Chloe | Writer, Journalist ✨✒️
@wordsbychloe.bsky.social
freelance books, culture & ♿ journo/editor/copy | author 🖋️ romantasy w/ messy, disabled girls | rep: Maria Whelan @ Inkwell | words: Independent, R29, Grammys, Fast Company, Bookseller etc | AuDHD | https://linktr.ee/WordsbyChloe | chloe@wordsbychloe.com
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Writer & editor - writing a fantasy book. Bookseller, GRAMMYS, Cosmo etc
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- freelance books, ents, digital culture & disability focused journo and copywriter
- editing & sensitivity reads for manuscripts & magazines
- author of messy, queer & disabled women, querying a romantasy w/ ♿ rep
- I dog-ear books
↪️: linktr.ee/WordsbyChloe
- freelance books, ents, digital culture & disability focused journo and copywriter
- editing & sensitivity reads for manuscripts & magazines
- author of messy, queer & disabled women, querying a romantasy w/ ♿ rep
- I dog-ear books
↪️: linktr.ee/WordsbyChloe
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The cover for my debut SF sapphic romantic thriller is now out in the world!
Credit for the gorgeous artwork goes to Artem Chebokha!
Credit for the gorgeous artwork goes to Artem Chebokha!
Exclusive Cover Reveal: Love Galaxy by Sierra Branham
Today on the site, I'm delighted to reveal the cover of Love Galaxy by Sierra Branham, a Sapphic Sci-Fi Thriller releasing from DAW on May 5, 2026! Here's the story: A romantic science fiction thriller in which a young woman from a dead-end…
Today on the site, I'm delighted to reveal the cover of Love Galaxy by Sierra Branham, a Sapphic Sci-Fi Thriller releasing from DAW on May 5, 2026! Here's the story: A romantic science fiction thriller in which a young woman from a dead-end…
Exclusive Cover Reveal: Love Galaxy by Sierra Branham
Today on the site, I'm delighted to reveal the cover of Love Galaxy by Sierra Branham, a Sapphic Sci-Fi Thriller releasing from DAW on May 5, 2026! Here's the story: A romantic science fiction thriller in which a young woman from a dead-end planet gets cast on a reality TV show to compete for the hand of the prince—or princess. But not everyone is there for the right reasons…
lgbtqreads.com
August 27, 2025 at 4:57 PM
The cover for my debut SF sapphic romantic thriller is now out in the world!
Credit for the gorgeous artwork goes to Artem Chebokha!
Credit for the gorgeous artwork goes to Artem Chebokha!
catching up on some articles that went live while I was away!
Loved interviewing Lucy Rose (THE LAMB) Charlotte Paradise (OVERSPILL) & Trang Thanh Tran (THEY BLOOM AT NIGHT) for @thebookseller on our recent love affair with horror...
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Loved interviewing Lucy Rose (THE LAMB) Charlotte Paradise (OVERSPILL) & Trang Thanh Tran (THEY BLOOM AT NIGHT) for @thebookseller on our recent love affair with horror...
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Goodbye cosy, hello weird
Female and non-binary writers are driving a vibrant new sub-genre featuring strange, unhinged underdogs.
www.thebookseller.com
May 8, 2025 at 4:04 PM
catching up on some articles that went live while I was away!
Loved interviewing Lucy Rose (THE LAMB) Charlotte Paradise (OVERSPILL) & Trang Thanh Tran (THEY BLOOM AT NIGHT) for @thebookseller on our recent love affair with horror...
www.thebookseller.com/comment/good...
Loved interviewing Lucy Rose (THE LAMB) Charlotte Paradise (OVERSPILL) & Trang Thanh Tran (THEY BLOOM AT NIGHT) for @thebookseller on our recent love affair with horror...
www.thebookseller.com/comment/good...
