Samiha holds a bachelor's in the Earth and Environmental Sciences and a minor in English from Brooklyn College and is a student at UCLA's Editing and Publishing Certificate program. She acquires Middle Grade, Young Adult, and Adult fiction. She also acquires select chapter books. She works with a team of interns and freelancers.
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Samiha holds a bachelor's in the Earth and Environmental Sciences and a minor in English from Brooklyn College and is a student at UCLA's Editing and Publishing Certificate program. She acquires Middle Grade, Young Adult, and Adult fiction. She also acquires select chapter books. She works with a team of interns and freelancers.
For chapter books, she wants fantasy (all subgenres) and contemporary only if it has a Muslim protagonist.
For middle grade, she wants fantasy only (all subgenres) or contemporary only if it has a Muslim protagonist.
For young adult, she wants high school romances and fantasy (all subgenres). This includes teen fiction (ages 14-15).
For adult fiction, she wants Muslim romance, upmarket/literary, historical fiction, and high or second-world fantasy (no portal, paranormal, or urban fantasy). Sci-fi fantasy is acceptable.
Note: her preference for romance leans more toward witty remarks/ pining/emotional depth as opposed to explicit acts. Basically, romance you'd be okay with your family reading. For fantasy, she looks specifically for settings with monotheistic systems or magic-less fantasy.
In nonfiction, she wants books about Muslim communities, anything that includes science with Islam, counter-culture essays, and career-based memoirs!
She loves seeing STEM in books (dinosaurs anyone!?), and is a sucker for all retellings and folklore.
Her favorite romantic tropes are childhood best friends to lovers, angsty misinterpretations, and the bodyguard and the royal. Samiha would also like to see f/f friendships.
She is NOT open to heists, horror, mystery, thrillers, hard sci-fi, or issue books if they serve only to bash a culture or people to appeal to modern audiences. Samiha will only accept works authored by men only if solicited.
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Her favorite reads: Ella Enchanted, Dragon Slippers, The Last Apprentice Series, Sabriel, Gamer Girl, Cold Mountain, Notes from a Dead House (F. Dostoevsky), The Green Rider Series, The Nine Kingdom Series, Of Jade and Dragons, & anything by James Herriot.
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