#mswl YA novel with teen girl that is into kick ass fitness. CrossFit. Weight Lifting.

Starting 2019 with this #MSWL: I will drop everything to read a fresh, inclusive Urban Fantasy! Give me a city with magic woven into each building and street!

If you are a writer who ever worked on the Ellen DeGeneres show and would like to write a DEVIL WEARS PRADA-style roman à clef about a wideawake nightmare, please email me. #MSWL

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

This is a big #MSWL mood for me in 2019! Let’s have some warmth, hope, and good genuine fun.

Bio updated and I'm open to submissions again! If you are being brave and sending your query out into the world, please do think of me. I love reading submissions and can't wait to dive back in #MSWL
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I LOVE implicating the reader in the story. Fuck ‘em up, writers, give readers no choice but to FEEL THINGS. #MSWL

One last #MSWL thought: a modern-day Amélie. Here's hoping, universe! 🌹

Just a reminder if you have a YA BILLY ELLIOT, it is still at the top of my #MSWL!

I LOVE books like this. #mswl

I *really* want to do more author/illustrator picture books and illustrated projects in general. For a sense of my taste, these are my clients: ldlainc.com/illustrators #MSWL

God, so much this last thing. I keep saying I want high stakes but not high body counts. #MSWL

Basically...if you decide to query Michael, you should query me too. #MSWL (is that how this works?)

Also, this is the first time I've articulated this, but one of my favorite books—and movies—is Call Me By Your Name. (Rereading the book last year was one of my greatest joys of 2018.) Boy, what I would give to find a coming-of-age and romance with that same pull. ❤️❤️❤️ #MSWL

And please, my greatest and most everlasting and true #MSWL is to find an epistolary novel in the tradition (or not? — surprise me!) of I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith (my favorite book of all time) or the Montmaray Journals by Michelle Cooper. 🖊️🖊️🖊️

Time for a 2019 #MSWL. I am very much looking for MG and chapter books. Much as I love YA, I have a lot of it!

and I also will always love my big, high concept MG series! #MSWL

#mswl for 2019 definitely includes more contemporary middle grade standalones!

...but also anti-love stories, break-up stories, friendship break-up stories. Give me all the explorations of relationships of all types, please! #mswl

Super high on my 2019 #MSWL