NYT offers a survey of the state of book publishing that feels hopeful. Also a nice mention for the newly-launched horror store, Twisted Spine. This is a gift article. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/30/b...

Last Call for Mass Market Paperbacks "According to Circana BookScan, mass market unit sales plunged from 131 million in 2004 to 21 million in 2024, a drop of about 84%, and sales this year through October were about 15 million units." www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

Congrats Zilla!! The blood and sweat was worth it🩸🩸🩸

Taking a break from the keyboard this week...

Excited to announce that Our Elsewhere has won the general fiction category for the 2025 Book Pipeline Unpublished contest! bookpipeline.com/winners Honored they recognized Our Elsewhere--a speculative fiction where a widow journeys across worlds via death to find and save her husband.

I'm going to do a little thread on how the money from books works for traditionally published authors because people have questions, and this is always useful info to share IMO. First, a big disclaimer that every contract is different, and there are a million factors that can change things. 1/

Sourcebooks is the fifth-largest trade publisher as measured by print books sold, breaking the dominance of the biggest conglomerates for the first time since Bookscan started> lunch.publishersmarketplace.com/2025/11/sour...

TALK TO ME x THE GIRLS ARE ALL SO NICE HERE x CABIN IN THE WOODS * dual timeline * tarot & ouija boards & seances * OBX setting * bachelorette weekend with a body count * best friends forever (as a curse)

Simon & Schuster Executive Fiction Publisher @phoebeannmorgan.bsky.social joins us to talk about the decisions that go into acquiring and marketing books. Plus, what happens in auctions and why she started The Honest Editor Substack! Watch now: youtu.be/SJXs6kut_EU Or listen: linktr.ee/ukpageone

“TWC Live! Literary Agents on Publishing in a Time of Unrest” premieres TONIGHT at 7:00 p.m. ET! See @frecklywench.bsky.social, of Aevitas Creative Management, Danya Kukafka of Trellis Literary Management, and @ericsmithrocks.bsky.social of Neighborhood Literary on AWP’s YouTube channel.

would love to expand my CP network! esp for my adult fantasy: WILL OF THE MANY X NAUSICAA After conjuring the ghost of bone magic's inventor, uni student Aris attracts the attention of an undead professor who would kill to keep the secret of magic's origins buried. #FiFRevPit #WritingCommunity

I am so thrilled to announce that I am now represented by Katie Shea Boutillier at Donald Maass Literary Agency! I am looking forward to working together on IVORY TOWER, a psychological horror and dark academia novel.

What I’m reading this weekend: Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield It’s a horror novel about a woman who returns from a catastrophic deep-sea mission but is no longer the same. #BookSky

Want to work on tension, character & querying - for free? Check out our #MSWL live replay from last week! One attendee said “I feel like I just had an entire MFA course. Except MFA programs get snooty about 'genre fiction.' " Check it out! manuscriptacademy.com/mswl-live-ag...

Manuscript wishlists are live! We recommend popping over to our website to peruse mentor profiles before mentee applications open on Nov 6th 👀 Important note: Contrary to previous rounds, we are only accepting complete manuscripts this year! www.roundtablementor.com/mentors

Not to be THAT dictionary, but… It’s ‘per se,’ not ‘per say.’ It’s ‘dog-eat-dog world,’ not ‘doggy-dog world.’ It’s ‘hunger pangs,’ not ‘hunger pains.’ It’s ‘one and the same,’ not ‘one in the same.’ It's 'buck naked,' not 'butt naked.'

Visited a castle yesterday for some writing inspiration... #WritingCommunity

On an alternate Earth, two chemists must race against time, corporations, and cultists to prevent global famine. But their feelings for one another are as explosive as their experiments... CHEMPORTAL is The Love Hypothesis x Project Hail Mary x Pride and Prejudice. With bats. #DVPit #A #SF #R

For his thesis, Aris is researching Weston Rane, inventor of bone magic. After accidentally conjuring West’s ghost, they strike a deal: Aris will find the tomb West’s friends buried him in and West will help Aris find the answers to preserve the magic that’s quickly running out. #DVpit #A #F #LGBT

The NYPL horror committee read more than 150 titles published since last Halloween to select their 20 favorites: #BookSky #horror www.nypl.org/books-more/r...

www.goodreads.com/blog/show/30... #BookSky

It's happening. variety.com/2025/tv/news...

What I’m reading this weekend: The Extra by Annie Neugebauer. 10 people head out on a backpacking trip, but the first night 11 set up camp. Everyone remembers everyone else. Who's the extra? #BookSky

I think I need this cafe where they harass writers until they finish their writing... japantoday.com/category/fea... #WritingCommunity

new horror bookstore opening in Brooklyn www.timeout.com/newyork/news...

What I'm reading this weekend: Leigh Radford's One Yellow Eye 👁️ A horror novel about a scientist seeking a cure for her undead husband. #BookSky

Mark your calendars! We have a US cover reveal date for LOVE GALAXY, my debut sapphic SF romantic thriller about murder on a reality tv show in space with forbidden romance and lots of yearning! Available to add on Goodreads now, link in the comments below 👇

Wrapping up the first draft of my WIP! Here's a chart of my daily word count since I started 2.5 months ago. #WritingCommunity

Was sent this. I dig it.

