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Alexandra Aceves
Holiday House Publishing
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(Disclaimer–before you read any further, please note that I work at a children’s book publisher and am unable to make offers of publication on manuscripts written for adult audiences. Please, I’m begging you, stop sending me your adult MSs.) I’m an editor at Holiday House with a primary focus on YA and MG fiction in prose or graphic novel form. (Though, exceptional novels in verse do also end up on my list from time to time!). I’m particularly interested in fresh-feeling contemporary realism, soft-genre fiction that draws from non-European traditions and/or centers protagonists from underrepresented groups, atmospheric horror, and research-grounded historical fiction with an unusual setting. As an editor at a small publisher with slim margins, I need every project I sign up to feel commercially viable, but sophisticated line-level writing is an absolute must for me, and I am unlikely to sign something up that doesn’t have at least one foot firmly planted on the “literary” side of that ephemeral literary-commercial divide. At this time I am not actively looking for nonfiction projects; after a few years acquiring in this space, I now have a really excellent deep bench of STEM nonfiction writers on my list and I don’t really have room for more. In general, I love: I’m a sucker for: I’m actively seeking: I’m not the best fit for: Fun facts about me:
Submission Guidelines
Submissions should be emailed to alexandra.aceves@holidayhouse.com I accept agented and unagented submissions. Please email queries to al**************@**********se.com and include #MSWL in the subject line. I prefer to see full manuscripts (for fiction) / full proposals (for nonfiction or graphic novels), and I’d be grateful if unagented authors would include a full synopsis with their submission materials. Finally, if you’re submitting a full-text manuscript, please send it in Word if you can (things like image-heavy graphic novel pitch packets are fine as PDFs). Please note Holiday House company policy regarding responding to submissions (house rules, not mine): Due to the volume of manuscripts we are receiving, Holiday House does not to respond to materials that we are not interested in publishing, and we are unable to acknowledge receipt of unagented materials. We do, however, make every effort to carefully consider each submission we receive. If we are interested in your manuscript, we will respond within four months of receiving it. Guidelines & Details Vital Info Linkedin Website
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