Cecilia Lyra
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P.S. Literary Agency
Storyteller & Storyseller / Associate Literary Agent @PSLiterary ✍🏽 Co-host of @TSNOTYAW podcast 🎧 Feminist. Latinx. Immigrant. Reader.
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“I’d love to read a nonfiction proposal about the power of empathy.”@ceciliaclyra #MSWL psliterary.com/submissions/
Full disclosure: I want this so much I can even 'see' the title: WHEN IN DOUBT, ADD EMPATHY #MSWL
(...and that includes adding empathy in how we treat our many selves.)
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Bianca Marais 🎙📚🖋🇨🇦🇿🇦 @BiancaM_author
Wonderful news: @carlywatters and @ceciliaclyra will be joining the podcast as hosts meaning the Books with Hooks segment will be a permanent feature! Today’s segment specifically focuses on trusting yourself and your reader. pic.twitter.com/ihXhYhvYY1The first submission we got to critique this week features parentified children, a theme that's at the very top of my #MSWL — thank you to all writers who share your brilliant work with us. We appreciate your trust!
#WritingCommunity
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I am reading Danielle Evan's BEFORE YOU SUFFOCATE YOUR OWN FOOL SELF and it's...perfection. Layer upon layer of all the essential story elements. Writing that melts into your soul. #amquerying writers: we know short story collections are a tough sell but I AM HERE FOR IT! #MSWL
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I'm on the hunt for a submission on misandry. #MSWL
Open to all categories and formats: essay collection, narrative nonfic, short stories with misandry as a commom theme, etc.
And yes, I've read the brilliant @aPaulineR 's work! 🔥
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Amazon Prime Video Canada @PrimeVideoCA
Imagine your job was just to…care. Starring Rosamund Pike, Peter Dinklage and Eiza Gonzalez, I Care A Lot is now streaming on Prime Video.If your WIP is like I CARE A LOT and has:
Women con artists ✔️
Escalating tension ✔️
Twists and turns ✔️
Surprising and satisfying ending ✔️
Then please consider querying me! 🙋🏽♀️
#MSWL #WritingCommunity
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If PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN (@PromisingFilm) would be a comp for your WIP, please consider querying me. #BestMovieEver #MSWL
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AFTERSHOCKS by @NadiaOwusu1 is officially my favorite memoir ever— #amquerying writers this is the perfect example of how to share stories with specificity, vulnerability, and, of course, beautiful writing. And I love the world history woven into the protagonist's journey. #MSWL
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“I want to read stories that are dark and taboo. I love secrets and revelations. I love plot twists.” @ceciliaclyra #MSWL psliterary.com/submissions/Extra bonus points if I can't see the plot twist coming! #WritingCommunity #MSWL
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I just finished THE OFFICE OF HISTORICAL CORRECTIONS by @daniellevalore and it is the BEST short story collection I've ever read. Sharp, inquisitive, prescient. The writing on a line level is perfection. The stories are expertly-shaped magic. #MSWL
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Kal-L @KalearahL
@ceciliaclyra I must crush used eggshells into bits. My first mother was adamant that if you don't witches would come by night, steal them, use the shells as boats to travel to a place where they find curses to use on people.I was 6 when she passed, 30yrs and I still do it. 😅
Here's what I have to say about that: #MSWL 👀
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If I’m going to spend time inside someone’s head, I want them to be messy and conflicted. I want them to feel envy, greed, shame. I want them to be manipulative and deceitful. I want them their inner life to be at odds with their public persona. I do not want them to be nice.
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I am intrigued by characters who want to be good people, but keep making the wrong choices (habits are hard to break, esp if it comes from a place of trauma). I appreciate characters who are, in fact, good people, but who can’t see it (maybe they are hiding a shameful secret?).
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A conclusion: I don’t like reading about nice characters. By ‘nice’ I mean characters who genuinely think they’re good people. I am drawn to characters who have to pretend to be nice to survive (especially if they’ve learned it the hard way). #MSWL #WritingCommunity
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I'm about halfway through this gem by @SusanMihalic and all I can say is that it's disturbing AF: dark and twisty and rife with taboo --- exactly the sort of story I'd love to represent #MSWL
