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Madelyn is ✨Editing✨🌈
@madelynknecht.bsky.social
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Fiction editor
Writer (Rep: Danai Christopoulou & Ann Rose @ The Tobias Literary Agency)
RevPit Board Member
Literary Assistant at @StormLiterary
& lover of all things spooky and queer.
She/they
https://madheditorial.com
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💖ANNOUNCEMENT💖

So excited to share that I'm now represented by Danai Christopoulou and Ann Rose at
@TheTobiasAgency
!!

I'm so excited to share my queer, speculative, macabre stories with editors 💖
Blonde girl in strawberry dress and apron holding hands with brunette girl in all black, standing in front of a storefront. Text reads Hearts to Mend
October 28, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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Winona mends hearts for a living while trying to protect her own. But when a rich angry client burns down her clinic & threatens her independence, she must pair up with a (literally) heartless girl to catch him. And try not to fall in love in the process... #YA #CF #F
#PosterPit
Art by xylavie shows a blonde girl in a strawberry dress and white apron holding hands with a brunette girl in all black. They stand in front of a storefront with white letters reading HEARTS TO MEND. Text reads Sapphic pining, heart mending, oddball cast, found family, YA romance with magic. "There's nothing more dangerous than falling for someone without a heart..."
August 16, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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From the creators of ARCANE x FMA x CRIERS WAR

🦾metal-based magic system
👨‍❤️‍💋‍👨queer romance
😱anxiety rep
💀anti-colonialism
🤖the dangers of propaganda

#PosterPit #YA #LGBT #SF #SFF
Movie poster of black, red, and gold featuring a blonde boy and a brunette boy, and women with metal in their bones. Text reads THIS METAL WAR. When an anxious mechanic named Circuit is recruited into the war between science and magic, he uncovers the truth about the war and his own abilities that puts him at risk of execution by the hands of the very army that conscripted him. To survive, he makes a pact: help the volatile and frustratingly handsome bot Asher get revenge on his creator. Don't fall for their lies. T for Teens. Beware propaganda.
August 16, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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ARCANE x FMA x CRIERS WAR

🦾metal-based magic system
👨‍❤️‍💋‍👨queer romance
😱anxiety rep
💀anti-colonialism
🤖the dangers of propaganda

#queerpit #YA
An Agent’s Guide to This Metal War - YA Science Fantasy LGBTQ+ The pitch: When an anxious mechanic named Circuit is recruited into the war between science and magic, he uncovers the truth about the war and his own abilities that puts him at risk of execution by the hands of the very army that conscripted him. To survive, he makes a pact: help the volatile and frustratingly handsome bot Asher get revenge on his creator. For fans of Crier’s War, Fullmetal Alchemist, Gear Breakers, Iron Widow, Cinder, anxiety rep, queer romance, boy/girl friendship, challenging the government, bi rep, reluctant allies to friends to ????, m/m pining Image of two boys almost kissing
August 15, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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Winona mends hearts for a living while trying to protect her own.

But when a rich angry client burns down her clinic & threatens her hard-won independence, she must pair up with a (literally) heartless girl to catch him.

And try not to fall in love in the process...
#queerpit #YA #LGBT #CF #F
Pink image with hearts with art in the center of two girls holding hands. Text reads HEARTS TO MEND: YA sapphic contemporary fantasy. Sapphic romance, found family, unique magic system, slow burn, grumpy x sunshine, equal angst and humor, teaching the LI to be human. Pink image with hearts and the three book covers for Spellbound by F.T. Lukens, Hearts Still Beating by Brooke Archer, and This Delicious Death by Kayla Cottingham. Text reads: For fans of humor and heart, grumpy x sunshine, complicated families, finding your place in a new world, mild/light gore, morally gray girlhood.
August 15, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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When hardened state orphan Gwen enters a prestigious sculpting academy to escape poverty, she's thrust into a world of rich elite where beauty is coveted more than life & dark history bleeds from the school's walls. A history that promises a fate worse than death if she fails.

