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Elana Roth Parker @elanaroth.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

News you can (maybe) use: I'm going to be reopening to queries the first 10 days of every month. (Trying out this new-fangled strategy to keep the volume manageable). And checking the calendar...that means I'm reopening tomorrow, March 1. querytracker.net/query/querye...

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Query Elana Roth Parker at Laura Dail Literary Agency, Inc.

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Laura Dail Literary Agency @ldlainc.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

We are so excited to welcome @tajmccoy.bsky.social to the LDLA team! Follow the 🧵for more info about what she's looking to find for her list!

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Eric Schmeltzer @ericschmeltzer.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Here is the pre-RFK vaccination schedule for your kids. Please download it before he is confirmed and changes/deletes it. Give it to your pediatrician and say this is the schedule you want your kids on. Making this my pinned post.

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Elana Roth Parker @elanaroth.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

I'm still struggling with it, and have sent a few projects out that straddle the YA/Adult line, but perhaps don't quite fit the NA parameters...but haven't found my groove. I think I'd prefer to be more fully in either bucket.

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Elana Roth Parker @elanaroth.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

The DS9 episode where Frankie Eyes takes over Vic Fontaine’s casino is basically how I picture Trump taking over the Kennedy Center.

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Elana Roth Parker @elanaroth.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Totally sucks. Accessibility is such a thing and so many places don't have small craft or fabric stores but do have a Joann. And when I need some batting or basics, it's always a place I knew I could go without having to order online. It's going to send a lot of people to Hobby Lobby and...yikes.

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Elana Roth Parker @elanaroth.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

For Adult, some of the same. Nothing too self-serious. I love a fun concept with a strong voice. Thinking of THURSDAY MURDER CLUB or FINLEY DONOVAN as a good example. I'm up for SFF but more accessible and commercial. Or cozy!

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Elana Roth Parker @elanaroth.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

For MG and YA, I could use some projects to reinvigorate things. Humor and optimism and joy would be nice. Fanciful, fantastic twists. Books that have FUN and let readers have fun. (I really can't handle depressing stories right now.)

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Elana Roth Parker @elanaroth.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

MG, YA or adult, I'm always looking for high-concept, commercial reads. Great plots and hooks. Strong voices and characters in those well-drawn worlds and situations. I'm up for some genre blending. A rom-com in a dystopian world? Agatha Christie in space? Murder mystery and dragons? Do it.

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Elana Roth Parker @elanaroth.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

I haven't done an #MSWL day in a hot minute. I'm not open to queries just yet. Probably March? But my general categories don't tend to change that much... I updated my page here anyway: www.manuscriptwishlist.com/mswl-post/el...

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Elana Roth Parker – The Official Manuscript Wish List Website

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Association of Jewish Libraries @jewishlibraries.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Join @joshuaslevy.bsky.social, author of FINN AND EZRA'S BAR MITZVAH TIME LOOP, Sydney Taylor Honor Book in the Middle Grade Category, on the next blog tour stop. Hosted at bookoflifepodcast.substack.com/p/podcast-fi... View the full blog tour schedule at jewishlibraries.org/2025-blog-to... #STBA

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Podcast: Finn & Ezra's Bar Mitzvah Time Loop

Episode #304, for the Sydney Taylor Book Award Blog Tour

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Elana Roth Parker @elanaroth.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Look, I’m still salty the Lions aren’t in this game, but Philly is making this worthwhile.

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Elana Roth Parker @elanaroth.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

And yours as well. And agree. This would have destroyed them all over again.

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Elana Roth Parker @elanaroth.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

100%. It's a weird way to justify a change NOW. Lashon hara rules really boil down to "if you're not talking about Torah, you're probably committing lashon hara." So...basically all human interaction. Using it here feels like "Quick! Someone make this statement more Jewish."

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Elana Roth Parker @elanaroth.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

This is a stretch from the statement, but part of the lashon hara prohibitions are also about hearing it or believing it being just as bad as saying it....so I guess don't be on a platform where it abounds? Not like that wasn't true before, but...

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Elana Roth Parker @elanaroth.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

You know, I vaguely remember your family being from Munkacs. I grew up with a lot survivors from there and my bubbie's town. Somehow they found each other here.

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Elana Roth Parker @elanaroth.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Epigenetic trauma is interesting. I don't really know how to explain all the ways their experiences still play out in my life. The subtle ways my father adapted to his parents' trauma, which now play out in how I engage the world as a Jew. I wish more people knew. It's real and not all in the past.

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Elana Roth Parker @elanaroth.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

My grandparents have been dead many years now. I miss them every day. I wish more people could have benefited from knowing a Holocaust survivor personally. I look around now and I am just terrified we're walking into this all over again. And only some of us see it.

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Elana Roth Parker @elanaroth.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

But they both survived. And went "home"...to my grandmother's hometown of Uzhhorod (now in Ukraine). They met at a soup kitchen. They got married. They fled west. Had my uncle in a DP camp in Germany. Eventually got sponsored by the JDC and made it to the US and built a whole new life.

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Elana Roth Parker @elanaroth.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

My grandfather was sent on a death march, where his job was to drag dead bodies to the side of the road. He narrowly escaped through a loose board of a barn wall, in which he'd been locked inside with other prisoners, just before the Nazis bulldozed the building. Only a few got out.

