Marisa A. Corvisiero

For Adults, she will consider Romance, Women's Fiction, Thrillers, Adventure, Paranormal, Fantasy and Urban Fantasy, Science Fiction, or any combination thereof.

In Romance, she is specifically looking for Contemporary Romance, Historical Romance, Romantic Comedies, and Inspirational Romance with angsty and/or sexy plots where both characters are very well formed with their own issues or shortcomings, and an overall creative obstacle they need to overcome to reach that happily ever after. Heat level can vary from Hallmark Sweet to Ghost Pepper Hot. However, the language, details, and plot must be suitable for each heat level and the market the story is targeting. I.e. Hallmark sweet will need toned down language and situations; whereas a super hot story can use more crude and direct language; and have explicit or graphic situations.

For Middle Grade and Young Adult, she likes character driven stories with humor or grit, and very unique concepts in Fantasy, Adventure, and Science Fiction in any time period and setting with authentic and standout voices. Issue and event driven stories, still need well formed and relatable or redeemable characters. Some of my favorite comps are work by Sarah J. Maas, Leigh Bardugo, Tomi Adeyemi, Sarah Holland, Claire Lagrand, Holly Black, Scott Westerfeld, Tracy Banghart, Laura Sebastian, Victoria Aveyard, Brigid Kemmener, Kendare Blake, Sabaa Tahir, James Dashner, Suzanne Collins, Kevin Emerson, Kiera Cass, Brandon Sanderson, Stephen Bohls, Veronica Roth, Orson Scott Card, and many more.

For picture books and childrens, Marisa is looking for STEAM books and stories that show growth, have a positive message, and have strong commercial characters that will easily resonate with kids.

She especially enjoys Christmas, time travel, space, science, magic, superpowers, handicaps, conspiracies, and special relationships themed stories. She is a fan of heavy science and high concept, high stakes, out of the box plots. Marisa likes to be surprised by unexpected twists (as they should be). She enjoys the challenge of figuring out villains who have logical motives that give them a good reason for being who they are and seeking what they seek, and when the morality line is blurred enough to make the reader wonder who is actually in the right.

In non-fiction, she seeks well focused books in spiritualism, self-improvement, mainstream science, legal issues, and environmental issues. This includes non fiction books for kids, especially science, finance, and cookbooks! Among her many interests Marisa is currently looking for nonfiction books about growth mindset and manifesting, channeling, remote viewing, occult mysteries, conspiracy theories, and aliens! Although these are her interests, her acquisitions are not limited to these topics. Marisa is always looking for new and amazing concepts that will offer novel and unique information, visions, levels, or other value to their respective fields. Significant platforms preferred but not needed especially if unique experience, knowhow, or skills are demonstrated.