Dana Murphy

@manadurphy

Literary Agent

Trellis Literary Management

part-time garbage person, full-time literary agent at @trellislit

querytracker.net/agent.php?agent=7401

manuscriptwishlist.com/mswl-post/dana-murphy

#mswl (44)

· 31 Aug 2019

some #mswl hopes after losing a book I loved dearly (but ended up at a wonderful home!): give me your big hearted rom coms, give me your novels that feel like the best fan fiction, give me your F/F love stories!!!!, give me your happy endings with just enough angst in the middle.

· 19 Jul 2019

Carolina Ortiz @pushthepanorama

In general though, any POC authors take on vampires, werewolves, sirens, witches, and any manner of myth/supernatural is always #MSWL for me

hello yes thank you. still waiting for my YA banshee novel but will also take all of the below. #MSWL

· 14 May 2019

Vicki Lame @thedaysbetween

Oooh yes. Same. #MSWL twitter.com/anniecardi/sta…

HELLLO YES #MSWL

· 24 Apr 2019

Carole V. Bell @BellCV

“Romantic comedies take our primal hunger to connect with one another and give it a story. And at their best, they do much more: They make you believe in the power of communion.”—
Wesley Morris’s excellent rumination on a criminally undervalued genre. nyti.ms/2W2sQl3

Considering the fact that I basically swindled NYU’s v serious film department into giving me a degree in rom coms, my greatest joy is that this is a growing space in publishing. Please send them all to me. #MSWL

Romantic Comedy

· 31 Mar 2019

this may be a surprising ask personal brand-wise but: I desperately want to work on a book about the state of college basketball, written by someone who is not a white man. Is this you? Slide into those dms, baby. #mswl

· 13 Jan 2019

Shannon/S.A. Chakraborty @SAChakrabooks

Please....if a POC #ownvoices author even writes a Mission Impossible-esqe heist novel involving people breaking into the British Museum to recover their stolen treasure, I will help you write a query letter and blurb your book and push it into people's hands.

HELLO. Yes. #mswl

· 5 Oct 2018

Wednesday Books @WednesdayBooks

Who’s writing us a YA based on this??? twitter.com/arthurslade/st…

HELLO. #MSWL

YA

· 1 Jun 2018

mcquizzy @casey_mcquiston

in all seriousness: this has been beyond humbling and so, so, so incredible for me to experience as a creator. my day-one objective as an author was and is to create joyful fiction for people who don't often get to be in joyful fiction, so this means so much to me 💖

honestly can this tweet just be my entire damn #MSWL

· 8 May 2018

Zendaya @Zendaya

🗡 pic.twitter.com/v1Lu5DJk6r

Genuinely overwhelmed by how great this is. Also a real #mswl vibe.

· 12 Feb 2018

alexia 💭 @flowerveil

concept: a budding romance between a hockey player & a figure skater pic.twitter.com/p9BEYgFmf6

I screamed. #MSWL

Romance

· 12 Feb 2018

hello yes I would love a YA novel set in the snowboarding world a la Bend it Like Beckham minus the early-aughts problematic ish. #MSWL

YA

· 10 Feb 2018

aisha 🌹 @blackpowerpufff

'black girls belong in fairytales' by me. pic.twitter.com/vpjRzbiJVA

Fairy Tale

· 30 Jan 2018

Haley E D Houseman @hedhouseman

hmm i dunno if the obsession with perfect skin and unguents to achieve that effect are new, sounds like someone forgot to interview the witches.

hello writers whoever wants to write a deep dive on the history and socioeconomic influences on skincare, call your girl. (Me, call me) #mswl

· 24 Jan 2018

Kate McKean @kate_mckean

I WOULD READ THIS YA NOVEL SO FAST #MSWL twitter.com/ericthedragon/…

Replying to @kate_mckean

holy crap, and I would physically fight you for it. My heart!!!! #mswl

YA

· 20 Jan 2018

Atlas Obscura @atlasobscura

The Paris Morgue may have existed so that friends and family of the dead could identify anonymous bodies, but towards the end of 19th century few visitors came with any intention of looking for a missing person. They had a single goal: to see the dead up-close. pic.twitter.com/5uUz4Z3Uxt

um hello #mswl

· 27 Nov 2017

bolu babalola. @BeeBabs

Imagine being part of a middling channel USA drama and then suddenly marrying into the British monarchy this is so wild like actually who has the rights? This isnt made for TV shit this is a cinematic securing of the bag

if you’ve heard me scream about my intense love for @fuggirls’ THE ROYAL WE, you could prob guess this is at the top of my #MSWL.

· 20 Sep 2017

Dana Murphy @manadurphy

I want to read this, by @zanopticon, on repeat for the rest of existence.

lithub.com/more-than-the-…

Replying to @manadurphy

also just consider all parts of this my #MSWL

· 12 Sep 2017

Dana Murphy @manadurphy

A scary, funny YA novel about a banshee. Think Crazy Head meets Teen Wolf (if Lydia was the protagonist). #mswl

Still looking for this little babe. #MSWL

· 23 Mar 2017

rachel syme @rachsyme

where I was from pic.twitter.com/13Eu2b0ci1

my #MSWL in photo form

· 11 Mar 2017

#MSWL : YA with non binary protagonists!!!!! Let's 👏🏻 talk 👏🏻 pronouns 👏🏻

YA