Katherine Harrison
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Knopf Books for Young Readers
senior editor of ya, middle grade, & picture books (@knopfbfyr), appreciator of scientific oddities, & aspiring drummer // she/they 🌹

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Ok million dollar idea for whoever wants to write it: Phantom of the Opera meets Love Island—a murderous misanthrope haunts the set of a raunchy reality show. #mswl

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Molly Powell @molluskey
Agents! I'm in the mood for an epic, can't-live-without-you, every-moment-we're-apart-is-agony, be-still-my-beating-heart romance, ideally in a fantasy world. I want tension, I want tears, I want to ache with longing. #MSWLShamelessly piggybacking on this excellent #MSWL! Agents, send this to both of us and we'll have an auction 😂

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Annie Pho (she/her) @catladylib
I recently learned that Scrub Daddies are a choice product for crime scene cleaners. I also recently learned there are crime scene cleaning influencers. This current era of social media is fascinating because everything is content™️.Not that I work on graphic novels or crime fiction much, BUT.... someone clearly needs to write a novel about a crime scene cleaner who cracks cases and rises to influencer fame! #mswl

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Binge-watching Ultimate Beastmaster and reading Wings of Fire has stoked my appetite for action-packed middle grade where kids/creatures compete in an arena or some kind of epic contest.
Does anyone have a manuscript matching this description? 🤔#MSWL

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Flashback to @laurenspieller’s #MSWL for a YA Drop Dead Gorgeous that I literally haven’t stopped thinking about since—someone write this!

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I would kill to read a heady literary mystery about a character who slowly loses it in a shoddily disguised replica of the Love Island villa that turns increasingly hellish. Does this exist? Can someone write it? #mswl

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Bridgerton @bridgerton
Alert your acquaintances, Bridgerton is but three days away... pic.twitter.com/XyGXNF7oLeAlready obsessed 🤩 And I hope this means we’re about to see a spike in historical YA. My inbox is ready! #bridgerton #mswl

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PJ Vogt @PJVogt
God imagine having a break up in an escape room.This as a scene in a tragicomic YA #MSWL

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Am I the Asshole? @AITA_reddit
AITA for making my son give up the signifiers of wealth at school (designer clothes and sneakers, being driven in nice cars) because he was making fun of kids for being less wealthy than us? bit.ly/3jJx1hy pic.twitter.com/yIYyCWGTkgKind of want this epic punishment to be the starting point for a YA novel. Dual perspectives to show the POV of the kid he ridiculed, naturally #mswl

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Katherine Harrison @KidlitKat
I, for one, welcome our new cetacean overlordsthecut.com/2020/09/orcas-…
OK, new #MSWL: @RosanneParry's A WHALE OF THE WILD, but revengier.

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Here's something I haven't seen in my submissions: a frothy, compulsively readable YA that is enthusiastically & unapologetically socialist. Like, what would RED WHITE & ROYAL BLUE or THE PRINCESS DIARIES look like if they glamorized equality/working class interests? HMU, #MSWL

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Avoiding toxic positivity is extremely reflective of my picture book taste 😀. Let's feel our feelings, people! #mswl washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/well…

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Sophie Vershbow @svershbow
So jealous the girl with the green ribbon could take her brain off. pic.twitter.com/aVUkI3krKrThis post reminds me that I need one of you YA authors to write a creepy gothic retelling of the story of green ribbon girl. Maybe a graphic novel?!? #mswl

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Julie Falatko @JulieFalatko
Falatkos in every window checking out my new best friend, baby squirrel. pic.twitter.com/KoewwdjL4tBig #MSWL energy for a middle grade caper about neighborhood kids solving a mystery while social distancing, so they can only communicate through windows and tin cans connected by string. REAR WINDOW meets LITTLE RASCALS. Someone write it, I beseech you!

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Something about the moon. Nonfiction. #mswl

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Laura Sebastian @sebastian_lk
I know we're all about Hades/Persephone but you know what Greek mythology couple doesn't get the appreciation they deserve? Ariadne and Dionysus. Girl gets stranded on an island by the fuckboi "hero" who couldn't find his way out of a paper bag and runs off with the God of Wine.THE LOVE AFFAIRS OF NATHANIEL P meets HADESTOWN just shot to the top of my #MSWL

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Dawn of the Deadlines @kendrawcandraw
Hate when I fall in love with the man of my dreams only for him to insist upon asking about the green ribbon around my neckCan someone please write a YA gothic horror novel with a simmering f/f romance about the green ribbon girl? I want it soooooo bad #MSWL

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I would LOVE to edit a satirical MG or YA novel about student government. Think Mean Girls meets Wag the Dog. Or, like, Election without the gross teacher. #MSWL

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Hiya, #MSWL
I'm on the lookout for middle grade nonfiction that specifically explores:
1. Climate change and ecology.
2. American History through the lens of marginalized people.
Bonus points for graphic novels!