Kim Lindman

PSA: my Twitter account is becoming updates/retweets only for the foreseeable future, but all my publishing advice and #MSWL tweets are all still up! (Query me?)

I'm on Threads and Instagram at the same username--fair warning, it's mostly travel/food pics and adoption thoughts.

New nonfiction #MSWL : I’d love to see pitches/proposals for a book like Julie Smith’s WHY HAS NOBODY TOLD ME THIS BEFORE? but for physical personal care. Also could be described as the adult version of THE CARE AND KEEPING OF YOU.

This reminds me that I would LOVE to see (nonfiction) books about art history with new research or from new perspectives or intersections with other fields! #MSWL

Adding some specifics to my nonfiction #MSWL, I'd like to see pitches and proposals for books about:
- divorce
- parenting, esp. through a cultural lens
- re-parenting or deprogramming
- relationships (all kinds, romantic and non-)

#MSWL: fiction AND nonfiction about adoption by ***adoptees***!!!!!!

picking my wine for dinner and it made me think I'd love to rep a wine book that gets super nerdy into chemistry or biology as it relates to taste/smell of wine and wine grapes (think terpenoids, anthocyanins, yeast strains). who's writing this? #MSWL

my fiction #MSWL in one tweet

last day to send fiction queries for a while! I'm looking for more nonfiction at the moment--you can find what I'm looking for in that area via my #MSWL tweets or my bio (stonesong.com/kim-lindman)

I'm very close to closing to fiction queries, but in the meantime, please send your literary crime novels #MSWL

I think Fresh was one of the best movies I’ve seen in a long time 😌 please send me your horror in this vein #MSWL

I would be incredibly interested in a nonfiction book examining a purportedly "Western" invention and its actual roots elsewhere (or, a compendium of these!) #MSWL

I want to see more stories where the characters embody that “I have decided to become worse” quote. real “I’ll give you something to cry about” energy
#MSWL

that's all I can think of for now! I hope this helps the
#amquerying crowd and that I'll see some great queries Feb 1!

in fiction and nonfiction, I particularly want to see more BIPOC, disabled, LGBT+ authors (though please don't feel pressured to disclose anything you're not comfortable with)
more indigenous/non-Western culture, mythology, and tropes

more loves: affairs (not about romance), extremely harsh settings, apocalypses, characters labeled as "crazy" who turn out to be right, sabotage, order quickly devolving into chaos, thelma & louise themes

I do love: fables, gallows humor, absurdism, unsettling atmospheres, unreliable narrators, sympathetic villains, anti-heroes, adventures, revenge-plots, twists that make the reader say "it all makes sense now!"

I'm not the right agent for these kinds of novels: reproductive horror or dystopia, high fantasy, multi-generational family sagas, drama surrounding music or singing

adult books only!
I'm NOT looking for PB, MG, YA, NA or kid lit in any form. I'm also NOT looking for romance or poetry or historical fiction.
(no, your book will not be the one that convinces me to rep [category I don't rep], and I won't/can't respond to those queries, sorry.)

I've updated this thread with some of my favorite books, for comps, etc
twitter.com/kim_lindman/st…

novels with contemporary settings need to contain at least one of the following elements: mystery, suspense, thriller, horror, or any kind of speculative something