• Flow: Moderately paced stories with chapter-ending cliffhangers.
• Proven category tropes including unpredictable love and unexpected relationships.
• Stories featuring extraordinary heroines, endearing men, and brave children.
• Strong conflict. Is there a choice between life and death? Is there a complicated situation that isn’t black and white? Define the story lines that reveal how any choice results in painful consequences.
• POV: 1st person POV is preferred, but 3rd POV is acceptable and should be strong. No secondary characters should have their own POV.
• Authors we love: Celest Ng, Margaret Atwood, Abi Daré, Jodi Picoult.
• The heat levels can be anywhere from a simmering spark to blazing.
• Single title manuscripts ONLY and must be complete at 65-90K words in length.