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hali hyland 💋
@haliwriteswords.bsky.social
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romance author, cryptid barbie, neil josten’s girlfriend.
rep: samantha fabien at root literary agency.
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hali hyland 💋 @haliwriteswords.bsky.social · Nov 14
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 🥀🖤
haliwriteswords.bsky.social
should be hearing back by the end of the work day if i got into the paid library internship position EVERYONE PLEASE MANIFEST
November 22, 2024 at 9:48 PM
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noellemonet.bsky.social
🚨 URGENT 🚨

HELP SAVE RHODE ISLAND'S ONLY EMPLOYEE/COMMUNITY-OWNED, QUEER/TRANS INDIE BOOKSTORE!!

Heartleaf Books is an incredible co-op store managed by the all-powerful Penny the Cat alongside Mads and Caroline, librarians and siblings passionate about uplifting marginalized voices!

🔗⬇️
penny the cat with a purple hued photo of heartleaf and white text: help secure a future for heartleaf books! we need your help to raise $10,000. givebutter (dot) com/heartleaf penny the cat over a purple hued photo of the store and white text Over the past two years, Heartleaf Books has established itself as a beloved, if not always profitable, co-op bookstore in Federal Hill, Providence. Established by siblings and librarians Mads Vericker and Caroline Vericker in 2021, Heartleaf has grown into Rhode Island's only cooperative/queer/community-owned bookstore. Caroline and Mads are still the co-op's only worker-owners, and run the business and store operations with the help of our 5-member Board of Directors: Kait, Kayla, Jen, Julia, and Erika. Full disclosure: we've never paid ourselves a living wage (usually not even minimum wage), and scraping by every month has become incredibly stressful. Mads plans to return to work full-time asap, which will help a lot, but.... penny the cat with a purple hued picture of the store and white text: we've reached a point where it's no longer feasible to keep the store open without some help from our community. we're having trouble fulfilling preorders, buying inventory, and are now behind on rent. Sales have been down 15% this year over 2023, and we've done everything we can to keep costs down while having to deal with rising service costs, book prices, and more, but we're drowning. We are asking for our community's help to pay some of our bills and keep us afloat through the holidays, when we will be in a better place to continue operations through the end of our lease in September 2025, at least. penny the cat over a purple hued photo of the store and white text: Here's how the money will be used: Taxes - $2,000 Vendors - $5,600 Rent - $1,900 Vet visit for Penny - $250 any extra funds will be used for future expenses, such as December rent, service fees, Penny supplies, etc Thank you so much for your support! We know Heartleaf adds so much value to the community, and we know it's worth the hard work to keep the doors open! We love you!!
November 20, 2024 at 10:26 PM
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wordsiren.bsky.social
✨ YA BOOK NEWS ✨

I'm so excited to announce that my next YA duology, a romantasy called WICKED ENDEAVORS, is coming in Summer 2026!

If So Let Them Burn was about the power of love, then Wicked Endeavors is about the poisonous yet motivating power of hate. Black female rage abounds in this one 😈
Author of So Let Them Burn and the forthcoming This Ends In Embers Kamilah Cole's WICKED ENDEAVORS, a YA romantasy duology set in a Spanish Renaissance-inspired kingdom, about a vengeful teen who cons her way into a high society of elite witches, only for her revenge to be threatened by her warring feelings for both a manipulative enemy prince and the stoic childhood friend who betrayed her, pitched as a love letter to the power of Black women's anger, to Alexandra Hightower at Little, Brown Children's, in a six-figure deal , at auction, in a two-book deal, for publication in summer 2026, by Emily Forney at BookEnds (world). Over an image of a Black girl in a renaissance gown holding a dagger and smirking at the audience, drawn by cutetanuki-chan on Tumblr
November 21, 2024 at 1:56 PM
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lillyluwrites.bsky.social
✨We are PM official!✨

My middle-grade debut is a love letter to #BTS, by fans for fans!

The book is BDS-friendly & portions of proceeds will be donated to causes we care about, center of mind Pal BTS fans 💜

@majablanque.bsky.social & I hope this book will be a spot of joy in these times.
Publishers Marketplace screenshot of Lilly and Maja’s book announcement with BTS illustration by Maja in the background
November 21, 2024 at 3:10 PM
haliwriteswords.bsky.social
LOVE YOU TO DEATH

🔎 adult rom-mystery
💔 exes to partners in crime to lovers
💉 mortician x private investigator
🔪 a murder mystery
🩸 deadly threats
🖤 years of repressed love and longing
🗞️ jazz/noir vibes in a modern town
💋 face sitting & fishnet ripping

#WritingCommunity
November 20, 2024 at 12:50 AM
haliwriteswords.bsky.social
describe your music taste with 4 albums!
November 19, 2024 at 5:29 AM
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noellemonet.bsky.social
✨HOW IT STARTED // HOW IT'S GOING✨

I'm THRILLED to announce that my debut YA fantasy BOUND BY FURY will be published with S&S in Spring of 2026!

