Paula Weiman
@tinyfairyhunter.bsky.social
Literary agent. Ice cream snob. I bake a lot of bread.
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I don't accept queries over bluesky. Please follow the submission guidelines at https://ashliterary.com/#submissions and send any questions about your query to submissions@ashliterary.com
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I don't accept queries over bluesky. Please follow the submission guidelines at https://ashliterary.com/#submissions and send any questions about your query to submissions@ashliterary.com
I'm running a free, virtual event with the Orange County Library System in about half an hour to talk about taking your book on sub! My goal is to put writers' anxieties to rest and demystify one of the most nerve-wracking stages in the publication journey. attend.ocls.org/event/14071355
Going on Sub as a Writer
Literary agent Paula Weiman will discuss many of the different ways you can be "on sub(mission)" as a writer, including querying, with domestic publishers, subrights, and international submissions.
attend.ocls.org
November 10, 2025 at 11:35 PM
I'm running a free, virtual event with the Orange County Library System in about half an hour to talk about taking your book on sub! My goal is to put writers' anxieties to rest and demystify one of the most nerve-wracking stages in the publication journey. attend.ocls.org/event/14071355
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Sometimes I wonder if our many years of jokes about writers hating writing and doing anything but writing, etc, have convinced people that the writing part is the hurdle and the goal is just to have a thing in hand. But I am here to tell you: the writing is the best part. The act is the thing.
November 9, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Sometimes I wonder if our many years of jokes about writers hating writing and doing anything but writing, etc, have convinced people that the writing part is the hurdle and the goal is just to have a thing in hand. But I am here to tell you: the writing is the best part. The act is the thing.
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qrp for everyone's knowledge!
small edits regarding a specific scene are totally ok i think -- it means the sample you sent is still valid
editing the beginning: that's the sample!! I'd withdraw and requery bc the package fundamentally changed and that's what their full req was/will be based on
small edits regarding a specific scene are totally ok i think -- it means the sample you sent is still valid
editing the beginning: that's the sample!! I'd withdraw and requery bc the package fundamentally changed and that's what their full req was/will be based on
...and possibly lead to a rejection or turning down a second look. Obviously if I was wrong about this and I should have done it the other way around, it's really good to know for the future.
November 4, 2025 at 4:06 AM
qrp for everyone's knowledge!
small edits regarding a specific scene are totally ok i think -- it means the sample you sent is still valid
editing the beginning: that's the sample!! I'd withdraw and requery bc the package fundamentally changed and that's what their full req was/will be based on
small edits regarding a specific scene are totally ok i think -- it means the sample you sent is still valid
editing the beginning: that's the sample!! I'd withdraw and requery bc the package fundamentally changed and that's what their full req was/will be based on
I really admired the work Teen Vogue was publishing in recent years. It was incisive, forward-thinking, clear and direct reporting on issues teens cared about, written with the intention to help youth become aware of current events that affect them and stay engaged with those issues.
November 4, 2025 at 1:33 PM
I really admired the work Teen Vogue was publishing in recent years. It was incisive, forward-thinking, clear and direct reporting on issues teens cared about, written with the intention to help youth become aware of current events that affect them and stay engaged with those issues.
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🚨 WNDB is committed to providing emergency grants to diverse authors & illustrators, publishing professionals, and educators experiencing dire financial need due to loss of SNAP benefits. We are now open for a new round of emergency grants, between $250 and $1,000 each.
💻 bit.ly/WNDB-emergency
💻 bit.ly/WNDB-emergency
November 3, 2025 at 3:30 PM
🚨 WNDB is committed to providing emergency grants to diverse authors & illustrators, publishing professionals, and educators experiencing dire financial need due to loss of SNAP benefits. We are now open for a new round of emergency grants, between $250 and $1,000 each.
💻 bit.ly/WNDB-emergency
💻 bit.ly/WNDB-emergency
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We are delighted to share that Sophie Cameron has been nominated for the 2026 Carnegie Medal for Writing with her fantastical novel about imagination and friendship, A Flash of Neon! 🎉
Congratulations @sophiecameron.bsky.social!
#Carnegies2026 @carnegiemedals.bsky.social
Congratulations @sophiecameron.bsky.social!
#Carnegies2026 @carnegiemedals.bsky.social
November 3, 2025 at 9:31 AM
We are delighted to share that Sophie Cameron has been nominated for the 2026 Carnegie Medal for Writing with her fantastical novel about imagination and friendship, A Flash of Neon! 🎉
Congratulations @sophiecameron.bsky.social!
#Carnegies2026 @carnegiemedals.bsky.social
Congratulations @sophiecameron.bsky.social!
#Carnegies2026 @carnegiemedals.bsky.social
If you're one of the editors thinking this and you haven't gotten an email from me this week... let's talk swashbuckling historical queer romance
My agent is @tinyfairyhunter.bsky.social so if you are an editor of an imprint thinking “I wish romantasy was queerer / more m/m and also had incredible, immersive worldbuilding that brought a medieval era viscerally to life” HAVE I GOT GOOD NEWS FOR YOU, also I have plans for 2 more similar books
October 30, 2025 at 4:44 PM
If you're one of the editors thinking this and you haven't gotten an email from me this week... let's talk swashbuckling historical queer romance
Thinking again today about Olympic gymnast Giorgia Villa and her Parmigiano Reggiano sponsorship www.diningandcooking.com/2132252/gior...
