Alex Slater

Just wrote this in a bio for @SCBWI and thought I’d share #MSWL ✌️

#MSWL ALERT: "I want to do a highly illustrated middle-grade fantasy novel about a child of color." nyti.ms/35rxX3z

#MSWL: I'd love a YA in the vein of #SeeYouYesterday. Set in the hot center of a contemporary American city. Give me the sounds, sights, flavors of the place, all in the middle of the summer. Make the stakes as high as THUG. Make it shine with magic/fantasy. Blend the genres.

#Querying? Send me your contemporary #MG, especially if it plays with structure like Jack Cheng's See You in the Cosmos. Send me your historical fantasy #YA, especially if it has a multicultural cast like Heidi Heilig's The Girl From Everywhere. #MSWL

I love #MSWL. It's like picking ice cream toppings - "I'll take some #YA fantasy based on Pakistani myths...#ownvoices please...

#MSWL: Low SFF. Re-tellings. LBGTQ. Dark, twisty, I-shouldnt-be-laughing-but-am. Contemporary voices. #OwnVoices. #NewVoices. #VitalVoices.

Afraid your ms is "too weird" for teens? It's fantasy, dirty realism, both? Maybe you think it's sad but your readers find it funny? #MSWL!!