Check out the new post where @courtney-floyd.com talks about magic public university building!

Hey did you know it's NYC Marathon day? I did because the music and screaming started at 8am LITERALLY outside my bedroom window

SUPER excited to have this book announced so we can talk about it! Amanda’s incredible romance will be in the world *next year* for you all to read! As she says: don’t quit your daydreams!

I decorated for Halloween six days before trick or treating and my own party (rather than the night before). Please be impressed

Mallomar season is the best season

I was at the the No Kings march in Park Slope, Brooklyn. Many elderly or disabled folks who couldn’t make it to Manhattan, but also young families and people of all ages. I stood in the same spot for more than an hour and the stream of protesters was constant. Amazing turnout.

Brooklyn No Kings almost made me cry because of the number of kids out protesting

New update #amquerying: I am at 443 queries, so pretty close to 500! I am excited to start reading! On another note: I promise, if you have a typo or accidentally don't update your personalization, it will not be disqualifying. I was a querying author, I get it!

Just an update to #amquerying: I have 102 queries already! Wow, you all amaze me with your creativity and enthusiasm!

Reminder #amquerying: I open to queries at midnight tonight (in 45 minutes)! I'll stay open until I reach 500, to maintain a bit of sanity and ensure that I can get back to people in a reasonable time. My goal is to keep opening quarterly, so please don't stress about missing out or bad timing.

*Opens computer at 11pm* Don't start playing Hades II, don't start playing Hades II, you *won't* put it down for 2 hours, make good decisions. *Stares at Steam app as the sirens sing in my head*

From my hemiplegic migraine group

I love to hear @courtney-floyd.com talk about her debut, and now you can see why too: Check out the Big Idea behind HIGHER MAGIC wherein Courtney dives into how academia expects you to be a floating brain: whatever.scalzi.com/2025/10/08/t... Many thanks to @scalzi.com for sharing his platform!

Happy book birthday to @courtney-floyd.com and HIGHER MAGIC! Thrilled to be at the launch party to celebrate Courtney and her wonderful debut with friends, skulls, and chocolate! @htpbooks.bsky.social

I’m so excited for #DVPit (though I am going to try to be somewhat reasonable)!! If I like your pitch, please send your query and first 10 pages to: QueryTracker.net/query/RMatte... And remember this is but one way to be recognized, so enjoy the day and keep up the amazing work!

Newsletter post - in which I celebrate my very first BOOK DAY, share some of the moments that made up my debut year, and remind you to claim your digital swag if you preordered.

Casual views on my drive to Vermont today

Happy Saturday! I did a Q&A with The Nerd Daily, in which I talked about my publishing journey and disclosed what I sort of things I wrote as a 7 or 8 year old.

Chatting with @maxgladstone.bsky.social about Higher Magic was such a full circle moment for me. His feedback on the first few chapters of an early draft at Viable Paradise helped me unlock the R&R that got me my fantastic agent, and the rest is history... or debut year, anyway. 💚

10 days until HIGHER MAGIC is out! I loved the way @mkhardywrites.com did their countdown with snips from their novel, so I’m doing that, too. In this snippet, Bartleby is practicing describing her exam spell with her mentor. It’s… not going great. @htpbooks.bsky.social @htphive.bsky.social

pspsps only a few more hours to enter the goodread giveaway for HIGHER MAGIC, y'all www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...

Heads up #amquerying: I will be open to queries from *October 12-19*, or until I reach 500 queries. I am just about through the 500 queries I received in June - it has taken me 4 months due to health, working 3-3.5 jobs and making sure I have some balance remaining. Thanks for understanding!

You know what makes covid super confusing? Getting it at likely the same exact time your vaccine booster side effects kick in, so now you're a week past exposure and been sick for four days and have no idea when you actually got it. Or maybe that's just me.

My apartment is really being stretched to its limits right now - four people, on four calls, happening in four different rooms all at the same time. On an unrelated note: I am feeling massively overstimulated by too many people for too much time.

