I am generally uninterested in strangers’ opinions about film/tv with the major exception that I am mainlining every possible video about The Vampire Lestat

It’s not the first time it’s happened, but apparently some scammer is going ham this week pretending to be me. They’re using the address [email protected].

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In case you missed it, we’ve welcomed a new author to @headwaterlit.bsky.social!

more and more queries and project descriptions these days come in saying things like "I wrote the book of course--I only had AI check for grammar/help with line revision/etc." I just want to be clear: I do not want to see projects that have undergone that step

Spent the past few days writing a very fun new class for querying writers and this is an official ask to let me teach at your conference/workshop/event!

Betty would like you to know that she’d love to share your ripe peach slices

If someone gives me a load-bearing throuple, broken magic, and some element of body horror, Erik will hear of nothing else for weeks (he knows how lucky he is)

I’m so excited to be working with Straith! As a certified Green Knight Girlie who wished the 2021 movie leaned harder into the kissing game, I love this romance-heavy version! Plus, there’s a degrading time loop, demon courtiers, and a fucked up whale!

Moon’s full

Threads is the devil’s app and even the silliest of discourse shan’t trick me into looking

they are on Threads fighting to the death over whether or not it is ableist for an author to use the word “scrying" (people might not know the definition!). how beautiful. people staring into their phones and getting so emotional over “scrying.” perhaps there really is magic in reflective surfaces!

Last hour to bid! You can hop on zoom with me and we can workshop your query in real time! Winner’s payments are also tax deductible!

Final day to bid on these items!!!

I’m auctioning off an AMA and a personal query critique (live on zoom!) for the @litagentsofchange.bsky.social fundraiser. Come bid! www.32auctions.com/organization...

Last one for now. If you are an author with anxiety (but I repeat myself), marketing probably feels like the stage where your book goes in, and doom comes out. It doesn't have to feel that way! Marketing is actually very exciting if you understand it! Here's a chance to understand it.

You might look at this one and be like "ok, it's another agent AMA." That is correct. It's also an AMA with the president of the Association of American Literary Agents. Regina Brooks is DEEPLY knowledgeable about the state of the industry, and her time is wildly valuable.

One thing I love about this auction is that there are items available for all types of authors, writing for all ages. There are too many NF and kidlit critiques for me to highlight, but if that's you, PLEASE check them out. I'm also so excited to see a graphic novel critique available this year!

There are a couple AMAs up with multiple agents on the other end-- this is so smart, because agenting is FAMOUSLY an "it depends" industry-- this way you get multiple expert points of view on the same question.

New episode of Print Run is here. mainly we talked about the "modernization" of older children's books, and also about how every AI chatbot keeps inventing a fictional guy named Elias Thorne for some reason. In general stuff is going great soundcloud.com/printrunpodc...

Good dog

We deserve this

LAOC auction week? LAOC auction week!!

Agenting is, emphatically, not a job where you get to lay around and read all day. Except for this week, where I do actually have to sit and read for most of the day 😈😈😈

I’m auctioning off an AMA and a personal query critique (live on zoom!) for the @litagentsofchange.bsky.social fundraiser. Come bid! www.32auctions.com/organization...

I've got Office Hours today at noon central if you want to chat about your publishing problems and/or triumphs and/or questions www.patreon.com/posts/june-o...

Listen, I like this actor well enough, but what even are we doing here, guys? This is even worse than Kenneth “Gunna Fridge a Woman for a Plot Mustache” Branagh

It’s been two entire days since I got home and I still cannot get over how prehistoric the dandelions are in Iceland

Welcome To Another Week Of Books

Taking a red-eye tonight and can’t sleep on planes, which means it’s time to get truly *irresponsible* with caffeine 😈

everyone in publishing knows the little codes--"audience size" and "not sure how to break this out to readers" and "didn't connect with the protagonist" and countless others. it's horseshit and publishing needs to look in the mirror about it

just trying to stick very close to my own work experience, not speak for anyone else, etc. I know which clients of mine draw the most irrational anger online, who has to justify themselves up front the most in pitches, who's allowed to write what, even when places pretend they're not doing that

my main thought on Pride month, as someone who should basically be neither seen nor heard from on it, is that I have seen many times firsthand the raw deal that trans people get in media and publishing, and it needs to be everyone's job to fix that. It's real, material, and unacceptable

ANY PERSON this age group can get a card, whether or not they’re experiencing book bans. That’s powerful for queer young folks in small towns with no libraries or libraries with limited hours or collections, too.

If this is your first time celebrating Pride month, welcome! We’re so glad you’re here!

God I love Pride month

God I am so fucking sick of hearing about AI

I’m seeing an increasing number of romance queries whose entire conflict is random white man vs dream career. I know why it’s happening, but I sure don’t like it!

“If I’m getting you a six-figure book advance, I don’t want you to be putting it into ChatGPT,” said a top literary agent. “Go to the fucking library.” nymag.com/intelligence...

My #1 childcare tip is that Gerber’s clothing line has free embroidery

Unintended side effect of upping my outside chair setup is Betty now requires my company anytime she wants/needs to be outside because that’s Where We Hang Out

This feels near-pyrrhic but I will take even crumbs of good news at this point. I pray this man never gets a full night’s rest for as long as he lives.

I know it’s not at all historically accurate but boy do I love an arrow volley

9 months old and still so true. “ If you’re pushing slop or eating it, you wouldn’t read it anyway. You’d ask a bot for a summary and forget what it told you, then proceed with your day, unchanged by words you did not read and ideas you did not consider.”

Does anyone know of some linguistics/historical work that explains why “futuristic” names are pretty similar across sci-fi? I want to know where all the X, Y, and Z nouns came from!

When you get to the Hodor reveal in your GOT rewatch

I’m just an agent, sitting in front of my slush pile, asking for writers to actually explain their book in their queries

I don’t wanna brag or anything but my application for a rain garden just got approved by the city 💅