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MAEVE AND THE OTHER MARSH | Fall '26 @erewhonbooks.bsky.social Writer and lover of the strange, creepy, and magical | rep'd by @benglishhh.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/ksshaywrites
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Tbh it's wild to see Death Of The Author go from "is it wrong to interpret books/art in a way the writer didnt intend" to "this author has done objectively awful things but pretty please can I still consume their work"

If you ever feel behind just remember that Joe Biden didn't get his agent until he was 82, ur doing just fine 💕⭐️💕

✨PLEASE SHARE✨ It is live!!! There are over 260 AMAZING items to bid on in the 2nd annual #KidLit4Ceasefire auction from year-long mentorships to signed books to full manuscript critiques to art commissions the fundraiser has you covered! 🇵🇸 Link: bit.ly/KidLit4Cease...

Retweet if you're richer than Elon Musk because you have a spouse who loves you

First they came for the immigrants, and I spoke out, because I’ve read the damn poem before and I know how it ends.

It’s all about food baby 💋 www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

tis the season for yearning and longing and reposting all old art here 🥀 #art #medievalillumination

TikTok is back but like, in the way your long lost son appears on your doorstep after a mysterious disappearance & he looks & sounds the same but he’s harboring a dark secret and ok lemme turn off Lifetime

Today and in the coming days, remember

I'm gonna need everyone to understand that, "I worked hard and I deserve this" and "This was mostly down to luck" are not mutually exclusive emotions when it comes to publishing success. Both can be true. Both are true.

There's something so emotionally devastating about all the character actor tiktokers coming on screen as themselves for the first time ever to give all these heartfelt goodbyes 😭😭 like bro

🎨THE NIGHT CIRCUS but magic painting academia🖤 Homesick immigrant girl teams up w/ hot posh boy 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 📖 #BluePit #A #Q #F

Hear me out: a highschool YA Beauty and the Beast retelling except instead of getting transformed into a literal beast he gets trapped in the high school mascot costume

If you need me I'll be sitting in my car and screaming the bridge to Alley Rose by Conan Gray for the foreseeable future

Impermanence is not insignificance

seconding The Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi & adding: -The Honeys by @ryanlasala.bsky.social (Listened on a road trip without stopping & finished the drive in silence to cope) -Compound Fracture by Andrew Joseph White (it's so good, listened on speaker & accidentally horrified my partner, A+)

I feel no need to protect any Democratic sexual predators. This seems like a good deal

Oh my gosh there’s a 2026 debut list 👀😍

Ahhh!!!!!! Let's gooo

I cannot believe I finally get to announce this. An unhinged dream, so many years and monologues in the making. I'm elate to announce my debut novel VILE LADY VILLAINS, a horromantasy about Klytemnestra and Lady Macbeth, will be published with Penguin Michael Joseph in 2026.

Hello bluesky #writing and #querying community! If you’re an unagented author seeking trad or indie pub, please check out Round Table Mentor and help spread the word! RTM is committed to diversity and focuses on craft and community 💜

Sisyphus rolling his boulder up the hill every day for eternity except it's just me opening the manuscript that I CHOSE to write fully knowing that writing novels takes me approx. 500 years

I need publishing to get the message: no amount line toeing will appease this guy. Don't abandon your marginalized authors to make nice with him. Stand behind us and FIGHT his bullshit with all you've got. Please, don't be a coward about this--a lot of us writing the books don't have that luxury.

hi #writingcommunity friends!! reintroducing myself! im kris, 🇵🇭🇨🇦 sff writer based in toronto—my debut novel is a queer cyberpunk Gatsby reimagining out fall 2025, on tech class & how it shapes our humanity. would love to connect (or reconnect) with more peeps, esp SEA & queer writers!!

✨Donation Link Live (and fixed!)✨ You can now donate items to the #KidLit4Ceasefire 2025 Auction to run from January 15-31st. Families are in dire need of aid now more than ever as we head into next year, and I am hoping we can raise $60,000 to help Gaza 💛✨ airtable.com/appgMC1CTRup...

almost forgot to introduce myself but hi im hali, an adult romance author from texas repped by sam fabien at root literary! i’m also studying for my master’s in library science (graduating next semester 🎉)! i’m currently working on LOVE YOU TO DEATH, a sapphic exes to lovers romance/mystery 🥀🖤

Ahhhh its me!!!! How exciting, how terrifying! Boosting this announcement in the hopes that I can connect with other writers & fellow Gardner heist enthusiasts on here :)