death from AIDS-related complications re-contextualized his queer son’s own relationship to and fear of HIV, encouraging us to widen the lens of our cultural memory of those affected by the AIDS crisis, to Zachary Knoll at Abrams, in a pre-empt, by Natalie Edwards at Trellis Literary Management (world).
Lee Wind’s THE GENDER BINARY IS A BIG LIE: INFINITE IDENTITIES AROUND THE WORLD, as the second book in the Queer History Project series, the nonfiction book for grades 6-12 is a journey through primary sources that explores gender diversity around the world and throughout time—including today, to Shaina Olmanson at Lerner Publishing, for publication in April 2024, by Marietta Zacker at Gallt and Zacker Literary Agency (world).
Coauthor of BAD GAYS ‘s PROPHET OF FREEDOM, a biography of Rudi Gernreich, the Jewish Austrian refugee who cofounded the Mattachine Society in the 1950s before leaving the gay liberation fight to become a radical fashion designer, tracing Communist organizing in the feverish era of the Red Scare and Lavender Scare, free-love counterculture, and the art and fashion worlds as they, together, shaped the gay rights movement as we know it, to Mo Crist at Norton, at auction, by Doug Young at PEW Literary (NA).
Assistant professor of gender and sexuality studies at the University of Connecticut and Tin House resident ‘s DEAD GIRL CAMEO, a debut poetry collection, excavating the tragic and triumphant lives and afterlives of starlets Aaliyah, Whitney Houston, Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes, and more, to examine girlhood, agency, desire, queer longing, trauma, love, and death, to Oma Beharry at One World, at auction, by Amanda Orozco and Noelle Falcis Math at Transatlantic Literary Agency.
