Erik Hane

New year and all, so maybe I should do some #MSWL? I would LOVE to find some more writers to start 2017.

I am technically closed to queries, but if you have a protag. with a complicated relationship with America, I'd love to see it #MSWL

The new Lethem, A GAMBLER"S ANATOMY, is awesome (to me). Anyone got something like that? Games taken too seriously? Gamblers losing? #MSWL

Hey, so, I'd bet that 95% of my submissions are fiction. I really want some compelling NF proposals! Science, culture, essays, history #MSWL

Last one: I love the American west. That's my home. Lit fic set in CO, NM, etc. People get Up To Stuff out west and I am HERE FOR IT #MSWL

Magic that isn't real magic. Ghosts not really there. Tricks, illusions. As in, an adult novel SET IN REALITY but with surreal themes #MSWL

Literary novels: very young or very old protags with weird traits. obsessions, preoccupations, strange hobbies, anxieties, etc #MSWL

I (of course) loved A BRIEF HISTORY OF SEVEN KILLINGS and CITY ON FIRE. I'm not scared of your giant, expansive, ambitious lit. novel! #MSWL

Mysticism, superstition, ritual, the Saints: Catholicism has some really interesting stuff in its past/present #MSWL

Though I'd love to see a new book/essays on modern southern culture from ANY angle (good luck doing that without football though) #MSWL

I LOVE serious pop. science. Especially ev. bio, origin of life, physics, astrobiology, zoology. #MSWL

The intersection of big-time college football, southern identity, and the American id: any culture critics writing something similar? #mswl

This is specific/obscure, but if you have a proposal for a cultural history of Canadian pond hockey, please query me #mswl

So, here's the thing, even though I do want sports queries: I hate baseball, guys. I just do. It's not your book, it's me.*

*It's baseball

Is "evolutionary biologist twitter" a thing? I'd love to see proposals for general-interest books from scientists up to cool stuff... #mswl

SEC football. US politics. National identity. You a culture critic/contemporary essayist who sees the links? Please, please query me. #mswl

@erikhane If it's plot/character-driven and also touches on a modern issue as a result? That's a different story (pun intended) #mswl

I'm not into Issue Novels. If your query "shows the corruption of..." or is a vehicle to opine on a political point, it's not for me. #mswl

Also: I want tigers in NYC apts. I want savants. A MC undefeated at Chinese checkers. I want a MC who thinks (s)he's John the Baptist. #mswl

@erikhane What I'm wishing for is what a writer convinces me I should want. I want what your writing tells me I urgently need to read. #mswl