While Jenna is open to most genres, in particular, she would love to find the following. In Adult Fiction, she’s especially looking for: Psychological and domestic suspense full of twists
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Lucy Foley, Vera Kurian, Andrea Bartz, May Cobb, Eliza Jane Brazier, Laurie Elizabeth Flynn, Jeneva Rose, Jessica Strawser Genre blends – in particular horror-romance, thriller-romance, horror-fantasy! Murder mystery, cozy or traditional, contemporary or historical, serious or humorous, hijinks welcome and big family drama very welcome
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Louise Penny, Finlay Donovan Is Killing It, Lucy Foley, Tana French, Before She Disappeared, Dial A for Aunties, Rhys Bowen, Knives Out, Only Murders in the Building Fantasy – cozy with low stakes, high/epic, portal and romantasy
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Legends & Lattes, The Ten Thousand Doors of January, Every Heart a Doorway, Sarah J Maass, Leigh Bardugo Rom-coms and romance – in particular I’m interested in POC voices in romance, body-positive romance, LGBTQ+ romance, and adventure romance (think The Lost City). If you can give me a strong hook, an ‘impossible’ situation, and real, quirky characters I can root for, I’m sold. Also, if you have sports romance, please send it my way!!
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Tia Williams, Emily Henry, Angie Hockman Women’s fiction: give me that heartfelt beach read. Bonus points for sister relationships, complex family dynamics, intergenerational tensions, and upmarket writing. Sci fi – I don’t want my sci-fi cold; give me human connection, make me cry, give me that high concept worldbuilding and heartache that lasts for a week.
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This Is How You Lose the Time War Speculative – give me speculative twists on rom-coms, thrillers, mysteries, etc. Give me time loops, robots, parallel worlds, fantastical creatures, etc. Give me a story rooted in the present that has that one, addictive speculative twist.
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The Rehearsals, Groundhog’s Day, Bone Gap, Stranger Things Upmarket and book club fiction – this is a HUGE thing I’m looking for right now!!
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Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine, Britt Marie Was Here, Great Kitchens of the Midwest, Taylor Jenkins Reid In Adult Non-Fiction, Jenna is looking for experts in their field on a wide variety of topics. She’s especially looking for: The next big ex-evangelical voice, and both feminist and LGBTQ+ voices in the Christian context
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Rachel Held Evans, Matthew Vines, or Beth Allison Barr’s The Making of Biblical Womanhood Spiritual deconstruction / reconstruction
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Kate Bowler’s Everything Happens for a Reason and Other Lies I’ve Loved Self-help from an “expert” millennial or Gen Z voice on topics such as divorce, sexuality, pregnancy, parenting Books highlighting alternative approaches to death (living funerals, death doulas, at-home body care, etc.) This is not an exclusive list–surprise me! At the moment, I am only looking at memoir from writers with a significant platform. In Young Adult, she’s especially looking for: Fantasy, cozy or epic, contemporary or infused with sci-fi
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Iron Widow, Only a Monster, Where Dreams Descend, Caraval, Sarah J. Maass, Girl of Fire and Thorns, Leigh Bardugo, Brigid Kemmerer’s A Curse So Dark and Lonely Sci-fi that makes me feel as much as it makes me think; bonus if you can make me cry
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The Ones We’re Meant to Find Thriller/suspense and mystery
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One of Us Is Lying, Come Find Me Speculative
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The Grace Year Atmospheric horror or extravagantly satirical horror
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House of Hollow, Wilder Girls, Bodies Bodies Bodies
In Middle Grade, she’s looking for
Graphic Novel – mostly interested in author-illustrators; fantasy or contemporary. If my ten-year-old would love it, we’re on to something!
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Amulet, Smile, Drama Fantasy with series potential
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Chris Colfer, The School for Good and Evil, Wings of Fire Contemporary stories that explore the multicultural / multilingual experience Horror She is not
currently looking for
Picture books Chapter books Erotica Military Science Fi