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Sarah Barley @the_SDB
Also, this is the first time I've articulated this, but one of my favorite books—and movies—is Call Me By Your Name. (Rereading the book last year was one of my greatest joys of 2018.) Boy, what I would give to find a coming-of-age and romance with that same pull. ❤️❤️❤️ #MSWLOne last #MSWL thought: a modern-day Amélie. Here's hoping, universe! 🌹
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lenee h.🌙 🌟 @leneeh4
I wanna bring back all knowing narrative voices bc I love how extra it is. It's like the book was specifically being written for you and the person telling the story feels like a character too. When the reader is addressed I just love that shitI LOVE books like this. #mswl
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Sarah Barley @the_SDB
But also, I am still so hungry to find terrific, hooky, voice-driven contemporary/realistic. Am especially hungry from those told from POVs I don't already intimately know already. I want to be surprised!And please, my greatest and most everlasting and true #MSWL is to find an epistolary novel in the tradition (or not? — surprise me!) of I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith (my favorite book of all time) or the Montmaray Journals by Michelle Cooper. 🖊️🖊️🖊️
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Molly O'Neill @molly_oneill
The bravest books about faith IMHO don't demand a certain response or conclusion from their readers, but instead give *the very questions themselves* to teens, then honor/respect the ways in which young people grapple/wrestle/engage with them & make space for answers that emerge.YA about religion and faith is on my permanent #mswl because faith and growing up are both about Big Questions—finding them, answering them (or not), and living anyway.
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Nicole Cliffe @Nicole_Cliffe
I know MI-5 has an age limit but I honestly think the invisibility of women as they age would be perfect for assassination work#MSWL, especially if it was literary and wry and examined myths about women aging.
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Tran Nguyen @my_name_is_tran
Recent work I did for @SubPress's limited edition release of "Kushiel's Chosen." #trannguyen #mynameistran pic.twitter.com/7cU7TWTuHHJust a regular #mswl check in. Has anyone written me a book I can put a Tran Nguyen cover on yet? Agents? Got something for me?
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Matthew A. Cherry @MatthewACherry
Imagine A League Of Their Own sequel that starts with the scene of the black woman throwing the ball back from the stands and you stay with her and it becomes a biopic on the 3 black women that played in the Negro Leagues (Toni Stone, Mami "Peanut" Johnson & Connie Morgan). pic.twitter.com/iFkKMo17enI want this book. #mswl
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Saba Sulaiman @agentsaba
I LIVE FOR ALL OF THIS 🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽 #MSWL pic.twitter.com/4zBVJxMJgaThis, in realistic (or realistic with a twist) YA/MG! Also, repeating #mswl for murky "would you really make the right choice?" stories a la Passengers
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Carina Press @CarinaPress
Attention writers! @carrielofty is looking to acquire realistic polyamory romances: stories that explore the complexities of love between more than two people. Find more details and submission guidelines here ► bit.ly/2RQykgu#AmWriting #CarinaWants pic.twitter.com/RaotFRaMe9
I love the picture @CarinaPress used for this!! #mswl #acquiring
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Donald Maass @DonMaass
We in the writing biz should note the passing of Evelyn Berezin, creator of the first word processing machine—and much else. Appreciate her at your next keyboard session...Evelyn Berezin, 93, Dies; Built the First True Word Processor nyti.ms/2GjUypY?smid=n…
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Grace Kendall @GraceKendallLit
It's the holiday season, so I'll put a #MSWL out into the world: I'd love to have a new #DearGenius out in the market BUT written by one of our great editors of color. A memoir, a how-to, a narrative guide to succeeding in this business from a POV beyond the white center. (1/2)Every year I give my assistant and/or interns a copy of Dear Genius. Instead, it would be awesome to give them a classic, informed tome to help guide them through this business in ways that I never will be able to personally.
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It's the holiday season, so I'll put a #MSWL out into the world: I'd love to have a new #DearGenius out in the market BUT written by one of our great editors of color. A memoir, a how-to, a narrative guide to succeeding in this business from a POV beyond the white center. (1/2)