As we’re entering a new season of pitch events, we want to remind querying authors of some schmagent red flags. This is your sign to reach out if you need help vetting your agent list!! cre: @lillyluwrites.bsky.social @solarhoang.bsky.social 🧵1/2

🏳️‍🌈BUFFY x SAILOR MOON A depressed grim reaper runs into the soul that got away—a now vampire wanting to move on—but first they must hunt her killer before he targets another woman. DEATH WISH is out January! “Heart-warming, heart-wrenching” -my editor #questpit #A #P #RF

GOOD NEWS! My #sapphic debut is up for pre-orders! DEATH WISH follows a depressed grim reaper who finds the soul that got away—a now vampire looking to move on—but first they must find her killer before be targets another woman. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/829783... #writingcommunity

Happy international asexuality day!!! 🫶

I wrote about getting your first chapter query-ready! Now on the @roundtablementor.bsky.social substack! 💗 #writingcommunity #amquerying open.substack.com/pub/roundtab...

#amquerying folks, I have donated a query package critique for kidlit4ceasefire’s fundraiser! See hundreds of publishing items here: www.32auctions.com/KidLit4Cease... #writingcommunity

So stoked to be working with Nika Clarke and Priyanka Watson on their beautiful romance books!!! #writingcommunity

i still cannot believe i sold my queer fantasy debut this year—it was my fourth book on sub, with my third agent. A great agent makes all the difference. Please fight for the best, don’t settle for less with your work, & don’t give up 🥹 #WritingCommunity

THE NEWS IS OUT! My supernatural sapphic romance is getting published by @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social 💫💗🧛‍♀️ This one’s for the gaysians, diaspora daughters, Los Angeles, found family, folks fighting against societal “should”s, folks who think “hey, we deserve better.” #WritingCommunity

guys there’s a scene in my book where i talk about six and seven (re: tarot cards) and last night i went NOOOOOOOO and changed it 🤦🏻‍♀️

So very much this. I remember cringing before a Board member when I was staff for an esteemed writers conference when she insisted, without malice - just ignorance, that writers should be willing to pay the (too high for me) fees because we all "need to invest in our work." #WritingCommunity

Love it 🙌

I wrote about how wealth isn’t just “more time to write,” but resource-having in a way most of us can’t even imagine lillyluwrites.substack.com/p/wealth-acc...

roundtablementor hopefuls, pls check your emails for full requests! we are so keen to read your beautiful books!

this is why, as a literature teacher, i mask. My livelihood depends on it and my students’ wellbeing too 😭

4 books on sub…so much heartache, but finally…..!!! #writingcommunity

my @roundtablementor.bsky.social 2025 mentee @taylorkowens.bsky.social sent me a thank-you gift 🥹 so lucky to have had such wonderful mentees turn into such wonderful friends in this wild wild industry. really lucky to be part of your journey, honored to be in each other’s lives 💗 #writingcommunity

these @roundtablementor.bsky.social apps look SOOO GOOD!!! I cannot wait to dive in #writingcommunity

psssssttt just found out there are 15 print copies of The Celestial Seas up for grabs in a Goodreads giveaway! If a queer Moby Dick in space sounds fun please go check it out ✨✨✨ #thecelestialseas #scifibooks

It’s here: the cover for the UK edition of VILE LADY VILLAINS, coming out April 02 2026 by Penguin Michael Joseph🖤

#amquerying #writingcommunity, Round Table Mentor apps are now open! I cannot wait to read your manuscripts 😍

The only spell I have against hopelessness at the moment is to help community. So if you would like to support Marylanders in need (we have so many federal workers) here's my MD Food Bank fundraiser mdfoodbank.funraise.org/fundraiser/a...

✨ COMMISSIONS OPEN (kind of!) I’m auctioning a rare #commission spot for @geekgirlcon ‘s virtual silent auction! GGC is a nonprofit, 100% volunteer-run convention in Seattle that has been a safe space for marginalized fandom folks for the past 10+ years. ➡️visit givebutter.com/c/KKmh5b/auc...

