Queries are reopened! And my #mswl page has been updated. *gimme hands*

Back in the office today and, as always, I'm looking for new fiction! Visit the @NorthbankTalent website for our submission guidelines 📚

#firstdayback #mswl #amquerying

In realizing that my last movie was “Pain and Glory” & I just ordered the book “Pain,” it occurs to me I sure have a brand. My #mswl is easy for agents to target via Mad Libs style mashup titles of language for sex, sadness, grief, or anguish!

Anything about language, whether that's visual (I once saw an internet thing where the animals were made out of Arabic script 🤯) or a plot thing (about an English language learner? About... spelling???? 👀) or a nonfiction thing (hello emojis). #mswl

Middle grade about the spaces where kids get to feel like themselves, like camp, or the treehouse they spent all summer saving up to buy with their friends (ahem) #mswl

Picture books with great visual storytelling (or texts that leave lots of space for it) #mswl

Picture books that address big topics of power and social justice for the youngest kids #mswl twitter.com/chidiaqian/sta…

Graphic novels in the vein of Smile by creators of color. Scripts are welcome, so are author/illustrators! #mswl

Stories about immigrant communities across the age spectrum #mswl

Novels with settings that are unfamiliar to American readers
Novels with characters that are unfamiliar with American settings
#mswl

Epistolary everything! And anything that plays with format, especially if it feels internetty #mswl

Novels that address religion for MG and YA, because both religion and books for kids and teens are about finding your place in a big world #mswl

YA about moving on from high school! Anything about college admissions, the summer after senior year, freshman year of college (or of life) #mswl

Welcome to 2020, publishing! Agent friends, here’s a #mswl thread for pinning and perusing and adding to all year.

Forever, I’m looking for PB, MG, and YA, especially by underrepresented creators, especially contemporary fiction that leads with joy.

Today is the day!! The submissions email is open! 😁

Pitch me your work about:
Women in STEM
Groundbreaking and boundary-testing historical characters
Pop psychology pieces

Stay tuned for more from my #MSWL.

I would love to see a book proposal for a non-fiction book about the history and politics of the concept of “nice.” #mswl

It begins. I'm open to queries again at @PSLiterary!

You can check out my #MSWL over on my blog.

Happy New Year, let's make some books. ericsmithrocks.com/blog/2019/12/2…

So, with all of that said, I'm really looking for some well written Adult Contemporary Romance. I'm super into Tinder date fails rn, enemies to lovers tropes, BFFs to Lovers tropes, and boss a$$ women who don't sacrifice their work for any man. #MSWL Slow Burns favored! 😉

I will still be open to YA stories, but will be much more selective about them (or I will TRY to be! I keep picking them up, gosh darn it! I've been trying!) However, I currently have 6 mostly YA authors on my roster, and I need more adult and MG authors! #MSWL

For 2020, I am mostly looking for Middle Grade (Upper) and Adult stories! This includes MG Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Contemporary, and Historical or any mix of the above! It also includes Adult Contemporary Romance and Adult Fantasy and any mix of the two! #MSWL