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I love creatures. Give me first contact alien encounters. Give me creatures from folklore. Give me unknown monsters with lots and lots of teeth #mswl
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Kristin Temple ๐ @_kristintemple
In the same vein...someone please send me queer Midsommar. As my brilliant coworker @jruoxichen pointed out, the plot SHOULD have been: "Florence Pugh rejects mediocre man and joins Scandinavian lesbian collective to sing crop rites and do craft." I need it. #mswl pic.twitter.com/aokKhnXS5FLook alive out there, my undead agent friends! @_kristintemple dropping some #horror #mswl goodness and we demand to see it!
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In the same vein...someone please send me queer Midsommar. As my brilliant coworker @jruoxichen pointed out, the plot SHOULD have been: "Florence Pugh rejects mediocre man and joins Scandinavian lesbian collective to sing crop rites and do craft." I need it. #mswl
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SEND ME QUEER HORROR PROJECTS. I've got a personal soft spot for bi protagonists (because...hi), but I'm looking for horror characters/stories from every part of the LGBTQ+ community. Give me characters grappling with sexuality/gender and ALSO monsters #mswl
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IT'S HALLOWEEN MONTH IT'S HALLOWEEN MONTH so let me start a โจspookyโจ #mswl thread for what I'm looking for @TorNightfire (adult horror) and @torteen (YA)
I'll update this thread periodically throughout the month.
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I'm usually a strict SFF kind of girl, but guys, with the world as terrible as it is right now, I just want to read some fabulous, sexy romances--SFF or contemporary alike. So agents, send them my way! #MSWL
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I would like to acquire more fantasy standalones #mswl
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I'd really like just the right, informative but lyrical, magically focused exactly to my needs that I can't quite define yet, picture book about solar eclipses that I can have for the next US-visible one in 2024. #MSWL
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Foyinsi @OyinAtiOmi
Random but what if there was a story about a society in which you had to pay for EVERY single meme/gif you use? Sounds silly but could be dark & have magic (bc why not?). A whole war/revolution fought b/w free the meme-ers and ppl should be paid for use of their image-ers.I tweeted about this again months later (twitter.com/oyinatiomi/staโฆ) and Iโm still very much intrigued by this concept! #mswl
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so....what now? @Muna_Mire
i love pen15 so much for reminding me how FUNNY it was to be a teen girl. like yes a lot of is tragic and confusing but there's so much about it that's just hilariousPls give me some cringe comedy #mswl girls being silly and cringey and awkward together is exactly my taste
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Foyinsi @OyinAtiOmi
Fantasy (cont.):-A DREAM acquisition: whimsical MG contemp fantasy with the clever wordplay of #AliceInWonderland and #ThePhantomTollbooth ๐
-Another DREAM: slice-of-life stories that take place in high fantasy settings (aka fantasy elements are facts of world¬hing more) pic.twitter.com/Bd6fP3gA6y
Putting this out there in the world again:
(Please make my โedit-a-book-with-the-WONDERFUL-plus-FUN-wordplay-and-whimsy-of-Alice-in-Wonderlandโ dreams come trueeeee (even if itโs YA)!!๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ) #MSWL
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maybe this isn't the most ideal time to #mswl but i would like More MG PLEASE for Salaam Reads & BFYR. ๐ฅบ Magic. Action. Adventure. Cool Villains. PLEASEEEEE I BEG U.
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I never thought Iโd want anything to do with #TheCanterburyTales once I graduated but now I feel like a YA contemp/fantasy novel (loosely) inspired by/based on it (like structurally) could be really cool???
Guess after having it in 4+ classes, the brainwashing worked...
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After spending the summer swooning over Jasmine Guillory novels, I'm excited to expand my #MSWL to include contemporary romances in the YA space! Looking for fresh, substantive stories with a great hook and stand-out voice that pull at the heartstrings.
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In general, so, so, so much of what I'm looking for in contemporary hinges upon the presence of a: great setting, tropes I love, and a voice and characters I adore. #MSWL
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I'm especially on the lookout for stories with trope-heavy plots and unbelievable voice that are informed by contemporary teen issues but not wholly centered around them. See: HOME AND AWAY by @candiceamanda and YOU SHOULD SEE ME IN A CROWN!
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TROPE-HEAVY ROMANCE! Especially diverse, queer, intersectional romances! Please for the love of all that's sacred someone send me an ace-romance. I beg the publishing gods! #MSWL
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ATMOSPHERE! Setting that feels like a character is a huge hook for me. I'm on the hunt for contained settings (like boarding schools, small island towns), quirky small towns, and stories with a strong sense of regionality. #MSWL