Jas ⛩
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KT Literary
kidlit yōkai 👹 • agenting at KT Lit • writing as J.P. Takahashi • TOKYO NIGHT PARADE (HarperCollins/Tegen, Fall ’23) with Minako Tomigahara • 🎨 @/fleshwadYT
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actually #mswl YA Sky High but only this queer ragtag found family of misfits
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Kristine Swartz @KristineESwartz
A couple of my authors have started to include therapy scenes with their characters and I'm so here for it. Let's normalize therapy and discussion about mental health in real life and fiction.another one for the #mswl when I reopen! also would like to read contemporary stories about the many kids w/o access to these resources finding alternatives and stopgaps, healthy or otherwise
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Scary Bradshaw 🕷👠 @biancaxunise
we need a replacement genre for buddy cop movies where the plot is still focused around two himbos and their burgeoning romance without them being cops...this is the Forever Stamp of my #mswl. non-denom First Class relationship. eternally valid himbo dynamic.
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Vanessa Angélica Villarreal @Vanessid
Omg look at these photos of Black, Japanese, and Filipinx pachucos and the California Zoot Suit subculture of the '40s (and linking an excellent article on these forgotten intersections!): yesmagazine.org/democracy/2017… pic.twitter.com/NHseEz4jnwon my historical fiction #mswl
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AsAm brotherhood like Big Hero 6 but no one dies #mswl
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all of these Japanese stories in my query inbox and not a single one written by a Japanese author. send help. #mswl
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If you’re feeling hesitant about querying, go head and hesitate… and then query.
--> ktliterary.com/submissions
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Inconveniently Specific Wish List 2: Electric Boogaloo
− Narrator like Darius (Atlanta); Cherise (High Fidelity)
− Clever comedy, dialogue like Martin McDonagh; Aaron McGruder
− (Alondra Nelson) Afrofuturism
− Caribbean MG
− Something Guy Ritchie would probably direct
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Inconveniently Specific Wish List #mswl
− Intergenerational found family like Howl’s Moving Castle; This is England
− YA horror like Beetlejuice, WWDITS, Paprika
− NYC stories; no Gossip Girl energy (unless satire or horror)
− Strong ensemble like E4’s Misfits; The Wire
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Jas Perry is open to queries! @TakahashiPerry
As of 7/6, I am officially open to YA and MG fiction queries!Find submission guidelines on @ktliterary site. MSWL on “What I’m Looking For” blog post.
Manuscript Wish List #mswl
- All of the YA and MG fiction. All of it. Novels-in-verse and graphic novels included.