Alex Slater
@abuckslater
Literary agent at Trident Media Group. Enthrall me with your acumen.
Manhattan, NY

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.

Alex Slater @abuckslater · Mar 19
#MSWL reminder, I will jump at any #MG that comps Over The Garden Wall.

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

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


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

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

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



Alex Slater @abuckslater · 24 Oct 2017
Kind of thrilled to be reading a #YA mss right now that's like, The Semplica-Girl Diaries, told from the SG's point-of-view. Hello #MSWL.

Alex Slater @abuckslater · 19 Oct 2017
THE HAZEL WOOD is not only pure #MSWL material for this agent, but it looks great doing it too. Thanks @the_SDB, love it already.

Alex Slater @abuckslater · 12 Oct 2017
I don't know why, but I love Westerns. Give me your weird, untold, funny, new POV #YA Western, à la True Grit or The Sisters Brothers. #MSWL

Alex Slater @abuckslater · 30 Aug 2017
Unreliable, awkward, unnerving, inappropriately funny, charmingly disturbing, a misfit, a #YA Tom Ripley, an #POC weirdo. #mswl #ownvoices

Alex Slater @abuckslater · 1 Aug 2017
Chris Hernandez @ChrisCanWrite
@abuckslater Really loved Over the Garden Wall! If it was a book, I would have snatched it up in a heartbeat.It's SO GOOD. Like a warped Girl Who Drank The Moon. I love how it takes something familiar (a fairytale) and makes it feel new. #mswl

Alex Slater @abuckslater · 1 Aug 2017
Alex Slater @abuckslater
Please send me your creepy fables and hilarious quests. The more offbeat, disturbing, surreal, and slapstick...the better. #MSWLWant to make me bite through my pencil? Pitch me THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL meets Hans Christian Andersen. #MSWL

Alex Slater @abuckslater · 1 Aug 2017
Alex Slater @abuckslater
I'm embarassed to say I've only just heard about and binged #OverTheGardenWall, but I love it, and it hits my #MSWL with lethal precision. pic.twitter.com/SON88k0q68Please send me your creepy fables and hilarious quests. The more offbeat, disturbing, surreal, and slapstick...the better. #MSWL

Alex Slater @abuckslater · 1 Aug 2017
I'm embarassed to say I've only just heard about and binged #OverTheGardenWall, but I love it, and it hits my #MSWL with lethal precision.

Alex Slater @abuckslater · 9 Jun 2017
Bradd Jaffy @BraddJaffy
Nebraska girl DQ'd from soccer game because she was listed as a boy.So her teammates cut their hair in solidarity. es.pn/2sL5z91 pic.twitter.com/Rd0mPm7zKZ
Here the climactic scene of my favorite, unwritten middle grade novel. #MSWL