Alex Slater

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

My #MSWL also includes Southern Gothic #YA, especially if it involves the Blues or Gospel. Think CARAVAL meets the Rolling Thunder Revue.

#MSWL time! Gimme #YA told in new ways. Mix up chronology. Mess with convention, Tarantino-style. A jewelbox click with the final sentence.

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

A novel about a teen gospel/blues musician, the devil at a crossroads, the Deep South, and what you lose when you win. #MSWL #YA #OwnVoices

Just looked at my follower count (thanks #MSWL!) and what pops into my head? "THE BATTLE OF YORKTOWN...1781! Monsieur Hamilton..."

My evergreen #MSWL

#ownvoices #ownvoices #ownvoices #MSWL #MSWL #MSWL

Can't wait for HBO's Westworld. Crichton was an early literary hero for me, right after Bradbury. Send me your weird YA Sci-Fi! #MSWL #YA

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I love #MSWL, so many queries ref it! Wishing today to #keepYAweird - send me your most genre-twisting, undefinable, passionate sentences.

Thanks for your query! I am interested in reading the full manuscript...#MSWL twitter.com/ap_oddities/st…

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

This is getting off topic. #MSWL: YA version of Basquiat's 'Untitled (1981)'

#MSWL a YA adaptation of Sufjan Stevens' "Casimir Pulaski Day"

#MSWL a YA adaptation of Antony & the Johnsons "For Today I Am A Boy"

#MSWL a YA adaptation of @chancetherapper's "Summer Friends"

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

I love #MSWL! I always tweet when ideas strike. My evergreen #MSWL? Weird, woke, YA literary crime, Coen Bros-esque, stories from new voices

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.