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Foyinsi @OyinAtiOmi
Okay hear me out....YA novel w/ MC who somehow meets the FBI agent (or whatever group) assigned to monitor/watch MC (like how we all have one) and hilarity ensues. Agent is just trying to be helpful (like whenever MC is looking for something) and MC just so annoyed? #MSWLMC talking to themself or someone else: I’d really love to get ____
Agent: *helpfully sends links to sites that sell it*
MC: LEAVE. ME. ALONE. ALEX. Or I’ll expose you!
Agent: I’m just trying to help 🥺🥺
Genuine friendship eventually ensues. They meet in person someday #MSWL
Editor
Graphic & hybrid novels & series are welcome too! Some examples there from my past titles would be DORK DIARIES and THE OKAY WITCH. Quintessential MG stories about finding your way through the labyrinth of family, school, & friendship twists and turns.
Literary Agent
I really want some relatable women’s fiction about millennials finding their way in the world, taking the wrong paths and learning as they go. I want to see relationships tested —familial, friendships, romantic etc.
Literary Agency
We’re especially interested in novels about the dark side of friendship – e.g. SOCIAL CREATURE by Tara Isabella Burton or THE SECRET HISTORY for a new generation
Literary Agent
Just came out of a #SirensAtHome discussion about queer SFF, and I would love to see more queer spec fic where the main relationship is a friendship #MSWL
Literary Agent
Preslaysa says pre-order A Lowcountry Bride today! @preslaysawrites
If you can only keep three romance tropes, what would they be?#amreadingromance #readromance pic.twitter.com/TWZedj7tI4
MY TOP 3:
Friends to lovers 💕
There’s only one bed 😜😆
FAKE ENGAGEMENT 😍🤩😍
#mswl (when I reopen to queries)
(Romcom is not a trope)
Literary Agent
Jess Hernandez’s🦄 BOOK DROPS 1/1/21 @FinkHernandez
Thing I’d like to read: a gender flipped SANDLOT.Basically, a group of girls working together to reach a silly, low-stakes goal. Where they can enjoy friendship & childhood without having to smash the patriarchy or worry about boys or body image. A book abt girlhood joy.
Not gonna lie, I've had this #mswl for a while. Doesn't have to be baseball, but the feel. The nostalgia of just kids being kids!
Literary Agent
Since I'm opening back up for queries tomorrow, I thought I'd share some--not all--of my #MSWL must-haves.
1st up, I want a pair of witchy sisters or witchy friends with ancestral magic wrestling angry restless spirits in a dark setting, like a swampy, marshy woodland.
Editor
Hi all! I've been on the @pagestreetkids team for a while, most recently on the marketing/PR side, but I'm excited to announce I'm now a children's editor full time! Check out my brand new #MSWL here: manuscriptwishlist.com/mswl-post/kayl…
Literary Agent
I love novels that deal with female relationships. Think: best friends; mother-and-daughter(s); sisters (incl twins!); sisters-in-law; mother-in-law and daughter-in-law; and girlfriends. Bonus points above apply.
Editor
Hey agent friends! I've been really craving some more middle grade submissions in my inbox. I love stories that focus on friendship, family, and culture--regardless of genre--with an eye towards projects by authors from the margins. Please send me your MGs 🙏🏼 #mswl
Literary Agent
Countdown #MSWL Day 5:
Stories with quieter/more personal stakes are my jam. I'm a sucker for getting lost in a character as they try to figure things out with themselves or those around them.
Also if you have a friendship breakup story please send that my way!!!!
Amy Giuffrida OPENING TO QUERIES IN 1 DAY!! @kissedbyink
To end the countdown on the eve of reopening to queries...here are a few other things on my #MSWL1. YA and MG mystery. I’d especially love to see a gritty twist on The Hardy Boys or a group of friends in the vein of Scooby Doo.
Friends to enemies or enemies to friends where the two aren’t just fighting over some guy. Think Trinkets —which is so amazing and I need the new season now!
Literary Agent
I finished season two of Pen15 & I am shattered. I wouldn’t have gotten through middle school without my own ride-or-die, who is still my BFF today (check out these 7th grade math team nerds/soulmates). Please send me books about middle/HS friendships like Maya & Anna’s. #MSWL
Literary Agent
Mia Mingus @miamingus
Wish we embraced falling in friendship love and the magic of friendship love in general. It really is such a magnificent, kindred soul-shifting experience that can manifest in so many wonderfully different ways. It truly deserves its own genre of art, movies/TV, writing, music.This is a huge #MSWL for me!
If you have a book focused on friendship, whether it's the ride-or-die kind, the I'll fight to the ends of the earth for you kind, or the we grew up together and this is how we navigate change kind, send them to me when I reopen!
Literary Agent
I'll be offended if I don't get a queer romcom in my box when I reopen.
Even more so if it's best friends to lovers!!!
#MSWL
Literary Agent
I will add if any of these tweets strike your fancy and you do graphic novels, they apply there. Want to give me a Spice Girls friendship breakup book in graphic novels? Hell yes. Want to give me Anne and Gilbert in a graphic novel? Hell yes. #MSWL