Editors' MSWL | MsWishList

· 7 Jan 2019

(Agent novel and nonfic #mswl continued)
-Stories that show what it is to be part of multiple communities, (bonus pts for dating misadventures)
-a coming of age memoir that reads like Sarah Dessen, Jenny Han, or Nina LaCour (2/3)

· 7 Jan 2019

Agent friends, my #mswl is overflowing! Please think of me in 2019 for exciting new:
-memoirs that bring to mind a YA Educated—delving deep into an author’s journey through and/or out of an insular community
-illustrated or graphic novel middle grade nonfiction or memoir (1/3)

· 7 Jan 2019

Two #MSWL thoughts from over the weekend: I'd love to see the joy & playfulness & heart & smarts of shows like Jane the Virgin and The Good Place captured in book form for MG and/or YA.

MG
YA

· 4 Jan 2019

Starting 2019 with this #MSWL: I will drop everything to read a fresh, inclusive Urban Fantasy! Give me a city with magic woven into each building and street!

· 4 Jan 2019

Danielle Burby @DanielleBurby

What I absolutely love about this trend of Tidying Up, Queer Eye, and Great British Bake Off is that it moves us away from cynicism and cutting people down into a mode of kindness, support, and lifting each other up. So so much more of this moving forward please.

This is a big #MSWL mood for me in 2019! Let’s have some warmth, hope, and good genuine fun.

· 3 Jan 2019

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 shit

I LOVE implicating the reader in the story. Fuck ‘em up, writers, give readers no choice but to FEEL THINGS. #MSWL

· 3 Jan 2019

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. ❤️❤️❤️ #MSWL

One last #MSWL thought: a modern-day Amélie. Here's hoping, universe! 🌹

· 3 Jan 2019

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 shit

I LOVE books like this. #mswl

· 3 Jan 2019

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. ❤️❤️❤️ #MSWL

Romance

· 3 Jan 2019

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. 🖊️🖊️🖊️

· 2 Jan 2019

If you've resolved to write a book in the new year, I'd love to see it. Here's what I'm looking for:

Inspirational romantic suspense 55K words. High danger and drama. Sweet and satisfying romance. Low sensuality. Intriguing hooks and secrets.

#MSWL

· 2 Jan 2019

New year, new (evergreen) #MSWL:
Smash the patriarchy.

Give me men who are gentle, with soft, artistic souls & loved ones to care for

Give me women who are ruthless & sharp-edged w/o being ground to dust for it

Give me NB heroes who are any & all of these, who live their truth

· 29 Dec 2018

ZR/Zabé Ellor @ZREllor

I just learned The Great Gatsby enters the public domain in 2021 and I better see a million queer Gatsby retellings that year

#mswl 👀👀👀🍸

· 27 Dec 2018

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.