Eden Railsback
Hanover Square Press / HarperCollins
My Manuscript Wish List®
For nonfiction, Eden is interested in smart sociopolitical commentaries and big idea books, in the vein of Amanda Montell and Jenny Odell. She’s especially interested in books that break down things like billionaire and celebrity worship, parasocial relationships, communal justice, and freedom through art. Otherwise, she’s also keen on narrative nonfiction books that tap into nostalgia, wonder, and the intersection of sci-fi/tech and nature, like Sabrina Imbler, Sy Montgomery, or Ed Yong. She’s looking for books that uplift and amplify the voices of authors of color, as well as queer/trans/nonbinary writings with good amounts of dry, witty humor—think Samantha Irby.
For fiction, at a wider angle, she’s primarily looking for character-driven narratives. Magical, speculative worlds that comment on our real world are a plus. She would absolutely jump at the opportunity to edit underrepresented authors, specifically stories told by APIDA voices. On a more specific level, Eden is looking for grounded, mythological/magical-tinged fantasy like N.K. Jemisin’s Broken Earth trilogy or R.F. Kuang’s THE POPPY WAR; deeply thoughtful speculative fiction like Amar El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone’s THIS IS HOW YOU LOSE THE TIME WAR or ethno/Afrofuturisms like Rivers Solomon’s THE DEEP; and introspective stories that focus on marginalized communities and building/creating space, but in a fun setting, like THE MINISTRY OF TIME by Kaliane Bradley, THE DEEP SKY by Yume Kitasei, or THE LAST GIFTS OF THE UNIVERSE by Riley August. Some other favorites of hers include THE ADVENTURES OF AMINA AL-SIRAFI by Shannon Chakraborty, TOMORROW, AND TOMORROW, AND TOMORROW by Gabrielle Zevin, and literally the entire UGLIES franchise (NOT the movie!!!).
Fun facts about me:
I love video games and technology. Any smart commentaries on these will instantly hook me.
Submission Guidelines
Submissions should be emailed to Eden.Railsback@harpercollins.com
Please email submissions to Ed************@***********ns.com
Only agented submissions, please
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Vital Info
Favorite sub-genres:
"Big Idea/Think", 'big think', AAPI Fantasy, AAPI Sci-Fi, Accessible Literary Fiction, Activism, Adult, Adult Horror, Adult SFF, Adventure, Africanfuturism, Apocalyptic, Asian American Literature, Asian Fantasy, Asian Sci-Fi, BIPOC, BIPOC Fantasy, BIPOC Mystery, BIPOC Sci-Fi, Biography, Biography & Memoir, Business, Career Development, Careers, Character -Driven History, Character-driven SciFi, Classic retellings with BIPOC characters, Cli-Fi, Climate Fiction, Commercial Women's Fiction, Commercial adult fiction, Commercial and Literary, Cozy Fantasy, Cozy Mystery, Cozy mysteries, Crime & Thriller, Crime Fiction, Dark Female Friendships, Dark Humor, Dystopia, Dystopian, Economics, Epic Fantasy, Epistolary, Fantasy, Fantasy Grounded in Reality, Gaming, Geek Culture, Gothic, Gothic Fantasy, Grounded, Grounded fantasy, Hard Science Fiction, LGBTQ+, LGBTQ+ Fantasy, LGBTQ+ Sci-Fi, Literary Science Fiction, Magic, Magic Realism, Magical Realism, Retellings, SWANA Fantasy, SWANA Sci-Fi, Sci-fi Thriller, Science Fiction and Fantasy Favorite sub-genres: Absolutely all of them!, Science nonfiction, Soft Fantasy, Soft Science Fiction, South Asian, South East Asian Literature, Southern Fiction, Southern Gothic, Southern Literary, Speculative, Speculative Fiction, Speculative Thriller, Supernatural Horror, Suspense, Upmarket Commercial Fiction, Upmarket Fiction, Upmarket Nonfiction, Upmarket Women's Fiction, Urban Fantasy, Westerns, Women's Fiction, Women's Issues, afrofuturism, alternate history, anti-capitalist sci fi, celebrity, character-focused fiction, character-focused stories, classic retellings, comedy, commerical, commerical women's fiction, crime, dark fantasy, diverse voices, eco-fiction, epic, epistolary novels, found family, friendship, light Sci-Fi, light fantasy, sci-fi, science fantasy, science fiction, science fiction epic, scifi thriller, soft science, southern, spy, upmarket genre fiction, weird fiction, witchcraft, witches
I’d like the next…
My favorites include…
FICTION: The Deep by Rivers Solomon, The Poppy War by R.F. Kuang, The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin, The Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi by S. A. Chakraborty; This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
