and it's live: querymanager.com/query/DAnnWill…

#MSWL is in the quote tweet

And for those wondering, there is a separate place to list your content warnings (CW) after you upload your query and pages. I look forward to seeing your submissions!

Hiii Writers!! 🥳

I am closing to YA and Adult Sci-fi for the rest of 2021!

I’ll open back up to sci-fi on January 1st! Thank you for your understanding! 😬

My updated #MSWL is here: analiezecervantes.com/authorrepresen… & manuscriptwishlist.com/mswl-post/anal… 😊

#writingcommunity #amagenting

Listening to Gaby Dunn’s podcast on dress codes with @amandamull & Rich Ford & now I desperately need a book on dress codes. #mswl

#MSWL FOR THE LOVE OF GOD

And that's it for my #MSWL right now! I look forward to being inundated with your queries come the 15th. 🥰

All queries will go through Query Manager (remember CWs, please!)
QueryManager.com/DAnnWilliams

MG/YA #MSWL cont:
Nos:
🚫 Big cities that are not diverse
🚫 Burying the gays
🚫 Spec based on colonialism or imperialism
🚫 not super partial to contemporary sports settings but twists can help (thrillers, etc.)

MG/YA #MSWL cont:
☑️ Queer ballet (if you caught #QueertheBallet's ANIMALS & ANGELS last month, I WANT THEIR STORY!!)
☑️ Found families
☑️ Stories where race, gender, sexuality aren't the center. They can just be bad-ass characters!

MG/YA #MSWL
Wants:
☑️ Horror (darker the better but keep it in the age category)
☑️ Rom-coms with a hook
☑️ Spec (especially afro-futurism & magical realism variety)
☑️ Mysteries (gimme the new Westing Game!!!)
☑️ Historicals with a twist (spec, queer, mystery, etc.)

Picture Books #MSWL

Wants:
☑️ STEM-based
☑️ break down gender stereotypes
☑️ variety of family structures

Nos:
🚫 Sports
🚫 Anthropomorphism (objects/animals)
🚫 Issue books, saviorism, or "inspirational" (written to center the dominant narrative of "overcoming" an identity

All-Age Category #MSWL wants
☑️ BIPOC
☑️ Queer/Trans
☑️ ND
☑️ Disability
☑️ Religions & spiritual beliefs that are underrepresented in publishing
☑️ Intersectionality

Basically: The world we live in is diverse. Books written for kids in the 21st century should reflect that.

Buckle up, friends! It's time for my #MSWL thread. Some basic facts:

Opening: August 15
Repping: PB, MG, YA
Mentored/Co-repped by: @MandyHubbard and @LindaEpstein (get two agents in 1!!)
Query: QueryManager.com/DAnnWilliams (please add CW to your query)

MSWL below 👇🏾

“Actively seeking fun / funny gift books, especially with a lifestyle twist to them. Open to a really wide range of topics on this one, so be creative!” @claire_m_harris #MSWL psliterary.com/submissions/

#mswl medieval fantasy with the green knight energy, i.e. the true spirit of the source texts: effortlessly weird, dazzling and grand in its sensory language, horny as shit.

#MSWL I WANT a hot regency romance like BRIDGERTON but with supernatural elements. ADULT only pls. 50-75K. #MSWL QueryManager.com/LisaGreenQueri…

Just finished reading Lizzy Dent's debut THE SUMMER JOB. Loved the read! Great combo of summer fun, romance and comedy, but also warm and well developed characters. #Writers, send me manuscripts like this! #mswl #amquerying #literaryagent

“Queer rom coms that represent not just the L and the G in LGBTQQIP2SAA.” @readbystephanie #MSWL psliterary.com/submissions/

#MSWL #CliFi

I’d like to read a YA that has the *vibes* of RESERVATION DOGS on Hulu #MSWL

apnews.com/article/entert…

2/...they are also big time copaganda. If you are writing crime stories that will appeal to my sense of nostalgia AND have progressive politics, I want to see them Very Much! #MSWL

If it does exist—please send me a book that is CHUCK meets JANE THE VIRGIN. That would be wonderful!!

I’ve been binge watching Chuck and I’d love to see a book version with telenovela elements mixed in there. Crime, intersect, & messy love 🥰

Please and thank you👀 #MSWL