While using this gif may be wishful thinking, more polyam characters please #mswl

Botanypunk and/or space botany. Plants are weird little guys and so should be the people using them to keep us alive in space #mswl #justafungi

on that subject, if the chain of command, a warrior's code or fealty is the reasons for repressing said feelings, I am even more there for it... #mswl

good or morally complex leaders making tough decisions in crises they did not make #mswl

Sex positive depictions of sex workers and/or the kind of soft power that women have often relied on in male dominated spaces #mswl

Soldier pairings. From the Sacred Band of Thebes to necromancer/cavalier partnerships. GIVE ME AN ARMY OF LOVERS said Phaedrus.

UNHEALTHY DYNAMICS. Seriously. Whatever romance Killing Eve, Hannibal and Interview with the Vampire had going on. #mswl

The fae being genuinely, terrifyingly fae. Bonus points for anything that would be soundtracked by Hozier or Florence #mswl

neurodivergent experiences – hard relate to Data and Murderbot but also more neurodivergent humans please? #mswl #ownvoices

“It is better to be a warrior in a garden than a gardener in a war.”

okay sure but for fiction I’ll take both, please.🌱

(They might be in love now. No take backs.)

#mswl

not a week goes by that I don’t think about this painting. the human feet. the shawl. the smoke rising from the chimney. the crevice in the tree. the way the grass looks like waves I can almost hear it. whatever this kind of horror is, I want it #MSWL

thinking of how stephen graham jones wrote about the beauty and motion in basketball (with heightened stakes around a game of pick up) and how much i wanted to keep reading those moments of the only good indians....hELLO!!!!!! #MSWL

For more details, specifics, & fave comps, check out my full MSWL. If you know my taste, much of this will be familiar—but hopefully still exciting. 😉 Agents, I’m always happy to catch-up and chat if it’s been awhile—or for the first time!

And now, on to year two! 💕✨

THEMES:
• Queer joy, in everything!
• Travel stories with protagonists of color!
• Warm, supportive communities! Found families! Ensemble casts!
• Belonging! Being in-between!
• Comfort! Agency! Radical empowement!
• Low-stakes! Slice-of-life!
• Science! Nature! Biology!

GENRES (2/2):
I want to see even more:
• Fantasy/sci-fi/speculative! (Yes, the whole spectrum, from magical realism to epic/high/hard)
• Myth/folklore!
• (Queer) romance!
• Mystery!
• Historical!

GENRES (1/2):
I approach genre as a tool for positioning & a context that authors are in conversation with. I love stories that blend, complicate, or reimagine the boundaries of their genre(s)!

But I’m usually NOT the best fit for dystopian, horror, or thrillers/pure suspense.

FORMATS:
I just did the deal for books 12 & 13 in my first 12 months as an S&S editor (🎉)—and many of them are picture books! (My first & forever love.)

So this year, I’m especially eager to acquire more MG and YA: novels/verse, graphics, nonfiction.

Literary agents! Who has an #Olympics romance or romcom to sell me for publication in summer '24?? 👀🥰 #MSWL #sportsromance #amediting
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