Amanda Jain
@wensday95
Literary Agent @bookendslit . You can query me at QueryMe.Online/AmandaJain. Books, books, books, always the books.
Amanda Jain @wensday95 · Feb 7
BookEnds Literary Agency @bookendslit
@wensday95 wants #Historicalfiction with a slight #speculative or #horror bent like Alma Katsu's THE HUNGER or Sarah Perry's THE ESSEX SERPENTBONUS: she also wants contemp mystery/thriller where setting is integral like Jane Harper's books or Attica Locke's BLUEBIRD, BLUEBIRD.
Evergreen #mswl.
Amanda Jain @wensday95 · Jan 29
I just ran across this book on Goodreads, and it sounds so wonderfully delightful. If you have a contemporary romcom with a fun hook like this and you're looking for an agent, send me a query! #mswl
goodreads.com/book/show/4096…
Amanda Jain @wensday95 · Jan 23
I've been getting some really wonderful nonfiction queries, so keep 'em coming! Recent books I've loved are Sarah Smarsh's HEARTLAND & Victoria Johnson's AMERICAN EDEN, while books I'm looking forward to include Casey Cep's FURIOUS HOURS & Robert Macfarlane's UNDERLAND. #mswl
Amanda Jain @wensday95 · Jan 22
Well, I somehow missed December, but here's my visual #MSWL for this month. Send me books like these I can read in front of the fireplace this frigid January!
Amanda Jain @wensday95 · Jan 18
Amanda Jain @wensday95
Someone write me a historical romance set at Idlewild. #MSWL twitter.com/atlasobscura/s…Boosting, because I REALLY want a book about Idlewild. #mswl
Amanda Jain @wensday95 · Jan 17
I am DYING to read this book. Seriously, much excite.
So, as a reminder, if you have a nonfiction project like this, I will always, always want to see it. #mswl
goodreads.com/book/show/3499…
Amanda Jain @wensday95 · Jan 15
I'd love to see some adult fiction set in the seedy, gritty underbelly of an 18th- or 19th-century city. A super immersive setting with magic? A mystery? Both?? Whaddaya got for me #amquerying writers? #mswl
Amanda Jain @wensday95 · Jan 9
Sarah Zhang @sarahzhang
This is such an incredible bit of sleuthing.Scientists found mysterious blue particles in a 1000-year-old woman's dental plaque, only to realized they had stumbled into a forgotten history of female scribes.
theatlantic.com/science/archiv…
#MSWL!!
Amanda Jain @wensday95 · Jan 4
My 2019 goal is more nonfiction. Bring me your food histories, social histories, material culture proposals, true crime projects, gimme all of 'em. Basically, if it's nonfiction, I wanna see it. #mswl
Amanda Jain @wensday95 · Jan 2
I'll send out some more in-depth #mswl tweets next week, but in the meantime, two things I'd really love to see more of in my inbox are dual timeline narratives and crime / mystery novels, historical or contemporary. Send 'em!
Amanda Jain @wensday95 · 3 Dec 2018
I'm a few days late, but here's my visual #MSWL for November. Send me books like these, please and thank you!
Amanda Jain @wensday95 · 28 Nov 2018
Atlas Obscura @atlasobscura
Once known as “the Black Eden of Michigan,” Idlewild was a thriving African American resort community founded in 1912. From roughly 1920 to the mid-1960s, Idlewild was one of the premier holiday venues for African Americans. trib.al/dGBUYUBSomeone write me a historical romance set at Idlewild. #MSWL
Amanda Jain @wensday95 · 13 Nov 2018
Nonfiction: books about food (always!), travel, history, art, and culture. I love to see projects that show the intersections of these topics. For instance, I'd love to see one on food deserts in America and how they disproportionately affect minority communities. #mswl
Amanda Jain @wensday95 · 13 Nov 2018
Fantasy & Sci-Fi: I gravitate towards fantasy that's very much grounded in the real world, and SF that's light on the sci, heavy on the fi. Give me characters I can't let go of with rich world building and a runaway plot. #mswl
Amanda Jain @wensday95 · 13 Nov 2018
Mystery: historical--again, especially diverse historical--cozies, and mysteries with so much atmosphere you can practically wring it out of the pages. If your setting is integral to your story, I want to see it! #mswl
Amanda Jain @wensday95 · 13 Nov 2018
Thrillers: I'm still open to domestic thrillers and psychological suspense, but I'd love to see some that don't feature a somehow "damaged" woman as the protagonist. Where are my ordinary women? #mswl
Amanda Jain @wensday95 · 13 Nov 2018
Time for some #mswl tweets! Here's a peek at what I'd love to see in my query inbox. Romance: historical--especially diverse historical--rom suspense, and contemp romcom. As a general rule, I'm far more likely to fall for a story that makes me laugh than one that makes me cry.