T.S. Ferguson

· May 26

Thank you and welcome to all the new follows I’ve gotten since posting my new Manuscript Wishlist profile! If you don’t know me yet, I’m a YA and MG agent and former Big 5 editor. Very gay, very liberal, very geeky. Actively growing my list. My query link is in my bio. 😊

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YA

· May 25

My agent profile is finally up at MSWL! Check me out at:
manuscriptwishlist.com/mswl-post/t-s-ferguson/

· Apr 11

Random YA #MSWL: Something like the Carol & Barb origin flashback from Orange is the New Black but with more details about what drove them to become teen killers.

YA

· Feb 16

T.S. @TeeEss

Since it’s a new year and I'm starting to (finally) catch up on fulls, I thought I'd tweet out a list of qualities I’m looking for in the books I take on, with some examples of faves that fit those categories. Unless otherwise stated, all of these apply to YA + MG only. 🧵

Happy #MSWL Day! Here’s mine again:

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YA

· 10 Jul 2020

Just went down a musical journey that went from Hamilton > Chris Jackson could get it > Moana and now I have a ?.

Are there any #ownvoices MG fantasy/adventure novels out there inspired by any indigenous cultures of Oceania? If so, gimme recs! If not, agents, this is #mswl!

· 8 Mar 2020

Dean Lines @deanlines

When I was like 14, me and a few mates would “wag” French class and hide out in the soundproof drum room until lunch time. This went on for a few weeks when one day we discovered a “trap door” beneath the carpet tiled floor under the drum kit. We of course opened the trap door.. twitter.com/spur_of/status…

#mswl

· 4 Feb 2020

T.S. Ferguson @TeeEss

If somebody wanted to write an Utena-style pseudo-contemporary diverse fantasy with sword-fighting, butch and femme queer girls, and colorful, floral imagery, and then have their agent sub it to me, I wouldn't be upset. I'm just sayin'. #MSWL pic.twitter.com/SwBm0qMz5Y

This is still #MSWL!

· 28 May 2019

Dana Schwartz @DanaSchwartzzz

Kids putting their teeth under their pillows is the most occultist shit in the world. Yes, child, put the discarded bone under your pillow. if you are lucky the tiny demon will come and make her purchase. Sell your bones for riches, my child, your youth will be spent soon.

#MSWL

· 8 May 2019

I was just thinking about the scene in Goonies where they knock over the water cooler and find the hidden door in the fireplace. I would love to find a book that has that same level of adventure. +Booby traps! +Voice! +Diverse rep -Problematic jokes and stereotypes. #MSWL

Adventure

· 20 Apr 2019

I would love to find a teen girl super spy/action adventure. Something that can be pitched as Kim Possible meets Kingsman. Or in the vein of Kiki Strike (which I haven’t read, admittedly). #MSWL

Adventure

· 13 Feb 2019

Louisa @llws

I like to call this list the T. S. Ferguson Is Good at His Job list: bookriot.com/2019/02/13/div… @TeeEss @InkyardPress

LOL! I try. But yes, go read my books (PULP and ALL OUT) and the others on this list! Also, would love to find more POC and intersectional #OwnVoices historical fiction. #mswl

· 23 Jan 2019

Rebecca Mix @rebeccarmix

someone write me a book about a sex-repulsed ace girl who keeps making pacts with witches and demons and fae, promising them her firstborn for awesome spells and shit, because jokes on them she's NEVER HAVING KIDS and the shenanigans that follow when they all figure it out

OMG! 😆#MSWL (seriously!)

· 13 Jan 2019

I found this old-ass copy of TRUE GRIT on the takeshelf at work a while ago and finally started reading it. Now I kinda want to acquire a YA western! It'd be a tough sell prob, but might be cool. #MSWL

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Western

· 10 Dec 2018

maaayyy. @brendonsexual

a gay love story of the 1st world war’s year.

[thread by @guillemclua im just a translator]. pic.twitter.com/I3CkgKd1EO

This story just CONSUMED me! I couldn't stop reading! I needed to know about Emil and Xaver! I'm sobbing! I would love to publish a story like this some day, but probably fictional inspired by real people! Code Name Verity with gay men and WWI! I'm a wreck right now! #MSWL!

LGBT
War

· 18 Oct 2018

A story (metaphorical or realistic) about the problems inherent in stan culture and tying your entire identity to art or an artist you love to the point where you'll blindly defend it/them w/o rational thought. #MSWL

· 27 Sep 2018

More QPOC books and authors please! Contemporary, historical and/or fantasy! #mswl

· 21 Sep 2018

garf @graafeld

wow. nyakim gatwech really did THAT for the emmy’s🤧 pic.twitter.com/3cm0QxPFGO

I don't know what book she's the star of, but whatever it is... #MSWL!

· 6 Sep 2018

Marieke Nijkamp @mariekeyn

@TeeEss It's also basically the plot of Everybody's Talking About Jamie, the West End musical, and I've been pining for a YA like it.

#MSWL!!!!!!

· 28 Jul 2018

I'd love to find some sort of story about feuding families. More Hatfields & McCoys though, not so much Romeo & Juliet. #MSWL

Family

· 19 Jul 2018

If somebody wanted to write an Utena-style pseudo-contemporary diverse fantasy with sword-fighting, butch and femme queer girls, and colorful, floral imagery, and then have their agent sub it to me, I wouldn't be upset. I'm just sayin'. #MSWL

@TeeEss

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