Editors' MSWL | MsWishList

· 28 Nov 2019

Happy HollZABÉs ⛄️🌲❄️ @ZREllor

I want more queer romances with problematic morally-grey characters, I want queer Zukos and queer Jude/Cardans and queer Salvatore brothers. I love cinnamon roll queers but I hate the feeling that queer characters NEED to be morally upstanding to exist in YA

Let’s say this louder for the people in the back!!! #mswl

· 28 Nov 2019

Laura Sebastian @sebastian_lk

I know we're all about Hades/Persephone but you know what Greek mythology couple doesn't get the appreciation they deserve? Ariadne and Dionysus. Girl gets stranded on an island by the fuckboi "hero" who couldn't find his way out of a paper bag and runs off with the God of Wine.

THE LOVE AFFAIRS OF NATHANIEL P meets HADESTOWN just shot to the top of my #MSWL

· 27 Nov 2019

Just saw @rivercitygirls while browsing for new games and now I want a spunky, over-the-top contemporary YA about two friends (or rivals) who need to work together to save their SOs that doesn't take itself too seriously, plus humor and MCs that pack a punch.

#MSWL #emswl #YA

· 26 Nov 2019

The New York Times @nytimes

This year at the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, astronaut Snoopy might not be cleared for take off, the famously buoyant SpongeBob SquarePants could wind up deflated and Olaf from “Frozen” could find himself melting into a heaping puddle on the pavement nyti.ms/2XQ2BjE

So who is writing the picture book about the Thanksgiving Day parade balloons who go on strike....??? #MSWL

Picture books

· 23 Nov 2019

carlydraws @carlydraws

@chavelaque What subject would you like to see more books about?

A PB on the Atlanta washerwoman’s strike, or Pullman porters, or the Chicano rights movement; MG novels starring boys of color doing sports; MG or YA NF on topics of POC history #mswl

· 19 Nov 2019

Fangirl Jeanne @fangirlJeanne

The Indiana Jones reboot we deserve. Also he should be stealing cultural artifacts and returning them to their original countries/people. pic.twitter.com/Pl0ZzHPYNu

#mswl #2

· 19 Nov 2019

Rebecca Traister @rtraister

The 1881 Atlanta Washerwomen strike! Everyone should read @TeraWHunter's great book, To 'Joy My Freedom, which chronicles the story of the washerwomen: hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?is… twitter.com/ewarren/status…

Black authors! Write me a picture book about this, please! 👇👇👇 #mswl

· 19 Nov 2019

B. Bolander @BBolander

Woke up with the line “On the third day of the end of the world, Mr. Rogers walked alone” in my head and how’s your Tuesday going

MSWL

· 18 Nov 2019

My dudes (because it is always the dude writers), it does not give a female main character “strength” to be sexually assaulted for the sake of “character building” in her first chapter. It just shows that you’re a hack. Consider this my anti-#MSWL.

· 18 Nov 2019

Magic Realism Bot @MagicRealismBot

A Sherlock Holmes mystery in which the murderer is revealed to be a forest.

#MSWL x 1000000

Mystery

· 17 Nov 2019

Would love to see more inter-generational stories from non-western cultures for the PB space in my inbox! Grandparents and grandchildren, aunts/uncles and nieces/nephews, etc. taking part in family or broader cultural traditions! #mswl

· 15 Nov 2019

I would love to read a YA contemporary with an incredibly strong friendship, a la Amy and Molly in BOOKSMART. Bonus points if the conflict does NOT stem from romance/love interest complications (between the friends or another character)! #MSWL

· 15 Nov 2019

Amy Stapp @AmyStappNY

I just watched that netflix show about pirates... entertaining, but my point is... WHY have I never read a book about Ching Shih before?? I've seen nonfic, but this is begging to be a novel in a talented author's hands. This woman's story is incredible! #MSWL #HistoricalFiction

#MSWL

· 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!