before i wrap up, here are my top 10 reads of 2024 (minus books i've worked on 😔). these vibes are always welcome in my querybox!! #mswl

for romance in general, i love a genre blending moment, so send me your horroromance, mystery romance, etc

i tend to like my main characters & storylines with a bit of bite/kick, and i probably wouldn't be the best fit for things that are on the sweeter/wholesome side lol #mswl

on the romance side of things, i'm widening my #mswl to include historical romance, particularly from/about marginalized prespectives, especially if it's sapphic. think olivia waite, cat sebastian (i esp loved her bisexual disasters novel THE PERFECT CRIMES OF MARIAN HAYES), etc.

on the more serious side of things, i'm intrugued by stories where said sentient 'house' is connected to/reflecting on intergenerational trauma, anticolonial legacies, dark histories, etc.

for e.g. a darker, more f*cked up version of the ENCANTO house! #mswl

this has been on my #mswl for a couple of years: i want a sentient house!! 'house' in the loosest sense of the word. could be a forest, a lake, a shack, a room. a 'place' that f*cks with its inhabitants. doesn't need to be malicious, but i do love when it's a bit of an a**hole 😅

lovers-to-enemies where the tension, betrayal, mind games, and angst are off the charts, where they want nothing more than to go back to the way things were but it's impossible and goes against everything each person stands for but the ~feelings are still there! i hunger!!! #mswl

i know the girlies love a good enemies-to-lovers moment (i myself am often 'the girlies') but over the holidays i watched THE RINGS OF POWER and while the show has its fair share of flaws, it has awakened in me a hunger for a lovers-to-enemies situation (iykyk 👀) #mswl

i've been revisiting favourites that were precursors to romantasy as we know it today, like tasha suri's THE BOOKS OF AMBHA duology, jemisin's THE INHERITANCE trilogy, and other fantasy where romance is a strong subplot but a HEA is not guaranteed and the angst is elite 🤌 #mswl

while i'm def open to romantasy where the fantasy/worldbuilding and romance are given equal space/attention (esp from marginalized writers ft. marginalized perspectives/stories), i also want to see more romantic fantasy that might not necessarily fit the 'romantasy' label #mswl

instead, i'd love to see speculative YA set in our world, particularly stories that are or play with horror, and fabulist fiction. some books in those spaces that i've enjoyed recently are: DELICIOUS MONSTERS by liselle sambury and HOME IS NOT A COUNTRY by safia elhillo
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starting w the 1 exception (things i used to want that no longer fit my #mswl & what i'm looking for instead): i've been thinking a lot about what i'd like to see more of in YA, and while it saddens me a bit, i'm not the right person for YA sci fi + 2nd world fantasy anymore 😔

Happy to announce I’m reopened to queries! Check my #MSWL for what’s on my priority list but sneak peak: give me lots of romcom, steamy romance, psych thrillers, eerie horror, soft to medium fantasy, dark academia & space! 🫶🏻

#WritingCommunity #amquerying #amediting

first though: this is an update, not meant to completely replace prev #mswl asks (with one exception, which i'll flag). please don't self-disqualify if your project does not fit exactly into these asks! it's just a list of things i'm particularly keen on at this moment.

friends! next week is the last one of jan (finally . . . this month was a y e a r), which means my querybox will be open for the first time in 2025, and i figured it's a good time for a #mswl update in case folks in #amquerying are curious 🧵

ATTN #kidlit #writers : Free Spirit Publishing is open to submissions! 📚🎉✏️ Review our guidelines and how to submit here: teachercreatedmaterials.com/submission-guidelines #MSWL #callforsubmissions

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I’m looking for new authors to join my list of literary, upmarket, and bookclub fiction at @madeleinemilburn and would love to hear from you if you have a project to share!

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#MSWL for a book that comps to Justine Pucella Winans's books.

i’m in the mood to read some literary & upmarket fiction about perimenopause (specific, i know) make it sexy and funny and a little fucked up and i’m there 😏 #mswl #amquerying

WWII gets a lot of love, but we want untold eras and hidden histories. Historical fiction that spotlights overlooked perspectives or extraordinary moments? We’re hooked. 🕰️ #MSWL
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a little Monday morning #mswl for you all: I would love to see some literary-leaning 🩸🌼 cottagegore 🌼🩸 in my submissions! give me fields of flowers growing over the bones of the dead, brutal murders set to soft sunshine, cannibalism and cinnamon-apple tarts----