Literary Assistants' MSWL

· 27 Sep 2022

🥶 Thriller 🚪

I’m always looking for anything hooky within thriller for both adults and young adults. Locked room thrillers, like The Sanatorium and The Guest List, are especially welcome.

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Thriller

· 27 Sep 2022

🤔 Psychological Thriller 🧠

I’m looking for psychological thriller and domestic suspense which is twisty and has a unique hook. I love an unreliable narrator and the feeling of not knowing who to trust. Shock, surprise and confuse me in the best ways!

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· 27 Sep 2022

🏰 Historical Fiction/Saga 🛡

I prefer HF that is character-driven rather than action or ‘battlefield’ heavy and I have a particular penchant for WW2 historical fiction (think Markus Zusak and Heather Morris).

Morally grey, complex and flawed characters are a plus!

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Historical

· 27 Sep 2022

🦊 Cosy Crime 🕵️

I’d absolutely love cosy crime from *any* period, whether contemporary like Janice Hallett and Richard Osman, traditional Golden Age murder mystery, or historical crime. The more suspects and red herrings, the better!

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· 27 Sep 2022

✨ #MSWL ~ a thread ✨ I’ve updated my submissions wishlist! 🧞‍♂️

WRITERS, if you’re #amquerying commercial or bookclub fiction, I’d love to hear from you!!

THREAD below… 🧵

#amwriting

· 10 Sep 2022

Robbie Couch @robbie_couch

an anthology called GAY BEST FRIEND that centers queer sidekicks whose stories were far more interesting and deserving to be told than the straight leads who gobbled up the narrative

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LGBT

· 1 Sep 2022

Half-formed #MSWL thought: give me a novel or story collection that addresses the subculture of shitty Asian frat boys (who grow into shitty Asian finance bros) with both well-deserved derision but also a touch of empathy that acknowledges why and how they got to be like that

· 5 Jul 2022

Matt Bell @mdbell79

One of the side benefits of going to a state school is that you’ll probably never be tempted to write a whole insufferable novel about going there. It’s a real drawback of attending an Ivy.

Hi send me your campus novels set at mid-tier or otherwise decidedly non-elite institutions, thanks! Would also consider nonfiction taking a critical perspective on the value vs. real cost of prestige academia, for students and for society #MSWL

Nonfiction

· 22 Jun 2022

New #MSWL (mine) just dropped: manuscriptwishlist.com/mswl-post/roma… Special bonus feature: find out which musical always makes me cry!

· 19 Jun 2022

Roma Panganiban @romapancake

I have strong feelings about people who blithely sort coming of age novels about young people into YA or adult based on their narrow view of what constitutes "literary" writing, but that's a long-winded thread for another day. TL;DR: adults can have "coming of age" stories, too

Anyway if you're writing a coming of age (coming of self!) story about young protagonists or older protagonists, for young readers or older readers, that challenges traditional ideas of what "coming of age" means, who gets to do it, how, and when...send it to me #MSWL #AmAgenting

· 23 May 2022

Imogen West-Knights @ImogenWK

my little while ago friend and i made a list of all possible novel plots and it has kind of ruined reading for me. enjoy x pic.twitter.com/hJV7jpHhcX

#MSWL 21 and 32 ONLY (haha jk...unless?)

· 31 Mar 2022

Ben Mauk @benmauk

The publishing house story I want to read (write?) is a soup to nuts account of an NYRB release written like a bank heist -- finding the lost gem, securing the rights from the defunct Soviet publishing house, bringing in the grizzled translator for one last job etc

I cannot tag this hard enough #MSWL

Heist

· 7 Feb 2022

I am looking for hooky cosy crime and historical fiction set in/around WW2.

Morally grey, complex and flawed characters are a plus!

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· 24 Jan 2022

Just spent way too long engrossed in someone's 543-page dissertation on the purpose and prevalence of "like" across various national dialects of English, so this is now an official #MSWL call to any linguist whose work might interest the general public and not just nerds like me