Eric Smith

Up late playing Far Cry so this is your annual reminder that I want some novels about cults in my inbox.

Send me that disturbing stuff. #MSWL

Definitely. Agents use #MSWL for our specific requests and wishes (ie: I'm dying for a survivalist, plague-filled YA but... I want other stuff too), and always welcome surprises that are still within our interests. #askLitAOC

Oh! @BeautyBritches is watching @Andy Cohen’s show and he has my favorite YA novel of all time on his bookshelf!

Goodness I want to read a YA that makes me feel the way HERO did. What an amazing novel. #MSWL

My wife is watching her reality shows (right now Temptation Island is on), and I so want to read a literary novel with reality TV in it.

Like a novel that feels like the show UnReal, or reminds me of THE LAST ONE by Alexandra Oliva. Oof that was a perfect book. #MSWL

Annual reminder that @erin_bowman's CONTAGION ruined me, and I want to find a book that makes me feel like that. #MSWL

This is also eternally on my #MSWL for YA and adult sci-fi and fantasy, please. Brown kids in space.

I’ve been watching WRECKED lately, and I sure would love to read a survivalist novel that’s funny. Does that exist? Query me. #MSWL

Seeing a lot of queries from folks who love @mikechenwriter, and that fills my heart.

Reminder... I'm looking for adult literary genre blends, like Here & Now & Then, or like Station Eleven by @EmilyMandel and The Night Circus by @erinmorgenstern. ericsmithrocks.com/mswl #MSWL

Also please pitch me your quirky cookbook projects. I love stuff like this. 👌🏽🥃 #mswl

Someone write a geeky YA novel about teens competing in a Street Fighter video game competition so we can call it DOWN RIGHT FIERCE. #MSWL

Half the afternoon has been spent ranting with @far_ah_way about wanting more YA that feels like Mass Effect and @ashposton’s Heart of Iron.

Gimme character driven space opera with making out please. #mswl

Shout to all the writers pitching me survivalist, doomsday prepper, and cult books.

You are my people.

Keep querying me with these stories. #MSWL

Hey writer friends!

#PitMad was super fun yesterday! Remember, you can still query me (and most other agents!) via the ol' fashioned way... our inboxes!

Here's what I'm looking for this year. ericsmithrocks.com/blog/2019/01/3… #MSWL

Opposite of Always by @andthisjustin is just this brilliant, genre-blend of a book that captured my whole heart.

Definitely one of my favorites of 2019. Yes, I'm saying that in March.

Desperately want to see books taking risks the way this novel did, in my inbox, please. #MSWL

Where's the YA author writing a rom-com in space? #MSWL

Give me the Nora Ephron quality swoons and smiles from @LaurenEMorrill's books mashed together with the flawless SFF world building from @SanguMandanna and @rhodabee.

It'll be weird. A marketing nightmare. Send it to me.

And in non-fiction, I'm looking for cookbooks, essay collections, and memoir.

@nicole_soojung's memoir wasn't just my favorite memoir last year, it was one of my favorite books period.

@readandbreathe's upcoming book is a great example of "something I wish I worked on."

I'd love to find some more SFF novels that are fun, moving, diverse, and accessible.

My favorite SFF read last year was by @pengshepherd, and I'm smitten with the works of @KatWithSword @DelilahSDawson and @ChuckWendig.

The City of Brass by @SAChakrabooks is a perfect book.

I'm on the lookout for more diverse and inclusive voices in YA across all genres.

My favorite books last year were by authors like @RantingOwl @justinaireland @theames and @AshWrites.

And I'm DESPERATE to find a sci-fi genre blending masterpiece like @erin_bowman's Contagion.

This year, I really want to find more genre-blending literary fiction. It's a big focus.

See books like Station Eleven, The Night Circus, and The Monsters of Templeton as perfect examples.

I've been so lucky with @mikechenwriter @AlisonStine and @boycebabbles. Send me more!

Good morning! It's March 1st and I'm officially open to queries again at @PSLiterary!

Here's my #MSWL on my website, and I'm going to tweet a little bit about what I'm looking for... let's go. ericsmithrocks.com/blog/2019/01/3…