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Madeline "Maddog" White
@lightinthegrimdark.bsky.social
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My stories and my politics both scare my mom. Free Palestine.

https://madelinewhiteauthor.my.canva.site/madeline-white-author
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Good girls don't take dangerous investigations into their own hands, but Liv's used to being a disappointment.

Art by @smallbentosakura.bsky.social

#TheEnd #amquerying #dystopiansuspense
October 20, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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I've got a gangster body horror short coming up in the brand new pub SLUGGER!
October 20, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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Unfortunately this scene from my dystopian book is entirely based on the reality of the dish return at my college :(

#amquerying
September 19, 2025 at 4:15 AM
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My bestie got an agent, and one of my favorite books ever is one step closer to being in the world!!!!!
gwenvines.writes.fyi Gwend💫lyn Vines @gwenvines.writes.fyi · Jul 17
So excited to announce that I am now represented by @katieblagden.bsky.social at The Ampersand Agency!

I couldn't ask for a better partner in getting my STEM postgrad science fantasy, SEE IN ME THE WOLF, out into the world, & I can't wait to share our future SFFH projects with y'all!
Greenscale photograph of a Gothic college campus through a 9 pane window, the bottom right of which is shattered. Overlaid atop it is a circular image of the author, smiling, and the text "GWENDOLYN VINES (AND THE JIMBOOK)" above it, and "NOW REPRESENTED BY KATIE BLAGDEN AT THE AMPERSAND AGENCY" below it.
July 17, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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Don't worry "Smart Bitches, Trashy Books" - I am.
June 27, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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"Prey animal rage" and "predator animal fear"? That's just the two POVs in #TheScourge
June 16, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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Me: Why is this playlist so sad?

Also Me: Oh wait this is my Dead Deer Playlist

#ASOFTPLACETOLAND #amquerying
June 12, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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Watching in real time as people seriously propose your dystopia as a solution 👀👀👀👀

#THE_END - adult gritty dystopia coming to the query trenches soon!

#author #dystopia #amquerying
June 11, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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Got my first pro pay for a short! Check out my story "The Seal Wife" in this issue of Flash Fiction Online!

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Flash Fiction Online June 2025
Flash Fiction Online’s June 2025 issue takes a holistic view of habits and cycles we try to break ourselves out of. Stories this month include: “This Island Toward Which I Row and Row, Yet Ca…
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June 2, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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MY BESTIE AND ONE OF MY FAVORITE BOOKS
gwenvines.writes.fyi Gwend💫lyn Vines @gwenvines.writes.fyi · May 22
Can anyone find the VAGUE 👀 Jimbook reference in my mom's latest drawing?
Typenik, 30" x 22," graphite and mixed media on watercolor paper, art by donnagregoryart on Instagram. Graphite drawing of a deconstructed typewriter.
May 23, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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Love is love, sure, but confusing hatelovefucking is also confusing hatelovefucking and we should honor that in all orientations 😇 #TheScourge #WIP
May 23, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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To say I'm absolutely wrecked by Andor (and the following rewatch of Rogue One) would be a woeful understatement.
May 20, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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Do you love toxic mlm relationships where the energy is Chokehold by Sleep Token? If so, Scourge is the book for you.

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Chokehold
Sleep Token · Vore · Song · 2023
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May 15, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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My story “The Day They Shot Khalil Rucker” is in an antifa lit journal, and they’re giving copies to folks who back the kickstarter for a volume 2! Help support people using art to push back on the rise of fascism by backing here:
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Antifa Lit Journal: Volume 2
Help authors and poets use their writing to fight fascism!
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May 10, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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When this is the dynamic between the two characters in your book except they're both POV characters and which is which depends on who you ask (both are liars)

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hunter
Paris Paloma · Cacophony · Song · 2024
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May 9, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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By this metric I am very successful.
May 9, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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I keep telling myself I'll cultivate a very demure, very mindful author profile on here sometime, but let's be real, I won't. So I'm gonna start contextless goblinposting about my books now. Here's a song that manages to feel like both Soft Place & Splinter (a feat)

