Updated my agenting wishlist. Two specific highlights:

* Novels (includes kid-lit!) and memoirs about the adoptee experience, by adoptees.

* Adult and kid-lit books that celebrate neurodiversity, from authors who are neurodivergent.

Full #MSWL is here! ericsmithrocks.com/mswl

An epic MG or YA fantasy with lush world building and high stakes. Think WE HUNT THE FLAME. #mswl

MG or YA novels-in-verse #mswl

MG or YA stories featuring found families. #mswl

I've been getting in some amazing, funny, and super heart-warming YA rom-coms in my inbox BUT . . . I really want to see more queer rom-coms!!
#MSWL

Eternal YA #mswl

I will say that if anyone wants to write and deliver the POC Alanna, I would be down for that. #MSWL #YoungYA

I'd also love more spooky/horror MG. Give me fantastic monsters, nature-based villains (like a forest or swamp), and something weird and twisty. I'll take it in YA too. #mswl

I just finished Rick Riordan's recent Apollo book, and I would love an upper MG or YA or Adult book about Artemis/Diana. If YA or A, I would love this in the vein of Madeline Miller's Circe. MG would be in the vein of a RR Presents novel! #mswl

Oh, and MG and YA graphic novels. #MSWL

The last five days of my life were mostly drama and fear, but things are looking up. I still need cheering up, nonetheless, so my #MSWL for now is: YA friendship stories, YA romance, YA rom coms, YA boarding school books, YA hijinks, YA "All American" show TV like soap opera.

i have SO many incredible queries in my inbox and i'm reading from my couch so keep 'em coming! some of my #MSWL : heartwarming YA w/ mixed-race families, gorgeous essay collections on queerness/sex/sexuality, and adult fic w/ a protagonist of color figuring out their early 20s

Real talk - I would be into something in my inbox for kids or teens that, if not actively advocating for prison abolition, seriously treats it as an option and a pathway. Fiction or nonfiction. MG or YA. #mswl

#MSWL YA or MG with an magical atmospheric setting that almost is like a character

#MSWL for a Anne and Gilbert level chemistry romance in YA with all kinds of friends and shenanigans:
open.spotify.com/track/1JRK7srB…

#MSWL I am actively looking for YA or MG horror novels that are campy and full of tropes.

Listening to @yourewrongabout and my new #MSWL is a 1960s YA about teen girls forming a babysitters' union

A few misc #MSWL items

-MG that's spooky and lovely
-YA LatinX RomCom
-Adult thriller with a BIG hook
-Adult space horror

FEED MY INBOX

Adult historical fantasy (show me a location or pivotal moment in history I've never seen in SFF)
Contemporary YA (show me how powerful& combustible teenage relationships are)
Middle grade sci fi, contemporary, or fantasy (I'm pretty wide open; nothing is off the table!) #mswl
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SAME! #MSWL