I am endlessly grateful for my incredible agent Jenissa Graham at Bookends Lit & DREAM editor Sarah McCabe for making my dreams come true! 🧵 1/11
photo of the first ever printed version of this manuscript, formerly titled BLACK MOUNTAIN ACADEMY Kai and Harper from BOUND BY FURY in the bottom left corner, a green zodiac wheel behind the announcement with forest in the back. BOUND BY FURY By Noelle Monet Children's: Young Adult Fiction Today Noelle Monet's BOUND BY FURY, a debut contemporary fantasy pitched as Legendborn meets Mystic Falls, where a rage-inducing encounter awakens abilities in a sixteen-year-old, leading her to an elite boarding school in the North Carolina Mountains, where she unravels a tale that spans generations, but the truth about her family's connection to the town's racist past comes at a cost—becoming a prophecy incarnate, to Sarah McCabe at Margaret K. McElderry Books, in a six-figure deal, at auction, in a two-book deal, for publication in spring 2026, by Jenissa Graham at BookEnds (NA). UK: jgraham@bookendsliterary.com
November 15, 2024 at 3:49 PM
haliwriteswords.bsky.social
what’s everyone currently reading? I’m reading love & other conspiracies by mallory marlowe!
November 15, 2024 at 3:03 PM
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BARISTA (grinning): and you'd like that latte...
CHAPPELL ROAN: iced. for here
November 13, 2024 at 4:55 AM
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rachelkitch.bsky.social
also to the #writingcommunity - i launched a newsletter series on how to build your author website!

part 1 is out now and releases every tuesday. i cover topics like agent branding, deep dives on different website builders, newsletters, and more!

rachelkitch.substack.com/p/how-to-cre...
How to Create an Author Website 101 - Part 1
Determining if you even need an author website to begin with and figuring out where to start. Part 1 of a series in which I yap about how to build your own author website.
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November 14, 2024 at 1:31 AM
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bluespringwrites.bsky.social
hi! my name is ezra ipsum, and i’m a queer fantasy and romance writer. i’m working on GHOSTS OF GRIMWICK, which is a ya necromancy book set at a magic school. i’ll do a wip intro later, but here’s the essentials: sapphic haters to lovers and lots of ghosts.

#writingcommunity #writer #fantasy 🌈📚
October 19, 2024 at 1:17 AM
haliwriteswords.bsky.social
“Sasha Monroe was dying.”

from LOVE YOU TO DEATH, where mortician and private investigator ex girlfriends reunite to get to the bottom of a troubling death in their small town 🔪🩸
cometkins.bsky.social Ian Haramaki 🏳️‍⚧️✨ @cometkins.bsky.social · Nov 13
Share the first line of your book! #WritingPrompt
November 14, 2024 at 3:08 AM
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camiscribbles.bsky.social
my #UnhingedPit for LOVE, GODS AND SINNERS is an ingredient list, ft:
- "take her out" "to date or kill?" core
- girlkisser shego and kim possible
- a dialogue exchange that goes "please buy another bra "that's my emotional support one"
- another excerpt below
- this art by CALICOTURE on twitter:
Just to be clear, I might hate both the sin (being an asshole) and the sinner (the asshole herself)—but I’m not morally corrupt enough to think throwing Harper Leong out a window was an acceptable thing to do. Two girls, the left in black with a dagger and the right in a silver armour with a sword, both fighting. They are haloed by a neon pink oval, with angry expressions.
November 14, 2024 at 12:38 AM
haliwriteswords.bsky.social
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 🥀🖤
November 14, 2024 at 3:05 AM
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rachelkitch.bsky.social
hello bsky!

i’m rachel, and i’m a half-thai, bisexual, and chronically ill speculative horror author. by day i work as a product designer and make author websites.

