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 on...
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,...
