I acquire for @FreeSpiritBooks & am growing our list of #picturebooks by #Latinx authors. If that's you, please submit and reference this Tweet! #LatinXpitch #callforsubmissions #mswl @latinxpitch @LatinosInKidLit @LatinxinPub freespiritpublishing.submittable.com/submit/134906/…

Returning to this thread to make it clear that I would VERY much like to acquire both a sexy monster romance and what I am thinking of as “dirty sexy faeries” for Carina Press. Just FYI. 😈 #mswl

#MSWL YA or adult (agented): A big romantic fantasy from the POV of the villain (or one of the POVs is the villain, but like a real villain with a redemption arc or the heartbreaking lack thereof) (Maybe this makes no sense but this is what my heart wants right now lol)

A #MSWL update:
I’m no longer taking YA submissions. I’ll consider any YA subs that are already in my submissions folder, but will be focusing my attention solely on adult horror for Nightfire moving forward.

My birthday is next month!
Agents, here's what I want from my #MSWL. 🎁
Send me your MG novels, send me your YA novels. Here are some of my very favorite things 🧵:

Oh and of course anything and everything here:
manuscriptwishlist.com/mswl-post/nidh…

Writing that's sharp and biting, or writing that's lyrically astounding. Is there a touch of magic? A heap? Yes, I want it.

And I want all of it to be BIPOC and/or queer.

I'd really love to laugh, like a book about a bunch of aunties the rest of the community thinks are well past their prime--and I want to see them as full, gossipy, pushy people; what do they want? (And we return to BANDIT QUEENS!)

I want a mystery that characters wish they hadn't solved. A mystery that isn't about the mystery, really, at all, but about the people--the kind of ending that feels inevitable, like putting these people in that room at once--well, nothing else could have happened.

give me Heathcliff, give me the lover that has so misunderstood what love is that they perform deeds that leave them bloody. Give me a love that has soured and make me yearn for it anyways. I want more hauntings, more ghost stories.

Give me Practical Magic, I'm begging you.

entirely missed #mswl day--but in truth every day is MSWL day! I'm yearning for smart, irreverent fiction with true heart that dives into more than one voice: always dreaming of PORTRAIT OF A THIEF (@gracedli 👀) and THE BANDIT QUEENS. Give me a doomed, impossible love story...

Extremely niche #MSWL: a supernatural deep sea horror about the 'Julia' sound, iykyk

if anyone happens to have one of those exact projects filed away in a drawer somewhere 😆 please send it my way! submission guidelines are in my pinned tweet

5. YA historical fiction about teens involved in labor activism movements (like a fictionalized eliseo medina in the delano grape strike)

4. books about the dynamics of friendship groups—I’d love something YA or MG with the feel of NOW & THEN, but more diverse (Celia Pérez’ STRANGE BIRDS does this really well, eg)

3. tear-jerkers! I don’t love when trauma is deployed gratuitously (i hated that one aesthetics-of-🏳️‍🌈-suffering adult novel ppl argue about 👀), but that doesn’t mean I’m anti issues books! craving a hefty drama like ALL MY RAGE/WE DESERVE MONUMENTS/THE ASTONISHING COLOR OF AFTER

2. something like SLIDING DOORS but funny! (or perhaps what i’m wishing for is a YA or MG EEAAO). the two roads/what if thing is usually deployed in the context of loss or tragedy, but I’d devour a story where someone’s universe is split over something absurd

1. girls and nb folx who skate! does anyone else miss BETTY on hbo? I was gutted when it was canceled and keep thinking I’d love a bipoc YA or upper MG BETTY, a book about the challenges of hanging at the skate park as not-a-cis-guy 🛹

apparently it’s #mswl day! you can find my (too long and overly detailed) MSWL profile at the link below, but I thought in honor of the day, I’d do a list of five very specific things I’d love to work on…

manuscriptwishlist.com/mswl-post/alex…

It's #mswl day!

I've been at @groveatlantic for nearly 10 months (😱) and I've been lucky to acquire some dream projects... but I'm not done!

I'm still looking for crime fiction/thrillers from authors looking to write a book every year(ish).

🔗manuscriptwishlist.com/mswl-post/joe-…