BRIDGE KINGDOM x CRESCENT CITY Monster hunter August Finch is hardly thrilled to work with the most feared monster of all to catch her mom’s killer. But as they close in on answers, she realizes there’s more to the murder—and to the monster she’s falling for. #RoundTableMentor #A #F #UN

KENTUCKY ROUTE ZEROxDISCO ELYSIUM It's 2080 and Sadie is on a road trip across the southwest. Featuring: a text-based adventure game, a found family, a debate about what a utopian future really means. Post-apocalyptic Non-linear/unconventional structure Queer/trans POV Leftism #QUESTPIT #Q #A #SF

You know those gauzy, romantic indie movie flashbacks of the dead wife? This book has those vibes, only the wife is alive and they're gay. 🌿 sapphic 🌿 autistic 🌿 set in Appalachia 🌿 Not Like Other Girls x Manic Pixie Dream Girl (but with examinations of both these tropes) #QuestPit #W #NA

Erif has heard voices all his life. Now it's time to meet the people they belong to. 🔥 7 POV 🔥 takes place partially at a magic college 🔥 he can hear them but they can't hear him 🔥 The Magicians but make it brown and more queer 🔥 critique of capitalism and fascism #QuestPit #W #NA #F

Sixteen years ago a woman traded a child for information that would save a kingdom. Now that daughter, who the world thinks is dead, has to find her soulmate and convince him to help break the curse on her--if the vine growing from her body doesn't kill her first. #QuestPit #Q #YA #F

He’s a threat to the crown they both serve. 👑 ⁣ She’s a threat to more than just his heart. 💔 As the web tightens, the Spinners always come first.⁣ 🎻 THE SPINNERS' GUILD, an adult romantic fantasy #QuestPit #A #F #RF #Q

We'll be posting #MSWL interviews throughout the day - many thanks to our agents and editors for taking the time to help us get to know them! @sknigge.bsky.social is looking for children's to adult (mostly MG and up) and loves a magic, speculative, and genre-mashing element: youtu.be/UOEQzSWwPwY

He’s a threat to the crown they both serve. 👑 ⁣ She’s a threat to more than just his heart. 💔 As the web tightens, the Spinners always come first.⁣ 🎻 THE SPINNERS' GUILD, an adult romantic fantasy #P2Ppit #A #F #RF #Q (in Feb!) #SmoochPit

Authors and/or bookish people, if you have spare ARCs, author copies, or kidlit books in general, we will need them. Please fill out the form so I can coordinate gathering and delivering the books. tinyurl.com/LAFireBookDo...

I lost my therapist when I moved, but today I found out he's leaving the profession. Which means he's losing access to the email that's the only contact info I have for him. Which means that when I sign with an agent, I won't be able to email him to let him know. I am SO devastated. 😭

I currently have four different word processors open with active projects in each of them. 4 different projects. Across 3 author names. 🫠

I’m doing a full watch through of the X-Files for the first time and just watched Home. I am the world’s biggest scaredy cat and I can genuinely say I didn’t find that episode scary in the slightest. I don’t understand how it got pulled from the air.

Heeey if you want a dark vampiric fantasy romance with blood, murder, and kissing, do I have the book for you! It also has a polyamorous M/M/F romance with trans and Filipino characters! I think it's pretty cool! There are two sequels coming, but MISTRESS OF LIES is available now!

Filling out the StoryGraph info for A Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes like yes there is strong character development, unfortunately 🫠

The hardest part of working on a book with 7 POVs is counting the people in a scene. Turns out I do not, in fact, know how to count that high.

I used to think 30 wasn't old but I turned 30 and immediately started laughing at FB memes and sending them to my friends...

I'm revising a 7 POV book in which all the characters have the same general arc and honestly... I think I pulled it off.

I rambled to my dad about how I don't want to write and now I have been shamed* into finishing this chapter *he said he'd give me some time to decide if I want to write, in a way that was a clear, yet supportive, dismissal

All the kidlit authors I know (myself included): how dark is too dark to go in books written for children? Suzanne Collins:

No tf she didn't, this character literally *does not sleep* 😩

Me, a few months ago: this book is set partially on a fantasy version of Curaçao, I should wait to work on it til I get back! Me, now: oh shit I forgot the whole damn book is about the rise of fascism, maybe that's why I struggled to work on it in the states

I'm reading The Wild Robot and this book is both GORGEOUS and an absolute masterclass in craft, wow

I'm revising my 7-POV WIP and damn one of these couples is my favorite pairing I have ever written. One day there will be fanfics of these two and some of them may just be penned by my hand!

