🎃 Chelsey Emmel-haunts 👻
@CKEmmelhainz
Senior editor at @crookedlanebks and @alcovepress . Intersectional feminist. CO native. Brunch enthusiast. Opinions: my own.
Denver, Colorado
🎃 Chelsey Emmel-haunts 👻 @CKEmmelhainz · Sep 24
Best way to submit to me is through Crooked Lane's website submission portal (we accept unagented subs) - or have your agent query me! #mswl
🎃 Chelsey Emmel-haunts 👻 @CKEmmelhainz · Sep 24
I'm also a speculative fiction (set in the contemporary world) and magical realism junkie, so dystopian elements, accessible science, and lite, real-world fantasy elements can catch my eye, too #mswl
🎃 Chelsey Emmel-haunts 👻 @CKEmmelhainz · Sep 24
I'll always like the darker side of fiction, so if your WF or M/S/T has supernatural or horror elements or features creepy twins, weird siblings, cults, serial killers or anything giving it a bit more BITE... I'm your girl #mswl
🎃 Chelsey Emmel-haunts 👻 @CKEmmelhainz · Sep 24
I like my fiction to be page-turning, propulsive, and unputdownable--no matter the genre--so send me your race-to-the-finish reads #mswl
🎃 Chelsey Emmel-haunts 👻 @CKEmmelhainz · Sep 24
This #MSWL day is special because @AlcovePress just launched which means I'm now looking for women's fiction in addition to mystery, suspense and thrillers for @crookedlanebks.
🎃 Chelsey Emmel-haunts 👻 @CKEmmelhainz · Apr 15
Um... #mswl: Why Are So Many Fictional Teens Entering Cults? lithub.com/why-are-so-man… via @lithub
🎃 Chelsey Emmel-haunts 👻 @CKEmmelhainz · Mar 18
New #MSWL: adult suspense novel featuring a pregnant protagonist
🎃 Chelsey Emmel-haunts 👻 @CKEmmelhainz · Jan 16
Chelsey Emmelhainz @CKEmmelhainz
My current #MSWL:- toxic female friendships
- spooky suspense (maybe w/ supernatural/horror bent)
- suspense featuring cults and witches (a la, THE CRAFT)
- family dysfunction + messed up secrets
- female serial killers
It appears my #MSWL list is evergreen, because I'm definitely still hunting for all these elements in my mystery/suspense/women's fiction submissions...
🎃 Chelsey Emmel-haunts 👻 @CKEmmelhainz · Jan 12
Okay so The Descent has everything on my #MSWL for 2019: complicated, dark female friendships, survival, suspense, and a dash of the supernatural. *grabby hands*
🎃 Chelsey Emmel-haunts 👻 @CKEmmelhainz · 19 Dec 2018
Kim @blitherbabble
I'd love to read a crime fiction book that has a serial killer tracking down and painfully murdering all the frenetic, following-to-followers-ratio twitter people who followed him on twitter just to unfollow him as soon as he followed them back.#MSWL 😂
🎃 Chelsey Emmel-haunts 👻 @CKEmmelhainz · 27 Nov 2018
Doing title research led me to this amazing #MSWL tidbit. Who's gonna write me a mystery with "the perfect murder weapon"? curiosity.com/topics/the-tox…
🎃 Chelsey Emmel-haunts 👻 @CKEmmelhainz · 19 Oct 2018
You know what I want to see in a mystery series? TWISTER. I want a storm-chaser mystery series minus the weird love triangle. #MSWL
Also I saw this gif and my brain IMMEDIATELY started playing the "chase" music from the movie. Guess what I'm watching this weekend.
🎃 Chelsey Emmel-haunts 👻 @CKEmmelhainz · 8 Oct 2018
Unlikeable Female Characters @UnlikeableFCPod
🔪 COMING SOON 🔪Unlikeable Female Characters is a new podcast where feminist thriller writers talk about female characters who don't give a damn if you like them.
Launching in a few weeks, follow this account for updates!
#MSWL forever:
"Female characters who don't give a damn if you like them."
🎃 Chelsey Emmel-haunts 👻 @CKEmmelhainz · 18 Sep 2018
Quressa Robinson (she/her/queen) @qnrisawesome
For the love of my dark, evil, magical heart, please send me witch books--bitchy witches, selfish witches, selfless witches, kind witches, amoral witches, angry witches. ALL THE WITCHES!!! #MSWLSAME! #WhereMyWitchesAt #MSWL
🎃 Chelsey Emmel-haunts 👻 @CKEmmelhainz · 13 Sep 2018
Emily Rodmell @EmilyRodmell
The key to catching the attention of an editor or agent is to make us want to read more. We're busy and have a million things that we could stop reading to do. Don't give us a reason to stop reading. Make us be desperate to turn each page.🎃 Chelsey Emmel-haunts 👻 @CKEmmelhainz · 12 Sep 2018
Hannah Fergesen @HannahFergesen
YES PLEASE twitter.com/thebookmechani…I love how we're ALL looking for this. Take heed #MSWL-ers
🎃 Chelsey Emmel-haunts 👻 @CKEmmelhainz · 12 Sep 2018
Oh, and did you know @crookedlanebks accepts unagented submissions? For details, visit: crookedlanebooks.com/contact/ #MSWL
🎃 Chelsey Emmel-haunts 👻 @CKEmmelhainz · 12 Sep 2018
#MSWL cont
+ magical realism (set in known world), spec fic
+ horror, supernatural elements
+ witches (a la The Craft)
+ serial killers
+ cults
+ black magic (set in the known world)
+ twins/siblings
+ legends, myths, folklore-inspired
+ female protags
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🎃 Chelsey Emmel-haunts 👻 @CKEmmelhainz · 12 Sep 2018
Happy #MSWL day! I acquire *only* adult fiction w mystery, suspense, & crime elements, but in those categories, I'm looking for concepts featuring:
+ Domestic susp w *fresh* hook
+ Small-town mysteries w series potential
+ Dark, twisted, macabre
+ diverse voices, own voices
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