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liana (again) @itslianaiguess.bsky.social · Nov 14
anyone who followed me from twitter has already seen this one, but here's a quick guide to my #amquerying sapphic YA fantasy with:

🖤 doomed lovers
🌟 dead gods
🗡️ knives
🦴 and a whole lot of bones
art on the last slide is by @/calicoture
an agent's guide to emery harlow's guide to knives and necromancy. the background is black, and there are a few gold graphics of a radiating sun, stars, a knife, and a skeletal arm and hand scattered around. there's a moodboard in the center with the following squares: two hands, pinkies linked, one hand skeletal and one flesh. a line of knives. a black square. lots of white flowers against a dark background. art of people reaching toward a golden sun. two hands reaching for each other. a black square. text that says "we do terrible things for the people we love." art of hands reaching toward a beam of light. the pitch: sapphic upper ya fantasy 90k When young necromancer emery harlow’s mistake ends in her sibling’s kidnapping, she sets out to rescue them from her mother’s lifelong rival. what she doesn’t expect is to discover a plot to destroy necromancy, to be hassled by a long-dead god, or to fall for her mortal enemy’s child. The comps: the godly feuds of...(and then the cover of divine rivals by rebecca ross) the snarky humor of...(and then the cover of little thieves by margaret owen) the magical bargaining of...(and then the cover of the first volume of the fullmetal editions of fullmetal alchemist by hiromu arakawa) the characters: this one is a trope graphic with my calicoture art of emery and aria dancing in a field of flowers. the tropes are as follows: doomed from the start (indicates both of them) full time menace, part-time necromancer (indicates emery) nb lesbian li x arospec lesbian mc (indicates both) professional (yet unpaid) nerd (indicates aria) children of lifelong rivals (both)
itslianaiguess.bsky.social
2024 was a year of a lot of ups and downs for me, and i definitely didn't get as much accomplished as i wanted to writing-wise. but i've found a new favorite writing spot, and i'm very excited about my next project after i finish this draft of murder lesbians, so here's to a more productive 2025 <3
dark green background, text says "2024 stats + 2025 ins & outs". there's a graphic of a typwriter, a collection of books, and a book on its own. background color is the same. text says "writing stats: Words written: 177,485 Projects worked on: 2 Queries sent: 50 Query rejections: 38 Full/partial requests: 10". there's the same graphics as the last slide. background color is the same. text says "ins for 2025: Reading books from the library before I buy them Reading the books I own - I have 87 unread books! Writing what I’m passionate about - not just for the market Regaining my love for writing Spending time with my cat More walks and more audiobooks Loving and cherishing my friends Cooking/baking for myself more." this only has the typewriter graphic. same color, text says: "out with 2024: Basing my self worth on the whims of traditional publishing Getting frustrated with my own writing and just Stopping Shame over silly things Buying books I don’t know I’ll like". this slide only has the single book graphic.
January 2, 2025 at 3:29 AM
itslianaiguess.bsky.social
there is not a single thing here that is surprising to me
My Spotify wrapped summary stats. My top artists are, in descending order: lord huron? Florence and the machine, mumford & sons, fall out boy, and 21 pilots. My top songs are, in descending order: secret of life, little lion man, the world ender, good luck babe, and nothing matters. I listened to 67636 minutes of music.
December 4, 2024 at 4:25 PM
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noellemonet.bsky.social
⭐️ reshare your twitter book pitches ⭐️

SALTBURN x IGMMD

when a 22 yo amateur booktoker's fav influencer goes live covered in🩸, she'll use the (insidious) powers of fandom to uncover the truth about that night & prove her idol's innocence — or risk becoming a #headline of her own.
3x3 moodboard for jordan b seltzer's SMASHwip in muted red and black tones. a girl holding a lit match to her eye, a quote: "desire gradually took over--not simple need, like hunger, but a taut, elastic compulsion. this urge to ravage," arms holding a pew pew, split cherries, hands on a mouth, a Black girl holding a camcorder, tongue and water, "it appears i am some abomination," fingers holding marlboro reds
November 21, 2024 at 9:04 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
itslianaiguess.bsky.social
the author // the character

i’m definitely *never* mean to emery my beloved she looks like that because she’s happy 😁

art by cilene corpier
November 16, 2024 at 1:51 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
itslianaiguess.bsky.social
anyone who followed me from twitter has already seen this one, but here's a quick guide to my #amquerying sapphic YA fantasy with:

🖤 doomed lovers
🌟 dead gods
🗡️ knives
🦴 and a whole lot of bones
art on the last slide is by @/calicoture
an agent's guide to emery harlow's guide to knives and necromancy. the background is black, and there are a few gold graphics of a radiating sun, stars, a knife, and a skeletal arm and hand scattered around. there's a moodboard in the center with the following squares: two hands, pinkies linked, one hand skeletal and one flesh. a line of knives. a black square. lots of white flowers against a dark background. art of people reaching toward a golden sun. two hands reaching for each other. a black square. text that says "we do terrible things for the people we love." art of hands reaching toward a beam of light. the pitch: sapphic upper ya fantasy 90k When young necromancer emery harlow’s mistake ends in her sibling’s kidnapping, she sets out to rescue them from her mother’s lifelong rival. what she doesn’t expect is to discover a plot to destroy necromancy, to be hassled by a long-dead god, or to fall for her mortal enemy’s child. The comps: the godly feuds of...(and then the cover of divine rivals by rebecca ross) the snarky humor of...(and then the cover of little thieves by margaret owen) the magical bargaining of...(and then the cover of the first volume of the fullmetal editions of fullmetal alchemist by hiromu arakawa) the characters: this one is a trope graphic with my calicoture art of emery and aria dancing in a field of flowers. the tropes are as follows: doomed from the start (indicates both of them) full time menace, part-time necromancer (indicates emery) nb lesbian li x arospec lesbian mc (indicates both) professional (yet unpaid) nerd (indicates aria) children of lifelong rivals (both)
November 14, 2024 at 3:55 PM
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wordsofrablack.bsky.social
FATED WINDS AND PROMISING SEAS is out in 5 days. It's a book about many things, but ultimately, it is a book about learning to heal, learning to trust, about how these things are not linear, and how healers need to healing and support too.

The relationship between these two is so precious to me.
The two main characters sitting on top of the book with the words around th edge in clockwise - Hey, you're not your past, safe, you can do this, I'm not going to hurt you, please, you're safe.
November 14, 2024 at 2:32 PM
itslianaiguess.bsky.social
let’s try this again, shall we?
November 14, 2024 at 1:31 PM
itslianaiguess.bsky.social
hi everyone 🙂
August 9, 2023 at 5:57 PM