Julie Gourinchas

yes hi hello I would like more pirates in my inbox pls #mswl

#1 this is absolutely insane #2 where is my bitingly sharp upmarket women's fiction novel about the wellness industry and MLMs and maybe cults #mswl

watching Annihilation (2018) tonight while I prep and once again "what if a deer was so fucked up" is at the top of my #mswl

once again cannot express how much I want a literary speculative fiction novel about Silicon Valley vampires

Woman, Eating meets Bad Blood meets whatever the fuck this guy is doing #mswl

wait……. #mswl for a literary take on Silicon Valley vampires

#mswl #mswl #mswl please give me horrible twisted necromancy or a twist on classic zombies within a lyrical literary framework thank you goodbye

also if you have a literary dread/horror novel that can comp to the video game DREDGE, I want to see it! creepy lighthouses! cosmic horror! dead loved ones! thank u #mswl

as usual, @JJBker and I have been nattering about #Yellowjackets in the office, so if any authors have a manuscript that can comp to it (any element tbh: the 90s vibe, the eldritch forest monsters, or haunted, oppressed suburbia) then pls! PLS!!! hit us up!!! #mswl

highkey #mswl

what if I’m deadly serious when I say that a sharp satirical literary take on this is 100% on my #mswl

what if I said this was a #mswl

honestly? #mswl for a grounded/speculative story featuring an Ellen Ripley-esque character at its heart: a working mother (in this house Alien: Isolation *is* canon, tyvm), full of grit and tenacity, *excellent* at her job, no romantic ties to speak of, a utility-fashion icon,,,

if you take Mars to mean the Roman god of war, this is a hell of a #mswl vibe

absolutely fascinated by the ongoing fall of FTX/crypto and would definitely not mind seeing a smart, incisive literary thriller on the subject 👀 #mswl

is it weird if I say I want to read a speculative novel, similar to the evolution of the Goncharov meme, where a collective unreality is collaborated on by a wide and disparate community, until eventually the lines between what's true and what isn't are thoroughly blurred #mswl

this is the ULTIMATE aesthetic, pls when will someone give me a book/show/video game/ttrpg set in a world like this I am on my KNEES

#mswl obviously

also to be clear! I do consider YA (preferably upper YA) but anything middle grade and younger is not for me, sorry!

I'll add on more to this thread whenever I can, but that should be a good start, hey? but tl;dr— I love stories that make us question the world and how we understand it. I love a frisson. I love the things that go bump in the night. I love writing that melts on the tongue.

#MSWL

- anything set in a part of the world different to the US, Canada, or the UK (or, if set in the UK, set in the north of England, northern Ireland, rural spaces, etc)

#MSWL

- neo-western
- unconventional, unreliable, unlikeable narrators and central characters
- trans and queer joy, but also trans and queer rage
- diverse perspectives

#MSWL