Alex Slater

Unreliable, awkward, unnerving, inappropriately funny, charmingly disturbing, a misfit, a #YA Tom Ripley, an #POC weirdo. #mswl #ownvoices

It's SO GOOD. Like a warped Girl Who Drank The Moon. I love how it takes something familiar (a fairytale) and makes it feel new. #mswl

Want to make me bite through my pencil? Pitch me THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL meets Hans Christian Andersen. #MSWL

Please send me your creepy fables and hilarious quests. The more offbeat, disturbing, surreal, and slapstick...the better. #MSWL

I'm embarassed to say I've only just heard about and binged #OverTheGardenWall, but I love it, and it hits my #MSWL with lethal precision.

Here the climactic scene of my favorite, unwritten middle grade novel. #MSWL

Do you read a lot of Junot Díaz? Jesmyn Ward? If writers like them are your heroes, we will get along. Send me their progeny. #MSWL #YA #MG

I'm also looking for the weird, surreal, hilarious literary #YA that blends genres and punches guts. #OwnVoices are 🔑. #MSWL

Please send me #YA & #MG stories about the immigrant experience. Can be set either in this world or another, but make it authetic. #MSWL

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#MSWL and what this headline doesn't say is that he brought along his younger sister and obeyed every street sign.

omg #MSWL forever.

Got a weird, hard-to-categorize, scary but hopeful, personal yet timely, teen-voiced novel that you don't really know what to do with? #MSWL

What I wish for? Evidence that youre aware of the conversation already going on. Is your character underpresented in fiction? Send it. #MSWL

"How about some great comps? Like, 'Atlanta' meets 'Bone Gap' or 'Speak' meets 'Moonlight'? Brave, bold, diverse #YA...#MSWL...

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

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

#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

#MSWL: Spiritual sci-fi, like Arrival or The OA, with diverse characters for young adults. 🙏👊🌀

Had a great discussion with a new client today. Told her I really admire her trust in her readers. #MSWL: narrative voice with confidence.