Julie Gourinchas

a lil #MSWL but make it ✨ book vibes ✨

thought I’d make a moodboard of books I’ve enjoyed lately or whose themes, storytelling, and/or writing resonate with me. If your querying novel sits in conversation with any of these books, I want to see it!

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gave a lil zhuzh up to my agent profile and #mswl so do have a nose and a gander if you like 💫
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been a bit behind on my queries recently and haven’t had much time to read I’m afraid BUT I’m finally catching up and I’m absolutely ravenous for new projects to work. so a very happy #questpit and #mswl day to all! looking forward to seeing your fab books 💕

a little Monday morning #mswl for you all: I would love to see some literary-leaning 🩸🌼 cottagegore 🌼🩸 in my submissions! give me fields of flowers growing over the bones of the dead, brutal murders set to soft sunshine, cannibalism and cinnamon-apple tarts----

hello friends! my colleague, the brilliant Lorna Hemingway, is on the hunt for new projects! she represents everything in the children's space from board books to YA and is specifically looking for:

- contemporary romance
- coming of age (especially BIPOC)
- gorgeous, punchy graphic novels

#mswl

I know I've only just made a #mswl thread a month ago but given the new year and all I'm tempted to make an ✨aesthetic✨ one – all pretty and shit, get those Canva skills cracking – to cross-post here and on Instagram.

also I am reading @sapphomancer .bsky.social’s Metal from Heaven and I’m only a chapter or two in and this is some of the most insane, voicey, incredible writing I’ve ever read. bravo.

(and also, if anyone can comp this: #MSWL )

okay. okay wait. okay. bear with me........... #mswl

a speculative new gilded age and the folk hero outlaws of the evolving modern era ????? oh good god let us cook, someone give it to me

someone please please PLEASE give me an upmarket speculative novel set in a travelling circus. a slightly more literary, fresh new take on THE NIGHT CIRCUS. bonus points if strong sense of aesthetic or historical anchoring. pls!!! #mswl

rewatching Flanagan's (incredible, jaw-dropping) Midnight Mass and if anyone can comp to this show ... I would like to see it, please #mswl (this is your October version of "Julie is once again on the hunt for literary vampire stories")

idk this is kind of a #mswl vibe … liminal spaces … nineties neon coding … speculative horror … mmm yes

screaming sobbing clawing at the walls ... #mswl in every way that matters !!!!!!!

once again (the Interview with the Vampire rot is still rotting...) I am desperate for dark, gothic, literary takes on vampires in my inbox #mswl

big #mswl energy

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just watched the latest @JazzaStudios video and he dropped the word "Da Vinci-punk" and hello, #mswl in a big way

I really really really *really* feel horrormance is about to be the next ✨big thing✨ in pub, so – my #mswl is looking hungry for any literary/upmarket versions of that, love stories with dark, twisted, tragic beats (someone comp me IWtV or so help me god!!!) 🖤🩸🦷

yes hi I would like some monstrous, yearning love stories please #mswl

some things I am *not* looking for atm (an anti-MSWL if you will):

- crime or military anything
- contemporary romance
- [usually] first-person voice (I'm sorry – it's a hard sell for me, but not impossible!)
- high/epic fantasy
- space-faring sci-fi (unless the hook is fresh!)

I'll add more as I go, but I want to highlight again how much VOICE, PROSE, + ATMOSPHERE are really the things that draw me into a story. I want to hear your character's voice ringing in my head. I want to feel the mist curling at my ankles. I want to live in your world!!

#mswl