#mswl

I'll be opening queries each Friday in June for pride month with a unique theme for each week. Make sure to get your query in on Friday's if you have a story that aligns with the weekly theme and my wishlist.

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I just devoured the second Meihan Booey (THE ENIGMATIC MRS INGRAM) and

1. If you like the Emily Wilde / cozy paranormal / myths minding their own business space, read these ASAP. They're delightful speculative mysteries set in Singapore, I'd read a hundred of them.

2. #MSWL !

I want…
🧞‍♂️cultural lore and fantasy themes
🧌new worlds and buddy pal creatures
🪐kids that love space and want an adventure
👻paranormal characters with big hearts
🧙🏼‍♀️witchy speculative themes
❤️heartwarming coming of age that makes me laugh

#amagenting #mswl #graphicnovel

"I would love atmospheric and speculative mysteries and thrillers that skew psychological and cerebral with unreliable narrators. Stories where the setting is the main character and characters have full and dynamic backstories!"
Marina Green #MSWL

"I love a strong romance plotline in a speculative setting, like THE UNDERTAKING OF HART AND MERCY and WINTER'S ORBIT."
Rose Ferrao #MSWL

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It’s no April fool’s joke…I’m officially reopening to queries with FinePrint’s Agency Assistant, baileyknaub.bsky.social!
We’re interested in:

Indigenous Horror / Fantasy
Speculative Thrillers
Psychological Horror

For the next 2 weeks, please submit to us via my QM form #MSWL

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In YA, I love novels with some kind of mystery threaded within, bonus if it's with a speculative twist! I'm on the lookout for anything irresistible, transporting, and propulsive! (2/4)

I'm late for #MSWL day but better late than never? 👀 I represent YA and adult across literary, upmarket, and speculative spaces, and am hungry to find my next obsession that I just can't put down! (1/4)

Excited to finally share my 2026 MSWL which has expanded into Middle Grade, Adult/YA genres for Upmarket Literary Fiction, Romance, Soft Sci-fi, and more. 🫶🤍✨ #MSWL

#MSWL for nicolefrailbooks.bsky.social: short fiction (short stories or novellas), essays, collections (short story or essay), multi-POV novels. Previous pub experience not needed, but an active online platform is.

Find out more:
manuscriptwishlist.com/mswl-post/nicole-frail/

For clarity, I only represent age categories MG and up. For MG & YA I’m open to all genres fiction and nonfiction. On the adult side I only work on genre-adjacent or genre-lite fiction (no straight contemporary or anything that wades too deeply into the genre space). #MSWL

Super eager to see some folk horror. Especially if it toes the line of speculative without going full paranormal. A kind of “am I imagining it or is that deer kind of f****d up?” vibe 😉 #mswl
manuscriptwishlist.com/mswl-post/v-ruiz/

A mystery/thriller with a speculative element built into the premise rather than used to explain things at the end (For example, Wrong Place, Wrong Time) #MSWL

Grounded speculative where there is a single thing that is different about the world that completely changes how people behave (The Measure, Age of Miracles, The Leftovers, etc). Even outside of speculative, a really good “what if” gets my attention #MSWL

Happy #MSWL day!! My wishlist is pinned, and here are a few books I LOVED: Daggermouth by H.M. Wolfe, Nine-Tailed by Jayci Lee, Wrong Place, Wrong Time by Gillian McAllister, The Staircase in the Woods by Chuck Wendig.
manuscriptwishlist.com/mswl-post/jeanne-de-vita/

By "surreal," I mainly mean books that feel like SFF but technically aren't-- I'd love a project that takes place on a reality TV set, or largely on the internet, regardless of whether it has other speculative elements. AMATKA is an all-time favorite book.