Book Comps: How to Find Them and Frame Them

Struggling to pin down the perfect comp titles for your book? Join our panelists as we dive into the art and strategy of selecting comps that showcase your story’s voice and genre, and discuss how the right comps can boost your pitches, sharpen your positioning, and catch the right audience—whether you’re querying, launching, or marketing.

Book Comps: How to Find Them and Frame Them is part of Storycrafting Sessions: Publishing, a one-day virtual conference hosted by the Weeknight Writers Group. Check out the full panel schedule for more information. 

Our panelists

P. H. Low is a Rhysling- and Locus-nominated Malaysian American writer and poet whose debut novel, These Deathless Shores, is now out from Orbit Books (US) and Angry Robot (UK). Their shorter work is published in Strange Horizons, Reactor, Fantasy Magazine, and Diabolical Plots, among others. P. H. has a bad habit of moving cities every few years, but can be found online at ph-low.com.

Mona Mehas (she/her) writes poetry and prose from the perspective of a retired disabled teacher in Indiana USA. Paddler Press nominated her poem 'In 1920' for a Pushcart Prize in November 2023. Her work has appeared in over 70 journals, anthologies, and online museums. Her poetry books Questions I Didn't Know I'd Asked and Hand-Me-Downs were published by LJMcD and are available on Amazon. Two of Mona's poems received first place honors in the 2023 Poetry Society of Indiana Fall contest. You can read those poems in the Poetry Society publication, Ink to Paper, volume 8, available on Amazon. Mona's third poetry collection is Self-Centered and is published by Bottleneck Press.

Moniza Hossain is a Singaporean author of Bengali descent who writes children’s books inspired by her heritage. Her debut picture book, Street Puppy Masjid Cat, is coming out in October of 2025 with Little Bee Books, and her sophomore picture book, Ritu In The Sun, will be published by Random House Children’s Books in 2026. She also writes books for middle grade readers. Her middle grade debut, The Fear Factory, will be published by Holiday House Books in 2026. She has a short story in the award winning anthology Being Ace, and another in an anthology entitled The Beasts Beneath the Winds, that will be published in the fall of 2025 with Abrams. She lives in Manchester with her husband.

Our moderator

Jade Benjamin is a Canadian writer and editor who is fiercely in love with language, words, and magical worlds. She works as a freelance editor, fitting work for independent author clients around her 9-5 expenses-paying job. She also works on the acquisitions team for Renaissance Press and is the co-founder of the Weeknight Writers Group.