Editors' MSWL | MsWishList

· 3 Dec 2017

Samantha Mash 🌲 @anamericanghost

Khutulun was the great-great-granddaughter of Genghis Khan. She was a strong fighter and insisted that any man who wished to marry her must defeat her in wrestling, but any man who she beat would have to give her a horse. She wound up with 10,000 horses. twitter.com/xnulz/status/9…

#MSWL

· 2 Dec 2017

Warsaw Suicide Pact @DOGGEAUX

zheng shi was a sex worker in Canton who was captured & wedded to a pirate lord and so quickly proved her ability to command that she took over and at one point commanded 300+ ships with 40,000 men and was so fearsome that she forced china and britain to let her peacefully retire twitter.com/xnulz/status/9…

Ooh, and this one too--YA version. (It seems I want some kind of pirate-themed YA...?) #mswl

YA

· 2 Dec 2017

Greg Jenner @greg_jenner

Jeanne de Clisson, murderous French aristocrat-turned-pirate who named her ship My Revenge after the French king executed her husband. She spent the next decade killing all the French crews she encountered, sparing only 1 sailor to relay her message of vengeance ☠️⚓️⚔️ twitter.com/xnulz/status/9…

Ummm, #mswl--the YA version pls.

YA

· 1 Dec 2017

nerd garbage pitches @NerdGarbageBot

I need you to picture if HP Lovecraft did a edutainment documentary, set on spaceships.

Um I am nerd garbage and this is #MSWL (but w a more inclusive, woke Lovecraft, pls)

· 30 Nov 2017

I really want to read/acquire YA and MG featuring Brazilian and/or bicultural characters (I am a teensy bit biased). Cadê os meus brasileiros?!
#LatinX #LatinXPublishing #MSWL

MG
YA

· 28 Nov 2017

Caraid @CaraidArt

"Initiate", personal work. Will always have a soft spot for big toothy dragons. pic.twitter.com/L1Arj0loj2

I love this; also, #MSWL

· 28 Nov 2017

Christine Lynn Herman🖤 @christineexists

concept: a contemp fantasy novel about a therapist who specializes in teens who had to save the world & don't know how to readjust to society

#YA #MSWL but less about the therapist and more about a teen goin through it

YA

· 19 Nov 2017

Dynasty, but YA #MSWL

YA

· 18 Nov 2017

Kay Taylor Rea @kaytaylorrea

stone cold slytherins who accidentally trip into love with hufflepuffs is basically my kryptonite

slytherin: I don’t do relationships or feelings or whatever

hufflepuff: ~exists~

slytherin: ~breaks into a cold sweat~ oh NO

Oh, hey. #MSWL

· 18 Nov 2017

Mike Rosenberg @ByRosenberg

This 10-year-old reporter is my new hero pic.twitter.com/Y8J1MDrJ0n

#mswl

· 18 Nov 2017

All I want to do is watch Cartoon Saloon movies for the rest of my life. In fact, anything with the same heart as The Secret of Kells or Song of the Sea is my eternal #MSWL