Come and meet award-winning Latinx author, Maria Kelson at the Dublin, CA Barnes and Noble tomorrow at 1pm. Maria will be signing her debut mystery NOT THE KILLING KIND. #AuthorSigning #WritingCommunity #amreading #booksky #latinxbooks stores.barnesandnoble.com/event/978006...

Our WD Bootcamp starts next week! Sign up to work 1-on-1 w/Liz Kracht, @dorianmaffei.bsky.social or me! Includes: –> Webinar on submission materials –> 2-hr live Q&A –> Review of query letter, one-page synopsis & 1st 10 pgs of the manuscript writersdigestuniversity.mykajabi.com/how-to-craft...

Happy #MSWL Day! Pasting the link to my wish list for when I open in spring (dates TBD), along with a thread of a few specific things I'd love to see in both adult and YA! manuscriptwishlist.com/mswl-post/do...

Hello Friends! Welcome to #MSWL Day 2026! 🎉 This is our second ever #MSWL Day on Bluesky. We’re happy you’re here! You can, as of TODAY, search Bluesky and ManuscriptWishList.com posts at once: manuscriptwishlist.com/smart-search. All posts are verified by a human who works in publishing. ☕

Maria Kelson's NOT THE KILLING KIND is a Kindle monthly deal for the month of February! 👀

We are three months away from A RIVER FROM THE SKY by @aijiang.bsky.social! 🌀 A lyrical and moving follow-up to A Palace Near the Wind, as Lufeng and her sister Sangshu fight to protect their culture and their world. ✨ Pre-order: https://tinyurl.com/y3fbxrse

🚨 Have you signed up for this yet?! 🚨 What's included: -a webinar on submission materials -a 2 hour live Q&A -review of your query letter, one-page synopsis, and first 10 pages of your manuscript writersdigestuniversity.mykajabi.com/how-to-craft...

IT IS OFFICIALLY RELEASE DAY FOR— 🍃🌬️🏰A Palace Near the Wind 🏰🌬️🍃 —a big thank you to everyone who made this book possible from start to finish 😭🤍 @titanbooks.bsky.social

Story Circle calls @MKelsonAuthor’s NOT THE KILLING KIND, a mystery that “ratchets up the tension so smoothly that readers simply won’t be able to put the book down.” www.storycircle.org/book_review/...

excited to see A PALACE NEAR THE WIND mentioned in @newscientist.com 👀🙇🏻‍♀️🤍🌬️🏰 forthcoming April 15, 2025 — @titanbooks.bsky.social

The ebook of NOT THE KILLING KIND, a multicultural mystery novel featuring a Latina education reformer in rural NorCal, by debut Chicana author, Maria Kelson is now on sale for $2.99! shorturl.at/5pQiC

Finalizei leitura de "A Palace Near the Wind (Natural Engines, #1)" - Ai Jiang 🟠 surtada | 🟣 conectada | 🟡 apaixonada @maratona.app 💙📚 https://maratona.social/estante/cm5cr3hmu00ahhyudlau78298

We’re about 3 months out from PALACE’s release!! If y’all are looking for something to add to your 2025 TBR… 👀💫🌬️🏰 (preordered already? go to the link in my bio to fill out the form for swag! 🤍🙆🏻‍♀️)

Happy New Year! #BluePit is coming up fast on January 13th! We'll be sharing tips & tricks and starting Jan 8th will our #BluePitHype Q&A begins! We can't wait to see all your great pitches!

2024 Writer’s Wrapped: What a wild time year 🫣 — won the Nebula and Stoker award — was a finalist for the Locus, BSFA, Aurora, Hugo, Astounding awards — got a 2-book deal for my debut novel — wrote 1.5 novels + turned a novelette into a novella — wrote 10+ short stories — read 70+ books

What’s Christmas without a bit of food coma? Daughter made an incredibly delicious rack of lamb for our Xmas dinner. Dessert was a yummy white chocolate raspberry cake 😋

A Merry Catmas boop to all from this goofball 🎄🐾🎁 #christmas #catsofbluesky #cats

Good night and sweet dreams on this Christmas Eve 🎄🧑‍🎄 🐾 #catsofbluesky #happyholidays

Margaret Atwood, poet: "This is the solstice, the still point of the sun, its cusp and midnight, the year’s threshold and unlocking, where the past lets go of and becomes the future; the place of caught breath, the door of a vanished house left ajar...”

❄️Happy winter solstice❄️ Time to slow down. Time to enjoy candlelight, mystical stories and crafts.🔮🕯 #witchsky

Made sweet potato corn bread. Not too bad for my first time 😋

Apply to @banffcentre.bsky.social's SCIENCE FICTION residency w/ mentorship from @aijiang.bsky.social , @premeemohamed.com , & @amalelmohtar.com: www.banffcentre.ca/programs/lit... (att'n @locusmag.bsky.social @theignyteawards.bsky.social @thehugoawards.bsky.social @worldfantasy2024.bsky.social)

Thank you to the wonderful team at @titanbooks.bsky.social for this gorgeous copy of A Place Near the Wind by @aijiang.bsky.social. Looking forward to reading it.

