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Brenna English-Loeb
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Literary Agent @ Transatlantic Literary Agency // Developmental Editor @ BELtowerEditorial.com // IG: benglish_litagent
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johnjosephadams.com
If you wrote an SF/F/H story that was published in 2025 (or read a story that you thought was great), tell me about it in this thread!

Authors, also send your story to me here: johnjosephadams.com/basff-submis... (Please read the guidelines before submitting.)
The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy stylized as cover text.
November 7, 2025 at 1:48 PM
benglishhh.bsky.social
Always so lovely when clients get to meet up in real life! @bpladek.bsky.social
transatlanticagcy.bsky.social Transatlantic Agency @transatlanticagcy.bsky.social · 18d
Transatlantic’s own Laura Goode and Ben Pladek snapped a lovely selfie after Laura’s PITCH CRAFT talk at Marquette University, where Ben is professor!

Both Ben and Laura are represented by @benglishhh.bsky.social
November 5, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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ancillaryreviewofbooks.org
Calls for reviews & essays: February 2026
Calls for Reviews & Essays: February 2026
The Ancillary Review of Books publishes reviews and essays with an emphasis on utopian impulses and systemic injustices. ARB seeks to build a community of radical thinkers writing about amazing, sp…
ancillaryreviewofbooks.org
November 3, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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transatlanticagcy.bsky.social
"Fascinating... Spam: A Global History nimbly uncovers the means by which this processed meat has become enmeshed in international foodways."

Kelly A. Spring shows Spam isn’t just a sandwich filler, it’s history!

Kelly is represented by Brenna English-Loeb.

Congratulations, Kelly!
October 28, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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aketchum22.bsky.social
Upcoming November events!
www.queerfoodconference.com/p/additional...

@arsenalpulp.bsky.social @transatlanticagcy.bsky.social @benglishhh.bsky.social
list of the events, but the link is better https://www.queerfoodconference.com/p/additional-events.html on orange background
October 22, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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wiswell.bsky.social
A fun article on books that let us indulge our love of monsters! Get unhinged with Katie.
October 20, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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transatlanticagcy.bsky.social
The PITCH CRAFT book tour is hitting the road this October!

Laura is represented by Amanda Orozco and Brenna English-Loeb.

Congratulations, Laura!
October 15, 2025 at 4:43 PM
benglishhh.bsky.social
Happy, happy book birthday to VESSELLESS and Cortney!!!!
October 7, 2025 at 6:24 PM
benglishhh.bsky.social
Happy book birthday to QUEERS AT THE TABLE and its amazing editors, @aketchum22.bsky.social and Megan Elias!
October 7, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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bluedelliquanti.bsky.social
Queers at the Table, an anthology I contributed a comic (and the cover) to, is out today! arsenalpulp.com/Books/Q/Quee...
October 7, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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transatlanticagcy.bsky.social
DEAL NEWS - Cortney L. Winn's VESSELLESS and MERCILESS!

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DEAL NEWS - Cortney L. Winn's VESSELLESS and MERCILESS!
Cortney L. Winn's VESSELLESS and MERCILESS, to Swiat Ksiazki (Poland), in a two-book deal, by Martyna Kowalewska at Book/lab Literary Agency; and to Konyvmolykepzo (Hungary), at auction, in a two-book...
transatlanticagency.com
October 6, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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aketchum22.bsky.social
Join us for tomorrow's free, virtual event: www.eventbrite.com/e/1424815695...
with @kwazana.bsky.social @johnbirdsall.bsky.social Rachel Hope Cleves and Erik Piepenburg
@mcgillarts.bsky.social
New Books on Queer Food (Virtual Event)
This event will consist of a roundtable discussion about queer food, publishing, and the speakers' recently released books!
www.eventbrite.com
September 29, 2025 at 11:41 AM
benglishhh.bsky.social
So excited to be working together, @reschaefer.bsky.social! I can't wait for everyone to meet Casmir, too -- they're going to love him!
September 29, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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aketchum22.bsky.social
Thank you to everyone who came to our Queer Food as Queer and Trans Joy event!
@arsenalpulp.bsky.social
screenshot of zoom group and the title! Thank you to our contributors and facilitators plus screenshot of the zoom screen and the book cover.
September 24, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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aketchum22.bsky.social
Since we could all use some more queer and trans joy- join us for our virtual event tomorrow night (September 23)
-- it's free!!

www.eventbrite.com/e/1424903818...
Queer Food as Queer and Trans Joy (virtual event)
This virtual event will consist of a roundtable discussion about queer food and queer and trans joy! It'll be followed by audience Q and A.
www.eventbrite.com
September 22, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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transatlanticagcy.bsky.social
Negotiating pay isn’t awkward—it’s professional self-advocacy and in Laura Goode’s newest book, PITCH CRAFT, she reminds writers that asking for what you’re worth is part of the craft, too.

