Eliza Swift
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📚💁🏻♀️ Book lady, story fanatic, trash TV enthusiast. Head of Original Development at WEBTOON Digital Fiction. All opinions my own. she/her
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Feeling a little down about the idea of working from home, and from the realization that I likely won't travel to Chicago next month and see my family. Agents, now would be a GREAT time to slide into my inbox with a heartwarming and cutesy picture book! #MSWL
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Another #MSWL for 2020, off of a recent email from @JuniperJazzz, who comped her second book to an anime. Agents, if a book you represent feels tonally like an anime, I want to see it!
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Thinking on my 2020 #MSWL and what I'd really like to see in my inbox are monstrous girls (maybe literally!) and the cinnamon rolls that love them
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My dudes (because it is always the dude writers), it does not give a female main character “strength” to be sexually assaulted for the sake of “character building” in her first chapter. It just shows that you’re a hack. Consider this my anti-#MSWL.
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I’m not much of a horror fan, but it just struck me that I’d love to see a YA along the lines of IT FOLLOWS. Something scary as hell that addresses teen sexuality (but is sex-positive, not moralizing) #mswl
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Eliza Swift @elizaswift
Recently finished watching Love Alarm on Netlix and boooo hissss that ending but also #MSWL, I want a YA in that vein!“That vein” = exploring the way technology impacts our lives in an interesting new way. If your YA novel could be described as “like Black Mirror but fluffy,” I want to see it.
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Recently finished watching Love Alarm on Netlix and boooo hissss that ending but also #MSWL, I want a YA in that vein!
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Finally saw ABOUT TIME this weekend and so loved it. Agents, just a reminder that lightly speculative projects grounded in our world are EXTREMELY my jam. #MSWL
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This, as a YA book, please! #MSWL npr.org/sections/pictu…
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Our whole office has been talking about the Fyre festivals docs and I have a new #mswl: a YA horror/thriller set at a musical festival gone wrong. Give me this book!!!
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A #mswl for a future day: angry girls. Give me your righteous, angry girls, and let’s have them burn the world to the ground.
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Olympics means Olympian-inspired #MSWL...I want a book about a teenage girl whose mom is her coach a la Mikaela Shiffrin and her mother. Fascinated by that dynamic.
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Mental Floss @mental_floss
How Cambodian Refugees Started the Pink Doughnut Box Trend — bit.ly/2htYl4n pic.twitter.com/KhSyMC7IpGVery specific #MSWL: a YA about a Cambodian-American teen whose family runs a donut shop. Sounds delicious. 🍩😋
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Laura Zats @LZats
YA where the parents are like, real characters. Not dead. Not absent. But there and actually parents #MSWLYES, and: a YA about a fraught mother/daughter relationship. #MSWL
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A YA about a weird, immersive summer job & all the relationships that come out of it. Adventureland for teens. #MSWL
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I just watched Little Witch Academia & it was my favorite. Badass lil witches learning about magic & how to be friends. MG, I think. #MSWL
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A complicated, messy, heartbreaking, hysterical, ultimately loving story about female friendship in YA. #MSWL
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A YA about a teen's devotion to a craft (a sport, an instrument, etc) and what that means for the other aspects of their life. #MSWL