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SF & F romance writer living by the sea in Massachusetts. Querying. Writing. Reading.
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Querying is so weird. You spend months making up little guys and putting them in dangerous situations and making them kiss. Then you send a business letter about it.
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Claire Kidwell
6 days ago
Listen, we’ve had our share of night-adjacent shadowy boys in romantasy. It’s time we got some queer rep! 🏳️🌈✨💕 (They’re the main love interest and literally the night sky trapped in a mortal form so 👀)
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Anna is querying gothic horror 💌
6 days ago
What could go wrong? THE BANSHEE OF CLAN MURTAGH is a gothic horror about the black sheep of a powerful 14th century Irish family and his doomed love story with the banshee who's haunted his household for generations.
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It’s like if Tina Belcher wrote Dune.
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Now Querying
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Nathan Alderman
7 days ago
I got an early look at this, and it was a DELIGHT. Half brooding goth sci-fi; half irreverent, character-driven comedy; and generating considerable fun from the clash between those two tones. I won't be surprised if this lands representation, much less an eager publisher.
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It feels like everything is, um, bad. But in the worst times, books, music and art have given me strength and joy. So even with everything going on, I’m proud to be sending my work out to agents. I hope people dig it too.
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southpaw
19 days ago
settings > content & media > autoplay video & gifs = off
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Steve A
30 days ago
I blew through this in an afternoon. I can’t say it was a goddamn delight per se because it’s about so much that is angering, but I can say say it made me feel less isolated in the world, which is I think the best one can hope for in 2025.
www.mariskreizman.com
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Maris Kreizman | Author of I Want to Burn This Place Down
Maris Kreizman is an essayist and critic. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, New York Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, The LA Times, Vanity Fair, BuzzFeed, The Atlantic, Esquire and more. ...
https://www.mariskreizman.com
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Union of Southern Service Workers
3 months ago
Today we kicked off the Justice Journey from Durham, NC heading down to Louisiana with 100s of workers from across the country. We’re standing up for our union siblings unjustly detained by ICE.
#JusticeJourney
#OrganizeTheSouth
#SolidaritySummer
@seiu.org
@fightforaunion.bsky.social
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Wagatwe Wanjuki
3 months ago
the way calling for the deportation of any visible non-white person is rapidly becoming normalized is a huge cause for concern.
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amy brown
3 months ago
bro they got my 74-year-old lifelong registered democrat mom out here talking about "establishment democrats won't say the rich are robbing you blind because they ARE the rich." something is shifting
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Today I had my first post-breast cancer mammogram and it came out good! I don’t have to be checked again for a whole year. I physically feel lighter after getting this news.
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Alex Kirshner
3 months ago
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The Victorian Archivist
3 months ago
I'm going to take this moment to repost this thread by
@kameronhurley.com
that I've repeatedly returned to and has given me resolve in the last few months.
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A.D.🍀🦩
4 months ago
"What inspired you to write that book?" I was making a sandwich one day, when some creative goblins appeared and took me hostage until I wrote it.
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John Wiswell
4 months ago
Happy Pride to trans women and the things they do behind closed doors.
bsky.app/profile/janu...
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Mark O’Brien
4 months ago
Check out my interview on Literary Rambles and enter to win a query critique from me here!
www.literaryrambles.com/2025/06/lite...
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani
4 months ago
This election is in your hands. But only if you’re registered to vote in New York City. The deadline is Saturday.
zohranfornyc.com/vote
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victoria scott
4 months ago
the era of neoliberalism is over, and realpolitik is dead. you have to grow a spine. you have to have morals. you have to have red lines. you have to develop a sense of right and wrong that is not based in pragmatism or law, but in your heart and empathy for your fellow man. then, we can win
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Iron Spike
4 months ago
Fun fact: in the 1960s, Civil Rights protestors were given literal classes on nonviolent protest; they didn't all just spontaneously know what to do. So, if you're planning on showing up, this weekend: read this comic. And if you're staying home, signal-boost it/link it around.
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Indivisible ❌👑
4 months ago
TONIGHT: All No Kings Day attendees are invited to our pre-mobilization call, where we’ll discuss recent developments, share tactics to de-escalate conflict, give tips for successful demonstrations and come together in community to get fired up for Saturday. RSVP now:
www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...
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Well, this was a damn delight.
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Every time I start researching how to self-pub I get to this part and then I just write another book to query because it seems simpler.
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Nate Hashem
4 months ago
Yeah I guess LeBron putting up a 22.6 PER is pretty special, but it's not that impressive when you compare him to people rolling out of bed and firing off something like this at age 86.
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Joost
4 months ago
Hell of a photo
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Josh Cook
4 months ago
If we can free one, we can free more
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/06/05/m...
