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· 28 Mar 2019

I’m back from maternity leave in a month and I want all the submissions, especially YA contemporary #MSWL

· 28 Mar 2019

Arie Veira @arieXeira

@UweStenderPhD How much does a (lack of) publishing history matter? Novelists who don't write short fiction or poetry are hard pressed to do the slow-small-steady build towards publishing. Does a strong MS trump a zero pub history?

Replying to @arieXeira

Yes, 100% for me.

· 28 Mar 2019

J.Lee Dodson is Writing His First Novel @JLeeDodson

@UweStenderPhD I'm currently working on my first MG fantasy novel. I would like to begin work on a new book, however, I'm torn between a new MG novel or a YA horror novel. Questions are: Should I invest in a new MG( back pocket MS) or try another genre? Do you see horror making a comeback?

Replying to @JLeeDodson

My advice might not be helpful to you, but I will tell you what I tell my clients: "write what you are compelled to write, don't write for trends."

· 28 Mar 2019

HL Hinkle🍳 @TheComingOfGose

@UweStenderPhD Hi! What's your typical request rate (per 1000 queries received, say)? Are you super selective up front or do you roll the dice a lot?
Thanks!

Replying to @TheComingOfGose

I am very selective, but...good question! I don't keep stats, but my gut feeling....Hmmm, I may request somewhere between 15 to 50 manuscripts per thousand queries.

· 28 Mar 2019

21timetraveler @21timetraveler

@UweStenderPhD Why might an agent request a partial instead of a full?

Replying to @21timetraveler

I don't know. You're asking the wrong person. If *I* am interested in something, I request the full. Maybe it comes from the time when there was no email to avoid printing and receiving all the paper?!? It's email, if I like it, I read on, if I don't, I pass, why not the full?!?

· 28 Mar 2019

Jamir @jjexists

@UweStenderPhD Hello! My full YA contemporary manuscripts tend to be kind of slim. (Around 40-50k). Is this an ok word count to send an agent for possible representation?

Replying to @jjexists

I guess it all depends on how great the writing, the plot, the story is. However, it DOES seem a bit short to me. Try, and see what happens.

· 28 Mar 2019

Deb @adorablecrab

pic.twitter.com/RDhWLVpg5u

More evergreen tropes I NEED #MSWL

· 28 Mar 2019

Deb @adorablecrab

The tropes are hungry pic.twitter.com/XcghXASyA2

If you guys want to know my evergreen #MSWL

· 28 Mar 2019

Kiki Nguyen @kianangu

HEAR. ME. OUT.

A sci-fi horror. About pregnancy. BAM.

Yes and send it to me pls #mswl

· 28 Mar 2019

My #MSWL for adult titles!

· 28 Mar 2019

DongWon @dongwon

@halleluyang this sounds metal as hell

Replying to @dongwon

#mswl

· 28 Mar 2019

Here is March's visual #mswl, a pile of books on my TBR list that are great examples of the types of projects I'm looking for in my query box. Send 'em if you got 'em!

· 28 Mar 2019

Moe Ferrara’s #MSWL Madness bookendsliterary.com/2019/03/28/moe…

· 28 Mar 2019

"Historical middle grade that re-rewrites history to add an element of magic." @msmariavicente #MSWL mariavicente.com/representation/

· 28 Mar 2019

Rebecca Mix @rebeccarmix

someone please write this book twitter.com/baddestmamajam…

#MSWL please!!!

· 27 Mar 2019

I'm too lazy to search for it but the story about the ghost in the grocery store. I want it. #MSWL

· 27 Mar 2019

tash⚢ @tjkiippen

A waitress crushed by college meets the daughter of a billionaire whos tired of her parents harassing her about being single. The waitress agrees to be her fake gf in exchange for enough money to pay her debt and to find a job in her field. They fall in love in the process twitter.com/TheLady_Artemi…

Somebody write the book #mswl

· 27 Mar 2019

Jhanteigh Kupihea @jhanteigh

does someone want to write a foodie grifter novel for me called The Joy of Crooking

#mswl x 100000

· 27 Mar 2019

So very obsessed with Helen Oyeyemi. GINGERBREAD is beautiful, but then I had to go read all her other books. She is a treasure. Anyone working on beautiful, literary, re-imagined fairy tales with a conscious? I'm looking... #mswl

· 27 Mar 2019

Hello hello, I am very much seeking a YA novel like Darius the Great Is Not Okay that centers on queer WoC #MSWL

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