Cheryl B. Klein
@chavelaque
Editor
Editorial director, Algonquin Young Readers; author of THE MAGIC WORDS, HAMSTERS MAKE TERRIBLE ROOMMATES, & more; toddler mom. Opinions my own. She/her. #BLM
47 MSWL
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Feather Flores
@featherfully
Editor
editor & maker of good trouble at Atheneum (@SimonKids / @SimonTeen ) • @diversebooks alum • #LatinxinPub • still workin’ on it 🌱🌈✨ art by @cisforfrenchfry
38 MSWL

Sarah Nicolas aka Sarah N Fisk @Sarah_Nicolas

PW really said "we don't want poors in our romance kthx" twitter.com/SoniaHartl1/st…

Hey so, good opportunity to make it EXPLICITLY CLEAR that romances depicting non-wealthy (or even middle class) experiences are very important to me!!!

This is true in all genres, but romance gets a special call-out bc um, poor folks deserve swoony love stories too? Obv??
#MSWL

Allison Moore
@allisonm610
Editor
YA & Romance editor at ByteDance / 8th Note Press | indie bookstorephile | #goBU
51 MSWL
Kristin Temple
@_kristintemple
Editor
Associate EdiTOR @TorNightfire . Chaotic neutral, horror fan, Broadway lover, and "little bisexual gremlin". Opinions my own. she/her. 💖💜💙
57 MSWL

Look y’all know I’m hungry for more deep sea horror, so sorry to these men, but uh #MSWL

Jenni Hill
@Jenni_Hill
Editor
Editorial Director @orbitbooks (acquiring) sci-fi and fantasy novels. 🏳️‍🌈 Geek. Chaotic Good. Bi-Furious. LARP fan. Views all mine. she/they nonbinary
21 MSWL

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

Jenni Hill
@Jenni_Hill
Editor
Editorial Director @orbitbooks (acquiring) sci-fi and fantasy novels. 🏳️‍🌈 Geek. Chaotic Good. Bi-Furious. LARP fan. Views all mine. she/they nonbinary
21 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

Jenni Hill
@Jenni_Hill
Editor
Editorial Director @orbitbooks (acquiring) sci-fi and fantasy novels. 🏳️‍🌈 Geek. Chaotic Good. Bi-Furious. LARP fan. Views all mine. she/they nonbinary
21 MSWL

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

Jenni Hill
@Jenni_Hill
Editor
Editorial Director @orbitbooks (acquiring) sci-fi and fantasy novels. 🏳️‍🌈 Geek. Chaotic Good. Bi-Furious. LARP fan. Views all mine. she/they nonbinary
21 MSWL

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

Jenni Hill
@Jenni_Hill
Editor
Editorial Director @orbitbooks (acquiring) sci-fi and fantasy novels. 🏳️‍🌈 Geek. Chaotic Good. Bi-Furious. LARP fan. Views all mine. she/they nonbinary
21 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

Jenni Hill
@Jenni_Hill
Editor
Editorial Director @orbitbooks (acquiring) sci-fi and fantasy novels. 🏳️‍🌈 Geek. Chaotic Good. Bi-Furious. LARP fan. Views all mine. she/they nonbinary
21 MSWL

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

Jenni Hill
@Jenni_Hill
Editor
Editorial Director @orbitbooks (acquiring) sci-fi and fantasy novels. 🏳️‍🌈 Geek. Chaotic Good. Bi-Furious. LARP fan. Views all mine. she/they nonbinary
21 MSWL

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

Jenni Hill
@Jenni_Hill
Editor
Editorial Director @orbitbooks (acquiring) sci-fi and fantasy novels. 🏳️‍🌈 Geek. Chaotic Good. Bi-Furious. LARP fan. Views all mine. she/they nonbinary
21 MSWL

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

Jenni Hill
@Jenni_Hill
Editor
Editorial Director @orbitbooks (acquiring) sci-fi and fantasy novels. 🏳️‍🌈 Geek. Chaotic Good. Bi-Furious. LARP fan. Views all mine. she/they nonbinary
21 MSWL

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

Jenni Hill
@Jenni_Hill
Editor
Editorial Director @orbitbooks (acquiring) sci-fi and fantasy novels. 🏳️‍🌈 Geek. Chaotic Good. Bi-Furious. LARP fan. Views all mine. she/they nonbinary
21 MSWL

“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

Nadia El-Fassi
@chronicles_of_n
Editor
SFF Commissioning Editor @orbitbooks . Fantasy and rom-com author. Powerlifter. MA in Poetry. Muslim. Bi 🏳️‍🌈. She/they. Views my own. 🇲🇦/ 🇦🇺
70 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

Jess Harold
@jessharold
Editor
Editor | Holt BYR | she/her | @POCPub | bi | cancer sun | views are my own | no DMs
7 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

Feather Flores
@featherfully
Editor
editor & maker of good trouble at Atheneum (@SimonKids / @SimonTeen ) • @diversebooks alum • #LatinxinPub • still workin’ on it 🌱🌈✨ art by @cisforfrenchfry
38 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! 💕✨

Feather Flores
@featherfully
Editor
editor & maker of good trouble at Atheneum (@SimonKids / @SimonTeen ) • @diversebooks alum • #LatinxinPub • still workin’ on it 🌱🌈✨ art by @cisforfrenchfry
38 MSWL

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!

Feather Flores
@featherfully
Editor
editor & maker of good trouble at Atheneum (@SimonKids / @SimonTeen ) • @diversebooks alum • #LatinxinPub • still workin’ on it 🌱🌈✨ art by @cisforfrenchfry
38 MSWL

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!

Feather Flores
@featherfully
Editor
editor & maker of good trouble at Atheneum (@SimonKids / @SimonTeen ) • @diversebooks alum • #LatinxinPub • still workin’ on it 🌱🌈✨ art by @cisforfrenchfry
38 MSWL

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.