#mswl !!!

✨ Exciting News!✨ @LightnerKayla is open to queries! To submit a query, please use the APL Query form on our website. Be sure to take a look at Kayla's #MSWL ! ow.ly/UB5Z50R6XV7

#amquerying

Biopic about their friendship please #mswl

#MSWL Spring Break Blitz - HARLEQUIN!!!! dlvr.it/T4zBf7

UPDATE: I'll be closing to queries April 30, 2024. IF you're ready, query me now through Query Manager. If not, you can query me when I open again. I'll post here when I do. #WritingCommunity #amquerying #mswl

Send me a proposal for a book that profiles a bunch of different YouTube success stories. I'd like to read about how people have used the platform to change their lives. #MSWL #WritingCommunity

#MSWL Spring Break Blitz - Into Post
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For hashtag visibility: #MSWL middle-grade series that have a discernible plot arc that carries over multiple books; things like:

Rick Riordan's series
The School for Good and Evil
A Series of Unfortunate Events
Skandar and the Unicorn Thief
Keeper of the Lost Cities

✨QUERYING UPDATE

I'm reopening to queries today, but ONLY to middle-grade series/duologies/trilogies!

I'll reopen to my other categories soon, but I'm still reading some lovely subs from you all & want to give everything my best attention!

Query here: QueryManager.com/3240/MiddleGraiddleGradeSeries

Open to queries starting today! Updated #MSWL is below: manuscriptwishlist.com/mswl-post/kayla-lightner/

Just a heads up for all of those who are querying--After receiving almost 2k queries since opening in January, I am going to close my QM inbox on May 1st. I won't reopen until I have time to review all of these amazing submissions.

Happy to announce that I'm open to queries again! (Still working through a couple submissions, thank you authors for your patience)

And while I'm super disappointed in the Phillies' opening performances, I nonetheless am asking for baseball stories. #MSWL

Very specific things I'm looking for:
- contemporary fantasies
- stories steeped in folklore & culture
- Ella Enchanted ✨vibes✨
- academia settings/secret societies
- YA crossover + genre blending
- magic ALL OF THE MAGIC
- celebrity romances (non rockstar)
#mswl

#mswl 🥹

my forever #mswl 😮‍💨

To keep going on my earlier tweet, I LOVE all shades of MG! The quieter, simpler prose stories and the long, whimsical books that are for the big readers! Both are so welcome in my inbox 🥰 all genres! #MSWL

I'm still not the best fit for SF (aside from 5-min in the future/grounded SF or the aforementioned horror), or books that are sports-centric or where MC is an athlete. I'm not open to adult fiction (for now), poetry/novels-in-verse, non-fiction, picture books, early readers.

Another #mswl I've been wanting to find forEVER is a genre-blended YA sci-fi/horror akin to Alien (or even The Thing I think would count). Atmospheric, not super tech heavy, isolated, far from home, trapped with an extraterrestrial horror. Those kinda vibes.

I would also love to find something that takes a big swing and lands it, especially in YA. Epic but accessible, character-driven but with lyrical or evocative writing. As an example,
@Tiff_Liao
told me that she would love to find a YA Cloud Atlas and my eyes went 😻🤩 #mswl

I consider queries the same way I do books in the store. If the pitch doesn't grab me, I pass and move on. And so much of what doesn't grab me feels like "more of the same." I always want to know what makes YOUR book feel special. Why am I excited to move to the writing?