All right, let's do this, #WritingCommunity! Next Saturday (Feb 8), I'm hosting #CritPit, an event for #writers to find critique partners and alpha/beta readers. The event is open to all writers! Please share widely!

I am so thrilled to release the cover of my debut YA horror novel, HOLLOW, out with Peachtree Teen on September 30, 2025!!!

BREAKING: Major publishers, alongside the Authors Guide, bestselling authors, and others, have filed a lawsuit against Idaho's draconian book ban bill, claiming First and Fourteenth Amendment violations. bookriot.com/idaho-hb710-...

Here is an updated agent guide for my #ownvoices YA Horror Romance I am going to be #amquerying after the SmoochPit showcase in a couple weeks. If you are interested in seeing this in your inbox, let me know!

Celebrating horror from our friends in CANADA 🇨🇦many of these authors are featured in my book 101 Horror Books to Read Before You're Murdered! @daviddemchuk.com @acwise.bsky.social @silviamg.bsky.social @nalohop.bsky.social I miss my friend, Andrew Pyper. @premeemohamed.com #booksky 🩸📚

An agent’s guide to THE FORGOTTEN REALM, a TANGLED X ANASTASIA YA Fantasy with cozy vibes (and Big Five editor interest!) ✨ #litagents , if you’re interested in seeing this in your inbox, like this guide or let me know! 🪻💜 #writingcommunity

i'm tired of being told to stop doomscrolling. i'm just scrolling, it's not my fault there's doom on there

Indie bookstores can now sell ebooks through @bookshop-org.bsky.social!

well. hot damn. 👀✨

THE WRITING GROUP NEVER LOSES

so i suppose it's time for a vague publishing... skeet👀✨

What if Six Of Crows' Inej & Nina went on their own sapphic quest to summon a dragon & take down gods? 🗡️ Vengeful antiheroine ✨ Cinnamon roll priestess ⛅️ Grumpy/sunshine slowburn 🎭 Unreliable narrator 🌈 Queer found family 🗡️ Stabbing abusers 💕 Learning to love again #YouDeservePit #YA #F #amquerying

#YouDeservepIt with my latest #AgentsGuide Romeo and Juliet meets The Hunger Games in this NA, dual-POV, romantic fantasy. A fiery, slum-dwelling rebel and a guilt-ridden aristocrat find forbidden love amid a brutal uprising, hidden magic, and deadly monsters that could destroy them both. #NA #F #R

A Southern inheritance is always dark—whether it's a penchant for pills, a blood-soaked family farm, or an ancient magic. Sierra spurns them all, but when her dad disappears, she must choose which monsters to slay, and which to become. #YouDeservePit #Q #YA #H #T

AHS: Freakshow x The Night Circus A schizophrenic maghrebi acrobat A diverse ragtag troupe of disabled freakshow performers A show-woman with many enemies A competition of traveling circuses & a grisly slew of political assassinations in Victorian Britain #YouDeservePit #WIP #Adult #His

One thing about me is that I will fight Nazis until I’m six feet in the ground.

okay this is a CALL FOR ESSAY PITCHES! I'm looking for freelance writers for Reactor Mag, a long-running SFF website (formerly tor dot com not the publisher). Im the senior editor for book content, focusing on contemporary sci-fi, fantasy, gothic, horror, and genre-defying books. (details below)

writing about fucked up deer just as a deer wanders into my back yard... gotta love living in the woods 🦌

An agent's guide to FOLIE DU CORPS, my BLACK SWAN X HILL HOUSE horror (with Big 5+ editor interest)! I now officially #amquerying so if you've liked a pitch for this project, check your inbox! And if you'd like to see it too, let me know👀🖤🩰 #writingcommunity

not one but TWO very exciting emails... on the SAME day ✨

monday morning full request 🥰✨

maybe rewatching yellowjackets will fix me

‘Til death do us part’ seems far fetched—until Odessa is haunted by the spirits of the murdered queens before her. Warned she is next in the grave, Odessa must escape to survive. The queens agree to help, but their aid comes with a deadly price: vengeance. #P2Ppit #UW #YA #F

[BLACK SWAN X BUNNY X HILL HOUSE] If Eden wants the solo, she just has to survive the freak accidents that keep killing the other ballerinas, a ill-fated attraction to her idol, and her chronic illness. Oh, and the haunted house she brought to life. Oops. #P2Ppit #A #H #Q

Sierra loves her family and fears becoming them. Their healing hurts and their pills make you sick. But as infectious iron creeps through veins like kudzu, she is forced to take on her dark inheritance. If she must deal with monsters, she might as well become one. #P2Ppit #Q #YA

When Cody's group checks into Hotel Adair, she hopes to strengthen the bond w/her bestie. But the hotel feeds on insecurity& amplifies fears. As the friendship cracks& bodies pile up, reality warps. Cody must confront the hotel’s hunger if she wants to save her bestie& check out.

