Updated #editors guide to my soon-to-be #onsub dual pov eco-fantasy novel SALTSTONE 🌿 ✨ OUR WIVES UNDER THE SEA x THE WITCHER x PAN'S LABYRINTH When Olive’s nature-loving daughter goes missing, she accompanies a grumpy mercenary into the Wilds to find her. Rep: Ciara Finan

The new Agent's Guide to MURDER NIGHT AT HOTEL ADAIR, my The Haunting of Hill House x The Shining #A #H project. ───── ⋆⋅🩸⋅⋆ ───── At Hotel Adair, the rooms are luxurious, the deaths are creative, and the check-out time is non-negotiable. ───── ⋆⋅🩸⋅⋆ ─────

We’ll see how many of these I can actually accomplish! And hey, if I’m really lucky, one of those fulls will turn into an offer and I won’t even have to query my next book! ( #agentsguide pinned to my profile) #BitterEndChallenge #amquerying #amwriting

Here’s the template to put in your own goals: www.canva.com/design/DAGzJ...

Watch this video for more details: youtu.be/iogxiih5cfU?...

For the 4th quarter, I’m going to accomplish my goals out of SPITE and I’d love for you to join me! I’m doing the #BitterEndChallenge with @zillawrites.bsky.social and here are my goals! I’ll also post an editable template for you to add your own goals and the YouTube video! #amquerying #amwriting

Reposting to celebrate that my book GUMIHO won third place in the horror/paranormal category at the PNWA writers contest! And it also now has Big 5 editor interest! ✨️ #amquerying #H #R

Feeling saucy, made a sneak peek #agentsguide for my Bisexual Pirates (birates) Romantic Fantasy, SCULPTOR OF THE WAVES #OV #OwnVoices #WIP #AmWriting #F #FR #LGBT

We love green smilies in the morning!

MURDER NIGHT AT HOTEL ADAIR is officially my most requested project. Milestones from the first 45 days: 🩸 Editor full request 🩸 Agent reading it in a day and wanting to throw the book across the room at the ending 🩸 16% request rate 🩸 agents not open to unsolicited manuscripts requesting the full

Writing is amazing, but publishing is a different story. If you’re going to put yourself through publishing, make sure you write the stuff you love. Always.

Sometimes the bravest thing a writer can do isn’t finishing a book—it’s starting the next one after the first didn’t go as planned. #writingcommunity #amwriting #amquerying

Writing a query letter is a different skill set than writing a book! Even if your query letter skills are stellar, it’s subjective—good agents and editors are readers! What works for one may not work for another. Keep that chin up, and if you need some professional help click the links in my bio.

Presenting the #AgentsGuide to my #gothic #horror novel THE BANSHEE OF CLAN MURTAGH 🖤 #AmQuerying starting TODAY! The black sheep of a powerful family pursues a doomed romance with the banshee who's haunted his estate for generations, even as the black plague closes in. 🥀

In case it needs to be said again: Fuck fascism. Love is love. Trans rights are human rights. Support teachers. Free Palestine. In science we trust. Yall means All. Black Lives Matter.

Hanging out at the barn is our new favorite thing. Now I need to figure out how to write while the kids play in the hay.

#SUBMISSIONCALL Submissions are now open for an anthology centered around Queer Joy! All proceeds will go towards saving a queer and disabled danmei author in China. For more info on submission guidelines, check out: savingqueerjoyanthology.carrd.co

for my fall #mswl i’m really looking for indigenous writers! literary fiction, upmarket, horror, thriller, grounded fantasy or speculative (adult, please!). my queries are open and i am ready to read! @manuscriptwishlist.bsky.social #amquerying

Turns out, this year my birthday falls on a Full Request Friday! So if any #litagents who have me in their inbox wanted to give me the BEST birthday gift ever 👉👈...just saying, it would probably be some kind of good omen right 😉? #amquerying #Sirensong #fullrequestfriday

Are you a marginalized author (or the editor/agent/publicist of one) who has a trad pub YA or adult SFF/H book coming out Sept 2025 - March 2026? This book critic wants to know about it! Small press strongly encouraged. bookjockeyalex.com/contact/

YOU WEREN’T MEANT TO BE HUMAN is out today 🪱 My horror novel about worms, cults, unwanted pregnancy, Roe V Wade, undiagnosed autism, and trans men’s invisibility in discussions about reproductive justice… I can’t believe it’s on shelves. Thank you ALL 😩💕

better things are possible!!!!

