I love anything speculative and am looking to mentor fantasy, science fiction, dystopia, gothic, dark academia or mystery/thriller in particular. My tastes run the gamut from bare prose to lyrical, from adventure to court intrigue. But chiefly, I love books that are subversive and carry big themes above all — think Girls of Paper and Fire by Natasha Ngan, Mirage by Soumiya Daud, Babel by R.F. Kuang, Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor, Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao. Along with unique premises, I am also an incredibly high-concept and commercial writer and would be a good fit for the same. 

My strengths are very speculative genre-centric. I am great at worldbuilding and would be happy to spend hours discussing your magic or technology system, helping to flesh out your many aspects of the world and finding your unique hook. I also am great with pacing and action – I can really help you make your action scenes quicken pulses and suck readers in. Some other things I'm great with are dialogue and description. I need a strong voice to get sucked in! 

Below is a long but not exhaustive list of some things I love and am not a good fit for: 

SOME THINGS I LOVE

Representation — if your story has characters in the BIPOC, neurodiverse, mental health, LGBTQIA or disability communities, I'm interested!

Anything genre-bending, fresh takes on classic spec tropes, a la The Witcher or A Series of Unfortunate Events

Complex, flawed, messed up, morally grey women 

Anything dark and twisted — messed up events told with lush prose and deep context

Female rage 

Many different types of female/male strength (Soft but stabby like Inej Ghafa, bitchy/girly but a natural leader like Zoya Nazyalensky. Girly mechanics, stoic and repressed gay boys, weepy male warriors)

Weird worldbuilding, weird themes

Monsters. Monster girls, monster boys, monster enemies, monster best friends. Any of it, but just not the usual Eurocentric monsters

Fantasy stories that don't merely serve as metaphors for race or gender discrimination, but if they do, then they show the complexity of that experience today

Girls in action scenes who are not being objectified, but are shown as strong and vicious. 

A lot of girly action and fight scenes

Breakneck pacing 

Cinematic prose

Asexual main characters, books without romance, books with platonic friendships, books with heavy romance that's completely earned

Fantasy that's reminiscent of old fables/fairytales, rather than the usual war/intrigue plots. On that note, unusual war/intrigue plots 

SOME MORE, VERY SPECIFIC THINGS I LOVE

Lovers to enemies

Fantasy characters with loving parents, supportive non-parental family, non-traumatic pasts

Sexually forward girls, lusty girls, slutty girls, gossipy girls

Complex villains. Snarky villains. Polite villains. Well-dressed villains and classy villains with weirdly specific tastes. Gimme. 

Cold-blooded kids, naive adults, depressed best friends, passive men and genuinely ugly girls who are still sexual beings

Touch her and die, but because she'll kill you

Soft men, talkative men, emotionally present men 

Female warrior camaraderie 

Deep female friendships that run the gamut from supporting each other to tearing each other down, preferably scenes apart

Love triangles with a twist — such as if both are perfectly acceptable, but only one really works

"Bane of my existence and object of all my desires"

Make love AND war

Main characters who just aren't pretty in any way

ANTI MSWL — (PLEASE READ THE NOTE BELOW) IF YOUR BOOK HAS THE FOLLOWING, I'M NOT YOUR BEST BET!

NOTE ABOUT ANTI MSWL: To clear things up, there is a huge difference between portraying something and contextualizing it. My anti-MSWL is about the former. If your book has any elements below with a clear purpose and commentary around it, I will be happy to consider if I can help it. If your book showcases these aspects of human nature for the cruel reality they are and exercises thought, respect and caution while doing so, I'm all for it. If your book only shows these elements where and when it is relevant to your theme and is not harmfully portrayed, I absolutely want it. 

This is a murky grey area, and it is entirely up to you personally to judge whether it does so or not while submitting. I do encourage you to be completely transparent with yourself, as I am 100% not interested in stories that do the former, but another mentor might be just right for you!

Explicit on-page sexual assault

Romanticization of abuse, patriarchy, matriarchy or misogyny (if patriarchy isn't good for men, matriarchy isn't good for women)

Animal abuse 

Gratuitous violence 

Objectification of women

Hatred of feminine/girly/slutty women (side characters or otherwise)

Love at first sight, arranged marriages, exoticization of brown/ black culture

If their personality is their marginalization, it isn't for me. Everyone who's marginalized has hobbies, loves, quirks

Slavery

Villain redemption arcs that forget the bad things they've done. No using tragic backstories to justify horrific crimes, please!

Books meant for self-pubbing — I don't have the expertise to take it to that stage on my own, sorry