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Sareena Kamath, Editor
Sareena Kamath is an editor at S&S/Saga Press publishing SFF, horror, and genre-bending fiction of all kinds, but especially those projects which shed light on underrepresented perspectives, take place outside Western contexts, and grapple with contemporary sociocultural themes and radical politics without sacrificing satisfying storytelling. Previously, she was at Zando, and before that, Little, Brown and Company/Mulholland Books.
Sareena is looking for:
Genre novels with radical leftist, anti-capitalist, and abolitionist themes, written accessibly - Genre-bending fiction that blurs the lines of traditional sci-fi, fantasy, and horror or cleverly subverts genre conventions - Plot-driven speculative fiction by non-white authors with non-white characters (especially South Asian and Asian American) - Science fiction/fantasy taking place outside of Western context - Horror which employs a queer/crip lens, especially with an emphasis on body horror and the grotesque - Stories with interesting/disruptive storytelling strategies—those that play with temporality, nonlinear frameworks - General themes I love: coming-of-age (through an adult lens), diasporic/migrant narratives, borderlands (especially if not the US/Mexico border)
Sareena is not interested in:
- Historical settings, especially European - Literary fiction without a strong, forward-moving plot - Traditional epic fantasy, hard SF, and space opera - Retellings of Classic Western mythology and fairytales - Romance when used as the novel’s primary narrative engine - Satirical novels which explore contemporary sociopolitical topics from the perspective the ruling class (i.e. rich people behaving badly) - YA - Cozies - General elements that aren’t for me: sexual violence, law enforcement protagonists, politically conservative narrators
Examples of books she currently represents:
Monstrilio by Gerardo Samano Cordova
The Centre by Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi
Herculine by Grace Byron (forthcoming)
Sareena Kamath is an editor at S&S/Saga Press publishing SFF, horror, and genre-bending fiction of all kinds, but especially those projects which shed light on underrepresented perspectives, take place outside Western contexts, and grapple with contemporary sociocultural themes and radical politics without sacrificing satisfying storytelling. Previously, she was at Zando, and before that, Little, Brown and Company/Mulholland Books.
Sareena is looking for:
Genre novels with radical leftist, anti-capitalist, and abolitionist themes, written accessibly - Genre-bending fiction that blurs the lines of traditional sci-fi, fantasy, and horror or cleverly subverts genre conventions - Plot-driven speculative fiction by non-white authors with non-white characters (especially South Asian and Asian American) - Science fiction/fantasy taking place outside of Western context - Horror which employs a queer/crip lens, especially with an emphasis on body horror and the grotesque - Stories with interesting/disruptive storytelling strategies—those that play with temporality, nonlinear frameworks - General themes I love: coming-of-age (through an adult lens), diasporic/migrant narratives, borderlands (especially if not the US/Mexico border)
Sareena is not interested in:
- Historical settings, especially European - Literary fiction without a strong, forward-moving plot - Traditional epic fantasy, hard SF, and space opera - Retellings of Classic Western mythology and fairytales - Romance when used as the novel’s primary narrative engine - Satirical novels which explore contemporary sociopolitical topics from the perspective the ruling class (i.e. rich people behaving badly) - YA - Cozies - General elements that aren’t for me: sexual violence, law enforcement protagonists, politically conservative narrators
Examples of books she currently represents:
Monstrilio by Gerardo Samano Cordova
The Centre by Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi
Herculine by Grace Byron (forthcoming)