Natascha Morris
@SoCalledYALife
Literary Agent at BookEnds, representing kidlit. Literary Mentor at Media Mentors. Query me at QueryMe.Online/1067 Closed to YA Scifi and MG Scifi.
#YearofNatascha
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Natascha Morris @SoCalledYALife · Feb 9
Greg Hogben @MyDaughtersArmy
How to parent a princess. pic.twitter.com/6DCaKzm1ut#MSWL I do love princess books and this is the ones we need for our 21st century
Natascha Morris @SoCalledYALife · Feb 7
Natascha Morris @SoCalledYALife
(Last tweet didn't make sense cause lack of food) BUT What I meant to say was we don't live removed from our actions. We are interconnected. So what does that mean for the next generation? How do they grapple with their history? How do they move society forward?History is doomed to repeat itself if we don't learn from our actions. And even when we do, as a whole, how do we as a society correct the course? I'm not sure what a YA would look like that deals with these issues and themes, but I'd love to see it. #MSWL
Natascha Morris @SoCalledYALife · Feb 7
Natascha Morris @SoCalledYALife
Something I have been thinking about lately as I edited @WillasRamblings's MS and watch BLACK EARTH RISING is the idea of having your future completely changed in an instant. And it has me thing about the deeper idea of working through the trauma and feelings of that.And the idea of what we owe to one another. And how to we come out of painful histories and move forward as a society. So I interested in seeing books that explore these themes. Not sure what that would look like. It will have to be very nuanced and sensitively done. But #MSWL
Natascha Morris @SoCalledYALife · Jan 29
Kelly 📚 @LitAgentKelly
Hardcore #mswl, with a little more fantasy type vibes...and maybe some clans... pic.twitter.com/U6RSuwpq0bMake a Magical Realism thing and hit me with it #MSWL
Natascha Morris @SoCalledYALife · Jan 25
#MSWL Books about other cultures. My immigrant-child self wants to feel connected to our global world right now and I want to see child of the world having fun and living their lives.
Natascha Morris @SoCalledYALife · Jan 22
#MSWL I'd love someone like J. Anderson Coats or Gail Carson Levine or Sherwood Smith.
Natascha Morris @SoCalledYALife · Jan 22
#MSWL In MG, I want something timeless, yet quirky in the writing. The voice has to be dead center middle grade for me.
Natascha Morris @SoCalledYALife · Jan 22
#MSWL I really want a psychological read. I loved TRULY DEVIOUS, BEFORE I LET GO, THE FEMALE OF THE SPECIES, SEE ALL THE STARS. Something that keeps me working for that ending.
Natascha Morris @SoCalledYALife · Jan 22
#MSWL I want more authors of color with great stories to tell, like EMBER IN THE ASHES.
Natascha Morris @SoCalledYALife · Jan 22
#MSWL I love romance. Give me YA romance. Rom-coms, star-crossed lovers, slow burns, enemies to lovers. I want to be swept off my feet. Chemistry on the page is what I need to see.
Natascha Morris @SoCalledYALife · Jan 22
#MSWL I would love something humorous and quintessentially teen like DERRY GIRLS.
Natascha Morris @SoCalledYALife · Jan 22
#MSWL I would love to get a magical realism book. Something like SAWKILL GIRLS, or WICKED DEEP.
Natascha Morris @SoCalledYALife · Jan 22
Renewing my #MSWL for atmospheric reads, and magical realism.
Natascha Morris @SoCalledYALife · Jan 15
Natascha Morris @SoCalledYALife
Universe, I am hungry for books, so send me ALL THE BOOKS!**I may come to regret this when I get swamped in queries.
I will add, please remember that I only am looking for children's books. Check out bookendsliterary.com/submissions/ to find out what I rep. Search #MSWL and my handle for more specific ones.
Natascha Morris @SoCalledYALife · Jan 15
David Brooks @nytdavidbrooks
In this small story, you see that when denunciation is done through social media, you can destroy people without even knowing them. There’s no personal connection that allows apology and forgiveness. nytimes.com/2019/01/14/opi…You know, I think I would be interested to see a sensitive, nuanced YA, (character and voice driven) that explores call-out culture. #MSWL
Natascha Morris @SoCalledYALife · Jan 13
Shannon/S.A. Chakraborty @SAChakrabooks
Please....if a POC #ownvoices author even writes a Mission Impossible-esqe heist novel involving people breaking into the British Museum to recover their stolen treasure, I will help you write a query letter and blurb your book and push it into people's hands.