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

· 12 Sep 2017

It will surprise none of you that I read a ton of fanfic. Bring me those tropes in a YA romance! Soulmate AUs, time travel, pining... #MSWL

· 12 Sep 2017

I talk a lot about wanting LGBTQ YA—but lately I'm really dying for an LGBTQ middle grade! Self-discovery, first crushes, family! #MSWL

· 12 Sep 2017

Wry, smart, disruptive historical YA (+/- fantasy)! Think GENTLEMAN'S GUIDE and MY LADY JANE. #MSWL

· 12 Sep 2017

Evergreen: underrepresented #ownvoices across all genres, MG or YA. Identity informs story but doesn't need to BE the story. #MSWL

· 12 Sep 2017

Natascha Morris on Vacation @SoCalledYALife

#MSWL: a YA literary novel that examines the effects of polyamory on teens and their sense of romantic relationships.

👇👇👇 #MSWL

YA
Literary

· 17 Aug 2017

Moël Fer-la-la-la 🎄 @inthesestones

YA want: Give me your #RiseUp books. Contemporary or fantasy setting. Let me see that not everything is awful. Bonus points for LGBT+ #MSWL

Do this for Moe so she can send them to me! #mswl

· 7 Jul 2017

Seriously craving some historical MG & YA. Bonus points if it's a less commonly depicted time/place! (i.e. outside WWII Europe) #mswl

· 15 May 2017

Patricia Nelson @patricianels

Hungry for YA contemporary with a strong, jump-off-the-page voice & a fresh perspective that makes me cry or laugh out loud. Or both! #mswl

Literally always! #mswl

· 10 May 2017

#MSWL: YA with the wistfulness and delicate, complex ensemble friendships of Ichigo Takano's ORANGE, which I am finally reading and ~loving~

· 2 May 2017

Dahlia Adler @MissDahlELama

@findmereading @ms_lilyanderson Part of that is what the f/f stories *are*. We're getting great and critically lauded ones but still by and large Serious Contemp.

Which reminds me... bring me ALL your f/f YA romance and bi MCs! (And tween girls discovering first crushes on girls, too!) #MSWL

· 28 Feb 2017

Laura Crockett ☕️ @LECrockett

I'd love more friendship, summery YA to hit my inbox. Think Jenny Han, Huntley Fitzpatrick, Robin Constantine, Dessen, Rowell, Matson #mswl

YA BFFs are always on my #MSWL. Friendships forged between teen girls are so powerful, complex, and fun.

· 13 Feb 2017

Emily S. Keyes @esc_key

A YA or MG about a kid opposing the school board or local official. Maybe about banned books. And family supporting him/her. #MSWL

Yes! Activist kids. <3 #MSWL

· 8 Feb 2017

Would love more contemporary/realistic novels set outside North America. YA and MG! #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

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

YA
Sport

· 19 Jan 2017

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

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

· 7 Sep 2016

Really loving Mallory Ortberg's turn as Dear Prudence. Which reminds me: would love to see a YA with a similar sense of humor. #MSWL

YA
Humor