Beth Phelan
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Gallt & Zacker Literary Agency
she/her. mg & ya literary agent @galltzackerlit . founder 501c3 NPO @_DiverseVoices (#DVpit/#DVart, DVcon &more). closed to unsolicited submissions.
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anxiety has been making it hard to focus very well, but i will say that in addition to the rest of my #MSWL i am also highly motivated to read more LOL MG fantasy adventure. have a few fantastic mss in my queue and would add some more… :)
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Dana Chidiac @chidiaqian
YA about moving on from high school! Anything about college admissions, the summer after senior year, freshman year of college (or of life) #mswlI’d also love books with teens who elect not to go to college at all #mswl
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beth phelan (hiatus &closed to unsolicited subs) @beth_phelan
when i updated my website, i also updated my wishlist! please bookmark this for the new year, when i finally, at long last, reopen to queries! #mswl #amquerying #querytipbethphelan.com/submission-wis…
i will add that top of my #MSWL is: laughing. i don't mean chuckling. i mean i want to LOL. more so with voice than silliness but i'd love to see more of it in general in my submissions. :)
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when i updated my website, i also updated my wishlist! please bookmark this for the new year, when i finally, at long last, reopen to queries! #mswl #amquerying #querytip
bethphelan.com/submission-wis…
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Catching up on subs and i notice i have excellent YA here, but not much MG! #mswl WHEN I REOPEN: I really want to work on more MG! Commercial or literary—give me your big series hooks, magic, light and fun contemporary, hopeful stories touching on tough topics, queer characters!!
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Shenwei (they/them) 張軒瑋 @theshenners
the discussion about the lack of upper MG & lower YA has me thinking about how little I see experiences like my middle school days in fiction...when I was13-14 most ppl were not sexually active but ppl were absolutely making sex jokes and I feel like MG mostly sanitizes that
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#mswl queer poc teen friend groups
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if anyone has a MG or YA with a PROTAGONIST who has ADHD, i'd love to see it. in particular, a type that isn't the more commonly associated hyperactive but features the inattentiveness, procrastination, disorganized thoughts, etc. would be open to realistic or fantasy #MSWL
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technically closed to queries but aching for more submissions from Native / Indigenous authors, MG or YA, of course. send my way with “Native voice” in the subject line 💚💚 #mswl #amquerying
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#mswl for social justice topics in MG <3
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authors! it's okay if your book doesn't match a #mswl exactly! you don't need to revise the book to fit, or write the book to meet it, or mention the mswl at all. you can just query and let it stand on its own! just because we tweet a mswl, doesn't mean that that is ALL we want.
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i want more diverse mg fantasy with secondary animal characters that steal my heart #mswl
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Eric Smith @ericsmithrocks
Goodness do I want to get more college YA in my query box. #MSWLAlso American Panda by @gloriacchao is such a perfect book, just thinking about it makes me happy. twitter.com/missdahlelama/…
Don’t send it to Eric just send to me #mswl
J/k you should totally send it to Eric but just you know send to me too okay?
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Saraciea a.k.a The Bronx is Reading 📚 @Sj_Fennell
Still waiting on an Afro-Honduran Or a Garifuna protagonist in #kidlit or even freaking adult lit. I have yet to see myself in MG or YA book. I enjoy stories that feature other Afro-Latinx cultures. But, I’m am really waiting on the day an Afro-Honduran or Garifuna writes kidlit twitter.com/lindasuepark/s…#mswl bring me this pls
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Ryan Ramkelawan @ryanramkelawan
Have you ever accepted a query of an MS that wasn't in your wishlist or do you always preferred MS within your Wishlist only? #askLitAOCyes, the #MSWL to me is more about those random, specific things i want. it doesn't mean that's the ONLY stuff i want! i think other agents are the same. #askLitAOC