Alex Slater

"Hmm...I'll also do some dark, literary middle grade...Ooo, is that a retelling? Of the Vanishing Hitchhiker? Throw that on... #MSWL...

#MSWL Your YA series based on non-western myths...Your middle grade that feels slightly creepy and your not sure what to call it...Your best

As for #MG I want adventure! I want creepy! I want a spare, measured prose that crackles with insight from an idiosyncratic character. #MSWL

What you're hearing about #StrangerThings is completely true. Also, if any writers have a MG thriller, Goonies+@StephenKing+X-Files? #MSWL

Middle grade: Horror, but in a creepy, atmospheric, @kennethoppel THE NEST kind of way. #MSWL

Does your mss exist in a forgotten or secret setting? Does it relate to the character's internal journey? THAT's interesting to me. #MSWL.

Sometimes my #MSWL posts are ridic specif. They merely intend to convey a *feeling* I'm looking for in fiction, rather than precise plots.

Here's an #MSWL - a middle grade novel that takes place in a SECRET SECTION OF CENTRAL PARK! twitter.com/nytimes/status…

So many of these histories have vanished, or were always vanished, and they're essential. Give them life. Magical realism accepted. #MSWL

MG/YA about the lost stories of early African-American folk/blues/jazz musicians. #MSWL