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Charlie Harlan
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NYC based sci fi and fantasy author. Repped by Alex Land at MWLA. 🏳️‍🌈🗽 she/they

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Charlie Harlan @charlieharlan.bsky.social · Apr 1
I couldn't help myself: presenting the agents guide to Rhapsody in Zero-G! 🚀

This space opera with an opera singer, found family, and luscious, messy space drama with one hell of a voice is sub ready! Interact or comment & I'd be happy to send it your way! ✨

#agentguide #writingcommunity
A title image called the agents guide to Rhapsody in Zero G by Charlie Harlan. It's 100k words, adult science fiction, duology potential, and it's super duper gay. There's a portrait of a flirt character to the right in a night outfit. The artist's contact info is on the right: howdy_charlie on Twitter, and howdycharlieharlan@gmail.com. A page featuring a Pitch section titled "opera singer meets space opera". The pitch reads: when opera singer Vega Luz is captured mid-aria, he must manipulate three hot bounty hunters to escape his curtain call. Roped into a scheme bigger than an all-you-can-eat starship buffet, only a cute terra forming weapon stands between saving his home and his reputation from ruin. It's showtime On the right is a mock cover featuring someone falling in space over top of a knife silhouette. It points out found family, big leo energy, OT3 with a robot, enemies to lovers to oh god we can't get rid of him can we, disaster gays, flirting as a weapon, and spicy, sexy, loud, and stabby. Four titles of media listed as comps including August Kitko and the Mechas from Space, Space Sweepers, Cowboy Bebop, and The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet An excerpt from a book that reads: The first thing to do after getting yanked into the vacuum of space was stop fucking breathing. Exhale. The average human lasted less than a minute in the pressurized chill of space with their lungs full of air. The oxygen dispersed, exploding with a burst and flooding the body with all that precious gold. The average opera singer—halfway finished with a glorious aria—bought themselves another full minute, releasing their breath the moment the glass of the opera house shattered. It was an odd thing to remember moments before plunging to certain death in the cold vacuum of space, but Vega’s breath was precious. If he had to go out, let it be without wasting his final words to an empty audience. In his last moments, he was aware of the broken chandeliers glittering around him, their beauty offsetting the cloying pressure boiling in his mouth as he gave the ultimate parting gift to the universe: Himself.
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mkhardywrites.com
Six days to go! Why not fix yourself a nice fortifying tonic to endure the wait... surely nothing could go wrong.

The Needfire comes out from @solarisbooks.bsky.social on July 31st! Order your copy from one of the fine shops here: geni.us/needfire
A quote graphic with a background of muted green plants. The text reads "She ran her fingers over a stem and was surprised to find that it ended abruptly about six inches above the dirt, clearly having been sliced by something sharp. The severed end oozed a sticky green sap, and when she drew her fingers away the fresh scent clung to them, turning sweet and cloying in her nostrils." SIX DAYS UNTIL THE NEEDFIRE
July 25, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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cotronis.bsky.social
Dear #portfolioday we meet again.
My name is Yorgos, I'm from Greece and I work mostly in the publishing industry making book covers. I'm available for work from September onwards.

Here's some of my work!
Digital painting of a woman against an orange pattern background. Painting of a woman wearing a crown, in a field of rye. A wolf stands besides her, mostly in shadow. Fan poster for the movie Nosferatu, featuring Mina with glowing eyes against a forest backdrop. A book cover for the novel "The Moss," showing a girl covered in flowers and moss with glowing white eyes.
July 8, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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newseye.bsky.social
Holy shit, New York!

Here’s the full view.

