Lauren Abramo
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Dystel, Goderich & Bourret
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Here are a handful of the very specific things I'd like to find for my client list (more over at the #MSWL site!): a journalistic dive into MLMs; contemporary romance w/ protagonists/love interests who are BIPOC, LGBTQ+, and/or disabled; MG fiction by #actuallyautistic authors
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Just updated my listing at #MSWL with all the things I'm looking for for my client list! Writers looking for agents, I hope you'll check it out! Thank you, as always, to the fine folks of @ManuscriptWList! #amquerying manuscriptwishlist.com/mswl-post/laur…
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I have just realized that one of my absolute favorite things in middle grade is suspicious, secret architecture in weird old houses. Secret passage? Yes, please. Hidden staircase? Thank you, ma’am. Mysterious hallway to nothing? I’ll take two. So, you know, #MSWL for that.
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Lauren Abramo @LaurenAbramo
Last tweet has reminded me of the Note Notebooks I maintained with friends in elementary school that were a sort of shared diary interwoven with ridiculousness (bizarre stories, Weird Qwizzes, general goofiness). The group chat of my youth.On that note, #MSWL for a sincere but funny middle grade novel about kids facing real world stakes who are also just unapologetically little weirdoes.
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Very actively looking for fiction by #actuallyautistic authors with autistic protagonists, especially in middle grade, especially contemporary fiction. #MSWL
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Lauren Abramo @LaurenAbramo
I've (finally!) updated my #MSWL page. #amquerying writers, please stop on by to see what I'm looking for! manuscriptwishlist.com/mswl-post/laur…My #MSWL includes, among other things: MG/YA fiction & adult fic/NF by authors who are: trans and/or non-binary or otherwise not cis, disabled and/or #actuallyautistic, and/or Indigenous. Including any intersections thereof, & whether or not the work focuses on identity.
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Lauren Abramo @LaurenAbramo
And in honor of #MSWL day, I have to revisit this confession: twitter.com/LaurenAbramo/s…Remembered another #MSWL: #ownvoices MG/YA/adult w/ disabled MCs, including novels where disability isn't the focus, esp intersectional.
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Lauren Abramo @LaurenAbramo
#MSWL Still/forever looking for this: twitter.com/LaurenAbramo/s…Very eager for #ownvoices trans stories in MG, YA, and adult, including those where the MC's identity is not the central focus. #MSWL
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Lauren Abramo @LaurenAbramo
Always looking for #ownvoices #actuallyautistic contemporary fiction in MG, YA, and adult. Adventure/fantasy in MG as well. #MSWLI will never not be a sucker for novels about friendship, from MG to YA to adult. Also romances with strong friend groups. #MSWL
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Lauren Abramo @LaurenAbramo
Still very much looking for submissions from indigenous/Native/American Indian writers in MG & YA fiction & adult fiction & non. #MSWLAlways looking for #ownvoices #actuallyautistic contemporary fiction in MG, YA, and adult. Adventure/fantasy in MG as well. #MSWL
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Lauren Abramo @LaurenAbramo
#MSWL THIS FOR SURE: twitter.com/Ioveglows/stat…Still very much looking for submissions from indigenous/Native/American Indian writers in MG & YA fiction & adult fiction & non. #MSWL
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Lauren Abramo @LaurenAbramo
Okay, #MSWL Day, here's what I'd love to see: more books by authors from marginalized communities underrepresented in publishing generally!More #ownvoices intersectional queer adult romance, YA, and MG. #MSWL
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Very eager for submissions from Native writers in MG & YA fiction and adult fiction & non. #MSWL
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Lauren Abramo @LaurenAbramo
#MSWL I'm always interested in YA on the intoxicating toxicity of friendship in the teen years.#MSWL Gimme all your #ownvoices contemporary commercial fiction with Muslim protagonists. MG, YA, adult. Set here or elsewhere.
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Lauren Abramo @LaurenAbramo
#MSWL I would also love to see contemporary, accessible literary novels set in large African cities.#MSWL I badly want an #ownvoices middle grade novel with a protagonist on the autism spectrum.
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#MSWL Eagerly looking for a YA or middle grade novel with a code-switching protagonist.