I am most interested in mentoring general adult fiction, women's fiction/upmarket fiction & young adult fiction, particularly within the speculative (incl. SFF), contemporary, historical, romance, and thriller sub-genres, though I'm a fan of genre blending as well! I would especially love to see stories centered on BIPOC, LGBTQIA+ and other historically marginalized voices/perspectives, along with ambitious storytelling, character-driven stories, lush settings, and immersive/non-Western worldbuilding.

In general, some themes/tropes/elements I love...

• Boarding school settings
• Buried secrets coming to light
• Coming of age stories (incl. second coming of age - i.e. embracing queer identity later in life)
• Complex mother-daughter relationships
• Diaspora and displacement
• Ensemble casts
• Food as a love language
• Found families
• Hidden histories (especially featuring historically overlooked communities), all subgenres of historical fiction (incl. alternate history, historical fantasy, parallel past/present narratives, etc.)
• Intergenerational stories, multigenerational, sprawling family sagas
• International settings
• LGBTQIA+ stories that don't solely focus on coming out/using identity as a plot twist
• Millennial book club fiction
• Psychological thrillers (especially featuring unreliable narrators) and morally gray protagonists (a la "I support women's rights, but also women's wrongs")
• Ride-or-die female friendships
• Revenge tales  
• Road trip novels
• Second-chance romances, childhood sweethearts, friends/enemies/rivals-to-lovers, grumpy x sunshine, marriage of convenience, fake dating, mutual pining, slow-burn, battle couples, OT3's
• Setting as a character (i.e. the haunted house is alive and its ghosts want you to join them)
• Unique formats (i.e. mixed media, epistolary novels, oral history stories a la Daisy Jones & The Six or The Final Revival of Opal & Nev)

Some favorite reads...

Adult: The Blood of Flowers by Anita Amirrezvani, Her Name is Knight by Yasmin Angoe, Honey and Spice by Bolu Babalola, Maya's Laws of Love by Alina Khawaja, Central Places by Delia Cai, Maame by Jessica George, Match Me If You Can by Swati Hedge, Blue Sisters by Coco Mellors,The Truth According to Ember by Danica Nava, If I Had Your Face by Frances Cha, A Princess in Theory by Alyssa Cole, All The Sinners Bleed by S.A. Cosby, A Love Song for Ricki Wilde by Tia Williams, Ocean’s Godori by Elaine U. Cho, Spoiler Alert by Olivia Dade, Jade City by Fonda Lee, Pachinko by Min Jin Lee, Portrait of a Thief by Grace D. Li, Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters, Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid, The Cartographers by Peng Shepherd, Role Playing by Cathy Yardley, The Full Moon Coffeeshop by Mai Mochizuki, Days at the Morisaki Bookshop by Satoshi Yagisawa, and anything by Don Lee, Jamie Ford or Roselle Lim

Young Adult: The Charmed List by Julie Abe, The Candle and the Flame by Nafiza Azad, Empress of a Thousand Skies by Rhoda Belleza, Firekeeper's Daughter by Angeline Boulley, The Gilded Wolves by Roshani Chokshi, The Black Queen by Jumata Emill, Their Vicious Games by Joelle Wellington, The Davenports by Krystal Marquis, The Court of Miracles by Kester Grant, These Violent Delights by Chloe Gong, Dread Nation by Justina Ireland, The Jasmine Project by Meredith Ireland, You Should See Me in a Crown by Leah Johnson, I Kissed Shara Wheeler by Casey McQuiston, Outrun the Moon by Stacey Lee, Rogue Heart by Axie Oh, Prophecy by Ellen Oh, The Love Match by Priyanka Taslim, The Great Destroyers by Caroline Tung Richmond, As You Walk On By by Julian Winters, Frankly In Love by David Yoon, How We Fall Apart by Katie Zhao, Darker By Four by June CL Tan, The Last Love Song by Kalie Holford, and anything by Jenny Han or June Hur

I am not the best fit for...

• Angels/demons
• Animal protagonists
• Gore/slasher horror
• Issues-centric books
• Stories that magically 'fix' disabilities
• Racism/sexism/oppression as the main plot device of the story