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.
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Natascha Morris @SoCalledYALife · Apr 10
Jim McCarthy @JimMcCarthy528
Speaking of conferences, why has no one written a novel about someone getting murdered at a mystery writers' convention where EVERYone thinks they're the person who can figure out whodunit? #mswl#MSWL #YA Um so I found out they do actually stage a murder at mystery writers convention that you are meant to solve. So YES to this
Natascha Morris @SoCalledYALife · Apr 10
Natascha Morris @SoCalledYALife
He isn't doing anything illegal, but is it APPROPRIATE? HELL NO. Could you imagine this, but in a small town, where a behavior like rubbing the girl's shoulders or something else could be excused. Or had been so internalized by the town? 3/All this to say, I am not a fan of abuse books, but this kind of book would fascinate me. Someone from the outside, who sees this, and sees something off and doesn't know what it is, but knows it is wrong. And then has to fit the town's internalized acceptance of it. #MSWL #YA
Natascha Morris @SoCalledYALife · Apr 7
Can I get a book that gives me the same feels that OLD TOWN ROAD gives me #AuditoryMSWL #MSWL
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Natascha Morris @SoCalledYALife · Apr 5
Katie Henry @KT_NRE
I see your con artist YA heroine and raise you this legendary teenage girl who infiltrated Queen Charlotte's court, escaped execution for theft, escaped indentured servitude, successfully posed as a German princess despite NOT SPEAKING GERMAN, and somehow lived happily ever after pic.twitter.com/5BrhYrhDNw#MSWL on this
Natascha Morris @SoCalledYALife · Apr 5
Ruqayyah Daud @rsdaud
can someone please write a middle-grade book about an all-girls step team? so many sports books but not one i've seen about stepping. i was briefly on the step team in 7th grade and there's lots of drama to write about! #mswlI want this so much #MSWL
Natascha Morris @SoCalledYALife · Apr 3
I need a middle grade like THE MORTIFICATION OF FOVEA MUNSON #MSWL
Natascha Morris @SoCalledYALife · Apr 3
Joker Movie @jokermovie
Put on a happy face. #JokerMovie - in theaters October 4. pic.twitter.com/TxF3JqxjjrThis is the kind of villain as protagonist origin story i want in YA #MSWL. I might be too scared to watch the movie though, but damn do I relate to Joker now.
Natascha Morris @SoCalledYALife · Mar 31
#MSWL The Forgotten Story Of The Radium Girls, Whose Deaths Saved Thousands Of Lives buzzfeed.com/authorkatemoor…
Natascha Morris @SoCalledYALife · Mar 9
Amanda Jain @wensday95
Hello my nonfiction writing friends! I have a TON of #mswl tweets for you this morning, so buckle up.I often tease @wensday95 by saying I am the children's version of her #MSWL but you know what, these look really cool and if you send them to her, I wouldn't mind trying to find a YRE angle.
Natascha Morris @SoCalledYALife · Mar 4
Lauren Spieller @laurenspieller
Writers, I have a few kidlit #mswl items I'd love to see in 2019!-funny, contemp YA a la WHEN DIMPLE MET RISHI, HOT DOG GIRL, HERETICS ANONYMOUS
-LatinX characters! Please!
-Grounded dark fantasy, a la SAWKILL GIRLS, THE DEVOURING GRAY, THE RAVEN BOYS
Same!! #MSWL
Natascha Morris @SoCalledYALife · Feb 27
I would love more modern European history that is post WWII #MSWL
Natascha Morris @SoCalledYALife · Feb 25
milf @tay_asz
i....am cryin pic.twitter.com/kpnC6onaaz#MSWL I'm dying over here about the shots meme. #YA
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