Rom-coms/romance about Formular 1 PLEASEEEEEE (I am loving Drive To Survive) #MSWL

#MSWL

i've updated my #MSWL below, so if you think you have something i'll love, please submit before 3/31! ✨

(i don't know when i'll be reopening yet, but i'll keep twitter posted lol)

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Time for another #mswl! I’d love, love, love to see some new juicy rom-com and family comedies/dramas in the #ya space. #yalit #booktwitter #books #amwriting #amquerying #amreading #writer #writers #writerslife

"I want unique, genre-blending romance novels. I wish I had worked on THE PLUS ONE by Sarah Archer or any of Roselle Lim’s breathtaking romantic contemporary fantasy novels. Give me an adult rom com in space, or with magic."
@ericsmithrocks #MSWL

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it has finally happened! i have a #mswl!

take a peek and see if i'm a good candidate for your submission 🐱👀🤠❣️

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I would like to find someone (with a platform, I gotta say) to write a nonfiction book for teen boys that would basically be titled HOW TO BE A MAN AND NOT AN ASSHOLE. #MSWL

Speculative fiction that explores the horror of being oppressed and allows marginalized people to reclaim power by any means necessary and without apology is a perennial #mswl item for me, and @lmpnk and @codiecrowley were really like “we got u”

Agents: on my #MSWL I’m looking for YA fiction centering the Stonewall Riots and trans POV. Email me!

That’s all my scribbles for tonight! I may have more to add tomorrow. If you have any questions about my #MSWL, feel free to drop them here. I’m really looking forward to reading your work very soon! ✨

I am no longer looking for memoir, fantasy, or sci-fi. I love fantastical or sci-fi elements but only when they are extremely grounded in our world. I always come back to Ishiguro & Karen Thompson Walker, & a bunch of the above-listed books like LONG DIVISION & NEVERWORLD WAKE.

A few random specifics I’m a sucker for: puzzles, locked-room stories, kitsch, & anything weird & genre-bendy. A very specific thing: I’d love to see a nonfiction project glorifying bad horror movies. A TACKY for bad horror, if you will.

Adult nonfiction I’d love to see projects in the vein of: RADIUM GIRLS, CULTISH, HURTS SO GOOD, TACKY, TASTE MAKERS, THE BOOK OF EELS, HIDDEN VALLEY ROAD, FINDING THE MOTHER TREE

Adult nonfiction: Deeply researched narrative nonfiction, intersectional perspectives, pop science, cookbooks/culinary history/food books, nature/environment, deep dives into weird topics, & pop culture, specifically video games, music, & TV/film

Also, looking for commercial psychological & domestic thrillers in the vein of Ruth Ware & Lisa Jewell.

Adult fiction favorites & comps I’d love to see: CATHERINE HOUSE, LEAVE THE WORLD BEHIND, LONG DIVISION, THE SCENT KEEPER, THE GIRL BEFORE, MEXICAN GOTHIC, WHEN NO ONE IS WATCHING, THE ELEMENTALS, THE AGE OF MIRACLES, BABY TEETH, EVERY BONE A PRAYER

Adult fiction: Literary and upmarket projects, speculative fiction, horror, mystery, psychological thrillers, domestic thrillers, magical realism/fabulism, Southern gothic, rom-coms

YA fiction favorites & comps I’d love to see: CLOWN IN A CORNFIELD, NEVERWORLD WAKE, THE TAKING OF JAKE LIVINGSTON, ACE OF SPADES, THE STRANGE AND BEAUTIFUL SORROWS OF AVA LAVENDER

YA fiction: Horror, mystery, thriller, grounded stories with a speculative element, magical realism/fabulism, Southern gothic, rom-coms (heavy on the com)

MG fiction favorites & comps I’d love to see: THE RIVERMAN, SMALL SPACES, GHOST (the TRACK series), HIDE AND SEEKER, GREENGLASS HOUSE, THE CANNING SEASON