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Senior Editor at Diversion Books, author, Chair of Latinx in Publishing
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Richie Narvaez
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Support THE SPECULATIVE DETECTIVE AGENCY Kickstarter
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Richie Narvaez
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Only 8 Days Left! We're 1/3 the way there! Please chip in to support the Kickstarter for THE SPECULATIVE DETECTIVE AGENCY Anthology!
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Matthew David Goodwin
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Hypnotize yourself with a great book!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/for...
The Speculative Detective Agency edited by Matthew David Goodwin and Richie Narvaez will be published by Diversion Books in Fall of 2026. We are committed to paying the authors, and we need your donation to make this happen.
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Matthew David Goodwin
2 days ago
Author Highlight #5 Lincoln Michel's "Language Trouble" Agent Retter has been saddled with an annoying robot sidekick by the SDA, and is assigned the case of a missing cy-sorcer! His question is the one we all ask: How do you keep your humanity in the age of AI?
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Colin the Copywriter
2 days ago
Whoop! Whoop! as they say. Exo is
@libraryjournal.bsky.social
SFF Debut of the Month. 'Recalls KSR!' I am not worthy. Thank you
@diversionbooks.bsky.social
@zenoagency.bsky.social
@awfulagent.bsky.social
www.libraryjournal.com/story/exo-by...
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'Exo' by Colin Brush| SFF Debut of the Month
Dual timelines, a shockingly hyperdimensional setting, and flawed characters make this a must-read that recalls the work of Kim Stanley Robinson.
https://www.libraryjournal.com/story/exo-by-colin-brush-sff-debut-of-the-month
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Stephanie Nina Pitsirilos
2 days ago
How does one pitch a book on
@kickstarter.com
when tabling at an in-person event? Make the intangible tangible. Pick it up, open it, surprise! You are invited to back To Love Like Venus.
kck.st/46JUHML
Come see Janus Point Press at table 11 tomorrow at
@latinxprojnyu.bsky.social
's La Feria.
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Matthew David Goodwin
4 days ago
Author Highlight #3: Stephanie Nina Pitsirilos Stephanie’s short story for the SDA “The Silver Woman” has all the things that make a great speculative detective story, Faraday cages, remote viewing, aliens, Greek islands. So good! Come and join us!
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Stephanie Nina Pitsirilos
6 days ago
if anyone is wondering how cool La Feria was last year, check this out!
hyperallergic.com/952989/a-rar...
they welcome RSVPs to help organize. Free! 9/27 NYU
www.eventbrite.com/e/la-feria-p...
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A Rare Home for Latinx Art Books and Prints in New York City
La Feria featured art, books, posters, stickers, and more by at least 30 artists, whose offerings were as richly varied as the fair’s playlist.
https://hyperallergic.com/952989/a-rare-home-for-latinx-art-books-and-prints-in-new-york-city/
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Megan Chee
8 days ago
Check this out! This is a super fun project where each contributing writer creates their own detective character within a shared world of supernatural entities. I'll have a story in this and there's an open submission call too!
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Matthew David Goodwin
10 days ago
Hi Everyone! Thank you for supporting the authors of the Speculative Detective Agency anthology! I know everyone is busy but if you could take five minutes today and let a friend know about this project we would really appreciate it. Thanks!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/for...
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Matthew David Goodwin
11 days ago
Whenever our detectives travel or go to conferences we are often asked about Roswell so I thought I should mention it. When you visit Roswell, you don't visit the crash site which is far outside of Roswell.
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Jeremy D Baker
9 days ago
BOOK EVENT 10/8/2025! (short thread) Pleased as punch to announce that Middleburg Books in beautiful Middleburg, Virginia, has made The Guilty Sleep the inaugural novel for their brand-new "Michael's Book Club", which is run and hosted by former CIA Director Michael Morell! 1/3
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Jeremy D Baker
11 days ago
Short Thread (w link to free article I wrote): Veterans Breakfast Club has a mission statement near and dear to my heart: every veteran has a story. VBC believes in the healing power of telling our stories, and in bringing veterans coming together in fellowship. 1/4
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Taco Bell Quarterly
11 days ago
Nobody knows what they're doing, nobody makes money, and nobody reads it either!! ARE YOU IN OR WHAT?????
