#MSWL | MsWishList

· Mar 14

Middle grade fiction: Horror, mystery, grounded stories with a speculative element, magical realism/fabulism, big-hearted contemporary, & adventure stories.

· Mar 14

Currently loving #Shrinking on @AppleTVPlus & would love to see a novel (either for adults or #yalit) that tackles hard life issues but with artful #humor in the way that this awesome show does. #mswl #amwriting #amreading #amquerying #writer #writing #books

· Mar 14

"Nonfiction I loved (from the past year or two): THE OPPOSITE OF SPOILED, CULTISH, MOTHERHOOD SO WHITE, STRANGE RITES, HOW TO DO NOTHING."
@carlywatters #MSWL

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Nonfiction

· Mar 14

I changed my Twitter name in the hopes my query box will magically fill up with MORE GAY BOOKS* #mswl 😜

LGBT

· Mar 14

Annie Pho (she/her) @catladylib

I recently learned that Scrub Daddies are a choice product for crime scene cleaners. I also recently learned there are crime scene cleaning influencers. This current era of social media is fascinating because everything is content™️.

Not that I work on graphic novels or crime fiction much, BUT.... someone clearly needs to write a novel about a crime scene cleaner who cracks cases and rises to influencer fame! #mswl

· Mar 14

Eli Erlick @EliErlick

1921: four trans activists stand outside Hirschfeld's Institute for Sexual Science, 12 years before Nazis stormed the facility and burned its books. The photo is among the most captivating I've colorized/restored from the pre-war era. More from @gwenners: ebar.com/story.php?ch=n… pic.twitter.com/qHKVVPbxw2

There’s a book here. #MSWL

· Mar 13

"Family stories are like catnip to me, whether family of origin, family of partnership, or found family."
@ceciliaclyra #MSWL

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Family

· Mar 12

“Looking for nonfiction proposals about pop culture, environmental science, social history, music journalism, and LGBTQ+ topics."
@agentvicente #MSWL

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· Mar 11

"I love page-turning thrillers, and want to work with people who want to build their careers around writing them. I'm really looking for a hook here. I would love to see a fresh take on the genre from a POV we haven't seen featured."
@adriamgoetz #MSWL

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Thriller

· Mar 11

philip lewis @Phil_Lewis_

A YouTube star who went viral as a toddler talks about the resentment she feels toward her parents, who told her she had to keep making videos so they could maintain their lifestyle

Influencer parents and the kids who had their childhood made into content teenvogue.com/story/influenc… pic.twitter.com/eb25nUT2EZ

#mswl

· Mar 11

Finally read @Blind_Nycteris' The Book Eaters and #MSWL 😭❤️‍🔥✨️💕

· Mar 10

#MSWL I had to return Leila La Brujita Perfecta to the library and now have a vacant hole for PB stories that bring on all the whimsy of Flavia Z. Drago's work.

If you're a BIPOC author/illustrator with a dummy or working on a dummy that can fill this, I want to hear from you!

· Mar 10

Here’s a Friday #mswl call-out for #history + #mystery! I love the #EnolaHolmes movies and just watched #lidiapoet. Would love to see more along these lines in the #ya and #upmarket spaces in my #submissions inbox. #amquerying #amwriting

· Mar 10

I’m really on the hunt for some smart, compelling non-fiction. I saw this deal reported today and it’s right up my alley. Science AND revenge? What’s not to love? #MSWL

Nonfiction

· Mar 10

"In the middle grade space, I love grounded fantasy, magical realism, or any stories with light touches of magic."
@adriamgoetz #MSWL

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· Mar 10

brittany packnett cunningham. @MsPackyetti

I know there are more articles coming out about the children who grew up as content farms for their parents and having all sorts of feelings about it.

But there's been little, at least to my knowledge, policy put in place around this. And this is only gonna get worse.

#MSWL
I think there is a discussion to have here about this and I have thoughts on ways to present it but I’m curious to see if anyone is already working on this in novel form 👀

· Mar 9

"I am hungry for dark and twisty dysfunctional family stories."
@ceciliaclyra #MSWL

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Family

· Mar 9

Been watching POKER FACE and MURDER SHE WROTE and really feeling #MSWL BIPOC amateur investigating. Because, damn, we could use better representation in this space! Loved Jane Pek's THE VERIFIERS, for example.