The Shipman Agency
@shipmanagency.bsky.social
The Shipman Agency offers complete literary services to writers at all stages of their careers: event booking, independent publicity, mss consultations, The Work Room. she/her https://www.theshipmanagency.com/
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We made a starter pack of our great Shipman Agency clients! Follow writers! Read books! Say hello! go.bsky.app/BXUDe1d
These are two beloved clients and I highly recommend you attend this event if you're in NYC 🌟
Come help me welcome this book and the marvelous @mbsycamore.bsky.social !
Yes, TERRY DACTYL is in the front window *and* on the Contemporary Bestsellers table @strandbookstore.bsky.social, just in time for my NYC launch at the Strand on Wednesday, November 19th (in conversation with @alexanderchee.bsky.social, please spread the word!!🎉🎉🎉 Masks strongly encouraged💕💕💕
November 16, 2025 at 10:50 PM
These are two beloved clients and I highly recommend you attend this event if you're in NYC 🌟
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Yes, TERRY DACTYL is in the front window *and* on the Contemporary Bestsellers table @strandbookstore.bsky.social, just in time for my NYC launch at the Strand on Wednesday, November 19th (in conversation with @alexanderchee.bsky.social, please spread the word!!🎉🎉🎉 Masks strongly encouraged💕💕💕
November 16, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Yes, TERRY DACTYL is in the front window *and* on the Contemporary Bestsellers table @strandbookstore.bsky.social, just in time for my NYC launch at the Strand on Wednesday, November 19th (in conversation with @alexanderchee.bsky.social, please spread the word!!🎉🎉🎉 Masks strongly encouraged💕💕💕
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“Zohran has been marinated in love…He’s so secure in knowing who he is. There was a feeling of great pride and gratitude the night he won—that we had yielded this person who will bring, and who has already brought, hope to the world. That he has the mettle to do it.”
ABSOLUTE FUCKING MOM GOALS 🥰🥰🥰🥰
ABSOLUTE FUCKING MOM GOALS 🥰🥰🥰🥰
I interviewed ferociously brilliant filmmaker Mira Nair, a.k.a Zohran Mamdani’s mother, about how her voice and vision have shaped a man who sees a better way forward for all of us. SPOILER ALERT: Love matters.
www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/feat...
www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/feat...
How Mira Nair Built the World That Made Zohran Mamdani
The legendary director talks with Harper's Bazaar about becoming an artist and a parent
www.harpersbazaar.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:48 PM
“Zohran has been marinated in love…He’s so secure in knowing who he is. There was a feeling of great pride and gratitude the night he won—that we had yielded this person who will bring, and who has already brought, hope to the world. That he has the mettle to do it.”
ABSOLUTE FUCKING MOM GOALS 🥰🥰🥰🥰
ABSOLUTE FUCKING MOM GOALS 🥰🥰🥰🥰
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Excited to announce I'm both teaching a nonfiction writing master class on revision (two saturdays next march) and also — at long last — offering on-on-one manuscript consultations ... all details below ...
Work Room Winter Quarter 2026 is up! Classes with @sandyernestallen.bsky.social, Lidia Yuknavitch, John Cameron Mitchell, Jonathan Escoffery, Maurice Carlos Ruffin and more. Keep your mind and spirit cozy this winter by writing stuff!!
www.theshipmanagency.com/theworkroom
www.theshipmanagency.com/theworkroom
The Work Room — The Shipman Agency
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November 16, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Excited to announce I'm both teaching a nonfiction writing master class on revision (two saturdays next march) and also — at long last — offering on-on-one manuscript consultations ... all details below ...
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lol sorry to break it to you but America does not like women
November 16, 2025 at 12:38 AM
lol sorry to break it to you but America does not like women
Don't be afraid of the black square! Click on it and it will take you some place magical!
Work Room Winter Quarter 2026 is up! Classes with @sandyernestallen.bsky.social, Lidia Yuknavitch, John Cameron Mitchell, Jonathan Escoffery, Maurice Carlos Ruffin and more. Keep your mind and spirit cozy this winter by writing stuff!!
www.theshipmanagency.com/theworkroom
www.theshipmanagency.com/theworkroom
The Work Room — The Shipman Agency
www.theshipmanagency.com
November 15, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Don't be afraid of the black square! Click on it and it will take you some place magical!
Work Room Winter Quarter 2026 is up! Classes with @sandyernestallen.bsky.social, Lidia Yuknavitch, John Cameron Mitchell, Jonathan Escoffery, Maurice Carlos Ruffin and more. Keep your mind and spirit cozy this winter by writing stuff!!
www.theshipmanagency.com/theworkroom
www.theshipmanagency.com/theworkroom
The Work Room — The Shipman Agency
www.theshipmanagency.com
November 15, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Work Room Winter Quarter 2026 is up! Classes with @sandyernestallen.bsky.social, Lidia Yuknavitch, John Cameron Mitchell, Jonathan Escoffery, Maurice Carlos Ruffin and more. Keep your mind and spirit cozy this winter by writing stuff!!
www.theshipmanagency.com/theworkroom
www.theshipmanagency.com/theworkroom
Queen 💔
Anyone who’s ever used emergency contraception or gains peace of mind by even having it on hand owes Dr Camp a debt of gratitude. What a force.