#questpit #A #S #H #W
Image with a dark academia aesthetic and list of tropes: sculpting terminology and history, rivals to allies to ???, morally gray cast, queer slow burn, inspired by 1950s Prague, dark academia, art as a form of coping with trauma
August 6, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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In a world where beauty is more coveted than life, state orphan Gwen's only chance to escape the ghosts of her past lies in a prestigious sculpting academy. But only if she doesn't lose her sanity to untrustworthy allies, violence, or the twisted truth of the school itself.

#questpit #A #S #H #W
Image with a dark academia aesthetic and list of tropes: sculpting terminology and history, rivals to allies to ???, morally gray cast, queer slow burn, inspired by 1950s Prague, dark academia, art as a form of coping with trauma Snippet: Gwen’s hands eventually stopped. Clay clung to her fingers, painting her hands beige. She used the back of one to wipe her brow and finally breathed. Her lungs burned and spots popped in her vision. Outside the tall stained window, the world was dark, and gas lamps had been lit. A candle waxed on the side table, the tea long since gone cold. How long had it been? A door opened and footsteps clipped across the marble floor. Gwen found her legs too weak to move, protesting when she tried to stand. Her head swiveled toward the newcomer and Madam [redacted] appeared, assisted by a butler carrying a candlestick. Her lips parted as if to speak, but then her gaze swept to the sculptor’s table. Madam [Redacted]’s easy demeanor at once turned rigid, her expression dropping and morphing into sheer terror. A gargled noise left her lips. She screamed.
August 6, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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Saturday? Nah, just another work day 💃📸
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August 2, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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My fantastic

Two hxh posts in one day? More likely than you’d think 🤭
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July 21, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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my roommate put this picture of my cat up on my bathroom door

even when I’m alone, I’m not alone 😂😭
Picture of cat peeking over covers saying “were you trying to use the bathroom…. alone?”
July 14, 2025 at 3:10 AM
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#ClayWip 👀
July 12, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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UPDATE 😍 So incredibly excited to be working with the amazing people at @stormliterary.bsky.social!!!
Screenshot of Storm Literary Agency About page with Madelyn Knecht, Agency Assistant and picture of young woman with glasses standing in front of a white bookcase. Text reads: Madelyn Knecht, Agency Assistant Madelyn is an editor, writer, and passionate reader from Texas whose hair changes color on a weekly basis. After falling in love with reading in school, she started writing her first book at nine and never looked back. She loves queer stories with dark twists and rich worlds, especially in fantasy and light science fiction. Her favorites include Middle Grade and Young Adult fantasy with fantastic characters you can't help but love. Some of her favorite authors include Jonathan Stroud, F.T. Lukens, V.E. Schwab, Liselle Sambury, Freya Marske, and Melissa Caruso. Her favorite books include the Bartimaeus Trilogy by Jonathan Stroud, A Marvellous Light by Freya Marske, The Last Hour Between Worlds by Melissa Caruso, The Penderwicks by Jeanne Birdsall, and the Artemis Fowl series by Eoin Colfer. When not reading, editing, or writing, she's spending time with her two criminal Australian Shepherds and her lovable cat Lucas. Madelyn is not open to submissions.
June 25, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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I love my clients 💖 Booking for mid-July + August! DM me or check out madheditorial.com
Blue image with an icon of a girl with half pink, half blue hair. Text reads: "[Madelyn's] advice was both compassionate and insightful. She was able to pinpoint the issues with my story that I was having trouble nailing down, and her advice made my writing so much stronger. I had a great experience working with Madelyn and would recommend her in a heartbeat to anyone looking for editorial services." -Daniella Nowgaonkar. https://madheditorial.com
June 25, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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“With our hands, they forced us to craft our own ruin. Our very own clay cages.”

