Happy Tuesday! Here's your BookEnds #MSWL for today: "In YA & MG, Naomi is always on the hunt for strong fantasy with edgy themes and exciting, realistic voices . . . contemporary stories featuring powerful friendships. "
@NaomisLitPix
bookendsliterary.com/submissions/

A couple things that I am NOT the right agent for: prescriptive NF, memoir, thrillers about the CIA or the military, scifi and fantasy where all of the characters are very inhuman (think dragons or beetle aliens etc) and people with wings (I'm sorry, I just don't get it)

For my nonfiction #mswl, please see this thread: twitter.com/benglishhh/sta…

bog bodies, the age of sail, westerns (centering BIPOC and/or queer characters only please), stories about sports teams (that are maybe haunted??), gothic romances, medieval pilgrimages and any combination thereof!

Overall I'm looking for mysteries (cozy or not), adult and ya romcoms, fantasy, thriller, sci fi and horror, but here are a few concepts and ideas that I'm specifically interested in lately:

Very excited to announce that I'm reopening to fiction queries for the month of November! As always, I only use querymanager for submissions (link is here: QueryManager.com/1496) and all email submissions will be deleted without being read. A quick #mswl thread:

Quick #mswl: I love representing light-hearted history, and I don’t have any in my QueryManager.

Yummy! {#MSWL: any novels dealing with any form of gifting, here clairvoyance} // Some days ago, en route to a gala in Minneapolis, I had a lovely conversation with a Kenyan Lyft driver about auras, minds, and hearts, and those things which people cannot about themselves see.

Some weeks ago, I had the joy of traveling to the UK for the first time, the home of the Inklings (Tolkien, Lewis, and more), and sat it for a brief lecture with an old friend, (now Dr.) E. David, who writes on questions of religion. {#MSWL: any and all genie academic work!}

It's been a few years since I've been logged in, given so many a good change on the WEJ and JLA ends, but just wanted to give a shout-out: this one is open to queries! Send me goodies anytime! janczuklit.com // #MSWL: literary-commercial YA, adult; non-fiction; -p-books!

“I’m looking for genre-blending fiction... books that pull a bit of genre into the literary.” @ericsmithrocks #MSWL ericsmithrocks.com/mswl

Happy Halloween everyone and here's a little article I wrote for the History Channel on "A Brief History of Trick-or-Treating" #halloween2021 #Halloween #nfl #GameDay #TrickOrTreat #mswl #mswishlist #literaryagent lincolnslunch.blogspot.com

Picture book about this please. Or an epic MG adventure 👀 #mswl

“An upmarket fiction piece about a woman with a cool outdoorsy or animal-related job (think STEM).” @readbystephanie #MSWL psliterary.com/submissions/

Just a note that even when it's no longer Halloween time, I will still want to see witchy and spooky manuscripts in my inbox. My love for this doesn't last only for a season! #MG #YA #MSWL 🧙‍♀️🧹🪄🐈‍⬛👻🪦

Im seeing a lot of diverse voices and I hope they keep on coming!

Also murder girls. #askagent #mswl

Still awarding +10 cool points for certain submissions! Let's see what you've got #amquerying #mswl tinyfoxpress.com/submissions/

Literally the most fascinating of stories. Like how do I #MSWL this? The adventures of Boji, Istanbul’s traveling dog cnn.com/interactive/20…

Stories about people caught between two cultures/worlds/identities. #MSWL #WritingCommunity

“I love stories involving parentified children. I also love reading about characters who grow up navigating two opposite worlds (class, culture, etc.)” @ceciliaclyra #MSWL psliterary.com/submissions/