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watching Home Alone (like you do on Christmas Eve Eve) and am just desperately craving a MG with the same cozy feeling and high (but believable) stakes/hijinks #MSWL
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Eric Smith @ericsmithrocks
Who are my editor and agent friends that are into food memoir?One of my childhood friends grew up into a celebrated restauranteur and I'm beta reading her memoir and it's wildly beautiful.
It's like a Middle Eastern Blood, Bones & Butter.
#mswl all my dreams truly yes this please hello
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Ross Showalter @rosshowalter
Also, for the love of fuck, someone show Hostovsky my Electric Literature essay:electricliterature.com/writing-fantas…
I love this thread on #ownvoices and the power of fantasy/speculative! Definitely what’s on my #MSWL, especially for teen!
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Bridgerton @bridgerton
Alert your acquaintances, Bridgerton is but three days away... pic.twitter.com/XyGXNF7oLeAlready obsessed 🤩 And I hope this means we’re about to see a spike in historical YA. My inbox is ready! #bridgerton #mswl
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Speaking of being in the mind-space to read a lot: hey, spooky Twitter! Send me your novel-length subs! Full + synopsis + query to horror@sourcebooks.com. Adult and YA welcome. #MSWL
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Rewatching Ready or Not and goddamn I love this movie so much. Humor + nail-biting tension + a protagonist who is Not Here to Deal With This Shit = a truly great time
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Brandon @blgtylr
So last night, I was having a perfectly fine realist dream. Until I wandered off the property I was staying into the woods where I encountered a witch's cottage. She was a very nice witch. We were talking over the fence of her garden.#mswl: this entire vibe please
(disclaimer: i love owls! they’re great! but i also love murderous witches who know what they want and protect their own)
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Dr Sarah Taber @SarahTaber_bww
YESSo much of the innovative stuff we need to do in the food system is basically sci-fi?
We couldn't just have speculative fiction epics about resurrection forests & floating ocean cities built on living electrified reef
We could be *doing* that shit if we talked about it. twitter.com/jonrog1/status…
#mswl — resources, economies, associated inequities, &c. are entirely my jam
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finally, i'm still looking for my ✨YA indiana jones✨ re-telling, with the mc taking cultural artifacts back from museums and returning them to their countries of origin. plz plz plz send this to me. #mswl
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i need more stories about immigrants, immigrant communities, and immigrant experiences - especially ones with a multi-generational family angle!! #mswl
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i want stories with big hooks that are stuffed with YA tropes 🥰 and center BIPOC. i'm a big fan of stories about "lasts" (the last day of school, the last summer before college, the last dance, the last chance) #mswl
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contemporary fantasy!! i want it!! ESPECIALLY (really only) if it draws from diverse folklore and/or reimagines evergreen fantasy elements (witches, vampires, chosen ones, etc) with BIPOC at the center of the story 👸🏽🧙🏽♀️🧜🏿♀️
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i'm desperate for diverse, commercial, soap-y, contemporary YA that is both highly aspirational and has high emotional stakes. basically, if it feels like a shonda rhimes show in book form, with teenagers, I MUST HAVE IT #mswl
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DIVERSE LOVE STORIES, ROM COMS, & ROM DRAMS! 💖💖i need to see more teens of color falling in love and embarrassing themselves with a grand gesture. i want more proms and first dates and fake dating and childhood-best-friends-to-enemies-to-lovers stories 💖💖#mswl
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Rebecca Kuss @reebsthereader
1 year ago today i joined @InkyardPress. it wasn't the year i (or any of us) expected to have, but i'm forever grateful for this team & this job & these books that i ❤️so much.so here is my 2021 YA #mswl. agents & authors, i can't wait to make more book magic with you! 📚✨
first and forever(more), i am looking for YA by marginalized creators, featuring marginalized characters - especially contemporary fiction that leads with ✨joy✨ #mswl
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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.
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I want a YA book that vibes like Taylor Swift's Evermore. #mswl