Jessica Faust
Literary Agent
BookEnds Literary Agency
President & founder of BookEnds Literary Agency, author advocate, optimist, & professional pain in the ass. Runs on coffee, wine, & kettlebells. She/Her
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Submission wishlists #MSWL have all been updated for BookEnds recently. Be sure to check out this fabulous flock on our website bookendsliterary.com/submissions/ -- all links to our query forms can be found there. #querytip
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James McGowan @jamerrson
Hey #AmQuerying #AmWriting Twitter! The chicken is out of the bag: I’m now open to queries and building my own list. You can go here to submit: QueryMe.Online/jmcgowan. (Also a thread on some things I’m looking for) pic.twitter.com/oFcKZfnTIOHere you go writers, fresh agent blood at @bookendslit but get in there. Rumor has it he's already signed clients. #amquerying #MSWL
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Read more about my submission wants/needs: bookendsliterary.com/submissions-2/ or query me: querymanager.com/query/Jessica_… #MSWL #amquerying #amwriting
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Jessica Faust @BookEndsJessica
I vowed to stay off Twitter today so instead I dug deep into @PublishersLunch & discovered so many great deals that grabbed my attention & when I see great deals I start a #MSWL list.I want more leadership & business books written by women. I'm tired of reading @inc & @FastCompany book lists with very few women authors. Not their fault, it's mine for not having enough on my list. So women please send me the next START WITH WHY or THE ONE THING. #MSWL
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A new video is up and this time we got @BookEndsKim & @SoCalledYALife on board. #MSWL
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Want to know what #TeamBookEnds is looking for RIGHT NOW? Here is everyone's *one dream book* #MSWL bookendsliterary.com/2018/09/26/boo…
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Paula Boon @PaulaJBoon
@BookEndsJessica Got any recommendations for us? Which ones blew you away?you can see everything I've read this year by following me on Goodreads: goodreads.com/user_challenge… #MSWL
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Good morning! In my continued search for more books set in Alaska & wilderness survival books I’m heading to the source. Alaska Writers here I come! #mswl #writersconference
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Celia McMahon @CeliaMwrites
@BookEndsJessica @carrieunderwood @jamerrson I agree! I have been wanting to draft a novel around Blown Away that involves weather controlling sisters on the run for ages now.OMG!!!! I better get that query when you're ready. #MSWL #queryme
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James McGowan @jamerrson
I've spent the better part of my week building a case to prove to @BookEndsJessica @BookEndsKim & @AgentJessicaA why @carrieunderwood songs are the perfect #MSWL for Mystery, Suspense & Thriller agents.On behalf of all of us our #MSWL is any book based on a @carrieunderwood song because @jamerrson has proven every one would make a great Mystery, Suspense or Thriller. #JamesSpeaksTruth
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Lunchtime at @bookendslit finds @jamerrson & I discussing #MSWL ideas and some plot hooks we would both love to see. Plane crashes & bucket lists lead the chat as well lost in the wilderness stories. For me, these are almost always for an adult audience.
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Brent Dragoo @Brent_Dragoo
@BookEndsJessica What kinds of crime stories interest you?I'm most interested in mysteries/thrillers/suspense/domestic suspense/thrillers-- anything with a female protagonist. I'm not usually a fan of the spy thriller or international thriller, although I would love more international suspense/mystery. #askagent #MSWL
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Jessica Faust @BookEndsJessica
A hook hooks the reader, sometimes it's a way to distinguish the cover, sometimes it just grabs readers. A family quarantined for seven days together is a great hook SEVEN DAYS OF US. A husband who sells a house while his wife is away is great--OUR HOUSE #MSWLA mother who, in her will, leaves the stipulation that her daughter must complete a life list before receiving her inheritance--THE LIFE LIST. These are a few examples of big hooks from books I read this year. #MSWL
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Jessica Faust @BookEndsJessica
This is such an industry term though & I'm aware that those new to publishing, author or otherwise, don't always have a grasp of what is meant by that, or how big a hook really needs to be. #amwritingA hook hooks the reader, sometimes it's a way to distinguish the cover, sometimes it just grabs readers. A family quarantined for seven days together is a great hook SEVEN DAYS OF US. A husband who sells a house while his wife is away is great--OUR HOUSE #MSWL
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I will not be able to spend a lot of time in #PitMad, but I am open to queries and hungry. #MSWL: mystery, suspense, thriller, women's fiction, upmarket & literary adult fiction. Query me here: querymanager.com/query/Jessica_…
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Danielle Marie @dmsreadwrite
@BookEndsJessica You’re so welcome! I’ve got a great little book in the works on this very notion of- what if we didn’t have to be mansplained to.Ooooh!!! I mansplaining book. I want that! #MSWL
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Ken Poirier @theking4mayor
@BookEndsJessica If you want the same book but with a different author, that's toeing the line of plagerism. If the information is not gender specific, what is the point of a gender specific author? Do readers care about gender or only the validity of the information?I think you'll find in any #MSWL nobody wants "the same" book with a different author. We want a book that's as powerful and compelling as the one that touched us, but a different author would write a different book certainly.