#NoKings #50501Movement
June 14, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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wired.com
yep! unpaywalled:
June 12, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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taplaos.bsky.social
🐟🪷🌈🌈
April 22, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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apexmag.bsky.social
"Try to catch all the resonant sounds your body makes, just because you are alive. This, too, is language. This, too, you must kill." 🌬️🫁

New short fiction today by @rukman.bsky.social: "To Kill a Language"

Read it here: www.apexbookcompany.com/a/blog/apex-...
A graphic featuring the text: "To Kill a Language by Rukman Ragas" next to the illustration on Apex's Issue 149 cover, a queen in a black dress standing beside a black wolf in a field at dusk.
April 22, 2025 at 4:05 PM
charlieharlan.bsky.social
In a shocking twist that happened so quickly I'm dizzy, I am now represented by the amazing Alex Brown at MWLA! After a tough year of querying, Alex offered in less than a day 😱 and I'm STILL blushing. So excited to work together on my riotous space opera! Ad astra ✨🚀
A title image on a soft gradient background with the text "Charlie Harlan is now represented by Alex Brown at Mad Woman Literary Agency" On the right is a drawn portrait of a man with curly short hair in a revealing top smiling at the viewer.
April 22, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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kellypringle.com
Don’t feed the gulls! ⚠️
April 16, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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keiralekseii.bsky.social
My friend @soumiroy1.bsky.social is a brilliant writer and scientist who is in a terrible position right now. Please help in any way you can, even if it's just sharing or boosting ❤️

gofund.me/74bc7dde
Donate to Help Soumi survive after she lost her life savings to a scam, organised by Keir Alekseii Roopnarine
Hey all, My name is Keir and I am a friend of Soumi's. … Keir Alekseii Roopnarine needs your support for Help Soumi survive after she lost her life savings to a scam
gofund.me
April 8, 2025 at 2:07 PM
charlieharlan.bsky.social
I love my city
luckytran.com Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · Apr 5
100,000+ people marched at the #HandsOff rally in New York!
April 6, 2025 at 2:14 AM
charlieharlan.bsky.social
against all odds,,, things are happening
April 4, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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charlieharlan.bsky.social
I couldn't help myself: presenting the agents guide to Rhapsody in Zero-G! 🚀

This space opera with an opera singer, found family, and luscious, messy space drama with one hell of a voice is sub ready! Interact or comment & I'd be happy to send it your way! ✨

#agentguide #writingcommunity
A title image called the agents guide to Rhapsody in Zero G by Charlie Harlan. It's 100k words, adult science fiction, duology potential, and it's super duper gay. There's a portrait of a flirt character to the right in a night outfit. The artist's contact info is on the right: howdy_charlie on Twitter, and howdycharlieharlan@gmail.com. A page featuring a Pitch section titled "opera singer meets space opera". The pitch reads: when opera singer Vega Luz is captured mid-aria, he must manipulate three hot bounty hunters to escape his curtain call. Roped into a scheme bigger than an all-you-can-eat starship buffet, only a cute terra forming weapon stands between saving his home and his reputation from ruin. It's showtime On the right is a mock cover featuring someone falling in space over top of a knife silhouette. It points out found family, big leo energy, OT3 with a robot, enemies to lovers to oh god we can't get rid of him can we, disaster gays, flirting as a weapon, and spicy, sexy, loud, and stabby. Four titles of media listed as comps including August Kitko and the Mechas from Space, Space Sweepers, Cowboy Bebop, and The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet An excerpt from a book that reads: The first thing to do after getting yanked into the vacuum of space was stop fucking breathing. Exhale. The average human lasted less than a minute in the pressurized chill of space with their lungs full of air. The oxygen dispersed, exploding with a burst and flooding the body with all that precious gold. The average opera singer—halfway finished with a glorious aria—bought themselves another full minute, releasing their breath the moment the glass of the opera house shattered. It was an odd thing to remember moments before plunging to certain death in the cold vacuum of space, but Vega’s breath was precious. If he had to go out, let it be without wasting his final words to an empty audience. In his last moments, he was aware of the broken chandeliers glittering around him, their beauty offsetting the cloying pressure boiling in his mouth as he gave the ultimate parting gift to the universe: Himself.
April 1, 2025 at 7:53 PM
charlieharlan.bsky.social
I couldn't help myself: presenting the agents guide to Rhapsody in Zero-G! 🚀

This space opera with an opera singer, found family, and luscious, messy space drama with one hell of a voice is sub ready! Interact or comment & I'd be happy to send it your way! ✨

