absolutely yes, always on my #mswl

Help me ignore the news! #amquerying writers, I'm on the hunt for some proper page turners across genres, but particularly fresh thrillers/suspense - it is spooky season after all... #MSWL

I’m open to ANY book written for a child reader, fiction or non-fiction, any age group - and my tastes will always lean towards the loud, the commercial, and the zeitgeisty. If you’re saying something new, I want to help you say it louder!

As always, across everywhere in my list I’m particularly prioritising and actively looking for creators who identify as underrepresented in publishing. My list is extremely commercial and I want to prove that these voices aren’t niche - they’re commercial too.

I’m really not taking on many picture books at the moment, but if I were to go for something, I’d want it to have a clear hook and also answer a need - a lovely story just isn’t enough for me right now.

For younger readers, I want clever, funny and an immediate hook. I’m particularly interested in author/illustrators and graphic novel creators for this area, but I’d love to see them in other spaces too!

In MG, I’m all about the big, ambitious and cinematic. Send me the next Skandar or Amari!

In YA, I’d love a high-concept romance - think They Both Die at the End or a YA One Day.

casual #mswl I'm just saying !!!

#MSWL please!! I’m on such a horror kick and would love to see these in my inbox (and if I have yours already, feel free to let me know)

#MSWL

✨Diverse, inclusive adult literary
✨Literary fiction with speculative elements
✨Upmarket/literary fantasy in the vein of Alix Harrow, V.E. Schwab, or Carlos Ruiz Zafón that explores folklores or mythologies.
Bonus points for stories rooted in multi-generational secrets
#MSWL

✨Latine/x voices in sci-fi, fantasy, and horror
✨Marginalized and underrepresented voices in contemporary YA
✨Adult literary fiction steeped in post colonial cultural identity with a touch of the inexplicable
✨BIPOC Mystery with speculative or fantasy elements.
#MSWL

✨Magical libraries, magical bookstores, magical book stalls w/ back alley portals to magical worlds. You get the picture.
✨NEVERWHERE or THE CITY WE BECAME set in Boston, where setting is like a character.
✨Original takes on generation ship stories #MSWL

✨Anything that comps Claire North.
✨Fabulist urban spec fic like China Miéville.
✨Africanfuturist SFF that comps Nnedi Okorafor.
✨Fantasy-mystery genre mashups like MAGIC FOR LOVERS or RIVERS OF LONDON #MSWL

✨Fantasy that blows me away with a brand new, entirely unique magic system.
✨Magical martial arts schools.
✨Alt-period historical fantasy from non-western cultures. #MSWL

✨Asian and Asian-American voices in sci-fi, fantasy, and horror
✨Magical HBCUs is an evergreen #MSWL for me.
✨Anything that comps THE MURDERBOT DIARIES by Martha Wells.

✨Period alt-London fantasy that comps Peaky Blinders, Harlots, Carnival Row, PRIEST OF BONES by Peter McLean, or The Nevers.
✨Music-based magic
✨Fantasy with cultural roots like MOON WITCH, SPIDER KING by Marlon James. #MSWL

✨#MSWL for trans voices in that comp @ryka_aoki's The Light from Uncommon Stars. I'm blown away not just by the voice, but by the originality of the story, the heart, the narrative scope. It's breathtaking. We need more trans joy in SFF. Send them my way.

✨Contemporary fantasy steeped in a music scene set during the Motown era or the golden age of Rap with a touch of magic. #BVM
✨LGBTQIA+ voices in sci-fi, fantasy, and horror
✨Spirited Away and everything Studio Ghibli are evergreen #MSWL comps for me.