✨I'M OPEN TO QUERIES✨
#MSWL 🧵

I’m seeking high-concept, voice-driven adult fiction with strong emotional stakes, a clear hook, and broad commercial appeal. I’m drawn to diverse and underrepresented voices, as well as stories that feel fresh, strange, or genre-bending (1/8)

"I'm always interested in epic fantasy with big worldbuilding, high stakes, and characters to get invested in."
Rose Ferrao #MSWL

#MSWL I love authors who make familiar things feel newly strange.

A marriage.
A neighborhood.
A family.
A friendship.
A single decision that quietly changes everything.

#MSWL I’m looking for fiction that changes how I see the world after I close the book.

Upmarket, literary-commercial, elevated suspense, speculative with emotional weight, unforgettable voice. A story that I want to keep reading.

"Send me speculative fiction in the vein of HANDMAID'S TALE or 1984, but with a modern twist."
Elizabeth Guthrie #MSWL

"Send me science fiction with high genre elements – think science fantasy and space opera like GIDEON THE NINTH and SOME DESPERATE GLORY."
Rose Ferrao #MSWL

4. SHORT Middle Grade
-Short middle grade (50k or under) that lends itself well to illustration
-Author/illustrators
-Heartfelt and funny stories
-Books for boys that encourage empathy #MSWL

3. YA queer horror & speculative
-ANYTHING comped to Leviticus please
-Teen voices that sound genuine
-Stories with meaningful themes (without being preachy)
-Non-western settings and magic systems #MSWL #writersky

2. Adult thriller/horror
-Fast-paced thrillers and horrors, esp. from BIPOC or queer POV
-Campy queer horror equally laugh-out-loud as it is spooky #MSWL

-Fresh perspectives on feminism (esp BIPOC and intersectional voices)
-Theology (teaching, not preaching - where religions come from and how they affect people/society)
-Mental health topics like anxiety and depression. Can include self-help that isn't didactic #MSWL

1. Nonfiction
I'm really keen on nonfiction. I'm interested in why people do things, psychologically and socially.

Queer history & gender studies (A SHORT HISTORY OF TRANS MISOGYNY / BAD GAYS: A HOMOSEXUAL HISTORY #MSWL

I'm back open to queries this week & next! Check out the Storm website and below to see what I'm looking for:
#MSWL #querying #writersky #writersofbsky
querytracker.net/query/Madelyn_Knecht

"I am seeking grounded, accessible science fiction."
alexandragrana.bsky.social #MSWL

"I want Gothic horror, space horror, folk horror, psychological horror, supernatural horror, slasher horror – scare me!"
Rose Ferrao #MSWL

#Mswl I'm open to queries with a tentative close date at the end of June. If you're an #author or #illustrator , I hope you'll consider sharing your work with me. You can see my in depth wish list here: jackiegarciamorales.com

Agency Site: stormliteraryagency.com

All queries > Query Tracker.

"I want proposals for expert- and platform-driven trauma-informed psychology or wellness books that offer counterintuitive or cutting edge advice."
Elizabeth Guthrie #MSWL

I won’t be around to open the submissions at midnight, so they are open early! ~24 hours to get your queries in for this weekend theme, The Future is Queer!
yesandlit.com/query

"Looking for platform-driven nonfiction with unique hooks. (Platform meaning: social media/YouTube followers, TV appearances, email newsletter numbers, etc)."
Carly Watters #MSWL

"Send me cozy mysteries like THE BOOK CLUB MURDERS by Leslie Nagel."
curtisrussell.bsky.social #MSWL

BIPOC fantasy, horror, & thriller #MSWL

I look forward to reading! 🥰 Find the rest of my wishlist here:
stormliteraryagency.com/madelyn-knecht.html