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Go to the
@latinxpublishing.bsky.social
@bookshop.org
page to get Latine titles at 20% off! Now thru September 30 with code LHM25!
bookshop.org/lists/2025-l...
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2025 Latinx in Publishing Recommended Books for Latine Heritage Month
Celebrate Latine Heritage Month with 20% off Bookshop.org’s curated recs by Latine authors.
https://bookshop.org/lists/2025-latinx-in-publishing-recommended-books-for-latine-heritage-month
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Please consider supporting The Speculative Detective Agency anthology! By donating to the Kickstarter you also get the book at a discount.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/for...
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The Speculative Detective Agency
A Curious Collection of Mysterious Cases
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/fordreamers/the-speculative-detective-agency-the-2025-report?fbclid=IwY2xjawM0IkdleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHojEaDgAzCUgsVBFYoTl9Hp7h_Xct_OlU99-qaJhSSiSHGvPA5UTwVnamny1_aem_RpmnXM1pfzjmqfYPhFW9Lw
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Deadline extended to 9/30! Call for submissions for
#TheDetectiveSpeculativeAgency
, a linked anthology.
#scifi
#speculative
#noir
#detective
#crimefiction
#horror
#fantasy
drive.google.com/file/d/18swh...
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The Speculative Detective Agency Call for Stories.pdf
https://drive.google.com/file/d/18swhMoGvc-byvePTXAiFE9YnfcIlBF5u/view?fbclid=IwY2xjawMqd5FleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETEzelN4ek9INFlCY0VucmlkAR7ol2oJMEE0AXlelLDDfsi6ZqyMDPUwI1AWoRXRVC1IaIs1MtUfMqYgXPuKyQ_aem_sHi_VsIjK2dB79B3X3rs6A
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Latine book workers in NYC, head over to Latinx in Publishing's Instagram page to enter to win a free ticket to our seminar and a networking event at Scholastic next Friday! @latinxpublishing
lnkd.in/e7twS4Wm
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Colin the Copywriter
25 days ago
A shout out to all in America. Here's your chance to get your science-fiction-murder-mystery-it's-the-end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it literary fix cheap!
www.barnesandnoble.com/w/exo-colin-...
@diversionbooks.bsky.social
@zenoagency.bsky.social
@awfulagent.bsky.social
@barnesandnoble.com
#BNPreorder
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CrimeReads
about 2 months ago
Tim Chawaga imagines cross-literary bonds in work by Carl Hiaasen, Walter Mosley, and more!
crimereads.com/salvage-buds...
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Salvage Buds: Four Sci-Fi and Mystery Sleuths Who Would Get Along With Travis McGee
My sci-fi mystery, Salvagia, is set along the future flooded Florida coast. Protagonist Triss Mackey dives for artifacts of the past known as “salvagia” in the shallow water now known a…
https://crimereads.com/salvage-buds-four-sci-fi-and-mystery-sleuths-who-would-get-along-with-travis-mcgee/
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Richie Narvaez
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"Book Review: Not Your Papi’s Utopia: Latinx Visions of Radical Hope by Matthew David Goodwin, Alex Hernandez, Sara Rivera, eds," by
@arleysorg.bsky.social
: "You need to read this book."
www.lightspeedmagazine.com/nonfiction/b...
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Book Review: Not Your Papi's Utopia: Latinx Visions of Radical Hope by Matthew David Goodwin, Alex Hernandez, Sara Rivera, eds. - Lightspeed Magazine
If you remember one thing from Arley Sorg's review of Not Your Papi's Utopia: Latinx Visions of Radical Hope, he wants it to be---You need to read this book.
https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/nonfiction/book-review-not-your-papis-utopia-latinx-visions-of-radical-hope-by-matthew-david-goodwin-alex-hernandez-sara-rivera-eds/
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An amazing sci-fi noir coming at you next year!
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Call for submissions for an interconnected anthology. Speculative, science fiction, fantasy, horror, supernatural stories. Due 9/15. Payment is $300. More details here!
drive.google.com/file/d/1_kLK...