#agentguide #writingcommunity
A title image called the agents guide to Rhapsody in Zero G by Charlie Harlan. It's 100k words, adult science fiction, duology potential, and it's super duper gay. There's a portrait of a flirt character to the right in a night outfit. The artist's contact info is on the right: howdy_charlie on Twitter, and howdycharlieharlan@gmail.com. A page featuring a Pitch section titled "opera singer meets space opera". The pitch reads: when opera singer Vega Luz is captured mid-aria, he must manipulate three hot bounty hunters to escape his curtain call. Roped into a scheme bigger than an all-you-can-eat starship buffet, only a cute terra forming weapon stands between saving his home and his reputation from ruin. It's showtime On the right is a mock cover featuring someone falling in space over top of a knife silhouette. It points out found family, big leo energy, OT3 with a robot, enemies to lovers to oh god we can't get rid of him can we, disaster gays, flirting as a weapon, and spicy, sexy, loud, and stabby. Four titles of media listed as comps including August Kitko and the Mechas from Space, Space Sweepers, Cowboy Bebop, and The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet An excerpt from a book that reads: The first thing to do after getting yanked into the vacuum of space was stop fucking breathing. Exhale. The average human lasted less than a minute in the pressurized chill of space with their lungs full of air. The oxygen dispersed, exploding with a burst and flooding the body with all that precious gold. The average opera singer—halfway finished with a glorious aria—bought themselves another full minute, releasing their breath the moment the glass of the opera house shattered. It was an odd thing to remember moments before plunging to certain death in the cold vacuum of space, but Vega’s breath was precious. If he had to go out, let it be without wasting his final words to an empty audience. In his last moments, he was aware of the broken chandeliers glittering around him, their beauty offsetting the cloying pressure boiling in his mouth as he gave the ultimate parting gift to the universe: Himself.
April 1, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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A biologist on a remote planet discovers an abandoned rover and bands together with a stranded pilot to find its creators. As their search unearths a shrine to a dying world, neither has the heart to tell the rover that there isn't an Earth to go home to.

#Luckypit #PopUpPit #PopUpPitA #SF #A
A cover image titled "An agent's guide to The Only Man on Bellasau-7." Followed by three bullet points: adult science fiction, high concept, 91,000 words. there is a small stylized image of a mars rover in the bottom corner. A spread with two sections. PITCH: What happens to the rovers we abandon? A biologist on a remote planet finds an abandoned rover and bands together with a stranded pilot to find its creators. But when their search unearths a shrine to a dying world, neither has the heart to tell the rover that there isn't an Earth to go home to. Comps A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers. The Martian by Andy Weird. Scavengers Reign. A moodboard picturing strange planets, rich nature, biology tools, and a small rover. It's titled "What's Inside: A Love letter to hope in a small, rusty package." There is a list of items below: - Found family - Enemies to ??? - Queer m/m subplot - Lush descriptions of nature - Imaginative worlds - A biologist with axiety - Accessible sci-fi for fans new to the genre - "Cozy" in sheep's clothing - The world's saddest robot you just need to hug right now. A long book excerpt that reads: I had hope, once. Hope that they would retrieve me, and Farrah would praise my battery life. That Robert would delight in my geological surveys emboldened by his navigation tech. That Lucy would smile and pore excitedly over my soil samples. I have been stuck on this ridge for five years. I have been on Bellasau-7 for two hundred, twenty-three years, thirty-three minutes, and fifteen. Sixteen. Seventeen seconds. Three hundred and twelve logs. Perhaps Earth is sending for me still and will take some time. They told me it was a very far journey. Maybe it is Lucy’s daughter who will find me. Yesterday, I thought it might be Robert’s son. I lower my scanner, and tuck in my solar panels. I turn on my power saver and enact rest mode. The sun dips below the horizon, and I power down my systems as the rooroot bumps gently against my chassis. Send log. End excerpt. A small quote overlaps a rover captioned "I'll be seeing you."
March 17, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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cassbeewrites.bsky.social
“PSA liking this character is problematic—“ he is ink on a page. it’s important to me that you know he is ink on a page
March 30, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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literaryfey.bsky.social
a lil #MSWL but make it ✨ book vibes ✨

thought I’d make a visual/moodboard of books I’ve enjoyed lately or whose themes, storytelling, and/or writing resonate with me. If your querying novel sits in conversation with any of these books, I want to see it!

