I have to raise $500 more in a week so I can pay rent and I’d rather work for it than post a GFM (though no judgment to those who need to do so). If anyone needs a query or synopsis review, help polishing their writing sample, wants a video call/facetime with an industry pro, etc, please DM me.

I have to raise $500 more in a week so I can pay rent and I’d rather work for it than post a GFM (though no judgment to those who need to do so). If anyone needs a query or synopsis review, help polishing their writing sample, wants a video call/facetime with an industry pro, etc, please DM me.

This weekend is Pride AND my birthday and I’m worried about bringing in enough money to pay rent at the end of the month, so if anyone needs query letter and/or synopsis critiques, wants to do an AMA video call, etc, or would like an edit done on their manuscript, please hit me up in the DMs!

SHE'S ARRIVED.

Also, my usual disclaimer applies: if I work with you for anything paid outside of agenting, I cannot consider you for rep, as I need to keep an ethical boundary between agenting and freelancing. So please only reach out if you’re not planning to query me.

I’m available for 30 min at $50 or 90 min at $100. You’ll get a face to face with me and my undivided attention to discuss anything about publishing that you’d like, whether that’s the state of the market, how to make your pitch stronger, any advice you may want, etc. DM me if interested.

Money is tight and it’s Pride and my birthday month, so I’m finally biting the bullet and making myself available for AMA video calls. I have 20 years in the publishing industry. 16 as an editor of award-winning & bestselling MG and YA fiction and now as an agent.

Money is tight and it’s Pride and my birthday month, so I’m finally biting the bullet and making myself available for AMA video calls. I have 20 years in the publishing industry. 16 as an editor of award-winning & bestselling MG and YA fiction and now as an agent.

Ya know how when a cat falls asleep on you and you’re like “welp, I guess I’m stuck here for the rest of my life?” That’s how I feel about Roy falling asleep next to me, esp. when he rolls over so he’s kind of half-laying on my arm. And I have plans I need to get ready for! 😩😅

Cats out of the bag! I’m making something ghoulish for We Heart Webcomics >:)

Happy Pride! Remember why we have it.

So exciting to see my debut, Not Your Typical Love Story, featured on this list by LGBTQ Reads along with other great books with aromantic rep! read.macmillan.com/lp/not-your-...

Big corporations this month:

It’s always bothered me that Willy Wonka let all those kids and their parents into a room where everything was edible and didn’t make them put on hygienic clothes & hair nets. They’re just in street shoes and he’s plucking hair out of Mike Teevee’s head and then they’re eating candy off the floor! 🤮

Just a heads up - I am still closed to queries and that’s being adjusted on the website. Not sure when I’ll be opening back up yet but I’ll announce it as soon as I have a better sense. I had about 2000 queries when I closed and I’m down to about 700 unread currently, plus 100 maybes & fulls.

I’m sorry I can’t come to the phone right now. I finally binged Heated Rivalry and am drowning in grief over the lack of romance in my life. Please leave a message at the sound of the existential scream and I’ll get back to you as soon I re-deaden my emotions or find true love (whichever comes 1st).

Pick a Bond villain from the pictures you already have on your phone.

Today was the day I realized Liesel from The Book Thief is also Young Shauna from Yellowjackets is also Rose from Heated Rivalry and suddenly my mind is blown.

If you can look at the money deficit and rising unemployment and acknowledge that it is a huge problem but then turn around and shit on people who crowdfund, I don't know what to tell you, but it's not good.

The DNC’s 2024 autopsy should be a wakeup call for all of us.

This letter is so fucking shady!

I love the way my mind works sometimes. Tonight at DnD we fought a water elemental and it had subsumed and was drowning an NPC. Her being inside the elemental also made it impossible to attack it without hurting her too.

I’ve made a terrible mistake. I ate crusty garlic bread in the bed and now there are crumbs EVERYWHERE! 😫😫😫 Kinda worth, tho. Roy’s garlic bread is 🔥🔥🔥!

