3. A dark academia gem because I will forever ❤️ a college/uni setting!

I’d love to see:

🏔️a thriller involving high altitude mountaineering
🌊a thriller set in the North Sea
🥀 dark academia story involving botany
🍄cottagecore and cottagegore stories

Would love to see more books with dark academia setting/ competitive high stakes, romance and/or magic woven into the plot

#mswl and even better if it’s dark academia (but please wait because I’m not open to queries yet 😭)

late night #mswl but things I would love to see more of in my inbox:

- speculative circuses and carnivals, esp with a historical/gothic thread
- *actual* dark academia, not just campus settings
- cowboys, esp if ft. gothic vibes
- cli-fi horror

thank youuuuuu 👻💕

Ultimately, if the vibes are dark academia, witchy, creepy forests, poisonous plants, gothic (whether horror or historical!), or anything with a charismatic leader and a cult, it’s right up my alley.

Just got off a marvelous phone call with an editor and we both realized: MY KINGDOM FOR A DARK ACADEMIA x HEIST or CON mash-up please #MSWL

dark academia with casual fantasy elements aka magic quills and self boiling pots and closets that pick your outfits.... yeah thats my shit #mswl

Just a few things that I would love to see more of in my query manager inbox:

-Dark academia stories 🎓📚
-Stories with glimmering ballrooms and beautiful dresses 💃🩰
-YA pirate adventures 🏴‍☠️⚔️
-Enemies to Lovers Romances ☠️💗

#MSWL #writingcommunity #amquerying #kidlit

#MSWL I've wanted this for a long time and I finally found the words to ask for it correctly:

Dark academia but replace "academia" with e-sports or TTRPG (or cosplay or con)

Yes, this will be on the mswl update I'm working on.

#MSWL an adult psychological horror novel that features dark academia or a secret society at a college

I’m particularly in the mood for astrology-inspired fantasy, courtly intrigue, a witchy romance, myth & fairytale retellings, sapphic romantasy, undercover assassins, life or death trials and anything dark academia...

4 - Queer fantasy, queer SF, queer dark academia, queer Gothic, queer roadtrips, queer retellings, queer… you get the gist.

A #mswl update since I’m still open to queries! Looking for martial arts fantasies with strong female leads that celebrate EA/culture. Non-western SFF inspired by mythologies. Dark fantasies with complex lore & unhinged characters. Colonizer bashing dark academia & historical fic

Gothics and dark academia!! Please!! Whether they’re speculative or not, whether they lean more into horror or into romance, I’m very flexible with these two subgenres and want to see them all.

In YA, Dark Academia with a haunting setting: creepy tunnels, secret societies, and characters with questionable motives/abilities 🏰

Rom Com's 💕 Slow burning romances. Bonus points if it's with an out of school setting

Fantasy 🪄 New spin on magic world and/or powers

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Happy #MSWL day! Here is a reminder to send me all of your adult modern gothic and dark academia submissions! Please! I want them!

Other random things I’m drawn to: academia (dark or light); sentient spaceships; a spiky heroine giving all the snark; stories within stories; enemies to lovers; magical libraries; heists; good old-fashioned yearning; multiverses; ethereal forests; dragons… #MSWL

Academia! Forgive me for desperately missing university, but I'm still looking for all of those old-book vibes. Dark academia historical mysteries; professor MC/love interests a la DANI BROWN; and an abundance of libraries!

Based on what I’ve been gravitating towards in queries, I’m adding to my #mswl :

-stories with seemingly mundane magic incorporated into our world
-stories about academia and graduate students (not dark academia, but either realistic or fluffy academia)