Melissa Rechter

With over six years of industry experience, Melissa Rechter has had the pleasure of working with ITW nominees, New York Times and USA Today bestselling authors, as well as a myriad of talented writers.

• Cozy mysteries: particularly keen on projects that deal with bookshops, libraries, or have a witchy bent.
• Domestic suspense and psychological thrillers: would love to see complicated family dynamics or twisted female friendships. Anything in the vein of Lucy Foley or Jennifer Hillier.
• Horror: either social or psychological– a la Jordan Peele’s Get Out or Alyssa Cole’s When No One is Watching.
• Historical mysteries: (fond of mid 20th century and Victorian era). Looking for a feminist female protagonist.
• Anything gothic, in the vein of Mexican Gothic or The Death of Jane Lawrence. 
• If a book has cults, folklore, serial killers, poisonous plants, small town secrets, or has a locked room element, it’s right up her alley. 
• Romantasy: In the vein of Ninth House or The Serpent and the Wings of Night. Would love to see projects that center around dark academia, dark eldritch creatures in forests, or feminist protagonists subverting gender norms.
• Speculative fiction and magical realism: In the vein of Isabel Allende or Guillermo del Toro. Or anything that deals with time-bending elements like Oona Out of Order.
• Projects that explore found families, grief, and trauma in those fantasy or speculative spaces.
• Anything gothic

Would love to find a novel that explores the toxicity and usage of Scheele’s Green or Paris Green, in either a horror or gothic.