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The Speculative Detective Agency Call for Stories.pdf
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_kLK4MBGEzWJAC-rL1w4G7LhCqS1wE6y/view?fbclid=IwY2xjawMPPmNleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFFclJib2JQRW1iWXQybU9yAR5ttjf8yVn_OqQoA22EWERQjUHXNzNoYBtMG5vX7RiixBK23kPHMc2IvHfi1A_aem_cjeQi_mlbaBi4OLktN0yAA
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Tim Chawaga
about 2 months ago
SALVAGIA is out. It's officially pub day! Come join me on the yoreshore. 🐊🚀🌴
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CSPeterson
about 2 months ago
Just coming here to shout about
@timchawaga.bsky.social
’s fabulous debut! Noir in future Florida, diving in drowned cities, corporate shenanigans. Must Read!
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Open to attendees of the Latinx Storytellers Conference, I'm doing 1-on-1 consultations. Let's discuss your novel!
@lkbfstorytellers.bsky.social
www.latinxstorytellersconference.com
about 2 months ago
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It's my birthday. If you can, all I would like is donations to
@latinxpublishing.bsky.social
. We can really use it. And the publishing industry and Latinx authors and all readers are better off with us. Trust me! Donations are tax-deductible.
latinxinpublishing.com/donate
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Donate — Latinx in Publishing
https://latinxinpublishing.com/donate
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Zeno Agency
3 months ago
Reviewers: EXO by Colin Brush is available for request on NetGalley!
www.netgalley.com/catalog/book...
Due to be published by
@diversionbooks.bsky.social
, on Nov.18th.
@colinthecopywriter.bsky.social
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NetGalley helps publishers and authors promote digital review copies to book advocates and industry professionals. Publishers make digital review copies and audiobooks available for the NetGalley comm...
https://www.netgalley.com/catalog/book/659293
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Jeremy D Baker
2 months ago
Y’all, yinz, youse guys: The audiobook of The Guilty Sleep is out RIGHT NOW. Hear the phenomenal Charles Constant bring this novel to life—he absolutely crushed it.
#booksky
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#crimethriller
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It's my 1-year anniversary at
@diversionbooks.bsky.social
! Over the past year I've acquired 30 titles and published 3 amazing novels. I am very fortunate to work with wonderful authors and colleagues and look forward to seeing more of my titles go out into the world this year!
2 months ago
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LKBF’s Latinx Storytellers Conference
3 months ago
The 2024 sizzle reel is here! 🎥 What’s the Latinx Storytellers Conference all about? Craft. Community. Joy. Purpose. 💥 We’re back Sept 12–13, 2025. 🎟️ Tickets available now — don’t miss your chance. 🔗
www.latinxstorytellersconference.com/registration
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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑
4 months ago
We know it’s easy to feel overwhelmed. It’s easy to feel worn down by our democracy being chipped away. YOU ARE NOT ALONE IN THIS FIGHT. Look at this map of NO KINGS protests. There are OVER 1,800 in the US, South America & Europe! This is a GLOBAL stand. Join us on JUNE 14th for NO KINGS ❌👑
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Congratulations to Sam Davey on the pub day of THE CHOSEN QUEEN! I am very proud to have played a role in adding this Igraine novel to the body of Arthurian literature and feminist retellings. Now you too can pose with this gorgeous book! And read it of course.
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THE CHOSEN QUEEN by Sam Davey pubs tomorrow!
#igraine
#arthurian
#fiction
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Jeremy D Baker
4 months ago
Now, there are all kinds of Book Dads (tm) out there: History Dads, Thriller Dads, Sci-Fi Dads, you name it. So my list runs the gamut. Check it out, find something cool for the Book Dad in your life! 2/2
#booksky💙📚
#readingtime
#bestbooks
#fathersday
shepherd.com/best-books/b...
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Shepherd - Explore the books that readers love.
Join the rebellion and meet the indie book platform readers deserve! Meet the books that you will love, not just like.
https://Shepherd.com
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4 months ago
RED ALERT
#booksky
📚💙 people: Father's Day is almost here! The cool cats over at book discovery powerhouse
Shepherd.com
asked me to put together a list of the best books to gift your dad for Father's Day. 1/2 (link in next)
#books
#booksworthreading
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The best fantasy novels about supernature – magic, alchemy and enchantment
Sam Davey shares the 5 best books on supernature magic, alchemy and enchantment. Have you read Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell?
https://shepherd.com/best-books/supernature-magic-alchemy-and-enchantment
4 months ago
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Sandra Proudman
4 months ago
✨Please help me spread the word as I try to raise $15K for families ASAP I will be doing a 50-page YA SFF intensive limited to 20 authors this summer for
#KidLit4Ceasefire
fundraising. It will be epic!!!✨
www.32auctions.com/organization...
