Lauren Abramo
Literary Agent
Dystel, Goderich & Bourret
VP, Literary Agent, & Rights Director at @DGandBTweets she/her
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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!): fun & fluffy YA; political/social justice nonfiction about the sex work industry; a criminal justice-oriented look at marijuana legalization and decarceration
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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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Meredith Ireland @MeredithIreland
Writers Hotline: how can we help you today?Me: I have a book deal!!!
WH: Lol
Me: ... no seriously
WH: omg, did you announce it on Twitter
Me: not yet
WH: do it!!! pic.twitter.com/LOLsoNZ2Wy
Also, because I know a lot of people think of me for sad, serious YA (and yes, please do keep sending me that!), I also do fun and funny and fluffy, and I would love to see so much more of it, querying writers, please. #MSWL
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👻 nikkee is feeling spookee 🍂 @xonikkee
can we have more about toxic friendships in YA? about how hard it is to walk away from a relationship that might be more intimate than a romantic one? about how toxic friendships can cut you deeper than you could imagine?Perpetual #MSWL
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Now that I'm thinking about Mercutio, the character who (fortunately briefly) made me want to be an actor, #MSWL for a contemp R&J YA with Mercutio as the protagonist. He's the perfect fictional teen AND uses his dying breath to make a bad pun. What's not to love?
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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
#ownvoices stories with Muslim protagonists and/or novels by Muslim authors. #MSWLA feminist psychological thriller in YA or adult that makes me wary of everyone I know. #MSWL
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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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Anna Priemaza @annab311a
Friendship makes my heart go melty.I do not understand why there aren't as many friendship stories as love stories.
Friendship is 💞💞💞.
Hear, hear; also #MSWL for friendship stories always; also pre-order #KatandMeg, YA about a gamer girl friendship! annapriemaza.com/books/
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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 badly want an #ownvoices middle grade novel with a protagonist on the autism spectrum.#MSWL I'm always interested in YA on the intoxicating toxicity of friendship in the teen years.
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#MSWL Eagerly looking for a YA or middle grade novel with a code-switching protagonist.
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