Lauren Spieller

@laurenspieller

Literary Agent

Folio Literary Management

LitAgent @FolioLiterary + @FolioJr - Full Adult + Kidlit wishlist on Pub Marketplace! ~ Author w/ S&S ~ I love dogs like it's my job ~ She/Her

publishersmarketplace.com/members/lspieller

querytracker.net/agent.php?agent=7877

manuscriptwishlist.com/mswl-post/lauren-spieller

· 6 Mar 2020

I want a thriller set in a small space. Make me feel their claustrophobia. #mswl

Thriller

· 4 Mar 2020

Sarah Guan @Sarah_Guan

Cults of personality.

Historically & in fiction, villains who amass power via charisma, mass manipulation, & curated public personae are male. Non-male villains usually use psychological/emotional power on individuals (e.g. femmes fatales). I want this trope genderswapped!
#MSWL twitter.com/sirens_con/sta…

Send me your female manipulators, your lady cult leaders, your femme masters of deception and villainy. #mswl

· 28 Feb 2020

I'd love to find a dark fairy tale retelling in the vein of UPROOTED that plays with form/timeline/expectations. Looking for MG/YA/Adult! #mswl

· 25 Feb 2020

If your manuscript comps to Ruth Ware, I NEED you to send it to me. #mswl

· 18 Feb 2020

Laura E. Weymouth @lauraeweymouth

Stranger Things and End of the F***ing World both had it

An unsettling background tone, as if whatever messed up stuff is happening was bound to, because middle class suburban life is a fantasy built on quicksand, or a featureless new build with murderous ghosts in the walls

#mswl 😂

· 16 Feb 2020

orville pecker @literate_coyote

read this story about the lesbian who fixed her own car and then hotwired it pic.twitter.com/0AZO99FoQf

#mswl this badass

LGBT

· 15 Feb 2020

Send me your difficult women. #mswl #Emma

Women

· 12 Feb 2020

Stephanie Stein @stephlystein

I turned 30 (!!!) last weekend, an occasion I'm seizing to share my #MSWL this year:
- sweeping YA romance
- ✨queer magic✨
- savvy, commercial MG fantasy
- joyful queer & POC stories
- & POC authors with something to say
- emotional contemporary MG
- cozy af graphic novels

Hi I’m calling to report a crime and that crime is @stephlystein stealing my #mswl

· 10 Feb 2020

I would really like to find a 30-40k MG Fantasy. Something short and sweet and magical. #mswl

Fantasy
MG

· 10 Feb 2020

Lauren is open to queries! @laurenspieller

@Gabino_Iglesias Upmarket, smart, high stakes that go beyond “don’t die.” Get Out, Parasite are good movie comps, Lauren Beukes is a good book comp even though I know she’s not strictly horror, also Anita Ahlborn and Joe Hill. Honestly I just want something that grabs me and has something to SAY

#mswl: the horror & twisted spec fic I want to see in 2020

· 8 Feb 2020

I reopen to queries on Monday 2/10/20! Here’s what I’m looking for: manuscriptwishlist.com/mswl-post/laur… #mswl

· 7 Feb 2020

Tiffany Shelton @TiffanyDiahann

#MSWL a modern, POC, queer Bewitched rom-com. pic.twitter.com/k2CW3MLQ4j

Someone write this for meeee! #mswl

· 6 Feb 2020

Diana M. Pho 📚 @writersyndrome

I have some #MSWL asks floating that I'd love to see:

For young adult:

M. T. Anderson's Feed for the post-Instagram, post-TikTok generation

a YA version of The Wire (but with more funny bits and maybe an explosion or two).

a modern queer version of Ten Things I Hate about You

👀 #3 #MSWL

· 5 Feb 2020

kerry cullen @kermichele

a chopped off braid of hair is lying on the subway station floor. a fairytale has been here.

#mswl

· 31 Jan 2020

I'm reopening to queries on Feb 10th (!!!), so I've updated my #mswl! Check it out: manuscriptwishlist.com/mswl-post/laur…

· 24 Jan 2020

I really want to see more Middle Grade and Graphic Novels when I reopen to queries on 2/10/20! #mswl

· 23 Jan 2020

Becca Podato Latkes @RebeccaPodos

Somebody send me an adult romcom with a Fleabag-esque MC. I would like a legitimate hot mess of a protagonist, please! #MSWL

me toooooo. YA or Adult! #mswl

· 23 Jan 2020

chicken shittle @robiinya

so... two witches...... one is like. a cute witch who practices like nature magic and loves pastel stuff and baking. the other is a gothic witch who practices more traditional witchcraft. they live in contrasting cottages next to each other in the woods. enemies to lovers...... pic.twitter.com/jFkMe5b6qM

UM HI #mswl

Witch

· 14 Jan 2020

ellen @ellencormier

MG or YA speculative fiction that's as sharp, funny, and layered as #RussianDoll. Something that uses the speculative element to say something, not just as a cool hook #mswl

Send this to meeee! #mswl

· 2 Jan 2020

Molly Cusick @molly_cusick

Let's start 2020 off with a #MSWL! Over the holiday I read & enjoyed THE STARLESS SEA (possibly 2019 fave?), GIDEON THE NINTH, and THE FAMILY UPSTAIRS. If you have any YA that's similar to one of these (great world building! fresh voice! dark, pacey, & twisty!) send it over, pls!

110% ditto #mswl