Saba Sulaiman
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Talcott Notch Literary
Senior agent at Talcott Notch Literary. Eternally recovering from maternity leave. Probably hiding somewhere eating cake. Closed to unsolicited queries. @pocpub
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the best YA feels
✨specific enough that it's speaking to teens now, using their lexicon, understanding their concerns, but also
✨universal enough to evoke a sense of nostalgia, a yearning to comfort your past teen self
(from BEATING HEART BABY by @EmoOcean, soo good) #MSWL
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Anj @anj3llyfish
a thread tagging/linking the people in this thread so y'all can go show them some love twitter.com/yanliism/statu…#mswl forever and ever AND EVER
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BOMB Magazine @BOMBmagazine
"We're all really scared, but some of us are really scared in country houses, well-fed....And if we don't acknowledge those differences, we're fucked" —Lynn StegerStrong Gradations of Anxiety and Precarity: @lynnsstrong Interviewed by Zan Romanoff
bombmagazine.org/articles/lynn-… pic.twitter.com/4bElPwxCNS
loved this conversation between @lynnsstrong and @zanopticon about living through uncertainty and towing lines of privilege and storytelling and the performance of confidence and damage and motherhood and personhood at large—there's so much to unpack honestly, it's so good #mswl twitter.com/BOMBmagazine/s…
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Saba Sulaiman @agentsaba
i love this post on looking beyond how you (or how people you know) would react to bad news when writing your characters’ reactions because there's no👏🏽such👏🏽thing👏🏽as👏🏽the👏🏽right👏🏽way👏🏽to👏🏽react👏🏽to👏🏽tragedy.here's a non-exhaustive list: the-right-writing.tumblr.com/post/969846484… #writetip pic.twitter.com/04WwTkxANm
i think all of us fall into the trap of expecting people to react within a certain fairly small range of possible ways to bad news. i know i can be limited by my ideas of what feels like a "normal" reaction + i love complex characters that challenge me to unlearn my biases. #mswl
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i've had a stroke of genius today and i'd like to share it with y'all in the hope that someone will write this for me ASAP #mswl
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in more autocorrect misadventures, today i praised a client for how fantastic and transportive their decryptions are and now i think this is an #mswl?
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Carrie Mesrobian @CarrieMesrobian
in keeping with the theme of incoherent uncertainty, let me close with this: the more sure you are about your teenaged self, or your teenaged characters, and their own certainty, the more I think you need to reflect on your life, and revise your noveli love this and agree 100%. let teens be confused and unsure and inconsistent in their thoughts and feelings and decision-making in YA because that👏🏽is👏🏽how👏🏽teens👏🏽are👏🏽 #mswl
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Samira Ahmed @sam_aye_ahm
I recently unearthed the dusty tome that is my HS “Senior Will.”And Holy Aquanet bangs! I’ve been on brand since 1989. 😂
For your #tbt enjoyment
* I will
-“POWER to the students”
** I will miss most
- “arguments”
*** I plan to
- “Stay myself” pic.twitter.com/vlcMU206u2
dear #mswl deities please bless the inbox with teen samira's rebellion handbook, please
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this 🔥🔥🔥 piece examines how writing for teens means being willing to engage with
-how they negotiate their limited power
-how they use social media to fortify + break down social hierarchies
-what in tarnation they're listening to these days
#mswl
electricliterature.com/mary-hk-choi-t…
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Fawzia Mirza @thefawz
Muslim women - I’m developing a show about us. What would you like to see?????intersectional muslims; joyful, largely unconfused muslims; muslims who aren't afraid to acknowledge and/or critique the problematic natures of many prominently accepted beliefs and practices within the community #mswl
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i will never stop loving this #mswl
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i considered braving through spoilers while searching #mswl tweets for references to jane the virgin but then