Deanna J. Valdez is querying 📚 ✍️
@deannajvaldez.com
🌖🥀Writer of romance, folklore, fairy tales, eldritch horrors and mythical adventures 🍂🌙
#SFWA #Codex #amquerying #writer
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#SFWA #Codex #amquerying #writer
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Welcome to an agent’s guide to GOOD & GRACIOUS GODS🍂🕯️🕷️
Mariposa knows only false and fallen gods await in the Wishing Wood🕷️
But when her father disappears, he leaves her with a prophecy: she must enter the forest to find him🍂 Can she survive the wood's tests or will she be devoured by all within?
Mariposa knows only false and fallen gods await in the Wishing Wood🕷️
But when her father disappears, he leaves her with a prophecy: she must enter the forest to find him🍂 Can she survive the wood's tests or will she be devoured by all within?
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ok. i am about to get sentimental on main.
The Iron Garden Sutra is going to be out in like...4 months, and i have complicated feelings. i love sci-fi. i grew up reading it and now i'm writing it (yay!). but it feels like the genre is shrinking except for the well-established heavy hitters.
The Iron Garden Sutra is going to be out in like...4 months, and i have complicated feelings. i love sci-fi. i grew up reading it and now i'm writing it (yay!). but it feels like the genre is shrinking except for the well-established heavy hitters.
October 28, 2025 at 1:48 PM
ok. i am about to get sentimental on main.
The Iron Garden Sutra is going to be out in like...4 months, and i have complicated feelings. i love sci-fi. i grew up reading it and now i'm writing it (yay!). but it feels like the genre is shrinking except for the well-established heavy hitters.
The Iron Garden Sutra is going to be out in like...4 months, and i have complicated feelings. i love sci-fi. i grew up reading it and now i'm writing it (yay!). but it feels like the genre is shrinking except for the well-established heavy hitters.
Say less 😈
writing tip: put a creature in it
October 28, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Say less 😈
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I want more fun mashups
a thousand and one arabian nights but its terminally online tiktok doomscroll brainrot
hansel and gretel giant robots
hatsune miku x barbie romcom
a thousand and one arabian nights but its terminally online tiktok doomscroll brainrot
hansel and gretel giant robots
hatsune miku x barbie romcom
October 28, 2025 at 6:28 PM
I want more fun mashups
a thousand and one arabian nights but its terminally online tiktok doomscroll brainrot
hansel and gretel giant robots
hatsune miku x barbie romcom
a thousand and one arabian nights but its terminally online tiktok doomscroll brainrot
hansel and gretel giant robots
hatsune miku x barbie romcom
Here’s a little thread of the pitches of chaotic romantic fantastical novels I’ve outlined rotting in my goblin writing brain ✍️❤️🔥🕯️
October 21, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Here’s a little thread of the pitches of chaotic romantic fantastical novels I’ve outlined rotting in my goblin writing brain ✍️❤️🔥🕯️
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Affirmations are so important.
October 20, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Affirmations are so important.
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i like that if your robbery is sufficiently cool it becomes a heist
October 20, 2025 at 11:11 PM
i like that if your robbery is sufficiently cool it becomes a heist
It was an absolute JOY to moderate the WHO’S TELLING THIS STORY (AND HOW?) panel at #CanCon2025 ❤️
We could have gone on forever about POV, first person vs third close narrative, and unreliable narrators!
We could have gone on forever about POV, first person vs third close narrative, and unreliable narrators!
October 19, 2025 at 2:03 PM
It was an absolute JOY to moderate the WHO’S TELLING THIS STORY (AND HOW?) panel at #CanCon2025 ❤️
We could have gone on forever about POV, first person vs third close narrative, and unreliable narrators!
We could have gone on forever about POV, first person vs third close narrative, and unreliable narrators!