Giorgia Villa: Italy’s silver medal-winning Olympian and her relationship with cheese - Dining and Cooking
Giorgia Villa stood on the podium at the Bercy Arena and took a bite. Her taste buds picked out the cold, metallic success of Italy’s first silver medal in
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October 25, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Thinking again today about Olympic gymnast Giorgia Villa and her Parmigiano Reggiano sponsorship www.diningandcooking.com/2132252/gior...
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If I had a solid 3 months of free time I'd paint a modern Robin Hood and his merry band where they're all protesters in LA
Genuinely been thinking about it for months but I do NOT have the time for something that complex 😫😭😢
Genuinely been thinking about it for months but I do NOT have the time for something that complex 😫😭😢
I have been thinking for months that given the current *gestures at everything but especially the state of capitalism and government* I should be seeing WAY MORE ROBIN HOOD REMAKES !!
October 25, 2025 at 4:20 AM
If I had a solid 3 months of free time I'd paint a modern Robin Hood and his merry band where they're all protesters in LA
Genuinely been thinking about it for months but I do NOT have the time for something that complex 😫😭😢
Genuinely been thinking about it for months but I do NOT have the time for something that complex 😫😭😢
Gonna start citing this post when I tell someone that their YA novel set in 2012 is historical fiction for today's teens.
just realized that this means that she knows who Justin Bieber is but not only thought that he was dead she thought he died so long ago it was a different age
October 16, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Gonna start citing this post when I tell someone that their YA novel set in 2012 is historical fiction for today's teens.
The Netflix show Long Story Short has permanently altered my vocabulary. "Is a schnook not entitled?" "You laugh, but a schnook is entitled."
October 13, 2025 at 2:30 PM
The Netflix show Long Story Short has permanently altered my vocabulary. "Is a schnook not entitled?" "You laugh, but a schnook is entitled."
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I didn’t know what to say before, with Thyme Travellers winning just now. All I have to say is please continue to support Palestinians loudly and without apology.
So much love to you all!
So much love to you all!
The Ember Award for Unsung Contributions to Genre goes to @soniasulaiman.bsky.social
#2025IgnyteAwards
#2025IgnyteAwards
October 12, 2025 at 7:18 PM
I didn’t know what to say before, with Thyme Travellers winning just now. All I have to say is please continue to support Palestinians loudly and without apology.
So much love to you all!
So much love to you all!
I'll be participating in DVpit today! While I'm currently closed to unsolicited queries, I've opened a temporary link on QueryManager specifically for this pitch event. If I like your DVpit post, that's an invitation to query me: querytracker.net/query/paulaa...
Query Paula Weiman at ASH Literary
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October 8, 2025 at 12:00 PM
I'll be participating in DVpit today! While I'm currently closed to unsolicited queries, I've opened a temporary link on QueryManager specifically for this pitch event. If I like your DVpit post, that's an invitation to query me: querytracker.net/query/paulaa...
If you attended and heard me refer to the meter in The Cat in the Hat as trochaic tetrameter, I misspoke--that should have been anapestic tetrameter. Anapests are two unstressed syllables followed by one stressed syllable. Trochees are one stressed syllable followed by one unstressed syllable.
I'm leading a (free, online) craft talk on writing picture books tomorrow night through the Orange County Library System. Come listen to me climb on my soapbox about poetic scansion and common picture book pitfalls: attend.ocls.org/event/14071115
Writing Rhyming Picture Books that Sell
Literary agent Paula Weiman will discuss the craft of writing picture books, with a focus on considerations for rhyming picture books.
attend.ocls.org
October 8, 2025 at 1:13 AM
If you attended and heard me refer to the meter in The Cat in the Hat as trochaic tetrameter, I misspoke--that should have been anapestic tetrameter. Anapests are two unstressed syllables followed by one stressed syllable. Trochees are one stressed syllable followed by one unstressed syllable.
I'm leading a (free, online) craft talk on writing picture books tomorrow night through the Orange County Library System. Come listen to me climb on my soapbox about poetic scansion and common picture book pitfalls: attend.ocls.org/event/14071115
Writing Rhyming Picture Books that Sell
Literary agent Paula Weiman will discuss the craft of writing picture books, with a focus on considerations for rhyming picture books.
attend.ocls.org
October 7, 2025 at 2:25 AM
I'm leading a (free, online) craft talk on writing picture books tomorrow night through the Orange County Library System. Come listen to me climb on my soapbox about poetic scansion and common picture book pitfalls: attend.ocls.org/event/14071115
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#DVpit is 1 week away!
We're excited to have over 70+ Agents & Editors committed to participate & boost marginalized creators from dozens of literary agencies and publishing imprints!
