For #MG, I’m really picky about voice because I think it’s so hard! I’m looking for a big heart without being saccharine, friendship-centered contemporary, and small adventures that feel big to them like Stand By Me. #MSWL

Related to the above, contemporary teens that work! Love stories in industrial fridges while waitressing, finding friends at the boardwalk surf shop, finding yourself at the water park (like one of my faves, the Way Way Back) #MSWL

Rom-coms!! Contemporary rom-coms!! I need your unique twists on the genre or fun details or settings that make it stand out. #MSWL

Always intrigued by stories told over one night like We Are the Wildcats, or thrillers over one night, like a #YA version of Survive the Night. #MSWL

I’m not looking for historical if, and especially if, if we’re using historical to cut out issues of cell phones or to tie to the author’s own decade of being a preteen/teen. Anti-#MSWL

Send me your contemporary witches WITHOUT actual fantasy magical powers or who think they don’t have them. Think, The Craft before Sarah arrived. #MSWL

I’m not a fit for Christian-centered or morality stories, trying to teach teens or tweens something. Anti-#MSWL

Send me your survival stories with a twist, think #Yellowjackets and #TheWilds, ideally contemporary #MSWL

Anti-#MSWL I’m not a fit for books centered on pregnancy or pregnancy loss. Would love a content warning if it’s a small piece of your story, but another agent would work better if that’s the theme or focus

LOVE a contemporary story with an unlikely girl team up, think: John Tucker Must Die #MSWL

Anti-#MSWL I’ve never really connected with stories about writers or writing, characters who want to be writers. Just not for me!

Looking for #YA and #MG with big, complicated family dynamics like #Succession, but kids, think: dramedy. Please though, nothing with tons of POVs #MSWL

Anti-#MSWL : No high fantasy with traditionally Western royal setups. Mostly no high fantasy in general. Similarly, I’m not the right agent for most court intrigue

For anyone who’s seen #TheLastofUs, I need manuscripts that feel like Ellie and Storm Reid’s character falling in love on the essentially last night of their world. NEED. #mswl

I’d also love to see queries from LGBTQIA writers, especially stories of joy and, given everything going on in the world, will prioritize how I can queries from trans writers if you choose to such identify in your letter (of course you do not have to)

First of all, I’m really looking to champion Black, indigenous, and other people of color who are querying and want to go the traditional publishing route. Send all your queries my way and I’ll do what I can to prioritize #MSWL

I’m open to queries as of right now!! You can send me your letter and first 10 pages on QueryManager here: QueryManager.com/caitlinwhite

To help you out, here’s a thread of #MSWL and anti-MSWL for any #amquerying writers thinking of submitting their fiction #YA and #MG

13 - Characters who are three steps ahead on a plan going wrong in five different ways. Picturing SIX OF CROWS meets the DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS movie (okay, maybe we just like heists).

12 - Anything set in a magical house/bookshop/library/artisan’s shop. Give me alchemy and potions, arcanery and mystical knick-knacks.

11 - Actual enemies to lovers. None of this rivals to lovers where they barely had a misunderstanding one time. Villain as the love interest also works.