Since my call for poisoned pastry shop stories has let to fantastic results, another #MSWL: please send me your adult/YA/crossover books starring a grownup Kristy Thomas from The Babysitters Club. You know, bossy, badass, wears baseball tees, detail-oriented, clearly queer...

I also love authors who play in Lovecraft’s pool! Send me your cosmic horror, especially if you have a twist on it ol’ HP would hate! (I’m looking at you women and #ownvoices authors!) #mswl

I also love a good cross-genre read! SF horror, historical horror, historical thriller...#mswl

For historical fiction, I want a story I haven’t seen a million times. I recently read and adored @KYBookWoman’s Book Woman of Troublesome Creek - something like this! Pack horse librarians AND blue people of KY. I’d never seen these stories! #mswl

I am in the mood for an epic fantasy, but something that stands out! Not a rehash of the usual stuff! #mswl

Send me your haunted house books and ghost stories, but I want to see a unique spin! #mswl

I would LOVE a private investigator series! #mswl

First and foremost, #ownvoices! I rep YA and adult: horror, SFF, thrillers/mysteries (not cozies), historical, and general fiction. Also COOKBOOKS! #mswl

#queryingauthors I am (and I know I’m gonna get it for this) AGGRESSIVELY building my list. Let’s do some #mswl posts!

A dreary Thursday afternoon feels like the perfect time to share some of my recent anti #MSWL preferences, so here I go! Currently NOT looking for projects that feature the following themes:

tech/robots
sports
religion
dance
time travel
verse

#MSWL a modern, POC, queer Bewitched rom-com.

Finally saw Midsommar last weekend. Still thinking about this scene.

What I loved about it is that the horror is always out in the open. There's no dark. You can't turn away. And what's scariest sometimes is what you can see and not ignore.

#MSWL: #YA folk horror #MG weirdness

My #MSWL is pretty up to date except to say that I’m opening up to graphic novels (author/illustrators)

And I’d very much love a gay “Bring it On” type book where rival cheerleaders hook up (and aren’t the cliche mean cheerleaders) cheering is hard af - show me that ❤️

“I’m looking for all kinds of non-fiction, especially cookbooks, memoirs, essay collections, wellness, and pop-culture history books.” @ericsmithrocks #MSWL ericsmithrocks.com/mswl

I would like to see a book based off of this! I feel like there’s so much room to play! #MSWL
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👀 #3 #MSWL

ok but can I get this as a novel? #mswl

I have some books about people getting their periods for the first time in my query box, and though I did not ask for this, I am HERE for this. Send me your period books! #MSWL

I'm hungry for middle grade. I would also love more literary YA. & I would love an adult memoir/nonfic with an amazing hook (think MY BRAIN ON FIRE, EDUCATED, or FULL BODY BURDEN, not that summer you spent nannying in Europe [I'm sorry but I see so many queries like this]). #MSWL

I absolutely loved Such a Fun Age. Some of the best contemporary writing I have seen about race and class. The biggest #MSWL.