An informative post by Cathie on the various considerations an agent might go through while preparing editor lists for sub. What really stood out to me is the need for an excellent organization system!

Last Read: Hildur Knútsdóttir's The Night Guest, translated by Mary Robinette Kowal. I read this short horror novella in just two sittings. Set in Reykjavík, about a woman who wakes up with increasingly disturbing injuries. What I'm reading this weekend: Suzanne Collins's Sunrise on the Reaping.

Taking time away from my keyboard this month...

A fugitive astronomer must seek the truth about his family’s doomsday prediction that led to their persecution and deaths. #BluePit #A #F #Q #agentsguide #BluePit📖

Downloading some samples to peruse this weekend — Evan Leikam's Anji Kills a King, Caitlin Starling's The Starving Saints, and Joe Abercrombie's The Devils.

The Readercon 34 program schedule has just been finalized : schedule.readercon.org - Come by and check out our fabulous schedule of events and awesome participants. Looking forward to seeing everyone in July 17 to 20th in Burlington MA. Registration at: readercon.org/registration

Finally getting the chance to read Emily Wilde #3, Compendium of Lost Tales. www.goodreads.com/book/show/20...

#BluePit is back for the summer! Creators in the #WritingCommunity, #GameDev & #IndieDev, #TTRPG, and #Comic communities get ready to pitch or promote your projects! #BluePit will be taking place again on July 13th, 2025! And #BluePitHype starts July 8th! #WriteSky #Writers #AmAgenting #LitAgents

DVpit is officially coming back on October 8th, 2025 and we have over 50 agents and editors excited to participate. Follow this account for all announcements and check out dvpit.carrd.co for more details and information! #dvpit #writersky #booksky #weneeddiversebooks

In a republic where divination prevails, a lone astronomer infiltrates an observatory full of his family’s killers to seek the truth about a planetary collision prediction that led to their persecution and deaths. #WIPPIT #F #A #FBW #agentsguide

THE SPELLSHOP x HOWL'S MOVING CASTLE A curmudgeonly witch with a chronic illness must work with a cheerful thief to stand up to a greedy pharmaceutical company. #QuestPit #A #RF #F #agentsguide #disabilityrep #chronicillnessrep #cozyromanticfantasy

SUCH SHARP TEETH X OUR WIVES UNDER THE SEA When a soul-devouring woman cursed with a sinister fox spirit falls in love with her final victim, she decides to end her killing spree; but the fox has plans of its own and it refuses to let one man stand in its way. #QuestPit #A #H #R #PR #W

JASAD HEIR X CURIOUS TIDES Maia must unravel a lifetime worth of secrets to understand the dangers that lurk around every corner—and she must do so before it’s too late. 🌊 Pacific Islander Rep 🌊 Elemental Magic 🌊 Endless Banter #QuestPit #W #YA #F #AgentsGuide

Twenty-five years ago, men made history. But HER story will change everything… 🌊 Multi-POV 🌊 Feminine rage / ‘Good For Her’ 🌊 Horror elements 🌊 Orcadian folklore 🌊 Atmospheric setting 🌊 Twisty plot 🌊 Editor interest #questpit #Q #A #HF #agentsguide

CABIN IN THE WOODS×JOHN DIES AT THE END×KNIVES OUT When their detective friend is murdered during their annual gaming retreat, 5 dads must use their years of #TTRPG experience—and puns—to solve the crime before they're all killed off like NPCs in a badly-written campaign. 🎲🥓 #QuestPit #A #H #MY #W

Pirates of the Caribbean—if Jack Sparrow were a vengeful sapphic ghost possessing a sapphic princess Elizabeth Swann, Will Turner went on a gender journey, and the curse could only be broken when two hearts meet the light—through love or bloodshed 🫀🗡️ #QuestPit #YA #F #Q #LGBT

In the Service of Gods and Admirals Mass Effect x Treasure Planet 🎬 New Adult Scifi/fantasy 🚂 Steampunk ♀️ FMC 🚀Solar-Sail Spaceships 🔮 Crystal magic 🧠 PTSD 🦸‍♀️ Reluctant hero 🪐 Planet Hopping 👽 Many Alien species ⚖️ justice/redemption/revenge #Questpit #W #SFF #writingcommunity

A FATE SO DARK, an adult fantasy novel which will appeal to readers of James Islington's The Will of the Many. - astronomy vs. astrology - renaissance vibes - morally gray characters - cost of identity - unexpected romance - societal inequities - planetary catastrophe #QUESTPIT #A #F #W

It's National Independent Bookstore! If you're able, drop into your local bookshop today. Here are my Boston area favs: @portersqbooks.bsky.social @tridenthalifax.bsky.social @brooklinebooksmith.bsky.social The Book Shop of Beverly Farms Comicazi All She Wrote Books (P.S.😝 to you know what site!)