Hello again, world!

So, I like the #MSWL hashtag. Most of the readers who find their way here probably know what it is already, but for the uninitiated, it stands for ManuScript WishList, and many agents and editors flex their creative muscles and dream up concepts for novels they wish they were working on. They range from the broadly general:

Also, literary fiction with a solid plot. Yeah, that’s vague, but it can run the gamut! #MSWL

— Eddie Schneider (@eddieschneider) June 27, 2013

to the hyperspecific:

I have no idea why, but I’ve always wanted to read a middle grade mystery set entirely on a train. Maybe fantasy, maybe not. #MSWL

— Eddie Schneider (@eddieschneider) February 18, 2015

There’s even a website. (I’m verified, but as of this writing, haven’t put up a profile yet. Soon—I swear!)

This post, then, serves as an index of the things I’d like to see. It’s curated, and current, and the curious can bookmark it.

Maybe you can use it as a writing prompt, maybe it’s something you decide you want to share with your workshop/writer’s group. The #MSWL is definitely not the be all and end all of what I’m looking for, but it’s a different take, and I think it’ll be a useful one. Enjoy!

And if you feel like there’s something sorely missing in your reading life, then feel free to #MSWL it up on Twitter, or comment, or, you know, write the book . . .

I feel like everyone knows this about me, but I long for a great non-Western fantasy novel, for MG, for YA, or adult! #MSWL

— Eddie Schneider (@eddieschneider) June 27, 2013

I’d also love to see a literary YA thriller, with a Snowden-esque protag… #MSWL

— Eddie Schneider (@eddieschneider) June 27, 2013

Oh, and another #MSWL request is something I remember talking about with @the_SDB — a YA Roman Holiday!

— Eddie Schneider (@eddieschneider) June 27, 2013

In revising my agent bio, I came up with a great #MSWL idea: I would love to see a sword & sorcery Sinbad the Sailor!

— Eddie Schneider (@eddieschneider) September 4, 2013

RT @eddieschneider The thing I most long for, #MSWL viewers, are literary/SF, lit/fantasy crossovers (e.g. David Mitchell, Margaret Atwood)

— Daniel José Older (@djolder) September 25, 2013

Okay, one last #MSWL for me: NA novel, like That Thing You Do, but the protagonist is in a girl group that gets picked up by Motown…

— Eddie Schneider (@eddieschneider) September 25, 2013

“@eddieschneider: Gore Vidal + “Battlestar Galactica” = #MSWL” +1

— Joe Monti (@joemts) February 26, 2014

FRM @eddieschneider: I’d love to see more gritty, near-future SF (MG/YA or adult) with protagonists who are in the underclass. #MSWL

— Broad Universe (@BroadUniverse) February 27, 2014

.#MSWL MT @tehawesomersace: So, who’s going to write a dystopian YA novel where a girl is a drug dealer but what she deals is contraception?

— Eddie Schneider (@eddieschneider) June 30, 2014

Writing prompt: #MSWL pic.twitter.com/eGmSe2vLcW

— Eddie Schneider (@eddieschneider) July 10, 2015

I still have yet to get that YA novel about a girl group in Motown. . .