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Raise your hand if you got yanked out of a reading slump and are now standing in 2023 with big energy and even bigger book goals: 🙋🏼♀️
Looking to really expand my list this year so agents, check out my updated #MSWL and send all the fiction my way!
(pls, ty, I am very excited)
Dying for some dark, romantic, magical YA fantasy in my inbox this new year 😈 #mswl
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When it comes to taste, I tend to be drawn to visual projects & prose w/strong imagery. #mswl For I was a kid whose art school dreams were dashed early on, & the inner art kid hasn't died yet. I doodle at a pace of 1x year & am planning the next. Last year's existential lantern:
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Katrina Carruth @KatrinaCarruth
So is this cozy horror + steamy romance business already a thing or we just doin it? If you’ve got any recs I’d love to have them. I personally love books like Paladin’s Grace but I think it falls more into a dark fantasy category than horror…?Cosy horror + steamy romance is definitely on my #MSWL
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#MSWL from @TheJillRoberts: send us a novel about a time travelling psychiatrist who goes around medicating people in the past.
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Bradley ❄️ @bradleyberdecia
this is how you make a character entrance pic.twitter.com/dlCL48Oq8MYAAS. Jobu Tupaki may be one of the best characters to ever grace the film screen. My wild #MSWL: a smart YA that has the feel of Everything Everywhere All at Once from the POV of Jobu w/the dysfunctional but heartfelt family dynamics, existential angst, absurd humor, & queer rep
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Penny Moore @literarypenny
I’d really love to see more cozy and warm contemporary fantasy projects, full of whimsy and fun, in my query inbox. It can be adult, YA, or crossover.I’m a bit burned out on the dark and heavy stuff right now. Basically, looking for a hug in book form. #mswl
me too!! keep me in mind if you find a good one!!! #MSWL #cozyfantasy
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#MSWL for 2023: give me all of the gen-z/millennial suspense/thrillers by marginalized voices. twisty plot with truly unexpected turns, unforgettable characters, witty dialogue, socioeconomic commentary. pls it will give me renewed life
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My left arm for historical fiction about Abigail Adams and this letter she wrote to John: "I desire you would remember the ladies... Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the husbands. Remember, all men would be tyrants if they could." #MSWL
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sofia’s booktwt ━✫ alicent hightower apologist @booksessedwhore
"academic rivals to lovers" BUT THEY'RE SOLVING A MYSTERY TOGETHER & REFUSE TO CALL EACH OTHER ANYTHING OTHER THAN THEIR LAST NAMES UNTIL THEY ENDURE A DANGEROUS LIFE-THREATENING EXPERIENCE TOGETHER & CALL ONE ANOTHER BY THEIR FIRST NAMES FOR THE FIRST TIME BC OF THE ADRENALINE?!…do I have to say it? #mswl
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I'll tell you what I want, what I really really want. I wanna, I wanna steaming hot, can't put down PNR/UF with witches that's no longer than 75,000 words. Come on, people, rescue me from queriers who send me what I clearly state I DON'T take. #MSWL
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Still hunting for the perfect Mystic Owl novel. Under 75K, Spicy heat level, and some form of fantasy or sci-fi. #MSWL
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I'd also love to contract more magical Why Choose in general, so if you can't write short but have something super sexy and longer, (pun intended ;) ) send it my way, please! #MSWL
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Ok, writer friends... I would LOVE to contract an author who can write a series of super sexy Why Choose novellas (30-40k each) for fast-paced releases! (Remember they need some type of magic for our Mystic line!) #MSWL
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Karolina Sutton @KarolinaSutton
From the coalface of publishing: all editors are saying no more witches please or retellings of myths.I'll always want witches & myth retellings! Just give me a strong voice, layered characterization, & beautiful textured writing with them. Would especially love to see witches from underrepresented backgrounds - like, can I get a witch living in a hanok in the woods? #mswl twitter.com/KarolinaSutton…
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Molly McGhee ✨ @mollymcghee
As a former editor I’ll say the quiet part out loud: there are so many submissions that the only way to order your reading is to do it by urgency. Therefore only the MSs that have a lot of hype/ have an initial editor interested will move quickly through this process twitter.com/alecdshane/sta…❤️ this 🧵. molly verbalizes something i've struggled to explain to ppl's satisfaction: why i no longer have, or will ever have again, an #mswl. while there are a few reasons, a biggest one is i like to be straightforward. 1/
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Has anyone written a “cuffing season” romcom yet? #mswl
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Nidhi Pugalia @makep1enotw4r
I want a sultry romance you know not a spicy romance but like a season 2 Bridgerton all-about-the-near-touch romance BIPOC set perhaps extremely specifically in dark academia maybe the stakes are super high maybe it's P&P meets Ninth House idk I haven't thought about it that muchplz #MSWL
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fran @galacticidiots
Your run of the mill enemies to lovers story where the villain is obsessed with the heroine except this is the second iteration of the story; they were lovers before but she died in his arms so he went back in time and chose evil because maybe if she hates him, she’ll live.Love this. Enemies to lovers (& vice versa) is a trope I'm a huge sucker for, not to mention sympathetic villains (like Xu Wenwu) and heroes who are willing to be perceived as or who become villainous for noble reasons in the vein of The Dark Knight or Simon/Ice King #mswl