Michelle Witte

@michellewitte

@michellewitte.bsky.social

Literary Agent

Mansion Street Literary Management

Children’s literary agent with Mansion Street Literary (open to queries first 15 days each month) and mental health advocate. I also write craptastic books. She/her.

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· 25 Apr 2018

Paul 🌹📚 Cooper @PaulMMCooper

One of the most chilling abandoned places in the world is France's Red Zone, or "Zone Rouge".

Over 100 years ago, the First World War so devastated the landscape here that people are still forbidden to enter, & the zone has become a ghostly & overgrown place. pic.twitter.com/fPDL4URKmV

Incredible thread on how nature has been reclaiming stretches of land in France that have been uninhabitable since WWI.

Now for an #MSWL: A post-apocalyptic story set in a place like this could be amazing. There's something eerily beautiful yet sinister in those photos. MG/YA

MG
YA

· 25 Apr 2018

I need to get off Twitter before I'm sucked in by the temptation that is #DVpit. I'm closed to submissions atm because I'm so behind on reading requested ms, but when I reopen (TBD), I'd best be seeing some of these in my query inbox. (kidlit only: YA, MG, PB) #MSWL

· 21 Feb 2018

I’ve been tweeting lots of Olympics-related #MSWL b/c of amazing teen athletes. Tonight was breathtaking skate by 15yo Russian figure skater Alina Zagitova. I’d love YA about teen skating phenom. Bonus points for intense rivalry with teammate/friend, like w/Evgenia Medvedeva.

YA

· 20 Feb 2018

Leon Husock @LeonHusock

I'd love to see someone make up new elements for element-control magic rather than use the classical elements. Not sure what they'd be, but it'd be an interesting change of pace. #MSWL

Ooh, this sounds fantastic (in YA/MG). #MSWL

· 20 Feb 2018

NBC Olympics @NBCOlympics

How freeskier Elizabeth Swaney made it to the #WinterOlympics with this very simple halfpipe run: bit.ly/2sFywrc pic.twitter.com/kHTAV7XND4

This made me laugh so freaking hard. I would so love to see a YA about a teen who games the system to make it to the Olympics or other hugely competitive international event. #MSWL

YA

· 13 Feb 2018

Watching this interview with Adam Rippon yesterday gave me chills. I would love a YA contemp realistic in the vein of what he describes in the first 30 seconds of how far he went to achieve his dream of becoming an Olympic skater while still a teen. nbcolympics.com/video/adam-rip… #MSWL

· 13 Feb 2018

I would so love a YA like this, contemp or fantasy. Chloe Kim’s dad texted her before the Olympic halfpipe final that she was about to become a dragon. nbcolympics.com/news/what-chlo… #MSWL

· 11 Feb 2018

The stories of #WomenInScience being shared in the hashtag, I want to #MSWL them all (for picture book through YA).

· 10 Feb 2018

Cynthia LeitichSmith @CynLeitichSmith

Well, there's definitely a #YA novel in this: npr.org/sections/thetw… #Kansas #politics #Governor #Election #teenagers @NPR

#MSWL all the way.

YA

· 29 Dec 2017

Rebekah Weatherspoon @RdotSpoon

An upbeat show with witches of color and plenty of romance and adventure 😀 twitter.com/netflixlifee/s…

YA, por favor. #MSWL

· 20 Dec 2017

Kayleigh Donaldson @Ceilidhann

It's not too late for someone to write an epic sci-fi in which Celine is the owner of the biggest casino in the galaxy and has to fight off space pirates to keep her fortune. pic.twitter.com/2Urekvd0VO

Make that a YA and I am so there. #MSWL

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Sci-fi

· 29 Sep 2017

Now this is YA manuscript I'd actually read: Teens try to game the system & fail spectacularly. Hijinks ensue. #MSWL Anti-hero(ine) perhaps?

YA

· 31 Aug 2017

A couple of #MSWL before I head off to bed for the night: Always at the top of my list is children's nonfiction, MG and YA in particular.

· 31 Aug 2017

Tiffany Shelton 🇨🇦🇯🇲🇨🇳🇨🇮🇮🇪🇮🇳 @TiffanyDiahann

Yes, adding this to my #mswl. Maybe a world where knowledge is forbbiden so they deal in black market books. twitter.com/stephlystein/s…

Make it a YA or MG and I am SOLD. #MSWL

MG
YA

· 31 Aug 2017

Magic Realism Bot @MagicRealismBot

You wake up in a city made of fire. A witch appears and hands you an amethyst.

Well, this would certainly be a great opening for a YA fantasy. #MSWL

Fantasy
YA

· 25 Aug 2017

Relentless Stark ✊🏻 @syntactics

This sounds incredible and I can think of five people I need to preorder it for right now. twitter.com/glitzandshadow…

This is pretty much my #MSWL right now. Gothic YA heroine with magic? Yes please. (Except, an original concept since this one's been done.)

· 19 Aug 2017

Merry Whitta 🎄 @garywhitta

I want THIS movie. twitter.com/MuslimIQ/statu…

I fully support this. Also, if you've got something similar in YA/MG, HIT ME WITH IT. #MSWL

YA
MG

· 8 Aug 2017

Ebony Elizabeth @Ebonyteach

(One day before I leave this Earth, someone is going to put a Black woman or girl atop a dragon. She will fly & 🔥🐉. And I will LIVE, honey.)

Definitely on my #MSWL. Definitely definitely. (YA/MG)

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MG

· 11 Jul 2017

Michelle Witte @michellewitte

Ooh, @SarahAddisonAll's Peach Keeper is $1.99 on Kindle amzn.to/2tIH3qe & Nook barnesandnoble.com/w/peach-keeper… Magical realism at its finest

#MSWL I'm dying to find great magical realism (YA/MG). One of my fave writers is Sarah Addison Allen, so like her books but for teens.

· 18 May 2017

Eric Smith @ericsmithrocks

I want to read this novel so bad. #MSWL twitter.com/FortuneMagazin…

Heck yeah. (But as a YA for me.) #MSWL

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