Stefanie Lieberman

I’m late to #MSWL day but: still desperately seeking a rom-com to sweep me off my feet (& onto a cushioned window seat, where I will read all day!). If your take on the genre is fresh & funny & swoony enough to make me forget everything on my calendar, then please submit to me!

More #MSWL: A rich, commercial summer story set in a traditionally Black beach community like Highland Beach, Maryland, Idlewild, Michigan, or Oak Bluffs, Mass

More #MSWL: a novel like COUNTERFEIT -- entertaining, glittery, and satisfying on the level of plot-heavy, page-turning caper or romp, but also delivering on serious themes, exploring questions of race, identity, and consumerism

Still more #MSWL: a modern take on BBC classic Upstairs, Downstairs -- featuring relationships and tension between door staff of an urban apartment building and tenants, exploring class, race, and wealth disparity

More #MSWL: High-concept stories about being caught between two cultures (think Jhumpa Lahiri but more commercial)

More #MSWL: Historical fiction centered on witches (and/or including magical elements), featuring well-researched, authentic period detail. I'd love a story in this space that borrows from actual events and re-imagines them in an original way

New #MSWL: Historical fiction like POSSESSION -- with nerdy academics and "original" source research at the core, but also, sexy, exciting, and tension-filled. Always a fan of hist. fic. that has a race-against-time element.

I’m bumping this #MSWL ask up, too. Send me a temporary escape, please! One that makes forget how weird it is that my last load of laundry consisted, largely, of face masks in various sizes...

Renewing this #MSWL tweet one more time. I am still craving a rom-com that is both really rom and really com...

Renewing this #MSWL ask for 2020: Please please send me a big page-turning love story! I want a ONE DAY IN DECEMBER, GHOSTED, or THE UNHONEYMOONERS. Extra points for belly laughs...

Hey #MSWL: Am seeking a great love story with dimension, humor, and a strong commercial hook. Think ONE DAY or THE LIGHT WE LOST, but not necessarily a weepy. I am esp eager to read #ownvoices stories or underrepresented narratives in this space.

If you don't see your ms in my #MSWL, but you write in the sweet spot btw commercial and literary, pls query me!

Yet another always 4 me: diverse voices & stories for all audiences. Esp interested in immigrant experience in US #MSWL

A book within a book, plus suspense (think MAGPIE MURDERS) #MSWL

Is your voice full of hard-edges and relentlessly hilarious (e.g. VEEP)? Write me a ms! #MSWL

PostWWII/50s hist fic set on a train (when train travel was glamorous) making comment on class &/or race #MSWL

Are you writing page-turning historical fiction w/ 3D characters in the vein of Kate Quinn’s THE ALICE NETWORK? Send it here! #MSWL

Historical fiction with the depth, resonance, and line-by-line beauty of THE WEIGHT OF INK by Rachel Kadish #MSWL

Stories that make me LOLOLOL *and* offer pointed social commentary at the same time (eg Gabrielle Zevin’s YOUNG JANE YOUNG) #MSWL

Stories where the MC should be thriving in adulthood but stalls out on the way, à la GOODBYE, VITAMIN and CHEMISTRY #MSWL