Oh hey there, popping on here to say I have recently updated my #MSWL , details below! #Amquerying writers please send me your SFF and romance, and kids' books from PBs up to YA in any genre (but anything magical is a bonus!)
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"Upmarket fiction that explores issues we tend to minimize or ignore as a society." @claire_m_harris #MSWL
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“Would love to read MG fantasy novels comparable to The Girl Who Drank the Moon by Kelly Barnhill or When You Trap a Tiger by Tae Keller.” @agentvicente #MSWL
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not a week goes by that I don’t think about this painting. the human feet. the shawl. the smoke rising from the chimney. the crevice in the tree. the way the grass looks like waves I can almost hear it. whatever this kind of horror is, I want it #MSWL

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

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🚨 Alice is caught up on queries and will be closing for the summer on 13th July. She's looking for YA romantasy, contemporary romance and comedies, MG comedies and adventure, teen, and YA and MG graphic novels, plus select adult romance.

QueryManager.com/aliceashliteraashliterary

#mswl

thinking of how stephen graham jones wrote about the beauty and motion in basketball (with heightened stakes around a game of pick up) and how much i wanted to keep reading those moments of the only good indians....hELLO!!!!!! #MSWL

it’s so nice when your colleagues really Get You

(also #mswl forever and always obviously)

"I'm looking for cozy mysteries with younger protagonists, geared towards millennial audiences. I'd love to see a wider range of settings and premises for series, so if you have something that's unique, send it over!" @claire_m_harris #MSWL
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If your MS can be described as "stabby feminist" I absolutely want to see it 👀❤️ #MSWL

In the words of my publishing forebears, SOME NEWS.

Absolutely thrilled to have joined @AevitasUK as an agent! #amquerying writers, you can find my #MSWL and submit to me here: QueryManager.com/2979

This is oddly specific, but if you have a dark novel about the child of a parent who is a social media influencer (whether adult or YA) I’d love to see it! #MSWL

"Literary fiction with splashes of time travel, secret societies, cults, and the apocalypse? Yes. Please."
@ericsmithrocks #MSWL
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"Nonfiction proposals with an intersectional feminist angle immediately catch my attention. A few issues I'd like to see examined: occupational segregation, equal pay, and emotional labor."
@ceciliaclyra #MSWL
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I’m feeling really great about where I’m at with my QM, so I decided to reopen just for a tiny bit before summer. I’ll post a more detailed #MSWL later today but I’ve reopened to Adult, which I haven’t done for a while, and I’m still extremely interested in MG.

(My website still says closed but I’m driving all day and can’t change it until later. QM genres are open.)

For more details, specifics, & fave comps, check out my full MSWL. If you know my taste, much of this will be familiar—but hopefully still exciting. 😉 Agents, I’m always happy to catch-up and chat if it’s been awhile—or for the first time!

And now, on to year two! 💕✨

THEMES:
• Queer joy, in everything!
• Travel stories with protagonists of color!
• Warm, supportive communities! Found families! Ensemble casts!
• Belonging! Being in-between!
• Comfort! Agency! Radical empowement!
• Low-stakes! Slice-of-life!
• Science! Nature! Biology!

GENRES (2/2):
I want to see even more:
• Fantasy/sci-fi/speculative! (Yes, the whole spectrum, from magical realism to epic/high/hard)
• Myth/folklore!
• (Queer) romance!
• Mystery!
• Historical!

GENRES (1/2):
I approach genre as a tool for positioning & a context that authors are in conversation with. I love stories that blend, complicate, or reimagine the boundaries of their genre(s)!

But I’m usually NOT the best fit for dystopian, horror, or thrillers/pure suspense.

FORMATS:
I just did the deal for books 12 & 13 in my first 12 months as an S&S editor (🎉)—and many of them are picture books! (My first & forever love.)

So this year, I’m especially eager to acquire more MG and YA: novels/verse, graphics, nonfiction.