Hannah Bowman

@hannahnpbowman

Literary Agent

Liza Dawson Associates

Lit agent ("without her more characters would have lived"). Prison abolitionist @Xians4Abolition. Theologian. Let's tell revolutionary stories together. She/her

lizadawsonassociates.com/team/hannah-bowman

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· 29 Aug 2018

Foz Meadows @fozmeadows

Y'know, Sleeping Beauty pricking her finger on a spindle and dying is a whole lot more ironic if her mother is the now-queen, former-miller's-daughter from Rumplestiltskin who was meant to spin straw into gold and the evil fairy godmother is avenging her fellow magician.

· 19 Aug 2018

alina sichevaya @alina_sichevaya

yall know what i want? gimme an epic fantasy setting but for like. a romcom

Oh I would LOVE a gorgeous fantasy romance. With a giant beautiful medieval wedding. #MSWL

· 8 Aug 2018

Lindsey Hall @LindseyHall17

#MSWL fantasy w/ a translator protag. There's so much power in language-- how they translate for a ruler effects a whole kingdom, eg. I want to see the nuances & consequences of deciding how & what to translate, word play between languages, times when translation falls short

I would 100% love this. Also: messenger protagonist in a military fantasy setting. The folks who ride all night to bring the warnings of disaster. #MSWL

· 12 Jul 2018

Following up on my #MSWL thread, some books I've read in the past year (not my clients!) that I've really loved:

SEA OF RUST -- postapocalyptic robots at war (way cooler than that sounds). What happens after the robot apocalypse?

· 12 Jul 2018

There's been a request for a #MSWL now that I'm re-opening to queries. So, a thread on what I most want to see. (This is NOT EXHAUSTIVE! I'm open to all kinds of adult SFF.)

· 24 May 2018

I want, like, a really beautiful classic-style fantasy with a quest in it. “You will see rare beasts and have unique adventures” (Auden). #MSWL

Fantasy

· 31 Jan 2018

Margaret Rogerson @MarRogerson

I unironically love this cliche so much that I suspect my books are going to contain increasingly extravagant balls, longer & more grandiose each time, until my fifth or sixth book just takes place in a court trapped in an eternal ball twitter.com/Freepaperclips…

I...actually think a book set in an eternal masquerade ball would be great. Think Lady Pole trapped in the ball in Lost Hope. #mswl

· 29 Sep 2017

Shira Glassm🎻n @ShiraGlassman

Raise your hand if you're already drafting Martian f/f twitter.com/Independent/st…

· 10 Jun 2017

Hannah Bowman @hannahnpbowman

Strike in space! twitter.com/trgenovese/sta…

Seriously, somebody write me a near-future strike-in-space book. Like The Martian, but with collective nonviolent resistance. #MSWL

Sci-fi

· 8 Feb 2017

Hannah Bowman @hannahnpbowman

I've had a manifesto building about why I do this agenting thing. Today's the day to share it. pic.twitter.com/Xq8iW5yAMC

Re-upping for #MSWL. If your book fits in with this, I'm interested.

· 12 Jan 2017

I want a medieval thriller. Like Sharon Kay Penman's THE QUEEN'S MAN. #MSWL

Thriller

· 5 Jan 2017

Max Gladstone @maxgladstone

@hannahnpbowman @leeflower Not about Kylo Ren, to be clear: never seen an SFnal truth and reconciliation commission.

If anybody has an SFnal truth and reconciliation commission story, I WANT IT DESPERATELY. #MSWL

· 1 Dec 2016

The OED @OED

The noun ‘wretch’, from Old English ‘wrecca’ (exile), is related to Old High German ‘reccho’ meaning ‘exile, adventurer, knight errant’.

Please someone write me a book inspired by the idea of a wretch who is also a knight errant. #MSWL twitter.com/oed/status/804…

· 26 Nov 2016

Blair Thornburgh @ATallOrder

If anyone wants to make a gender-swapped remake of National Treasure, I have an idea for you pic.twitter.com/rilkZoREAa

#MSWL twitter.com/atallorder/sta…

· 7 Nov 2016

Hannah Bowman @hannahnpbowman

This whole tumblr is my #MSWL. thevaultoftheatomicspaceage.tumblr.com/post/152776543…

Replying to @hannahnpbowman

P.S. If someone wants to write me SF with the otherworldly creepy beauty of FORBIDDEN PLANET but without the sexism, that'd be great. #MSWL

Sci-fi

· 7 Nov 2016

This whole tumblr is my #MSWL. thevaultoftheatomicspaceage.tumblr.com/post/152776543…

· 16 Sep 2016

Basically I'm in the mood for some books that inculcate wonder and show luminous beauty. That's what I love about SFF! #MSWL

· 16 Sep 2016

A first-colonization SF novel that captures the transcendent beauty and sadness of leaving Earth. INTERSTELLAR meets FORBIDDEN PLANET #MSWL

Sci-fi

· 16 Sep 2016

Whatever the next MISTS OF AVALON is -- beautiful, feminist, Arthurian, smart, instant classic. #MSWL

· 16 Sep 2016

Hannah Bowman @hannahnpbowman

A subversive and anti-colonial fantasy set during the British Raj in India. Preferably #ownvoices.JONATHAN STRANGE meets MIDNIGHT'S CHILDREN

Replying to @hannahnpbowman

Fantasy