Melissa Danaczko
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I was updating my Manuscript Wish List and it got auto-corrected to Manuscript WITCH List and I think I'm just going to leave it at that. Send me all the witchy stuff. #mswl
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Melissa Danaczko @mad2034
What should I read on vacation? I have been craving speculative fiction lately but open to all recs!Should say this also applies for my #mswl 🙂
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Melissa Danaczko @mad2034
Just saw the phenomenal (and hilarious!) @crucet read from Make Your Home Among Strangers and am reminded that we need more novels about first-in-family navigating college, especially from poc voices #MSWLPutting this out into the universe again. I would love to see more novels about POC navigating a college campus #mswl
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And if you recognize that last line from Fool’s Rush In, you’ll know I’m not opposed to a clever rom com, especially if there’s some edge/angst to it #mswl
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And as long as it’s within a category I rep, I love being surprised by something I never knew I always wanted #mswl
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Genre-bending. I don’t rep traditional sci-fi, horror or fantasy but very open to those elements being folded into a literary novel (think Victor Lavalle, Kate Maruyama, Rivers Solomon, Helen Oyemi) #mswl
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Novels about shame/guilt, personal or cultural, like Atonement, The English Patient, Remains of the Day, Shame (that last one is a given) #mswl
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Novels that embrace moral ambiguity, like that of An American Marriage #mswl
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Explorations of madness (or perceived madness) and characters who have reached their breaking point and/or are in a downward spiral (Girls on Fire, Meg Abbott, Merritt Tierce) #mswl
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Always very interested in an international lens but domestically, I’d love to see more novels set in Silicon Valley, Florida, Texas, Alaska (or anywhere that experiences uninterrupted daylight or darkness) #mswl
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Border stories #mswl
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Multi-generational novels like Pachinko, Kintu, Roses, The Fortunes, etc. #mswl
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This is broad but novels exploring identity. Everything from The Girl Who Fell From the Sky to There, There to She’s Not There. #mswl
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Gothic atmospheres like Sarah Waters, Thirteenth Tale, What Should Be Wild #mswl
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Novels about real-estate or inheritance. Doesn’t have to be for the super wealthy (for instance, I loved The Turner House but also fell hard for Family Trust). These things are always high-stakes for those involved #mswl
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Cults, con-artists and survivalist narratives are longtime obsessions of mine—as are narratives about obsession #mswl
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#mswl A few more. One of my favorite recent books was #1 Chinese Restaurant, so if you have a restaurant (or workplace) drama that blurs the line between family and employees, send my way.
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#MSWL Also craving smart escapist reads, fairy-tale retellings, books about motherhood (not prescriptive though) and anything that tackles the most urgent issues in our society and/or pushes the envelop.
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#mswl Also, very specific but throwing it out into the world just in case: a novel or narrative history about the relationship between Josephine Baker and Frida Kahlo