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Dana Chidiac @chidiaqian
If I've fumblingly tried to describe my picture book #mswl to you ("I'm so tired of kindness!"), this tweet from @booktoss does it perfectly. twitter.com/booktoss/statu…Picture books that address big topics of power and social justice for the youngest kids #mswl twitter.com/chidiaqian/sta…
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Graphic novels in the vein of Smile by creators of color. Scripts are welcome, so are author/illustrators! #mswl
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Stories about immigrant communities across the age spectrum #mswl
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Novels with settings that are unfamiliar to American readers
Novels with characters that are unfamiliar with American settings
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Epistolary everything! And anything that plays with format, especially if it feels internetty #mswl
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Novels that address religion for MG and YA, because both religion and books for kids and teens are about finding your place in a big world #mswl
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YA about moving on from high school! Anything about college admissions, the summer after senior year, freshman year of college (or of life) #mswl
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Welcome to 2020, publishing! Agent friends, here’s a #mswl thread for pinning and perusing and adding to all year.
Forever, I’m looking for PB, MG, and YA, especially by underrepresented creators, especially contemporary fiction that leads with joy.
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At the top of my #MSWL this year: AMBITION. I'm looking for books that take big swings at big feelings and bigger questions, with writing that makes me stop in my tracks and whisper, holy $%!*. Let's do this, 2020.
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Ok, it’s 2020. I would like to see much more queer horror, please and thank you #MSWL
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I desperately want a book about a cult or false prophet, but not one that uses rape and torture as its primary function. I demand more creative plot devices! I’m super intrigued by start-up messiahs, influencers, and company towns. #mswl
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I am very interested in seeing something that poignantly captures and works off the abject horror of what we’re doing at the borders (literal children in CAGES), especially #ownvoices #mswl
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My favorite themes & tropes: monsters (werewolves, sirens, witches, vampires), hauntings, cults, fairytales, toxic relationships turned fatal, family dynamics, class & power imbalances, revenge, meta horror, body horror, psychological terror... #mswl
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I’ll Be Gone in the Dark (with @Billyjensen @PaulHoles), The Fact of a Body (@alexmlwrites): Nonfiction that captures the atrocities and fear of the subject matter, but is not voyeuristic, with stranger-than-fiction twists. #mswl
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In the House in the Dark of the Woods (@LairdHunt), The Changeling (@victorlavalle), The Merry Spinster (@daniel_m_lavery): Creatively reinvented and nightmarish fairytales & folklore -- from all cultures please, not just Western! #mswl
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Friday Black (@NK_Adjei), Her Body & Other Stories (@carmenmmachado), The Pisces (@melissabroder): Speculative fiction with a dark bent, surreal Twilight Zone-type stories gone malicious, literary fiction with subtle horror veins. #mswl
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Mongrels (@SGJ72), A Head Full of Ghosts (@paulGtremblay), When We Were Animals (Joshua Gaylord): Coming of age stories with monsters as metaphors, monsters inside of us, cleverly subverted horror tropes with contemporary twists. #mswl
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Beginning the new year by looking to the future and dreaming about the possibilities for my @TorNightfire list. So, here’s a quick 2020 #horror #mswl based on some of my favorite books of the last decade (THREAD!):
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Alia Jones @readitrealgood
So...publishers y’all gonna sign him for a children’s book deal or nah? 👀 Black cowboys have been a thing for a long time... twitter.com/lilnasx/status…👀 #MSWL. I grew up in Texas, but my family’s from Tulsa. Black cowboys were always around. 🤠 🐎