Dara Kaye, Literary Agent, Ross Yoon Agency

Oh I'll read the heck out of this one!

And it seems like a good time to remind #amquerying Twitter that high on my #MSWL for SFF/spec fic are stories set in Korea and/or that draw on Korean myth and history

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Dara Kaye @DaraKaye · 21 Aug 2018

Tomi Obaro @TomiObaro

I love this story — Chinese billionaires are hiring highly trained thieves to steal back Chinese art from European museums gq.com/story/the-grea…

Make it magic and add it to my #MSWL x1000000

Magic

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Dara Kaye @DaraKaye · 10 Aug 2018

Leigh 'Birch' Harlen 🦇 @LeighHarlen

@gaileyfrey Well, this was surprisingly popular. Is queer, trans slacker Legally Blonde on anyone's manuscript wishlist? Cause I also ended a six year relationship and had sex with a girl (in the woods, lol) for the first time in law school. I could make that shit so queer and so trashy

Replying to @LeighHarlen

*Smashes #MSWL button*

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Dara Kaye @DaraKaye · 7 Aug 2018

Micro SF/F stories @MicroSFF

Few children are born to us out there, among the stars. Maybe we need the right magnetosphere, or maybe there are no souls. So we return to Earth, like sea turtles returning to their beach, and every time, we find you have forgotten us.
Come, will you come with us to the stars?

...#MSWL

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Dara Kaye @DaraKaye · 1 Aug 2018

Hi! I get this Q a lot, so--

@RossYoon is a nonfiction agency, but I'm expanding my list to include nonfiction + SFF.

Across both, I want to learn surprising things through compelling characters.
For specific examples, check #MSWL

DM pitches👎🏽
Email listed on RYA site 👍🏽

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Dara Kaye @DaraKaye · 1 Aug 2018

Also on my #MSWL--everyone and their mother is producing/staging/writing adaptations of Twelfth Night

That's great! I love Twelfth Night, you love Twelfth Night, we all love Twelfth Night.

But please, for the love of Jacques, will somebody send me an "As You Like It" adaptation

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Dara Kaye @DaraKaye · 1 Aug 2018

N. K. Jemisin @nkjemisin

Every time I see another mediocre Europe-based fantasy, I think of how many brilliant non-European fantasies got rejected to make room for it.

Non-European fantasy is on my forever #MSWL.

Please send it to me so I can submit it to the host of editors who tell me regularly how hungry they are for different stories, fresh settings, and fresh points of view.

Fantasy

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Dara Kaye @DaraKaye · 30 Jul 2018

Ruoxi Chen @jruoxichen

Would love a mythical take on PERFUME (Suskind) with paints instead of scents: historical/secondary world fantasy where True Ochre requires the hair of a just man who's never known bitterness, True White the tears of a serpent who's lost her love etc. Art, blood, hunts. #mswl

The cow as white as milk
The cape as red as blood
The hair as yellow as corn
The slipper as pure as gold

(Seconding this #MSWL)

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Dara Kaye @DaraKaye · 31 May 2018

In the last 2 days, 2 editors have told me they're looking for SFF rooted in Vietnam and more broadly SE Asia.

If that's your book and you're looking for an agent, get in touch!

#MSWL

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Dara Kaye @DaraKaye · 17 May 2018

Samantha Mash 🌾 @anamericanghost

Khutulun was the great-great-granddaughter of Genghis Khan. She was a strong fighter and insisted that any man who wished to marry her must defeat her in wrestling, but any man who she beat would have to give her a horse. She wound up with 10,000 horses. twitter.com/xnulz/status/9…

Hi writers, I just got off the phone with an editor at a major SFF publisher who specifically mentioned seeing this on my #MSWL and demanded I send it to her if it ever came in.

So.

If you've got it, flaunt it--right into my inbox.