Natascha Morris
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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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Ahead of opening to queries this week, I am going to retweet some of my #MSWL tweets. This month I am really looking to find more YA novels, particularly hoping to find a fantasy or more contemporary coming of age romances.
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It is rare that I have a #PB #MSWL but I am thinking about FOSTER'S HOME FOR IMAGINARY FRIENDS and I would love a picture book that comps to that
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Lane Moore馃敭is ON TOUR @hellolanemoore
instead of Hot Girl Summer i will be having Practical Magic summer, which is where we grow our hair long, open a botanical shop by the sea, do spells by the moonlight, break ancestral curses, and bury our shitty exes in our garden馃尮#MSWL just saying
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Murder at a Truse crime conventiom. Couch sleuths galore! Maybe pair with my Elle Woods/Dapne murder mystery #MSWL
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Also #MSWL for Daphne from SCOOBY DOO or Elle Woods in a YA murder mystery.
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#MSWL but I would love teens resistance: housing banned books in lockers/backpacks, making side hustles (hair braiding/slime/candy) underground, also standing up against unfair dress codes! You can combine with other elements of my #MSWL like homecoming mums!
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Alrighty, that's all the graphics I have made right now. Remember, these can be MG or YA or in graphic novel form, and marginalized voices are welcome to run with these ideas as well. I actually think some of these might be better explored through those lens!
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This next one is a #IYKYK type #MSWL : I love that British narration style--almost Neil Gaiman-esque feel--that features quirky shops. Id' love to see an MG or YA with elements like this.
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Mermaids, Take 2 #MSWL . This one is all fun, summer, contemporary vibes, but people who work as professional mermaids. If you watch MERPEOPLE on netflix, I want the fun, summer, YA version #MSWL
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Genre mashups! Like taking the beats from a romance or women's fiction, and bringing them to a fantasy world. Or the high fantasy tropes and taking them to comic con. This is just one example in the pic, but so many ways to play with this! #MSWL
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Ren Faires! There is so much here, and in so many different angles. I love the escapism of the faires, the small artists business, but there is also elements to unpact! surprise me! #MSWL
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Then we have poison gardens, herbalist vibes in a fantasy world. I love the idea that the same plants that can cure things can kill. #MSWL
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Up next: Mermaids! This is only one version of my mermaid #MSWL : atmospheric, unsettling, not taking place in the water.
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First up: I would love a book that comps to SEX EDUCATION meets Lady Whistledown. If you read BEGIN AGAIN, that is also the perfect book comp for my vision on this #MSWL
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Also friendly reminder that I am looking for more marginalized voices to uplift. #MSWL
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Still thinking about the 2009 movie. If you have a spec fic romance that vibes with this, please send! #MSWL
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b.andherbooks @bandherbooks
these comps 馃拃 but also fuck you they worked on me i think i'll read it#MSWL I would love to see this kind of fantasy in YA.
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Reminder that I would love a YA mermaid book. Atmospheric unsettling mermaids. Mermaid amusement park. Mermaid Dysphoria. #MSWL