Meg Keene Books, a project from Wicked Son, publishes exceptional Jewish and Israeli fiction across genres. We're looking for literary fiction, romance, thrillers, horror, family sagas, crime, fantasy, and literary memoir, along with books that defy any one category.
We publish books where Jewish life, culture, and ideas are vital to the story. We care about great prose, depth, and complexity—but we also love books you'd read at the beach. We're looking for books span Jewish experience, from the vast diaspora to Israel, through memory and loss, exile and aliyah, tragedy and joy.
We publish books for everyone, but our work is dedicated to the smart, demanding, and eternal Jewish reader.
What We Publish
Four to six books a year means no divided attention: every novel gets serious editing, thoughtful design, and the full weight of our marketing and promotion. We treat each of our books like a Jewish cultural event.
The Idea
An intentionally small list...
... of books with something to say
We're looking for books that are strange, smart, funny, sexy, and difficult (and yes, commercial). We let our novels be deeply Jewish without translating themselves for outsiders. We want stories that confront the present moment and explore our history. We're looking to publish exceptional books, and launch important careers.
Meg Keene is the Executive Editor of Meg Keene Books, part of Wicked Son, with global distribution through Simon & Schuster. She has spent her career at the intersection of writing, editing, community, and culture.
Meet the
Executive Editor
For fifteen years, Meg was the founder and editor-in-chief of A Practical Wedding, which she built from a kitchen-table blog into a self-funded seven-figure media company and the largest independently owned wedding publication in the English language. At its height, APW reached more than two million readers a month and had a cross-platform reach of more than 15 million. She is also the bestselling author of A Practical Wedding and A Practical Wedding Planner, both published by Hachette, which together have sold more than 150,000 copies.
Her writing and commentary have appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, NPR, and The Atlantic. She is driven by finding work with a point of view, sharpening it, and building an audience around it.
Some Favorite Books
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Michael Chabon
Great House, Nicole Krauss
The Death of Us, Abigail Dean
Fervor, Toby Lloyd
Love and Other Enchantments, Masha Zur-Glozman
How To Submit
Agented + Unagented submissions welcome
submissions@wickedsonbooks.com, attn: Meg Keene Books
SEND TO:
INCLUDE:
query letter · synopsis · first 50 pages