Adult dark academia WIP is coming along 💖

#wip #amwriting #writersky #writersofbluesky
Aesthetic featuring a girl with short brown hair and sculptures, a man with a booody white t-shirt, a girl hiding behind a mask, and Latin saying “conquer or die”
June 16, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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What even IS a manuscript evaluation? 🤔 #amwriting #writingcommunity #writersky
www.madheditorial.com/blog/what-is...
Pink background with picture of woman with half pink, half blue hair with an arrow pointing her as a literary assistant + fiction editor. Text reads: What is a manuscript evaluation? A manuscript evaluation tackles all of the big pain areas of your book. This includes... Plot, Character development, dialogue, worldbuilding, voice. What you get: A multi-page edit letter filled with motivational and actionable feedback specific to your novel. *Does not include line comments featured in a developmental edit. Email madelyn@madheditorial.com for a quote!
June 10, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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Thinking about the book of my heart today 💖

ARCANE x MISTBORN x CRIERS WAR
🦾metal-based magic system
👨‍❤️‍💋‍👨queer romance
💀anti-colonialism
🤖the dangers of propaganda

#agentguide #agentsguide #amwriting
Marbled image with gold text: An Agent's Guide to THIS METAL WAR. YA Science Fantasy LGBTQ+ Marbled image with gold text: The Pitch: When an anxious mechanic named Circuit is recruited into the war between science and magic, he uncovers the truth about the war and his own abilities that puts him at risk of execution by the hands of the very army that conscripted him. To survive, he makes a pact: help the volatile and frustratingly handsome bot, Asher, get revenge on his creator. Marbled image with pictures of covers. Crier's War, Fullmetal Alchemist, Gearbreakers, Iron Widow, Cinder. m/m pining, anxiety rep, queer romance, boy/girl friendship, challenging the government, bi rep, reluctant allies to friends to ??? Art of two boys almost kissing. One boy has brown hair and the other has blonde
May 16, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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A little more insight into what a dev edit does and why it's so useful for authors! #bookeditor #writersofbluesky #RevPit
Literary intern + fiction editor. What is a developmental edit? A developmental edit tackles all of the big pain areas of your books. This includes plot, character development, dialogue, worldbuilding, voice. What you get: an edit letter filled with motivational and actionable feedback along with comments throughout the manuscript. madheditorial.com Motivational feedback / plan of action
April 15, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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I'm so, SO excited to work on this MG fantasy with colorful, in-depth characters and lush worldbuilding. The first pages drew me in and refused to let go.

Can't wait to make more magic! @lauraefron.bsky.social
2025 Annual Contest Winner Announcement. Madelyn Knecht will be working with Laura Efron author of The Fifth Dimension of Magic. Congratulations to all our winners and runners-up!
April 14, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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It's time! Kicking off my #AskEditor session with some pie of my own 😋

I'm a freelance editor, literary intern, and big nerd, so drop me your q's below! #RevPit #writingcommunity
Age category pie chart. 48% Adult, 32% YA, 20% Middle Grade Genres pie chart. 74% fantasy, 13% scifi, 6% horror, 5% mystery, 1% romance, 1% historical
March 17, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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Bonus: Lucas “helping” me

#RevPit #RevPets
March 12, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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My babies 💖

#RevPit #RevPets
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March 12, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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Thinking about my #ConstellationsWip today 👁️💖

Hopefully I’ll get to start drafting soon 🙏🏻 #amwriting #writersky #writersofbluesky
Aesthetic. White hand clawing snow, a book of moon phases, blue walls and archways painted with gold stars and constellations, a milky blue eye, a black background with stars and letters saying IT WAS WRITTEN IN THE STARS, a faceless boy pulling his shirt open to reveal white skin crawling with black veins, a boy turned away with a black bun, snow capped mountains, a white haired boy covering his face
March 8, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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Picked up these two beauties yesterday 😍 more queer horror to add to the library 💖🌈 #booksky
Image of What Moves the Dead by T Kingfisher in front of a white bookcase Image of A Botanical Daughter by Noah Medlock in front of a white bookcase
March 6, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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Reading The Last Dragon on Mars and loving it. It's so voicey and fast-paced!
Image of the cover of The Last Dragon on Mars (The Dragonships Series) by Scott Reintgen.
March 5, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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It’s time! @reviseresub.bsky.social

Kicking off my #MeettheEditor session with a picture of my beloved criminal stuck in a mess of his own making

(if you have a character like this, give them to me 🥰)
Cute mini Aussie stuck in broken blinds
March 3, 2025 at 4:15 PM