Stephanie Stein

@stephlystein

Editor

Harper Teen

Harper Kids

Senior Editor @HarperChildrens & @HarperTeen, she/her, 47% caffeine by volume. Opinions my own, and I do have a lot of them. 🌈

manuscriptwishlist.com/mswl-post/stephaniestein

· 8 Feb 2017

Always looking for fantasy with a nifty, compelling, unique kind of magic. One recent example: THE GIRL FROM EVERYWHERE. #MSWL

· 8 Feb 2017

Been seeing more #ownvoices YA--which is great!--but not as much MG. Definitely looking for more! #MSWL

· 8 Feb 2017

Caitie Flum @caitief

I'd love a novel about a group of online friends that shatters and how they all pick up the pieces (or don't). #MSWL

Seconded! As well as anything dealing with the contrasts or transition between online and in-person relationships. #MSWL

· 8 Feb 2017

One of my favorite shows in the history of ever. More like it, please! #MSWL

· 8 Feb 2017

YA ensemble casts! Give me coworkers at the after-school job, sports teams, high school clubs. #MSWL

YA
Sport

· 8 Feb 2017

Looking for some proactive, feminist MG characters. Let's celebrate stories like Marley Dias's. #MSWL theguardian.com/books/2016/feb…

· 8 Feb 2017

Very much on the hunt for a middle grade novel that will make me cry. #MSWL

· 8 Feb 2017

Linda Camacho @LindaRandom

Also still looking for my sweeping YA fantasy (ESPECIALLY if it's diverse, like LGTBTQIA or in a non western European setting, etc.) #MSWL

Me, too! #MSWL

· 19 Jan 2017

Read @LaAnnaMarie's THE WEIGHT OF FEATHERS last week & still daydreaming about it. Dying for more beautiful, slightly magical YA. #MSWL

· 31 Oct 2016

Jordan Hamessley @thejordache

Sure, the male queer experience gets a lot of attention in YA. Still a lot of work to feature the female experience. broadly.vice.com/en_us/article/…

Eternal #MSWL--more queer female characters!

· 17 Oct 2016

Molly O'Neill @molly_oneill

SUCH a great question. This kind of highly witty (but still unforced & believable) banter is one of my fave story ingredients, btw. #MSWL twitter.com/MarthaMihalick…

Same! Witty banter = a character's fastest way to my heart. #MSWL

· 28 Sep 2016

Jessica Sinsheimer @jsinsheim

Okay, so about 70 percent of the editors at this speed meeting event want magical realism. ME TOO. Where is it?? #MSWL

One of the 70 percent! *raises hand* #MSWL

Magical Realism

· 13 Sep 2016

Laura Zats @LZats

Play with structure. Technique. I want ambitious books. Books that can't be swapped out for another #MSWL

An evergreen wishlist item for me, too. Love a twisty, unconventional road from A to B. #MSWL

· 13 Sep 2016

Shannon E. Powers @S_E_Powers

A YA Game of Thrones-style fantasy but inspired by Latin America. Think the golden (or silver, ha) age of cities like Potosí. #mswl

Ooooh. *grabby hands* #MSWL

YA
Fantasy

· 13 Sep 2016

Thao Le @ThaoLe8

Looking for more contemporary YA and MG about family and heritage with all the feels. Especially if it features grandparents! #mswl

GRANDPARENTS. #kryptonite #MSWL

Family

· 13 Sep 2016

MG featuring socioeconomic diversity, and navigating that landscape in friendships and at school. #MSWL

· 13 Sep 2016

YA/MG fantasy where the magic is essential to the story. Can be beautiful, arcane, messy, inconvenient, whatever, but feels integral. #MSWL

· 13 Sep 2016

Would love a book, YA or MG, that's just a bucket of sass--loud, voicey, snarky humor, with an MC I can root for. #MSWL

· 13 Sep 2016

Heather Flaherty @HeddaFlaherty

Epic #YA Fantasy; a world I can feel on my skin, a people's plight I would fight for, an underdog protag I would give my life for. #MSWL

Yes, yes, yes! #MSWL

Fantasy

· 13 Sep 2016

I love retellings, but I want them to take on the original through an aggressively different lens: queer, feminist, gender-swapped... #MSWL

Retelling