happy ✨ cover reveal day ✨ to THE IRON GARDEN SUTRA! The first time I finished my readthrough, I loved it so much that I had to call a friend at 2am and cry about it. I can’t wait for you all to be crying too. Read an excerpt below! ⬇️

I don’t want to “streamline” my writing. I don’t want to “increase my output.” I don’t want to “write a novel with one click.” I want to write stuff only I can write. I want to read and write novels with soul and heart and a unique voice. Fuck AI. Long live real writers.

Ultimately, the Sword picks the Scribe — but I think @shannonlechon.bsky.social and I work better as partners, wouldn’t you say? After the most stressful month of my life, I thought I'd want rest, but no. We have so many more queer, cutting, and unflinchingly Filipino stories to talk about ~ 🪶

two chapters left to write in this first draft of the weird tree book. vibrating out of my skin about it.

i have four chapters left to write in this draft of weird trees and almost feel anxious suddenly

Movie you’ve watched more than six times using gifs. (“Hard mode” no Star Wars, Star Trek, or LOTR)

Commission for @lirille.bsky.social 💎🤍

65,000 words on the weird tree book, and had the first made-me-cry moment (i did not expect it to happen now, if it was ever going to with this book). maybe 30k more before the end?

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“The data’s clear that #boys are struggling and looking for new stories—any story, really—to help them understand their masculinity. If publishers continue to dismiss this half of the market as ‘non-readers,’ others will fill that void to everyone’s peril.” www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

Commission of Lady Inquisitor for @/vic_toodles on X 🌕

PSYCHOPOMP blurb 8 comes to us from Elaine U Cho, author of Ocean's Godori (and fun fact, also my agent sibling!)

My friend @soumiroy1.bsky.social is a brilliant writer and scientist who is in a terrible position right now. Please help in any way you can, even if it's just sharing or boosting ❤️ gofund.me/74bc7dde

psst psst, my author web presence is up on tumblr now—it’s my goofy website of choice, so feel free to keep up with me more actively there! catherinehellens.tumblr.com

Talking about goals goals goals goals and none of you mention the real goals: Antoine and Evka

Four Video Game Men You Find Attractive💜

i have a book coming out (next year)! it is about horrors. what a ✨coincidence✨. it's also about faith, and mushrooms, and connection. it would mean the world to me if you added it to your TBRs! 100 adds and i shall do a sneak peek 👀 www.goodreads.com/book/show/22...

✨💎COVER REVEAL💎✨ LOCAL HEAVENS—a queer dystopian love story + cyberpunk Gatsby reimagining. on capitalism, the American Nightmare & radical hope. out Oct 14th. design: Charlotte Strick art: @madebykaran ✨ Pre order now (& save your receipts!) 🧵details below

backrooms x silent sea looking for her missing girlfriend, a woman discovers a familiar door on a deserted spaceship. the rooms within almost feel like home. but home has a soul—this place does not. 🚪themes of home 🪽leaving a toxic r/s 👁️thin line btwn memories and real life

if the recent attacks on science are getting you down, there's no better time to check out the agent's guide to my cathartic academic revenge tale. SEE IN ME THE WOLF pulls no punches, so gird yourself if you've ever spent time in academia... #agentsguide #agentguide #amquerying #writingcommunity 📚💙

I am eating this book still

#emmrook #datv #emmrichvolkarin #rook

After the craziest three weeks ever, l'm ecstatic to announce that I'm now represented by @literaryfey.bsky.social of @belllomaxmoreton.bsky.social! From the time she noticed my pitch right up to her offer, l've been blown away by her enthusiasm for Phoenix Bones!

