Eric Smith
@ericsmithrocks.bsky.social
🏠 Founder & Agent at Neighborhood Literary.
📚 Award-winning Author.
👴🏽 Perpetually Tired Dad.
Latest book: With or Without You (a Junior Library Guild selection!), out now!
🚪 https://www.neighborhoodliterary.com
📚 Award-winning Author.
👴🏽 Perpetually Tired Dad.
Latest book: With or Without You (a Junior Library Guild selection!), out now!
🚪 https://www.neighborhoodliterary.com
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Eric Smith
@ericsmithrocks.bsky.social
· Mar 18
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
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...
🏠 The door is open.
🫖 The kettle is on.
✨ Come on in.
Good neighbors make good books. www.neighborhoodliterary.com/blog/come-on...
Lots of folks in publishing are returning to make the books tomorrow, so just a reminder to treat industry people like people in the New Year.
Everyone is just trying their best. ❤️
Everyone is just trying their best. ❤️
January 5, 2026 at 12:31 AM
Lots of folks in publishing are returning to make the books tomorrow, so just a reminder to treat industry people like people in the New Year.
Everyone is just trying their best. ❤️
Everyone is just trying their best. ❤️
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I'm boosting myself to say this:
You're going to see people On Here tell you calling electeds doesn't matter. That's not true.
Some are bots. Some are people who like being contrary to be edgy.
But calling moves the needle, especially against a blatantly illegal act by Trump and Co. ACT.
You're going to see people On Here tell you calling electeds doesn't matter. That's not true.
Some are bots. Some are people who like being contrary to be edgy.
But calling moves the needle, especially against a blatantly illegal act by Trump and Co. ACT.
Candid answer - as someone who handled constituent affairs calls for years - while they’re not checking the phone right now, the urgency of the moment is important.
Show them you care enough to make the weekend call, and be counted that way. Staffers will clock and report this upstream.
Show them you care enough to make the weekend call, and be counted that way. Staffers will clock and report this upstream.
Is there actually a benefit to leaving a VM now vs getting a staffer on Monday? Can do both but just curious
January 3, 2026 at 10:48 PM
I'm boosting myself to say this:
You're going to see people On Here tell you calling electeds doesn't matter. That's not true.
Some are bots. Some are people who like being contrary to be edgy.
But calling moves the needle, especially against a blatantly illegal act by Trump and Co. ACT.
You're going to see people On Here tell you calling electeds doesn't matter. That's not true.
Some are bots. Some are people who like being contrary to be edgy.
But calling moves the needle, especially against a blatantly illegal act by Trump and Co. ACT.
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THIS. Use @5calls.org and @resist.bot . Call volume by category absolutely matters and can change minds in red districts. We've seen it force them to go back on many things.
You don't have to give a big speech. They're counting numbers - seeing how many constituents care enough to call in. Just tell them to impeach for this illegal war. Also, make sure you only call YOUR reps - they don't care about out-of-district calls.
You can do this. It'll just take a minute. 💪
You can do this. It'll just take a minute. 💪
January 3, 2026 at 5:18 PM
THIS. Use @5calls.org and @resist.bot . Call volume by category absolutely matters and can change minds in red districts. We've seen it force them to go back on many things.
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Hey ya'll, call your senators! Most of their offices are closed, so you just have to leave a voicemail! 5calls.org/issue/trump-...
Stop the Military Escalation with Venezuela (UPDATED 1/3) ⭑ 5 Calls
Updates January 3, 2025: The Trump administration ordered military strikes on Venezuela and captured President Maduro and his wife to charge them in …
5calls.org
January 3, 2026 at 8:07 PM
Hey ya'll, call your senators! Most of their offices are closed, so you just have to leave a voicemail! 5calls.org/issue/trump-...
Oh hey I’m in Glamour making book recs alongside @wordsiren.bsky.social @ellaceron.bsky.social @eshanisurya.bsky.social and more!
Everyone preorder @missdahlelama.dahliaadler.com please. www.glamour.com/story/best-b...
Everyone preorder @missdahlelama.dahliaadler.com please. www.glamour.com/story/best-b...
