Erin Clyburn
@erinclyburn.bsky.social
Literary Agent @ Howland Literary // Editor @ Reedsy // Bookseller @ Thank You Books
I am simply over the moon about WOODFEAST! 🔥🐇🌱
WOODFEAST, book two in my dirty duology is coming Fall of 2026 with Creature Horror!
I couldn’t be more excited. Special thanks to @erinclyburn.bsky.social
I couldn’t be more excited. Special thanks to @erinclyburn.bsky.social
April 8, 2024 at 9:37 PM
I am simply over the moon about WOODFEAST! 🔥🐇🌱
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I'm so proud to have co-founded Authors Against Book Bans, the strictly single-issue author army to be deployed to fight for the freedom to read nationwide!
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February 26, 2024 at 8:01 PM
I'm so proud to have co-founded Authors Against Book Bans, the strictly single-issue author army to be deployed to fight for the freedom to read nationwide!
Are you traditionally or indie pub'd? Do you have a book forthcoming? JOIN US! sign up here:
docs.google.com/forms/d/1F1G...
Are you traditionally or indie pub'd? Do you have a book forthcoming? JOIN US! sign up here:
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“When children love your book, it’s ‘I love your book, thank you, I want to marry you when I grow up,’” Sendak said in a talk that was printed in the Book Review in 1987. “Or it’s ‘Dear Mr. Sendak: I hate your book. Hope you die soon. Cordially.’” gift link www.nytimes.com/2024/02/01/b...
How Maurice Sendak Lived With His Own Wild Things
For decades, the author of “In the Night Kitchen” and “The Nutshell Library” fortified himself with art and words.
www.nytimes.com
February 1, 2024 at 5:03 PM
“When children love your book, it’s ‘I love your book, thank you, I want to marry you when I grow up,’” Sendak said in a talk that was printed in the Book Review in 1987. “Or it’s ‘Dear Mr. Sendak: I hate your book. Hope you die soon. Cordially.’” gift link www.nytimes.com/2024/02/01/b...
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Editors are being laid off. Positions are barely opening. Creators are losing their advocates and champions in house but sure, let’s have the largest publisher’s CEO say he wants to implement AI
January 31, 2024 at 4:36 AM
Editors are being laid off. Positions are barely opening. Creators are losing their advocates and champions in house but sure, let’s have the largest publisher’s CEO say he wants to implement AI
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Just passed a headshop called World of Smoke and Vape. Whose fantasy novel is this?
January 20, 2024 at 11:45 PM
Just passed a headshop called World of Smoke and Vape. Whose fantasy novel is this?
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Taking a deep breath & getting ready to dive into 2024: At long last, I'll be reopening to queries on Monday, 1/8! Check out my wishlist here, & visit our website (howlandliterary.com) for the text version of this MSWL & my QueryManager link. Can't wait to see your work. ✨
January 3, 2024 at 4:35 PM
Taking a deep breath & getting ready to dive into 2024: At long last, I'll be reopening to queries on Monday, 1/8! Check out my wishlist here, & visit our website (howlandliterary.com) for the text version of this MSWL & my QueryManager link. Can't wait to see your work. ✨
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Dark fantasy about a vampire knight who wanders through a reborn world that is overflowing with life inside the corpses it left behind. A legend of painful self-examination, blood bags who bare their souls, and a desperate hunger for a purpose.
Sometimes a journey is a man and his coffin.
Sometimes a journey is a man and his coffin.
TELL BLUESKY MORE ABOUT YOUR BOOK PLEASE!
Me too. (It doesn't help that my book goes into the 1950s drought and why so few noticed it.)
December 31, 2023 at 6:27 AM
Dark fantasy about a vampire knight who wanders through a reborn world that is overflowing with life inside the corpses it left behind. A legend of painful self-examination, blood bags who bare their souls, and a desperate hunger for a purpose.
Sometimes a journey is a man and his coffin.
Sometimes a journey is a man and his coffin.
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A new study found that one out of every four land animals raised for food in 2019 wound up in the trash. That’s 18 billion animals total, or 2.4 for every human on earth. It’s incredibly bad in the US where it’s 7.1 animals wasted per person. www.vox.com/future-perfe...
We raise 18 billion animals a year to die — and then we don’t even eat them
From farm to plate, one in four animals raised on factory farms are wasted.
www.vox.com
December 12, 2023 at 5:42 PM
A new study found that one out of every four land animals raised for food in 2019 wound up in the trash. That’s 18 billion animals total, or 2.4 for every human on earth. It’s incredibly bad in the US where it’s 7.1 animals wasted per person. www.vox.com/future-perfe...
