Abby Saul
Literary Agent
The Lark Group
agent at The Lark Group (@LarkWords), reader of books, hiker of trails | she/her

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Last night mostly made me crave more - and more recognition for - women's stories. (And yes, I'm very proud to look at the next 7 months of @LarkWords releases and see all female-driven projects.) #MSWL

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I'm so excited to open back up to queries next week (1/18!)! My online #mswl continues to be a great place to find out what I like, and I'm definitely looking for thrillers that make me go 😱, historicals that make me go😭🥰, and contemporary fiction that makes me go 🧐😍

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The New Yorker @NewYorker
Between 1899 and her death, in 1962, the photographer Lora Webb Nichols created and collected some 24,000 negatives documenting life in her small Wyoming town, whose fortunes boomed and then busted along with the region’s copper mines. nyer.cm/LGyNjSGThese are very very worth seeing, and #MSWL

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This image came up as part of cover discussions for an upcoming book and... yes. #mswl forever!

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Abby Saul @BookySaul
I have certain plot things that I always love, in commercial or literary fiction: family secrets, locked rooms, dual timelines, exciting and tear-jerking finales, a sense of history and the book’s place in the larger scheme of life #MSWL.@LarkWords is again open to queries! I’m retweeting my latest #MSWL tweets because they still apply... looking forward to seeing your words!

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Anne Louise Avery @AnneLouiseAvery
A ribbon manufacturer from Saint-Étienne, Félix Thiollier's (1842-1914) melancholy photographs, shaped by the humanity of the Barbizon school, capture fragmentary moments in time, shards of light, twists of smoke, glances– vast narratives from the most transitory of experiences. pic.twitter.com/7zaMwmLFvW#MSWL !

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As always, the most important things I want are harder to define and defy plot. These are characters who feel real, a world that I get lost in, and incredible, unputdownable writing. #MSWL I can't wait to see what you've got! larkwords.com/how-to-query

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I'd really like a female-driven thriller that has a new take on the "maybe I can't trust the [partner/friend/parent] I trust most in the world" trope, ideally in a stunning setting (mountains! island! creepy manor on the moors!) #MSWL

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Women's fiction: I'm game for almost anything, but I'd love for it to be a bit swoony and totally transportive #MSWL

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I am wishing for some realistic and transportive literary fiction, grounded in the messy reality of human lives (past or present) - think THE GREAT BELIEVERS or A LITTLE LIFE #MSWL

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For mystery, I'm craving a Golden Age-inspired mystery but with a dark/bleak plot - Agatha meets Tana #MSWL

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I'd love an #ownvoices upmarket 20th C historical fiction - ideally with a secret something that has to be revealed (I'm thinking ala Lovecraft Country without the Lovecraftian horror/fantasy elements, which is ridiculous to say but I want it) #MSWL

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I have certain plot things that I always love, in commercial or literary fiction: family secrets, locked rooms, dual timelines, exciting and tear-jerking finales, a sense of history and the book’s place in the larger scheme of life #MSWL

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The Lark Group is reopening to queries on 10/5, so I'm going to be sharing some of my #MSWL this week!

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It is autumn and summer has ended and this photo makes me think of @CEllisWriter’s AT SUMMER’S END (out next year) and serious #mswl for more books with these vibes

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Reposting this interview for the upcoming @MidwestWriters Agent Fest as it's a great #mswl guide for me! midwestwriters.org/2019/12/pitch-…

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The Lark Group @LarkWords
Happy 2020! We’re reopened to queries, send them along! larkwords.com/how-to-queryQueries are reopened! And my #mswl page has been updated. *gimme hands*

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Abby Saul @BookySaul
It's the final countdown, #WritingCommunity! I'll be closed to queries starting next week, so get them in now! Otherwise I'll look forward to reading in 2020. twitter.com/BookySaul/stat…#MSWL is always adult fiction (particularly women's, mysteries, thrillers, historical, and select literary) that is doing something new. Underexplored settings, unusual characters, turning tropes on their head - gimme!

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Finally watching Outlander bc Netflix, and it’s way fun. But I also would love a story that’s just the beginning of the first episode: a couple coming back after a war and years apart, trying to see what their marriage is in light of who they’ve become #MSWL

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I love a bottle episode... of tv, in a movie, or for a book! (As always, bonus points if said bottle is actually a spooky mansion or creepy island) #mswl