For the next week we'll be having a #DVparty to get hyped up for the event!
more info: dvpit.carrd.co
#writersky
We're excited to have over 70+ Agents & Editors committed to participate & boost marginalized creators from dozens of literary agencies and publishing imprints!
For the next week we'll be having a #DVparty to get hyped up for the event!
more info: dvpit.carrd.co
#writersky
October 1, 2025 at 5:07 PM
#DVpit is 1 week away!
We're excited to have over 70+ Agents & Editors committed to participate & boost marginalized creators from dozens of literary agencies and publishing imprints!
For the next week we'll be having a #DVparty to get hyped up for the event!
more info: dvpit.carrd.co
#writersky
We're excited to have over 70+ Agents & Editors committed to participate & boost marginalized creators from dozens of literary agencies and publishing imprints!
For the next week we'll be having a #DVparty to get hyped up for the event!
more info: dvpit.carrd.co
#writersky
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As we are one day away from #PicantePit, here is the list of all the agents who will be participating across both X and 🦋☁️
Thank you to everyone who took the time to fill out our form!
Thank you to everyone who took the time to fill out our form!
September 29, 2025 at 8:44 PM
As we are one day away from #PicantePit, here is the list of all the agents who will be participating across both X and 🦋☁️
Thank you to everyone who took the time to fill out our form!
Thank you to everyone who took the time to fill out our form!
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Marching out into the deep woods and telling the first fae I see my whole and true name, I'm fuckin done here time to go
September 18, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Marching out into the deep woods and telling the first fae I see my whole and true name, I'm fuckin done here time to go
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The thing about being an artist is that sometimes you’ll have a really silly/cursed image enter your head and spend hours of your life drawing it. Hours you’ll never get back.
September 16, 2025 at 2:26 PM
The thing about being an artist is that sometimes you’ll have a really silly/cursed image enter your head and spend hours of your life drawing it. Hours you’ll never get back.
Reminder that I'll be closing to queries in two weeks! There are a lot of exciting projects already in my inbox that I'm looking forward to reviewing, but there's still time for #amquerying authors to send me a few more.
Non-comprehensive thread below of some concepts I'd really like to see. 🧵/
Non-comprehensive thread below of some concepts I'd really like to see. 🧵/
I've decided to close my query inbox at the end of September. I will likely reopen to unsolicited queries in spring of 2026. I'm excited to dig into the queries I've already received, and #amquerying authors, you have 6 more weeks to send me your work for consideration!
September 15, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Reminder that I'll be closing to queries in two weeks! There are a lot of exciting projects already in my inbox that I'm looking forward to reviewing, but there's still time for #amquerying authors to send me a few more.
Non-comprehensive thread below of some concepts I'd really like to see. 🧵/
Non-comprehensive thread below of some concepts I'd really like to see. 🧵/
I went rollerskating today and immediately fell SO hard (didn't even make it to the rink) that a parks employee rushed over and offered to replace my skate rentals with rollerblades.
So much respect for roller derby players, I don't know how they manage at speed while knocking each other over.
So much respect for roller derby players, I don't know how they manage at speed while knocking each other over.
September 14, 2025 at 11:36 PM
I went rollerskating today and immediately fell SO hard (didn't even make it to the rink) that a parks employee rushed over and offered to replace my skate rentals with rollerblades.
So much respect for roller derby players, I don't know how they manage at speed while knocking each other over.
So much respect for roller derby players, I don't know how they manage at speed while knocking each other over.
Some professional news: Very happy to share that I have signed with @tinyfairyhunter.bsky.social at @ashliterary.bsky.social! I’m super excited about their vision for my book and can’t wait to get to work.
ashliterary.com#maianolan
ashliterary.com#maianolan
September 10, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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Simply the best slide I have ever seen in a powerpoint presentation care of @premeemohamed.com’s talk at @banffcentre.bsky.social re: Putting the Science in Science Fiction
September 10, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Simply the best slide I have ever seen in a powerpoint presentation care of @premeemohamed.com’s talk at @banffcentre.bsky.social re: Putting the Science in Science Fiction
I'll be running an interactive workshop on Nailing Your Comp Titles next week with WIFYR's Virtual Writing Intensive. I heard there are a few online slots left:
www.wifyr.com/2025-writing...
www.wifyr.com/2025-writing...
Virtual Writing Intensive 2025 | Writing And Illustra
www.wifyr.com
September 10, 2025 at 5:51 PM
I'll be running an interactive workshop on Nailing Your Comp Titles next week with WIFYR's Virtual Writing Intensive. I heard there are a few online slots left:
www.wifyr.com/2025-writing...
www.wifyr.com/2025-writing...
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One thing on my dream wishlist is more middle grade titles from Vietnamese American authors, ideally fun and contemporary stuff. @brandonhoang.bsky.social, Thanhhà Lại, and @trungles.com can only do so much. This is a gap, imo.
August 26, 2025 at 7:33 PM
One thing on my dream wishlist is more middle grade titles from Vietnamese American authors, ideally fun and contemporary stuff. @brandonhoang.bsky.social, Thanhhà Lại, and @trungles.com can only do so much. This is a gap, imo.