MJ Johnston
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Editor at Sourcebooks. Adult Fiction. Can be frequently heard saying "yes, I read books for a living" and "yes, I know guac is extra.” (she/her) 📚🎨
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Stevie Nicks singing a life-defining curse directly at Lindsey Buckingham during a live performance #mswl
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Dolly Parton’s Jolene but make the women allies in a revenge plot #mswl
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My mood has declared that spring is for historical fiction and I can’t argue with the mood.
Agents, come talk to me about all your book clubby historical fiction because I need to acquire some stories of badass women doing badass things, the season has spoken #MSWL
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Need an upbeat novel or contemporary mystery with the specific vibe of the Catskills episodes of Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, adult simon says and Susie traipsing around with a plunger included #mswl
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Netflix @netflix
Welcome to Murderville, a new series starring Will Arnett as a detective who, in every episode, has to solve a murder with a new celebrity guest star as his partner.The catch is: the guest star is never given a script so they have to improvise their way through the case! pic.twitter.com/B3ceg1ZREI
Who at Netflix is perfectly capturing my #MSWL vibes??
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New Year New #MSWL Me! Looking for:
✨Historical fiction featuring strong women and grounded Lost Apothecary mystic vibes 🔮
✨Quirky, accidental (or not so?) murders a la Only Murders in the Building 🔪
✨Novels w/ the Ted Lasso effect (uplifting but also unflinchingly real) ♥️
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✨Pinning my updated #MSWL! Agents, send all the fiction my way!✨
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Calling all smart, uplifting commercial fiction with a speculative slant that basically encapsulates how my heart grew watching the last season of The Good Place and somehow emotionally attaches me to a weirdly wonderful cast of characters like this elite crew. #MSWL
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it’s fall, which means I need some historical fiction with The Lost Apothecary vibes.
Agents, will trade crockpot soup recipes and weirdly specific fall playlists for every badass women historical fic sub I receive! #MSWL
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⭐️bex schwartz @starbex
“Sorry your kids found a dead body in the woods but dont’ worry, they’re emotionally stable enough for Color War.” pic.twitter.com/aUnicyzh5T#MSWL, but make it a campy slasher/horror with a Wednesday Addams character and some delightful and spooky classic trope subversion.
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have been listening to a lot of emotional relationship-driven apocalypse music lately (iykyk) and not sure I can do anything but #MSWL that ish 🤷🏼♀️
give me all that broken soulmate, leave me in a puddle, upmarket fiction pls and thank you!
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oh, and while we’re at it, I will sell my soul for a southern fiction Delta Dawn right now. #MSWL
*Tanya notes the dramatics and approves.
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getting antsy for our own roaring 20s so in celebration, agents I would love some rebellious historical fiction in my inbox! Things I love:
🔥strong women subverting expectation
🔥1920s- on
🔥anything with the vibe of Taylor Swift’s “The Last Great American Dynasty” #MSWL
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looking for complicated twenty-something friendship stories with the emotional resonance of Lauren Conrad’s infamous “I want to forgive you, and I want to forget you” line from The Hills #mswl
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✨Pinning my updated #MSWL! Agents, I’m looking for all the adult fic/nonfic ✨
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MJ Johnston @FictionalMJ
Are editor MSWLs a thing? Are they helpful? Am I supposed to just say “I acquire fiction” or can I follow my heart and list “any novel with the vibe of a post-1989 Taylor Swift song?” Can I write it like a missed connections ad? someone pls tell me the rules!so, I did thing #MSWL
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