New Books today!! Let's Celebrate! Full list in the alt text, descriptions, discussion, and a shopping list on my Patreon

'Tis the Season

We're a few weeks out for #Pitblk! Be on the lookout this week for info on how to pitch! #booksky #writersky #writingcommunity

Anyone up for an #askagent Post your questions below and I will do my best to get to them. No I’m not on my elliptical, but typos will probably still happen because I don’t have my glasses on 😂

September project…

I've decided to post here like I'm on tumblr. Live laugh love.

I refuse to give em dashes to the AI

Time is running out to enter for a chance to win a physical ARC of #thishousewillfeed so get on over to Goodreads and do your thing #goodreadsgiveaway #writingcommunity #newbook #booksky

Check for your book's copyright registration at the The Copyright Public Records System (CPRS) here: cocatalog.loc.gov/?utm_sour... #writingcommunity #authorlife #amwriting

I've just joined The Caldwell Agency as a literary agent! I’m primarily seeking adult literary and upmarket fiction, particularly stories that feature LGBTQ+ and BIPOC characters. You can find out more about my #mswl here: querytracker.net/query/victor...

Do any #writing folks know of Discord servers or forums or stuff for writers who are querying?

#GhostPit a new Halloween hype pitch event open to works in all stages is coming up on October 30th! It doesn't have to be Halloween related either! See the rules below and follow @ghostpit.bsky.social for more details! #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #Writers #AmWriting #AmQuerying #AmAgenting

Today is a rough one in the query trenches so here’s a pretty graphic I made for #1stlinepit last week and didn’t share #amquerying #querywoes

I’m going to do this with #CattleWIP! Who is joining me? My hope is just to get 20k words/the first act written.

For me and my CPs, it’s time to start Fall of Words this September. Open and individual goals. Small goals, big goals, all goals count. If you’re trying to get some words down this month, too: good luck and have fun. And if you need a cheerleader, I’ll be here! #FallofWords

#PitchDis a pitch event for unagented disabled is open for registration for a few more days! The event is hosted on their website, so follow @pitchdis.com for more information! #AmQuerying #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #Writers

reasons you WON’T like my next book: - she’s the immortal one in the relationship ❌ - the bubonic plague is gross 🤮 - yearning and grief 😭 - the correct amount of beds 🤔 - …but only one grave 💀

I'm still looking for a SFF mystery.

I'll take #askagent questions from the #writingcommunity here until Monday at 7 pm EST. Let them rip!

reasons why you WON'T like my next book: ☁️ romance bait (it doesn’t happen) ☁️ alternate Europe centered ☁️ no original Gods ☁️ standalone ☁️ no talking dragons

What if it’s like southern trad wife hospitality meets grisly farm accidents meets Cruel to be Kind by Cheap Trick? What if? #CattleWIP

New, up-to-date #AgentsGuide for Camp Woodvale. Get ready for an unforgettable summer where friendships (including those with benefits) will be made and broken. When the tangled web of staff drama starts to weave, relationships will be tested-- maybe even ruining the summer. #amquerying

Reasons you WON’T like my next book: 💔 MC gets dumped by her famous boyfriend 📸 She’s a wedding photographer surrounded by eternal love 👵 Love interest lives w/his grandma/sweatpants enthusiast 🕍 Yiddish. So much Yiddish. ❤️ She might fall first. Who’s to say. #writingcommunity #writesky #writers

Reasons you WON’T like my next book: ☢️ Box Time ☢️ MC with crippling OCD ☢️ BOx TIMe ☢️ 7’5” jock named Tyson ☢️ BOX TIME ☢️ nb named Pebble ☢️ BOX TIME BOX TIME ☢️ nb named Sneaker ☢️ BOX TIME BOX TIME BOX TIME ☢️ MC counts to ten a lot ☢️ you get it