Christine Goss
The Purcell Agency
My Manuscript Wish List®
Thank you for taking the time to review my MSWL to be sure we are a good fit.
What the stories I enjoy most include:
1. High stakes and high tension with action right off the bat. The first pages need to be strong.
2. Even if it’s not the main plot, I gravitate to stories that have a heavy romantic element.
3. A strong voice will hook me.
I am always looking for LGBTQ+ and stories by under represented authors
Adult:
– Upmarket Fiction/Commercial Fiction
– give me messy families or messy main characters.
– strong female leads
– a take on modern motherhood, tackling issues that are current now.
-Romance:
– Historical/Regency
– RomCom
– grounded magic/magical realism (see fantasy below too)— this one specific to Rebecca Serle/Ashley Poston.
-Fantasy/Romantasy
– simple world building, nothing too high fantasy.
– Give me witches, demons, wolves, and vampires!
– Total different type of world and sweeping love story similar to UNDERTAKING OF MERCY AND HART.
– Dystopian or utopian
– I am looking for strong, unique world building.
– I want strong themes and messaging with sweeping character arcs
YA (very similar to what I’m looking for in Adult, but I would like stories that straddle New Adult AND Young Adult).
– Upmarket Fiction/Commercial Fiction
– coming of age stories
– a character that’s breaking generational cycles
-Romance:
– RomCom
-Fantasy/Romantasy
– simple world building, nothing high fantasy.
– give me witches, demons, wolves, and vampires!
– beautiful prose and world building similar to DIVINE RIVALS that will appeal to adults and YA.
– Dystopian or utopian
**Graphic Novels- this can range from Middle Grade to Adult. I am very excited about these!
Nonfiction:
Cookbooks: I would love original family recipes with anecdotes sprinkled throughout. A true story of cooking.
Stories about motherhood, unspoken troubles and hardships of new motherhood.
I would love to have a book that would compel people to take care of themselves or have sympathy for themselves (YOU SHOULD REALLY TALK TO SOMEONE).
I’d love to see books about approachable ways for a sustainable life style. With work resuming and people going back to work, how can the environment still be top of mine.
Anything exposing fast fashion and how fashion is detrimental to the environment, and not only that but how to practice “slow fashion”.
Favorite Authors:
Ali Hazelwood, Talia Hibbert, Isabel Cañas, Chloe Liese, Jessica Joyce, Meryl Wilsner, Ashley Poston, Rebecca Ross, Amy Lea, K.A. Tucker, Emily Henry
Tropes I love:
Only one bed
Forced proximity
Forbidden love
Enemies to lovers
Friends to lovers (I would love to see a f/f or m/m one!)
Books I Love:
Book 2 of ACOTAR (IYKYK), YOU, WITH A VIEW, MARRYING THE KETCHUPS, VAMPIRES OF EL NORTE, THE SEVEN YEAR SLIP, LOVE HYPOTHETICALLY, ONLY WHEN IT’S US, MISTAKES WERE MADE, EXES AND O’S, FROM THE JUMP, THE SIMPLE WILD, THE IDEA OF YOU, SONG IF ACHILLES , BEACH READ
You’ll have me at…
— the LI is lost or injured and unreachable- major pining!
— Enemies to lovers with lots of comedic forced proximity scenes.
— unique retellings that include modern themes about modern issues
— a heart break that feels good re: THE IDEA OF YOU, or Fleabag season 2.
— I would love to see friends to lovers LGBTQ+
What I’m not looking for at this time: Picture Books, children’s book, Middle grade chapter books (though would take graphic novels), religious, police procedural, anything including the death of a small child.
Please include trigger warnings.
Submission Guidelines
Please refer to my QM for submission guidelines.
Vital Info
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