Mandy Hubbard
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Emerald City Literary Agency
Author of eleven novels. Founder of Emerald City Literary. Follow me for book talk… stay for pictures of my cows.
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Belle 🌪⛸ @pagesofbellrose
If you think it's "unrealistic" for YA books to not have romance in them because of the target audience as a WHOLE, you're basically throwing aromantic-spec readers into the ditches to cater to alloromantics. Which tells me you don't think allos can handle having no romance.My sophomore in HS kid loathes any romance in books/tv etc and as a YA AGENT it can still be hard to find books for her without romance elements. I welcome them in my subs whether it’s ACE rep or just didn’t call for romance! #mswl
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Sadie Hartmann (Mother Horror) @SadieHartmann
What if I rented a huge, beautiful house on a private island and hosted a horror writing competition?Here’s the thing: I read this as HORSE and now I want it. Bring me your YA horror novels with a huge haunted wild horse on an island. Like a Misty of Chincoteague meets RL stine. #MSWL
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- If your protagonist is the girl from TIED TOGETHER WITH A SMILE, I wanna see it.
- Miss Americana and The Heartbreak King because YA, duh.
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- I KNEW YOU WERE TROUBLE vibes as a YA romance, but maybe with a HEA.
-THE LUCKY ONE. Not necessarily Hollywood fame, but chasing a dream and realizing you might not want it & flipping it on its head
-MINE. Just for a careless man’s careful daughter. #MSWL
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hailey harlow @byhaileyharlow
what's one Taylor Swift song you could build a whole novel around?mine is delicate
I could do a whole #MSWL on this (MG or YA only please!) so here goes:
-Enchanted. Takes place in one night. Intense romance
- The last great American dynasty. Gimme the outsider protag who kinda relishes screwing up high society
- anything with ONLY THE YOUNG energy
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So this is really specific, but if anyone has a project they'd pitch as Jurassic Park but in Space (MG or YA), I MUST HAVE IT. It'd be sweet if they're actually dinos, (WHY are their dinos in space? I don't know) but I'd take aliens or something else. #MSWL
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I will also add there is a tendency when looking at YA fantasy to over-simplify with "This fairy tale/classic re-telling is overdone" but when you look at it, it's all white/western retellings. I am 100% open to retellings from new perspectives. #MSWL #AskECLA
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I LOVE anything that plays with formats. Diaries, letters, infographics, etc. YA & MG. #MSWL
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I would LOVE anything with "found families" or unconventional families, MG or YA. #MSWL #AskECLA #askAgent #Amquerying
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Jumi Bello @jumibello
Hey Literary Twitter, lend me your mind: tell me your favorite books that have centered houses and/or trains. Is there a book where a house is the narrator or the structural link? A book where a train is the literary star? Interpret however you wish. The wilder, the better.Oooh this made me realize I’ve never done an #MSWL for MG or YA with an unusual narrator!
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#mswl bring me the YA novels with girls like the ones from Cop Car by Sam Hunt or What Was I Thinking by Dierks Bentley. The girls who don’t let a little trouble get in the way of a good time.
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Aviva Loeb @avivaloeb
The high school I went to was found to have unsafe levels of toxic chemicals so they built a makeshift school in the Macy's in the town's abandoned mall, and I have never seen something more dystopian pic.twitter.com/wSsH4a68C1How fast can someone write me a YA novel with THIS as the high school. Bonus points if the kids take on the charge of getting attention/funding to fix their school. #MSWL
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#mswl I don’t know why but I want a YA about that quiet girl who gets “A pleasure to have in class” from every teacher, literally titled A PLEASURE TO HAVE IN CLASS, where it opens with her seeing that report card and then descends into her setting (figurative) fire to everything
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Just learned there’s an apartment complex in Seoul specifically for Korean-Americans adoptees to return & connect with their culture/identity and I NEED THIS as an #ownvoices YA novel. Would consider based on sample chapters & work with you to develop it. #MSWL
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