The Best Books for Book Clubs in 2026
Consider this your book club syllabus.
www.glamour.com
January 2, 2026 at 5:07 PM
Oh hey I’m in Glamour making book recs alongside @wordsiren.bsky.social @ellaceron.bsky.social @eshanisurya.bsky.social and more!
Everyone preorder @missdahlelama.dahliaadler.com please. www.glamour.com/story/best-b...
Everyone preorder @missdahlelama.dahliaadler.com please. www.glamour.com/story/best-b...
Congrats 2027 authors, your book drops next year.
Pretty neat to think about how if you have a book out in 2027, in just a few days, you’ll have a book out NEXT YEAR.
*screams*
*screams*
January 1, 2026 at 11:56 PM
Congrats 2027 authors, your book drops next year.
Got a few pokes about if I’ll open to queries again this year.
Probably not til the baby sleeps through the night.
I can give my job extra time or give that time to this little girl, and that’s not really a hard decision. ❤️
Probably not til the baby sleeps through the night.
I can give my job extra time or give that time to this little girl, and that’s not really a hard decision. ❤️
January 1, 2026 at 9:18 PM
Got a few pokes about if I’ll open to queries again this year.
Probably not til the baby sleeps through the night.
I can give my job extra time or give that time to this little girl, and that’s not really a hard decision. ❤️
Probably not til the baby sleeps through the night.
I can give my job extra time or give that time to this little girl, and that’s not really a hard decision. ❤️
Been cooking all day and now I’m putting together Tupperwares of collard greens and black eyed peas for my neighbors so they’ll have good luck and oh my god I’ve become my uncle.
January 1, 2026 at 9:11 PM
Been cooking all day and now I’m putting together Tupperwares of collard greens and black eyed peas for my neighbors so they’ll have good luck and oh my god I’ve become my uncle.
Happy New Year, writer friends.
May this year bring you that phone call and/or email you’ve been waiting for.
Let’s get that yes. ❤️
May this year bring you that phone call and/or email you’ve been waiting for.
Let’s get that yes. ❤️
January 1, 2026 at 3:18 PM
Happy New Year, writer friends.
May this year bring you that phone call and/or email you’ve been waiting for.
Let’s get that yes. ❤️
May this year bring you that phone call and/or email you’ve been waiting for.
Let’s get that yes. ❤️
Reposted by Eric Smith
The best new science fiction books of 2026 @newscientist.com
www.newscientist.com/article/mg26...
Includes @garethlpowell.bsky.social @aptshadow.bsky.social
@annleckie.com @johnchu.bsky.social
@slhuang.com
@marthawells.com
@richardswanauthor.bsky.social
@mikechenwriter.bsky.social
and more!
www.newscientist.com/article/mg26...
Includes @garethlpowell.bsky.social @aptshadow.bsky.social
@annleckie.com @johnchu.bsky.social
@slhuang.com
@marthawells.com
@richardswanauthor.bsky.social
@mikechenwriter.bsky.social
and more!
The best new science fiction books of 2026
On the horizon for this year are Ann Leckie's latest, Neil Jordan's debut and more from Adrian Tchaikovsky. Exciting times, says our sci-fi columnist Emily H. Wilson
www.newscientist.com
December 31, 2025 at 8:15 PM
The best new science fiction books of 2026 @newscientist.com
www.newscientist.com/article/mg26...
Includes @garethlpowell.bsky.social @aptshadow.bsky.social
@annleckie.com @johnchu.bsky.social
@slhuang.com
@marthawells.com
@richardswanauthor.bsky.social
@mikechenwriter.bsky.social
and more!
www.newscientist.com/article/mg26...
Includes @garethlpowell.bsky.social @aptshadow.bsky.social
@annleckie.com @johnchu.bsky.social
@slhuang.com
@marthawells.com
@richardswanauthor.bsky.social
@mikechenwriter.bsky.social
and more!
✨
Screaming crying throwing up bc 2025 ends with THE PHOTONIC EFFECT's first trade review and it is STARRED! "A superb sci-fi story about 21st-century issues set in a futuristic space environment,featuring flawed but lovable characters doing their best"
www.libraryjournal.com/review/the-p...
www.libraryjournal.com/review/the-p...
