Eric Smith

Listen if you're looking for an agent who is very good at Self Owns, here's my #MSWL: ericsmithrocks.com/mswl

I keep thinking about how badly I want to read more smart, unnerving YA horror.

I don't want gore. I want a story that makes me ask questions that I don't want an answer to. #MSWL

Annual reminder that I'm obsessed with @erin_bowman's CONTAGION and it's on the very top of my "books I wish I had worked on" list. Get me a book blend like this. #MSWL

An eternal #MSWL request:

YA novels about adoptees, written by adoptees.

Give me those genuine voices.

Like, there's a familiar in What We Do In the Shadows who is like 80+ years old, and is still saying "any day now."

Imagine a father figure in a YA novel who is a familiar, and his wildly frustrated family. Does the teen become a slayer?

Anyhow, send this to me someone. #MSWL

I've been watching the TV adaptation of What We Do in the Shadows (it's brilliant), and I'm just obsessed with the world of the familiars, the humans serving the vampires.

I would DEVOUR a vampire novel from the perspective of familiar. Who is maybe tired of waiting? #MSWL

Because @ZillianZi's Number One Chinese Restaurant absolutely ruined me last year. I desperately want to read a novel that makes me feel like that again. #MSWL

I almost tweeted "YA rom-con" instead of "YA rom-com" and I officially want to read a YA contemporary novel about two teens planning a heist who OOPS also fall in love. #MSWL

I talk a lot about how my favorite kind of literary fiction blends genres, pulling the speculative or a bit of magic into it.

And this one is a perfect, stunning example of that.

More books like @pengshepherd’s in my query box, please. #MSWL

Still getting the occasional DM asking if I'm open to queries... and I am! :-D

Here's what I'm looking for:

Most genres of YA.
Genre blending literary fiction.
Accessible sci-fi and fantasy.
Memoir and essay collections.
Cookbooks.
You?

Query me! ericsmithrocks.com/mswl #MSWL

*passes away on that Quiet YA hill while writing a tweet about wanting to read a book about a teen stressing over marching band auditions* #MSWL

I love my fluffy books, I want more books-that-feel-like-hugs that my son can grow up and see himself in. #MSWL

OMG. Please someone give me a book where teens swap super long ICQ numbers. #MSWL

Every time I type “bbs” instead of “babies” I’m reminded how badly I want an early 90’s YA novel with a teen running a bulletin board system (BBS) on their computer.

“Who is the audience for dawn of the Internet niche YA-“

Shush! Gimme. #MSWL

Goodness do I want to get more college YA in my query box. #MSWL

Also American Panda by @gloriacchao is such a perfect book, just thinking about it makes me happy.

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