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...

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"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...

Alt text: in surprisingly restrained all-caps, a white banner reads "Not everyone who reads is smart" in black text.

ongoing need for donation, if you can spare anything!

I'm doing an AMA - Ask Me Anything with the Reddit Fantasy community for Read For Pixels @thepixelproject.bsky.social on Wed, Aug 27th. Don't know what to ask? Some topics: writing (obvs), gardening, fragrance. Or anything else. Just don't let me be over there screaming into the void! 😂 #booksky

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reminder: an author's work appearing in a particular venue (magazine, publisher, etc) is not an endorsement of that venue or an indication that that venue is "safe." not every author has the same experience of a venue and many authors have negative experiences that they don't talk about publicly.

Men don't yearn enough anymore? May I present Alon the MMC in Saints of Storm and Sorrow who has been yearning for a solid decade, but has resigned himself to it being a lost cause as the object of his affection has chosen to become a nun? Dante Basco voices him in the audiobook and it's 🥵🔥😉

Happy Release Day to Lord of Ruin by @kmenright.bsky.social!! I’m 75% through and it absolutely lives up to the bar Mistress of Lies set. If you’re looking for a dark, sexy, bloodbath of a vampire series with a trio of morally grey protagonists, The Age of Blood is for you. #booksky #bookreview

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FUCK ICE BROWN LIVES MATTER!!!!

Bloomsbury Pub sales up fiscal 2024: revenue = £361 million AAP StatShot March 2025: 1st quarter sales up 1% over prior year US Census March 2025: bookstore sales $580 million, up 2.3% over March 2024; up 4.1% @ nearly $1.94 billion ytd HarperCollins fiscal 3rd qtr sales = $514 million 💰F.Y.I. 📚

The other journalists killed: reporter Mohammed Qreiqeh, videographers Moamen Aliwa and Ibrahim Zaher and operator Mohammed Noufal. The Israeli murder of Palestinian journalists is always intentional, always met with silence. And that's why it keeps happening. don't look away

do those possessed looking evil furbies that sound like they got named after that leggings shop lululemon actually do anything or are they just there on the mantel ready to eat your soul

Killer cover!! 🐙🧜🏻‍♀️

In a pinch, I will also accept "from this century" but will still side-eye you

probably the best book edges painting job I've ever done 😌

we got our electric bill in this house and were like WTAF?!?!?!?! it went up 60% from last month due to the Intel Data Centers that moved into town, and now the city residents are footing the bill. RIDICULOUS.

For the weekend crowd, I have some spots open in my freelance schedule for August. If you're looking for developmental edits, query review, synopsis review, or a 1-on-1 video call with an industry professional with 20+ yrs of exp, reach out at [email protected] or via Reedsy (link in bio).

An even better look at the gorgeous Year of the Mer book 1 (of 2) cover! I gasped just about to death when they told me THEEEE Micaela Alcaino was the one doing it. You can (and should) pre-order it wherever you pre-order your books. Out April 7, 2026. www.simonandschuster.com/books/Year-o...

POOR CHEDDAR BOB SOMEONE ADOPT HIM

GOOD MORNING, CAN I INTEREST YOU IN SOME MURMAIDER (get it?) Year of the Mer cover reveal. Go buy my book. www.pastemagazine.com/books/l-d-le...

Here's my carbon fibre foldable walking sticks! They're available for pre-order in 3 patterns and with an add-on (quad tip). They have a weight capacity of 330lbs. Works for people 5ft - 6ft2. High quality and affordable! They're happening for sure now!! Details below!

today's bonus: QUICK QUERY CHECKLIST (bc this one's so short, I'm just gonna get it transcribed so I can repair another site link) a few of these only apply to emailed queries (which I no longer use), but enough agents still have email slush piles that I'm including those anyway

I wish as many people wanted to actually click on Teen Vogue stories as like a post about our work being good and important, because this post is almost at 20k likes and that would be pretty good traffic!

Washington Post: “Is fascism bad? The answer may surprise you” Teen Vogue: “Here are three fun tips you can use this summer to disable an armored personnel carrier”

fun fact, "it starts out straight comedy and gains pathos and complexity as it rolls" also describes my experience writing this book lmao me, banging my head against a wall as each subsequent draft got angstier: this! was supposed! to be! funny!!

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I am so grateful and humbled by your generosity. Thank you to everyone who has shared and donated so far. Would appreciate anything more you can give.

HEY FRIENDS! I'll be at WorldCon and ConCurrent this year, hmu if you want to hang!!!

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Y'all move fast af 😂 I am now closed to queries! I hope to open again on Sept 1st and continue the trend of opening to queries on the 1st of every month for 7 days or when I reach 100 queries, whichever comes first. I will dip in to the query pile right away but my clients remain my priority. 👇🏽

98 now so I suspect I'll be closed before the 7th!

"It's not that hot outside!" Outside:

The “small town where some fucked up supernatural war is happening” genre is so good and I need more Black authors writing it. Living in a small town in brown skin is already often a claustrophobic war and then you add witches? Wolves? Vampires? Gimme more LEGENDBORN, BLOOD MOON, BOUND BY FURY, etc

If you read my newsletter, this is the sequel I was talking about in my last issue! 🔥🔥🔥

links to preorder, add on GR and Storygraph, and (soon!) request on Netgalley here on my linktree! linktr.ee/makanayama

howzit 🤙 I'm Makana, and I'm a hapa haole māhū lesbian who writes books about AAPI lesbians getting into situations in space. my next novel is THE OBAKE CODE, which is a standalone sequel set 3 years after HAMMAJANG LUCK there's heists! there's hacking! there's lesbians! what more could you want!!!

Idk about this, but signal boost! 99 cent UK sale!