This is Annie's stated home territory. The work should lean literary or sit at the upmarket-commercial crossroads, with rich emotional interiority and strong character as the non-negotiables. Accessible literary fiction, high-concept literary commercial fiction, and book-club-oriented work are all welcome. Applies to both adult and YA submissions.

Horror is clearly a major focus. Annie is specifically drawn to literary horror, psychological horror, folk horror, and genre-blending combinations — horror-mystery, horror-historical, horror-comedy, horror-romance, and horror-western hybrids are all on the table. BIPOC horror, feminist horror, Gothic horror, and AAPI horror are called out by name. The unifying thread is character-driven, emotionally resonant darkness rather than pure shock or splatter.

Annie expresses enthusiasm for the full tonal spectrum of the mystery genre: laugh-out-loud cozies (including amateur-sleuth subgenres), dark literary suspense, psychological thrillers, and locked-room puzzles. Literary noir, BIPOC mystery, and crime fiction with a strong voice are all flagged as desirable. The appetite here is broad, so the differentiator is execution — voice, character, and originality of setup.

Annie wants speculative fiction that operates at the edges of realism — magical realism, fabulism, surrealism, and what Annie calls 'grounded' speculative fiction. Myth and folklore retellings, especially those centered on diverse or underrepresented characters, are actively sought. IMPORTANT GATE: straight-up fantasy and science fiction are explicitly outside Annie's list — the speculative must be grounded or literary in approach, not epic/secondary-world or hard SF.

Contemporary literary and commercial fiction is welcome, as is historical fiction set in the 19th and 20th centuries. Annie has a stated preference for historical work centered on diverse characters. Classic retellings featuring BIPOC protagonists are a specific callout, as are immigrant experiences, African diaspora narratives, Asian American and Latinx diaspora stories.

Annie represents YA on a selective basis alongside the primarily adult fiction list. Literary YA, contemporary YA, LGBTQ YA, and YA with the same dark/speculative/humorous qualities Annie values in adult fiction are all potentially of interest. All fiction wishlist criteria — strong character, emotional depth, diverse voices — apply equally to YA submissions.

Annie seeks prescriptive nonfiction across business, self-help, health, and wellness — but a demonstrable author platform is a hard requirement, not optional. Behavioral economics titles in the vein of accessibly written pop-psychology crossovers are specifically called out as touchstones. DIY/crafts and lifestyle are also listed among Annie's nonfiction categories.

On the narrative side, Annie is drawn to memoir, hybrid memoirs, current-events-driven books, and psychology. Pop-science narratives that explore the natural history of something universal — weather, plants, animals — are a named interest, as are books probing the mind-body connection and emotion-biology interface. American cultural studies with long shelf life are wanted: race, gender, Islamophobia, white extremism, rape culture, the dark side of social media, and similar topics that will remain relevant beyond their publication year. Platform is still required.