Adult Fiction
‘s (AT THE) FREAK SHOW, a literary speculative novel exploring the fluidity of gender identity by telling the life story of a non-binary rock star who was the lone survivor of an operation to separate conjoined twins at birth, to University of Calgary Press (world English).
‘s untitled sapphic, opposites-attract bodyguard romance, in which a celebrity singer/actress asks her new bodyguard to whisk her away from the limelight, to Binti Pattani at Harlequin Romance, by Clare Coombes at The Liverpool Literary Agency.
‘s A VOICE OF WRATH, pitched as a queer reimagining of The Little Mermaid set in a Southeast Asia inspired world, in which a prince doomed to die on his 21st birthday takes one last nearly impossible mission to aid his twin sister in taking over the throne by smuggling a silent, masked stranger into a bordering country in order to return his magic, to Lisa Green at City Owl Press, in a nice deal, for publication in spring 2027 (US).
Recent Stanford graduate and Gen-Z culture writer ‘s UNPRECEDENTED TIMES, a humorous anti-coming-of-age story, pitched in the tradition of THE IDIOT, LUSTER, and ALL THIS COULD BE DIFFERENT, about a queer college freshman navigating love, literature, life, and whether it is possible to write one’s own narrative, to Retha Powers at Holt, in a pre-empt, by Stephanie Kip Rostan at Levine Greenberg Rostan (world English).
Podcaster and and content creator ‘s HOTTER IN THE HAMPTONS, in which an internet fashion star is swept up in an intoxicating enemies-to-lovers romance after a public fall from grace, set against the glamorous backdrop of the Hamptons, to Christa Desir at Bloom Books, with MJ Johnston editing, in a pre-empt, in a two-book deal, for publication in May 2025, by Alyssa Reuben and Margaret Riley King at William Morris Endeavor (NA).
Wade Rouse writing as ‘s THANK YOU FOR BEING A FRIEND, an exploration of family, faith, and friendship featuring four men of a certain age (“The Golden Gays”)—each similar in personality to the characters on The Golden Girls—who not only perform a popular theatrical show celebrating the sitcom but also live communally in a beautiful mid-century home in Palm Springs until age, illness, and secrets test their friendship pact, to Susan Swinwood at Mira, in a three-book deal, for publication in spring 2026, by Wendy Sherman at Wendy Sherman Associates (NA).
‘s THE BRIDES, pitched as a sapphic horror set 10 years after Count Dracula’s murderous campaign, following three women who will become brides of Dracula, and the fate of one who managed to escape his clutches, to Peter Joseph at Hanover Square Press, for publication in 2026, by Jon Mitchell at Macmillan UK (NA).
Fine Arts Work Center fellow and Elizabeth George Foundation grantee T Clark’s ALL THIS WANT (AND I CAN’T GET NONE), a collection set mostly in and around a working-class neighborhood in New York state, exploring the filmy veil between adolescence and adulthood of young Black girls, women, and nonbinary characters and excavating the push and pull of desire and power in tender and unexpected moments; and an untitled novel about a mother and daughter struggling to connect after the mother accidentally sets their mobile home on fire, to Nicole Counts at One World, at auction, by Sarah Bowlin at Aevitas Creative Management (world English).
‘s THE HALLS OF THE DEAD, a queer, gothic romance set in Victorian London, in which a woman who has dedicated her life to protecting the necromantic secrets held in sentient grimoires bound with human skin brings her murdered beloved back to life with dire consequences, to David Pomerico at Voyager, in a good deal, at auction, in a two-book deal, for publication in spring 2026, by Laura Zats at Headwater Literary Management (world).
Screenwriter Matt Knott writing as ‘s SEE YOU AT THE FINISH LINE, an enemies-to-lovers queer sports romance set in the world of the Oxford v Cambridge Boat Race, pitched for readers of RED, WHITE & ROYAL BLUE and ICEBREAKER, to TJ Ohler at Slowburn, in a pre-empt, in a two-book deal, for publication in fall 2025, by Ariele Fredman and Laurie-Maude Chenard at UTA, on behalf of Cathryn Summerhayes and Annabel White at Curtis Brown UK (NA).
Lambda Literary Award nominee and ex-teacher ‘s previously self-published TEACHER OF THE YEAR, MISTLETOE & MISHIGAS, NAPKINS & OTHER DISTRACTIONS, and HUSBAND OF THE YEAR, a quartet of queer teacher romances featuring diverse representation of flawed and damaged characters who find healing through love, to Alex Logan at Forever, in a very nice deal, in a four-book deal, for publication in June 2025, by Stevie Finegan at Zeno Agency (NA).