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‘I was in shock, I didn’t know what was going on.’ Milford teen released from ICE detention after immigration judge’s ruling - The Boston Globe
The arrest has unleashed outrage at federal officials and an outpouring of support for Marcelo Gomes da Silva and his family.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/06/05/metro/milford-teen-ice-detention-court-hearing/?s_campaign=breakingnews:newsletter
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Niko Stratis
4 months ago
This is a big day for couples that are one super online person and one normal
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They want you to think they made artificial intelligence to solve your life for you, but what they actually made is a synthetic carnival palm reader.
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Sarah Weinman
4 months ago
“In the Who Cares Era, the most radical thing you can do is care.” YES
@dansinker.com
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The Who Cares Era | dansinker.com
https://dansinker.com/posts/2025-05-23-who-cares/?_bhlid=45a2761ea66c1abee7ff4ef96b7284f50157d729
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Brett "Solidarity 2025" Banditelli
4 months ago
Minneapolis residents running ICE/DHS out of town so hard multiple police agencies are lying about what really happened while DC Democrats give Republicans free TACOS really does show the difference between the party base and the party infrastructure, doesn't it?
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#JoyPit Pitch Event
4 months ago
#JoyPit
is happening soon… June 6, 2025… Start prepping…
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Rian Johnson
4 months ago
XII.XII.MMXXV on Netflix. More to come…
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I can vouch for Nathan! Fantastic beta reader. And he’s a great writer, so he understands what it’s like from both sides. 5 stars. Would recommend.
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I’m in the sandwich generation and it sucks! I am smooshed between the bread that is my parents’ failing health and my children’s acute needs! The mayo of my financial woes is squelching uncomfortably in the meat that is my own aging body. The pickles of fulfillment are inconsistent at best!
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Suzan the chalant goth
4 months ago
Sit there and slap your face!!!! Lolol
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I’m writing a fun summer beach read romance! (the first chapter is a homage to the opening of JAWS)
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Kingfisher & Wombat
4 months ago
I’m gonna make this a sign so I can tap it.
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🔞On Wednesdays, we hit our friends🔞
4 months ago
The VVitch x Pride and Prejudice Terror strikes the wealthy town of Foxton after it is afflicted by supernatural happenings; all surrounding a local baker, Louis Keating. ☕Tea parties 🦌"Deer" 🏳️⚧️Trans and nonbinary characters 🌲Jealous forest gods 🩸The horror of mundanity
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dan sinker
4 months ago
We're living through the Who Cares Era, where completely disposable things are shoddily produced for people to mostly ignore, while the government stomps its uncaring boot on our necks. But there's an easy way to fight back: Care. I wrote about it:
dansinker.com/posts/2025-0...
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Amy | IS AGENTED
4 months ago
CASTLE x THE TAINTED CUP All Fen wants is to find a legendary magic sword. All Headmaster Saros wants is to find his father’s killer. Good thing a string of murders (committed by the magic sword) will bring them together. Too bad they drive each other crazy (in more ways than one)
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GIDEON THE NINETH x ASSISTANT TO THE VILLAIN He’s the Saints Reincarnated. She’s a grunt in his enemy’s army. When you’re cannon fodder you’ve got nothing to lose. So why not get The Big Bad to fall in love with you? 🗡️ enemies to lovers 🗡️ dog with 2 brain cells 🗡️ grumpy/sunshine
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Sarah Goehrke, Author (✨2026 Debut✨)
4 months ago
And Now For Something Completely Different: OVERSHADOWED 💀Twilight-coded fandom 💀 Elder Millennials 💀 Comedy horror 💀 Besties trip gone wrong 💀 Good for her
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Sara Duran ✨is querying✨
4 months ago
ANNIHILATION x BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN One lunar prison. Two condemned men. Jack is a space cowboy with a blood-soaked past. Elias is an entomologist caught in a web of lies. In isolation, affection blooms. Beneath the surface, something ancient stirs.
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Claire Kidwell
4 months ago
REYLO x A DARKER SHADE OF MAGIC A dark wizard creates a device to travel between worlds, only to send it off in secret so his superiors won’t abuse it. Issue is, it lands in the hands of a bartender from the Ozarks who can’t control the power. 🚪Portals ❤️🔥Pining 🌘Cults 🍻Beer
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THE SEASIDE SISTERS x TRUE BLOOD Four sisters on Cape Cod navigating life, relationships, social class dynamics, vampires—wait, what?
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HerRoyalThighness
4 months ago
I love this poem. Author is Laura Gilpin.
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This morning the electrician installing an outlet at my house started talking to me about the Karen Read trial, and then I got a haircut and people at the salon were talking about the Karen Read trial and that’s pretty much what it’s like living in this part of Massachusetts right now.
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A bluebird came by!
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