The lovely folk @titanbooks.bsky.social have sent me A Palace Near the Wind by @aijiang.bsky.social which is a novella I’ve been desperately wanting to read This is set in a world where the Feng (tree-like) race are oppressed & beholden to humans & their king. I’m so intrigued by this! Out April

Why bother with a fancy cat bed? If it fits, he sits. 😍🐾 #caturday #catsofbluesky #cats

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A PALACE NEAR THE WIND (@titanbooks.bsky.social) mentioned in LibraryJournal’s prepub alert and the long list for Publishers Weekly’s spring 2025 preview 👀🤍🫶🏼🙇🏻‍♀️

Let's talk synopsis. The synopsis tells what happens in the book from beginning to end with full spoilers. It includes the plot arc and character arc. It is not just a longer version of the query letter. I've been seeing a lot of synopses that tease the end - they should tell the end!

The Texas Institute of Letters has 3 awards for authors of books for young readers, each with a $1,000 prize & a 1/6 submission deadline: Jean Flynn Award for Best YA Deirdre Siobhan FlynnBass Award for Best MG Brigid Erin Flynn Award for Best PB texasinstituteofletters.org/til-2024-lit... #kidlit

Authors, please I'm begging you. DO NOT sign us (editors/agents) up for your mailing list when we did not ask for it especially using our work emails. This is a worse offense than sending your project to editors who don't take unsolicited and/or unagented subs or querying agents when they're closed.

*PM Announcement now live!* Extremely excited to announce that we’ve sold my debut science fantasy novel—AN EMPIRE ABOVE OPERA—at auction, in a two-book deal, to @titanbooks.bsky.social, forthcoming Autumn 2026!! 🤍🌊🎭🏮🌸🪷 (followed by a far past *prequel*—AN OPERA OF SALAMANDERS, Autumn 2027 🦎⏳🔥🐦‍🔥)

It's Publishers Marketplace official! I'm so excited to get the brilliant science fantasy AN EMPIRE ABOVE OPERA into readers hands. Huge congrats to @aijiang.bsky.social and @cathtrechman.bsky.social What a great way to close out the year! 👏🍾🎉

I'm a little behind on the announcement news but my agent sibling's DEBUT is officially coming out in 2026 and I legitimately cannot wait <3 @aijiang.bsky.social !!!! 💥

Crying! Screaming! Falling down 😭‼️🙇🏻‍♀️🤍

It’s been a while since I’ve done pitch parties, so I’m dipping my toe in #Cheerpit waters. I might also take a look later this evening after the party is over. If I like your pitch, please send your query and the first 50 pages to me through my online form at: bit.ly/2Md2qeg

So excited for Ai's new novel! Congratulations to @aijiang.bsky.social, @cathtrechman.bsky.social, and the rest of the @titanbooks.bsky.social team!

We are thrilled to announce that Titan Books will be publishing @aijiang.bsky.social's debut novel, AN EMPIRE ABOVE OPERA! A riveting Chinese Science-Fantasy tale of royal siblings striving to survive in a climate of murder and corruption. We can’t wait to share this with you in Fall 2026 ✨

Extremely excited to be invited to speak about my work at my alma mater 😭‼️🙇🏻‍♀️

Hello #kidlit friends. I've compiled 2024 Publishers Marketplace data into this friendly pie chart. Please note: - data is for U.S. based publishers - not all publishers/agents announce every deal - some deals include multiple books/cats so numbers are approx. - CB data also includes early readers

We’re now on BlueSky! Guidelines for the inaugural #CheerPit 2024 event on December 9th! 🎁 We’ve updated our guidelines to include WIPs and agented authors too! We want to show as many people the writerly love as we can 📝 Please reach out if you have any questions ❤️

One the best ways to read my authors’ manuscripts is with hot tea at my favorite local cafe while treating myself to a chocolate croissant 😋

Had some amazing dim sum with friends today

At the end of the day, don’t we all just want to pull a book from a bookshelf and find that it reveals a hidden room?

Thread of pitch events with a brief explanation and direct links to accounts and rules for these upcoming pitch events! 🧵

Today’s mail brings this bound proof of A PALACE NEAR THE WIND by Ai Jiang, winner of the Bram Stoker and Nebula awards. Described as a “brutal and beautiful science fiction novella” it will be published by Titan Books in April next year.

Have you submitted your application yet? 👀✨ There will be many mountains 🗻⛰️ and many words 📝

Supported at one of my favorite local bookstore by doing some gift shopping there today #smallbusinesssaturday #indiebookstores

For my fellow Canadians, I’ll be partnering with a local indie bookstore— @bakkaphoenix.bsky.social —for part of A PALACE NEAR THE WIND (@titanbooks.bsky.social) preorder campaign 👀‼️ First 50 pre-orders will receive art cards/the handmade bookmark 🙇🏻‍♀️🤍 www.bakkaphoenixbooks.com/item/64yWJSS...

Another new Pitch Event for Mystery, Thrillers and True crime! @miserypit.bsky.social The first one is taking place SUNDAY, Dec 1st! #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #BookSky

So happy I went for the prime rib instead of turkey😋 Topping it off with a delicious cocktail (vodka, vanilla, passion fruit, lime, and Prosecco) 🍸 Happy Thanksgiving!