Y’all, if I tweet about #MSWL and it connects somehow to your work, by all means, please feel free to send my way. querymanager.com/query/ArtHouseLitSubmissions

my inbox is clearing up & this summer i’m looking for:

🪼 mg/ya queer sports
🐠 ya/adult tragic queer romances
🐳 mg marginalized contemporary (think front desk)
🐋 mg/ya/adult indigenous authors
+ any of the above in graphic novel form

[ #amquerying #mswl ]

Still waiting for the dating your enemy's sibling rom-com to hit my inbox #MSWL

These are GOLD. I need all of the reverse tropes in my life ASAP, please and thanks!!! #MSWL

I have another thread with my #mswl pinned on my profile so you can review that but generally speaking I am open to fantasy and romantasy right now!

I am ALWAYS on the lookout for exciting nonfiction projects. Really looking for narrative nonfiction about science, pop culture, and history. Not looking for memoir, (unless you are a well known musician or member of a well known band 😁😎). #MSWL

in rom-coms, i really love hijinks. i love fake dating but i love mistaken identity, i love the dancing around declarations of love like in this clip. i want to be like "oh boy oh boy how are these rascals gonna get out of this one"

also a romance trope i find that i really, really hate especially in heterosexual dynamics is the MMC "taking care" of the FMC but it's really just him bossing her around and taking control of her life even if it's doing something ostensibly nice like cleaning their room

i never want a romance to feel like the rom-com parody in how i met your mother where the antagonist is clearly a jerk and you're kind of just checking your watch waiting for the MC to realize that. i need villains to have nuance.

especially for romance, i am super picky about antagonists, if any. i've read 1000s of romance novels. when i see a jerk ex or the romantic false lead is an arrogant ass, i'm like "dump them! block them! take them straight to jail!"

i really *do not* want anything sci-fi this time around. i don't want robots, i don't want aliens, i don't want otherworldly planets. my idea of SF this time is like groundhog day or the seven year slip--it's basically magic.

for examples of things i could do: fleabag, my mad fat diary, you're the worst, i may destroy you, sorry for your loss by jessie ann foley, turtles all the way down by john green. i definitely *do not* want a version of a little life by hanya yanagihara

to clarify, i don't mind characters who are dealing with loss or depression or anxiety, or are coming to terms with something in their past. i just really do not want stories to center around a particular traumatic incident

for this submission round of queries, i really *do not* want anything dealing with abuse/trauma as the focus of the plot. i don't want to read about an abusive relationship, sexual abuse, school shootings, etc. i just don't have the emotional bandwidth right now

i think this is b/c i have watched so many detective/cop shows (castle/law & order:svu/brooklyn 99/the wire/etc) and it's just an area that i prefer in a visual medium vs in novel form. sorry rick castle, i love ur show but i would have hated the nikki heat books

i am just not into anything that features police/special agent/FBI/law enforcement characters especially in modern settings. however i *can* do a historical/magical sherlock holmes style "detective of manners". (con't)

this may be the christian evangelical upbringing still in me but i can't get into angel/seraphim/etc stories. Demons and devils, I'm good with. For whatever reason, I see angel stories and suddenly i'm like "hmmm idk why does but this feels blasphemous"

i don't mind a fantasy set up where there's secretly been a magical world operating alongside ours this whole time but there's a portal of some sort, i just can't do it

i really hate portal fantasies. i'm sorry, i grew up reading a lot of fan fic that had the set up with "and then the tv/book/whatever began to glow and i was suddenly pulled into this fantasy world." i just cant do it anymore :(

i've been open to queries for about 2 weeks for the first time in 2 years (phew) and here's some random things i am noticing about myself to help with my #mswl for #amquerying writers