Canelo
Alicia Pountney, Editor, Canelo
I would love to commission more femgore horror like Shy Girl by Mia Ballard or The Lamb by Lucy Rose. I am also interested in commercial genre mash-ups; crime/romance like People Pleaser by Catriona Stewart and Love Letters to a Serial Killer by Tasha Coryell or horroromance like The Haar by David Sodergren or The Sea Hides It’s Dead by Megan Montrager.
I joined Canelo in 2022. I work on crime, thriller and horror titles. I have a keen eye for crime fiction series due to my work on JD Kirk and Simon McCleave.
Books I’m proud of…
I am proud to have worked on a variety of excellent books across the Canelo list including; The Silent Ones by Anna McPartlin, a harrowing Irish crime thriller; What I Told My Friends by Alice Leigh, a can’t-turn-the-page-fast-enough dark academia thriller; Immaculate Conception by Ling Ling Huang, an unsettling horror novel about the future of art and AI and the unravelling of an intimate friendship.
A book I wish I’d published…
I wish I had published The Eyes are the Best Part by Monika Kim and The Sanatorium (in fact the whole Detective Elin Warner series!) by Sarah Pearse. They’re the kinds of stories you race through and then lament how quickly you finished, the kind that stay with you long after they’re over and the kind you want to read again.