Tara Gavin

Crooked Lane Books/Alcove Press

My Manuscript Wish List®

Tara spent years at Harlequin Books, where she pursued her love of women’s fiction, working with several New York Times bestselling authors, including Diana Palmer, Heather Graham and Lindsay McKenna. At Kensington Books, Tara still worked with bestselling women’s fiction authors, but also was able to pursue her love of mysteries and suspense. Tara joined Crooked Lane Books / Alcove Press in 2020, where the best of all worlds came together.

For Alcove Press:

Women’s fiction
Her wish list contains books similar to those of Anne Tyler, Fannie Flagg, Mary Kay Andrews, Susan Wiggs and Susan Mallery

For Crooked Lane:

Suspense
Cozy mysteries
Mystery
Thrillers
She is especially interested in women in jeopardy stories and books with a family component that has secrets to uncover

Nothing makes Tara happier than delving into a book with a complex, emotional plot.

Fun facts about me:

I work with many, many talented writers—Felix Francis, Lucy Connelly, David Nix, JB Abbott, Ellie Brannigan, Carrie Talick, Cate Malone (CE Murphy). I love all my authors, and hope to add many more in the coming years!

Submission Guidelines

For unagented authors, please send your submission to Crooked Lane through Query Tracker at querytracker.net/query/CLB_Submissions or Alcove Press at https://querytracker.net/query/AP_Submissions

For agents, please send to my Crooked Lane email.

Vital Info

Tara.Gavin@CrookedLaneBooks.com

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Favorite sub-genres:

#ownvoices, Accessible Literary Fiction, Action-Adventure, Adult, Adult Horror, Adult Rom Com, Adult SFF, Amateur Sleuth Mysteries, Amish Fiction, Classic retellings with BIPOC characters, Commercial Women's Fiction, Commercial adult fiction, Commercial and Literary, Complicated Relationships, Contemporary Romance, Cozy Mystery, Cozy mysteries, Crime & Thriller, Crime Fiction, Domestic Fiction, Domestic Suspense, Domestic Suspense/Thriller, Fairytale Retellings, Family Drama, Fantasy Grounded in Reality, Fantasy Romance, Female Friendships, First Person, Found Families, Gothic, Gothic Horror, High Concept, High-Concept Literary Commercial Fiction, Historical (as long as the period is of consequence), Historical Fiction, Historical Women's Fiction, Literary Crossover, Literary Fantasy, Literary Fiction, Literary Horror, Magical Realism, Modernized Mythologies, Mothers and Daughters, Multicultural Romance, Multigenerational, Multiple POV, Mystery / Crime, Mythology, Paranormal Horror, Paranormal Romance, Rom-com, RomCom, Romance, Romantic Comedy, Romantic Drama, Romantic Suspense, Romantic Thriller, Scottish, Shakespeare Retellings, Slice of life, Smart Beach Reads, Steamy RomComs, Strong Females, Supernatural Elements, Suspense, Thriller, Thrillers, Time Travel Romance, Upmarket Women's Fiction, WWII, Westerns, Women's Fiction, Women's Issues, book club fiction, contemporary, diverse heroines, domestic thrillers, enemies to lovers, family saga, family stories, folklore history, found family, friendship, friendship stories, ghost story, historical, mystery, rom-coms, romantacy, romantasy, romantic suspense/mystery, slow burn romance, small-town romance, upmarket/book club with female protagonist, witches, witty

I’d like the next…

My favorites include…

My favorite authors are Agatha Christie, as well as other classic writers: Jane Austen, the Bronte sisters, Thomas Hardy, etc. My go to authors are Emily Henry, Lynda LaPlante, JoJo Moyes, Walter Mosley, Heather Graham, and so many others I can’t name them all!