Themes of parents/children and the passage of time more than usual, I think, given changes in my personal life.

And just like that, it's 2020! Here's my #mswl for the year: obv, your transcendent literary works. I'm hungry for a book where I gnaw on the sentences and wander around the house sniffling with emotions for a few hours afterward.

Happy New Year! December’s #readinglist:
- The Collectors
- A Storm of Wishes
- With the Fire on High*
- Of Monsters and Madness
- Nightingale
- Stepsister*
- Don’t Date Rosa Santos*
- Dragon Pearl
- Aru Shah and the End of Time*
- Aru Shah and the Song of Death*

*#MSWL

MSWL for 2020: AKA, What I’d Like to See in My Agent Inbox! #mswl scribblesandwanderlust.com/2020/01/01/msw…

As it was in 2019, so shall it be in 2020: somebody query me with a YA or NA about best friends as utterly fabulous and Eliot and Margo #MSWL

Where is my retelling of Anne of Green Gables where Diana and Anne kiss? #MSWL

Speaking of Jewish (and other diverse) romance... #MSWL

Another #MSWL for 2020, off of a recent email from @JuniperJazzz, who comped her second book to an anime. Agents, if a book you represent feels tonally like an anime, I want to see it!

I have lots of things on my #MSWL - please send my way 👀❤️

And remember—if your book doesn’t exactly fit any of these, but you feel your ms would make a good fit based on other tweets/bios/what have you, send it to me!!

I can’t wait to see all the pretties in 2020!! :D

And as always… any and everything queer. AND PARTICULARLY GIRLS KISSING GIRLS.

DARK BROODY BOYS WITH HEARTS OF GOLD ALWAYS

WITCHY WITCHY WITCH WITCH. GIMME WITCHES. DARK ASS WITCHES.

SIRENS. Not necessarily water-bound sirens but… sirens. I want them.

Still hunting for my JOKER X VICIOUS book…

Dark dark dark DARK. GIMME DARK

And just to be clear—this doesn’t mean “make it as bloody/gross/crude/disgusting as possible (i.e. violence for no reason, sexual assault, etc.). I’m talking themes. Emotions. Difficult—impossible—decisions. Angry, conflicted protagonists.

Lyrical voices in YA. This is ALWAYS a want, in every genre I accept.

YA fantasy! I’m all about witchy blood magic—darker is better (does anyone see a trend here yet). Queer! Enemies to lovers! Magic with consequences! Tangled friend/family relationships! Unique plot lines with lots of tension/conflict! AND DON’T FORGET THE KISSING I NEED KISSING

Haven’t found my novel written in verse yet—particularly wanting this for YA!! Contemporary preferred—again melancholy, mental health/queer centered, darker is better. DYING FOR LYRICAL VOICES HERE.

Still DYING for horror—give me Haunting of Hill House vibes. Give me trauma. Give me deep dark black emotions. Give me anger. Give me layered relationships and feelings.