Eddie Schneider

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From the Eddie Schneider Submission Guidelines:

Queries are accepted only through Query Manager. Include a query letter and paste roughly the first five pages of the manuscript below the query letter in the body of the message. A one-to-three-page synopsis may be pasted at the very bottom but is not mandatory. Do not send attachments other than art samples if you are a graphic novelist; because of query volume (500+ a month), queries that don’t follow the guidelines are rejected unread.

For graphic novels or comics, you may include two to three representative art images pasted below the query letter, and a link to an online portfolio is also welcome. He is primarily interested in author/artists or an established author-artist team, for fiction or nonfiction graphic novels (realistic or speculative) aimed at adult, YA, or middle grade, and for comics influenced by comic strips and webcomics that are both humorous and incisive.

He is eager to consider queries by persons, or featuring protagonists, of any race, color, creed, religion, national citizenship/origin, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, age, or physical appearance, and he will not attempt to editorially limit such presence in order to sell a project.

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Eddie Schneider's Current Wishlist:

He most wants groundbreaking, genre-defining books that reflect the whole spectrum of human experience — whether in a straightforward way like narrative nonfiction or an oblique way like fantasy or science fiction — and he has a long-running interest in fresh and diverse voices, especially from historically marginalized groups.

In literary fiction, he looks for more plot-driven novels with a strong emotional core that engage beyond middle-class concerns endemic to much of the genre (non-client examples he has named include Ruth Ozeki’s A Tale for the Time Being and Louise Erdrich’s The Round House).

In science fiction, he loves near-future work with social or cultural commentary, the occasional space opera, and SF written from non-Western cultural perspectives (non-client touchstones include Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Left Hand of Darkness, Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower, and G. Willow Wilson’s Alif the Unseen).

In fantasy, he favors stories that toe both the real world and the fantastic, with intricate, imaginative, internally consistent settings that address political and social concerns, often preferring tight writing to florid prose, and he is especially interested in fantasy set outside the Northern European milieu (non-client examples include R.F. Kuang’s Babel and Susanna Clarke’s Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell).

In horror, he has a soft spot for work that is smart and funny, often with biting social commentary; client examples he points to include Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s The Bewitching, Victor Manibo’s The Villa, Once Beloved, Jessica Lacy’s Tastes Like Candy, and Lilliam Rivera’s Tiny Threads.

For young adult, he tends to favor books that are both character- and concept-driven while embracing the intensity of emotion that marks much of the best YA (non-client favorites include Laini Taylor’s Daughter of Smoke and Bone and Ibi Zoboi’s American Street). For middle grade, he is interested in both realistic/contemporary and SF/fantasy (non-client favorites include Diana Wynne Jones’s Howl’s Moving Castle and Rebecca Stead’s When You Reach Me).

On the nonfiction side, in science he has wide-ranging interests across the physical, earth, life, medical, and social sciences and is most drawn to books on specific — sometimes unlikely — topics (non-client examples: Rebecca Skloot’s The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks; Mary Roach’s Stiff). In history, he prefers single-subject histories and historical biographies, including biographies whose subject is an artifact or commodity (non-client examples: Michael W. Twitty’s The Cooking Gene; Doris Kearns Goodwin’s No Ordinary Time). In narrative nonfiction, he wants memoirs that take on issues beyond the author’s own life, socially engaged travel narratives with an individual stamp, and “nonfiction novels” (non-client examples: Sy Montgomery’s The Good Good Pig; Lynne Cox’s Swimming to Antarctica).