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Alice (she/her)
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Author & editor of SFFH, among other things. Amateur forager, airbender, sapphic.

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Alice (she/her) @tthegardengirl.bsky.social · Nov 18
Hey fam! Thought I should introduce myself and my book!

I am a sapphic author of SFFH and my fantasy about a spy who must collapse an empire from within and the princess she is falling for is currently on sub!

✨🌙👩🏽‍❤️‍💋‍👩🏻
On a lilac background, roman pillars and grapevines frame the test: An Editor's Guide to my 107k Adult Romantic Fantasy. Comps: The Bone Shard Daughter, Seven Faceless Saints, The Jasmine Throne, The City of Dusk. Elements: Sapphic slow burn, Burning down empires, Bath Scene, Religious astral magic, HIGH stakes Gold filigree frames a picture of a curly haired brunette in a navy tunic dress staring hopelessly into the face of a fat woman in a pink and silver chained outfit, whose long black hair falls into her face. The pair are backlit by peachy light. Below text reads: Within an empire built on revisionist history, Mita knows the truth. She must kill the emperor before his conquest shatters the astral realm and ignites a cataclysm. But her feelings for the princess she must manipulate are growing. Mita must decide if she can let go of her feelings to prevent destruction — or if her love for Catryn will end them all.
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Hey! It’s a full moon. It’s a lunar eclipse. It’s a giveaway! Win an annotated copy of HIGHER MAGIC and some moon-themed stickers! 🌚 Details in thread.
A signed, annotated copy of HIGHER MAGIC propped up against a stack of other copies of HIGHER MAGIC with some moon- and magic-themed stickers. GIVEAWAY Want to win an annotated copy of Higher Magic and some moon-themed swag? 1 Follow my account 2 Reply to this post (see caption) 3 Repost or tag a friend by Sunday, Sept. 14th!
September 7, 2025 at 2:57 PM
tthegardengirl.bsky.social
SCREAMINGGGGGGHGHH
squirkyturtle.bsky.social Lene D. Buttner @squirkyturtle.bsky.social · Aug 19
This still feels absolutely surreal, but the announcement is out so I can officially yell about it! My debut novel Cavern F(r)iend will be published by @wednesdaybooks.bsky.social in Winter 2027!

Thanks to my agent @ericshowers.bsky.social and my editor Hannah Pierdolla!💜
Publishers Marketplace annoucement for Cavern F(r)iend, reads as follows: Lene D. Buttner's Cavern F(r)iend, pitched as Andrew Joseph White meets SOMEONE YOU CAN BUILD A NEST IN, in which a search-and-recovery guide with a monstrous secret is enlisted to retrieve the body of his bosses' son from the cursed sinkhole/ amusement park where he works--only to find him alice and on a quest of his own, to Hannah Pierdolla at Wednesday Books, for publication in winter 2027, by Eric Showers at Howard Morhaim Literary Agency (world English).
August 19, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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soumiroy1.bsky.social
The auction is LIVE!
We have incredible items up for grabs—from signed copies of rare and fabulous books to agent critiques and more.
Please check it out, boost, share, and participate if you can. Every bit helps!
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Help Soumi Rebuild Her Life Auction
Silent auction 'Help Soumi Rebuild Her Life Auction' hosted online at 32auctions.
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May 10, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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siobhandorr.bsky.social
When Corey Wilder and Grayson Steele’s motorsports teams merge shortly before the upcoming NASCAR Cup Series, the drivers are forced to set their heated rivalry and mutual attraction aside if they want to make it to victory lane. #questpit #q #a #r
Grayson and Corey painted by @formulanni on insta! Moodboard titled AN AGENT’S GUIDE TO KISS THE WALL! With pitch (same as body of post), comps (Pole Position by Rebecca J. Caffrey, Icebreaker by Hannah Grace, and Yuri!! On Ice), and tropes (enemies to lovers, forced proximity). Visuals include rainbows, NASCAR tracks, stars, sparkles, and a motorhome embracing the sunset).
May 7, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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mkhardywrites.com
We are so thrilled to announce our story "Data Recovery" will be in the Lesbians and Space anthology - Part I*

Look at this line-up of all-stars and tell me you're not excited to read some stellar sapphic stories from them! Luckily you can pre-order here: space-wizard.square.site/product/lesb...
A canva graphic on a background of pinkish-purple stars. It reads: Anthology announcement! Peanut butter and chocolate. Cheese and wine. Sex and rock n' roll. History is full of great pairings. Get ready for your new favorite: Lesbians and Space! Join a host of intrepid explorers heading to the outer reaches of the galaxy, exploring planets, space stations, strange new worlds and interesting aliens. With stories by: Mary Robinette Kowal Seanan McGuire Travis Baldree Emma Newman MK Hardy Ashleigh Martin Nathan Chu Stewart C Baker Kayla Whittle Joel Glover Caye Marsh Kira Neu Jes Honard Scarlet Passmore Sylvie Althoff Jasmine Gower Siena Buchanan Beáta Fülöp Danielle Woolhead J.S. Fields and Heather Tracy Coming June 24, 2025!
May 3, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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courtney-floyd.com
✨🌕 COVER REVEAL 🌕✨

