Speculative fiction that explores the horror of being oppressed and allows marginalized people to reclaim power by any means necessary and without apology is a perennial #mswl item for me, and @lmpnk and @codiecrowley were really like “we got u”

Agents: on my #MSWL I’m looking for YA fiction centering the Stonewall Riots and trans POV. Email me!

Not that I work on graphic novels or crime fiction much, BUT.... someone clearly needs to write a novel about a crime scene cleaner who cracks cases and rises to influencer fame! #mswl

I keep describing my taste to agents as "weirdo books" but I think it's just mess I'm drawn toward.

GIVE ME MORE MESSY CHARACTERS. Your chaotic, confused, careless teens who are flailing around and causing all sorts of problems as they try to get their shit together. #MSWL

#MSWL Seeking book proposals: Exciting & original #nonfiction books for kids and teens, especially written by experts in the field. Topics within #SEL #selfhelp #health #mentalhealth #wellness #lifeskills 🧠❤️🧘📚 Submit: freespiritpublishing.submittable.com/submit/134906/… #callforsubmissions

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)