Noelle Monét
Bio
Noelle Monét (she/they) is Queer, ND, Jewish, and Black-biracial. Born in New Jersey, but raised in North Carolina, she spent her childhood staying out past the streetlights and getting in trouble for it. Never one to shy away from the macabre, Noelle dreamt of becoming a doctor in a level I trauma ER. Instead, she wrote angsty slam poetry on the floor of her closet and became a nurse, an ice cream shop owner, and an author. She writes Black, character-driven SFF and Horror novels, and is represented by Jenissa Graham at Bookends Literary. Noelle’s debut YA Contemporary Fantasy BOUND BY FURY releases in Spring of 2026 with McElderry Books/S&S.
As a former mentee through DV Mentor, a lifelong avid reader turned beta and CP, agent first reader, and freelance editor, Noelle is passionate about equity in publishing and amplifying intersectionally marginalized voices—the weirder the better. They’re especially good at the logistical side of revising, from breaking down key points, to crafting a reverse outline and action plan. Beyond that, Noelle is eager to work with stories featuring “unlikeable” main characters, sapphic yearning, dark academia, horror that keeps you up at night, and revenge.
Always revenge.
MSWL
I’ll be dipping into YA, NA, and Adult submissions, focusing primarily on fantasy (mostly contemporary or “light” fantasy), horror, thriller, dark academia, and dystopian, hopefully with a heavy dose of romantic subplot.
More than anything, I’m drawn to voice and character. Get me to care deeply about your characters, and we can figure the rest out later.
Fantasy
Give me found family on a magical road trip, complicated love triangles (or more), betrayal, dangerous women, sapphic romance, women-led rebellion, dire stakes, a fresh twist on a classic fantasy competition, sapphic bodyguard romantasy.
Horror
Horror with a hefty dose of humor, girls turned wild, land with teeth, eldritch beasts, Indigenous Appalachian horror, there’s something in the mirror, houses that aren’t haunted but are the haunting, psychological horror
Thriller
Topical thrillers that cover gen z issues, fresh take on a locked room thriller, women who kill
Overly specific things I’d love to see:
-Social horror like Get Out, Candyman, or Jennifer’s Body
-Be gay, do crime
-The monstrous nature of girlhood
-Black southern gothic anything
-Antebellum era historical fantasy centering Black characters
-Lush, immersive prose like in Your Blood My Bones and Starling House
-Epistolary thrillers like Sadie
-Epistolary… anything really
-NA Dark Academia in a college setting, the more intense, the better
-Body horror like in I Feed Her to the Beast and the Beast is Me or Wilder Girls
-Time loops
-Topical Black thrillers like Grown or Black retellings of classic media like The Weight of Blood
Things I’m not a good fit for:
Any works written or assisted with AI, books centering the police, books featuring graphic, on-page depictions of harm to children or animals, graphic on-page depictions of self-harm, vampires, witches, or astrology based magic systems