NONFICTION I’d love to see:

9. Above all else, I am hugely drawn to natural childbirth, pregnancy, unassisted birth, and motherhood. Informative and heartwarming as opposed to overcoming losses. Ina May Gaskin is my hero!

8. For example, I would love to see something in the vein of WILDCAT (Netflix series showing how saving animals in the wild jungles of South America positively impacts mental health).

MEMOIRS

7. I’m very particular about memoirs. It needs to read like fiction. Memoir Plus is huge right now; your personal struggles being affected by a universal external circumstance. A memoir is not a diary of your life; it’s a specific event that greatly impacted your life.

6. Across the board, I’d like stories that normalize blended, single-parent, adoptive, racially and/or culturally diverse, and same-sex families.

5. When it comes to Upper MG, I enjoy adventures with pirates, witches, ghosts, animals that can communicate, an underlying moral lesson learned by the main character, strong friendships, and stories of courage, overcoming obstacles, or shining in the face of adversity.

4. Speculative fiction: like our world, but one or two big differences. This is less of a pull for me, but if you’ve got something unputdownable with a massive hook, send it my way!

3. Romance like EVERY SUMMER AFTER. Also, anything to do with past lives, soulmates, time travel, second-chance romance, etc. Light spice. I also like romcoms.

2. Fantasy involving ghosts, witches, etc. Vampires are ok but they need to be human-friendly like ADOW. (I *adore* ADOW!). Historical fantasy like ADDIE LARUE. With historical fiction, I prefer pre-20th century.

FICTION: Adult, YA, some Upper MG

1. My main jam is thrillers and sub-genres. Domestic suspense, psychological thrillers, gothic and supernatural thrillers/horror, etc. I love fast-paced thrillers with high tension and high stakes. Ghosts & haunted houses are a huge draw for me.

Now that I’m officially open for queries🤩, I’m pinning this #MSWL thread to my page. I’ll add to it if/when I need to. Please see my website for more details (kathleenfoxxagent.com/mswl) and query me using Query Manager (link is below).

#WritingCommunity #writers #AmQuerying

"Send me contemporary fiction that gets a little weird, like the virgin birth of SMALL PLEASURES, the animal illness of SHARK HEART, and the eerie horror of OUR WIVES UNDER THE SEA."
@roseferrao #MSWL
psliterary.com/submissions/

#MSWL I’m open to queries and my request time is a few minutes to a few weeks! And still stoked for my author’s amazing book on the FRONT PAGE of THE SUNDAY NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW!
@MSWLMA
#mswishlist evansliterary.co

across the board, i'm looking to represent authors who come from marganilized backgrounds or who don't usually see themselves represented in media. this means bipoc, lgbtq+. disabled, plus size, etc.

i look forward to reading your stories!

retellings! though i'm only really looking for them if they are BIPOC or LGBTQ+

if your submission has the vibes of a studio ghibli film or adventure time, just send it my way. immediately

i've been in the mood for horror! camp slashers, supporting girl wrongs, ghost stories, and everything in between

please submit all of your queer novels, especially if the plot doesn't necessarily revolve around them coming out or trauma (not that i don't want those). i would love to see stuff like GWEN AND ART ARE NOT IN LOVE and JUST YOUR LOCAL BISEXUAL DISASTER

i'm looking for mainly DIVERSE kidlit (pb, mg, and ya) submissions, but i'm also open to adult romance novels

hello #amquerying writers — i'm excited to announce that not only am i officially an assistant literary agent, but i'm also open for all of your wonderful submissions!

the following thread will provide all of my links and #MSWL

4/...If you're interested in querying me, please take a look at my #MSWL .

manuscriptwishlist.com/mswl-post/cathie-hedrick-armstrong/

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