Ashley Hearn @AshleyHearn · May 14
Still hunting for YA novelizations of my two favorite historical ladies: Julie d' Aubigny (La Maupin) and Ching Shih! #MSWL
Ashley Hearn @AshleyHearn · May 14
Ashley Hearn @AshleyHearn
In celebrating my one year workiversary at Page Street, I'm going to update my #MSWL! Stay tuned for some specific things I'm on the hunt for, but remember, this list is buy no means exhaustive. More than anything I love being surprised by a book, so when in doubt—query!The NUMBER ONE item on my #MSWL is a diverse magic girl squad book. Think Sailor Moon but with an intersectional cast. If you send this to me now, I will read it tomorrow.
Navah WereWolfe @navahw · May 14
Someone just described Solo as Ocean's Eleven in space, and that is LITERALLY a description of the thing I want most in life. #mswl
Victoria Marini @LitAgentMarini · May 14
Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers
There's *so* much history we can take advantage of for YA. Victims of colonization going after the British Empire??? Like, subvert the colonial English genre! Imagine The Little Princess or The Jungle Book but instead of quaint British stories, they're tales of anger & revenge!!#MSWL these !!!!!
Patricia Nelson @patricianels · May 14
Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers
There's *so* much history we can take advantage of for YA. Victims of colonization going after the British Empire??? Like, subvert the colonial English genre! Imagine The Little Princess or The Jungle Book but instead of quaint British stories, they're tales of anger & revenge!!Yes! I would LOVE to see this. #mswl
Genevieve Gagne-Hawes @genevievejude · May 14
Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers
There's *so* much history we can take advantage of for YA. Victims of colonization going after the British Empire??? Like, subvert the colonial English genre! Imagine The Little Princess or The Jungle Book but instead of quaint British stories, they're tales of anger & revenge!!No joke, my Ph.D. dissertation was a postcolonial reading of Raj fictions.
SEND ME ALL THESE SUBVERSIONS they are my dream in life. #MSWL
V for Vendetta @VeroniKaboom · May 14
Give me an antihero who is a thinly veiled Garcia Flynn knockoff. #MSWL #Romance
V for Vendetta @VeroniKaboom · May 14
Seriously. I am open to edgy romance, but I have some requests. Give me an antihero who is TRULY an anti-hero. Like not just kind of grouchy or that old "misogynist with a heart" B.S. Like OK, he murders people, but he respects women and is polite AF. Give me "Mr. Right." #MSWL
V for Vendetta @VeroniKaboom · May 14
This is my current guiltiest pleasure #SFF show (because the science is SO soft) but just FYI, if you're a romance writer and you are shipping Lucy/Wyatt, don't bother querying me because girl, we aren't on the same wavelength. #InLikeFlynn #timeless #MSWL #AntiHeroes
Amanda Shih @amandashih · May 14
Malinda Lo @malindalo
This Mother's Day let me tell you about a queer Asian American woman who never had children of her own but was known in the 1940s as "Dr Mom Chung." Her name was Margaret Chung. Here's a photo of her in her youth. pic.twitter.com/ddAxkhgO6XOmg #MSWL where is my YA biography of this woman
Rachel Stark ✊🏻 @syntactics · May 14
Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers
If I was an agent I think something that would be on the #mswl would be a Pirates of the Caribbean style YA except it's pirates from colonized lands going after the British Empire (@ericsmithrocks plz find this book and rep it thank you) pic.twitter.com/ge9r0SeIUAYASSSSS if any of y'all agents get this you better sell it to me when I'm at a house. #mswl
Michelle Witte @michellewitte · May 14
Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers
If I was an agent I think something that would be on the #mswl would be a Pirates of the Caribbean style YA except it's pirates from colonized lands going after the British Empire (@ericsmithrocks plz find this book and rep it thank you) pic.twitter.com/ge9r0SeIUAAhem. #MSWL
Michelle Witte @michellewitte · May 14
Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers
If I was an agent I think something that would be on the #mswl would be a Pirates of the Caribbean style YA except it's pirates from colonized lands going after the British Empire (@ericsmithrocks plz find this book and rep it thank you) pic.twitter.com/ge9r0SeIUAFor years I’ve been wanting alternate history where North and/or South America, Africa, etc., conquered and colonized Europe instead of other way around. I’ve pondered it but can’t quite visualize the full scope of the differences. I’d love to see how writers envision it. #MSWL
Kiki Nguyen @kianangu · May 14
Rebecca Mix @rebeccarmix
for me? I would love most stories about Messy Parents. Stories about "bad" moms and dads or parents whose behavior bleeds into their relationships w/ their child. I'd love more stories about teens growing into adults and grappling w/ a toxic parent legacy.I have this wish, too 👇🏽 #mswl Also, a great fucking thread.
P.S. Literary Agency @PSLiterary · May 14
"Commercial/upmarket fiction that handles family secrets/reconciliation w/tenderness like TELL THE WOLVES I'M HOME" @kurestinarmada #MSWL psliterary.com/submissions/
Naomi Davis @NaomisLitPix · May 14
Sarah Guan @Sarah_Guan
Let’s also have more protagonist moms whose power doesn’t come from a system of patriarchal monarchy, who come to prominence not for whom they married or birthed, but for their independent accomplishments.Let’s see more heroines whose power isn’t derived from proximity to men.
YES SARAH!!! Life for women and women characters does not start and end with marriage/motherhood. We are women before and after marriage and motherhood, with stories to tell there too. #MSWL esp in SFF.
Grace VOTE NOV. 6 Kendall @GraceKendallLit · May 14
Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers
There's *so* much history we can take advantage of for YA. Victims of colonization going after the British Empire??? Like, subvert the colonial English genre! Imagine The Little Princess or The Jungle Book but instead of quaint British stories, they're tales of anger & revenge!!