Alex Slater

Alex Slaughter @abuckslater · 2d

THE HAZEL WOOD is not only pure #MSWL material for this agent, but it looks great doing it too. Thanks @the_SDB , lo… https://t.co/7P8ffrb8XF

Alex Slaughter @abuckslater · 1w

I don't know why, but I love Westerns. Give me your weird, untold, funny, new POV #YA Western, à la True Grit or Th… https://t.co/sw1rsMN4LG

• YA
• Funny
• Western

Alex Slater @abuckslater · Aug 30

Unreliable, awkward, unnerving, inappropriately funny, charmingly disturbing, a misfit, a #YA Tom Ripley, an #POC weirdo. #mswl #ownvoices

• YA
• Funny

Alex Slater @abuckslater · Aug 1

@abuckslater Really loved Over the Garden Wall! If it was a book, I would have snatched it up in a heartbeat.

@ChrisCanWrite It's SO GOOD. Like a warped Girl Who Drank The Moon. I love how it takes something familiar (a fairy… https://t.co/LL9ekHiCly

Alex Slater @abuckslater · Aug 1

Please send me your creepy fables and hilarious quests. The more offbeat, disturbing, surreal, and slapstick...the better. #MSWL

Want to make me bite through my pencil? Pitch me THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL meets Hans Christian Andersen. #MSWL

Alex Slater @abuckslater · Aug 1

I'm embarassed to say I've only just heard about and binged #OverTheGardenWall , but I love it, and it hits my #MSWL … https://t.co/4cRkOxLfVu

Please send me your creepy fables and hilarious quests. The more offbeat, disturbing, surreal, and slapstick...the better. #MSWL

Alex Slater @abuckslater · Aug 1

I'm embarassed to say I've only just heard about and binged #OverTheGardenWall , but I love it, and it hits my #MSWL … https://t.co/4cRkOxLfVu

Alex Slater @abuckslater · Jun 9

Nebraska girl DQ'd from soccer game because she was listed as a boy. So her teammates cut their hair in solidarity… https://t.co/nfIJw5IcVX

Here the climactic scene of my favorite, unwritten middle grade novel. #MSWL https://t.co/InbiUKJ2sz

• MG

Alex Slater @abuckslater · Jun 8

Do you read a lot of Junot Díaz? Jesmyn Ward? If writers like them are your heroes, we will get along. Send me their progeny. #MSWL #YA #MG

• MG
• YA

Alex Slater @abuckslater · Jun 8

I'm also looking for the weird, surreal, hilarious literary #YA that blends genres and punches guts. #OwnVoices are 🔑. #MSWL

• YA
• Literary

Alex Slater @abuckslater · Jun 8

While these excellent #PitMad pitches are scrolling by, thought I'd re-up the old #MSWL ...

Please send me #YA & #MG stories about the immigrant experience. Can be set either in this world or another, but make it authetic. #MSWL

• MG
• YA

Alex Slater @abuckslater · May 17

Tiny meatball-shaped Janus plays catch-up with big sister moon Rhea. https://t.co/t9yhKm2c4f https://t.co/CqLhP1sJh2

#MSWL https://t.co/nOoewX4kdZ

Alex Slater @abuckslater · Apr 13

8-year-old learns to drive on YouTube, heads to McDonald's https://t.co/PirtcbmTqz

#MSWL and what this headline doesn't say is that he brought along his younger sister and obeyed every street sign. https://t.co/bu2jDZFhtS

Alex Slater @abuckslater · Mar 27

No one bothered to tell contestants living in the wild that the reality show they were shooting had been canceled… https://t.co/C8HSE4VExD

omg #MSWL forever. https://t.co/lCHGBjlEQp

Alex Slater @abuckslater · Mar 21

Got a weird, hard-to-categorize, scary but hopeful, personal yet timely, teen-voiced novel that you don't really know what to do with? #MSWL

Alex Slater @abuckslater · Feb 8

What I wish for? Evidence that youre aware of the conversation already going on. Is your character underpresented in fiction? Send it. #MSWL

Alex Slater @abuckslater · Feb 8

"How about some great comps? Like, 'Atlanta' meets 'Bone Gap' or 'Speak' meets 'Moonlight'? Brave, bold, diverse #YA ...#MSWL...

• YA
• Diverse

Alex Slater @abuckslater · Feb 8

"Hmm...I'll also do some dark, literary middle grade...Ooo, is that a retelling? Of the Vanishing Hitchhiker? Throw that on... #MSWL ...

• MG
• Literary
• Retelling

Alex Slater @abuckslater · Feb 8

I love #MSWL . It's like picking ice cream toppings - "I'll take some #YA fantasy based on Pakistani myths...#ownvoices please...

• Fantasy
• YA
• Myth

Alex Slater @abuckslater · Jan 30

#MSWL Your YA series based on non-western myths...Your middle grade that feels slightly creepy and your not sure what to call it...Your best

• MG
• YA
• Myth