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📎There's a lot of beauty in ordinary things.
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📚 LR: Episode Thirteen
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🩸 In my FINAL GIRL era 🩸
📚 Lit Agency Intern
✏️ rep: Alex Land at MWLA
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They say the final act is the hardest to survive. After a lot of blood, sweat, and eleventh-hour decisions, I’m beyond thrilled to announce that I’m now represented by @alexbrownwrites.bsky.social at Mad Woman Literary Agency!

I can't wait to work on making Hotel Adair even more deadly.
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Thanks for your patience everyone! I'm excited to announce that I'm reopening to queries on January 1st! Check out my MSWL page for my current wishlist! www.manuscriptwishlist.com/mswl-post/an...
Annie Bomke – The Official Manuscript Wish List Website
www.manuscriptwishlist.com
December 23, 2025 at 6:23 PM
I finally got to write a HIGMA of my own! I break down stats for each of my manuscripts and how I changed as a writer.

(Hint: It's about being true to yourself or something...)
www.rjhawthorne.com/thoughts-new...
December 23, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳

I’m so stoked that I get to work with @zillawrites.bsky.social and all of her fantastic ideas!

Editors! Get ready for a haunted hotel that brings out your worst qualities—just like the toxic friends you’re trapped with—in this fun, meta adult horror debut coming your way in 2026! 😈✨
They say the final act is the hardest to survive. After a lot of blood, sweat, and eleventh-hour decisions, I’m beyond thrilled to announce that I’m now represented by @alexbrownwrites.bsky.social at Mad Woman Literary Agency!

I can't wait to work on making Hotel Adair even more deadly.
December 22, 2025 at 6:14 PM
They say the final act is the hardest to survive. After a lot of blood, sweat, and eleventh-hour decisions, I’m beyond thrilled to announce that I’m now represented by @alexbrownwrites.bsky.social at Mad Woman Literary Agency!

I can't wait to work on making Hotel Adair even more deadly.
December 22, 2025 at 6:06 PM
This has been the longest wait.
Blackout Poetry: Querying Edition ✨
December 19, 2025 at 4:05 AM
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Things are wrapping up for the year but I've fully revised my manuscript and posting my updated #agentsguide for LAST CHANCE MATCH with agent interest! #litagents, if you're interested in this concept, it's ready to read over the holidays ❤️

#amquerying
December 17, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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AGENT SPOTLIGHT: Jon Michael Darga of Aevitas Creative Management!

Jon Michael answers our most pressing questions and gives their best advice. Learn more, and see if they might be your dream agent, on our blog:
writingdayworkshops.com/blog

#amquerying #amwriting #writingcommunity #literaryagent
December 17, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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Your pitch is often the first thing a literary agent will read, and it could make the difference between the agent opening your manuscript straight away or adding it to the end of a very long reading list 📑

Read our 6 pitfalls to avoid when pitching:
6 pitfalls to avoid when pitching your novel
Writing a pitch for your novel can be daunting. The pitch is often the first thing an agent will see when looking at a submission, and it could make the difference between the agent opening your…
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December 16, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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Here are the Top 5 Dogs of the week!
December 12, 2025 at 3:32 PM
The last hour has been so so fun.
December 12, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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Attention querying writers! I will be closing to queries for the winter holidays, and giving myself some extra time to catch up. I will be closed from Dec. 22 to Feb. 1, opening back up the morning of the 2nd. *Please remember that I only accept queries through my Query Manager (link on my website).
December 10, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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BIG news! My adult speculative mystery is a SEMI-FINALIST for the fiction category for the Tucson Festival of Books Literary Awards! In my #amquerying era but in a flare so I’ve been delayed BUT this means a lot as a @uarizona.bsky.social Creative Writing & English alum! ❤️ 719 subs total!🤯
December 9, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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Writers - are you considering a change for 2026? Thinking of trying a new genre? Join us as we discuss the pros and cons of GENRE HOPPING! with Neighborhood Literary Agent @ericsmithrocks
#writer #writerpodcast #author #writingcommunity #agent #authorlife
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z01Y...
EPISODE 99 - Genre Hopping and Author Branding - Insights from Literary Agent & Author Eric Smith
YouTube video by Way-Word Writers
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December 9, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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A heads up to querying authors! We're reaching that time of year when offer of rep deadlines may need to extend past the standard of two weeks and into the new year if you want to give everyone the opportunity to consider. Many agents, including myself, are out of the office starting next week.
December 9, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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In case you hadn’t heard!! Lindsey was my intern for over six months, and she is more than ready to take on this new role at MLM. Check out what she’s looking for and definitely query her. You can find out more at martinlit.com.

#querying #newagentalert #kidlit
December 8, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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The new Agent's Guide to
MURDER NIGHT AT HOTEL ADAIR, my The Haunting of Hill House x The Shining #A #H project.

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At Hotel Adair, the rooms are luxurious, the deaths are creative, and the check-out time is non-negotiable.
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September 19, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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TALK TO ME x THE GIRLS ARE ALL SO NICE HERE x CABIN IN THE WOODS

* dual timeline
* tarot & ouija boards & seances
* OBX setting
* bachelorette weekend with a body count
* best friends forever (as a curse)
November 16, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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Check out this giveaway happening for one of my favorite books of all time!!

Sierra’s book comes out in May 2026!
So, if you like Love is Blind or The Traitors or Love Island or The Bachelorette …. Plus a dash of murder in space… this one is for you!!
November 20, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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bread
December 7, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Blackout Poetry: Querying Edition ✨
December 3, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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Excited to be here!
December 3, 2025 at 2:16 AM
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Fred Savage freaking out that the book isn't going the way he wants is all of us readers at the Third Plot Point / Apparent Defeat
December 3, 2025 at 3:10 AM
I don’t share my dailies outside of my trusted circle, but this hit me like a ton of bricks today.

Energy
Disruption + clarification
Guidance

It’s giving: conserve energy, something is on the horizon. It’s taken a long time to get here, so stay ready, curious, and open. 👀
December 2, 2025 at 11:24 AM
I’d love to read some HIGMAs! Can yall send me your favorites?
December 1, 2025 at 2:07 AM