Fine Arts Work Center fellow and Elizabeth George Foundation grantee ‘s ALL THIS WANT (AND I CAN’T GET NONE), a collection, set mostly in and around a working-class neighborhood in New York state, exploring the filmy veil between adolescence and adulthood of young Black girls, women, and nonbinary characters and excavating the push and pull of desire and power in tender and unexpected moments; and an untitled novel about a mother and daughter struggling to connect after the mother accidentally sets their mobile home on fire, to Nicole Counts at One World, at auction, by Sarah Bowlin at Aevitas Creative Management (world English).
Brianna Heath’s ROBBIE MCNEIL’S HIT LIST, a mystery romp following a contract killer who wants to run her karaoke bar with her queer, platonic soulmate in peace, but when one of her targets vanishes without a trace, suddenly all of her rules go out the window, to MJ Johnston at Sourcebooks, in a two-book deal, by Jenna Satterthwaite at Storm Literary Agency (NA).
Ashia Monet’s NECROGENESIS, pitched as a dark academia gothic fantasy, in which a true crime fan resurrects a victim of a massacre to uncover what claimed the lives of six necromancy students at a secluded manor in the ’70s, to Ayesha Shibli at Del Rey, in a two-book deal, for publication in fall 2026, by Emily Forney at BookEnds (world).
‘s THIS KNIGHT TOPPLES EMPIRES, pitched as a romantic LGBTQ+ retelling of the fairy tale “The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy,” about a nonbinary main character’s coming-of-age quest, set within the same secondary-world fantasy as the forthcoming THIS PRINCESS KILLS MONSTERS, to Katy Nishimoto at Dial Press, by Michelle Hauck at Storm Literary Agency (world).
National Translation Award-shortlisted translator of Ovid’s METAMORPHOSES ‘s AN ANTHOLOGY OF QUEER ROMAN VERSE, a representative selection of queer poetry from the major poets of ancient Rome collected and translated into English, to Katie Pak at Norton, in an exclusive submission, for publication in 2026 (world English).
Author of ALL MY MOTHER’S LOVERS ‘s BEINGS, braiding together an account of the first American alien abductees, who claimed to have encountered ETs in the New Hampshire mountains in 1961, with the letters of a forgotten lesbian science-fiction writer and the frantic observations of a modern-day archivist obsessed with both these stories, to Mo Crist at Bloomsbury, for publication in fall 2025, by Eric Simonoff at William Morris Endeavor (NA).
Author of THE FAMILIALISTS and THE COSMIC COLOR ‘s THE SHAPES OF OUR SCREAMS, following a genderfluid rock band playing an illegal show to protest anti-drag laws as they’re attacked by sentient neofascist music, to David-Jack Fletcher at Slashic Horror Press, in a nice deal, in an exclusive submission, for publication in January 2026 (world English).
Young Adult Fiction
NYT-bestselling author of THE WAY I USED TO BE and ‘s FADE INTO YOU, a sapphic romance set in the ’90s about two girls who join forces to break up their best friends’ toxic relationship, but then start to fall for each other, pitched for fans of SHE GETS THE GIRL, to Nicole Fiorica at Margaret K. McElderry Books, for publication in November 2025, by Jessica Regel at Helm Literary (NA).
‘s THE SPIRAL KEY, the author’s debut, a speculative horror in which a queer teen girl receives an invitation to her ex-best friend’s birthday—an exclusive overnight virtual reality party that secures everyone’s social status each year—but as the party games begin, it becomes clear the birthday girl has sinister and deadly intentions, to Jenny Bak at Viking Children’s, at auction, for publication in spring 2026, by Chelsea Eberly at Greenhouse Literary Agency, on behalf of Dovetail Fiction/Working Partners and Laura Southern at Wolf Literary Services (NA).
‘s THE UNGOVERNABLE HEART OF MISS DARCY, the author’s debut, pitched as a queer historical romance set directly after the events of PRIDE AND PREJUDICE, in which Georgiana Darcy finds her own love story, to Nikki Garcia at Little, Brown Children’s, for publication in winter 2026, by Michaela Whatnall at Dystel, Goderich & Bourret (world).
