Opening to queries tomorrow!!

#Amquerying authors, it’s time for 2026 #MSWL refresh! As always, I am looking for YA, Adult, Graphic Novel, and select Nonfiction titles with a focus on commercial genre fiction from marginalized voices. My reading taste is eclectic, but to give you some vibes, think of me for projects that are..

#amquerying authors, I will be reopening to queries on May 15th! Keep an eye out for my updated MSWL coming next week. For those with pending queries: I'm very close to responding to all 2025 queries, thank you for your patience if you're still waiting on feedback!

OUT TODAY! Hello Darkness #20 which contains a disgusting misadventure in self grooming called THE THREAD written & drawn by me, lettered by @longtalljodie.com & coloured by @sharkberri.bsky.social

GALAXY: AS THE WORLD FALLS DOWN, the sequel to GALAXY: TGE PRETTIEST STAR, is out May 5 and is a graphic novel about being trans, queer love, anxiety over life after high school and what to do when a powerful empire wants you dead. I made it with @ryehickman.bsky.social and @longtalljodie.com.

Authors in & around the Bay Area this weekend, I'll be about! Friday evening I'll be doing Q&A at Chapter 510: tinyurl.com/cxwbcevs Saturday I'll be taking pitches & teaching a class about CONTRACTS! at the SF Writer's Conference: tinyurl.com/53anjw7c It will be fun! I promise!

GM Bluesky! My book #mybook HOTBLOOD! Vol. 1: The Land of Promise was named a Distinguished Favorite by the Independent Press Awards!!! 🌞 www.independentpressaward.com/2026-favorites

A reminder that I think it's a great idea to set up an email address JUST for your submissions. This way, you won't be in the middle of dinner--or, worse, your birthday! As happened to a writer I know--and get a crushing rejection. Don't give rejections unlimited access to you. Let Gmail help.

I'm officially CLOSED to queries, folks! Thank you for all the wonderful submissions this year. Authors in my inbox, I'm still reading and will get back to you soon. Authors not yet in my inbox, I'll see y'all in 2026! Stay tuned for updates and a new 2026 MSWL later this year.

are you also as sick of seeing AI generated posters/flyers/etc in public as I am? I made some Big stickers about it and will be selling packs of them at future shows 🫶

Welcome to the team, @alkcomics.bsky.social! Editors, if you're 🐟scared🐟of🐟the🐟ocean🐟 like me, we'll have something very exciting to share soon

Me, and Kalivas! @toril.bsky.social and Hotblood! Barnes & Noble Presents @booksinc.bsky.social Alameda! 10/24, 6:30pm! Even more exclamation points, as in the sentence "Bring money!" If you're all good we'll go to the anime sushi restaurant after. (Like I said, "Bring money!")

Bros u guys gotta buy @toril.bsky.social s hotblood it is sosososoososososososososo beautiful.... I love centaurs specifically bc of hotblood pls read this

Y'all aren't ready for Goblin Town, but Goblin Town is ready for you (kindly threat) 👸🌑💖 I'm so proud of @ryehickman.bsky.social and @planetx.bsky.social who have absolutely LEVELED UP with this pitch. Congrats also to @hitzhusenlauren.bsky.social for being the one to snap it up ✨

It's launch day for Taylor Swift In Every Era, a choose-your-own-adventure colouring book written by me and illustrated by @ellezorart.bsky.social! Thank you to @mmmlysaght.bsky.social and the whole team at Insight Editions for making this book happen! Grab your copy: amzn.to/49e9zpf

#amquerying authors, I will be closing submissions between November 24-December 27 this year to, ambitiously, aim for inbox zero going into the new year.

Hey, authors and artists! Check on your website today! Is is easily searchable? Do all the buttons & links work? Is it up to date & accurate? Have you made it really easy to purchase/preorder/support your published work, or give editors a good sense of what you want to work on?

Toril Orlesky will be in person doing signings @ NYCC for HOTBLOOD! If you're able to, please go support her!! 🐴✨

Easily the coolest project I've ever worked on! and with friends no less 🥹🥹🥹 YOU HAVE TO WATCH IT IN FULL ITS AMAZING!!

A few quick things! Authors, please treat agent interest as an invitation to query, not a requirement. Pitch events are a great way to discover agents who weren't on your radar yet. Another is the @litagentsofchange.bsky.social's Equity Directory: www.equitydirectory.org

We've got something exciting coming soon 🐎 #hotblood #yaoi #centaur #indiecomic #indieanimation

Good morning, #DVpit! I'm so excited to dive into your projects. If I 💙 your pitch, please share with me at this link (sub requirements in the link): querytracker.net/query/MacLys... Good luck out there!

