For PBs: author/illustrators only. (I know that stings a little. Sorry?) I like modern art styles, whimsical-with-heart stories, light humor, honest kid emotions, and simple prose. +100 for women and POC author/illustrators. #mswl

I nuked a bunch of tweets, so I'm going to re-up a bunch of my #MSWL wants and needs. I'm pretty full-up on YA right now, and much hungrier for PBs and MG. But here's some more deets...

(#MSWL - I love books about work, when I reopen queries!)

“Fun, joyful YA about teens from marginalized groups out there having hijinks, falling in love, getting spells wrong, etc.” @kurestinarmada #MSWL psliterary.com/submissions/

I am still, and always, looking for smart, fun YA. I like it all: Rom coms, friendship stories, siblings stories. Well written and smart, make me laugh and cry. #MSWL.

I am not on this list but I love graphic novels and have been closing good deals for them and I want more and more and please oh please my heart my soul send them my way. #MSWL

Can't begin to describe how fundamentally I disagree with this. My door is ALWAYS open to these stories. I want all kinds of experiences to be validated through literature, not just the ones we've historically made room for or found more palatable. #MSWL on.wsj.com/2MY0HdU

And an epic romance in fantasy. #MSWL

I also really want an atmospheric magical realism book in MG or YA. #MSWL

A reminder that I really want a MG about being a child of an immigrant. Something from Crazy Rich Asians that hit home to me was this line (summarized for space):

"You may look Chinese and speak Chinese, but not here (head) or here (heart)." #MSWL

I need more foody books in my life. #mswl

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Yes. I would. #askagent #MSWL

Bumping this from last year 'cause I still want it. #mswl

I'd rather you all know what to do before you send a query than get passed over because it doesn't make sense for the genre or age group. #MSWL #amwriting #amquerying #litagent #mg

I am looking for upmarket or literary speculative fiction like STATION ELEVEN, but I'm not right for straight fantasy or SFF. #MSWL So yes, I might be right for this, but I would only know if I read the query.

As a native Pittsburgher and a volunteer in the conservation lab at the @MorganLibrary, this is a SUPER #MSWL for me, in fiction or nonfiction!

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Hey #amquerying #authors, we're all caught up on #queries as of 8/29. Send us your complex protagonists, your I-wish-I'd-thought-of-that concepts, your I'd-know-that-voice-anywhere writing. #mswl #amagenting Guidelines here: susannalea.com/submissions/

As you know I've been on the hunt for more #ownvoices and #diversebooks in nonfiction & fiction in mystery, suspense, thriller, upmarket & literary, & women's fiction. #MSWL

I'll be quite honest, I'm tired of the white, male, straight cop. It isn't that I won't read or consider, I'm just bored and I don't want to be bored. Give me the lesbian mother fighting for her child or the POC cop. Give me more women and give me something I haven't seen #MSWL