Carolina Ortiz

Editor

Harper Kids

πŸ‡¨πŸ‡±β€οΈπŸ’œπŸ’™ Editor @ Harper Children's | @PocPub Co-Director | @LatinxinPub Mentorship Co-Director | Lover of bookstores y tequila| She/Her| Avi @emcorm

Carolina Ortiz
@pushthepanorama
Editor
πŸ‡¨πŸ‡±β€οΈπŸ’œπŸ’™ Editor @ Harper Children's | @PocPub Co-Director | @LatinxinPub Mentorship Co-Director | Lover of bookstores y tequila| She/Her| Avi @emcorm
42 MSWL
5 AskAgent

Our Flag Means Death has awaken in me a deep desire for a queer pirate YA romance πŸ΄β€β˜ οΈπŸ¦œ Please send me high seas shenanigans as I desperately need more #mswl

Carolina Ortiz
@pushthepanorama
Editor
πŸ‡¨πŸ‡±β€οΈπŸ’œπŸ’™ Editor @ Harper Children's | @PocPub Co-Director | @LatinxinPub Mentorship Co-Director | Lover of bookstores y tequila| She/Her| Avi @emcorm
42 MSWL
5 AskAgent

There's so much to love about #TurningRed but one of the many things it does well is explore puberty for girls in a really engaging way. I desperately want to see this in the MG space, give me books that deal with puberty for girls in all its awkward and funny ways #MSWL

Carolina Ortiz
@pushthepanorama
Editor
πŸ‡¨πŸ‡±β€οΈπŸ’œπŸ’™ Editor @ Harper Children's | @PocPub Co-Director | @LatinxinPub Mentorship Co-Director | Lover of bookstores y tequila| She/Her| Avi @emcorm
42 MSWL
5 AskAgent

From Train to Busan to Anna and the Apocalypse, I was reminded again today how much I love zombie apocalypse stories! Send me your YAs and MGs zombie adventures, horrors, and hijinks, starring BIPOC characters please #mswlπŸ™πŸΌ

Carolina Ortiz
@pushthepanorama
Editor
πŸ‡¨πŸ‡±β€οΈπŸ’œπŸ’™ Editor @ Harper Children's | @PocPub Co-Director | @LatinxinPub Mentorship Co-Director | Lover of bookstores y tequila| She/Her| Avi @emcorm
42 MSWL
5 AskAgent
Carolina Ortiz
@pushthepanorama
Editor
πŸ‡¨πŸ‡±β€οΈπŸ’œπŸ’™ Editor @ Harper Children's | @PocPub Co-Director | @LatinxinPub Mentorship Co-Director | Lover of bookstores y tequila| She/Her| Avi @emcorm
42 MSWL
5 AskAgent

✨Diverse Regency/Victorian YA
✨Novels-in-verse

To see a fuller version of my #mswl check out my website, which has also been updated!

carolinaiortiz.com/manuscript-wis…

Carolina Ortiz
@pushthepanorama
Editor
πŸ‡¨πŸ‡±β€οΈπŸ’œπŸ’™ Editor @ Harper Children's | @PocPub Co-Director | @LatinxinPub Mentorship Co-Director | Lover of bookstores y tequila| She/Her| Avi @emcorm
42 MSWL
5 AskAgent

✨A Black marching band drama
✨A humorous take on puberty for girls
✨Subversive Catholic school stories
✨If something has "already been done” but it's never been done with characters who hail from marginalized backgrounds, I want to read it...

Carolina Ortiz
@pushthepanorama
Editor
πŸ‡¨πŸ‡±β€οΈπŸ’œπŸ’™ Editor @ Harper Children's | @PocPub Co-Director | @LatinxinPub Mentorship Co-Director | Lover of bookstores y tequila| She/Her| Avi @emcorm
42 MSWL
5 AskAgent

Special Call Outs!
✨Friendship stories where the complete cast is BIPOC
✨Latinx fútbol-centric stories
✨After-high-school stories not set in 4-year, majority-white universities, including trade schools, community colleges, non-European international universities, and HBCUs...

Carolina Ortiz
@pushthepanorama
Editor
πŸ‡¨πŸ‡±β€οΈπŸ’œπŸ’™ Editor @ Harper Children's | @PocPub Co-Director | @LatinxinPub Mentorship Co-Director | Lover of bookstores y tequila| She/Her| Avi @emcorm
42 MSWL
5 AskAgent

ContemporaryπŸ’« Give me your stories that focus on being 1st/2nd gen stories, multigeneration BIPOC family, returning to the homeland, and/or international settings with local protags

Carolina Ortiz
@pushthepanorama
Editor
πŸ‡¨πŸ‡±β€οΈπŸ’œπŸ’™ Editor @ Harper Children's | @PocPub Co-Director | @LatinxinPub Mentorship Co-Director | Lover of bookstores y tequila| She/Her| Avi @emcorm
42 MSWL
5 AskAgent

Historical FictionπŸ’« Desperately looking for projects that have a global and non-Western perspective on history

RomanceπŸ’« QBIPOC or BIPOC rom-coms/romances, and I would love to some interracial romances where both characters are BIPOC

