Rebecca Angus
@BookFairyAngus
Literary Agent
Writing as Mackenzie Carson, Rep @weaverliterary / Lit agent with @Howlandlit as Rebecca Angus/ ELA Teacher/ pan🏳️‍🌈/Community Book 🧚‍♂️/ @write_hive Mentor🐝
4 MSWL

Strong voices--Regardless of 1st/3rd pov, I like voice driven writing. Prose are great, but If your character is lost to your prose, that's not voice driven. Your character's dialogue, thoughts/feelings, emotions should show me (not tell me) exactley who they are and what they are trying to do.

Rebecca Angus
@BookFairyAngus
Literary Agent
Writing as Mackenzie Carson, Rep @weaverliterary / Lit agent with @Howlandlit as Rebecca Angus/ ELA Teacher/ pan🏳️‍🌈/Community Book 🧚‍♂️/ @write_hive Mentor🐝
4 MSWL

Voice/Opening pages: For MG/YA--I prefer strong voices, and authentic voices, opening pages where I feel grounded in the world quickly, and a clear sense of character and stakes. (I'll elaborate more below).

Rebecca Angus
@BookFairyAngus
Literary Agent
Writing as Mackenzie Carson, Rep @weaverliterary / Lit agent with @Howlandlit as Rebecca Angus/ ELA Teacher/ pan🏳️‍🌈/Community Book 🧚‍♂️/ @write_hive Mentor🐝
4 MSWL

Chosen one story lines. I much prefer rogue underdogs storylines to chosen one/prophesized one storylines. Now, if its a GROUP of chosen friends/found family who are also rogue underdogs, please send it to me.

Rebecca Angus
@BookFairyAngus
Literary Agent
Writing as Mackenzie Carson, Rep @weaverliterary / Lit agent with @Howlandlit as Rebecca Angus/ ELA Teacher/ pan🏳️‍🌈/Community Book 🧚‍♂️/ @write_hive Mentor🐝
4 MSWL

Fairies/Fae/elves--I'm being completley honest here...they aren't my preference. Unless your fae are sapphic or gender queer, armor wearing, battle queens, it's likely not going to be what I'm looking for.

Rebecca Angus
@BookFairyAngus
Literary Agent
Writing as Mackenzie Carson, Rep @weaverliterary / Lit agent with @Howlandlit as Rebecca Angus/ ELA Teacher/ pan🏳️‍🌈/Community Book 🧚‍♂️/ @write_hive Mentor🐝
4 MSWL

I'm getting fantastic queries for Dark Academia right now, especially ones comping to ONE DARK WINDOW (which I love BTW). However, I have 2 authors on my list right now with ODW as a comp title, and dark academia settings. I never take on competing projects I currently have on so I'm more likely to pass on projects that have these vibes.

Rebecca Angus
@BookFairyAngus
Literary Agent
Writing as Mackenzie Carson, Rep @weaverliterary / Lit agent with @Howlandlit as Rebecca Angus/ ELA Teacher/ pan🏳️‍🌈/Community Book 🧚‍♂️/ @write_hive Mentor🐝
4 MSWL

I've been re-open to queries as of Feb 1st, so I wanted to share a thread of things I'm looking for/not looking for in queries at the moment. Hopefully this will be helpful. #querying #MSWL #amquerying

Rob Kirkpatrick
@RobKirkpatrick
Literary Agent
Agent, author, editor, husband, father, coach. Authors Guild member. Founding member, RAC Pack. English Ph.D. Soccer club president. UPSTATE SPURS publisher.
4 MSWL

Hi Booksky! I've repped a fair share of pop culture and memoir, as well as pop science. I'd love to do more pop science from authors who have strong institutional support and/or major media platforms. Also would love to sell something that helps us see Shakespeare or Nabokov in a new light.

Shannon Lechon
@smlechon
Literary Agent
associate agent @ azantian literary agency, thoughts my own. closed to queries. I think cats should vote.
24 MSWL

I’m only planning on staying open for about a month, so please get your submissions in if you feel like I might be a good fit for your work. I’m looking forward to reading!

Shannon Lechon
@smlechon
Literary Agent
associate agent @ azantian literary agency, thoughts my own. closed to queries. I think cats should vote.
24 MSWL

I’m looking to bring back some classics: dystopian and steampunk settings like STATION ELEVEN and Arcane, respectively.

Shannon Lechon
@smlechon
Literary Agent
associate agent @ azantian literary agency, thoughts my own. closed to queries. I think cats should vote.
24 MSWL

Literary novels with a singular, strange speculative element, like THE HUSBANDS.

Shannon Lechon
@smlechon
Literary Agent
associate agent @ azantian literary agency, thoughts my own. closed to queries. I think cats should vote.
24 MSWL

I love all types and age ranges of horror, but I don’t get a lot of these submissions in YA! I’d love to see more of them.

Shannon Lechon
@smlechon
Literary Agent
associate agent @ azantian literary agency, thoughts my own. closed to queries. I think cats should vote.
24 MSWL

And for some updated things I’m looking for, alongside the above:

High concept and YA/Adult mysteries/thrillers, like THE BLONDE DIES FIRST and THE LAST MURDER AT THE END OF THE WORLD.

Shannon Lechon
@smlechon
Literary Agent
associate agent @ azantian literary agency, thoughts my own. closed to queries. I think cats should vote.
24 MSWL

My past MSWL thread, all of which still applies:
x.com/smlechon/status/1642245332925919238

Shannon Lechon
@smlechon
Literary Agent
associate agent @ azantian literary agency, thoughts my own. closed to queries. I think cats should vote.
24 MSWL
Shannon Lechon
@smlechon
Literary Agent
associate agent @ azantian literary agency, thoughts my own. closed to queries. I think cats should vote.
24 MSWL

I'm happy to announce that I'm open to queries again!

You can use the link below to send your work my way, and find my #MSWL (s) in the 🧵. Thank you in advance to all who submit, and looking forward to reading!

QueryTracker.net/query/shannonl/shannonlechon

Greyhaus Literary Agency
@greyhausagency
Literary Agency
Literary Agent with the Greyhaus Literary Agency in the Puget Sound Area. Representing exlusively romance and women's fiction!
65 MSWL
83 Tips

#MSWL - Just letting you know, I am interested in authors who want to write for all Harlequin lines, specifically contemporary. If you are already at Harlequin feel free to reach out as well.

Natascha Morris
@SoCalledYALife
Literary Agent
Senior Literary Agent at The Tobias Literary Agency.
953 MSWL
31 AskAgent
194 Queries
46 Tips
Natascha Morris
@SoCalledYALife
Literary Agent
Senior Literary Agent at The Tobias Literary Agency.
953 MSWL
31 AskAgent
194 Queries
46 Tips

Patrick Ness's THE REST OF US JUST LIVE HERE meets THE HUNGER GAMES or THE GRACE YEAR.

Basically hypernormalisation against a dystopian setting. #MSWL #YA

Michelle Hauck
@Michelle4Laughs
Literary Agent
Associate Literary Agent with Storm Literary Agency | Author Birth of Saint Series | she/her |
23 MSWL

-Dystopian in Adult and YA. This seems to be coming back! I prefer ones with action and social commentary, think Hunger Games. #MSWL

Michelle Hauck
@Michelle4Laughs
Literary Agent
Associate Literary Agent with Storm Literary Agency | Author Birth of Saint Series | she/her |
23 MSWL

-Adult Mystery. I sold several I had on submission lately and really want to fill out my list here. Priority to mystery outside the U.S., younger protagonists, and diversity, especially queer and BIPOC. #MSWL I'm drawn to lighter mystery over crime or police stories.