Locus Awards voting is OPEN! Anyone can vote, and you can write in any eligible titles, editors, publishers, artists, magazines, and more! Even the Hugos usually see only two or three thousand votes, far fewer in some categories - your votes matter!🗳️ poll.voting.locusmag.com

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Hey all! Quick GENRE UPDATE... I am TEMPORARILY CLOSING to adult fantasy starting March 2026. I am still OPEN to adult horror, sci-fi, speculative. Also still open to YA SFFH and historical, MG SFFH and New Adult SFFH. I just have SO MUCH adult fantasy in my inbox and 👇🏽

OMG not me being a million years late to BSky for this post 😭 That's okay though, I am JUST as excited to tell the world Jules is my client! (and has been for many moons now lol!) Welcome to Azantian Jules!!!

Thrilled to welcome Rowan to my roster! Fantastic way to close out 2025 as I buckle down to read more of the wonderful work in my inbox in preparation for 2026!

The perfect gift! Register Agent Ascent Day! In-depth workshops, Q&A panels, individual critiques from @mwhatnall.bsky.social @ericsmithrocks.bsky.social @kaitlynleann17.bsky.social @vickiselvaggio.bsky.social @jolenehaley.bsky.social @keiralekseii.bsky.social way-wordwriters.com/agent-a...

HAMMAJANG LUCK might not have won the Goodreads Choice Awards, but it's still a lesbian heist worthy of stealing all our hearts! ❤️ Thank you Makana Yamamoto for creating this wonderful story, & Keir Alekseii for boosting its powerful message to the world. HAMMAJANG LUCK will forever be on my shelf

Just reminding folks to go VOTE HAMMAJANG LUCK thank you 😁

MAHALO KEIR!!!!!!!

Hammajang Luck is a Goodreads choice nominee! This was the 1st book I ever offered rep on, ever sold, ever took to auction and the 1st book/author of mine to be nominated for awards! Go VOTE FOR HAMMAJANG LUCK IN THE SCIENCE FICTION CATEGORY!!! Heist lesbians ftw! tinyurl.com/HAMMAJANG

Mamdani is going to impose shangri-la law. Everyone will be blindfolded and forced to play Marco Polo

From North Carolina to Mississippi, Black-owned farms are filling the gaps left by SNAP funding delays

This is my client allyuh!!!! Y'all I am SO PROUD of E and their whole pole fitness journey and this is just EPIC !!!

Publishing is so weird eh allyuh. The dichotomy of my day today was so 🤯

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what if. you asked me anything about THE LORD OF THE WOOD, my cozy horror about a 43yo autistic guy who has a gay/lowkey monsterfucker awakening after getting lost in an enchanted forest (both to reward me for starting line edits today and to cheer me up bc I'm Sad tonight) #AMA

7 basic science discoveries that changed the world Ozempic, MRI machines and flat screen televisions all emerged out of fundamental research decades earlier — the very types of study being slashed by the US government. www.nature.com/artic... 1/2

If you are looking for someplace to donate & support #Jamaica ahead of #HurricaneMelissa - Donation info is below. I'll be updating with additional support options as things progress. Please keep our little island in the sun in your thoughts. 🇯🇲 Sharable link: drive.google.com/file/d/1Lfs9...

What’s this? That’s right. Some new YA is heading your way from @kaylaancrum.bsky.social!

I'm not new to Bluesky, but I am back having FINALLY RECOVERED MY PASSWORD!!! I am a Trini-born sci-fi and fantasy enthusiast. I will soon relaunch my podcast, Paperbacked Portals. So tell me, who should I follow?

Boycott Home Depot. In Brooklyn, NYC, there's a tool library in Greenpoint. Also, talk to your neighbors! www.bklynlibrary.org/tool-library

Feast your eyes, my friends!!! 😍😍 And get ready to fall in love with these two hotties!

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DAS MY AGENT!!!

OMG screaminggggg

Oop! Street team sign up!

LOOK AT MY AGENT KICKING ASS

I can finally say this publicly now. Yay!!!

SO thrilled to have Evan on my team!! It was love at first read with those pages 😍and I KNOW we'll do amazing things together!!!

I only got to about... 7pm or 730pm? But I'll try again tomorrow! For now... falling asleep

It's finally time to go through #DVpit now that my day job is over...

BOOM! Pre-order link!

GET YOUR HANDS ON 2 HEIST 2 LESBIANS !!!!! You can pre-order RIGHT NOW in the US (I think. I'm tired, don't quote me on this)

Literary agent Keir Alekseii @keiralekseii.bsky.social (Fiction; General, Fantasy, SF) opened to fiction queries. https://duotrope.com... #amquerying

Website & MSWL: agent.keiralekseii.com Query Manager: querytracker.net/query/keiral... Agency website: www.azantianlitagency.com Open to BIPOC voices year round Open to pitch requests/solicited queries/referrals year round Open to all other queries 1st to 7th of every month

Whew! I'm ready for October 1st! Just a reminder: I'll open for 7 days from the 1st, or until I get 100 new queries. Whichever comes first!

I have not one but TWO complete and not-yet-public covers in my inbox for authors with 2026 books and this is almost as bad as having to sit on an announcement after a deal is made (I'm also doing this currently and AUGH!!!) I'm just STARING at them, head empty, heart full. So gorgeous 😭❤️‍🔥

I open to queries on the 1st of every month and I close when I get to 100 unread queries in my inbox (or on the 7th of the month, whichever comes first) You can see my full MSWL on my or the Azantian website but right now? I desperately need a friendship or sibling story that makes me cry. #MSWL

Not @kaitlynabdou.com telling me thanks for saying I'd read her draft. Girl. MY JOB IS TO READ YOUR BOOKS. PLEASE.

This was a WHIRLWIND ALLYUH 🥳🥳🥳

whoops meant to add to this and then got caught up with work things anyway if you'd like to be notified in the event of republication, leave your name and email in this form forms.gle/kLys77VfhrZT...

Without downloading any new images, where are you mentally?

"Lowkey" 😏

📣Announcing #PreDV and #DVParty!📣 Excited to bring back #PreDV & #DVParty leading up to #DVPit! Practice your pitches during #PreDV on Mon, Sept 29, 2025! Get to know your fellow participants during #DVParty from Oct 2-Oct 7! Follow this account or dvpit.carrd.co for all official announcements!

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please god i am not a believer but you can convert me to any religion you choose if you get publishing to give me back the mass market 🙏

Nothing but respect for Eoin Colfer writing an unapologetically environmentalist children's series in the early aughts. And the environmental themes in Artemis Fowl aren't symbolic or incidental; I was twelve being radicalized about polluted oceans and oil drilling and deforestation. King behavior.

obviously today I assume all my new followers are here on account of I'm a hottie, but I also write books and you can buy them!

In March, I self-published the audiobook for my novelette, "Arcing." Available through most audio publishers and through your local library by request! adriabailton.com/fiction-by-a...

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