Ali Herring

· 24 Mar 2023

Sara Schonfeld @SaraSchon

if I swipe right will this be the start to my romantasy novel pic.twitter.com/YsyuQqT43I

OMG #MSWL for sure.

· 28 Feb 2023

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

MG

· 27 Feb 2023

ninah @riaessam

@Itsdiyahshalon self healing? I SAW RUMPELSTILTSKIN

I'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.

Horror

· 16 Feb 2023

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

· 16 Feb 2023

Right now I'd really love to have more category romance written for lines like Love Inspired and Love Inspired Suspense. #MSWL

Romance

· 14 Feb 2023

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.

· 29 Jan 2023

Jenna Johnson @kidlit_jennaj

I just “liked” my local librarian on a dating app. An app I hate using, but like, I don’t want to die alone.
He is very cute and nice and we seem like a good fit…
This will either work out really well or make future library visits very awkward. 🫣 #kidlit #dating #library

#MSWL

· 6 Dec 2022

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.

MG

· 26 Nov 2022

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

· 2 Nov 2022

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.

· 20 Sep 2022

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 ...

Vampire

· 18 Sep 2022

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.

Romance
YA

· 14 Sep 2022

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

· 12 Sep 2022

#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

· 5 Sep 2022

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

· 28 Aug 2022

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!

· 15 Aug 2022

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

· 1 Aug 2022

#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.

· 29 Jul 2022

Pigs aren't kosher @luminousfinn

@kyleoddson @NinaModaffari Speaking as a librarian I think most people would be floored by the number of cursed books the average library has. Having only one does in fact make that library sub par in its collection.

#MSWL

· 2 Jul 2022

Ashlie Danielle Stevens @AshlieD_Stevens

Some of you never read "The Boxcar Children" and had a summer of daydreaming about harvesting blueberries and keeping bottles of milk cool in a stream and it shows.

I adore the summer I got to dream all this and if someone ever sent me a MG novel that gave me these feels, I would sign them in a heart beat. #MSWL

MG

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