GiannaMarie Dobson

As of June 20, 2025, I am currently ONLY open to MG and YA fiction and adult SFF.

What I’m looking for:

• Stories written by disabled authors or featuring disabled characters. I’m interested in all kinds of disabilities, intersections of disability and other experiences, magic disabilities, and metaphorical disabilities! Disabled stories are my central priority. Everything else I would love to see will be extra appealing to me through a disability lens!
• Queer stories, especially ones that trouble compulsory sexuality and amatonormativity. I am very interested in aro and ace stories and would love to read books that center queer identities that have less media representation.
• I’m drawn to fiction because of characters, and the thing that will make me love a story is deep, flawed characters who have interesting and complicated relationships with each other. I love reading about relationships—messy, insecure, fading, painful—no matter the context.
• New perspectives on romance—as much as I love a good swoony romance, I also want to read romance plots that don’t overwhelm the other relationships in a life, romances that don’t last forever. I want to read books where the romance breaks off before the end, romances that aren’t good for the people in them, and romances that aren’t endgame. I especially want to read stories about the landscape of unrequited feelings and desires that are never acted on.
• Platonic relationships. I love stories that prioritize friendships, that establish other types of life bonds. I love queerplatonic partnerships and applying romance-genre tropes to epic friendships. I love stories where friendships are just as exciting and important as romances.
• Intense interests. I love stories that heavily feature something a protagonist loves, a very serious hobby that shapes their character and the plot, and I love stories about the communities that form around them.
• Fandom culture. I have a special soft spot for books about fanfiction, fanart, fan analysis, cosplay, and conventions. I love the community, and I love reading about internet friendships.
• Stories set outside of the US.
• I love stories about people showing up for their communities and making a difference. I would especially like to see books about non-legislative activism like mutual aid.
• Boy books. Don’t be afraid to send me boy protagonists for MG and especially YA, especially in genres other than romance.

If your book comps to something on this list, send it to me! (Please forgive the length, I’m trying to make your googling as painless as possible by including direct search terms.) 

