Susan Velazquez Colmant

Hi! I’m so excited to see what comes in during these Pitch to Me Threads. As a reminder, I am ONLY hosting two Threads on Saturday, July 25 and Saturday, August 1 starting at 12pm EST until midnight as a limited opportunity to pitch to me. 

I will create and pin the Thread on my profile when I’m ready to start seeing pitches.

How to pitch:

• Reply to the official thread with your title, genre, your comps, and whatever pitch you can fit in within the character count.
• You may pitch more than 1 project but they must be separate comments
• You can reply to your comment if you want to link to your website/social media profile/etc where you provide more details about your project
• If I am interested in your pitch, I will like your comment and invite you to DM me to receive my private QueryManager link. I will include the instructions for what materials to send and my ETA for replying.
• I will aim to get back to everyone before I go on my leave in December

As a refresher, here’s what I’m looking and not looking for:

So here’s what I am concentrating on:

• BIPOC authors, especially Latine/Latinx authors
• Adult book club/upmarket fiction in contemporary, speculative, or historical settings – I want books like Caro Claire Burke’s YESTERYEAR, Emily St. John Mendel’s STATION ELEVEN, or Johanna Rojas Vann’s AN AMERICAN IMMIGRANT. I want books that capture or drive current discourse or books that clubs will have fun discussing and analyzing.
• Contemporary romance and romantic comedies featuring charming locales and fresh takes on favorite tropes. I saw YOU, ME, AND TUSCANY 3 times in theaters. That’s the happy stuff I want. Speculative romance stories are also welcome like Natalie Messier’s EVERY VERSION OF YOU.
• Fast-paced thrillers for fans of Freida McFadden but with added thematic layers for book clubs to dissect like Marisa Kashino’s BEST OFFER WINS and Meagan Church’s THE MAD WIFE. I want things dark, biting, and have something to say.
• Nonfiction in pop science, pop psychology, and select pop culture/history – I already represent some select pop culture and I hate getting told in translation submissions that everything I represent is too American-centric. Even if we start with a specific lens, I want books that can be pulled back to have a bird’s eye on how a topic will be of interest across countries/cultures. As a future mom, I am particularly fascinated by topics that affect new parents–momfluencers, tradwives, fearmongering and misinformation about health and medicine, how algorithms are targeting and influencing children, the challenges Gen Alpha and Gen Beta faces. I LOVED Fortesa Latifi’s LIKE, FOLLOW, SUBSCRIBE, Melissa Wirt’s I WAS TOLD THERE’D BE A VILLAGE, and Angela Garbes’ LIKE A MOTHER.
• I’m open to authors self-pub or hybrid authors who are looking to sell more projects into trad publishing in the genres listed above 

Things I am taking a break from casting a wide net for:

• Romantasy/fantasy submissions in YA or adult – Sorry, everyone! I already have a very robust client list in these areas and I need to focus on selling my current clients. (I did request some romantasies/fantasies to query me privately on social media and I just want to say, don’t worry! I’m considering you like normal but rather I am just not soliciting any more in this genre.)
• YA in general – Again, my existing YA authors keep me pretty busy so I prefer to focus on them at the moment. (Same as above, I am just not soliciting any more YA fantasy beyond what I already have privately requested.)
• Horror
• Science fiction
• Anything I did not put in my “want” list
• Self-pub authors who ONLY want representation for subrights – I already represent several prolific self-pub authors so I’m afraid mine and my subrights department’s bandwidth is quite limited at the moment. I am only considering self-pub authors who are looking to sell projects to trad publishing.