Alex Slater

@abuckslater

Literary Agent

Sanford J. Greenburger Associates

Literary agent @GreenburgerLit @GreenburgerKids . Black Lives Matter. he/him.

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· Apr 25

#MSWL a YA novel with the quiet ferocity of @samiatheband’s Kill Her Freak Out, the hardest breakup song ever w/o drums. open.spotify.com/track/52k45PRM…

YA

· Apr 18

AP Oddities @AP_Oddities

An official says a 13-year-old boy had to be freed from a claw machine after he climbed inside hoping to score a prize at a North Carolina amusement park south of Charlotte. apne.ws/oOsWogS

· Mar 21

Susan Van Metre @skeetermeeter

I've missed much of this discussion but reading this astute article made me wonder if we need some YA books that are just easier to read? Part of what the mass paperbacks of the past offered, besides a low price point, was very accessible prose and brevity. twitter.com/CiteSomething/…

· Feb 24

I’d love to see your contemporary #MG story that the world needs to read. If it has a big hook and an urgent voice (like these two books I’ve had the honor of selling) all the better #MSWL

· Feb 10

Is it the puzzle within CAIN'S JAWBONE that currently has it at 8 on ALL OF AMZN??

Or is it the @tomgauld cover art? (It's the Tom Gauld.)

#MSWL: a graphic novel puzzle book.

Graphic Novels

· Feb 6

Alex Slater @abuckslater

Just wrote this in a bio for @SCBWI and thought I’d share #MSWL ✌️ pic.twitter.com/LDvftj4d2C

ICYMI from two years ago! #mswl

· 12 Dec 2022

· 17 Nov 2022

Alex Slater @abuckslater

I’ll only say this once (but I’ll retweet it as much as I can) my Insta is: @AlexSlaterAgent! Find us! pic.twitter.com/CyGnh5PXUF

Ahem. Once again. Also, check out my #mswl to send me badass #MG and #YA and graphic novels at ASlater[at]sjga[dot]com.

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· 28 Jul 2022

· 4 Jul 2022

Alex Slater @abuckslater

Just FYI if your YA manuscript feels like it could have a Aykut Aydoğdu cover? Please sir, #mswl. pic.twitter.com/Z6RrA13w0s

Same goes for @mrdavila_paints. #MSWL twitter.com/abuckslater/st…

· 10 May 2022

Alex Slater @abuckslater

Just wrote this in a bio for @SCBWI and thought I’d share #MSWL ✌️ pic.twitter.com/LDvftj4d2C

ICYMI! (2 years ago...)
If your ms fits well on my #mswl, please feel free to query me manuscriptwishlist.com/mswl-post/alex…

· 5 May 2022

Updated #MSWL is up! And it's a work-in-progress! manuscriptwishlist.com/mswl-post/alex…
Check out all my #MSWL posts here: twitter.com/search?q=%23MS…

· 13 Feb 2022

Brandon @blgtylr

Am I nuts or does this look like a gay YA novel cover. twitter.com/NFL/status/149…

Replying to @blgtylr

· 9 Feb 2022

Anybody got some “John Darnielle for teens”? I’ll take some. #mswl

· 9 Jan 2022

Zach Raffio @zachraffio

nobody:

bridge to terabithia author: a kids book can be fucked up if you want

· 11 Aug 2021

Alex Shephard @alex_shephard

The introduction elaborates on the “acknowledgment”: It describes Dana Canedy as a diversity hire, criticizes S&S for canceling books by Milo and Josh Hawley, and includes this email sent by Hawley’s editor on January 5 pic.twitter.com/eMjk3j1qus

Replying to @alex_shephard

An entire book of an author shit talking their publisher, published by that publisher. #MSWL

· 4 Aug 2021

Grayson Bear @grayson_bear

I couldn’t write a morally perfect character even if I wanted to. My work isn’t meant to be an instruction manual for your life or a compass for your heart. Wild how much stories get critiqued thru that lense, more and more it seems

This is why I’m always seeking characters who know what they’re about to do is wrong, and they do it anyway. #mswl

· 2 Sep 2020

Erin Somers @SomersErin

Penguin&
Random House&
Simon&
Schuster

#MSWL this YA rom-com these four sound hilarious

· 20 Jul 2020

Just FYI if your YA manuscript feels like it could have a Aykut Aydoğdu cover? Please sir, #mswl.

YA

· 17 Jun 2020

Jeffrey Stein @JStein_WaPo

In 1860, a youth abolitionist network called “the Wide Awakes” sprung up in cities across the north. They would show up uninvited at politicians’ homes in the middle of the night — w/ brass bands, lit torches & serenades — to demand support for their antislavery cause pic.twitter.com/ImghIqBf6H

#MSWL ALERT!