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Would love this as a book too. #MSWL

Thread, #MSWL. Hopefully an #ownvoices!

OH! ONE MORE THING: It's not just novels this year. We're also looking for graphic novel scripts. #NewVisionsAward #MSWL #ownvoices

Looking at #StandingRock, I'd love to see contemporary MG or YA by NA author about kids among the water protectors, in their school. #MSWL

MG/YA stories we'd like to see abt indigenous ppl: ALL OF THEM. Contemporary. Mystery. Urban. Rural. Suburban. Fantasy. SF. #ownvoices #MSWL

We are looking for MG & YA graphic novels & novels from unpubbed US-resident authors of color. leeandlow.com/writers-illust… #MSWL

I am closed to new regular submissions until I catch up. However, enter #NewVisionsAward, authors of color leeandlow.com/writers-illust… #MSWL

I'd love a MG novel abt African resistance to slavery eeking out a living here. So much potential here. smithsonianmag.com/history/deep-s… #MSWL

Amazing. Someone, send it to me in form of a YA novel or graphic novel. twitter.com/themackenzilee… h/t @crashwong #MSWL #WeNeedDiverseBooks

To sum up: who's writing that drum corps YA novel starring a POC filled w/ drum corps summer drama? I want to acquire it! #MSWL @DCI

And drum corps is a VERY physical activity--there were days I marched 12-14 hrs in summer heat. I gained 20 lbs & lost 2 sizes. #MSWL

And then on personal level, you're in VERY close quarters w/ people very different from you for several months, all working on music #MSWL

And all leading up to the big shebang: do we qualify at Drum Corps International? #MSWL

Drum corps summers have an excellent plot structure: how does a kid raise money for it? Finally off on tour. Prep for competitions. #mswl

The idea of corps as a perfect place for a YA novel has been at the back of my mind for a long time. #MSWL

In corps I made my first friends who were from backgrounds completely different from mine: a Muslim girl, an Iranian Jewish girl #MSWL

Just one example of a high-class corps that's still marching today--the @scvanguard: youtube.com/user/SantaClar… #MSWL

We see YA books in performing arts schools, ballet companies, high school band (not as much on that last) but never corps. #MSWL

I elaborated on how awesome & diverse drum corps is/can be & perfect setting for a YA novel, but Twitter died & lost tweets. Later. #MSWL

The summer after high school I marched drum corps. I've never seen a YA novel that approached the subject. #MSWL