My latest #MSWL is for imaginative and innovative MG and YA Non-Fiction. Take me beyond straight biographies time period overviews. I want to see people playing with form, topic and language

Big #MSWL energy for a middle grade caper about neighborhood kids solving a mystery while social distancing, so they can only communicate through windows and tin cans connected by string. REAR WINDOW meets LITTLE RASCALS. Someone write it, I beseech you!

#MSWL Modern co-parenting (think bird nesting) in a commercial romance where getting back with the ex is not even a thing.

This #MSWL is a big ask for me as well! You don't see enough of these.

Updated my agenting wishlist. Two specific highlights:

* Novels (includes kid-lit!) and memoirs about the adoptee experience, by adoptees.

* Adult and kid-lit books that celebrate neurodiversity, from authors who are neurodivergent.

Full #MSWL is here! ericsmithrocks.com/mswl

Illustrated/graphic novel style non-fiction is something that I really want to see more of in my inbox!

Cookbooks and food are great, but I would love to see author/illustrator teams work on other topics as well like film, books, nature, science, pop culture, etc. #MSWL

“I’m a biography buff but it needs to have a fresh voice and a new angle, send me your funky takes on biography. I loved SO WE READ ON, a biography of THE GREAT GATSBY.” @maureen_moretti #MSWL psliterary.com/submissions/

tonight’s #mswl: this protagonist. she is beautiful and powerful and just *everything.* tell me her story. #sff

I am steadily catching up on queries, but as a general note, I would love to see more Adult Contemporary Romance and more Middle Grade in my inbox. #MSWL

Rhythmic picture books that make for great read aloud. #mswl

An epic MG or YA fantasy with lush world building and high stakes. Think WE HUNT THE FLAME. #mswl

Stories where sibling dynamics are a crucial part of the story. THE LAST TRUE POETS OF THE SEA does this masterfully. #mswl

MG or YA novels-in-verse #mswl

while working from home, I've had Romancing the Stone & The Mummy playing on repeat, and I'd love to see a romantic adventure/suspense pop up in my queries #MSWL

MG or YA stories featuring found families. #mswl

I just want to read a romance novel that captures the feeling of watching Cher sing to Andy Garcia in Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again. #MSWL

4.13 #EudoraWelty’s birthday. How lovely she was born in spring when her beloved garden burst into life! Finding comfort in flowers these days & looking for stories that make me wistful for camellias and help me believe her line: “For all serious daring starts from within” #MSWL

I've been getting in some amazing, funny, and super heart-warming YA rom-coms in my inbox BUT . . . I really want to see more queer rom-coms!!
#MSWL

Eternal YA #mswl

I have on Lucky 7 today, and I would like some fake dating manuscripts, pls. #MSWL #qualitytrope #qualitymovie