Fascinating @fasc1nate
The actors James Dean and Earth Kitt were fabulous friends.Heโd seen her on stage in a performance and had been in awe of her movements. โCan you please teach me to move like you?โ he asked her. โSure, she said,โ and took him to a ballet studio. ...
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Biopic about their friendship please #mswl
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#MSWL Spring Break Blitz - HARLEQUIN!!!! dlvr.it/T4zBf7
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UPDATE: I'll be closing to queries April 30, 2024. IF you're ready, query me now through Query Manager. If not, you can query me when I open again. I'll post here when I do. #WritingCommunity #amquerying #mswl
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Send me a proposal for a book that profiles a bunch of different YouTube success stories. I'd like to read about how people have used the platform to change their lives. #MSWL #WritingCommunity
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#MSWL Spring Break Blitz - Into Post
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For hashtag visibility: #MSWL middle-grade series that have a discernible plot arc that carries over multiple books; things like:
Rick Riordan's series
The School for Good and Evil
A Series of Unfortunate Events
Skandar and the Unicorn Thief
Keeper of the Lost Cities
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โจQUERYING UPDATE
I'm reopening to queries today, but ONLY to middle-grade series/duologies/trilogies!
I'll reopen to my other categories soon, but I'm still reading some lovely subs from you all & want to give everything my best attention!
Query here: QueryManager.com/3240/MiddleGraiddleGradeSeries
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Open to queries starting today! Updated #MSWL is below: manuscriptwishlist.com/mswl-post/kayla-lightner/
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Happy to announce that I'm open to queries again! (Still working through a couple submissions, thank you authors for your patience)
And while I'm super disappointed in the Phillies' opening performances, I nonetheless am asking for baseball stories. #MSWL
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Very specific things I'm looking for:
- contemporary fantasies
- stories steeped in folklore & culture
- Ella Enchanted โจvibesโจ
- academia settings/secret societies
- YA crossover + genre blending
- magic ALL OF THE MAGIC
- celebrity romances (non rockstar)
#mswl
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saint.แ โข biollante enjoyer @necrologies
i love masculine women who are knights . i love feminine men who are knights . i love genderless knights . i love cursed knights . i love love sworn knights . i love noble knights . i love undead knights . i love evil knights . i love tragic knights . i love knights#mswl ๐ฅน
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my forever #mswl ๐ฎโ๐จ
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To keep going on my earlier tweet, I LOVE all shades of MG! The quieter, simpler prose stories and the long, whimsical books that are for the big readers! Both are so welcome in my inbox ๐ฅฐ all genres! #MSWL
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Kesia Lupo @keslupo
I hear this. I think a lot of us who work in publishing were keen readers as children and have carried the assumption forward that middle-grade = in the vein of Philip Pullman! But I'm hearing more & more that the younger end of MG needs to be fleshed out and... 1/2twitter.com/StorySorcery/status/1774164372660588952
... we have to listen to those who work directly with kids today. (I think 'teen' is another problem area but that's another story!) I'd love to see more MG stories in my inbox in the 30-40k range with simpler prose - without skimping on the interest level. #MSWL 2/2
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Another #mswl I've been wanting to find forEVER is a genre-blended YA sci-fi/horror akin to Alien (or even The Thing I think would count). Atmospheric, not super tech heavy, isolated, far from home, trapped with an extraterrestrial horror. Those kinda vibes.
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I would also love to find something that takes a big swing and lands it, especially in YA. Epic but accessible, character-driven but with lyrical or evocative writing. As an example,
@Tiff_Liao
told me that she would love to find a YA Cloud Atlas and my eyes went ๐ป๐คฉ #mswl