Melissa Edwards

@MelissaLaurenE

@melissaedwards.bsky.social

Literary Agent

Stonesong

Literary Agent at @stonesongNYC. Lawyer. Lover of TV, movies, and books. Slow runner. Let Bartlet be Bartlet.

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· 19 Jul 2017

I want this book. #mswl nytlive.nytimes.com/womenintheworl…

· 17 Jul 2017

#MSWL for the horror stories thecut.com/2017/07/weddin…

Horror

· 10 Jul 2017

Still hungry for all sorts of excellent MG. #MSWL

· 29 Jun 2017

Amanda K. Morgan @AmandaKMorgan

All about writing unlikable female heroines (with a shout out to some of my favorites)! twitter.com/RivetedLit/sta…

Unlikeable doesn't mean uninteresting! Always #MSWL for the unlikeables who make us think/ hate/ question/ cry.

· 27 Jun 2017

Is there a way to do an updated EMPIRE RECORDS style YA? Teenage co-worker drama? #MSWL

· 27 Jun 2017

I'm feeling really into MG/ YA with specific settings these days. Transport me! #MSWL

· 24 May 2017

Honestly, I want all the queries. If you've got a commercial book living inside your fingertips, send it my way. #MSWL

· 24 May 2017

Melissa Edwards @MelissaLaurenE

This is not to say I'm not also into YA. Send me some romantic, swoon-worthy, crackling, cackle-inducing YA, please! #MSWL

Replying to @MelissaLaurenE

Oh and some edge of your seat, heart attack causing thrillers? OK thx bye. #MSWL

Thriller

· 24 May 2017

Melissa Edwards @MelissaLaurenE

I'm feeling very into MG right now. Send me all your sweet, lovely, exciting, cinematic, fun, funny, silly, super MG! #MSWL pic.twitter.com/xqOUxtOYRv

Replying to @MelissaLaurenE

This is not to say I'm not also into YA. Send me some romantic, swoon-worthy, crackling, cackle-inducing YA, please! #MSWL

Romance
YA

· 24 May 2017

I'm feeling very into MG right now. Send me all your sweet, lovely, exciting, cinematic, fun, funny, silly, super MG! #MSWL

MG
Funny

· 23 May 2017

#MSWL for stories with Jewish characters living secular lives, getting into hijinks, etc.

· 22 May 2017

Joe Coscarelli @joecoscarelli

MONEY CAN SOLVE EVERYTHING: how Fyre Festival failed (and led to a federal criminal investigation) nytimes.com/2017/05/21/art… pic.twitter.com/UAxRhpZzqh

I would say #MSWL, but I don't think I could stomach a whole novel about lying scheming millenial assholes.

· 18 Apr 2017

MG/ YA featuring unusual hobbies. Kids are into all sorts of stuff, right? #MSWL

· 17 Apr 2017

I spent time w/ my teenage cousins this weekend. They shared fave YouTube vids, which were all really effing strange. So #MSWL for weird.

· 31 Mar 2017

Office discussion of platonic soulmates (a la Michelle Williams & Busy Phillips, Gayle & Oprah), now I want that book in my inbox NOW. #MSWL

· 29 Mar 2017

Good Morning America @GMA

WATCH: Dramatic video shows firefighters rescuing a man from a burning apartment in Brockton, Massachusetts: gma.yahoo.com pic.twitter.com/iOztWVOMSI

#MSWL

· 16 Mar 2017

Was just thinking about Now and Then, which has stuck w/ me for over 20 years (gasp). Something that sticks to kids in the same way. #MSWL

· 15 Mar 2017

I'd love to see fiction set in the communities highlighted in HILLBILLY ELEGY. #MSWL

· 15 Mar 2017

I'd love to see some more socioeconomic diversity in MG + YA, especially from the lens of healthcare. #MSWL

· 10 Mar 2017

#MSWL Fixer Upper for kids? (feel free to mock me.)