Eva Scalzo 🇵🇷
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Speilburg Literary Agency
boricua🇵🇷, reader, feminist, ally, wife, mom, lit agent @ Speilburg Literary, AALA/AAR, RWA & SCBWI member *closed to queries* all opinions mine (she/her)
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Becca Podato Latkes with Applesauce @RebeccaPodos
#MSWL ‘Tis The Damn Season::checks notes::
Hell yes, #mswl
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Invisible chronic conditions: I want to see characters w diabetes, epilepsy, other auto-immune diseases, where the condition is part of their identity, but not the whole of it. I want to see their joy more than their struggles, but I don't want it to be tokenized either. #mswl 7/
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Historical Fantasy with a diverse bent and lots of magic. Like say a story about a bruja/o/x traveling transatlantically and owning all of Europe. #mswl 6/
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A F/F sports romance. I'm shipping Megan Rapinoe and Sue Bird, so if you have a story you'd comp to their story, please send it my way. Or you can comp it to Ali Krieger and Ashlyn Harris. Doesn’t have to be soccer either. #mswl 5/
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In contemporary romance I’m especially hungry for a story where gender expectations are subverted, so something like a celebrity with a female bodyguard or a prince who is saved by a princess (ahem, Harry and Meghan anyone?). #mswl 4/
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My full #mswl can be found at evascalzo.com/mswl, but here are a few highlights: Stories from marginalized voices that focus on the joy. I’m a fan of the HEA. Issues books have their place on the bookshelf, but that’s not my wheelhouse. 3/
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Eva Scalzo 🇵🇷 @evascalzo
Hi #amquerying friends! I have officially fully re-opened to queries. I'll thread a couple of #mswl related tweets, but I'm so excited to see your projects in my inbox, which can be found at this handy link: QueryManager.com/evascalzo 1/Reminder: I represent Adult Romance and SFF and across all genres of Young Adult fiction. I do not represent literary fiction, poetry, screenplays, or nonfiction—not even narrative nonfiction or whatever autofiction is (something I've seen recently in queries). #mswl 2/
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QUERY UPDATE: Hi everyone, I'm fully re-opening to queries tomorrow, September 1st, and am so looking forward to seeing your projects. My #MSWL can be found here: evascalzo.com/mswl
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Emery Lee Semi-Hiatus @EmeryLeeWho
It's been brought to my attention in a sort of roundabout way that people aren't interested in queer books, esp QPoC books, that don't center trauma.Can y'all do me a favor & RT this if you'd love to read some books about queer people with little to no trauma in them?
Listen, anyone who knows me, knows that I am all about the joy! QPOC definitely have earned their joy, send me those stories! I am open to them right now!! #mswl
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Deborah Nemeth @DebNemeth
Many romance ms submissions pay too much attention to the exes in unnecessary & clichéd ways, giving them a generic feel.I want to see more heroines who broke up with their exes for reasons other than cheating. And fewer heroines who are brokenhearted after being dumped. #MSWL
There are so many reasons relationships don’t work out. Adding nuance to the ex/backstory can add depth and real emotional stakes to the potential conflicts your MCs face. #mswl
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Eva Scalzo 🇵🇷 @evascalzo
Most of the queries in the inbox are from the month of July, but it’s basically double the number of queries I received in May and June and I don’t want to get too far behind on them. My full requests date back to March, and I want to close the gap on those as well. 2/3Diverse authors will still be able to submit queries using the special link. This is why I am only *partially* closing. My #MSWL has been updated on my website: evascalzo.com/mswl 3/3
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Mara Delgado-Sanchez is reading subs 🇵🇷 @little_mswriter
As I am reminded today that I was born and raised in a colony and that Puerto Ricans in the island are second-class citizens, a reminder that I am looking for Latinx voices for my list!Where are my fantasies, romcoms, etc at? #mswl twitter.com/little_mswrite…
Mara and I are totally looking for the same things!! (We literally had a hangout this week chatting about this!) Más Latinx por favor. Hoy y siempre. #mswl
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Norma @normajeanesays
As a romance editor I still think you can make this work twitter.com/faridahlikeste…The Trouble with Harry could be a comp. Hitchcock film w a romance subplot and a dead body. It’s so funny!! One of my fave Hitchcock films tbh I would #mswl
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Maris Kreizman @mariskreizman
Did I mention that when I was diagnosed in 1987, The Babysitters Club was the only reason I knew what diabetes was? Representation! twitter.com/mariskreizman/…I was diagnosed in 1994, and The Babysitters’ Club was the only reason I knew what diabetes was too. I still want a YA with type I diabetes rep. #mswl
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Ana Coqui @anacoqui
#Rombklove 2020 Day 27: Bodyguard Romances is hosted by Micaela @SiempreromancesThey must protect you...at all costs. What makes a good bodyguard romance? Do you have a favorite bodyguard character?
Find her recs on Insta:
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#RomBkLove 2020 Day 27: Bodyguard romances. Ah, a trope I always enjoy. Two recent reads are Pop Star by Eden Finley and Royally Endowed by Emma Chase. I feel like there was a gender swapped one I really enjoyed but if there isn’t, then I’d like to #MSWL that 😂
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Lauren Accardo @LaurenEats__
The pianist and the sax player, connecting across balconies and falling in love?! OKAY! 😍 twitter.com/RexChapman/sta…#MSWL (it doesn’t have to be bc of a quarantine, tbh I prefer it not be)
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David Begnaud @DavidBegnaud
This day was dominated by Samaritans who gathered supplies, left their homes and headed into the earthquake affected zones to hand out what they could. We saw them everywhere along the southwestern coast. pic.twitter.com/6MGYumlMjb#MSWL you guys. I want stories of people helping each other out during the hardest of times and finding love and friendship and hope in the face of trauma. Bonus points if it takes place in PR.
(I reopen to queries Feb 1st)
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Angelina M. Lopez @AngelinaMLo
My first @OnFrolic article!!! It's all about embracing your bonkers ideas, no matter what they are! Let your bonkers flag fly!!!! twitter.com/OnFrolic/statu…Often the most bonkers stories that I would have never come up with to #mswl in a million years are the ones I want to rep the most. So, like, listen to @AngelinaMLo.