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I just got an email from my library that they are offering free music lessons in their app and I am just convinced that libraries are actually SECRETLY COLLEGES
December 7, 2023 at 8:12 PM
I just got an email from my library that they are offering free music lessons in their app and I am just convinced that libraries are actually SECRETLY COLLEGES
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Plant a garden. Give a gofundme $5. Offer to rake neighbor's leaves. Foster a dog. I felt better when I focused on things I could control. They are small things, but they have agency. I put $10 in gas in someone's tank the other day who asked for help. Small acts mean a lot to folks who recieve them
December 4, 2023 at 5:53 PM
Plant a garden. Give a gofundme $5. Offer to rake neighbor's leaves. Foster a dog. I felt better when I focused on things I could control. They are small things, but they have agency. I put $10 in gas in someone's tank the other day who asked for help. Small acts mean a lot to folks who recieve them
Thrilled to announce this deal! Meg's artistic voice is unlike anything I've ever seen, & I'm over the moon that NECROLOGY has found a home with Creature, whose books I've admired for a good while! Amanda truly Gets It. This unsettling, wild, beautiful folk horror is headed your way next fall! ✨
December 1, 2023 at 3:36 PM
Thrilled to announce this deal! Meg's artistic voice is unlike anything I've ever seen, & I'm over the moon that NECROLOGY has found a home with Creature, whose books I've admired for a good while! Amanda truly Gets It. This unsettling, wild, beautiful folk horror is headed your way next fall! ✨
I get to announce a book soon that's one of the best things I've ever read. When agenting is good, it's very good. 😌
November 30, 2023 at 7:00 PM
I get to announce a book soon that's one of the best things I've ever read. When agenting is good, it's very good. 😌
In the winter a young woman's fancy lightly turns to nonstop Taskmaster reruns until daylight saving time.
November 29, 2023 at 10:08 PM
In the winter a young woman's fancy lightly turns to nonstop Taskmaster reruns until daylight saving time.
Gotta be honest, this is my whole agent M.O. as well. 😅 I'm so here for the weirds, the mold-breakers, the unsellables.
My Industry Brain: Let’s pay attention to the markets, analyze the trends, listen to my editor and agent friends about what’s working and what isn’t.
My Author Brain:
My Author Brain:
November 28, 2023 at 4:49 PM
Gotta be honest, this is my whole agent M.O. as well. 😅 I'm so here for the weirds, the mold-breakers, the unsellables.
Long thread incoming for Giving Tuesday! Some news to share for anyone in the #amquerying #amwriting #WritingCommunity camp who might be looking for some editorial help on their manuscripts/queries/synopses between now and spring 2024:
November 28, 2023 at 3:24 PM
Long thread incoming for Giving Tuesday! Some news to share for anyone in the #amquerying #amwriting #WritingCommunity camp who might be looking for some editorial help on their manuscripts/queries/synopses between now and spring 2024:
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I think we’ve learned an important lesson today, which is: If you ever run a media company, do not ever create a situation where your poetry editor might have cause to write a resignation letter, because it will scorch you from the face of the earth.
Anne Boyer has resigned as the poetry editor of the New York Times magazine: “Because our status quo is self-expression, sometimes all artists have left is to refuse. So I refuse.”
November 16, 2023 at 5:14 PM
I think we’ve learned an important lesson today, which is: If you ever run a media company, do not ever create a situation where your poetry editor might have cause to write a resignation letter, because it will scorch you from the face of the earth.
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This news fills me with an inexpressible inchoate rage.
Ban private equity.
Ban private equity.
G/O Media is shutting down Jezebel as layoffs hit company
G/O Media Shuts Down Jezebel as Layoffs Hit Company
The media company has faced months of turmoil.
www.thedailybeast.com
November 9, 2023 at 6:11 PM
This news fills me with an inexpressible inchoate rage.
Ban private equity.
Ban private equity.
This week while working on client manuscripts I have gone down rabbit holes researching funnel-web spider bites, pigment-making in the 1400s, & the lost paintings of Hieronymus Bosch. I love that this counts as work. 🤓
November 8, 2023 at 5:44 PM
This week while working on client manuscripts I have gone down rabbit holes researching funnel-web spider bites, pigment-making in the 1400s, & the lost paintings of Hieronymus Bosch. I love that this counts as work. 🤓
I’m ecstatic to announce that I’m representing Anca Szilágyi’s incredible work. I was in from the moment I read in her pitch, “the life and legacy of Netherlandish painter Jheronimus Bosch—& the immortal witch who hates his guts.”
November 2, 2023 at 5:19 PM
I’m ecstatic to announce that I’m representing Anca Szilágyi’s incredible work. I was in from the moment I read in her pitch, “the life and legacy of Netherlandish painter Jheronimus Bosch—& the immortal witch who hates his guts.”
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OMG SCHOLASTIC STRIKE
Scholastic workers walk out to protest glaring hypocrisy by the children’s publishing powerhouse |...
newsguild.org
November 1, 2023 at 3:23 PM
OMG SCHOLASTIC STRIKE
Maybe it's because I live in the South & these events almost always take place at churches, but something about trunk-or-treats just feels so insidious to me.
October 31, 2023 at 3:13 PM
Maybe it's because I live in the South & these events almost always take place at churches, but something about trunk-or-treats just feels so insidious to me.
I have never felt more like the neighborhood witch as I did just now coming home from the store with a big bag of candy & mousetraps.
October 30, 2023 at 9:53 PM
I have never felt more like the neighborhood witch as I did just now coming home from the store with a big bag of candy & mousetraps.
When I reopen to queries (I’m still not sure when that will be - I’m sorry! Hopefully soon!), I’d love to see more nonfiction at the intersection of food & culture in the vein of SMOTHERED & COVERED: WAFFLE HOUSE & THE SOUTHERN IMAGINARY. #mswl
October 27, 2023 at 8:20 PM
When I reopen to queries (I’m still not sure when that will be - I’m sorry! Hopefully soon!), I’d love to see more nonfiction at the intersection of food & culture in the vein of SMOTHERED & COVERED: WAFFLE HOUSE & THE SOUTHERN IMAGINARY. #mswl