Dara Kaye
@DaraKaye
Literary Agent at @RossYoon . @smithcollege , @UCL , & @FulbrightPrgrm alum. Mad as hell.
Washington, DC
Terminator: Dark Fate @Terminator
Welcome to the day after Judgment Day. Producer James Cameron returns with director Tim Miller for #TerminatorDarkFate. In theatres 11.1.19. Watch the official trailer now. pic.twitter.com/HB71m1iGtyOH HELL YES
Here's hoping this movie inspires more studios to fund movies starring women in their 60s hunting monsters
And more writers to send me books where mothers and grandmothers are smart and fierce and capable and the Bad Guys are mutable and complex. #MSWL
Dara Kaye @DaraKaye · 23 Aug 2018
June Hur, Queen of the Heo Clan @WriterJuneHur
I never thought this day would come, and it still feels very unreal to me, but I'M GOING TO BE A PUBLISHED AUTHOR.My book is a murder mystery set in Joseon Dynasty Korea, & also a coming-of-age tale about a girl searching for home. It'll be out in the world in 2020! 😭 pic.twitter.com/vQR0sRk8og
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 · 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*Smashes #MSWL button*
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
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 👍🏽
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
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.
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. #mswlThe 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)
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
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.
Dara Kaye @DaraKaye · 26 Apr 2018
Elif Batuman @BananaKarenina
I wrote about rental relatives in Japan for this week's @NewYorker. newyorker.com/magazine/2018/…What an outrageously good article. #MSWL: both genre fic and nonfic inspired by this phenomenon.
Dara Kaye @DaraKaye · 20 Apr 2018
Military Times @MilitaryTimes
Army researchers are developing a self-aware robot #squid you can 3D print in the field. Neat: bit.ly/2K38piC pic.twitter.com/3dLzelT5vuDefinitely #MSWL ...but this might be the first time I'm not sure whether it's on the list as SFF or nonfiction?