<3 we're less than 5k away from unlocking the mini bestiary with 10 teras www.kickstarter.com/projects/set...

hi, cis folks! do you trust the senate to decide whether you can have healthcare or if you legally exist under the law or where you can legally wash your hands or pee? neither do we! please tap into the thread & tell senators our civil rights & lives matter—even more than the jimmy kimmel show!

Friends, I am as excited as heck to tell y'all about the NEWBERRY MEDIEVAL MINICOMIC PRIZE! It's for emerging cartoonists (i.e. no major publisher work, excepting anthologies) considering making a short work that engages with a medieval subject (fic or nonfic). 1/ www.newberry.org/calendar/new...

Another successful Futurescapes, in the books!

HOTBLOOD! changed my life. I'm so happy to see @toril.bsky.social 's centaur-featuring Wild West story still kicking it (and bucking expectations) after all these years.

So many incredible comics and graphic novels here!! Honored to have SIR next to Green Yuri, Cosmoknights and Galaxy 😭♥️ Remember to support a rad bookshop too and order from Proud Geek!!!

Jordan is a phenomenal flatter, I would recommend him forever. If Jordan's flats have 100 fans, I am one of them. If Jordan's flats have 1 fan, I am that fan. If Jordan's flats have no fans, I am dead.

BUSINESS AS USUAL is live!! A group of punks attempt to free the detainees from America’s first off-the-grid ICE detention center. Will they accomplish their goal? Not if carnivorous snakes, situationship drama, or the state have anything to say about it!! Read here: www.barkmouchard.com/bau-1

FUNeral Home is now LIVE on kickstarter! 💀⚰️ Our epic fun time oneshot of sapphic assassin shenanigans from myself, @cerealpancake.bsky.social @longtalljodie.com and Kiela Sibal!! Hope to see you at the FUNeral 🥹♥️ www.kickstarter.com/projects/cer...

it's the last day to preorder HOTBLOOD! VOL. 1: THE LAND OF PROMISE, the first book in my series with @madcavestudios.com about a man who has sex with a horse. check it out: bit.ly/4lBNKDj

can confirm Sparks vol 2 by @revelguts.bsky.social made me just as unhinged as the first volume😌 Philo my beloved... coherent review here: app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/0de0... #queerbooks

💖 sketch portrait commissions are open! 💖 help me pay rent & get a cute portrait drawing! you can also request it halloween style and i'll draw you as some kind of spooky creature! 10 slots open, first come first serve, email me to claim your spot! 🫀⤳ [email protected] (RTs appreciated! 💖)

SPARKS BOOK 2 IS HITTIN SHELVES!!! 🥰

Should be in stores 5/5/26

If you're writing kidlit and want some eyes on your project, I'm doing critiques with SCBWI this summer! The window to submit is 7/11-7/15. More info on the process and the other fabulous folks critiquing here: www.scbwi.org/events/paid-...

@madcavestudios.com is having a summer sale!! Preorder my book #mybook about centaurs in the Old West for 25% off: madcavestudios.com/product/hotb...

Happy Yuri Day pls buy my yuri 🥰

It's the last day of the @litagentsofchange.bsky.social auction, which helps us recruit and retain agents from marginalized backgrounds! I'm going to highlight a couple of items that have me all eyeballs-emoji in thread.

We're 2 days in and y'all are showing up! If you haven't had a chance to bid, now's the time!! link in bio! To help you out, we're unearthing more of the BEST resources the industry has to offer 😉Thread below... Get those literary butts in gear! #amwriting #critique #AMA #picturebook #nonfiction

yep! unpaywalled:

Quick little 2025 events thread! I can be spotted in the wild with a rare chance, slightly less rare in these locations 🔍🌎

Love, Death, and Motorcycles @fellhound.bsky.social @boom-studios.com

Happy pub day to this book full of gay panic, shoujo feels, and motorcycles!!

Welcome to the team, @ryehickman.bsky.social! They've got some fabulously spooky stuff in the works that I'm excited to share soon 🏇👻😈

The E-ARC of #mybook Hotblood! Vol. 1: The Land of Promise is now up on Netgalley! If you'd like to read and/or review it, you can request a copy here: www.netgalley.com/catalog/book...

THE S.I.R. BOOKS ARE REAL!! 😍 Preorder folks are already getting their S.I.R. TPBS! So cool to see it out in the wild 🥰 Thanks again to the rad team: C- @elehbruni.bsky.social L- @beccasee.bsky.social E- @peachchild.bsky.social Pub- @boom-studios.com And @mmmlysaght.bsky.social !