The Photonic Effect
www.libraryjournal.com
January 1, 2026 at 2:59 AM
✨
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This year has been absolutely buckwild. The only thing I can feel is deep gratefulness.
Thank you to my team at @harpercollins.bsky.social to all my beta readers and to @ericsmithrocks.bsky.social for walking this path with me!
Happy New Year's Eve to all!
Thank you to my team at @harpercollins.bsky.social to all my beta readers and to @ericsmithrocks.bsky.social for walking this path with me!
Happy New Year's Eve to all!
December 31, 2025 at 8:38 PM
This year has been absolutely buckwild. The only thing I can feel is deep gratefulness.
Thank you to my team at @harpercollins.bsky.social to all my beta readers and to @ericsmithrocks.bsky.social for walking this path with me!
Happy New Year's Eve to all!
Thank you to my team at @harpercollins.bsky.social to all my beta readers and to @ericsmithrocks.bsky.social for walking this path with me!
Happy New Year's Eve to all!
If you start working on your synopsis at 11:59PM tonight you can tell people you’ve been working on your synopsis since last year.
December 31, 2025 at 6:39 PM
If you start working on your synopsis at 11:59PM tonight you can tell people you’ve been working on your synopsis since last year.
Heads up, the annual year-end free trial period for Publishers Marketplace is live.
Great way to do research for those of you gearing up to query in the New Year. lunch.publishersmarketplace.com/2025/12/a-pm...
Great way to do research for those of you gearing up to query in the New Year. lunch.publishersmarketplace.com/2025/12/a-pm...
December 30, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Heads up, the annual year-end free trial period for Publishers Marketplace is live.
Great way to do research for those of you gearing up to query in the New Year. lunch.publishersmarketplace.com/2025/12/a-pm...
Great way to do research for those of you gearing up to query in the New Year. lunch.publishersmarketplace.com/2025/12/a-pm...
One more little bump before the New Year.
Gonna host another query letter webinar at the start of the New Year, to help fund various free in-person events.
Help me, help you! :-)
Three Zoom hangs, a critique on your query, notes on your first ten pages. It’ll be fun. www.ericsmithrocks.com/blog/2025/12...
Help me, help you! :-)
Three Zoom hangs, a critique on your query, notes on your first ten pages. It’ll be fun. www.ericsmithrocks.com/blog/2025/12...
New Year, New Query: A Workshop to Get You Ready — ERIC SMITH
With the New Year approaching and writers eager to get querying, I wanted to run another workshop to help polish up those pitch letters. I have a great time every time I do these, and honestly, these ...
www.ericsmithrocks.com
December 30, 2025 at 7:31 PM
One more little bump before the New Year.
Building sublists for the New Year, and it’s always so upsetting to see an editor I adore left the business or was let go.
So much of an agent’s job is getting to know our editor friends well, so we can send them what they love.
When publishers lose editors, they lose deep relationships too.
So much of an agent’s job is getting to know our editor friends well, so we can send them what they love.
When publishers lose editors, they lose deep relationships too.
December 30, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Building sublists for the New Year, and it’s always so upsetting to see an editor I adore left the business or was let go.
So much of an agent’s job is getting to know our editor friends well, so we can send them what they love.
When publishers lose editors, they lose deep relationships too.
So much of an agent’s job is getting to know our editor friends well, so we can send them what they love.
When publishers lose editors, they lose deep relationships too.
Pretty neat to think about how if you have a book out in 2027, in just a few days, you’ll have a book out NEXT YEAR.
*screams*
*screams*
December 29, 2025 at 5:01 AM
Pretty neat to think about how if you have a book out in 2027, in just a few days, you’ll have a book out NEXT YEAR.
*screams*
*screams*
It’s always amazing when our largely nonverbal kiddo busts out a full sentence, but why did it have to be “Daddie are you sixty seven years old?”
December 26, 2025 at 11:45 PM
It’s always amazing when our largely nonverbal kiddo busts out a full sentence, but why did it have to be “Daddie are you sixty seven years old?”
My dear friend @runwithskizzers.bsky.social doesn’t miss! Be sure to scoop this up. 🎉
Good morning! It’s new STRANGE TAILS day! #2 features that most dastardly of bovines, HELLCOW, and is out now!