Please share widely 🙏🏼 I am taking item donations (literally anything from the publishing community or readers) for the next #KidLit4Ceasefire fundraiser to run Jan 15th through 31st. I am at about 100 items, trying to get to at least 500. airtable.com/appgMC1CTRup...

Last night I had a dream that I double-majored in Creative Writing and Pickles. Frankly kind of feel like I wasted my actual college years by only majoring in one of those.

The thing about December being Soup Season is that it is currently almost 90 degrees but I can't stop eating soup so I am sweating and miserable but my soul is so happy.

In August my phone company gave me 3 free months of #Duolingo and I impulsively joined to start learning Dutch. I guess you could say it's going well

I just finished rereading The Hunger Games and I just... HOW

✨100 DAYS UNTIL WHAT WAKES THE BELLS✨ My YA dark fantasy about a magical bell keeper, the vengeful saint she unleashes, and the sentient gothic city that turns on its inhabitants is out March 11! Preorder now (a Christmas gift!) and don’t forget to add on Goodreads and enter the giveaway there!

Just looked up a traditional dish and Wikipedia did NOT disappoint

I’m currently reading The Hunger Games and another book. Decided to read before bed, and opted for the other book. Very first line I read? “May the odds be ever in your favor.”

Dusty pink, butter yellow, and sage green

Periodically I'll think about the book I started drafting when I had Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever and I just... it's my favorite project I've ever worked on. I also can only work on it when I'm literally delirious.

Aaaand 16 months later, it's done! Since I started drafting this book, I also: • drafted a book, did 3 big revisions on it, and self-pubbed it under a penname (which I also launched) • drafted 26k on the sequel for ^ • drafted 40k on another book • revised & re-queried a different book

I’m one chapter away from having a completed first draft of my sapphic autistic coming of age book. Gonna try to knock it out in the morning and then I need to figure out a treat for finally being done 👀

Did someone say Sleeping Beauty retelling with body horror? #amquerying

A fake dating pact with your bestie’s ex? What could go wrong? My young adult rom com, HER GOOD SIDE is out now in paperback! 🥪💖🛹 🌞www.penguinteen.com/... 🌴 Signed from The Ripped Bodice : www.therippedbodicel...

I'd really love to meet more BIPOC writers. I didn't take the opportunity years ago on book twt and I don't want to repeat the same mistake! Anyone have recommendations or any starter packs out there for BIPOC writers (regardless of status — aspiring, unagented, agented, published, etc)?

If you're interested in: a) spicy fae romance b) helping with WNC hurricane relief Then please consider buying my debut, Mortal Memories! For every purchase made through this link, I'll be donating $5! shop.ingramspark.com/b/084?EDbS0p...

Whatever happens, I'm so glad I decided to revise and re-query OUAD. It's a MUCH stronger book now 💕

Another great way to support Helene relief efforts: the To Appalachia, With Love anthologies! Just donate to one of the chosen charities, send proof of your donation to NC Indies, and choose which anthology you want! There are five to choose from--and if you donate a certain amount you get them all!

I hit my goal of 100 books read for the year! 🥳

I’ve never really been able to listen to audiobooks but I started the Gregor the Overlander series on audio and WOW. Just finished book two and this series is freakin masterful.

I don't remember who it was that posted about this probably 5+years ago at this point, but getting to the end of revisions and zooming out to look at the track changes all laid out is SO incredibly satisfying.

Between the move and two covid infections in the summer/autumn I am so behind on ARCs but I am finally catching back up. Currently reading a @lizaldenwriter.bsky.social and loving it as usual 💕

Try the Island Bites series: 🍰SWEETHAND: oh no I dnt like you but you're hot, help! 🧁DON'T GO BAKING MY HEART: she dsnt follow the rules but I need her help 😌THE DATING COUNTDOWN: let's make a friends-dates pact to see if this can be more than sex! ngpeltier.com/bookish-things/

AN ARCANE INHERITANCE will be my Adult debut, and it's a speculative dark academia with a Jamaican-American lead and a bi4bi central romance. It's not yet available for preorder, but you can add it on Goodreads here: www.goodreads.com/book/show/17...