Natascha Morris

@SoCalledYALife

Literary Agent

Tobias Literary Agency

Senior Lit Agent at Tobias Literary Agency, kidlit all the way. QueryManager: QueryManager.com/natascha bookshop.org/lists/teamnat

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· Apr 3

mindy is leaving new york 💀✨ @MarindaOnline

i've said it before, but i'd love to come across more YA with teen characters who aren't planning to go to fancy universities, who are maybe going to attend community college or learn a trade or not even continue school at all. college apps don't consume every kid's life, ya know

I havr been saying this for a while now
#MSWL for this

YA

· Mar 23

Bear decided he is a lap dog so switching to brainstorm more #MSWL

· Mar 23

I want something atmospheric and enclosed. #MSWL

· Mar 23

Professional Mermaids.

Show me other contemporary settings that are not always the everyday I am exposed to. #MSWL

Contemporary

· Mar 23

Ace rom-com please! #MSWL

Romantic Comedy

· Mar 23

Natascha Morris @SoCalledYALife

It's time for another #MSWL as I get to the end of my queries! pic.twitter.com/egrSS18BQY

Reminder, these MSWL could also be applied to a graphic novel. Jus saying #MSWL

Graphic Novels

· Mar 23

I want an amusement park YA book. Not saying **cough cough** Disney, but if Disney inspired the shenangians, okay. #MSWL

YA

· Mar 23

I want a poison garden book #MSWL

· Mar 23

I want YA that vibes with these two YA projects. There was a effervescent feeling to the writing here. #MSWL

YA

· Mar 23

I want a YA that feels different from what we are seeing right now. Mix Genres, play with tropes, be inventive in your structure #MSWL

YA

· Mar 23

I want a romance that hits you in the feels. I love drama and tension (think Billy and Daisy in DAISY JONES AND THE SIX). #MSWL

Romance

· Mar 23

I want an atmospheric mermaid book. I have been so picky in this area because my brain knows what it wants but I haven't seen it. #MSWL

· Mar 23

Perennial ask: Ren Faire. #MSWL

· Mar 23

SO I found out about true crime conferences, and I cannot stop thinking about a murder mystery that takes place at a conference where everyone is an armchair detective. #MSWL

Mystery

· Mar 7

How could I forget I love second chance romances!!!! #MSWL

Romance

· Mar 7

I want to be haunted by a book reading experience: to squee as the characters go through drama (love a good dramatic, well earned fight) and to not be able to shake the characters from my brain. #MSWL

· Mar 7

Finally, what tropes make my heart go pitter and patter:
-enemies to lovers
-mutual pining (maybe mixed with enemies to lovers?)
-slow burn
-dark/sunny
-starcrossed lovers and love triangles (Team Jacob for the win!)

#MSWL

· Mar 7

Also if someone can figure out how to give me a cozy mystery as a YA, I want it. #MSWL

· Mar 7

So like apprenticeship style lives, college, figuring out what to do next #MSWL

· Mar 7

Also might be controversial, I want post high school (summer before college, or the first "year" of college) type stories. But since not every kid goes to college, I want to see how the come of age by leaving childhood behind.
Looking for YA themes though, not "baby adult" #MSWL

YA