(Also, I just learned one reason the FDA rejected it at first was that they said the name Plan B was too glib!)
Great obit—no paywall.
(Also, I just learned one reason the FDA rejected it at first was that they said the name Plan B was too glib!)
Great obit—no paywall.
Sharon Camp, Mother of the ‘Plan B’ Contraceptive Pill, Dies at 81
www.nytimes.com
November 14, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Queen 💔
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"Suddenly it felt like so much was going on, even though nothing was going on. But actually, something was going on."
Read an excerpt from @mbsycamore.bsky.social 's new novel, TERRY DACTYL. Thanks as always to @literaryhub.bsky.social !!!
lithub.com/terry-dactyl/
Read an excerpt from @mbsycamore.bsky.social 's new novel, TERRY DACTYL. Thanks as always to @literaryhub.bsky.social !!!
lithub.com/terry-dactyl/
Terry Dactyl
Suddenly it felt like so much was going on, even though nothing was going on. But actually, something was going on. 1. Sabine said I’m closing the gallery. 2. Is that really what she said first? Ma…
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November 14, 2025 at 3:25 PM
"Suddenly it felt like so much was going on, even though nothing was going on. But actually, something was going on."
Read an excerpt from @mbsycamore.bsky.social 's new novel, TERRY DACTYL. Thanks as always to @literaryhub.bsky.social !!!
lithub.com/terry-dactyl/
Read an excerpt from @mbsycamore.bsky.social 's new novel, TERRY DACTYL. Thanks as always to @literaryhub.bsky.social !!!
lithub.com/terry-dactyl/
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There's a nice writeup too ☺️
'Mỹ Documents' Is One of the 100 Must-Read Books of 2025
Here's why it made the list
time.com
November 12, 2025 at 5:51 PM
There's a nice writeup too ☺️
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Now out in the UK...💞💞💞💞
Happy publication day to @mbsycamore.bsky.social and TERRY DACTYL! 💙 ❤️ 🩷 Iconoclastic, stylish, vulnerable and propulsive, this is an incredible book from a beloved author. Don't miss it!
Terry Dactyl Pre-Order — Cipher Press
By Mattilda Bernstein Scyamore Published November 2025 9781917008150 / Paperback / £11.99
www.cipherpress.co.uk
November 13, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Now out in the UK...💞💞💞💞
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Looking for signed copies of TERRY DACTYL in NYC? You are in luck, because they can now be found at Hive Mind, Three Lives, Greenlight, Books Are Magic, Center for Fiction, & P&T Knitwear... And, of course, at my book launch at the Strand on November 19th, where I can sign everything, can't wait!!💕
November 13, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Looking for signed copies of TERRY DACTYL in NYC? You are in luck, because they can now be found at Hive Mind, Three Lives, Greenlight, Books Are Magic, Center for Fiction, & P&T Knitwear... And, of course, at my book launch at the Strand on November 19th, where I can sign everything, can't wait!!💕
Highly recommend the brilliant @scryptkeeper.bsky.social ✨
This month I am HERE for your questions, your queries, celebrations, chatfight disputes, heartsongs, heart sinks, and boondoggles. Send them hence! And I shall prescribe, we’ll see, some poetry. Holla!
& let’s see what happens!
poetryclinic.org/submit/
& let’s see what happens!
poetryclinic.org/submit/
November 13, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Highly recommend the brilliant @scryptkeeper.bsky.social ✨
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Wonderful event last night at Book Soup in LA, in conversation with the brilliant @bcdreyer.social
November 11, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Wonderful event last night at Book Soup in LA, in conversation with the brilliant @bcdreyer.social
Happiest of pub dates to the brilliant and very stylish Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, whose novel TERRY DACTYL comes out today from Coffee House Press. Highly recommended!
One of my favourite people has a book out today. To summarize this Q&A she did with Xtra: nostalgia, no; vulnerability, yes. xtramagazine.com/culture/matt...
Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore on the link between the COVID-19 and AIDS crises | Xtra Magazine
Sycamore’s new novel “Terry Dactyl” shirks nostalgia, instead showing how queer history often repeats
xtramagazine.com
November 11, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Happiest of pub dates to the brilliant and very stylish Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, whose novel TERRY DACTYL comes out today from Coffee House Press. Highly recommended!
Interviews with clients Rabih Alameddine, Cathy Linh Che, Richard Siken, and Patricia Smith. Good luck to all of these geniuses next week at the National Book Awards!!
lithub.com/meet-the-202...
