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Elana Roth Parker @elanaroth.bsky.social · Mar 12

Summer internship applications are open at LDLA. Yes, paid. Yes, remote. Visit the link in the post below for more info. (i.e. your questions will probably be answered there...also reading is part of the job!)

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Elana Roth Parker @elanaroth.bsky.social · Feb 28

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.

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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 · Feb 28

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.com · Feb 4

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 · Feb 13

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 · Feb 13

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 · Feb 12

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 · Feb 12

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 · Feb 12

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 · Feb 12

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 · Feb 12

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...

Elana Roth Parker – The Official Manuscript Wish List Website

www.manuscriptwishlist.com

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Association of Jewish Libraries @jewishlibraries.bsky.social · Feb 11

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

Podcast: Finn & Ezra's Bar Mitzvah Time Loop

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

bookoflifepodcast.substack.com

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Elana Roth Parker @elanaroth.bsky.social · Feb 10

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 · Feb 10

Yes.

Elana Roth Parker @elanaroth.bsky.social · Feb 10

Philly is a brick wall tonight.

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Elana Roth Parker @elanaroth.bsky.social · Jan 27

And yours as well.

And agree. This would have destroyed them all over again.

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Elana Roth Parker @elanaroth.bsky.social · Jan 27

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 · Jan 27

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 · Jan 27

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 · Jan 27

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 · Jan 27

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 · Jan 27

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 · Jan 27

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 · Jan 27

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 · Jan 27

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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