Epic hopepunk? Yes! #ABillionPaperStars is #onsub and gaining speed, and one day you will be able to meet Eleanor Close. Just hope you don't meet her in a dark futuristic alley.

Oh my gosh 😱 Privileged enough to be reading it RIGHT NOW. The first few chapters are out of this world, people. I'm hypnotized. What? What? WHAT? The characters are gripping, the prose is masterful, the atmosphere is creepy as hell! 🔥🔥🔥

My writing process? I like to keep my words trapped underneath my ribs until the pressure gets unbearable, like the pecking of beaks on bone, upon which point they burst out in tenebrous murmuration, slashing the skies. Sure, the process involves some light dismemberment but what can you do.

Shameless follow up to say that if you enjoyed this, chances are you will enjoy VILE LADY VILLAINS — where this particular thing may or may not happen to one of the characters. I’d be so grateful if you preordered it www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0...

If T. Swift announced SWINDLED as an album (instead of T. Coughlin 😉) A YA fantasy repped by @emilykaitlin.bsky.social A con artist circus girl who sees threads of fated love is invited by the insatiable empress to find the Lonely Prince a match.

If T. Swift announced SWINDLED as an album (instead of T. Coughlin 😉) A YA fantasy repped by @emilykaitlin.bsky.social A con artist circus girl who sees threads of fated love is invited by the insatiable empress to find the Lonely Prince a match.

Found the anthem for SWINDLED, the book that got me my incredible agent @emilykaitlin.bsky.social, so naturally, I had to create an Editor’s Guide! 🧶🎪🔥 🎵 Love Into a Weapon - Madalen Duke

Found the anthem for SWINDLED, the book that got me my incredible agent @emilykaitlin.bsky.social, so naturally, I had to create an Editor’s Guide! 🧶🎪🔥 🎵 Love Into a Weapon - Madalen Duke

Thrilled to be selected for the Band of Villains Street Team for @danaiwrites.bsky.social’s VILE LADY VILLAINS (@michaeljbooks.bsky.social and @unionsqandco.bsky.social 2026)! I can’t stop screaming about this one so I am overjoyed to be doing it in an official capacity!

An EXCELLENT read.

All of my heart and all of my Greek rage went on this one. Forever grateful to @khoreo.bsky.social for letting me talk about this issue.

Trust me, you’ll want this one ⬇️

Not gonna lie: preorders matter SO much. So if you want to support VILE LADY VILLAINS without having to go through a certain evil billionaire owned Bad Place, VLV is now available to preorder from Bookshop org and the audiobook from Libro FM Thank you 🖤 uk.bookshop.org/p/books/vile...

My street team for VILE LADY VILLAINS is still open for a bit more. Join? You get: •VILE LADY VILLAINS e-arc •swag and exclusive giveaway •my undying gratitude •the chance of being a part of something great, like murder* *for legal reasons this is a joke docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

The way I can’t wait for this book to be out in the world!

I demand someone scoop this up. I want to read this book NOW. #BluePit

Imperial China✖️Ancient Rome ft. 🐍 A morally grey con artist 🌏 A multiracial cast 🎪 A competition of circuses 💫 A collector of Goddess-gifted humans 🗡️ A hooded, brooding stranger 👑 An impossible prince 🧵 And Fate being an absolute B**** #BluePit 📖 #YA #F #POC #OWN #AG

While writing the dedication for VILE LADY VILLAINS I wondered: should I make it inspiring… or petty? But if I only got this one book, this one chance, I wanted to do both. Something hopefully inspiring. Something arguably petty. Because this book, and me, aspire to be both.

Thank you so much to @locusmag.bsky.social for sharing the news about VILE LADY VILLAINS going to the US in their July issue! I’ve been a fan of Locus and all they do for many years, and it’s been one of my author dreams to see my name featured in this magazine (in any capacity, I’m not picky!) 🖤

And if you want to support this feral, sapphic book and trickle down some joy with me, you can add Vile Lady Villains to GR here: www.goodreads.com/book/show/22... Or preorder it: www.penguin.co.uk/books/470416...

I saw that 400 of you want to read VILE LADY VILLAINS, 9 months before the book is out. And I’m thinking that if this horribleness trickles down, so does hope. So does queer joy, and writing new stories, and feral sapphics with daggers to the throat. Thank you. Thank you. Let’s rebel together.

Woke up so heavy about the world and all the big and small ways this horribleness trickles down on all of us, no matter where we live. How we all get poorer for it (literally and figuratively). But then…

This book is an absolute masterpiece!!!!

In 9 months, VILE LADY VILLAINS will be born in a (UK) bookstore near you 🥀 Literature’s most murderous queens will be yours — all the bones, all the daggers to the throat, all the sapphic tension. If you want to help me spread the word, apply for my street team? docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Told my partner I got the Jane Austen GWP Lego set. He responded with “Like…the monkeys?” Folks, he meant Jane Goodall. The literary force is not strong in this one.

An ace actress trying to rebuild her career and a socially awkward teen heartthrob are cast as love interests in a high budget comic adaptation where they fight the straight-washing of a canonically ace character... and their growing off-screen feelings for each other.

