Editors' MSWL | MsWishList

· 16 Dec 2020

Hi agent friends! Just wanted to put this out there as we look ahead to the new year. #MSWL: I'm hungry for voicey contemporary literary fiction with gorgeous, delicious prose in the vein of Ocean Vuong, Jesmyn Ward, Colson Whitehead etc.

· 15 Dec 2020

I want a YA book that vibes like Taylor Swift's Evermore. #mswl

YA

· 14 Dec 2020

I have been too quiet about my love for Black cowboys.

Somebody, please write me a Charley Pride picture book.
🤠😭 #MSWL #PB

Picture books

· 13 Dec 2020

PJ Vogt @PJVogt

God imagine having a break up in an escape room.

This as a scene in a tragicomic YA #MSWL

YA

· 12 Dec 2020

Ally Ally Oxenfree add GHOST GIRL on goodreads @AllyMalinenko

Dear publishing please just let Black people write anything including Black joy -contemp, fantasy or horror twitter.com/dancingofpens/…

#MSWL!!

· 11 Dec 2020

Just casually retweeting all my previous #MSWL tweets about fluffy/fun books about black teens and BIPOC in historical fiction.

· 11 Dec 2020

Yasmine 🍊 ياسمين | ⵢⴰⵙⵎⵉⵏ @YasmineJibril

I’m not going to lie, Historical Fiction is in desperate need of diversity and discussion on social justice and its association with how we tell history. It’s the most underdeveloped genre.

This is a great thread and diverse historical fiction with relevant themes that interrogate the same questions we’re asking today are definitely on my #MSWL

· 11 Dec 2020

Disney Animation @DisneyAnimation

In a first-of-its-kind collaboration, Disney Animation and Pan-African entertainment company Kugali will team up to create an all-new, science fiction series coming to #DisneyPlus in 2022: Iwájú. Check out a first look at visual development art from the series. pic.twitter.com/9iuWFDr61T

🤩 This looks amazing! Can’t wait to watch!

(And I’d love to work on some kids books with the same feel. #mswl)

· 11 Dec 2020

Agents - I'm looking for a totally unputdownable YA novel with a breakneck pace. Contemporary realistic is my jam, but genre elements welcome. HMU! #mswl

· 11 Dec 2020

Give me a book based on dorothea. #evermorealbum #mswl

· 10 Dec 2020

I don't know whether it's the season, or just 2020 in general, but I am craving a warm and wise and magical witchy story right now, brimming with sisterhood and secrets (historical or contemporary). Bonus points if it has a compelling romance! #MSWL

· 9 Dec 2020

evelyn @drivinatninety

let’s unpack why teenage girls ask the same questions academics do in more accessible terms and get dragged through the mud

#mswl — this is everything I want in YA speculative fiction

also, perfect place to plug @ockaur’s forthcoming YA SF novel, RISE OF THE RED HAND, whose teen heroine asks alllll the uncomfortable questions about power and inequality—often with her fists 😉
erewhonbooks.com/books/rise-of-…

· 8 Dec 2020

🪴 probinsyana @HELLAPASAWAY

i wish the grief of losing a friendship was more tangible in conversations. friends are lovers too and those inevitable fallouts in the process of outgrowing deserve space for healing. it's a heartache that's so often very lonely to navigate with feelings of betrayal and blame

THIS. Friendship breakups can be equally as painful as romantic ones, and I’d love to see these stories represented (and in my inbox!) #MSWL

Friendship

· 8 Dec 2020

Rex Chapman🏇🏼 @RexChapman

The Coronavirus pandemic has been tough on us all.

This will brighten your week.

Humanity.🌎❤️ pic.twitter.com/F7qvdbXwaR

#MSWL !!!

· 8 Dec 2020

Emily Feinberg @EmilyFeinberg

I don't do much YA but if someone wants to write an alien contact SF, I'd take a look! #mswl

YES! Always always thinking about what first contact would look like. Basically, gimme YA or MG Arrival ❤️

· 8 Dec 2020

I don't do much YA but if someone wants to write an alien contact SF, I'd take a look! #mswl

Sci-fi

· 7 Dec 2020

#MSWL #PB hi friends! i'm dying for more picture books! i would love...

--projects about incredible historical figures we overlooked bc ~colonialism~

--funny offbeat projects with unique art in the vein of DRAGONS LOVE TACOS, PETRA, THE BAD SEED, etc.

· 4 Dec 2020

Half & Half single-handedly satisfied all my serotonin needs for a month. Two funny, Black mother-daughter stories in one plus a reluctant sister storyline 😭 I'll always be a sucker for intergenerational stories about loving the women in our lives we don't always like. #mswl