If you haven’t watched Linda Perry’s interview with Elmo Lovano yet, go do it! It’s so good and she’s so incredible! I loved hearing about her creative process, especially as a millennial who came of age listening to some of her most well-known hits!

Shop indie!

CIS PEOPLE TIME TO STEP UP it’s once again time to yell at our bad government via online comment form the FCC is trying to make trans and nonbinary content require special ratings on shows GLAAD has a good writeup on it below TELL ‘EM NO direct link to comment form: www.fcc.gov/ecfs/filings...

I’m so excited for Caitlyn and I cannot wait to read this book! 😍😍😍

My fifth book is out today! I really wanted to write something about grieving the death of a parent while also addressing how funny and ridiculous the process can be. I didn’t know if I would be able to write this, but I’m really proud I did. Please buy it! bookshop.org/p/books/in-b...

No one ever had to yell “adapt or die” to get me to use any other bit of technology in my life.

I’ve been listening to a lot of The Mamas & The Papas and Cass Elliot lately and it’s really making me want to rewatch Beautiful Thing. I wish it was available to stream for free on literally ANY platform (or that I still owned a DVD player, since I have the DVD in a box under my bed).

So excited to be working with Melissa! 🥳

Comics people! This year if you want to vote in the Eisners (and didn’t receive an email saying you’re already registered), YOU MUST APPLY BY 13 MAY. Make your voice heard! Historians, educators, ✨ librarians ✨ and comic / webcomic creators should apply here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

This is what I ended up with:

D&D players - any ideas for homebrewed Beauty Cleric domain abilities? I’ve found a few that had some good ideas but felt a bit OP so I’d love other thoughts.

A visibly emotional Anne Hathaway responding to a trans kid--who named herself Ella after Ella Enchanted, and thanked Hathaway for her courage as an ally--saying "Ella, sweetie, I want to make something absolutely clear: It takes zero courage to love you"......now I might cry too

Someone sent this to me from a publishing job posting and…how embarrassing for them. Lol!

Responding to queries in the dark while the love of my life snores loudly next to me. I’m so behind and my query inbox is overflowing but there’s so much potential for new clients here! It’s both exciting and overwhelming. If I owe you a response, I’m so sorry it’s taken so long!

OR JUST WRITE THE THING YOURSELF FOR FUCK'S SAKE IT WILL TAKE LESS TIME THAN WHATEVER THE FUCK THIS IS mashable.com/article/sinc...

Off to a workshop tomorrow, so my annual reminder. If you’re pitching agents or editors at an in-person event, just read your query. Don’t stress about memorizing things. It’s not an audition, it’s just a conversation. ❤️

i am correctly labeled as an ai hater

Any Dem who runs on a platform of ending every single government contract with Palantir, then hiring a team of experts to undo the damage these fascist dorks have done to our infrastructure, communications and personnel, not only has my vote, but has my donation checks and volunteer hours as well.

Fuck this. As an industry, we are in an existential crisis of book banning because of homophobia and transphobia weaponized by racist authoritarians. “Dirty books” are not the problem. Censorship is. Make whatever books you like, but don’t you dare call other books dirty in your shitty marketing.

looking for your next Kindle ebook read? wanting something new adult, spicy, very bisexual, sporty, and philosophic? FUTBOLISTA is just $1.99 right now!

We're in the final hours of this fabulously queer science-fantasy! Please support independent queer art. Trip is an incredible author. You won't want to miss this! #booksky

Social movement scholar here to comment on No King again. a 🧵: These protests are important b/c: 1.) as sustained image events, protests offer evidence of continued disapproval of the direction the country is going and disavowal of the country's leadership.

My sweet princess’s heart is failing and my sister has to put her to sleep. I’m so devastated! Rest in peace, Liza! You were the bestest Wittoo to ever wittoo!

I do think "Avoid giving money to someone who will use that money to harm minorities, whose product is one fiction franchise out of literally thousands" is kind of a reasonable ask. Like it's not even activism, it's "don't actively contribute to harm."

Thank you, Mara, for making such incredible art of Ingrid and Alice!! ❤️