Viengsamai Fetters

**Erewhon Books is not currently taking unagented submissions.**

About Viengsamai:

As an associate editor at Erewhon Books, I’ve had the pleasure of working with bestselling authors such as Kalyn Josephson, Jen Sookfong Lee, Mizuki Tsujimura, Lee Mandelo, and Emily Rath. I started my career in publishing as an editorial assistant right here at Erewhon; prior to joining the Erewhon editorial team, I worked at Barnes & Noble as a senior bookseller, where I learned to track + predict sales and trends, and where I developed a passion for finding the perfect book for every reader.

What I’m currently into:

I am actively seeking full-length (50k-120k) adult prose novels across the range of speculative fiction.

Agents can also refer to my Publishers Marketplace profile for recent deals.

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Across genres, I am hungry for a compelling emotional core, electric prose, cathartic plotlines, and magnetic characters to go absolutely, irrevocably feral over. I love chewy book-club books with a splash of speculative, as well as core genre fiction with a flair. My favorite kinds of stories are the ones written with love: for the subject, for the setting, for the reader, and for the genre(s).

In sci-fi, I’m looking for high-concept social commentary; warm/hopeful stories about the nature of humanity; twisty character-driven adventures. Bonus points for time travel, neurodivergent robots/aliens, and Afrofuturism & Africanfuturism. I’m especially on the hunt for genre-playful works that infuse SF into other genres or vice versa.

Ex: Psalm for the Wild-Built; The Echo Wife; The Prey of Gods; This is How You Lose the Time War; Murderbot; The Space Between Worlds; Chain-Gang All-Stars; Gideon the Ninth; The Ministry of Time.

In fantasy, I’m looking for fresh secondary world settings or propulsive stories set in our world; low-stakes whimsy or high-stakes adventures; swoony yearning romances and high-octane character dynamics; fresh magic systems and strong thematic resonance. Bonus points for dead gods, star-crossed lovers, and lady knights. I’m especially on the hunt for dark fantasy, cozy fantasy, and lightly speculative contemporary stories.

Ex: Someone You Can Build a Nest In; The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi; Dreadful; The Starless Sea; The West Passage; Nimona; One Dark Window; The Tainted Cup; The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue; Lonely Castle in the Mirror.

In horror, I’m looking for intimate character-driven stories; explorations of femininity/gender & the expectations that come with them; atmospheric settings that make you sick to your stomach. Bonus points for religious and/or medieval aesthetics, vampires, creeping dread, and cults (& not-not-cults.) I’m especially on the hunt for book club books that can cross over into domestic thrillers and/or women’s fiction.

Ex: A Certain Hunger; Manhunt; Camp Damascus; The Woods All Black; The Starving Saints; The Bog Wife; The Lamb; Our Share of Night; Motherthing; The Buffalo Hunter Hunter; The Push.

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Hard sells for me at the moment include: doorstoppers (anything over 120k); dark academia; myth retellings; military SF; standard-issue romantasy; short fiction collections; anything particularly bro-y.

I am not the right editor for: Harry Potter fanfiction.

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Some themes that especially appeal to me: monstrosity & embodiment; the archive & cultural memory; language; diaspora & displacement; restorative justice; bittersweet & complicated family dynamics; explorations and/or deconstructions of faith.

Personal wishlist items: a really compelling polyamory situation (wholesome); a really compelling polyamory situation (toxic); stone butches, high femmes, & trans characters of all stripes; a progressive lens on Middle America and/or the Midwest; Asian-inspired fantasy, especially Southeast Asia; sharp reality TV settings.

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About Erewhon:

EREWHON BOOKS is an imprint of Kensington Books that focuses on novel-length works of speculative fiction: science fiction, fantasy, horror, and related genres.

At Erewhon, our mission is to publish thoughtful, groundbreaking, and unforgettable books that go straight to the reader’s heart. Erewhon books celebrate the unique, diverse, and underrepresented identities and communities of the world we live in, all through the lens of entertaining, thought-provoking, and risk-taking speculative fiction.

We want innovative spec fic that tugs on your heartstrings and explore meaningful sociopolitical questions. We’re particularly looking for books that bring to the page stories that are usually relegated to the margins – including, but not limited to: racial/ethnic minorities, queer & trans people, fat people, disabled people, working-class and poor people, religious minorities, and intersections of the above. We are especially interested in supporting marginalized writers.

Submission Guidelines

Erewhon Books is not currently accepting unagented manuscripts.

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