feat. weird girl lit, horror, and sff.
March 29, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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secondlina.com
Its a tired day today.
Drawing of a crow in a bed with an elaborate quilt.
March 29, 2025 at 3:09 AM
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rosemarymosco.com
Look I have zero excuses for this, but the idea popped into my head and now it's in your head, sorry
A six panel comic. In panel 1, a yellow warbler says "Hey, so I'm going to go out on a limb here". For the next four panels, it hops down along a branch. In the last panel, at the end of the branch, it sings a little song. I'm sorry.
March 20, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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sharxiii.bsky.social
A radical skeleton telling you "Just start. You don't need permission. Art, craft, 2nd book, cake, writing, that show, any new skill, making friends. If it sucks, ask for help. The time will pass anyway"
March 19, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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thehighsign.bsky.social
I just came across this stunning data this morning: AI search tools are wrong on average 60% of the time, with many individual products performing even worse. Elon's "Grok 3" (which costs $40 a month!) is wrong 94% (!!!) of the time. arstechnica.com/ai/2025/03/a...
AI search engines cite incorrect sources at an alarming 60% rate, study says
CJR study shows AI search services misinform users and ignore publisher exclusion requests.
arstechnica.com
March 18, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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charlieharlan.bsky.social
Presenting the agent's guide to The Only Man on Bellasau-7! Have you ever cried about Oppy? Do you love paradise planets that bite back? MCs with anxiety? Hope?

This high concept adult SF is 91k and #amquerying! Interact & I'd be happy to send it your way! ✨

#agentguide #writingcommunity
A cover image titled "An agent's guide to The Only Man on Bellasau-7." Followed by three bullet points: adult science fiction, high concept, 91,000 words. there is a small stylized image of a mars rover in the bottom corner. A spread with two sections. PITCH: What happens to the rovers we abandon? A biologist on a remote planet finds an abandoned rover and bands together with a stranded pilot to find its creators. But when their search unearths a shrine to a dying world, neither has the heart to tell the rover that there isn't an Earth to go home to. Comps A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers. The Martian by Andy Weird. Scavengers Reign. A moodboard picturing strange planets, rich nature, biology tools, and a small rover. It's titled "What's Inside: A Love letter to hope in a small, rusty package." There is a list of items below: - Found family - Enemies to ??? - Queer m/m subplot - Lush descriptions of nature - Imaginative worlds - A biologist with axiety - Accessible sci-fi for fans new to the genre - "Cozy" in sheep's clothing - The world's saddest robot you just need to hug right now. A long book excerpt that reads: I had hope, once. Hope that they would retrieve me, and Farrah would praise my battery life. That Robert would delight in my geological surveys emboldened by his navigation tech. That Lucy would smile and pore excitedly over my soil samples. I have been stuck on this ridge for five years. I have been on Bellasau-7 for two hundred, twenty-three years, thirty-three minutes, and fifteen. Sixteen. Seventeen seconds. Three hundred and twelve logs. Perhaps Earth is sending for me still and will take some time. They told me it was a very far journey. Maybe it is Lucy’s daughter who will find me. Yesterday, I thought it might be Robert’s son. I lower my scanner, and tuck in my solar panels. I turn on my power saver and enact rest mode. The sun dips below the horizon, and I power down my systems as the rooroot bumps gently against my chassis. Send log. End excerpt. A small quote overlaps a rover captioned "I'll be seeing you."
February 28, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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ericsmithrocks.bsky.social
So excited to finally talk about Neighborhood Literary, an agency with an extra focus on taking care of our local writer communities.

🏠 The door is open.
🫖 The kettle is on.
✨ Come on in.

Good neighbors make good books. www.neighborhoodliterary.com/blog/come-on...
Come on in. — Neighborhood Literary
Well, here we are. The news is out, the agency is open. Welcome. There’s a lot to potentially say in an introduction post. But I’ll try to keep it short and sweet. I’ve always been driven to make...
www.neighborhoodliterary.com
March 18, 2025 at 1:07 PM