Carrie Pestritto

Laura Dail Literary Agency

Literary agent and audio rights director at @LDLiterary! Avid home decorator. Always promising friends to go with them to Pilates. Never do. 🇰🇷🇺🇸✌🏻

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· 30 Apr 2024

Carrie Pestritto @literarycarrie

I spent a good chunk of 2023 binging Only Murders, A Murder at the End of the World & Altered Carbon, so when 2024 comes around, my #mswl is…

I say again… if it’s a murder mystery, give me shot! #mswl 🔪 🩸 🕵🏻‍♀️

Mystery

· 20 Dec 2023

I spent a good chunk of 2023 binging Only Murders, A Murder at the End of the World & Altered Carbon, so when 2024 comes around, my #mswl is… twitter.com/i/status/1737681997588271540

· 14 Oct 2022

Also if anyone has anything that comps to Coco (MG, family, ghosts, cultural rep, etc.), I *want* it!!! #mswl

· 1 Jul 2022

Carrie Pestritto⁷ @literarycarrie

I want to represent a food historian! #mswl 🍰🥧🥖🍲

Retweeting because it’s still true #mswl

Food

· 5 Mar 2022

Molly McGhee @mollymcghee

obsessed. o b s e s s e d . twitter.com/Valdevia_Art/s…

Replying to @mollymcghee

OMGGGGGG. #mswl the shit out of this!!!

· 15 Oct 2021

Just putting this out there: I don’t necessarily know what it would look like, but I would lose. my. mind. over boy band NF. Maybe something about their managers a la the Lou Pearlman thread of the BSB documentary? #mswl

Nonfiction

· 22 Sep 2021

I’m getting to the pandemic stage where I not only want fun and light, but also some smart, elevated horror. #mswl 😱

Horror

· 25 Aug 2021

Are there any Asian Studies professors out there with awesome histories or biographies to share??! 👀🤞🏻 #mswl

· 15 Jul 2021

I heard the phrase “dark academia” for the first time and immediately fell in love #mswl 🔮📚✨

· 14 Jul 2021

India Holton @IndiaHolton

The League of Gentlewomen Witches is available for preorder now, and to add on Goodreads.

🔸a fastidious witch
🔸an uncouth pirate
🔸speeding house chases
🔸explosions
🔸tea (and reading the leaves)
🔸enemies-to-lovers in a romance that sweeps them off their feet - literally pic.twitter.com/2s0rayjujK

I love this!!!

Guys, I want witch books. Give me witch books! #mswl

Witch

· 10 Jun 2021

Was just thinking how cool a Polynesian MG/YA fantasy with magical tattoos would be… #mswl

· 28 Apr 2021

I don’t know what this would look like (NF? Heist?) but if anyone has a project about antique jewelry, I’d be ALL ABOUT IT. #mswl

· 19 Apr 2021

If a Hanna-esque thriller/suspense came across my inbox right now, I’d be very okay with that. #mswl

· 4 Apr 2021

I am dying...DYING...for an amazing Victorian era/Gilded Age mystery or thriller. Find it for me, universe! #mswl

· 19 Dec 2020

Doesn’t have to be SFF, but I’m *dying* to see more stories filled with nuanced, powerful female characters in 2021! #mswl

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· 22 Nov 2020

“A crime drama that takes place in the latter half of the 19th century during the Tong Wars in San Francisco's Chinatown” = a description of awesome TV show Warrior and also on my #mswl ❤️

Crime

· 27 Oct 2020

A really swanky, Muslim rom-com set in the UAE! #mswl ❤️💚🖤

Romantic Comedy

· 10 Oct 2020

Nonfiction (maybe prescriptive?) by a futurologist #mswl

Nonfiction

· 5 Oct 2020

Lawsuits aside, I’m really loving the idea of a Victorian romantic mystery series featuring a grown-up version of Enola Holmes. #mswl

· 30 Sep 2020

Carrie Pestritto⁷ @literarycarrie

Ummm, so I would seriously like to see ALL THE DIVERSE ROM-COMS. All of them. Send, send, send, thank you! ❤️ #mswl

I feel like this is worth reiterating bc I REALLY want these! #mswl

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