i write speculative horror steeped in horniness and filled with bodies doing things they shouldn’t 💗✨
November 13, 2024 at 11:34 PM
haliwriteswords.bsky.social
should be getting a commission sketch in the next couple of days for a certain mystery romance…..
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November 14, 2024 at 2:53 AM
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dianapho.bsky.social
And the book news keeps on coming! Thrilled to announce this witchy, fun, and twisty contemporary fantasy about a coven on the North Shore of Boston--and how they are involved in the most famous unsolved art heist in history... K. S. Shay's MAEVE AND THE OTHER MARSH! #ErewhonBooks #AuntieEditor
Art will transport you, if you're not careful... Debut author K. S. Shay’s MAEVE AND THE OTHER MARSH, pitched for fans of Alix E. Harrow and T. Kingfisher, a contemporary fantasy about best friends and ambitious witches who investigate a dangerous entity who lurks in the marshes of Boston’s Northshore – only to discover a magical connection to the most famous unsolved art heist in the United States, when 13 artworks were taken from the Isabella Gardner Museum in the 1990s, to Diana M. Pho at Erewhon Books, in a two-book deal, for publication in Fall 2026, by Brenna English-Loeb at Transatlantic Agency, for North American English rights.
October 5, 2024 at 12:29 AM
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solarhoang.bsky.social
very tiny starter pack (right now) of all the ESEA SFFH writers i think you should all follow! comment below if you want to be added!
go.bsky.app/Aw6qa9B
November 12, 2024 at 7:08 AM
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noellemonet.bsky.social
🚨ATTENTION🚨

Do you 🫵🏽 love

⭐️ LEGENDBORN
⭐️ WITCHES STEEPED IN GOLD
⭐️ WHERE SLEEPING GIRLS LIE
⭐️ CEMETERY BOYS

Do you 🫵🏽

⭐️ believe that Bonnie Bennet was ROBBED of a fulfilling story arc and romance????

Well then if I were you 🫵🏽 I’d WATCH THIS SPACE for the next 24 to 48 hours 👀👀👀
November 13, 2024 at 10:50 PM
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peacezodanou.bsky.social
Starter pack for Black writers.💅🏾😌
Comment if you'd like to be added.

Don't self-reject.
Don't look and think "they didn't specify x, y, z is welcomed. I guess it's not for me".

❤️‍🔥Repost for reach, please! TIA!❤️‍🔥

#WritingCommunity #BVM #AmWriting #AmQuerying

go.bsky.app/2pribzv
November 12, 2024 at 4:02 PM
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emmailene.bsky.social
✨️Official Writingsky Starter Pack✨️ to launch your feed with bookish writers

lmk if you'd like ti be included as I continue to update the list!!

go.bsky.app/TmoPgr4
November 12, 2024 at 10:35 PM
haliwriteswords.bsky.social
just wrote 64 words who’s proud of me
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November 13, 2024 at 2:34 AM
haliwriteswords.bsky.social
repost with your creator goals for 2025

🔦 finish writing LYTD

🩸 edit LYTD and send to my agent

🖤 make sub list plans w my agent
noellemonet.bsky.social Noelle Monét | ADD BOUND BY FURY ON GOODREADS @noellemonet.bsky.social · Nov 8
repost with your creator goals for 2025

♋️ finish editing my big secret

💋 prep SMASHwip for sub

⚡️write big secret part two

🤞🏽 plan a third secret thing
kaitlynabdou.com Katie Abdou @kaitlynabdou.com · Nov 7
Repost with your creator goals for 2025

🏴‍☠️ edit A PRINCE AMONG PIRATES

🐈‍⬛️Rewrite THE DAFFODIL WITCH

🏴‍☠️ write THE PIRATE KING

🐈‍⬛️ sell THE DAFFODIL WITCH to a publisher
November 8, 2024 at 3:08 AM
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thelincoln.bsky.social
Me to myself revising this novel
David Lynch saying "Okay, let's try that again, but this time good."
September 19, 2023 at 12:45 AM
haliwriteswords.bsky.social
introduce yourself with three bullet points:

— peter parker is my best friend
— i kin nick miller from new girl
— if you present me with bubblegum macarons i shall be inclined to marry you
samportrbridges.bsky.social cathy ✨️🌙 @samportrbridges.bsky.social · Sep 19
introduce yourself with three bullet points:

- I love professional wrestling.
- My favorite kind of music is rock.
- I'm a night owl who doesn't wake up before noon 😂
elizmanderson.com E.M. Anderson | the author too hot for BlueSky @elizmanderson.com · Sep 19
introduce yourself with three bullet points

- I like taking long walks in the woods to ID birds & flowers
- I'm slightly obsessed with pole fitness since starting a class in april
- I love uncle iroh
September 19, 2023 at 7:04 AM