alternative title for my surprise delivery this morning: in my rep'd era 🐍🖤✨
February 14, 2025 at 9:56 AM
alternative title for my surprise delivery this morning: in my rep'd era 🐍🖤✨
✨NEWS✨
I'm SO excited to announce that I'm now represented by Maria Whelan of Inkwell Management!! I was beyond blown away by Maria's vision for my weird, gothic ode to libraries, ill-fated love, disability & sapphic women & I can't wait to see what this next chapter holds 📚🥀
I'm SO excited to announce that I'm now represented by Maria Whelan of Inkwell Management!! I was beyond blown away by Maria's vision for my weird, gothic ode to libraries, ill-fated love, disability & sapphic women & I can't wait to see what this next chapter holds 📚🥀
February 14, 2025 at 12:00 AM
✨NEWS✨
I'm SO excited to announce that I'm now represented by Maria Whelan of Inkwell Management!! I was beyond blown away by Maria's vision for my weird, gothic ode to libraries, ill-fated love, disability & sapphic women & I can't wait to see what this next chapter holds 📚🥀
I'm SO excited to announce that I'm now represented by Maria Whelan of Inkwell Management!! I was beyond blown away by Maria's vision for my weird, gothic ode to libraries, ill-fated love, disability & sapphic women & I can't wait to see what this next chapter holds 📚🥀
so excited for this!!! 😍😍😍
Friends, my book is coming out this spring!
Originally pitched as FRANKENSTEIN x THE LITTLE MERMAID, it’s about two disgraced genetic engineers who are hired by a mysterious billionaire to alter humans to live on the ocean floor and escape eco-catastrophe on land.
Can’t wait to share it with you!
Originally pitched as FRANKENSTEIN x THE LITTLE MERMAID, it’s about two disgraced genetic engineers who are hired by a mysterious billionaire to alter humans to live on the ocean floor and escape eco-catastrophe on land.
Can’t wait to share it with you!
February 9, 2025 at 9:46 PM
so excited for this!!! 😍😍😍
me to my inbox rn 😭👀🩷
January 25, 2025 at 11:42 PM
me to my inbox rn 😭👀🩷
my birthday may have been yesterday but today...is a good day 🥰👁️
January 21, 2025 at 12:42 PM
my birthday may have been yesterday but today...is a good day 🥰👁️
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Hey so the Gaiman article is really graphic and disturbing. The [CW:SA] goes without saying but it's not for vague mentions; specific assaults are described in detail.
And it's okay not to read it.
Reporting on this is vital but that doesn't mean you specifically need to bear witness in this way.
And it's okay not to read it.
Reporting on this is vital but that doesn't mean you specifically need to bear witness in this way.
January 13, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Hey so the Gaiman article is really graphic and disturbing. The [CW:SA] goes without saying but it's not for vague mentions; specific assaults are described in detail.
And it's okay not to read it.
Reporting on this is vital but that doesn't mean you specifically need to bear witness in this way.
And it's okay not to read it.
Reporting on this is vital but that doesn't mean you specifically need to bear witness in this way.
necessary sunday purchases all around.
January 12, 2025 at 5:01 PM
necessary sunday purchases all around.
and if I said the wip draft that I'm about to finish has Nosferatu vibes...what then...
January 8, 2025 at 7:34 PM
and if I said the wip draft that I'm about to finish has Nosferatu vibes...what then...
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Do you know a UK-based wheelchair user who works in a lab and would be willing to user-test our prototype of what is believed to be the first-ever lab coat adapted for wheelchair users?
Please share far & wide! Interest form: forms.office.com/e/66FhcQjqRT
More info: www.ucl.ac.uk/ucl-east/new...
Please share far & wide! Interest form: forms.office.com/e/66FhcQjqRT
More info: www.ucl.ac.uk/ucl-east/new...
January 7, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Do you know a UK-based wheelchair user who works in a lab and would be willing to user-test our prototype of what is believed to be the first-ever lab coat adapted for wheelchair users?
Please share far & wide! Interest form: forms.office.com/e/66FhcQjqRT
More info: www.ucl.ac.uk/ucl-east/new...
Please share far & wide! Interest form: forms.office.com/e/66FhcQjqRT
More info: www.ucl.ac.uk/ucl-east/new...
some 2024 highlight 📸 inc starting my next book, writing about some of my fave things for dream publications, going to fancy journo work parties in Soho (way out of my comfort zone!), writing clubs & planting some interesting seeds for 2025 👁️🌱
here's to creating and writing more stories next year 🥂
here's to creating and writing more stories next year 🥂
December 31, 2024 at 9:16 PM
some 2024 highlight 📸 inc starting my next book, writing about some of my fave things for dream publications, going to fancy journo work parties in Soho (way out of my comfort zone!), writing clubs & planting some interesting seeds for 2025 👁️🌱
here's to creating and writing more stories next year 🥂
here's to creating and writing more stories next year 🥂
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Word of the day is ‘librocubicularist’: one who loves nothing better than reading in bed.
