Editors!!! If you’ve ever wanted a winter MG holiday horror set in the Arctic with a lot of heart and even more ghosts, then have we got the story for you 👀😈✨ So excited to be working with Starla on all of her fabulous ideas! 🤩

Happy almost Valentine’s Day from my novel-in-progress! Because even though birds aren’t real, my excitement about the second draft of this book absolutely is 😎 #writing #writercommunity #valentines #wip #capitalismsucks #birdsarentreal

I've said this before but I truly believe we could revitalize YA and kidlit overnight by switching to MMPB and paperback first. Kids want paperbacks! It is by far the biggest request I get from teen readers.

Leanne has so many AMAZING ideas and I can’t wait for them to get out into the world 👀🥳👀🥳👀🥳

Editors! Get ready for the fabulous YA sapphic horror-romance to hit your inboxes soon 👀👀👀 So excited to work with @charwritesstories.bsky.social on all of her fabulous ideas!!! 🥳🥳🥳

Super excited to say that my horror short story, The Blood Remains, was a finalist for the AAEF short story writing contest! 🖤

Statements made by politicians cannot unmake a victim of ICE just as they cannot rebuild Gaza. These are lives killed and disappeared, over and over and over again

I just think it's neat that bad leaders who must be stopped at all costs only live in countries with big oil reserves

Hooray! @authorsabb.bsky.social is *OFFICIALLY* a nonprofit, and is now open for donations! For the last two years we've been doing all this w free tools, or paying out of pocket, & we were STILL able to get SO MUCH DONE. Imagine what we could do with $$$ www.authorsagainstbookbans.com/donate/

🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳 I’m so stoked that I get to work with @zillawrites.bsky.social and all of her fantastic ideas! Editors! Get ready for a haunted hotel that brings out your worst qualities—just like the toxic friends you’re trapped with—in this fun, meta adult horror debut coming your way in 2026! 😈✨

Silent Hill 2 im so sorry they did this to you!!!

🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳 Thrilled to be working with C.L. on so many cool things! I can’t share our secrets here yet but there will definitely be more to come! ✨

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/

Alright y'all, I've got a list of (nearly) every traditionally published young adult science fiction, fantasy, and horror book of 2025. All 310 of them. bookjockeyalex.com/2024/12/26/y...

✨new deal alert!✨ So excited that we found the perfect home for @meredithephillips.bsky.social’s historical romances! Get ready to fall in love with her clever characters and charming banter! 🥳💜✨

Hi #DVPit! I'm so excited to check out everyone's awesome pitches today! I'm happy to look at queries + first 10 pages from everyone participating 💜 You can use this link to query me! Please paste a link to your pitch at the top of your query! Thank you! querytracker.net/query/AlexBr...

Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat. For the crime of … complaining about government policy. Core 1A speech. With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.

This is on the street OUTSIDE of the Ice building, it's city property. The agent should be charged with assault.

10 spaces still available with @alexbrownwrites.bsky.social for the Critique Carousel www.scbwi.org/events/criti... #middlegrade #YA #kidlit

Things Portland is currently ravaged by: Pizza Temperate, sunny weather Coffee Middling soccer Sunsets Farmer’s markets Apples Hiking trails Thai food Fresh hops Harvest-ready vineyards Things Portland is not ravaged by: War Thank you for your attention to this matter.

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so many dead canaries and we just keep on mining

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Turning Point USA made a literal watch list of professors, primarily women, queer folks and people of color, and made us targets of political violence. I’ve received hate mail and harassment and death threats off and on for nearly a decade in part due to that man’s organization so 🤷🏽‍♀️

It is weird that the assassination of essentially a celebrity influencer is a bigger deal than the shooting of two top state legislators + their spouses

Hey, did you know my queer TTRPG anthology releases in just SIX DAYS?? It's full of queer coming of age stories set around the gaming table. If that sounds up your alley, you can preorder from Always Here Bookstore to get a signed bookplate and sticker! www.alwaysherebooks.com/product/this...

I am re-opening to queries for underrepresented/marginalized writers ONLY! If you think we’d be a good fit, feel free to use this link to query me: QueryTracker.net/query/AlexBr... I’ll try to stay open for at least a month! Can’t wait to read your work!!! 🥳

So incredibly excited for everyone to get their hands on this project. @stephwrites.bsky.social has a voice that just captures your attention and doesn’t let you go until the final sentence 🎉

Thrilled to announce my newest deal! I’m so excited that my amazing client, @stephwrites.bsky.social, has found an awesome home for her debut novel, HELLBOUND! I can’t wait to see what magic Stephanie, @melissarechter.bsky.social , and the Alcove team dream up! 🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳

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It is not an exaggeration, friend. He did it with his own hands, and a smile on his face. Look at it full on. This man is not a hero. You can acknowledge his usefulness, and be honest about his dangerousness and moral failure. Goodbye. bsky.app/profile/wolv...

A thread of BIPOC-owned, ethically sourced, craft chocolate makers. This in not a complete list, but just ones I've personally enjoyed and are fairly transparent about their cacao sources and fair payment to farmers. More will be added as I go. #craftchocolate 🍫

Hi queriers! Dropping by with a friendly reminder that I am closed to unsolicited queries! Anything that is emailed to me will be deleted unread. I am (slowly) working my way through submissions and will likely stay closed through the rest of 2025. BUT —

HEY SOMETIMES THERE IS UNCOMPLICATED GOOD NEWS It's rare but it happens!!! If you think this is a big and great deal (it is) please consider donating directly to the Florida Freedom to Read Project www.fftrp.org/donate

If any editors out there are looking for the “came back wrong” trope lemme know!!! 👀

Editors!!! This book is so charming and a little spooky and I can’t wait to send it your way!!! 🥰

REST IN PEACHES is now a Locus Award finalist AND a Dragon Award finalist! My silly queer YA slasher is my favorite child and I’m so excited to see her getting some love! 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰

She's Publisher's Marketplace official! ♥️🇵🇸 If you're interested in book about a haunted house that fights back against its occupiers - and the three generations of Palestinian women who are bound to it - then look out September 2026 from Tor Nightfire and Orbit UK!

If you’ve ever wanted to read a book about a Palestinian haunted house that fights back against its occupiers—and the three generations of Palestinian women who are connected to it—then be on the lookout for Deena Helm’s debut! Coming to you in Sept 2026 from Tor Nightfire! 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

Get to dust this bad boy off

Rümeysa Öztürk describes the library in the prison where she was held for 45 days for co-authoring an op-ed

It is indeed very neat!!! ☺️

They are trying to murder Rumeysa Ozturk. For writing a fucking op-ed.

Rümeysa Öztürk hasn’t been given her asthma medication and has had three asthma attacks, putting her life in danger and possibly violating disability civil rights. New from me with @hurwitz.bsky.social for @motherjones.com. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Editors! If this sounds up your alley, I’m happy to chat 👀✨

Editors! This could be on its way to you soon! If you love villain romances and hot mess protagonists, we have one hell of a ride for you!