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Adah B. Li
Algonquin Young Readers, Workman Publishing, Hachette Book Group
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Currently Looking For
Currently Looking For: MG & YA fiction and graphic novels! Things I Always Love in a Book: Puerto Rican representation; exploring the experience of cultural duality; multilingual dialogue; positive parent-child / guardian-child relationships; found families; an underdog character rising above all odds; life outside big cities (bring me the rural and suburban set contemporaries!); a swoony romance and romances that don’t pretend to solve all the characters’ problems because a relationship isn’t “The End”; cinnamon rolls (IYKYK); characters who bake their feelings; a unique and richly developed world to get utterly lost in; modern-day witches with an air of “is it or is it not really magic?”; mythology and legends, especially those that aren’t Greek or Roman; fractured fairytales; Studio Ghibli vibes; witty banter; laugh out loud humor; a dance scene with the love interests, bonus points if it’s in a ballroom; happy endings, or at least one that’s more sweet than bitter Favorite Romance Tropes: enemies to lovers; lovers to enemies; childhood friends to lovers; forbidden love; soulmates; love at first sight (when done tastefully); meet cutes; opposites attract; the cinnamon roll and the storm cloud (think Lore Olympus) Things I Almost Never Like: Stories with characters who are bullies; seeing any kind of abuse or violence happen directly on the page; time travel narratives I envision a list filled with:
Submission Guidelines
AGENTED SUBMISSIONS ONLY. I welcome picture book, middle grade, and young adult fiction, non-fiction, and graphic novel submissions from agents. Vital Info Website
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