Pictured: @ellieabouttown.bsky.social and I taking quick breaks to eat and dance between all the fun CanCon activities ❤️
Not pictured: @ellieabouttown.bsky.social and I sprinting to get to panels in time and taking nap breaks in the car 💤
Balance 🫶
Not pictured: @ellieabouttown.bsky.social and I sprinting to get to panels in time and taking nap breaks in the car 💤
Balance 🫶
October 19, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Pictured: @ellieabouttown.bsky.social and I taking quick breaks to eat and dance between all the fun CanCon activities ❤️
Not pictured: @ellieabouttown.bsky.social and I sprinting to get to panels in time and taking nap breaks in the car 💤
Balance 🫶
Not pictured: @ellieabouttown.bsky.social and I sprinting to get to panels in time and taking nap breaks in the car 💤
Balance 🫶
#CanCon2025 highlight: THE MONSTROUS RETELLINGS PANEL!
Honoured to share the table with fabulous authors @kateheartfield.com, @anuja-v.bsky.social and Derek Newman-Stills 🫶
The room was PACKED the audience was ENGAGED and I had the BEST time!
Honoured to share the table with fabulous authors @kateheartfield.com, @anuja-v.bsky.social and Derek Newman-Stills 🫶
The room was PACKED the audience was ENGAGED and I had the BEST time!
October 19, 2025 at 1:56 PM
#CanCon2025 highlight: THE MONSTROUS RETELLINGS PANEL!
Honoured to share the table with fabulous authors @kateheartfield.com, @anuja-v.bsky.social and Derek Newman-Stills 🫶
The room was PACKED the audience was ENGAGED and I had the BEST time!
Honoured to share the table with fabulous authors @kateheartfield.com, @anuja-v.bsky.social and Derek Newman-Stills 🫶
The room was PACKED the audience was ENGAGED and I had the BEST time!
Last day of #CanCon2025 and I can’t believe it’s almost over!!
I’ll be on a panel for THE TASTE OF SADNESS: WRITING EMOTIONAL DYSREGULATION 🥀🥺🌊🍂
Come by to discover what makes people cry and all the ways we embody sadness for writing the feels 🫶
I’ll be on a panel for THE TASTE OF SADNESS: WRITING EMOTIONAL DYSREGULATION 🥀🥺🌊🍂
Come by to discover what makes people cry and all the ways we embody sadness for writing the feels 🫶
October 19, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Last day of #CanCon2025 and I can’t believe it’s almost over!!
I’ll be on a panel for THE TASTE OF SADNESS: WRITING EMOTIONAL DYSREGULATION 🥀🥺🌊🍂
Come by to discover what makes people cry and all the ways we embody sadness for writing the feels 🫶
I’ll be on a panel for THE TASTE OF SADNESS: WRITING EMOTIONAL DYSREGULATION 🥀🥺🌊🍂
Come by to discover what makes people cry and all the ways we embody sadness for writing the feels 🫶
CanCon prep
October 18, 2025 at 2:24 PM
CanCon prep
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Submissions are OPEN for Year's Best Canadian Fantasy & Science Fiction: Volume Four (the best of 2025). Send me your SFF published in 2025, you crazy Canucks! Details on my site at the link below. DON'T SELF REJECT! You can't win if you don't play ;) Subs close Feb 28, 2026. Pls share WIDELY.
Year’s Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction | Stephen Kotowych
kotowych.com
October 8, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Submissions are OPEN for Year's Best Canadian Fantasy & Science Fiction: Volume Four (the best of 2025). Send me your SFF published in 2025, you crazy Canucks! Details on my site at the link below. DON'T SELF REJECT! You can't win if you don't play ;) Subs close Feb 28, 2026. Pls share WIDELY.
