Alyssa Jennette
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Stonesong
I ask a lot of questions. Painfully earnest. Art school grad (MICA '10). Literary agent at @StonesongNYC . Silence is not peace.
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Alyssa Jennette @AlyssaJennette
Just came from the incredible Noah's Beasts exhibit at @MorganLibrary. Don't miss this--inspiration and beauty for DAYS. pic.twitter.com/SRF728yRlgOn a related note: go to museums and galleries. Take the tours. I guarantee you will be inspired/find a great story there. #MSWL
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I would love a picture book that introduces logic concepts. Or an MG whose central character applies logic to a complex mystery! #MSWL
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Micro SF/F stories @MicroSFF
"You are reading a book," the car said. It pulled over and stopped."This road is paid for by adverstising boards. Look at them to proceed."
This is precisely the sort of Ffordian/Prachettian joke I like. #MSWL
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@chaeronaea Clubbing every Saturday and Sunday sounds like some kind of fairy tale curse. "For insulting the witch, you must dance every weekend away"#MSWL in which a witch curses a millennial with all the things boomers think millennials do on purpose.
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Alyssa Jennette @AlyssaJennette
How about a novel about revolution high up? Not scrappy rebels, but public figures who support a regime and spy/undermine within? #MSWLStill want this! I want to see people who are part of something awful acknowledge the awfulness and FIGHT BACK AGAINST IT. #MSWL
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A book that about the fashion world in the vein of how Black Swan treated the ballet world. Think dark and twisty Devil Wears Prada. #MSWL
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And an #MSWL for me:
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Just learned that firing squads traditionally shoot one blank in the lineup for plausible deniability. Tell me that story. #MSWL
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#MSWL: This 700-Year-Old Hand-Carved Cave Was Found Behind A Rabbit Hole In The British Countryside. trendingly.com/rabbit-hole-ca… via @trendingly
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Alyssa Jennette @AlyssaJennette
Real life, revealed. (Thanks @am_davenport for the rec.) Love & Black Lives, in Pictures Found on a Brooklyn Street nyti.ms/2kawc65I would really love something like this as a book: MC finds artifact and goes in search of its owner, discovers history along the way. #MSWL
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ellen @ellencormier
#MSWL: A Riverdale-esque YA retelling of a classic, non-murdery tale. But less soapy, more literary, and turn the noir up to 11.Guys, please. Put the noir in my inbox. #mswl
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A Craigslist Missed Connection rom-com. #MSWL
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A YA epistolary novel told through chats, emails, and texts about the decline of a best-friendship. #MSWL
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I always want magic, but I want to see contemporary folk magic: stitching, knots, bones, herbs, improvisation, etc. #MSWL
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I hope it goes without saying that I want to see diverse characters, authors, settings, cultures, etc! #MSWL