✨ATTN COMICS WRITERS ✨

Hey y’all! I’m looking for #comics #writers and #illustrators with a penchant for nonfiction writing for a great, new #graphicnovel, #middlegrade series. If you feel this is you, let’s chat. My DMs are open. Oh, and please boost!

#MSWL A YA or MG novel comping #DeadbyDaylight that is still totally character-driven and emotional.

Annual #MSWL reminder, I’m looking for:

Kid-lit stories that celebrate neurodiversity, from authors who are neurodivergent. MG + YA!

Novels and memoirs about the adoptee experience, written by adoptees.

Is that you? Query me! ericsmithrocks.com/mswl

#MSWL Alert: I'd love to see a #MG or #YA with a #climate or #environmental theme, speculative/near-future or contemporary. Bonus if it's #ownvoices from a writer of color or about an under-served community!

Would love a spooky/funny middle-grade ghost story. Or a terrifying one for YA. #mswl #ya #mg

I'm closing to queries soon for a bit to catch up on subs.

Before I do, I'd love to see some literary-leaning horror (MG, YA, adult) in my inbox. Atmospheric horror, body horror, campy horror, autumnal horror, emotional horror—all of it.

#MSWL #amwriting #writingcommunity

Agents, I am actively acquiring MG, YA, GN, and the occasional PB. Commercial-Literary. Immigrant, LBGTQIA+, BIPOC voices. Speculative fiction, horror, fantasy, contemporary. Big fan of underdogs, flawed characters, impossible situations. #mswl #ya #mg #pb #gn

Agents, I am actively acquiring MG, YA, GN, and the occasional PB. Commercial-Literary. Immigrant, LBGTQIA+, POC voices. Speculative fiction, horror, fantasy, contemporary. Big fan of underdogs, flawed characters, impossible situations. Specifics to come. #mswl #ya #mg #pb #gn

#MSWL Amish Romance, Cozy Mysteries, RomCom, Historical Mysteries and Romances, Suspense, Inspirational Romance, Mysteries, Romantic Suspense, Middle Grade Mysteries, and Graphic Novels for adults and Middle Grade. blueridgeagency.com

The Babysitters Club is making me crave cute contemporary MG. Anyone have a MS or GN about friendships or first crushes? #mswl

I'd love to see a MG or YA non-fic graphic novel. Especially something from an author from an underrepresented community. #mswl #illustrator's if you are interested, please reach out!

I'm all caught up on queries. 🎉 If you haven't heard back, your query is in the maybe pile. & I have six full manuscripts to read, which I'll be doing very soon.

Also, y'all have been crushing my recent request for more MG. Please keep 'em comin'.

#amquerying #querytip #MSWL

Agent friends, I've been hungry for a smart, incisive, fresh retelling--think A STUDY IN CHARLOTTE. If you've got something like that in YA or MG, send it my way! #MSWL

Just went down a musical journey that went from Hamilton > Chris Jackson could get it > Moana and now I have a ?.

Are there any #ownvoices MG fantasy/adventure novels out there inspired by any indigenous cultures of Oceania? If so, gimme recs! If not, agents, this is #mswl!

I am REALLY hungry and I mean bottomless appetite for some great fantasy inspired by underrepresented cultural lore (YA and MG). Look over your manuscripts. Tell your friends. Tell your family. Because I’m pulling a Kirby for these manuscripts.

Query me!

If you’re feeling hesitant about querying, go head and hesitate… and then query.

--> ktliterary.com/submissions

#ownvoices #adaptthefeed #amquerying #askagent #writetip #pubtip #querytip #YA #middlegrade #writingcommunity #writerslift #weneeddiversebooks #slushworks #amwriting

Inconveniently Specific Wish List 2: Electric Boogaloo

− Narrator like Darius (Atlanta); Cherise (High Fidelity)

− Clever comedy, dialogue like Martin McDonagh; Aaron McGruder

− (Alondra Nelson) Afrofuturism

− Caribbean MG

− Something Guy Ritchie would probably direct

Manuscript Wish List #mswl

- All of the YA and MG fiction. All of it. Novels-in-verse and graphic novels included.

I'd really love to see more MG, more queer rom coms, more contemporary fantasy or contemporary with spec elements.

It's been harder for me to get sucked into higher fantasy.

#MSWL

This is general, but I want some laugh out loud middle grade #MSWL