DongWon Song

@dongwon

Literary Agent

Howard Morhaim Literary Agency

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· 5 Feb 2020

Tochi Onyebuchi Untitled Princess Carolyn Project @TochiTrueStory

Y'all coulda just paid me to write a dope ass Moby Dick with a black Ahab. pic.twitter.com/2iSrzaZwk3

okay #mswl tho

· 10 Jun 2019

kottke.org @kottke

What would the megacities in Blade Runner look like when abandoned in the far future? Something like this... kottke.org/19/06/abandone…

THIS IS THE CYBERPUNK I WANT #MSWL

Cyberpunk

· 12 Sep 2018

Author/illustrator graphic novels for YA and MG. Something fluffy and with a good romance. I love found family stories and kids finding ways to resist corrupt power structures. A unique visual style and a distinct perspective is essential. #MSWL

· 12 Sep 2018

Smart, savvy, adult thrillers with a literary voice and crossover appeal. Some speculative aspect is fine. Think Tana French or Lauren Beukes. No cops. No sexual violence. Women, PoC, other marginalized folk would be ideal. #MSWL

· 12 Sep 2018

YA fantasy that feels grounded in a contemporary setting and focuses on the lives of teens in highly relatable ways but with magical or speculative components. But not ones that feel urban fantasy. It's a narrow window, I know. #MSWL

· 12 Sep 2018

dongwon @dongwon

I love the idea of #MSWL day but I'm rarely looking for a very specific concept or type of book. I just want the book to be yours and yours alone. To be so specific you can see the whole world in its details. That said, here are a few things that are very top of mind for me:

Contemporary horror/thriller focused on the experiences of POCs. We live harrowing lives and ones that see the world from a different angle. Film/tv has done a great job of catching up to representing those experiences. I want more of it in books. #MSWL

· 25 Apr 2018

Noelle Stevenson @Gingerhazing

Horror is a distinctly feminine genre often defined by male writers and directors imagining how horrifying it must be to be a woman and I can’t wait to see more female writers and directors of horror!!! I think it’s gonna happen!!!!!

#MSWL MSWLMSWLMSWLMSWL

Horror

· 22 Nov 2017

Robin Coste Lewis @thesablevenus

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· 12 Sep 2017

In the end, I want stories that have a point of view. A sense of perspective. Use your words to say something worth saying. #MSWL

· 12 Sep 2017

dongwon @dongwon

Adult Epic Fantasy. Sweeping scope. Multi-POV. But PLEASE be about something other than just "let's murder everyone for empire." #MSWL

Replying to @dongwon

A Lauren Beukes-style sfnal thriller. Tana French with actual spooky shit. Ex Machina in book form. #MSWL

Thriller

· 12 Sep 2017

dongwon @dongwon

YA SF that takes its science seriously. Good worldbuilding, strong characterization, emotional honesty. No high concept. #MSWL

Replying to @dongwon

Adult Epic Fantasy. Sweeping scope. Multi-POV. But PLEASE be about something other than just "let's murder everyone for empire." #MSWL

· 12 Sep 2017

dongwon @dongwon

AKA MG with a Gravity Falls, Stranger Things (the kids arc), or even Attack the Block vibe. #MSWL

Replying to @dongwon

YA SF that takes its science seriously. Good worldbuilding, strong characterization, emotional honesty. No high concept. #MSWL

· 12 Sep 2017

dongwon @dongwon

Spooky MGs about kids fighting monsters that also doesn't forget that kids have real emotional range. #MSWL

Replying to @dongwon

AKA MG with a Gravity Falls, Stranger Things (the kids arc), or even Attack the Block vibe. #MSWL

MG

· 12 Sep 2017

dongwon @dongwon

Smart horror featuring POCs, women who get to do interesting things. Use the tools of horror to examine race, gender, and trauma. #MSWL

Replying to @dongwon

Spooky MGs about kids fighting monsters that also doesn't forget that kids have real emotional range. #MSWL

MG

· 12 Sep 2017

dongwon @dongwon

OK, it's #MSWL day so gonna drop a few requests. Guidelines are on my site at dongwonsong.com.

Replying to @dongwon

Smart horror featuring POCs, women who get to do interesting things. Use the tools of horror to examine race, gender, and trauma. #MSWL

Horror
Women

· 5 May 2017

Rachel “The Yellow Dart” Feltman @RachelFeltman

Forensic scientists caught a deer munching on a human carcass for the first time ever pops.ci/SXEXCz pic.twitter.com/PEuesMfGcM

· 30 Apr 2017

*pounds table* MORE SPACE WITCHES

... I just really like Ashoka and Ventress ok?

#mswl

Witch
Sci-fi

· 26 Apr 2017

whisper of the hutt @AngrygirLcomics

um
can someone write like a YA sci-fi version of the fast and the furious

YA
Sci-fi

· 28 Sep 2016

Bo Bolander @BBolander

@dongwon It is one of my favourite things, that story.

Replying to @BBolander

#mswl for, like, ever.

· 12 Sep 2016

OK, I almost never do #MSWL but send me something in the venn diagram of Gravity Falls, Stranger Things, and Attack the Block. Good luck.