Sending and receiving panel questions for @canconsffh.bsky.social and let me tell you, these talks are going to be SO COOL 👀✨📝
October 15, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Sending and receiving panel questions for @canconsffh.bsky.social and let me tell you, these talks are going to be SO COOL 👀✨📝
October 12, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Excited to be admitted into @futurescapesww.bsky.social Long Manuscript Workshop to work with Editor, Dianna Vega on my romantic fantasy adventure FEATHERS BENEATH THE SKIN 🎉🪽
Can't wait to meet my cohort and dig into the novel I've been obsessing over this year ❤️
Can't wait to meet my cohort and dig into the novel I've been obsessing over this year ❤️
October 9, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Excited to be admitted into @futurescapesww.bsky.social Long Manuscript Workshop to work with Editor, Dianna Vega on my romantic fantasy adventure FEATHERS BENEATH THE SKIN 🎉🪽
Can't wait to meet my cohort and dig into the novel I've been obsessing over this year ❤️
Can't wait to meet my cohort and dig into the novel I've been obsessing over this year ❤️
With only a ⚔️disgraced knight🔥 to aid her quest, Mahalina battles:
☠️mythical monsters
🍃enchanted woods
🏴☠️pirate city
🎭corrupt courtiers
👑ruthless tyrant
🔪deadly trials
to reclaim her lost wings🪽and ascend to heaven
..but the real risk is trying not to fall in love⚔️🔥
#DVPit #A #F #R #Asian #LGBT
☠️mythical monsters
🍃enchanted woods
🏴☠️pirate city
🎭corrupt courtiers
👑ruthless tyrant
🔪deadly trials
to reclaim her lost wings🪽and ascend to heaven
..but the real risk is trying not to fall in love⚔️🔥
#DVPit #A #F #R #Asian #LGBT
October 8, 2025 at 11:58 PM
When Mariposa’s father disappears, he leaves her a prophecy
She must enter the perilous Wishing Wood to find him
In a world of
🕯️wishing curses
🎪enchanted markets
🕷️deadly riddles
⚔️impossible trials
💀false gods
nothing is certain and nothing is free
#DVPit #A #Novella #DF #H #Asian #LGBT
She must enter the perilous Wishing Wood to find him
In a world of
🕯️wishing curses
🎪enchanted markets
🕷️deadly riddles
⚔️impossible trials
💀false gods
nothing is certain and nothing is free
#DVPit #A #Novella #DF #H #Asian #LGBT
October 8, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Dutiful daughters do not enter the Wishing Wood🕯️
The Good and Gracious Gods condemn wishing above all❤️🔥
But when Mariposa’s father disappears he leaves her with a prophecy...
Enter the Wood🍂
Face the monsters ☠️
Follow the butterflies crawling up her throat🦋
#DVPit #A #Novella #DF #H #Asian #LGBT
The Good and Gracious Gods condemn wishing above all❤️🔥
But when Mariposa’s father disappears he leaves her with a prophecy...
Enter the Wood🍂
Face the monsters ☠️
Follow the butterflies crawling up her throat🦋
#DVPit #A #Novella #DF #H #Asian #LGBT
October 8, 2025 at 9:45 PM
The nerd in me has been absolutely buzzing at DVPit since I have 2 projects and have been posting almost every hour ⏰
I’m getting real time feedback on what imagery works, what pitch formats, and best of all the comparison between hours most active or inactive 😍
I’m getting real time feedback on what imagery works, what pitch formats, and best of all the comparison between hours most active or inactive 😍
October 8, 2025 at 9:04 PM
The nerd in me has been absolutely buzzing at DVPit since I have 2 projects and have been posting almost every hour ⏰
I’m getting real time feedback on what imagery works, what pitch formats, and best of all the comparison between hours most active or inactive 😍
I’m getting real time feedback on what imagery works, what pitch formats, and best of all the comparison between hours most active or inactive 😍
🌊THE RIVER HAS ROOTS x THE SUMMER WAR🍃
🕯️Dutiful daughters do not enter the Wishing Wood🍂🕷️
But when Mariposa’s father disappears, he leaves her a prophecy🖌️
She must enter the forest to find him, but will she be devoured by the false gods trapped within?🕷️
#DVPit #A #Novella #DF #H #Asian #LGBT
🕯️Dutiful daughters do not enter the Wishing Wood🍂🕷️
But when Mariposa’s father disappears, he leaves her a prophecy🖌️
She must enter the forest to find him, but will she be devoured by the false gods trapped within?🕷️
#DVPit #A #Novella #DF #H #Asian #LGBT
October 8, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Mahalina lost everything
her people slaughtered🪦
her home destroyed🔥
her wings gone🪽...or so she thought
A religious tyrant stole them👑
A ⚔️disgraced knight❤️🔥 knows how to get them back
☠️monsters🍃enchanted woods🎭evil courtiers🔪deadly trials...what could go wrong?
