Kiana Nguyen
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Donald Maass Literary Agency
YA/Adult Fiction Agent at DMLA. Hobbit degenerate. She/her. I smile a lot/make inappropriate jokes. 🌈🦄 ALL SIGNS POINT TO YES ✨ Rep: @samanthashnh
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Always HIGH on my #mswl priority: YA; queer friends of color from the hood, or lower-middle class a la failed NY industry. Full of heart, promise, and school skipping hijinks to idk attempt to skate the Statue of Liberty. Fast talking, no-nonsense kids w/a tight bond. Funny!
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First on my #mswl: I want an f/f YA contemporary centering a black girl or girl of color who isn't confused about anything other than How To Get The Girl. A 2015-now voice.
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Me anytime a girl is nice to another girl in a book: Ohhh, they like each other!
Me any time a girl is mean to another girl in a book: Ohhh, they like each other!
CLEARLY, I need MORE f/f books in my life & in my QUERY INBOX. All the f/f in my #mswl. Femme, butch, trans, ALL!
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a l i c e - can never finish readathons @monodramajpeg
As much as I'm dirty trash for the 'innocent girl gets with tall, dark, and kinda evil dude' trope, I would really kill for the opposite too. Where are the stories with the sweet, naive guys and their evil, deadly girlfriends?? Is that too much to ask??Please. Yes. #mswl PLEASE. Also F/F!
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I'm really not into working with YA about theater kids/theater productions, but PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE always consider me for contemporary books about dancers/dance. #mswl
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I don't know if I shout about this loud enough: I DO represent Adult SFF and I WANT IT very very badly. I'm looking for fantasy like THE POPPY WAR, SPINNING SILVER, and JADE CITY. Sci-fi like VIGILANCE and THE PREY OF GODS.
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Omg so I’m listening to Natasha Ngan’s ep of @88cupsoftea. Hearing Yin and Natasha gush about shared Malay culture makes me think of my distant cousins/relatives my ba would show me who did Thai pageants.
I’d LOVE a Thai-written YA based around pageant life! #mswl
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I want a HORROR novel in my queries ASAP!! YA! ADULT! Contemporary! SPECULATIVE! FANTASY! SCI-Fi!
ANY KIND OF HORROR I WANT IT! #mswl
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An adult domestic suspense centered around a black hair salon/barbershop #mswl
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Eileen Rothschild @E_Roths
I can’t take any credit for this but I want to spread it. Today my publisher used the term rom-sad (pretty sure she made it up) to describe a romantic tearjerker with a HEA. I love it. Give me your rom-coms and rom-sads. I want to feel all the feelings.Oh yes yes yes #mswl
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I am currently reading BIRD BOX (the SCARIEST book ever omfg) and obsessively rewatching The Haunting of Hill House and I would literally murder a grandma to get an Adult or YA horror that exploits family dynamics #mswl
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Sarah Guan @Sarah_Guan
On the flip side—where were the vampire clans w/ gossip grapevines populated by nosy aunties who’ve been around for centuries and hold the pettiest grudges?“Aiya, remember what Ah Guan said about your aunt at that party in 1825? Don’t even THINK about talking to her daughter!”
TALK ABOUT A #MSWL!!!
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#1 #MSWL: REGENCY LESBIANS!!!
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Girls and women and enbys who love sex or love talking about it and just don’t give a fuck about propriety #mswl
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I really want a contemporary women’s fiction that takes it out of middle class white working woman territory! #mswl
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YA Bad love interests who are 100% in their feelings & you better watch out if you think you can talk shit about it #mswl
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You know in stories where the MC is being drawn to the dark/evil/criminal side, but they eventually decides they're going to help stop them? My #mswl is what if they didn't.
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I am not a fan of good girls! Now, the good girl's whorish, volatile bff? THAT's the girl I'm looking for! #mswl