Lindsay Flanagan is an award-winning author and editor as well as a publisher for Mad Cat Books and Radiance Books. Her debut novel, AnnaGrey and the Constellation, was published by Young Dragons Press and earned the first runner-up of the Eric Hoffer Book Award in the middle reader category. She’s edited for traditional publishers, worked for literary agents, and has taught about writing, editing, and publishing at numerous conferences, including Superstars Writing Seminars and Writing Day Workshops. She is a senior editor at Eschler Editing who specializes in developmental and substantive editing.
We want Young Adult stories of fantasy, sci-fi, historical, horror, speculative, romance and romantasy (m/f, f/f/, m/m), westerns with sci-fi or fantastical elements, diverse and underrepresented voices, the villain’s story (think Heartless by Marissa Meyer), magic libraries and/or books, love triangles of any type—especially told from a unique pov (the one that doesn’t get the girl/guy), smart female characters, neurodivergent characters, and stories with diverse casts. We want stories that fit firmly in the young adult category (protagonists who are 13 to 18)
(Upmarket/Romance imprint) Radiance Manuscript wish list:
For upmarket, I’m looking for complex drama. Secrets hidden under layers of riddles wrapped in an enigmatic shroud. Stories with throat-gripping beginnings, messy middles, and jaw-dropping endings. Bonus points for snippets of humor to give readers a smile or two between crying jags.
For romance, I’m looking for strong, unique characters. A mash-up with another genre that’s seldom or never done. Something to revitalize the standard, tired tropes. I want the chemistry to be palpable, regardless of heat level, and any explicit scenes to focus more on the emotion of the moment than the biology and logistics. At the heart of the matter, these are all love stories. I want to fall in love with the characters as they fall for each other.
A new publisher launching in January 2025 will be taking pitches at Superstars for the first time!
More details to follow, but the publisher is specializing in SFF and other genres — alternate history, thriller, detective fiction, Westerns — with an eye toward books that male (although not exclusively male) readers will be interested in, under the slogan, "The humans win in the end." Two senior editors from this publisher will be taking pitches.
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