(Not easy to say, but I’m glad to know it exists).
(Not easy to say, but I’m glad to know it exists).
November 24, 2024 at 10:47 AM
Word of the day is ‘librocubicularist’: one who loves nothing better than reading in bed.
(Not easy to say, but I’m glad to know it exists).
(Not easy to say, but I’m glad to know it exists).
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Of course I want to be invited. No, I do not want to go. Yes, I would like my absence to be remarked upon. No, I do not want to feel pressured that I SHOULD have attended.
I just want that perfect balance of being included and valued without having to actually leave my house. 🥰 my dog lives here.
I just want that perfect balance of being included and valued without having to actually leave my house. 🥰 my dog lives here.
November 22, 2024 at 5:17 PM
Of course I want to be invited. No, I do not want to go. Yes, I would like my absence to be remarked upon. No, I do not want to feel pressured that I SHOULD have attended.
I just want that perfect balance of being included and valued without having to actually leave my house. 🥰 my dog lives here.
I just want that perfect balance of being included and valued without having to actually leave my house. 🥰 my dog lives here.
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Write that book. Send that story. Query that agent. Ask for that blurb. Maybe it doesn’t work out, but there’s a chance it will, and that chance—however small you think it is—is all you need.
November 19, 2024 at 10:03 PM
Write that book. Send that story. Query that agent. Ask for that blurb. Maybe it doesn’t work out, but there’s a chance it will, and that chance—however small you think it is—is all you need.
finally back to drafting #MacbethWIP and I'm buzzing 🖤🧜♀️🪄 #WritingCommunity
November 19, 2024 at 9:56 PM
finally back to drafting #MacbethWIP and I'm buzzing 🖤🧜♀️🪄 #WritingCommunity
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So looking forward to this book coming out in the UK. So necessary.
November 18, 2024 at 10:18 PM
So looking forward to this book coming out in the UK. So necessary.
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More queer horror more queer horror more queer horror [chanting continues]
November 18, 2024 at 9:38 PM
More queer horror more queer horror more queer horror [chanting continues]
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For Esquire, I wrote about The Eras Tour Book and what Taylor Swift's self-published, Target-exclusive project could mean for the future of book publishing. www.esquire.com/entertainmen...
Taylor Swift Is Coming for Book Publishing
The singer’s quest for world domination continues with The Eras Tour Book. But why is Swift self-publishing, and what does that mean for the future of celebrity books? We’re unpacking all the major im...
www.esquire.com
November 18, 2024 at 2:18 PM
For Esquire, I wrote about The Eras Tour Book and what Taylor Swift's self-published, Target-exclusive project could mean for the future of book publishing. www.esquire.com/entertainmen...
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I cannot believe I finally get to announce this. An unhinged dream, so many years and monologues in the making. I'm elate to announce my debut novel VILE LADY VILLAINS, a horromantasy about Klytemnestra and Lady Macbeth, will be published with Penguin Michael Joseph in 2026.
November 18, 2024 at 5:00 PM
I cannot believe I finally get to announce this. An unhinged dream, so many years and monologues in the making. I'm elate to announce my debut novel VILE LADY VILLAINS, a horromantasy about Klytemnestra and Lady Macbeth, will be published with Penguin Michael Joseph in 2026.
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Something to pin!
November 17, 2024 at 6:22 PM
Something to pin!
is there a chronic illness and/or disabled writer starter pack around here? Should I make one? 🥺📚💙
November 16, 2024 at 1:02 PM
is there a chronic illness and/or disabled writer starter pack around here? Should I make one? 🥺📚💙
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ICYMI: I wrote about why feminist media (even when it breaks me) is so important to me, and why I cofounded @theflytrapmedia.bsky.social to bring feminist cultural criticism with a bite back to the internet.
I’m Co-Founding a Feminist Media Collective: Here’s Why Disability Will Be All Over It from the Start
I’m Co-Founding a Feminist Media Collective: Here’s Why Disability Will Be All Over It from the Start s.e. smith Fifteen years ago, in October 2009, a mostly feminist group of comrade…
disabilityvisibilityproject.com
November 15, 2024 at 11:40 PM
ICYMI: I wrote about why feminist media (even when it breaks me) is so important to me, and why I cofounded @theflytrapmedia.bsky.social to bring feminist cultural criticism with a bite back to the internet.
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November 14, 2024 at 1:32 PM
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