Tricia is Vice President of Fuse Literary, joining the company in 2015. She enjoys discovering fantastic writers who wish to establish long-lasting careers in publishing. She seeks to build a powerful client list of authors who produce original, extraordinary tales, especially writers from marginalized communities, because no one should feel excluded from their favorite fiction categories. She specializes in adult science fiction, fantasy, romance, and horror. She also seeks those in adult graphic novels.
Writing has consistently played a significant part in Tricia’s life. After earning an undergraduate degree from the nationally acclaimed Journalism Institute for Media Diversity at Wayne State University, she started her writing career as a newspaper reporter for The Detroit News, Investor’s Business Daily, MSN, and The Houston Chronicle. She’s worked in academia and the video games industry, later earning her graduate degree from Southern Methodist University.
On the personal side, her hobbies include learning Korean, listening to music (go Stray Kids!), reading manhwa/manga/manhua, and devouring anime. Her family includes a silly Great Dane.
Adult Fiction
Tricia is seeking high stakes, solid conflicts, mounting tension, endearing characters, engaging dialogue, and emotional depth. The tone can be dark or light. Stories taken from a new perspective or experienced in a fresh way usually catches her attention. She wants intriguing cultures, gripping adventures, strong heroic and villainous arcs, and life or death moments on the page. Knock her over with emotions. In Horror, Tricia prefers SFF blended with Horror. She wants to see the darker side of science, or the cost of too much magic. Break the characters, but let them rise on newly mended bones. Give her fresh takes in paranormal romance and urban fantasy romance. Also seeking stories with Mandalorian-styled single fathers, LGBTQ+ and BIPOC protagonists as lead characters, more space operas, more non-Milky Way planet colonies, more alien species POVs in stories. Her favorite writers include Nnedi Okorafor, Martha Wells, R.F. Kuang, Brenda Jackson, V. E. Schwab, Casey McQuiston, Nghi Vo, Joe Abercrombie, Holly Black, and Rebecca Roanhorse.
Anime favorites include The Apothecary Diaries, Tower of God, Attack on Titan, 86 EIGHTY-SIX, Bungo Stray Dogs, JUJUTSU KAISEN, Black Clover, SPY x FAMILY, and Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End. Fave manhwa/manhua include The World After The Fall, Omniscient Reader’s Viewpoint, Solo Leveling, Nano Machine, Eleceed, and Magic Emperor.
Genres Represented
- Science Fiction
- Fantasy
- Romance
- SFF/Horror-blend
- Graphic novels (adult only)
Tricia Does Not Represent
- Non-fiction (Memoirs, Cookbooks, Biography, etc.)
- Mystery/Suspense/Thriller/Espionage
- Picture books/Chapter books/Middle Grade
- Young Adult/New Adult
- Novels in Verse
- Literary
- Historical Romance
- Romantic Suspense
- Erotica
- Novellas or Short Fiction
- Faith-Focused/Religious
- Screenplays
- Stage plays