To celebrate finishing my revisions, my INCREDIBLE mentor @rachelkitch.bsky.social designed the cover, typeset & printed a personal copy of the Jimbook for me?! A dream come true to hold my writing in my hands with my art on the cover! 🥹🥰 #writingcommunity #amquerying #booksky #writesky

So incredibly excited to announce that I have signed with Alexander Slater @greenburgerlit.bsky.social I knew White Trash Witchcraft was something special, but I never in my wildest dreams anticipated ten offers and the absolute rollercoaster that has been this past month. 🧵

an #agentguide to PHOENIX BONES (be gay eat god) that i’m bringing over from twt 👀 a sci-fi (cosmic) horror ft. a mad scientist & an alluring godcorpse w/ 🫀 horny horrorTM 🥩 divinity as something horrific 🐦‍🔥 a futuristic reimagining of ancient china

THE SECRET OF NIMH X WARRIORS A magical cat is swept into a hidden world of secret agents, underground cities, and strange allies, only to realize she must reclaim her power or watch her ruthless mentor destroy everything she loves. ✨🐈✨ #WSPitQ #WSPit #MG #F #amquerying #writingcommunity

TENEMENT The Giver x House of Leaves 😨 Dystopian nightmare 🚪Backrooms ⬛Empty World 📜Follow the Rules 🤱Missing Parent 👥Wholesome Bro Friends ✊Rage Against the Machine 🗝️Forgotten Knowledge 🔎Buried Secrets 👀 They're Always Watching 💊 Leaving the Matrix #WSPitW #YA #D #M

and if i drop a spontaneously made moodboard at 4am because my dreams were so weird and vivid that they woke me up, what then? anyway, i’m 14/18 chapters done for revisions on THE GREAT GLAVENISEAN THEATER 🩶🩷🎭

Dear #litagents, here's a look at some of the themes under the hood of my #amquerying cautionary academic fantasy tale about technology, ethics, & the monsters that egos make of us! (*smacks the Jimbook* this baby can fit SO many themes) #writingcommunity #booksky #sff #writesky

ELPHABA X ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF FAERIES X DON'T LET THE FOREST IN = TEARS OF A BANSHEE 🖤Sibling rivalry 🖤Themes of grief, jealousy & revenge 🖤Good FMC turned bad 🖤Morally grey, angry & imperfect characters 🖤Challenging the system Belated #questpit post for my #agentsguide #Q #F #H #NA #writingcommunity

✨NEWS✨ I'm SO excited to announce that I'm now represented by Maria Whelan of Inkwell Management!! I was beyond blown away by Maria's vision for my weird, gothic ode to libraries, ill-fated love, disability & sapphic women & I can't wait to see what this next chapter holds 📚🥀

muting discord servers for a moment as i try to break myself from my phone, if you need me shoot me a dm, i’ll still reply to those 💓

cousin’s wedding in charleston today 💙 i did in fact cry

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if you see this you know who you are

🥀 There is a house There is a garden There is a secret You mustn’t know There are sisters Who tend the garden And what is reaped Must first be sown 🥀

Jim's graduate research was meant to bring salvation to rural regions like his own. Healing, with a simple telepathic command. Growth. But not all growth is good for the body—or soul. Lucky for Jim, botanist Bash is *excellent* at pruning. #YouDeservepIt #A #SF #F #Q #agentsguide #litagents

gotta love elf girls forever <3 [c0mmiss0n]

oc | Charlotte "I am broken like glass, but assembled into a stained glass window" 🥀🤍

new pinned post, now that we're past pub day! howzit bsky! I'm Makana, a hapa haole māhū lesbian from Maui! I write about AAPI lesbians being messy in space. my cyberpunk lesbian space heist debut, Hammajang Luck, is out NOW in the UK and US! links in the comments!

Here are 20 recommendations of Sci-fi/Fantasy books written by diverse authors to add to your TBR! #diversebooksky #sffbooks #Blackbooksky 📚🪐 💙

ACT UP, 1990

Here's the next blurb on the road to April 22 - this one from the marvelous Sam J. Miller, author of BLACKFISH CITY (a personal favorite), BOYS, BEASTS & MEN, and THE BLADE BETWEEN, among others. Check out his work if you are not familiar, it's excellent. Link for my book pinned on my profile 🏳️‍🌈📚

DEAD COLLECTIONS X FEED THEM SILENCE What happens to a found-family forged in violence once the blood dries? After murdering her fiance, Selene decides to throw away her dreams of being a housewife to take care of the pack of werewolves she has inherited. #P2Ppit #A #UW #Q