I am looking for genre-blending commercial queer Fiction in YA/MG/Adult/Graphic Novels with a particular focus on BIPOC authors and authors of marginalized identities.

Seeking:

• Rich and subtle world building like Wilder Girls or The Mortal Engine series
• Normalized trans and non-binary existence in worldbuilding, like the Tales of the High Court series
• Shamelessly manga and fanfic inspired stories like Foxhole Court
• Silk punk, Asian attitudes, historical revision that doesn’t think Europe invented the world (Socrates was born after Confucius died! Genghis Khan was a contemporary of King John! Guns were being used in China before the English invented longbows!)
• Reworking myth and gods and their influence, like The Sorcerer of the Wildeeps and American Gods
• Sexy, dark, magical horror, like the Hexslinger series
• Queer romance with high stakes, like Lord of the White Hell
• Middle Grade protagonists who cry and fail and try anyways, like How to Train Your Dragon
• F/F romance, friendship, and intersectional girl gangs against the world
• Ride-or-die friendships and high stakes, like The Raven Cycle

Not Seeking:

• AI-generated or assisted work in any form
• Non-fiction
• Genre fiction that perpetrates the racist, colonial, imperialistic, sexist, ableist tropes of the past
• Non-intersectional representation; no victories at the expense of another group
• Low stakes, excessive realism