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Meet the 2025 National Book Award Finalists
The winners of the 76th National Book Awards—given every year in Young People’s Literature, Translation, Poetry, Nonfiction, and Fiction—will be announced next week in a ceremony hosted by Jeff Hil…
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November 11, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Interviews with clients Rabih Alameddine, Cathy Linh Che, Richard Siken, and Patricia Smith. Good luck to all of these geniuses next week at the National Book Awards!!
lithub.com/meet-the-202...
lithub.com/meet-the-202...
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Thursday, I’m teaching a class on how to write compelling novel openings. You can sign up here! @shipmanagency.bsky.social
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November 11, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Thursday, I’m teaching a class on how to write compelling novel openings. You can sign up here! @shipmanagency.bsky.social
www.theshipmanagency.com/classes/craf...
www.theshipmanagency.com/classes/craf...
LFG my #Knicks!!!!
The New York Knicks play basketball today. Rejoice accordingly 🎉
a basketball player is talking into a microphone that says msc on it
ALT: a basketball player is talking into a microphone that says msc on it
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November 11, 2025 at 4:12 PM
LFG my #Knicks!!!!
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More National Book Award-winning writers need to spend the later portion of their careers picking one billionaire and just absolutely going to town.
November 11, 2025 at 3:34 AM
More National Book Award-winning writers need to spend the later portion of their careers picking one billionaire and just absolutely going to town.
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Yes, here comes the UK edition of TERRY DACTYL, get ready🪶🌺🌟💥
TERRY DACTYL, the incredible new novel from @mbsycamore.bsky.social, is out this week! As Lisa Ko says, Terry is a 'singular, indelible heroine'. We can't wait for you to meet her 💜 www.cipherpress.co.uk/terry-dactyl
November 10, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Yes, here comes the UK edition of TERRY DACTYL, get ready🪶🌺🌟💥
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"What a gift this novel is, to shine so brightly in its refusal to not look away. An excerpt from TERRY DACTYL...out tomorrow!!! Thanks to @electricliterature.com @iamlisako.bsky.social & @mbsycamore.bsky.social
electricliterature.com/terry-dactyl...
electricliterature.com/terry-dactyl...
Ecstasy Is Temporary but Being Fabulous Is Forever - Electric Literature
An excerpt from TERRY DACTYL by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, recommended by Lisa Ko
electricliterature.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:47 PM
"What a gift this novel is, to shine so brightly in its refusal to not look away. An excerpt from TERRY DACTYL...out tomorrow!!! Thanks to @electricliterature.com @iamlisako.bsky.social & @mbsycamore.bsky.social
electricliterature.com/terry-dactyl...
electricliterature.com/terry-dactyl...
Just called Durbin's office, they're not even letting you leave a message! Which means we are overwhelming them with calls. Keep going! (I've already called and emailed Schumer.)
November 10, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Just called Durbin's office, they're not even letting you leave a message! Which means we are overwhelming them with calls. Keep going! (I've already called and emailed Schumer.)
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Before the ACA, I couldn't get insurance as a freelancer at all, bc I'm a type 1 diabetic, so "pre-existing conditions." It was absolute shit on my health, scavenging for insulin & test strips, constantly in life or death debates about being able to go to the doctor. I had no primary care.
November 9, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Before the ACA, I couldn't get insurance as a freelancer at all, bc I'm a type 1 diabetic, so "pre-existing conditions." It was absolute shit on my health, scavenging for insulin & test strips, constantly in life or death debates about being able to go to the doctor. I had no primary care.
It's a fuck you to everyone who showed up for No Kings. It's a fuck you to every Democrat that voted on Tuesday.
Fuck @schumer.senate.gov and any Dem senator who caves to the madman in the WH and his band of creeps. Just burning with rage right now.
Fuck @schumer.senate.gov and any Dem senator who caves to the madman in the WH and his band of creeps. Just burning with rage right now.
I'm hearing the same thing. Dems are nearing a surrender. I'm shocked. Largest protest in history + best election night in years + polling showing we're kicking their ass in public opinion. And now Dems may cave.
It ain't over til it's over, so please do call if you've got a Dem senator.
It ain't over til it's over, so please do call if you've got a Dem senator.
Sounds like the squishes in the senate caucus are ready to pull the plug with no ACA changes. This is real. If you want to register your opinion you shld call yr senator in the next hour. They not only want to reopen w/nothing. They want cover from their colleagues who still want to hold out.
November 9, 2025 at 10:35 PM
It's a fuck you to everyone who showed up for No Kings. It's a fuck you to every Democrat that voted on Tuesday.
Fuck @schumer.senate.gov and any Dem senator who caves to the madman in the WH and his band of creeps. Just burning with rage right now.
Fuck @schumer.senate.gov and any Dem senator who caves to the madman in the WH and his band of creeps. Just burning with rage right now.
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Did ChatGPT tell the Democratic Party to kill itself??
November 9, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Did ChatGPT tell the Democratic Party to kill itself??