Alexandria Brown (CLOSED TO QUERIES)

ALEX IS CURRENTLY CLOSED TO QUERIES NOT BY BIPOC AUTHORS. PLEASE ONLY SUBMIT QUERIES VIA QUERY TRACKER. Alex has ten years of experience in marketing and creative writing. Alex has a Bachelor’s in Communications with a major in Public Relations, a Master of Fine Arts – Creative Writing from the University of Gloucestershire, and is a Creative Writing Ph.D. Candidate currently at the University of Gloucestershire. She has two traditionally published nonfiction books. She’s a member of the Women’s Fiction Writers Association. Alex’s primary role is acquisitions and marketing as well as working with sub-agents on subsidiary rights.

Submission Guidelines

Submissions should be emailed to https://querymanager.com/query/alexbrownRAPC

While Alex will accept books from most fiction genres, she has examples of different things she’s looking for in her top genres. She is interested in: Romantic Comedies/Book Club Fiction (think The Flatshare by Beth O’Leary or The Matchmaker’s List by Sonya Lalli). She also is seeking Thrillers/Mysteries/Horror that delves from usual tropes and has an ending that will leave the reader gobsmacked. She is also interested in nonfiction true crime stories. Alex looks for main characters that are under-represented in fiction, such as, but not limited to, plus-sized, LGBTQAI+, and/or persons of colour.

Alex very much loves genre-blending, and sometimes she finds books that she normally wouldn’t be drawn to that she is obsessed with. Here’s what Alex is hoping to see land in my inbox in very specific terms;

• Comedies! Hilarious family drama, and/or funny situations characters get themselves into. Anything that makes me laugh out loud! If it’s got a comedic element with a strong female protagonist, I want it, PLEASE!

• I’m looking for some more female-driven/nonbinary-driven thrillers, especially if they’re messy, messy characters. I love a good ensemble cast and messy family dynamics—think LESSONS IN CHEMISTRY or MALIBU RISING. Do you have a DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES / REAL HOUSEWIVES-esque thriller? Please let me read it!

• Thrillers in the same vein of Simone St James THE BOOK OF COLD CASES or THE SOULMATE by Sally Hepworth!

• This is new for me, but I’m down for a female-driven/nonbinary action story that’s KNIVES OUT or clue in tone. Do you have a female spy novel? Yes, please!

• Book club fiction that’s a “coming of age” for adult characters. We have a lot of books that focus on the 20s/30s, but someone discovering themselves later in life or someone going through a change in their 40s/50s and older would be so awesome!

• Horror in the vein of SILENCE OF THE LAMBS, GET OUT, US. I want more mentally scary than visually scary. Also looking for horrors that have a bit of levity to them, like M3GAN.

• Contained Family Drama/Contained drama with a unique cast of characters. I would love to find something like THE NEST that has a great cast of characters that all come together or WHITE LOTUS where they’re all weird and tied together by being at the same place at the same time.

• Locked room thrillers/suspense; ie CLUE.

• Non-fiction that feels stranger than fiction— the like how is this real life but it is real life kind of nonfiction. Something that really blows people’s minds.

• Medical thrillers or Medical soap operas that are in a book. Basically, think of a book version of GREY’S ANATOMY.

• RomComs that are heavy on the COM. I loved LOVE IN THE TIME OF SERIAL KILLERS. I am a huge reality TV/TV buff so any RomCom that takes place on a set whether it be film/tv stars or reality stars like ONE TO WATCH I am obsessed with. RomComs with diverse lead characters are ALWAYS of interest! Multicultural RomComs too please! Whatever the story, I want to LAUGH and SWOON!

• TRUE CRIME in NonFiction! I am ALWAYS looking for true crime! If you have a true crime like SWEET BOBBY, CASEFILES or MURDAUGH MURDERS, I want to read it. Please. Please please please.

Those are some of the specifics of what I’m looking for but if you have something outside of those realms that land in the following genres, please feel free to submit it to me as well;

• Psychological and domestic thrillers

• Domestic Suspense

• Romantic Comedies

• Book Club Fiction

• Horror

• True Crime

• MCs that are members of the LGBQTIA+ community, ND, BIPOC, Plus-sized, mental health representation.

• Multicultural characters and stories

Please note, Alex only accepts un-agented submissions via Query Tracker.

She is not interested in erotica, religious fiction/nonfiction, COVID-related books, political fiction/nonfiction, novellas, children’s fiction, or middle grade.

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