Lane Heymont
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Tobias Literary Agency
Literary Agent. Connoisseur of horror, schadenfreude, and caffeine. Founder of @TheTobiasAgency . Opinions are my own. (he/him)
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Lane Heymont @LaneHeymont
What am I looking for in NONFICTION? This is harder because I’m a nerd with eclectic tastes. POP SCIENCE, all the sciences. ONLY if you’re an expert. You’re an marketing executive? Cool, but don’t send me a proposal about the moon. You’re a moonologist? Send me a moon playbook!Oy. Forgot the #mswl
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WHITE HORSE? Missing and Murdered Indigenous People Crisis. Awful father disappears his own daughter and no bothers to investigate. Not even her friends or family. The monster? The crisis itself.
Okay, that’s it for horror. Hope it’s help.
Now onto nonfiction!
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THE ONLY GOOD INDIANS? No monster without those kids breaking, forgetting, discarding their tribe’s tradition. It’s modern day people scoffing at what their ancestors held holy.
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Sure, there were monsters but only monsters driven by humanity’s own misdeeds. There would be no horror in ALL THE WHITE SPACES without the sins and guilt those explorers brought with them. Even the fact they traveled there showed their dark desires.
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Forget serial killers and the Albert Fishes. Show me SOFT AND QUIET. The horror everyday people do. Examples? WHITE HORSE, ALL THE WHITE SPACES, THE ONLY GOOD INDIANS.
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What makes the best horror? The unknown. We don’t need monsters that go bump in the night because we are the monsters. Show me the evil darkness of humanity. What do I actually mean?
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Transgender, LGBTQIA horror.
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Some fave authors (besides my own!) are Stephen Graham Jones, Sheridan Le Fanu, Octavia Butler, Alma Katsu, Erika T. Wurth, Waubgeshig Rice, Cherie Dimaline.
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I’ve been feeling survival horror in the vein of ALL THE WHITE SPACES. Give me isolation, hauntings, nature vs humanity, cli-fi, upmarket. Think EVENT HORIZON without the sci-fi. IN THE MOUTH OF MADNESS is another good one. Also, horror from marginalized voices: #mswl
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What am I looking for? HORROR and NONFICTION ! My #mswl thread:
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Looking for more LGBTQIA+ horror, including in the vein of Carpenter’s PRO-LIFE, so eff SCOTUS, the GOP, and TERFs. #mswl
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Natascha Morris @SoCalledYALife
Yay for @TheTobiasAgency #mswl day. I rep all things #kidlit and right now I am dying for a Ren Faire book or cosplay book. Passing the baton to @LaneHeymont for his MSWL twitter.com/KellyDHouse/st…Horror. All the horror. Grounded, psychological, cinematic. Also, nonfiction. Unique true crime. Pop science. Passing this to @Jacqui_Lipton ! #MSWL
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Nonfiction. Environmental issues. #MSWL
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Always #ownvoices. Will look at ANYTHING #ownvoices. Especially regarding or including any diasporas. The subject is VERY close to my heart. #MSWL
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Investigative journalism (THE DINOSAUR ARTIST, SHE SAID). #MSWL
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Alternate history focusing on sociopolitical issues (even Roman á clef). Think FATHERLAND by Robert Harris. #MSWL
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Afrofuturism (BLACK PANTHER minus superheroes). #MSWL
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Southern Gothic. Swampy. Magical. Think BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD. #MSWL