 #W #A #H #P2Ppit

NINTH HOUSE x LIBRARY OF UNWRITTEN 🖤Book magic 🖤Scottish mythology The day her brother vanishes Astra saves an intriguing man tied to his disappearance, together w/ a demon cat & anxious banshee they embark on a road trip to find him before it’s too late #P2Ppit #S #A #F

FOXGLOVE KING x ONE DARK WINDOW Kieran and Sienna must get the support of the nine ruling families to free the enslaved sorcerers—and risk the gallows for their forbidden romances. 🌹 queernorm 🌙 why choose 🌹 fated mates 🌙 twist on werewolves #P2Ppit #AW #S #FR

NOSFERATU x FBAA When Thalia is forced to marry a Vampyr prince to save her human kingdom, she's eager to seek revenge on the immortals who murdered her father and sister. That is, if her ex-lover turned Vampyr doesn't stop her first. 🥀🖤 #P2Ppit #A #S #H #RF

🎨THE NIGHT CIRCUS but magic painting academia🖤 Homesick immigrant teams up w/ hot posh rival to win magic painting contest when her scholarship is cancelled—while they anonymously collab on a new magic canvas that could change the world …and try not to kiss. #P2Ppit #F #A #UW #RF #Q

TRUE BLOOD x BUFFY x BLOOD DEBTS Set in a southern gothic Texas, Nola waited her whole life to be a debutante in a long line of vampire slayers. But between century old treaties, vampires, witches, family feuds, star-crossed lovers and the bond between cousins what will fate decide? #P2Ppit #UW #YA

soooo check this pitch out if you want to see a manuscript with 10(!!) requests in four days 💕 #amquerying

Loving the sound of this beauty

Someone grab this so I can add it to my TBR!!

🎸 daisy jones x knives out 🗡️ the songstress, the high-flyer, the gambler, the sweetheart, the watcher, the matriarch and the rogue. seven suspects. one the killer of renowned rockstar sam corvi. but who? only they can tell you #P2Ppit #W #A #LF #M

ONE DARK WINDOW x SERPENT & DOVE Kieran and Sienna must get the support of the nine ruling families to free the enslaved sorcerers—and risk the gallows for their forbidden romances. #P2Ppit #AW #S #FR

DIVINE RIVALS x POWERLESS A Saint is killed, triggering a set of deadly magic trials. Pia didn’t expect to be chosen for the competition, but is determined to win—and especially determined to beat her infuriatingly beautiful rival, Joanna #P2Pit #AgentedWriter #OS #F #editors

THE FOXGLOVE KING x GIDEON THE NINTH Ex-girlfriends investigate the murder they’ve been accused of, unraveling the mystery of the magic that connects them both and trying to ignore old feelings. Featuring: -sentient, decaying magic -political intrigue -twists and betrayal #P2Ppit #AW #A #F

[BLACK SWAN X BUNNY X HILL HOUSE] If Eden wants the solo, she just has to survive the freak accidents that keep killing the other ballerinas, a ill-fated attraction to her idol, and her chronic illness. Oh, and the haunted house she brought to life. Oops. #P2Ppit #A #H #Q

thats ok im already fluent in anxiety

Hello Writing Community! We are delighted to announce our First Official Bluesky *** #MSWL Day *** February 12, 2025. 🎉🎉🎉 Agents + editors can post what they ✨wish✨ they had in their inboxes; writers can find their next best fit for querying. Learn more here: manuscriptwishlist.com/the-next-off...

I promise you, once you free yourself from the notion that other writers are your competition and start viewing them as your fellow weirdos who share similar special interests as you, your life in publishing will become so much easier.

i promise i'll stop being annoying about this, but i've gotten 6 requests in 48 hours... 😳🩰

🎉Everyone please join us with hearty congratulations and many rounds of applause for ABLA's newest associate agent, the wonderful @analiacabello.bsky.social!🎉 She is now OPEN to queries, and you can find her full agent page here

Poison & Wonder is my adult romantasy #onsub. Waiting for #editors to give this dual-POV its chance to shine 🌟 #WritingCommunity #Booksky

3 full requests in under 24 hours, btw 👀🩰

🔥🗡NEW AGENT'S GUIDE TO DAGGER OF THE TSAR — Adult Fantasy inspiired by Anastasia Romanov!🗡🔥 ➡️ Now with editor interest (including from a Big 5!) ➡️ morally grey, toxic MC ➡️ enemy prince ➡️ dark court intrigue #BluePit #A #F #OV #LGBT #Q

GIDEON X SAINT DEATH'S DAUGHTER An undead detective searches for the stolen corpse of an industrialist's socialite daughter. When she finds the body possessed by her ex's ghost, she must venture into the underworld to learn the truth about her own resurrection. #BluePit #A #M #F #H

With one touch, a jaded & wily Ren can find your fated love, but she’ll only tell the truth half the time. When seized by the empress to find the Lonely Prince a match, Ren’s own thread gets tangled—in deceit, rebellion, and a fate worse than death. #Bluepit 📖 #YA #F #POC #OWN #AG