Written by me, art: @bailierosenlund.bsky.social, colors: Ian Herring, letters: VC’s Travis Lanham, Edit: Farah Javed & @alannawrites.bsky.social!
🐮🩸 www.marvel.com/comics/issue...
Written by me, art: @bailierosenlund.bsky.social, colors: Ian Herring, letters: VC’s Travis Lanham, Edit: Farah Javed & @alannawrites.bsky.social!
🐮🩸 www.marvel.com/comics/issue...
December 26, 2025 at 5:40 PM
My dear friend @runwithskizzers.bsky.social doesn’t miss! Be sure to scoop this up. 🎉
🎶 I don’t want a lot for Christmas
I just want one thing from you.
For that A.I. bubble to burst,
And all the tech bros get sued. 🎶
🎄
I just want one thing from you.
For that A.I. bubble to burst,
And all the tech bros get sued. 🎶
🎄
December 25, 2025 at 5:43 PM
🎶 I don’t want a lot for Christmas
I just want one thing from you.
For that A.I. bubble to burst,
And all the tech bros get sued. 🎶
🎄
I just want one thing from you.
For that A.I. bubble to burst,
And all the tech bros get sued. 🎶
🎄
Happy holidays and a blessed New Year unless you used A.I. to make your holiday cards then I hope it’s all terribly disappointing. ❤️
December 23, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Happy holidays and a blessed New Year unless you used A.I. to make your holiday cards then I hope it’s all terribly disappointing. ❤️
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If you're read my book Trashlands, you know Encyclopedia Britannica plays a surprisingly large role. Kinda cool to be cited in it www.britannica.com/procon/book-...
Book Bans | Pros, Cons, Debate, Arguments, Controversy, Education, Libraries, and Reading | Britannica
Should parents or other adults be able to ban books from schools and libraries? Learn the pros and cons of the debate.
www.britannica.com
December 23, 2025 at 8:36 PM
If you're read my book Trashlands, you know Encyclopedia Britannica plays a surprisingly large role. Kinda cool to be cited in it www.britannica.com/procon/book-...
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Three months ago, my dear friend Hani was murdered while trying to feed his family.
His sister Faten has cancer, and sleeps in a freezing tent with her hands, feet, and eyes swelling more and more every day.
I love this family with all my heart. I can’t keep watching them die.
gofund.me/2550fc5e2
His sister Faten has cancer, and sleeps in a freezing tent with her hands, feet, and eyes swelling more and more every day.
I love this family with all my heart. I can’t keep watching them die.
gofund.me/2550fc5e2
December 23, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Three months ago, my dear friend Hani was murdered while trying to feed his family.
His sister Faten has cancer, and sleeps in a freezing tent with her hands, feet, and eyes swelling more and more every day.
I love this family with all my heart. I can’t keep watching them die.
gofund.me/2550fc5e2
His sister Faten has cancer, and sleeps in a freezing tent with her hands, feet, and eyes swelling more and more every day.
I love this family with all my heart. I can’t keep watching them die.
gofund.me/2550fc5e2
Always thrilled to see @katefussner.bsky.social get some love. ❤️
🌈 50 2025 Middle Grade Books Featuring LGBTQIA+ Representation 🌈
popgoesthereader.com/50-2025-midd...
#BookSky #MGLit #KidLit
popgoesthereader.com/50-2025-midd...
#BookSky #MGLit #KidLit
December 23, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Always thrilled to see @katefussner.bsky.social get some love. ❤️
Just a lil’ ramble about hosting free publishing events all year, and what I learned doing it.
We can all make this industry a little better. It just costs you your time. open.substack.com/pub/ericsmit...
We can all make this industry a little better. It just costs you your time. open.substack.com/pub/ericsmit...
A Year of Hosting Free Publishing Events, Why I Do It, and What It Taught Me
We can make this industry better, it just costs you time.
open.substack.com
December 23, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Just a lil’ ramble about hosting free publishing events all year, and what I learned doing it.
We can all make this industry a little better. It just costs you your time. open.substack.com/pub/ericsmit...
We can all make this industry a little better. It just costs you your time. open.substack.com/pub/ericsmit...