#DVPit #A #F #R #Asian #LGBT 🇵🇭
her people slaughtered🪦
her home destroyed🔥
her wings gone🪽...or so she thought
A religious tyrant stole them👑
A ⚔️disgraced knight❤️🔥 knows how to get them back
☠️monsters🍃enchanted woods🎭evil courtiers🔪deadly trials...what could go wrong?
#DVPit #A #F #R #Asian #LGBT 🇵🇭
October 8, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Do not enter the Wishing Wood🍂
The Good and Gracious Gods condemn wishing above all🕯️
But when Mariposa’s father disappears, he leaves her a prophecy🖌️
She must enter the dark forest to find him, but will she be devoured by false gods trapped within?🕷️
#DVPit #A #Novella #DF #H #Asian #LGBT
The Good and Gracious Gods condemn wishing above all🕯️
But when Mariposa’s father disappears, he leaves her a prophecy🖌️
She must enter the dark forest to find him, but will she be devoured by false gods trapped within?🕷️
#DVPit #A #Novella #DF #H #Asian #LGBT
October 8, 2025 at 6:45 PM
🗡️THE KNIGHT & THE MOTHxEVER AFTER💕
A sky maiden lost her wings
A religious tyrant stole them
A disgraced knight knows how to get them back…but it won’t be easy
☠️mythical monsters
🍃enchanted woods
☠️pirate city
🎭corrupt courtiers
☠️deadly trials
❤️🔥reluctant lovers
#DVPit #A #F #R #Asian #LGBT 🇵🇭
A sky maiden lost her wings
A religious tyrant stole them
A disgraced knight knows how to get them back…but it won’t be easy
☠️mythical monsters
🍃enchanted woods
☠️pirate city
🎭corrupt courtiers
☠️deadly trials
❤️🔥reluctant lovers
#DVPit #A #F #R #Asian #LGBT 🇵🇭
October 8, 2025 at 5:36 PM
The support from DVPit has been so 🥹❤️
Gotta love when the writing community shows UP🙌
All your projects are so amazing, I wish I could reply to them all but manifesting agent and editor engagement for all of you 🫶
Gotta love when the writing community shows UP🙌
All your projects are so amazing, I wish I could reply to them all but manifesting agent and editor engagement for all of you 🫶
October 8, 2025 at 5:22 PM
The support from DVPit has been so 🥹❤️
Gotta love when the writing community shows UP🙌
All your projects are so amazing, I wish I could reply to them all but manifesting agent and editor engagement for all of you 🫶
Gotta love when the writing community shows UP🙌
All your projects are so amazing, I wish I could reply to them all but manifesting agent and editor engagement for all of you 🫶
Mariposa knows only false and fallen gods await in the Wishing Wood🕷️
But when her father disappears, he leaves her with a prophecy🖌️
She must enter the forest to find him🍂
Can she survive the wood's tests or will she be devoured by the monsters within?💀
#DVPit #A #Novella #DF #H #Asian #LGBT
But when her father disappears, he leaves her with a prophecy🖌️
She must enter the forest to find him🍂
Can she survive the wood's tests or will she be devoured by the monsters within?💀
#DVPit #A #Novella #DF #H #Asian #LGBT
October 8, 2025 at 4:37 PM