Melissa Danaczko

Literary Agent

Stuart Krichevsky Literary Agency

Agent at the Stuart Krichevsky Literary Agency. She/Her

Melissa Danaczko
@mad2034
Literary Agent
Agent at the Stuart Krichevsky Literary Agency. She/Her
23 MSWL

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

Melissa Danaczko
@mad2034
Literary Agent
Agent at the Stuart Krichevsky Literary Agency. She/Her
23 MSWL
Melissa Danaczko
@mad2034
Literary Agent
Agent at the Stuart Krichevsky Literary Agency. She/Her
23 MSWL
Melissa Danaczko
@mad2034
Literary Agent
Agent at the Stuart Krichevsky Literary Agency. She/Her
23 MSWL

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

Melissa Danaczko
@mad2034
Literary Agent
Agent at the Stuart Krichevsky Literary Agency. She/Her
23 MSWL

And as long as it’s within a category I rep, I love being surprised by something I never knew I always wanted #mswl

Melissa Danaczko
@mad2034
Literary Agent
Agent at the Stuart Krichevsky Literary Agency. She/Her
23 MSWL

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

Melissa Danaczko
@mad2034
Literary Agent
Agent at the Stuart Krichevsky Literary Agency. She/Her
23 MSWL

Novels about shame/guilt, personal or cultural, like Atonement, The English Patient, Remains of the Day, Shame (that last one is a given) #mswl

Melissa Danaczko
@mad2034
Literary Agent
Agent at the Stuart Krichevsky Literary Agency. She/Her
23 MSWL

Novels that embrace moral ambiguity, like that of An American Marriage #mswl

Melissa Danaczko
@mad2034
Literary Agent
Agent at the Stuart Krichevsky Literary Agency. She/Her
23 MSWL

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

Melissa Danaczko
@mad2034
Literary Agent
Agent at the Stuart Krichevsky Literary Agency. She/Her
23 MSWL

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

Melissa Danaczko
@mad2034
Literary Agent
Agent at the Stuart Krichevsky Literary Agency. She/Her
23 MSWL
Melissa Danaczko
@mad2034
Literary Agent
Agent at the Stuart Krichevsky Literary Agency. She/Her
23 MSWL

Multi-generational novels like Pachinko, Kintu, Roses, The Fortunes, etc. #mswl

Melissa Danaczko
@mad2034
Literary Agent
Agent at the Stuart Krichevsky Literary Agency. She/Her
23 MSWL

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

Melissa Danaczko
@mad2034
Literary Agent
Agent at the Stuart Krichevsky Literary Agency. She/Her
23 MSWL

Gothic atmospheres like Sarah Waters, Thirteenth Tale, What Should Be Wild #mswl

Melissa Danaczko
@mad2034
Literary Agent
Agent at the Stuart Krichevsky Literary Agency. She/Her
23 MSWL

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

Melissa Danaczko
@mad2034
Literary Agent
Agent at the Stuart Krichevsky Literary Agency. She/Her
23 MSWL

Cults, con-artists and survivalist narratives are longtime obsessions of mine—as are narratives about obsession #mswl

Melissa Danaczko
@mad2034
Literary Agent
Agent at the Stuart Krichevsky Literary Agency. She/Her
23 MSWL

#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.

Melissa Danaczko
@mad2034
Literary Agent
Agent at the Stuart Krichevsky Literary Agency. She/Her
23 MSWL

#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.

Melissa Danaczko
@mad2034
Literary Agent
Agent at the Stuart Krichevsky Literary Agency. She/Her
23 MSWL

#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