Stephanie Stein
@stephlystein
Editing books and taking names. 📖: @HarperChildrens & @HarperTeen 🌃: 🎮🏒🥃🌈✈️. Occasional bar trivia champ, 47% caffeine by volume. She/her.
New York, NY
Stephanie Stein @stephlystein · Feb 12
I turned 30 (!!!) last weekend, an occasion I'm seizing to share my #MSWL this year:
- sweeping YA romance
- ✨queer magic✨
- savvy, commercial MG fantasy
- joyful queer & POC stories
- & POC authors with something to say
- emotional contemporary MG
- cozy af graphic novels
Stephanie Stein @stephlystein · Feb 4
elizabeth 🦌✨ @prvserpine
Must a book have plot? Is it not enough for two mortal enemies to have to attend the same ball, dressed in their finest, to dance with each other, only half-unwilling?—if you'll land a blade in their heart later, why not simply hold them now, too close and too gentle?I mean. Eternal #mswl
Stephanie Stein @stephlystein · Jan 28
Agents, I am starving for something ROMANTIC. Lush writing, big emotions, pining, a love-conquers-all mood: I want to fall in love! #mswl
Stephanie Stein @stephlystein · Jan 23
chicken shittle @robiinya
so... two witches...... one is like. a cute witch who practices like nature magic and loves pastel stuff and baking. the other is a gothic witch who practices more traditional witchcraft. they live in contrasting cottages next to each other in the woods. enemies to lovers...... pic.twitter.com/jFkMe5b6qMplease please please #mswl
Stephanie Stein @stephlystein · Jan 9
Julie C. Dao @jules_writes
Does anyone else (who is my age obvi) remember A Knight’s Tale? Because I am really craving a YA that feels like that 🤔 pic.twitter.com/qLGOLMSGfNThis movie was FORMATIVE for me and I INSIST everyone send me their YA manuscripts with this vibe so I can love them equally to bits #MSWL
Stephanie Stein @stephlystein · Jan 2
At the top of my #MSWL this year: AMBITION. I'm looking for books that take big swings at big feelings and bigger questions, with writing that makes me stop in my tracks and whisper, holy $%!*. Let's do this, 2020.
Stephanie Stein @stephlystein · 13 Dec 2019
Are we all still talking about how much we love witches? Because Y E S. Would love for witches of all kinds to be a big theme in my inbox in 2020! #mswl
Stephanie Stein @stephlystein · 2 Dec 2019
Back at my desk with this #mswl thought from the holiday weekend: I would love a book about advice columns! (Do I read not one but several? Yes. Did I write one for my high school newspaper? MAYBE.)
Stephanie Stein @stephlystein · 13 Nov 2019
Very specific #mswl time: I've been craving a middle grade book about wishes (with any degree of actual magic). Agent friends, if you've got one of these up your sleeve, send it my way!
Stephanie Stein @stephlystein · 27 Sep 2019
sage 🚀 @sageshelves
Listen, I just need more queer princes in YA.Where is my soft prince falling for his bodyguard? Where is my tough take no shit political prince that falls in love with the wrong diplomat just before his parent(s) declares war?
More queer princes in YA 2Kforever
Speaking of #MSWL, I too need more of this in my life
Stephanie Stein @stephlystein · 24 Sep 2019
Done with lunch and have to leave Twitter now, but I'll leave you with this last #MSWL: an EPIC star-crossed love story! Can be enemies-to-lovers (think CRIER'S WAR or SERPENT & DOVE), kept-apart-by-circumstances, or just... slow-burning mutual pining because Feelings Are Hard
Stephanie Stein @stephlystein · 24 Sep 2019
Speaking of which, if anyone sends me a YA that feels like HBO's GENTLEMAN JACK, it's possible I'll die of happiness #MSWL
Stephanie Stein @stephlystein · 24 Sep 2019
Would also still love some fun, swashbuckly, queer/feminist/all of the above YA historical fiction (with or without magic) #MSWL
Stephanie Stein @stephlystein · 24 Sep 2019
Still, always, forever dying for the one true magical school book of my heart. I would especially love to hear more from marginalized voices and POC authors on this subject. #MSWL
Stephanie Stein @stephlystein · 24 Sep 2019
I always love books that play with structure, format, and narrative conventions. I'd love something that does for a YA or MG narrator what (stay with me) FLEABAG did for the fourth wall in TV. #MSWL
Stephanie Stein @stephlystein · 24 Sep 2019
You'll have noticed that I've acquired a fair amount of queer YA lately and I am not! done! Always looking for more LGBTQ+ characters for both YA and MG audiences, and no, it does not have to be a rom-com! #MSWL
Stephanie Stein @stephlystein · 24 Sep 2019
I'm dying for more fun, FUNNY, escapist YA with a killer one-sentence concept. The mood is 100% Red, White, & Royal Blue with younger characters. #MSWL