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Full Manuscript Critique - MG or YA
Auction item 'Full Manuscript Critique - MG or YA' hosted online at 32auctions.
https://www.32auctions.com/organizations/128551/auctions/180831/auction_items/6198806
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LibraryReads
4 months ago
You know where you CAN get lists of books recommended by Regular Human Readers?
LibraryReads.org!
! A new list every month, selected by library staff across the US, not by AI!
www.npr.org/2025/05/20/n...
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How an AI-generated summer reading list got published in major newspapers
Newspapers around the country, including the Chicago Sun-Times and at least one edition of The Philadelphia Inquirer, published a syndicated book list featuring made-up books by famous authors.
https://www.npr.org/2025/05/20/nx-s1-5405022/fake-summer-reading-list-ai
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Richie Narvaez
5 months ago
Join us for a discussion of Latinx-forward literary magazines— "Short Fiction, Long Impact" Wed., 5/28, 8 p.m. ET With Carribean Fragoza, Huizache Raina J. León, PhD, Acentos Review Rossy Evelin Lima, PhD, Latino Book Review Russ López, LatineLit
#free
#shortstorymonth
latinxinpublishing.com/events
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Join this behind-the-scenes conversation with literary journal editors from Acentos Review, Huizache, LatineLit, and
@latinobookreview.bsky.social
discussing how they curate issues, champion emerging talent, and shape platforms that center Latinx brilliance.
@latinxpublishing.bsky.social
4 months ago
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Jeremy D Baker
5 months ago
I'll be at the
@barnesandnoble.com
in Columbia, Maryland this Saturday at 1pm, signing copies of The Guilty Sleep! Come on out, browse (and buy!) lots of books, grab a coffee, and say hello!
#booksky
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#writingcommunity
Details here:
stores.barnesandnoble.com/event/978006...
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Author Signing: Jeremy D. Baker
Join us for an in-store event, Author Signing: Jeremy D. Baker, on Saturday, May 17, 2025.
https://stores.barnesandnoble.com/event/9780062186574-0
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My latest deal! Very excited for this fun, character-driven sci-fi thriller!
5 months ago
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James Farner
5 months ago
Querying Authors!!! You do NOT want to miss the chance to query Susan and/or Christina. Run, do not walk, come June 1st!!
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Tim Chawaga
5 months ago
ARC/DOG Pre-order SALVAGIA now! Link in bio!
@tonimargarita.bsky.social
@awfulagent.bsky.social
@diversionbooks.bsky.social
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I’m thrilled to share that I’ll be joining the 2025 Latinx Storytellers Conference as part of this year’s faculty! 🎟️ Tickets on sale NOW with Early Bird pricing ending on May 31. Get a $100 discount! Register at the
@lkbfstorytellers.bsky.social
site!
5 months ago
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Claire Barner | Sci-fi Romance Writer
5 months ago
Thanks to Girl Talk HQ for inviting me to guest post on my favorite topic - why a romance and sci-fi genre mashup is poised to be the next BIG THING.
www.girltalkhq.com/why-a-romanc...
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Why A Romance And Sci-Fi Genre Mashup Is Poised To Be The Next Big Thing
By Claire Barner Since the days of Jane Austen, readers have gravitated toward romance novels to find stories that prioritize the emotional journey of the characters, put relationships front and ce…
https://www.girltalkhq.com/why-a-romance-and-sci-fi-genre-mashup-is-poised-to-be-the-next-big-thing/
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Authors Against Book Bans
5 months ago
Reminder to everyone who loves
#Kidslit
that we're hosting a huge virtual reading tomorrow! Register for one session or both, drop in when you've got a moment or stay all day. It will be a chance to celebrate the power of books!
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Happy Pub Day to
@jdbaker11058.bsky.social
! The Guilty Sleep, my first book for Diversion, is out in the world!
5 months ago
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Jeremy D Baker
5 months ago
Happy pub day to my lil crime thriller The Guilty sleep. Filled with gratitude for
@rozfoster.bsky.social
,
@tonimargarita.bsky.social
,
@diversionbooks.bsky.social
, and everyone who has supported this book. When I started it in Oct21, it was just a dream. And now, here we are! Gosh.
#booksky
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