Laura is represented by Amanda Orozco and Brenna English-Loeb.

Congratulations, Laura!
September 22, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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aketchum22.bsky.social
Join us for our upcoming free and virtual events on queer food!
Register online at: www.queerfoodconference.com/p/additional...
September queer food events: free and virtual September 23, 2025: Queer Food as Queer and Trans Joy 6:00-7:30 PM ET September 30, 2025: New Books on Queer Food 6:00-7:30 PM ET https://www.queerfoodconference.com/p/additional-events.html blue background and rainbows blue background and images of book covers September queer food events: free and virtual September 23, 2025: Queer Food as Queer and Trans Joy 6:00-7:30 PM ET September 30, 2025: New Books on Queer Food 6:00-7:30 PM ET https://www.queerfoodconference.com/p/additional-events.html blue background and rainbows
September 19, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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transatlanticagcy.bsky.social
Congratulations on the publication of PITCH CRAFT by Laura Goode - out now with Ten Speed Press!

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Congratulations on the publication of PITCH CRAFT by Laura Goode!
Congratulations on the publication of PITCH CRAFT by Laura Goode - out now with Ten Speed Press! An award-winning author and Stanford writing instructor demystifies the business of writing with this p...
transatlanticagency.com
September 16, 2025 at 4:09 PM
benglishhh.bsky.social
Very excited to be working with Tali on her incredible gothic fantasy!
September 15, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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aketchum22.bsky.social
Join us tomorrow!! free, virtual event on queer food

www.oxfordsymposium.org.uk/event/kitche...
Queers at the Table: Eat, Talk, Write, Draw. - Oxford Food Symposium
Queers at the Table: Eat, Talk, Write, Draw. Food is more than nourishment — it’s memory, resistance, and connection. In queer communities, meals have long been a way to challenge…
www.oxfordsymposium.org.uk
September 8, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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katiehal16.bsky.social
Four truths and a lie -- The Twice-Sold Soul edition! Can you spot the lie? I'll post it tomorrow 😁 1/2

With thanks to @mcarubia.bsky.social for the gaming and cat pics!
Author Katie Hallahan holding a copy of The Twice-Sold Soul, with text reading "Four truths and a lie... The Twice-Sold Soul edition!" The Twice-Sold Soul book and a Monsterhearts 2 book along with gaming paraphernalia. Text reading "1. The Twice-Sold Soul is inspired by a Monsterhearts campaign I played in. In the game, McKenna started off as a Ghoul with a taste for flesh before becoming a Witch (that's why she's a vegetarian)." The Twice-Sold Soul and an adorable black cat. Text reads, "2. Remi's cat, Mr. M, was originally said to have peacefully passed while McKenna was away, and Remi had a new cat named Eve. This was adamantly protested by a beta reader and now Mr. M will live forever, having made some manner of Bargain with Remi." The Twice-Sold Soul and three Tarot cards from the Modern Witch deck: The Knight of Swords, the Ten of Swords reversed, and The Chariot. Text reads, "3. McKenna's mom does a Tarot reading for her using the Rider-Waite deck. I own 14 Tarot decks, but none of them are the Rider-Waite deck."
August 28, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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mcgillarts.bsky.social
"Queers at the Table" edited by #McGillArts Professor Alex D. Ketchum and Megan J. Elias, is featured on CBC Books' 45 Canadian Nonfiction Books to Read this fall!
@aketchum22.bsky.social

www.cbc.ca/books/45-can...
45 Canadian nonfiction books to read this fall | CBC Books
Check out these Canadian nonfiction titles coming out in fall 2025.
www.cbc.ca
August 28, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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storyhour.bsky.social
This Story Hour, B. Pladek returns, and Susan Taitel makes her Story Hour debut! Join us for the warmth, the wit, and the wisdom! Join us Wednesday, August 20 at 7:00 PDT! @bpladek.bsky.social @susantaitel.bsky.social www.storyhour2020.com
Head-and-shoulders photo of writer B. Pladek, a fair-skinned man with auburn hair worn short and with a side part. He poses before a plain blue portrait background, wearing a white dress shirt with a dark blazer and roundish wire-rim glasses. He smiles warmly at the camera. Head-and-shoulders candid photo of writer Susan Taitel, a fair-skinned woman with dark, wavy hair dyed purple on one side and blond on top. She poses in an interior that includes framed art and a table lamp. She wears a smocked red top and large, plastic-framed cat-eye glasses. She smiles at the camera as if it amuses her.
August 19, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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transatlanticagcy.bsky.social
Four of TLA’s amazing authors gathered at Seattle WorldCon this past week and snapped this adorable photo together!

From right to left: Rachel Csabi, Inez Rae, Katie Hallahan, and B. Pladek.

All of these lovely clients are represented by Brenna English-Loeb.
August 18, 2025 at 6:44 PM