Ali Herring
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Spencerhill Associates
Literary Agent, Spencerhill Associates. Twin mom+1 📚 Eclectic in life & books. I 💙 Jane Austen & SFF in equal doses. #TeamSpencerhill Ali-ens 👽 rock!
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Been thinking I'd love an MG or a YA book with "empathy" at its heart as a theme. Not looking for preachy or lessons, just that as its core heart. #MSWL
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I'd really love to see middle grade projects by black authors that center black kids/teens that spin (ie make new & unique) old school & current favs like Babysitters Club, Nancy Drew, Hardy Boys, Harry Potter, Matilda, Peter Pan, a modern Narnia, Treasure Island + more #MSWL
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ninah @riaessam
@Itsdiyahshalon self healing? I SAW RUMPELSTILTSKINI'm almost afraid to ask. Somehow this is terrifying which makes me #MSWL a horror with him as Villain. Nothing gross though. I don't do gross out. Just smart and terrifying.
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My wheelhouse tends to be middle grade, YA and women's fiction, both ABA and CBA. In women's fiction, I'm looking ONLY for interesting hooks ... like sure divorce revenge, but like with a sailing race & bet involved like in @Talicktweets Beware the Mermaids. #MSWL
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Right now I'd really love to have more category romance written for lines like Love Inspired and Love Inspired Suspense. #MSWL
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Loveher Girl 🫶🏾 @TheOhEmmDee
There’s a conversation brewing on TikTok on the erasure of teen girlhood. They don’t see themselves in mainstream anything. They jump from being a kid to a baby adult. They have vv little representation. They don’t market anything specifically for them like they did for us 😕I wanna see books for this age group #MSWL not quite grown up, no longer babies.
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Kiley Autumn @KileyAWrites
Looking for #MG where the narrator every once in awhile casually addresses the reader (i.e. "You know how sometimes..." or "Have you ever had a stone stuck in your shoe?"), but NOT in a "This is what happened to me last summer & I'm going to tell you about it" type way. Thoughts?You know, #MSWL for when I reopen.
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Been having the best time with my youngest, who introduced me to Fruits Basket over break. Just finished the third season, and if anyone can send me an MS that comps to that or makes me feel the same way Tohru, Kyo, Yuki, Momiji, Haru, Rin & the zodiac members do, I'm in... #MSWL
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Someone send me a dramedy like the old show ER except in book form. Maybe something with series potential, but it's own arc. #MSWL.
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unintentionelle @ellewasamistake
if i were a 300 year old immortal vampire, i would simply not enrol in a local high school#MSWL grouchy, hot 300 year old immortal vampire who watches other hot 300 year old immortal vampires going to high school and makes horrible fun of them but then has to eat his words, because there's this girl ...
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I love the word adorkable and everything it conveys. Pls give me a YA novel with adorkable characters witg just as an adorkable plot. Some romance would be nice. I need something quirky. Thank you. #MSWL.
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Ok so I love general market books with religious content. Think anything Dan Brown or in inspy Frank Peretti. Now merge that with a touch or smidge more of horror. Now hear me: I DO NOT want anything sacrilegious--at all. We all have our boundaries. #MSWL
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#MSWL *Think "If Bridgerton was an inspirational novel."
*Think "not an old-fashioned romance" but still set in opulent historical regency period.
*Think "not historically accurate." Give me diversity, sass.
*I am looking specifically for Inspy/Christian fic/clean" read romance
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I ran across the adventures of Pearl Heart today and would #MSWL any kind of fictionalized riff off her story. Not looking for "her story."
Just find inspiration in her. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pearl_Hart
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Ok I really loved Moonfall! #MSWL anything like this. Not the destructive A* thing but more the idea of "possibility" that the end left us with!
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Ali Herring (closed to queries until 8/16) @HerringAli
I have now answered every query in QM I received PRIOR to closing to queries at the beginning of summer. I've got inbox zero for when I reopen tomorrow.#MSWL -YA historical realistic centered on a historical but fictionalized MC -High-concept fast-moving YA -Contemporary MG -space opera -generation ship setting -western settings / adventure -inspy & category romance -accessible scifi -diverse scifi -Hallmark-esque MG 1st love
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#MSWL I would really love a YA historical realistic novel (meaning no fantasy elements) set in the dark or middle ages. Would love a female lead who influences history (but not necessarily a real or true-to-history historical figure) kind of like Uhtred in The Last Kingdom.