‘s MURDER UNDER THE FULL MOON, the next book in the Danika Dizon Mystery series, in which a teen private detective/tarot reader goes undercover at a Burning Man-esque retreat to find out who is targeting members of the community after a series of “accidents” leads to another teen’s murder, to Bria Ragin at Delacorte, for publication in fall 2026, by Jill Marsal at Marsal Lyon Literary Agency (world).
Reese’s Book Club 2022 LitUp Fellow and author of TIME AND TIME AGAIN and TRY YOUR WORST ‘s LIKE A LADY, a romantic comedy pitched as She’s the Man meets DUMPLIN’, in which a 16-year-old with PCOS is determined to do whatever it takes to show her family that she can be a debutante just like her perfect older sisters—even if it means enlisting her butch lesbian classmate to pose as her fake boyfriend, to Alex Borbolla at Bloomsbury Children’s, in an exclusive submission, for publication in winter 2027, by Jemiscoe Chambers-Black at Andrea Brown Literary Agency (world English).
Author of THE HONEYS ‘s THE DEAD OF SUMMER, about a teen fighting to survive a deadly summer in a queer resort town off the coast of Maine after it is put into lockdown to contain a mysterious, supernatural plague rising from the sea, to Jody Corbett at Scholastic, in a significant deal, in an exclusive submission, in a two-book deal, for publication in fall 2025, by Pete Knapp at Park, Fine & Brower Literary Management (NA).
‘s THE DARKNESS GREETED HER, the author’s debut, a sapphic horror set in the Appalachian wilderness, pitched as THE HONEYS meets SMILE, about a remote therapy camp haunted by a shadowy monster, in which nobody knows whether the monster is real or all in their heads, to Gabbi Calabrese at Sourcebooks Fire, in a two-book deal, for publication in spring 2026, by Cole Lanahan at The Seymour Agency (world English).
Author of the forthcoming HOLLOW ‘s OF AURAS AND SHADOWS, a queer fantasy, pitched as combining the romance of A DARK AND DROWNING TIDE with the horror of THE WITCHER, in which a girl who suffers from migraines falls through one of her auras and into the autumnal, wraith-filled otherworld, where she meets a sharp-edged girl who is being ritualistically used by the ruling secular cult that promised to cure her, and vows to save the girl she’s growing to love, even if it means becoming a pawn in the cult’s plans for war, to Ashley Hearn at Peachtree Teen, for publication in fall 2026, by Larissa Melo Pienkowski at Jill Grinberg Literary Management (world).
NYT-bestselling author of PRIDE AND PREJUDICE AND PITTSBURGH ‘s WHAT YOU WILL, pitched as a sapphic, historical romantasy spin on Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, following feuding families and branches of magic, to Alexa Pastor at Simon & Schuster Children’s, for publication in fall 2026, by Emily van Beek at Folio Jr. (world).
National Book Award finalist ‘s THE GOLDEN BOY’S GUIDE TO BIPOLAR, a companion to THE LESBIANA’S GUIDE TO CATHOLIC SCHOOL, following a boy as he comes to terms with his sexuality, his new bipolar diagnosis, and more mistakes than he can count, but when a manic episode makes his inner turmoil impossible to hide, he is faced with a stark choice: burn every bridge he has left, or worse—ask for help, to Alessandra Balzer while at Harper Children’s, with Carolina Ortiz editing, in a six-figure deal, in an exclusive submission, in a two-book deal, for publication in fall 2025, by Alexandra Levick at Writers House (NA).
New Adult Fiction
Author of IMMORTAL CROWNS and HENDERBELL ‘s WINTERBORNE, the first in the Winterborne trilogy, a new adult fantasy about a bisexual teen who discovers his family are the exiled royals from a fantastical world of eternal winter, and while unraveling the truth about his dragon-riding abilities, he must defend their throne from a rival noble family and try to reawaken the magic within the lands, to Kate Runde at Podium Publishing, in a nice deal, in a three-book deal, by Susan Velazquez at JABberwocky Literary Agency (world English).
Non-Fiction
Syracuse University MFA graduate and creative writing PhD student ‘s HOTSHOT, a queer and working-class narrative detailing more than half a decade spent as a female-bodied elite wildland firefighter while also struggling with addiction and CPTSD, and an exploration of fire suppression’s ties to the colonization of North America and growing concerns regarding climate change, to Amy Hundley at Grove/Atlantic, for publication in August 2025, by Chris Bucci while at CookeMcDermid (world).
