Retelling
chrysa keenon @Chrysa_Keenon · Dec 2
#WritingCommunity Where are my Joan of Arc retellings? WHERE. Is anyone writing one? Published one? Should I make an #mswl tweet for it? Please I just want to read one
Tara Yule-bert🎄☕️📖 @Literary_Tara · Nov 17
A couple things I REALLY want to read right now.
Historical YA with no magic, especially if its gothic/southern gothic.
Romantic Comedies, but with a new twist or perspective. Example: diverse backgrounds, gender-bending, or a retelling of Shakespeare/fairtales/myths. #mswl
Nora Long @NoraLong10 · Oct 25
Hey, exciting news! My #mswl page is officially up and running (and perhaps unnecessarily detailed), so hit me with your best shot, query people :)
manuscriptwishlist.com/mswl-post/nora…
Lisa Rodgers @_LisaRodgers · Oct 8
Jennifer Austin 🔥🐺 She-Wolf of Fire & Rage @JLAustin13
Reading #MSWL tweets & @_LisaRodgers has a couple from over a year ago that have me now wanting to write an epistolary YA Titanic in Space retelling.Just saying, if someone gets to this before me, I'm here to read it! pic.twitter.com/uX719Cw2Z6
I still want this! #mswl
Cora Harrington @lingerie_addict
In this era of revenge porn and rape threats and dick pics, the story of Artemis turning Acteon into a stag because he dared to see her naked feels more relevant than ever. Imagine being able to punish someone so immediately and so profoundly for violating your boundaries.#MSWL I'd love to see a YA retelling of this. Think the immediacy and poignancy of Joy McCullough by way of the slippery surrealism of AS King.
Maggie Cooper @frecklywench · Sep 24
hit me up with your very smartest feminist retellings, your structurally fearless literary fiction, and anything you’d comp to the brilliant Sarah Waters, Lesley Nneka Arimah, Curtis Sittenfeld, or Carmen Maria Machado! #MSWL
Annie Bomke @ABLiterary · Sep 24
Oooh, and retellings too! Shakespearean, myths, other books, etc. #MSWL
Feminist fairy tale retellings 👑#MSWL
Natascha Morris @SoCalledYALife · Sep 24
Kaitlyn Johnson @kaitylynne13
Anyone thought of a Count of Monte Cristo retelling, but from the woman he left behind's perspective? And she's the badass getting into sword fights and proving his innocence? #MSWL pic.twitter.com/gD5UKoXKqAOOORRRRR a genderbent COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO about a woman who was set up to take the fall for a male and is now coming to get hers? #MSWL
Kaitlyn Johnson - Closed to Queries @kaitylynne13 · Sep 24
Anyone thought of a Count of Monte Cristo retelling, but from the woman he left behind's perspective? And she's the badass getting into sword fights and proving his innocence? #MSWL
Laurel Symonds @LaurelSymonds · Sep 24
Other random elements I love: historical fiction, witches (historical and contemporary, but less on the humorous side), boarding schools, food, slow build romance, whimsy, retellings...#MSWL
Moe Ferrara is in need of coffee @inthesestones · Sep 24
#MSWL - #YA: I am STILL waiting for my contemporary re-telling of COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO.
Moe Ferrara is in need of coffee @inthesestones · Sep 24
#MSWL - #YA: I've become so much pickier in terms of genre fiction because I want to see something new. Give me a new twist on court intrigue or "chosen" ones. More contemporary fantasies/magical realism. Retellings of new/different stories.
Natascha Morris @SoCalledYALife · Sep 24
#MSWL Retellings. But not like the ones we see all the time. And make it interesting. Make a commentary.
Samantha Wekstein @SWekstein · Sep 24
#MSWL Still on the lookout for inventive fairytale or folklore retellings--especially stories that haven't been done often.
Erica Bauman @Erica_Bauman · Sep 24
Forever and always, more retellings of lesser known mythology, fairy tales, and classical lit. Especially if it blends with an unexpected genre. #MSWL
Katie Greenstreet @ktgreenst · Sep 24
Katie Greenstreet @ktgreenst
Sympathetic psychopaths, cult-y fiction, campus novels of all stripes, books tied to an unfamiliar professional world (ballet/restaurants/sports), upmarket #metoo novels, political conversation starters (a la American Marriage or The Mothers), a romcom with a fresh hook... #mswl...epic family novels, Eligible-esque retellings of classic stories! And more to come... #mswl
Leslie Zampetti @leslie_zampetti · Sep 23
Leslie Zampetti @leslie_zampetti
#MSWL I’d love to see some Latinx/Jewish contemporary YA... Or a retelling of Romeo & Juliet with the protagonists both devout but different religions... Or a great MG mystery that more Mo LeBeau and less Nancy Drew & ClueCrew.Oops! #MSWL Day is tomorrow!
Well, at least I’m on brand. I’m always the early bird! 😊🐥📚