Em Lysaght
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Copps Literary Services
Literary agent at @CoppsLiterary ★ Here for MG-Adult graphic novels, Sci-fi, Fantasy, That👏Gay👏Shit👏 ★ She/her ★ CLOSED TO SUBMISSIONS

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I've read a lot of very good fantasy books about very bad things happening to people for ~reasons~ and I want to feel joy again. This would be a great time to send me your steamiest queer romantasy ⚔️🫀 #mswl

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As a reminder, I will be open to queries May 1st, 2023 📅
Please note I ONLY accept submissions through Query Manager, email submissions will remain forever unanswered: QueryManager.com/MacLysaght

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🔮 Unabashed minimalism. Ironic disinterest is over, baby! yes YES the tiger is out!
🗡️ Gay-coded villains, frivolously or as a more intentional examination of queerness and what we owe to our queer elders and the generation following

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👯 Ensemble casts with charming side characters (I’m an inveterate side character lover)
🚢 Hope and kindness as a prerequisite. Come talk to me about the exquisite examination of compassion and community in the face of annihilation in The Terror season 1

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🎟️ Speculative futures not set in American cities
💀 Horror you want to hide from while you keep reading, things that make you say “gross”

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🕰️ More mystery in everything! I love a goal. Speculative? Give it a mystery. Contemp romance? Give it a mystery!! Mystery? Go ahead and slap another mystery in there, baby!!!
📽️ Tightly paced, high-tension character driven stories you can’t put down. Slice of life is not for me

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🌈 Romantasy and speculative queer love stories. I love space ships/fantasy kingdoms but what I love more is knowing how many beds are in the ship/castle
🤌 Characters who kiss (or should) but dont👏 trust👏 each👏 other👏

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Maeve MacLysaght, haver of bones @mmmlysaght
New year, new #MSWL!I represent BIPOC, Queer, and marginalized creators writing commercial genre fiction across MG, YA, Adult, and Graphic Novel. My particular weaknesses are genre-blending SFF, horror, and anything with murder or making out (ideally both)
2023 #MSWL! As a reminder, I represent BIPOC, queer, & marginalized creators making joy for themselves in SFF & horror for MG, YA, Adult, and Graphic Novel.
My existing MSWL is still a mortifyingly perfect encapsulation of my tastes, but this year I'm looking for even MORE:

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For more MSWL details and submission guidelines, you can find me at:
📚manuscriptwishlist.com/mswl-post/em-l…
🖊️emlysaght.com

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I love characters who are:
🗨️Earnestly enthusiastic about their one weird thing
💪Locked in a cant-trust-you-cant-trust-anyone-else relationship
👨👩👦👦Found family
🗝️Motivated not by youthful exuberance but by an old and hard-won sense of fury and spite
🐍Evil & sexy about it

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In MG in particular, I’m looking for:
🔭Adventure and puzzle stories set outside America
🧜♀️Diana Wynne Jones-esque grammatical magic

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📏Novellas! Some of my favorites are The Monster of Elendhaven, A Dead Djinn in Cairo, Sorcerer of the Wildeeps
✨Hope as a prerequisite

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🐉Monsters, ghosts, cryptids. To kiss? To kill? To make friends with? To become? All of the above.
🧛Funny fantasy, à la What We Do In the Shadows
🕴️The bizarre treated banally, like Control or Magnus Archives

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In YA/Adult/Graphic Novel, I love:
🕵️A locked room mystery or a closed set thriller, like Detention (2021)
🏺Dark academia that really grapples with what it means to be a person of color in academia and the complicity it begs of you in its racist and classist structures

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New year, new #MSWL!
I represent BIPOC, Queer, and marginalized creators writing commercial genre fiction across MG, YA, Adult, and Graphic Novel. My particular weaknesses are genre-blending SFF, horror, and anything with murder or making out (ideally both)

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The plot of It's Raining Men is honestly a banger sci-fi concept #MSWL

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#MSWL this entire video youtube.com/watch?v=zhOIEe…

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Among Us is making me crave a novel that encapsulates the particular gnawing dread of standing with your back to an empty hallway and hoping a faceless coworker won't come up and murder you horribly while you try to do crucial tetris (#mswl or recommendations, if you got'em!)

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That's a good bake, Mary! My #mswl page is live, and absolutely exposing my Very Specific Taste. Authors, please query me if you think we'd be a good fit manuscriptwishlist.com/mswl-post/em-l…