ADULT & YOUNG ADULT FICTION
In both Adult and Young Adult Fiction, Thais is looking to represent Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Horror, Contemporary Romance, Mysteries and Thrillers. She’s particularly keen on growing her contemporary and horror list right now, so if you have a project that doesn’t have any of her triggers and hard ‘no’s, send it to her! Even if it doesn’t a match an item in the wishlist. She very much welcomes surprises here (again, as long as there are no elements from her anti-, especially a heavy law enforcement presence in the story). In Horror, she’s still looking for lesbians, lesbians, lesbians. Plus, the unsettling, the Gothic, folkloric horror, and all the social horror. She would especially love to find a horror-romance that hits the right balance of ‘we’re fighting the monsters and we’re kissing.’ She’s not looking for literary at this time, but focusing on commercial horror. She’s also seeking space horror: anything that could be comped to Alien: Romulus or Ghost Station, and anything underwater. She would love a deep ocean first contact horror!! Lastly, while she’s also not big on gore, she would love to see some gory body horror in the vein of The Substance. In Mysteries and Thrillers, she’s looking for anything pacey, tense, and completely unrelated to law enforcement. She likes predictable but addictive, like Dan Brown’s The Secret of Secrets and Laura Dave’s The First Time I Saw Him. At the same time, she’s enjoying unexpected but clever concepts like Best Offer Wins, Harmless Women, Murder Bimbo, and Don’t Cross Mo Ellery, so feel free to surprise her. The only requirement in thrillers/suspense for her is that it be fast-paced. She’s also still seeking lesbian thrillers, especially anything that could be pitched as Master of the House but lesbian, and anything that could be pitched as BIPOC Dan Brown (meaning that same tight formula and breakneck pace, but with different themes and relationships between the characters and the world). She’s focused on commercial mysteries and thrillers. She’s not a good fit here for upmarket or literary, nor is she seeking psychological thrillers at this time. If there’s an element of the MC imagining things or not, or a big reliance on the narrator being unreliable, it’s not for her. In Contemporary Romance, she’s eager to sign queer authors, and especially lesbians of color like her. Recently, she’s loving what K-dramas are doing with romance and high personal stakes, so think Crash Course in Romance, Tastefully Yours, and Forecasting Love and Weather. Speaking of weather, she’s loving the trend in contemporary romance, so if you can comp your book to B. K. Borison’s And Now Back to You or the upcoming In Stormy Weather by Chelsea Curto, she will probably go straight to the pages! She’s also a huge fan of forced proximity and nerdiness, so please someone send her something like a romance about researchers in Antarctica. In sports romance, she’d still love a rivals-to-lovers, queer romance. Certainly, now someone will give it to her!!!! And as a Brazilian, she’d grew up watching F1 and as niche as that is, would love an #Ownvoices romance with a Brazilian pilot trying to live up to Senna’s legacy. She’s still very selectively growing her Fantasy list. She’s especially focused on cozy whimsical stories, like The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches or the Emily Wilde series, and would love anything that can be comped to The Spellshop or The Teller of Small Fortunes as well. She’s especially looking for steamy Romantasy at this time, as that’s a gap in her list. She’s still on the lookout for anything that could be described as Kushiel’s Dart for the Romantasy fans (though she’ll take anything that pushes the boundaries of spiciness beyond the vanilla, as long as it’s playful and consensual, not dark.) In YA, she’s currently open to Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Horror, and for the first time, Contemporary Mysteries and Thrillers. She’s also super keen on growing her h