A heads up to querying authors! We're reaching that time of year when offer of rep deadlines may need to extend past the standard of two weeks and into the new year if you want to give everyone the opportunity to consider. Many agents, including myself, are out of the office starting next week.

Sharing another starred review, this one for my client Adrienne Thurman’s debut picture book NO WAY, WASH DAY! ✨

The first trade review for @dreamertide.bsky.social’s MYTHSPEAKER is in, and it’s a star! 🥳

ASMR, but it’s just the sound of my dog chewing ice cubes.

★ “An Indigenous community works together to tan a large hide by hand” in Aleut-Alutiiq debut author Karina Iceberg and Métis artist Natasha Donovan’s picture book A GOOD HIDE, a “captivating portrait of joyful collaboration”

Thank you for creating the space that brought us together, @dvpit.bsky.social! And I'm so excited to be working with you @abbie.bsky.social. 🥳

Getting a late start on reviewing #DVPit for REASONS, but if I ❤️ your pitch please reach out via the following link! I’m excited to see what you’re all working on. 👀 QueryTracker.net/query/melani...

I wrote a book! I’m very excited for you to read it! I’m speechless!

I am delighted to introduce the cover for my debut #MiddleGrade #Indigenous #Fantasy novel MYTHSPEAKER... AVAILABLE FOR PREORDER RIGHT NOW: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/780694... #Books #BookSky #WritingCommunity #Debut

So skip the former and cultivate and nurture the latter. This is probably always the better choice, honestly, but I think it’s especially so while we all endure the stained-age-and-special-edition era.

The thing I say to authors now (and that I believe wholeheartedly) is that for most YA and MG authors, studying retail patterns offers no information of creative value. Nothing you will learn from observing B&N’s merchandizing is anywhere near as valuable as personal inspiration and intuition.

This is literally how the Holocaust started, and honestly I'm tired of saying so

I took a personality test once and remember nothing about it other than that it said I am Michael Scott.

Eight figures. Eiiiiiight figures. Eight. Figures. Listen, I know I'm screaming into the void on this one, but you know how many great authors -- marginalized authors! new authors! authors of all genres! -- you could publish with this *at a still high level of advance* -? Answer: a lot! A lot a lot!

I've been channeling a lot of my rage into my work because books are so often the only escape for those with nowhere else to turn.

One thing I'm fucken sick of hearing is that people on the poverty line "don't want handouts." Well, the rich take hand outs. Maybe they're rich bc they were offered handouts. Maybe they're rich bc they take them. This "shame in receiving free money" for the poor but not the rich makes me SO MAD

Psst: 👇

Since I’m new here, I’ll do a #MSWL update soon, but if you’re a querying author, please note that short of some unforeseen circumstance I’m open to queries year-round! I’m looking for adult, YA, and MG projects.

Maybe we weren’t meant to wake up and read 20 terrible things immediately.

Hi, just a reminder that when you use Libro.fm for your audiobooks, you support independent bookshops vs. large corporations that drive them out of business. We also pay taxes. And so do indie bookshops.

Since Slack is down, here’s reason #1 to follow me: I’ve passed a rigorous approval process conducted by a Very Good Boy. 🐶👇

At some point, plot just isn’t enough. The events need meaning.

Reposting as a reminder to myself, and maybe you too, as I start the work of finding my people here after migrating from The Bad Place.

Okay, I think it's time to hang out here now.