Are you a marginalized author (or the editor/agent/publicist of one) who has a trad pub book coming out in 2026 that is science fiction, fantasy, or horror and either adult or young adult? This book critic wants to know about it! Small press strongly encouraged. bookjockeyalex.com/contact/

Our AMA is live!!! Let me know in comments below if you have questions about my MSWL or the program :)) #roundtablementor #writingcommunity #amquerying

Today’s the day! Have a question about the program, application process, or our mentors? Ask it below! #writingmentorship #roundtablementor #writingcommunity

Agents!!! I was soooo lucky to mentor Taylor and read this beautiful, genre-bendy book!!!

*FRANKENSTEIN SPOILERS * As someone who teaches frankenstein every year, I had SO many thoughts about this film. I am a fan of GTD’s movies. Loved the nested doll structure and how freaky Elizabeth was. Loved the costumes, acting, and music Was very ? about the time period shift by 50 years+

Happy Ace Week :)

My #MSWL for @roundtablementor.bsky.social is now live!!! #amquerying #writingcommunity

Happy Ace Week!!! Boosting this lovely panel of authors I got to speak with about publishing and aceness 💜 #happyaceweek #writingcommunity

Excited to share that *Critical Approaches to Transmedia Storytelling in K-Pop* is now available for pre-order from @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social! This collection brings together an international group of scholars explores how K-pop reimagines narrative across media. www.bloomsbury.com/us/critical-...

excited to be returning as a mentor this year for fantasy & romance! MSWL to come 👀 #amquerying authors, watch this space! In a world where a lot of industry knowledge has been lost to the vicissitudes of twt, mentorships like this are invaluable! (They’re how I got agented & found friends!)

Scholars of eighteenth-century topics: consider submitting your work to *Digital Defoe*. We publish essays on Defoe, but also on his "contemporaries," which we're inclined to interpret broadly. More info here: call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/10/...

Now for BlueSky! After being selected as a Round Table Mentor finalist, and 7 long months of revisions, I'm back! And I’m proud to announce this author is back in the query trenches! To kick it off, I’m reposting a revised version of my pitch deck. 🥳🥂 #writer #querying #horror #romance

Today is the day 📣📣📣 I donated a query critique and a 30-min publishing journey tarot reading!!! Please find HUNDREDS of publishing items up for bid to benefit #kidlit4ceasefire, trans and immigrant rights 🏳️‍🌈💗🍉 www.32auctions.com/WeThePeopleS... #writingcommunity #amquerying

This has started today - you can bid on over 380+ items now! I’ve donated three 30 page critiques but there are lots of other great items out there: www.32auctions.com/WeThePeopleS...

I wrote about the role of literature (as an author and a lit prof) in these hard times. #writingcommunity substack.com/home/post/p-...

We have new poetry on #EnbyLife Journal! Read Lilly Lu’s vivid piece ‘O to be gaysian!’ @lillyluwrites.bsky.social 💖 READ MORE: enbylife.net/2025/07/04/o...

6 more hours to bid & some query critiques still unclaimed!!! #amquerying #writingcommunity 📣📣📣

Bidding closes Friday at 12pm PT, and we have SO MANY QUERY CRITIQUES LEFT 📣📣 donate to an LA mutual fund, dm me the receipt, and enter for a prize! #amquerying #writingcommunity

Wanna chance to win a query package critique from me??? ⬇️⬇️⬇️

so many unclaimed AMAs and query critiques for #amquerying #writingcommunity! Donate to a mutual aid fund and bid for an item! Help us reach our next $100 goal 💜📣

Hey #amquerying #writingcommunity! We are doing a mini fundraiser for mutual aid in LA/OC! Donate to an org below, DM me the receipt, bid on items, win prizes like query critiques, AMAs, & tarot readings! ⭐️ Thanks to @michellejingchan.bsky.social for co-organizing 💜 How to enter: 🧵

I'm donating a query critique, and there are other amazing offers from authors, illustrators, and agents! 💕

Hey #amquerying #writingcommunity! We are doing a mini fundraiser for mutual aid in LA/OC! Donate to an org below, DM me the receipt, bid on items, win prizes like query critiques, AMAs, & tarot readings! ⭐️ Thanks to @michellejingchan.bsky.social for co-organizing 💜 How to enter: 🧵

So proud to be ace and to have done this round table with my fellow aces in publishing!!! Thank you @amandasbrews.bsky.social for having us!!! 💜💜💜

excited to be included in such a rockstar group for a great convo. check it out!

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