Dana Chidiac
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Henry Holt Books for Young Readers
Senior Editor at Holt BFYR. I spend a lot of time thinking about how things—words, streets, yarn, and food—fit together. Tweets are mine.
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Novels that address religion for MG and YA, because both religion and books for kids and teens are about finding your place in a big world #mswl
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YA about moving on from high school! Anything about college admissions, the summer after senior year, freshman year of college (or of life) #mswl
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Welcome to 2020, publishing! Agent friends, here’s a #mswl thread for pinning and perusing and adding to all year.
Forever, I’m looking for PB, MG, and YA, especially by underrepresented creators, especially contemporary fiction that leads with joy.
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Does there exist a YA heist/cozy mystery entitled Be Gay Do Crimes? If not, dibs.
(also every idea i have these days is actually just a meme #mswl)
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Dana Chidiac @chidiaqian
The existence of this show is the most important news of my twitter hiatus.Also, when I say "YA about religion" on my #mswl, I mean books that handle religion the way this show does: as one part of the push-pull of regular life, as one part of figuring out the complicated shape of the world
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Molly O'Neill @molly_oneill
The bravest books about faith IMHO don't demand a certain response or conclusion from their readers, but instead give *the very questions themselves* to teens, then honor/respect the ways in which young people grapple/wrestle/engage with them & make space for answers that emerge.YA about religion and faith is on my permanent #mswl because faith and growing up are both about Big Questions—finding them, answering them (or not), and living anyway.
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I wonder if it's possible to write a truly excellent YA novel in Jane the Virgin-style narrator voice. If it is, I want it please. #mswl
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#mswl: YA set at this weekly dance party at Orchard Beach in the Bronx. Who's fighting and falling in love there?
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My forever #mswl: In the Heights as a YA novel. (I feel like maybe @Lin_Manuel has some writing commitments already, so it's up to YOU.)