Show me your logline ✨ Here's mine: To save her own skin, a grad student must prove a 1500yo manuscript originated with "the real Beowulf," the woman who inspired the legend and rescued a girl named Grendel from scapegoating and banishment.

Show me your logline! ✨ Here’s mine: A con artist circus girl, who exploits her goddess-given power to see threads of fated love, is invited by the insatiable empress to find the prince a match.

“YESSSSS!”, she screams in Canadian. 🇨🇦🇨🇦

The world is burning, and part of me feels bad for talking about books—but if these Vile Lady Villains have taught me anything is that to retell is to rebel. So, this Pride Month I’m here to say: support queer books and authors, now and always. I hope you will rebel with my Vile Lady Villains.

I’m so so thankful to my UK team and especially @jorgiereads.bsky.social for being such a fierce advocate (and to my agent extraordinaire @laurenbieker.bsky.social!) and I can’t wait to work with the amazing Mali Clinton to bring this book to a North American audience

VILE LADY VILLAINS is coming to the US and Canada! 🥀🖤🗡️ I can’t begin to tell you how deeply grateful and excited I am that my sapphic, Gothic, Greek myth meets Shakespeare horromantasy will be published in the US and Canada by the fantastic team over at Union Square & Co!

So thrilled for you and your client!!! What an accomplishment! This sounds fantastic.

On a sidenote, this is my first sale as an assistant agent and I’m just super grateful to @laneheymont.bsky.social and the whole team at @thetobiasagency.bsky.social for their mentorship and camaraderie. Here’s to shepherding more amazing books out in the world!

So, so proud of our client @editrixemma.bsky.social and congratulations! Can’t wait for everyone to read this amazing exploration of the common threads between romance and horror!

🧪 introducing the 𝗲𝗱𝗶𝘁𝗼𝗿'𝘀 𝗴𝘂𝗶𝗱𝗲 for my 𝗺𝗴 𝗳𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗮𝘀𝘆, 𝐓𝐑𝐎𝐋𝐋 𝐒𝐂𝐈𝐄𝐍𝐂𝐄---which has been hijacked by the main characters. 🧪 🥔neurodivergent rep 🥔monster folklore 🥔STEM magic system Rep'd by @ajvanbelle.bsky.social #WritingCommunity #middlegrade #MG #amagented

Give your future self the gift of stabby sapphics? The ebook of VILE LADY VILLAINS is now available to preorder on Apple Books 🥀🩸🖤 books.apple.com/gr/book/vile...

I'm incredibly honored to partner with Millie for her creation of magical worlds!!! She already has some amazing things in the works, and so much more to come! Speaking of which, more soon indeed! Stay tuned 👀

Imperial China✖️Ancient Rome ft. 🐍 A morally grey con artist 🎪 A competition of circuses 💫 A collector of Goddess-gifted humans 🗡️ A hooded, brooding stranger 👑 An impossible prince 🧵 And Fate being an absolute B**** #Questpit #YA #F #POC #OWN #AG

SWINDLED is crackling dragon candy & dissonant bartering at your tent. It’s feeding your blood to the beast to get where you deserve to be. It’s everything you want hand-delivered, yet you refuse, for its touch—its possibilities—may be more than you can bear. #Questpit #YA #F #OWN #AG

If you saw me pitch at the last moment of #QuestPit because I forgot to cross-post…you didn’t 😇

With one touch, a jaded & wily Ren can find your fated love, but she’ll only tell the truth half the time. When invited by the empress to find the Lonely Prince a match, Ren’s own thread gets tangled—in deceit, rebellion, and a fate worse than death. #Questpit #YA #F #POC #AG

SWINDLED is crackling dragon candy & dissonant bartering at your tent. It’s feeding your blood to the beast to get where you deserve to be. It’s everything you want hand-delivered, yet you refuse, for its touch—its possibilities—may be more than you can bear. #Questpit #YA #F #OWN #AG

Imperial China✖️Ancient Rome ft. 🐍 A morally grey con artist 🎪 A competition of circuses 💫 A collector of Goddess-gifted humans 🗡️ A hooded, brooding stranger 👑 An impossible prince 🧵 And Fate being an absolute B**** #Questpit #YA #F #POC #OWN #AG

Look what the amazing @danaiwrites.bsky.social and @tlcoughlin.bsky.social got me to celebrate my book deal!! 🎉❤️

Mona and Courtney were such gracious hosts! With publishing because such an opaque industry where rejections are baked into the process in every step (forever!), podcasts like Unfortunately do a great job of shining a light on what it actually means to navigate all that. Thank you for having me!

I’ll have an article published in @writersdigest.bsky.social July/August issue! WD is such a landmark publication, and I’m beyond thrilled that I get to talk about tapping into techniques used in theater to write effective liminal spaces in fiction—as well as my inspiration for Vile Lady Villains.

So unbelievably thrilled for my dear friend!!!

I am incredibly excited to be able to say my kids' nonfiction book on the urban heat island effect is coming in 2027 from @orcabook.bsky.social! I'm absolutely thrilled to bring to life HOT CITIES, with the Orca team and my incredible agent @laurenbieker.bsky.social! 🔥🌆🔥