I couldn’t be more excited about this development. From the first time Peat shared his writing years ago I knew he would one day be published. ✨

Please extend a warm welcome to Ki’s newest client. @xuetingni.bsky.social is an editor, translator and cultural commentator bringing Chinese speculative fiction to the anglophone world. Xueting is represented by @knifewitch.bsky.social. Read more: www.ki-agency.co.uk/post/xueting...

What a weekend at World Fantasy Con - so many great conversations and lovely people! Ready to not talk to anyone for a bit now

Future Worlds Prize 2026 is open for entries! We're looking for great works of SFF by unpublished writers of colour. If that's you, check out our website for more information: www.futureworldsprize.co.uk/2026-prize/

SHE IS HERE ✨ Baby agent’s first deal announcement and I couldn’t be prouder of the wonderful Marianne

Literary horror giving me life this spooky season 🖤

ANNOUNCEMENT🎺🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Introducing our bona new quarterly literary magazine: FANTABULOSA! Pushing the boundaries of bold, authentic, QUEER storytelling. Bringing you stories of the uncanny, the dangerous and the fantastical. & thanks to our brilliant #WrathMonth backers, we're fully funded for 2026 🤘

Contributors Wanted! Do YOU want to write for Nerds of a Feather? www.nerds-feather.com/2025/10/cont...

Oh hey, I’m on TWO entire panels - going back to my Grimdark roots and pretending I’m a real life agent and not just three kittens in a cloak. Really looking forward to seeing clients and meeting loads of lovely new folk 🖤

Looking forward to the day I stop giving hypo snack brands another chance if they have interesting new options 😭

They're acting like the problem with denying so many vulnerable people a covid vaccine this year is that the information informing us that we're no longer eligible isn't clear enough on the booking website! The fucking problem is we're being denied vital healthcare! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Realities of chronic illness: when you know you’re ruining your blood sugar by not leaving the house but leaving the house seems like too much effort so you suffer

The @divergent-paths.bsky.social website is up, and we're looking for partners. www.divergentpaths.co.uk This isn't about finger pointing or blame. It's about helping all ND people in the publishing industry - writers, editors, agents, artists - find a better path forward ❤️ Excited to start

whoa october is around the corner! reminder that we'll be open again for novellas soon. more info here: www.neonhemlock.com/submissions

Today, TO reviews Claire North's upcoming space opera SLOW GODS: "North gives us a wide-ranging enthralling, resonant and cathartic fable of our own world’s predicament but anchors it with individual characters..." More: tinyurl.com/4wfz7cub @orbitbooks.bsky.social

Never, ever debate your right to exist. Never debate the right of other human beings to exist. You'll be making a major rookie mistake and bigots will grift the circuit you're allowing by debating them. Thank you.

I need someone to write me a book about this.

Wotcha all. I am Peat, the person responsible for spouting the guff you’ve presumably read in the blog posts. Or maybe you are smart and haven’t. I don’t like photos of myself, so I posted one of my cat, who’s a charming little savage indeed. This blog is mostly about fantasy literature, writing…

How the f*** are people willing to pay exorbitant amounts of money to buy THAT TERF’s new book?! Society, you disappoint me.

this morning i saw a con program with this panel description: “where does romance fit in speculative fiction?” now, i’m not naming the con—i’ve contacted them, hopefully they’ll change it—but since they’re not alone in framing questions like this, we’re going to talk about why it sucks actually 🧵

Back to work after two weeks off in the morning - already dreading the immense to-do list… Please provide vats of tea.

I've got a new website! Thanks to Man Kit Lam for design, and @knifewitch.bsky.social and @soranasantos.bsky.social for photos and encouragement! #MedievalSky #EarlyModern joanneedge.co.uk

Jo’s got a shiny new website with more about the brilliant project we’re working on, for those curious! 👀👀

Once again reading a book with a supposedly German character sprinkling their English with nonsensical German. Why do publishers consider linguistic accuracy negligible?!

Come join Team Ki! I can promise good books, brilliant writers, banter and baked goods in a supportive team - happy to answer any questions too!