• MG:
  • A Kind of Spark by Elle McNicoll
  • Song for a Whale by Lynne Kelly
  • Gail Carson Levine’s Disney Fairies trilogy
  • Catherine Doyle’s The Storm Keeper’s Island trilogy
  • Aniana Del Mar Jumps In by Jasminne Mendez
  • It’s All or Nothing, Vale! by Andrea Beatriz Arango
  • Hear Me by Kerry O’Malley Cerra
  • Air by Monica Roe
  • Accidental Demons by Clare Edge
  • The Spindle of Fate by Aimee Lim
  • Code Red by Joy McCullough
  • Aliya to the Infinite City by Laila Rifaat
  • Shannon in the Spotlight by Kalena Miller
  • Genesis Begins Again by Alicia D. Williams
  • Shine On, Luz Véliz by Rebecca Balcárcel
  • The Insiders by Mark Oshiro
  • Ana on the Edge by A.J. Sass
  • Each Tiny Spark by Pablo Cartaya
  • Zenobia July by Lisa Bunker
• YA:
  • Kristin Cashore
  • Sarah Porter
  • Susan Dennard
  • K. Johnston
  • Hannah Moskowitz
  • Rachel Hartman
  • Malinda Lo
  • Elizabeth Acevedo
  • Jasmin Kaur
  • Tracy Deonn
  • The Floating Islands by Rachel Neumeier
  • How to Date a Superhero (And Not Die Trying) by Cristina Fernandez
  • Dear Wendy by Ann Zhao
  • Elatsoe by Darcie Little Badger
  • The Summer of Bitter and Sweet by Jen Ferguson
  • Warrior Girl Unearthed by Angeline Boulley
  • Zoe Rosenthal is Not Lawful Good by Nancy Werlin
  • Lycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses by Kristen O’Neal
  • Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell
  • Juliet Takes a Breath by Gabby Rivera
  • The Silence Between Us by Alison Gervais
  • How to Lose a Best Friend by Jordan K. Casomar
  • Icebreaker by A.L. Graziadei
  • One of the Boys by Victoria Zeller
  • Revolution by Jennifer Donnelly
  • To Shape a Dragon’s Breath by Moniquill Blackgoose
  • Tash Hearts Tolstoy by Kathryn Ormsbee
  • None of the Above by I.W. Gregorio
  • Libertad by Bessie Flores Zaldívar
  • The Lesbiana’s Guide to Catholic School by Sonora Reyes
  • See You Yesterday by Rachel Lynn Solomon
  • Ghost Wood Song by Erica Waters
  • Navigating With You by Jeremy Whitley and Cassio Ribeiro
  • The Art of Insanity by Christine Webb
  • It’s a Love/Skate Relationship by Carli J. Corson
  • Dust by Alison Stine
  • Divine Mortals by Amanda M. Helander
  • At the Speed of Lies by Cindy L. Otis
  • A Season of Daring Greatly by Ellen Emerson White
  • Girl at War by Sara Nović
  • The Corpse Queen by Heather M. Herrman
  • Queen of the Tiles by Hanna Alkaf
  • The Wide Starlight by Nicole Lesperance
  • Amelia, Unabridged by Ashley Shumacher
  • On the Come Up by Angie Thomas
  • The Easy Part of Impossible by Sarah Tomp
  • Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao
  • Where I End and You Begin by Preston Norton
  • Everything Leads to You by Nina LaCour
  • Girls Save the World in This One by Ash Parsons
  • Full Disclosure by Camryn Garrett
  • You’re Welcome, Universe by Whitney Gardner
  • Two Girls Staring at the Ceiling by Lucy Frank
  • Magonia by Maria Dahvana Headley
  • Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones
  • Dealing with Dragons by Patricia C. Wrede
• Adult:
  • Marie Brennan
  • Rivers Solomon
  • Shauna Robinson
  • Arkady Martine
  • Macaiah Johnson
  • Katherine Arden’s Winternight trilogy
  • Naomi Novik’s Scholomance trilogy
  • B. Wagers’s NeoG series
  • Genevieve Cogman’s Invisible Library series
  • Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett
  • Light From Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki
  • The Absolute Book by Elizabeth Knox
  • Rules for Ghosting by Shelly Jay Shore
  • The Bandit Queens by Parini Shroff
  • The Echo Wife by Sarah Gailey
  • Strong Female Protagonist by Brennan Lee Mulligan and Molly Knox Ostertag
  • Hench by Natalie Zina Walschots
  • Kissing Kosher by Jean Meltzer
  • Can’t Escape Love by Alyssa Cole
  • The Baby Dragon Cafe by A.T. Qureshi
  • Ink Blood Sister Scribe by Emma Törzs
  • Wrath Goddess Sing by Maya Deane
  • One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston
  • Honey Girl by Morgan Rogers
  • We Ride Upon Sticks by Quan Barry
• Film/TV:
  • How to Train Your Dragon (but not 2 or 3)
  • Turning Red
  • Everything Everywhere All At Once
  • Rise of the Guardians
  • The Amazing Spider-Man movies
  • The Incredible Hulk (2008)
  • Iron Man 3
  • the Black Panther movies, especially Wakanda Forever
  • Hilda
  • the first three seasons of The Dragon Prince
  • Avatar: The Last Airbender (Aang is one of my favorite characters ever)
  • Jessica Jones season 1
  • Derry Girls
  • Haven (SyFy 2010)
  • Trollhunters
  • The Owl House
  • She-Ra and the Princesses of Power
  • Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug and Cat Noir
  • Leverage and Leverage Redemption
  • Doctor Who (2005), especially seasons 1 and 10
  • Star Wars: Skeleton Crew

What I’m not a good fit for:

• Disability stories centering caregivers
• Inspiration porn
• Amnesia as a trope
• Stories where the “twist” is that someone is experiencing psychosis
• “Post-pandemic” stories
• Experimental fiction
• Anything with weird formatting—my eyes can’t handle it
• Ghosts, afterlives, psychopomps
• Christian fiction
• False imprisonment like in Room or Strange Sally Diamond

Submission Guidelines

I only accept queries via the QueryTracker system. Please submit to me here.