Oh, hey, the B&N preorder sale is back now through the 5th. Get HIGHER MAGIC at 25% off and help me keep Max rolling in treats. #BNPreorder @barnesandnoble.com @htpbooks.bsky.social

Hey y'all - please don't send me queries by email (to either Bradford or my business). I hate having to delete them, but I can't accept queries outside QM. I'm not sure how my agency email got spread around, but the number of queries has skyrocketed recently. Please stick to QM - I will open soon

I have an agent instagram: @rlmatte_litagent Because my IRL life involves many babies and friends, I’m pretty protective of my privacy on my main insta. But I want to engage with you all there as well as here, so I made a new one! So come find me there, if you want, and we’ll talk books :)

I have an agent instagram: @rlmatte_litagent Because my IRL life involves many babies and friends, I’m pretty protective of my privacy on my main insta. But I want to engage with you all there as well as here, so I made a new one! So come find me there, if you want, and we’ll talk books :)

Tfw you make a joke about your chronic illness to a coworker and remember quite suddenly in the horrifying awkwardness afterwards that healthy people don’t joke about chronic illness

Three different pedicabs waved me down specifically after Wicked tonight, leading me to cackle in their direction and yell “Never, I live here!” It’s hard to hold back my inner New Yorker in Times Square

According to Haaretz it was 2 5 million, over 1/4 of the population!

BOOK REC REQUEST! Does anyone have any good middle grade book suggestions with characters who use mobility aids? I have a student who is a voracious reader and I would love to get some books for my classroom library that represent her ❤️

If you’re at #worldcon, please stop by the HIGHER MAGIC party in room 3404 for some food, drinks, and gothic dark academia vibes!

Hey @seattlein2025.org: come to Room 430 now for the first ever reading of @courtney-floyd.com’s HIGHER MAGIC!

I'll be at Seattle Worldcon this weekend! I'll be hanging around all weekend, but here's my official schedule. And please join me and @courtney-floyd.com at the HIGHER MAGIC pre-release launch party, Friday night, approx. 8-11pm! seattlein2025.org/program-and-...

….can I get one of these? 👀

Query box update: my June experiment has given me a lot of information. It takes me about 3 months to get reasonably through approx 500 queries, which is what I received in the week I was open. This takes into account life balance and client work, with still reasonable return times.

If you're going to WorldCon, please come see me! In addition to the listed events, I'll be tabling with @authorsabb.bsky.social AND having an early launch party for HIGHER MAGIC on 8/15! Thanks to @callmeishmael.bsky.social for creating this amazing graphic & sparing me from the Canva mines.

I would love for you to vote for me in the fan artist category because you love my art but I will accept your vote for me because you want to help me correct the fact that my husband has a Hugo ( @scifantasy.bsky.social was an admin) and I don’t. 😂

Hey hey did you know you can get some cool stickers I designed with your SIGNED copy of my book if you preorder HIGHER MAGIC through my favorite local indie? @yankeebookshop.bsky.social

Let us mark this occasion! For the first time in my life, I thought of the RIGHT comeback at the perfect time and it WORKED! Never to be repeated again, sadly, based on experience

Literally impossible (with my skills) to capture the vibrancy of these colors in my gorgeous @peculiarityshop.bsky.social mystery box! I need to start going out way more to justify all this incredible jewelry I now have

There are far more disabled people pretending to be well than there are pretending to be sick. Being on disability is not fun. You’re forced into legislated poverty. Treated like a “useless eater”. Shunned, abandoned and constantly questioned. It’s dehumanizing 🧵

I'm giving away an eARC of HIGHER MAGIC and digital swag to celebrate Disability Pride! To enter: ✨ Subscribe to my newsletter & ✨ Follow me on IG or Bluesky by 11:59 p.m. on July 27th (Eastern time, or UTC−04:00) Bonus entries for sharing this post! buttondown.com/wallowingini...

Hey querying friends: please don't email me with queries when I'm closed. I don't accept email queries and will unfortunately delete them when they arrive. I will be reopening later this summer, so please do wait for my Query Manager to be active. Thanks 💜

THIS RIGHT HERE begging bigots to stop using aro/ace people as a shield for their fuckery.

Jewish orgs Keshet and the Hebrew Free Loan Association are giving out interest-free loans to LGBTQ+ folks who need to re-locate but can’t afford it. YOU DO NOT HAVE TO BE JEWISH. “The idea that people were having to pick up and flee their homes was something that resonated Jewishly.”

*small scream* 3 months until HIGHER MAGIC is out! It still feels surreal. Writing the first draft in 2021 was an exercise in daring. To try. To believe something could come of it. To hope that readers might resonate with my anxious, ND protagonist. @htpbooks.bsky.social @htphive.bsky.social

I think this is genuinely the most intense rainbow I’ve ever seen