by Michelle | Apr 4, 2016 | agenty stuff, craft, I like, MSWL, querying, reading, recent, storytelling, writing
Image above created by Stefano Vitale for Broadway musical production of Like Water for Chocolate. This is the fifth in a five-part series on Magical Realism. If you haven’t read the previous posts, I recommend starting with Part 1: What Is Magical Realism? “When you...
by Michelle | Sep 29, 2015 | I like, MSWL, reading, recent, storytelling, writing
This is fourth in a five-part series on Magical Realism. If you haven’t read Part 1: What Is Magical Realism?, I’d recommend starting there. “Our human tragedy is that we are unable to comprehend our experience, it slips through our fingers, we can’t hold...
by Michelle | Sep 29, 2015 | agenty stuff, craft, I like, MSWL, querying, recent, storytelling, writing
This is the third in a five-part series on Magical Realism. If you haven’t read the first two, I recommend starting with Part 1: What Is Magical Realism? “I began to wonder whether anything truly existed, whether reality wasn’t an unformed and gelatinous...
by Michelle | Jul 31, 2015 | agenty stuff, authors, craft, I like, MSWL, querying, reading, recent, storytelling, writing
“It was as if God had decided to put to the test every capacity for surprise . . . to such an extreme that no-one knew for certain where the limits of reality lay. It was an intricate stew of truths and mirages that convulsed the ghost of José Arcadio Buendía with...
by Michelle | Jul 28, 2015 | agenty stuff, I like, MSWL, querying, recent, writing, YA
Writers seem to really like the visual post I did recently on the types of picture books and illustrations I’d like to see in my inbox, so I figure, why not do some more for other genres/age groups I rep. This one will be slightly different since I’m not...
by Michelle | Jul 25, 2015 | agenty stuff, authors, chapter books, diversity, I like, illustrations, kidlit, MG, MSWL, picture books, querying, recent, social media, writing, YA
Once again #MSWL day is upon us. For the uninitiated, #MSWL is a Twitter hashtag that agents and editors use to indicate the kinds of manuscripts they’d like to see in their query inbox. These include a variety of genres, age groups, subjects, ideas, characters,...
