#booksky would this be considered as hiring a Hitman

As if this even needs to be said.

Food for thought.

This deserves to be shared.

New monthly newsletter for all sorts of creative types. 💖 It’s basically an ongoing list of things that inspire me! Sign up? #author #fiction #creativity #inspiration open.substack.com/pub/zaramari...

The vague era is over! I'm beyond excited to share the news that my debut novel will be coming to you in spring 2026 from Sourcebooks/Poisoned Pen Press. I'm so thrilled MJ gets my vision for this book & grateful to the amazing @jennaschmenna.bsky.social for helping find a perfect home for it ❤️🧡🤍

We've had a bunch of new people added to the 2026 debut authors starter pack so I'm sharing again so you don't miss anyone! If you are a 2026 Debut Author being traditionally published, don't forget to join the 2026 Debut Discord here: forms.gle/KtSnFmXSquCA... go.bsky.app/9Sw356k

Happy new year, all! What are you excited for in 2025? (If you say the new administration we’ll have to agree to disagree.)

Made a semi-jokey video about how cutting those last 500 words from my latest novel (to get it under 100k) feels like the hardest thing I’ve ever done… Also specified that I didn’t actually want advice. This girl comments: “Get ChatGPT to do it for you!” 😡😡😡 I’m irrationally annoyed.

Parents are in control of which books their own children read - if you don't like one of the thousands they have that are on the shelves of our public libraries, put it back and choose another! Pretty simple concept. #FreedomtoRead #RighttoRead

Funny

New Orleans out here innovating in bread shapes. Say hello to the challigator.

Surround yourself with the kind of people who support their local library, bakery, bookstore, and café.

If you’re going to see Wicked, my advice is don’t see it in a janky little theater where the picture quality is so dark you start wondering if you’re going blind!!! 😂😭 At least the music was good.

Hachette bought my publisher, thus making me a (future) Big Five author. Usually you’d hear me grumbling about monopolies with this kind of news, but in this particular case, YASSSS!

*sigh* I did my masters of creative writing at Edinburgh Uni. I’d move back in a heartbeat. (Preferably for the next 4 years.)

I’ve been spending too much time on TikTok lately. Having just landed here (on Bluesky), let me just say, the vibe feels sooo much more authentic! I’m into it.

“What radicalized you?” Bro I was told to treat people the way I would want to be treated in kindergarten and it made sense idk what else there is to say

Leading up to Christmas is a time that indie businesses make the majority of their income for the whole year If you want to support indie bookshops there's a growing list/directory at www.indiebookshops.com

bitch the only way you’re getting your grubby fucking paws on my intellectual property for the purposes of training these monster machines is if you compensate me so thoroughly I can’t find a way out of the pile of money im drowning in to fight you

FYI 💙

Also, books don’t make smalltalk. 😅

I’m told I should make a post to prove I’m a real person. 😂 Hello! I’m Zara Marielle! I write empowering fantasy for adults. Bilingual (🇫🇷/🇺🇸), bisexual, bioluminescent. (One of these is a lie.) Smash the patriarchy, read novels, stay silly. My debut (CAFE EUPHORIA) comes out in 2026. 💙

An old time favourite of mine, for giving hope when times feel dark 👇 #Tolkien