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Elana Roth Parker @elanaroth.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

It's Holocaust Remembrance Day. Auschwitz was liberated 80 years ago. Both my bubbie and zayde survived Auschwitz, but neither was liberated there. My grandmother had been transferred to a labor camp, making Nazi uniforms, and freed by the Russian army there. 🧵

A black and white photo of a young man and woman looking at each other, smiling.

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Elana Roth Parker @elanaroth.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Our first winter in our house we had the sewer line bust. Also from roots of a now-dead tree on the easement. In our case they had to dig up the whole road because the main was on the other side of the street. $25k later...insurance doesn't usually cover sewer lines, I hate to say....

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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers. This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.

A bird's-eye view of a former Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp showing a wide dirt pathway flanked by parallel rows of barbed-wire fences. Groups of visitors walk along the path, surrounded by the remnants of brick structures and barracks, now reduced to foundations. Green grass contrasts with the somber history of the site, as the path leads toward a guard tower in the distance.

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Elana Roth Parker @elanaroth.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

I don't know how because literally it's the same people going from this happy stuff to the horrible stuff.

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Elana Roth Parker @elanaroth.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

For one whole hour, my feed here was filled with children's books winning awards and not panic and it was glorious. Alas, back to the pit of despair we go....

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Elana Roth Parker @elanaroth.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Congrats again @joshuaslevy.bsky.social! A Sydney Taylor Honor for FINN & EZRA! So so so happy for you!

A powerpoint slide presenting a Sydney Taylor Honor award to FINN & EZRA'S BAR MITZVAH TIME LOOP by Joshua S. Levy

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Elana Roth Parker @elanaroth.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

We watched it and all loved it. The kids couldn’t wait for the finale. It was fun!

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Elana Roth Parker @elanaroth.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

6yo: Mom, what’s 9 times 5? Me: 45 6yo: So if 9 bears each ate 5 pizzas, that’s how many pizzas you’d need to order? You’re welcome. Happy Friday.

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Elana Roth Parker @elanaroth.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Also congrats to client Alexa Donne! This is her second nomination. It’s a good day over here.

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Elana Roth Parker @elanaroth.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

And if I can add a footnote: I've increasingly leaned into "we only have each other" when it comes to my Jewish world in the last 15ish months...so this recognition feels extra meaningful, even though I know it won't be felt in the wider kidlit world.

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Elana Roth Parker @elanaroth.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Popping back into this site to say BIG congrats to @joshuaslevy.bsky.social on winning the National Jewish Book Award for Middle Grade Literature today for FINN & EZRA'S BAR MITZVAH TIME LOOP. Kvelling, schepping naches, and all those things. Thanks @jewishbookcouncil.bsky.social!

Graphic of book cover for FINN & EZRA'S BAR MITZVAH TIME LOOP with text "winner of the 74th National Jewish Book Award for Middle Grade Literature" with Jewish Book Council winner seal.

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Elana Roth Parker @elanaroth.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Guess who picked up a new hobby over the break. Guess who also still has her floss carrying case, complete with lots of floss and old friendship bracelets vintage 1994. This should be an easy guess.

Embroidery hoop with word “Anxiety” and a border of flowers stitched on the fabric. Behind it is a pink organizing case with many colors of embroidery floss and friendship bracelets inside it.

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Association of American Literary Agents @aalitagents.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

🚨Important🚨: Scammers continue to impersonate literary agents and agencies, and are now doing so using fake @aalitagents.com emails. AALA members DO NOT have personal email addresses associated with the AALA . Stay informed: aalitagents.org/literary-age... Authors, please share this information!

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Literary Agent Scam Alerts - Association of American Literary Agents

Scammers are impersonating literary agents, using deceptive email addresses to target authors. AALA members never charge reading fees or use @aalitagents.com addresses. Always verify agent authenticit...

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Elana Roth Parker @elanaroth.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Thank you. Honestly divine intervention would be really welcome right about now.

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Jessica Sinsheimer @jsinsheim.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

An important reminder: we don't have time to lie about wanting to see your next work. If an agent asks to see future projects, they mean it!

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Elana Roth Parker @elanaroth.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Ear infection confirmed. I hate this time of year.

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Elana Roth Parker @elanaroth.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Thank you! So far he seems to be the only one. My older kid doesn’t get the respiratory stuff very often and neither do I. But it’s been ROUGH.

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Elana Roth Parker @elanaroth.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

I was right to be on Yellow Alert. The warbird did de-cloak in the form of my 6yo having an ear ache in the middle of the night and a new fever on the heels of pneumonia two weeks ago, followed by a wheezing cough and a fever last week. This kid can’t catch a break and neither can I.

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Elana Roth Parker @elanaroth.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Not that anyone's asking, but if I had to describe my current mental state it's Yellow Alert on the edge of the Neutral Zone waiting for a Romulan warbird to decloak at any second.

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Elana Roth Parker @elanaroth.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Has LOWER DECKS done an “Eyes in the dark, one moon circling” joke yet? I feel like it must have.

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Elana Roth Parker @elanaroth.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

I have to amend this to include: - Sins of the Father - Night Terrors - Schisms - Unification 1 & 2

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Elana Roth Parker @elanaroth.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Yes. Though I rotate between TNG and Voyager for the relaxing nights. And DS9 really is the one I have to watch start to finish.

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Elana Roth Parker @elanaroth.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

I finally solved it, but I'm still mad about it.

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Elana Roth Parker @elanaroth.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Word people and picture people are not the same. My brain hurt.

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Elana Roth Parker @elanaroth.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

I got one quickly. And the second with a little effort. And now I'm just perplexed.

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