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Blood Upon the Snow
Hozier, Bear McCreary · God of War Ragnarök (Original Soundtrack) · Song · 2022
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May 9, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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Hey #literaryagents - are you looking for cozy fantasy that doesn't leave out pain? Ask me about A SOFT PLACE TO LAND. #amquerying

www.typebarmagazine.com/2025/02/23/l...
Legends, Lattes, and Lament: The Necessity of Pain in "Cozy" Fiction - Typebar Magazine
Cozy fiction works best when contrasted against harsh emotional, material, or political realities.
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April 26, 2025 at 3:08 AM
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Y'all I'm officially IN THE TRENCHES
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January 27, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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I've been trying to learn how to paint/draw people (either digitally or on paper). It's humbling, as I've been doing fiber art pretty exclusively these past few years and I'm actually *good* at that, but it's still fun. Here's Brigid, the MC from the book I'm querying, A SOFT PLACE TO LAND
January 24, 2025 at 4:31 AM
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Lesbian longing? ✅
Beautiful forest? ✅
Cheerful animal companions? ✅
Trapped for eternity as the sole human in a gentle but lonely afterlife, where the only way out is to find true internal peace? ✅ - Wait... What?

A SOFT PLACE TO LAND (or is it?)

#P2Ppit #Q #A #F #U
A dark tangle of forest starkly black against a pale orange and pink sunset (Photo by me)
January 17, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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Is that a *talking deer*?

In this afterlife, anything is possible. Except purpose. Or progress. Or other people.

In order to escape her pleasant purgatory, Brigid must make peace with her life (and death)

But how can she, with so many regrets?

#P2Ppit #Q #A #F #U
A cute, sketch-style drawing of a deer with giant ears, on a bright green background
January 17, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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Bury your gays is over - it’s time to bring them back to life.

The grim twist on fairytale nostalgia of How To Be Eaten + woodsy women’s magic of Weyward

Cozy + high stakes & real depth

Unapologetically queer (own voice)

A SOFT PLACE TO LAND

#P2Ppit #Q #A #F #U
Moodboard featuring browns and greens, pictures of the woods, a mouse, two deer, a coyote, and a few witchy images of a woman
January 17, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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One of my favorite books of all time y'all
gwenvines.writes.fyi Gwend💫lyn Vines @gwenvines.writes.fyi · Jan 17
DON'T LET THE FOREST IN x ARCANE

Jim's graduate research was meant to bring salvation to rural regions like his own. Healing, with a simple telepathic command. Growth. But not all growth is good for the body—or soul.

Lucky for Jim, botanist Bash is *excellent* at pruning.
#P2Ppit #Q #A #SF #F
Moodboard featuring images of chemistry glassware; equations on a chalkboard; anatomical, botanical and medical diagrams; dark, lush foliage, and stars streaking through a night sky with long exposure astrophotography.
January 17, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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Coming to the trenches this month! Here is my agent guide to my "cozy grimdark" adult fantasy A SOFT PLACE TO LAND

Complete at 80k words

#amquerying #agentguide #authorcommunity
A green panel with a deer, a spiderweb, plants, and an apple, with the text "An agent's guide to A SOFT PLACE TO LAND by Madeline White" Pitch page For fans of: Books - Weyward by Emily Hart, How to Be Eaten by Maria Adelmann, and All the Crooked Saints by Maggie Steifater Songs - Cry, "Wolf" by molly ofgeography, village song by Paris Paloma, marjorie by Taylor Swift, ROADS UNTRAVELLED by Linkin Park, White Winter Hymnal by Fleet Foxes, and Keep You Safe by The Crane Wives Other - The art of August Friedrich Schenck, spiced hot chocolate, the smell of decay that permeates the woods in autumn Themes - Lesbian love, queerness in rural Appalachia, belonging and becoming, finding your courage Excerpt page
January 14, 2025 at 2:23 PM