Alex Slater, Literary Agent, Trident Media Group

KANYE WEST @kanyewest

oh by the way this is my book that I'm writing in real time. No publisher or publicist will tell me what to put where or how many pages to write. This is not a financial opportunity this is an innate need to be expressive.

#MSWL

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Alex Slater @abuckslater · Apr 4

To the #query writers, without whom we agents are NOTHING: my #MSWL contains #YA thrillers, eccentric and wild. Send away.

YA
Thriller

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Alex Slater @abuckslater · Mar 19

#MSWL reminder, I will jump at any #MG that comps Over The Garden Wall.

MG

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Alex Slater @abuckslater · Mar 8

Looking for weird #YA in #pitmad today...I want something surreal like FX's Atlanta, or A.S. King's 'Still Life with Tornado.' Can't really figure out what it is yourself? #Ownvoices writer? Query me. #MSWL

YA
OwnVoices

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Alex Slater @abuckslater · Feb 13

#Querying? Send me your contemporary #MG, especially if it plays with structure like Jack Cheng's See You in the Cosmos. Send me your historical fantasy #YA, especially if it has a multicultural cast like Heidi Heilig's The Girl From Everywhere. #MSWL

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Alex Slater @abuckslater · Feb 8

AP Oddities @AP_Oddities

"He went in, but obviously he couldn't come back out the same way:" When a Florida boy wanted a stuffed toy, he crawled inside a claw-style vending machine. apne.ws/cRgukoc #odd

#portalstory #mswl #mglit

MG

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Alex Slater @abuckslater · Jan 25

Twisty, absurdly funny, fast-paced psychological thrillers, with #ownvoices teen POC, attacking ideas of identity, paranoia, plunder. Think 'Ripley' meets 'Get Out.' #MSWL #YA

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Alex Slater @abuckslater · 27 Nov 2017

Ramin Setoodeh @RaminSetoodeh

Jordan Peele: "When I started to write this film, I set out to make a movie that would be my favorite movie that I had never seen." #GothamAwards

This is all my #MSWL forever and ever. Write what’s missing. I guarantee you, someone else is looking for it too. #YA #ownvoices

OwnVoices

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Alex Slater @abuckslater · 21 Nov 2017

Does anything more precisely encapsulate my teenage soul than when Elliott Smith draws out that “s” in Needle in the Hay? “You oughta be proud that I’m getting good markssssss.” #MSWL

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Alex Slater @abuckslater · 9 Nov 2017

Dr. Adrienne Keene @NativeApprops

You know what’s happening this week? @IndigenousCon—Indigenous Comic Con. Where Native folks will be showcasing Native comics and heroes from our perspectives. Make *those* movies.

#MSWL

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Alex Slater @abuckslater · 25 Oct 2017

Cristin Stickles @ThtsWhatSheRead

A Rosencrantz & Gildenstern are Dead-style vehicle for those two entomologists that only get that one scene in Silence of the Lambs

#MSWL

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Alex Slater @abuckslater · 24 Oct 2017