📚Updated #mswl for 2020 📚
2019 brought a lot of great YA to my inbox, and oh how I love it, but really looking for a lot more adult fiction in 2020.
Particularly hungry for suspense and women's fiction with a high concept hook
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Some random/ very specific things:

1. A cheerleading book (Gay BRING IT ON)!
2. Gay BEND IT LIKE BECKHAM!
3. A story with a Type 1 Diabetic protagonist!
4. Stories like WEATHERING WITH YOU where climate/ weather is the antagonist!

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Great meetings with editors this week. Some #MSWL takeaways that really resonated with me: the "PTA-mom-finally-loses-her-sh*t"-style female thriller (YES love this!); and the "gentle horror," aka creepy and atmospheric but not too gory...
Yes, please!

Look at these amazing graphic novel ARCs the amazing @WhitLeopard just gave me! I don’t know which one to dive into first!

#MSWL graphic novels from ages 4-19 please!

#amquerying #amwriting #WritingCommunity

EVERGREEN #MSWL, for everything listed above, I want to see more body diversity, more queer stories, more inclusive casts and worlds, and more disability rep!

Speculative fiction and with a lightly dystopian angle like WILDER GIRLS and WE SET THE DARK ON FIRE. Give me something so weird here it's impossible to fit in one category. #MSWL

Folkloric fantasy and fairytales with lush world building and gorgeous prose like WINTERWOOD, SORCERY OF THORNS, and HOUSE OF SALT & SORROWS. #MSWL

Fantasy will always me my 💜. But I'm especially on the lookout for contemporary fantasy, urban fantasy, and paranormal right now. Examples: A BLADE SO BLACK, THE DEVOURING GRAY, and CEMETERY BOYS. #MSWL

Dark fantasy, gothic fantasy, horror-fantasy blends, and stories with subversive religious themes. Think SERPENT & DOVE, WICKED SAINTS, and THE YEAR OF THE WITCHING. #MSWL

Historical novels both fantasy and realistic—especially overlooked or underrepresented stories in history (though I'm pickier when it comes to 20th century history). Examples of what I'm looking for: DREAD NATION and BLOOD COUNTESS! #MSWL

Finally updated my #MSWL for 2020! Who's ready for a thread?

I'm still only acquiring YA at this time, but I acquire all genres, so if your project isn't here please TRY ME ANYWAY! These are just some specific things I'm on the lookout for @PageStreetKids!

Done with the industry rage-tweets for now, I think. Trying to focus my work on finding and championing the stories in this amazing Danez Smith poem @alan_townsend just sent me. #mswl, people. poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine…

Very specific #MSWL—a big fat #ownvoices historical fiction about Jacques Francis and the sinking of the Mary Rose

seconding this! #mswl

GIVE ME HISTORICAL FICTION THAT DOES NOT ERASE BLACK PEOPLE OR ANY POC.

I will continue to say that Belle is one of my favorite movies (and yes I did read the nonfic book), and I want fiction like it.

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the mindy kim books made me desperate for some early reader/beginner reader books on my list this week, I'm ready, put 'em in my inbox. #mswl

“If you're a millennial journalist hoping to turn your expertise on a topic into a book, please get in touch!” @msmariavicente mariavicente.com/representation #MSWL

👋🏾 If anyone is working on an #ownvoices f/f adult contemporary romance — I’d love to see it #mswl

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Have I mentioned my obsession with secret societies? Like, I super love weird secret society stories and occult groups. Think NINTH HOUSE or THE SECRET HISTORY, but I'd also love to see stories outside of a university setting. #MSWL