Carolina Ortiz
@pushthepanorama
Editor
πŸ‡¨πŸ‡±β€οΈπŸ’œπŸ’™ Editor @ Harper Children's | @PocPub Co-Director | @LatinxinPub Mentorship Co-Director | Lover of bookstores y tequila| She/Her| Avi @emcorm
42 MSWL
5 AskAgent

SFFπŸ’« I would love to see futures that star BIPOC casts and fantasy worlds inspired by non-Western folklores and myths

HorrorπŸ’« I'm looking for elevated horror that unpacks societal, community, and/or personal traumas, as well as any monster reimaginings from a BIPOC POV

Carolina Ortiz
@pushthepanorama
Editor
πŸ‡¨πŸ‡±β€οΈπŸ’œπŸ’™ Editor @ Harper Children's | @PocPub Co-Director | @LatinxinPub Mentorship Co-Director | Lover of bookstores y tequila| She/Her| Avi @emcorm
42 MSWL
5 AskAgent

I am more than ready to sink my teeth into some new submissions! And to ring in the new year, I've updated my #mswl with all the many things I'm looking for in middle grade, YA, and graphic novels...

Carolina Ortiz
@pushthepanorama
Editor
πŸ‡¨πŸ‡±β€οΈπŸ’œπŸ’™ Editor @ Harper Children's | @PocPub Co-Director | @LatinxinPub Mentorship Co-Director | Lover of bookstores y tequila| She/Her| Avi @emcorm
42 MSWL
5 AskAgent
Carolina Ortiz
@pushthepanorama
Editor
πŸ‡¨πŸ‡±β€οΈπŸ’œπŸ’™ Editor @ Harper Children's | @PocPub Co-Director | @LatinxinPub Mentorship Co-Director | Lover of bookstores y tequila| She/Her| Avi @emcorm
42 MSWL
5 AskAgent

Amparo Ortiz @amparo_ortiz

Evergreen Tweet. ✨ pic.twitter.com/uaUe3Rqwbu

THIS!!! πŸ‘‡πŸΌπŸ‘‡πŸΌπŸ‘‡πŸΌ If a trope and/or trend has "already been done” but it's never been done by BIPOC authors, I want to read it πŸ’œ This is forever on my #MSWL

Carolina Ortiz
@pushthepanorama
Editor
πŸ‡¨πŸ‡±β€οΈπŸ’œπŸ’™ Editor @ Harper Children's | @PocPub Co-Director | @LatinxinPub Mentorship Co-Director | Lover of bookstores y tequila| She/Her| Avi @emcorm
42 MSWL
5 AskAgent

Hey agent friends! I've been really craving some more middle grade submissions in my inbox. I love stories that focus on friendship, family, and culture--regardless of genre--with an eye towards projects by authors from the margins. Please send me your MGs πŸ™πŸΌ #mswl

Carolina Ortiz
@pushthepanorama
Editor
πŸ‡¨πŸ‡±β€οΈπŸ’œπŸ’™ Editor @ Harper Children's | @PocPub Co-Director | @LatinxinPub Mentorship Co-Director | Lover of bookstores y tequila| She/Her| Avi @emcorm
42 MSWL
5 AskAgent

One of my summer goals was to make a website, and I finally did it: carolinaiortiz.com! Check out my deal announcements and updated #mswl 🧐 And agents, if it's been a while since we've chatted, I'm always happy to reconnect, as well as meet new agents πŸ‘€

Carolina Ortiz
@pushthepanorama
Editor
πŸ‡¨πŸ‡±β€οΈπŸ’œπŸ’™ Editor @ Harper Children's | @PocPub Co-Director | @LatinxinPub Mentorship Co-Director | Lover of bookstores y tequila| She/Her| Avi @emcorm
42 MSWL
5 AskAgent
Carolina Ortiz
@pushthepanorama
Editor
πŸ‡¨πŸ‡±β€οΈπŸ’œπŸ’™ Editor @ Harper Children's | @PocPub Co-Director | @LatinxinPub Mentorship Co-Director | Lover of bookstores y tequila| She/Her| Avi @emcorm
42 MSWL
5 AskAgent
Carolina Ortiz
@pushthepanorama
Editor
πŸ‡¨πŸ‡±β€οΈπŸ’œπŸ’™ Editor @ Harper Children's | @PocPub Co-Director | @LatinxinPub Mentorship Co-Director | Lover of bookstores y tequila| She/Her| Avi @emcorm
42 MSWL
5 AskAgent
Carolina Ortiz
@pushthepanorama
Editor
πŸ‡¨πŸ‡±β€οΈπŸ’œπŸ’™ Editor @ Harper Children's | @PocPub Co-Director | @LatinxinPub Mentorship Co-Director | Lover of bookstores y tequila| She/Her| Avi @emcorm
42 MSWL
5 AskAgent

Between my new found love for Oumi Janta and binge-watching Betty, I am so ready for some rollerblading/skateboarding YA magic to happen #mswl

Carolina Ortiz
@pushthepanorama
Editor
πŸ‡¨πŸ‡±β€οΈπŸ’œπŸ’™ Editor @ Harper Children's | @PocPub Co-Director | @LatinxinPub Mentorship Co-Director | Lover of bookstores y tequila| She/Her| Avi @emcorm
42 MSWL
5 AskAgent

Something I would love to see is plus-sized protags in graphic novels proposals for children. It's rare to this representation in prose novels but even rarer to see it in visual mediums. #mswl