Kayla Lightner
Literary Agent
Ayesha Pande Literary
Rights Manager+ Agent @ Ayesha Pande Literary. Words in @PitheadChapel , @PhoebeJournal , @anotherchimag , & elsewhere.
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Open to queries starting today! Updated #MSWL is below: manuscriptwishlist.com/mswl-post/kayla-lightner/
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In honor of #MSWL day! I'd especially love to see more:
🌟Literary Speculative fiction with grit + heart
🌟Funny + incisive Book Club Fiction
🌟Deeply reported Narrative Nonfiction
🌟Gen-Z oriented Practical Nonfiction (about work, wellness, or money)
manuscriptwishlist.com/mswl-post/kayl…
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Hi folks, a quick lunchtime #MSWL: While I absolutely love narrative nonfiction, I am positively dying to see more literary and upmarket speculative fiction (especially from BIPOC authors!!!) in my query inbox.
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Kayla Lightner @LightnerKayla
Hello lovely #amwriting and #amquerying community! I will be closed to queries starting Monday, 3/22. I look forward to seeing your work when I re-open in the summer☀️😎Hello lovely #amwriting and #amquerying community! My quick lil' spring hiatus has come to an end! I'll be back open to queries starting 6/7. My ✨updated✨ #mswl is below. I can't wait to see your work!
manuscriptwishlist.com/mswl-post/kayl…
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Super random #MSWL, but I want a NF book about the social/cultural history of taking/sending nudes! How they are still super taboo but also increasingly common (Cuz there'll be a point in the not so far future where execs, political leaders, errbody has nudes floating around...)
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Hi #amwriting and #amquerying community! After a bit of a hiatus, I’ll be opening to queries next Friday, 11/20! 🥳🎉🎊
If you got any good stuff that aligns with my #MSWL, send it my way:
manuscriptwishlist.com/mswl-post/kayl…
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This sounds like the beginnings of a book that I would love to read #mswl
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Kayla Lightner @LightnerKayla
It had everything I love: an unapologetically ruthless female protag; messy royal family drama; non-Eurocentric inspired mythology. But because I wasn’t an agent at the time, I couldn’t offer rep. I STILL THINK ABOUT IT TO THIS DAY(2/3)And so I am throwing my hopes into the Twitter void and seeing what comes back! #amquerying folks and #writingcommmunity, if this sounds like a project you are working on, send it my way😊
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Kayla Lightner @LightnerKayla
Ok, so...screw it. This is part #MSWL, part “the Manuscript that got away”. In 2018 someone sent a fantasy ms to one of our associates about a female protag. who was competing against her 4 older brothers to be named her dictator father’s successor (1/3)It had everything I love: an unapologetically ruthless female protag; messy royal family drama; non-Eurocentric inspired mythology. But because I wasn’t an agent at the time, I couldn’t offer rep. I STILL THINK ABOUT IT TO THIS DAY(2/3)
Literary Agent
Ok, so...screw it. This is part #MSWL, part “the Manuscript that got away”. In 2018 someone sent a fantasy ms to one of our associates about a female protag. who was competing against her 4 older brothers to be named her dictator father’s successor (1/3)
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Have finally updated my #mswl! #amquerying writers should take a look and then send me what ya got😊: manuscriptwishlist.com/mswl-post/kayl…