In Middle Grade, I'd love to see:
🧢Fantasy inspired by myths, folklore, or legends—especially if it's not European
🧢Historical that centers POC stories
🧢Contemporary with an environmental bent
🧢Horror with ghosts, creepy crawlies, and witches
🧢 Earth-based sci-fi
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(hiatus) @StorySorcery
I just learned about Boston marriages where wealthy 19th century women "married" each other by moving in together to keep their inherited or hard-earned money to themselves and some of these "marriages" turned into actual romantic relationships. And now I'm obsessed.#MSWL but witches/vampires/werewolves/etc.
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I also love paranormal elements like monsters and ghosts. And anything witchy! I love characters fighting their own "inner demons” too! I'm selectively open to elements like vampires.
Any atmospheric setting--e.g. an eerie seaside town might be cool!
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Last night I procrastinated so much on Actual Things (cleaning? life? etc) that I made myself a website 👀 taragonzalez.com
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Happy Spooky Season!! I always want spooky books (especially witchy stuff) but I'm really in the mood for vampires a la THE MORGANVILLE VAMPIRES. Definitely also time for a re-read. #MSWL
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- Something “earthy”—be that a lyrical picture book about environmentalism or a MG hiking action-adventure or a darkly atmospheric YA that takes place in a forest or anything in between
- MG and YA with rural settings
- Witches, boarding schools, sister bonds
(3/3; #MSWL)
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I was updating my Manuscript Wish List and it got auto-corrected to Manuscript WITCH List and I think I'm just going to leave it at that. Send me all the witchy stuff. #mswl
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Let's have a little fun with the #mswl this time. ;)
I'd love to see a clan of witches who ride motorcycles! Maybe they have their own club...
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ADULT ROMANCE (2/2)
🔮Paranormal, but ghosts and witches rather than vampires and werewolves
🎬Relationships in the public eye (think THE SEVEN HUSBANDS OF EVELYN HUGO)
💥Unlikable heroines! Enemies-to-lovers!
🔥 All heat levels
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ISO a HOT romance with witches and or ghosts. NA or Adult. 50-75K words. HEA or HFN. Action? Humor? Magic? I'm all in! Query me here: QueryManager.com/LisaGreenQueri… #MSWL
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India Holton @IndiaHolton
The League of Gentlewomen Witches is available for preorder now, and to add on Goodreads.🔸a fastidious witch
🔸an uncouth pirate
🔸speeding house chases
🔸explosions
🔸tea (and reading the leaves)
🔸enemies-to-lovers in a romance that sweeps them off their feet - literally pic.twitter.com/2s0rayjujK
I love this!!!
Guys, I want witch books. Give me witch books! #mswl
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Horror! Folk horror with a creeping sense of atmosphere like THE ONLY GOOD INDIANS and THE TWISTED ONES. I’m fascinated by cults and spooky goings-on and literally anything with a witch. I would love to see some non-Western horror in the style of HIS HOUSE. #MSWL
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“Books about witchcraft, like Becoming Dangerous edited by Katie West, Witchbody by Sabrina Scott, and Witches of America by Alex Mar.” @agentvicente #MSWL mariavicente.com/representation
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27. UNDEAD GIRL GANG by @ms_lilyanderson
I LOVE this book. It’s funny, it’s witchy, it has teeth—and it’s also about friendship 💜 The vibes are just perfect.
(Ahem #MSWL for anything comped to this book for those reasons)
Finished 6/10
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P.S. Literary Agency @PSLiterary
"In the Illustrated/Art category, I’d love to see something in the vein of LITERARY WITCHES by Taisia Kitaiskaia and WARRIORS, WITCHES, WOMEN by Kate Hodges." @ceciliaclyra #MSWL psliterary.com/submissions/I want to see the witches burning anyone (everyone?) else for once 😈 #MSWL #WritingCommunity