Amanda Jain

BookEnds Literary Agency

Literary Agent repping adult fiction and nonfiction @bookendslit. You can query me at QueryManager.com/AJain. Books, books, books, always books. she/her

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· 6 Mar 2019

Evergreen #mswl: books about food! Cookbooks, food histories, food + race, food + gender, food + basically anything. FOOD.

· 26 Feb 2019

Here's my visual #mswl for February! If you've got a book like this ready to go, send me a query.

· 7 Feb 2019

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 SERPENT
BONUS: she also wants contemp mystery/thriller where setting is integral like Jane Harper's books or Attica Locke's BLUEBIRD, BLUEBIRD.

Evergreen #mswl.

· 29 Jan 2019

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…

· 23 Jan 2019

Areas Abandoned @Areas_Abandoned

Mudurnu, Turkey: 587 castle homes after the developer went bankrupt. pic.twitter.com/1bnuse0sap

Someone write me this book! #mswl

· 23 Jan 2019

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

Nonfiction

· 22 Jan 2019

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!

· 18 Jan 2019

History Lovers Club @historylvrsclub

Female archers and members of the University of Chicago Archery Team in 1935. pic.twitter.com/psoqg3VXVJ

ooohhhhh #mswl

· 18 Jan 2019

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

· 17 Jan 2019

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…

Nonfiction

· 15 Jan 2019

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

· 9 Jan 2019

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!!

· 4 Jan 2019

Replying to @bookendslit

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

· 2 Jan 2019

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!

· 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!

· 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/dGBUYUB

Someone write me a historical romance set at Idlewild. #MSWL

· 19 Nov 2018

History Lovers Club @historylvrsclub

First Ladies Nancy Reagan, Ladybird Johnson, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Rosalyn Carter, Betty Ford, and Barbara Bush.... See more pictures: cmore.pics/Ya6CK pic.twitter.com/V9wLqTSAZn

#mswl for this ex first ladies club

· 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

· 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

· 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