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· 4 Jan 2019

Danielle Burby @DanielleBurby

What I absolutely love about this trend of Tidying Up, Queer Eye, and Great British Bake Off is that it moves us away from cynicism and cutting people down into a mode of kindness, support, and lifting each other up. So so much more of this moving forward please.

This is a big #MSWL mood for me in 2019! Let’s have some warmth, hope, and good genuine fun.

· 4 Jan 2019

Bio updated and I'm open to submissions again! If you are being brave and sending your query out into the world, please do think of me. I love reading submissions and can't wait to dive back in #MSWL
thebentagency.com/gemma-cooper

· 3 Jan 2019

lenee h.🌙 🌟 @leneeh4

I wanna bring back all knowing narrative voices bc I love how extra it is. It's like the book was specifically being written for you and the person telling the story feels like a character too. When the reader is addressed I just love that shit

I LOVE implicating the reader in the story. Fuck ‘em up, writers, give readers no choice but to FEEL THINGS. #MSWL

· 3 Jan 2019

Sarah Barley @the_SDB

Also, this is the first time I've articulated this, but one of my favorite books—and movies—is Call Me By Your Name. (Rereading the book last year was one of my greatest joys of 2018.) Boy, what I would give to find a coming-of-age and romance with that same pull. ❤️❤️❤️ #MSWL

One last #MSWL thought: a modern-day Amélie. Here's hoping, universe! 🌹

· 3 Jan 2019

Jordan Hamessley @thejordache

YES to BILLY ELLIOT. That last shot of Billy's leap onto the stage made 12 year old me gasp after I'd already been sobbing since his goodbye to Michael. "Oy! Dancing boy!" I did the stage show a year ago and always cried watching that scene from the wings. twitter.com/sabaatahir/sta…

Just a reminder if you have a YA BILLY ELLIOT, it is still at the top of my #MSWL!

YA

· 3 Jan 2019

lenee h.🌙 🌟 @leneeh4

I wanna bring back all knowing narrative voices bc I love how extra it is. It's like the book was specifically being written for you and the person telling the story feels like a character too. When the reader is addressed I just love that shit

I LOVE books like this. #mswl

· 3 Jan 2019

I *really* want to do more author/illustrator picture books and illustrated projects in general. For a sense of my taste, these are my clients: ldlainc.com/illustrators #MSWL

Illustrator

· 3 Jan 2019

Michael Bourret @MichaelBourret

Adding to this: love, love, love any story that doesn't use violence as a means of conflict resolution.

Replying to @MichaelBourret

God, so much this last thing. I keep saying I want high stakes but not high body counts. #MSWL

High Stakes

· 3 Jan 2019

Michael Bourret @MichaelBourret

Time for a 2019 #MSWL. I am very much looking for MG and chapter books. Much as I love YA, I have a lot of it!

Basically...if you decide to query Michael, you should query me too. #MSWL (is that how this works?)

· 3 Jan 2019

Also, this is the first time I've articulated this, but one of my favorite books—and movies—is Call Me By Your Name. (Rereading the book last year was one of my greatest joys of 2018.) Boy, what I would give to find a coming-of-age and romance with that same pull. ❤️❤️❤️ #MSWL

Romance

· 3 Jan 2019

Sarah Barley @the_SDB

But also, I am still so hungry to find terrific, hooky, voice-driven contemporary/realistic. Am especially hungry from those told from POVs I don't already intimately know already. I want to be surprised!

And please, my greatest and most everlasting and true #MSWL is to find an epistolary novel in the tradition (or not? — surprise me!) of I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith (my favorite book of all time) or the Montmaray Journals by Michelle Cooper. 🖊️🖊️🖊️

· 3 Jan 2019

Time for a 2019 #MSWL. I am very much looking for MG and chapter books. Much as I love YA, I have a lot of it!

· 3 Jan 2019

Peter Knapp @petejknapp

whoops, thread broken! # 10: Big middle grade series, such as ARU SHAH AND THE END OF TIME, THE CANDYMAKERS, MYSTERIOUS BENEDICT SOCIETY, etc! #mswl

and I also will always love my big, high concept MG series! #MSWL

· 3 Jan 2019

Peter Knapp @petejknapp

#mswl 2019: literary standalone stories, such as THE THING ABOUT LUCK or COUNTING BY SEVENS, or THE THING ABOUT JELLYFISH (8/13)

#mswl for 2019 definitely includes more contemporary middle grade standalones!

· 3 Jan 2019

Peter Knapp @petejknapp

#mswl 2019: Sweet, smart YA contemporary love stories: think TO ALL THE BOYS I’VE LOVED BEFORE, WHAT IF IT’S US, SIMON VS., EVERYTHING LEADS TO YOU, etc. (3/13)

...but also anti-love stories, break-up stories, friendship break-up stories. Give me all the explorations of relationships of all types, please! #mswl