I’ll be avoiding my responsibilities and putter around #queerpit today. If I like your pitch I’d love to see your project. Submission guidelines on the Ki website, and please link to the liked post ✨

If you are going to be recommending SFF books to young readers, please do remember that there's an enormous selection of middle grade and young adult SFF out there that is a far better option than books by adult SFF authors, old or new.

Re last quote - fyi not just authors, booksellers, anyone publishing related!

We’re thrilled to announce Amber Houlders (@ambrosialouise.bsky.social) has joined Ki. She and her complex and nuanced epic fantasy influenced by West African and Caribbean mythology and culture will be represented by @knifewitch.bsky.social Read more: www.ki-agency.co.uk/post/amber-h...

Another day, another inexperienced but hopeful writer, announcing that they have “been offered a book deal” for £20,000. Turns out that the author is being expected to PAY THIS to the publisher, not the other way round. Folks, no publisher does this.

Right, adding my own take to this as an agent. We get a ton of queries, many that match our wishlists and guidelines, but just as many that don’t. Looking at my own stats, I have a full request rate of approximately 2.5% of queries. The sheer number means we need to fall in love immediately or pass.

A good thread, on top of a good thread. As a commissioning editor, I also want to throw in another aspect - the commissioning editor may adore your novel and may fight for it in acqs but not get it through - because unless it's a tiny publisher, the company is doing acqs via committee.

Excitingly, Past Puzzle is now available in English too, so please share my daily agony at failing at history www.pastpuzzle.de#/

I live in zone 2 London. I’m going to a gig tonight, on a Friday night. I need to leave before midnight to get home. Make it make sense.

I am OBSESSED with this manuscript. Really looking forward to working with AJ ✨

Some great news to end the week on: @ajfitzwater.bsky.social is now represented by @knifewitch.bsky.social More: www.ki-agency.co.uk/post/aj-fitz... 🐳🐳🐳

Ending the week with some really great news: I am now agented! I have signed with @knifewitch.bsky.social at @kiagency.bsky.social. I'm stoked to be working with Fab, who shares my vision for my work. It's great to have a path forward for Lineage! Lesgoooooo!

Unpopular bookish opinion: I prefer the feel of US hardcovers to UK hardcovers

Is it really an edit if you don’t say at least six dumb things before breakfast

British household rules: you have a cupboard with upward of thirty mugs in it, only three of those can hold exactly the right amount of tea. When those are not available you will drink from the Lesser Mugs, but it will not be as good.

Aesir is looking for a Mongolian voice actress for an upcoming trailer. Help us spread this far and wide so we can find a talented person of actual Mongolian descent 🙏

Scrolling through #unhingedpit today - if I like your pitch I’m happy to take a look at your query. Please link to the pitch in your covering email, full guidelines on the Ki website

This year’s World Fantasy Awards shortlist is pretty damn good. Many of my favourite reads of 2024 (especially THE WOODS ALL BLACK by Lee Mandelo) and IN THE SHADOW OF THEIR DYING, which I ran the campaign for when I was @grimdarkmagazine.bsky.social - so some professional pride too 🖤

Get yourself some SNOWBLOODED if you haven’t read it yet!

We are officially open to submissions until August 7th! We want short stories 1k-10k words, poems of 50 lines or less. Dark fantasy, sword and sorcery, Arthuriana. We pay 9c a word, $50 for poems. More guidelines on our website! www.oldmoonpublishing.com/submissions

And as agents it is our moral duty to ensure our authors have clear AI clauses in their contracts.

Perfect first date idea: picking a lego set together and then building it

DISABLED AUTHOR FRIENDS: I'm going to host a Disability Pride Month Scifi/Fantasy/Horror Bundle on Itch from July 25th - 30th! This will be a curated bundle with 15-20 books & prices set to ensure that authors make at least $1.50 on every sale You can apply using the form below until July 10th!

Tangentially, this is why sending a budding SFF author to study Wells or Heinlein or Tolkien isn't particularly helpful. They need to read what's being written now first and foremost, to find the best way to express their own ideas. Understanding how today's SFF builds on went before can come later.

This was always going to happen on Terf Island