Calling this cover magical feels too on the nose, but isn't it gorgeous? Illustration by Imogen Oh with art direction by Tara Scarcello. I am over the moon (sorry not sorry). @htpbooks.bsky.social @bradfordagents.bsky.social #HigherMagic #2025Debuts #WritingCommunity #BookSky
Higher Magic Book Cover: an illustration of a stained glass window in the tower of a gothic university building with the moon rising behind it. Along the building, purple foxgloves and dark pink snapdragons grow. Moths flutter in the moonlight. The stained glass depicts a shield and book above the words Higher Magic in a wild branching font with swirling, ghost-like shapes beneath it. The graphic also contains the following caption: Cover Reveal. Available for pre-order!
February 20, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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rainewilson.bsky.social
Delighted to be hosting the fabulous @mkhardywrites.bsky.social on the blog today, talking about the freshly revealed, and ridiculously gorgeous, cover for their 2025 debut novel THE NEEDFIRE.

Get this beauty on your tbr, friends. You needs it.

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The Needfire - Cover reveal time!
Introducing MK Hardy and their brilliant debut Scottish Gothic novel
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November 30, 2024 at 7:59 PM
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josephvlee.bsky.social
400+ years after the "First Thanksgiving" most Americans have no idea that the Wampanoag people are still here. My tribe, the Aquinnah Wampanoag, is on Martha's Vineyard and we're still fighting for our land and rights. We’re also doing some cool stuff. 🧵👇 if you’d like to learn more & support us
November 28, 2024 at 4:10 PM
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tlcoughlin.bsky.social
I am THRILLED to announce that I am now represented by the incredible @emilykaitlin.bsky.social of BookEnds Literary!! ✨

I know that to protect our hearts, we’re not supposed to have dream agents, but the moment I heard Emily’s passion and vision for SWINDLED, I knew I’d found mine!
SWINDLED by T. L. Coughlin Now represented by Emily Forney at BookEnds Literary Centered moodboard: A box of vials, an acrobat dangling from red fabric, a red Chinese lantern, a girl with gilded gold and a black lace shirt with bright red lips, red thread, a silhouette of an empress, the coliseum, a dandelion on fire, and an ancient stone doorway with a red and gold curtain in front. Trope List: - Multiracial rep - Interwoven Roman & Chinese Myths - Competition of Circuses - Morally gray con artist MC - Collector of Goddess-Gifted Humans - Fate being an absolute B**** Background of draped dark red circus fabric with two shattered gold corners on the upper left and bottom right.
November 21, 2024 at 3:34 PM
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ariannasidd.bsky.social
I’m thrilled to announce I’ve signed with Penelope Burns at Gelfman Schneider. Penelope is a force to be reckoned with, a sharp and discerning eye and an equally kind spirit. A powerhouse in every sense of the word, I am so pleased to be partnered with such an amazing agent.
November 20, 2024 at 11:27 PM
tthegardengirl.bsky.social
As much as I love Arcane, I find stories without any threads of hope really hard to consume. I don’t think I’ll ever have it in me to write grimdark fantasy 🫣
November 21, 2024 at 5:26 PM
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wordsiren.bsky.social
✨ YA BOOK NEWS ✨

I'm so excited to announce that my next YA duology, a romantasy called WICKED ENDEAVORS, is coming in Summer 2026!

If So Let Them Burn was about the power of love, then Wicked Endeavors is about the poisonous yet motivating power of hate. Black female rage abounds in this one 😈
Author of So Let Them Burn and the forthcoming This Ends In Embers Kamilah Cole's WICKED ENDEAVORS, a YA romantasy duology set in a Spanish Renaissance-inspired kingdom, about a vengeful teen who cons her way into a high society of elite witches, only for her revenge to be threatened by her warring feelings for both a manipulative enemy prince and the stoic childhood friend who betrayed her, pitched as a love letter to the power of Black women's anger, to Alexandra Hightower at Little, Brown Children's, in a six-figure deal , at auction, in a two-book deal, for publication in summer 2026, by Emily Forney at BookEnds (world). Over an image of a Black girl in a renaissance gown holding a dagger and smirking at the audience, drawn by cutetanuki-chan on Tumblr
November 21, 2024 at 1:56 PM
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tthegardengirl.bsky.social
Hey fam! Thought I should introduce myself and my book!

I am a sapphic author of SFFH and my fantasy about a spy who must collapse an empire from within and the princess she is falling for is currently on sub!

✨🌙👩🏽‍❤️‍💋‍👩🏻
On a lilac background, roman pillars and grapevines frame the test: An Editor's Guide to my 107k Adult Romantic Fantasy. Comps: The Bone Shard Daughter, Seven Faceless Saints, The Jasmine Throne, The City of Dusk. Elements: Sapphic slow burn, Burning down empires, Bath Scene, Religious astral magic, HIGH stakes Gold filigree frames a picture of a curly haired brunette in a navy tunic dress staring hopelessly into the face of a fat woman in a pink and silver chained outfit, whose long black hair falls into her face. The pair are backlit by peachy light. Below text reads: Within an empire built on revisionist history, Mita knows the truth. She must kill the emperor before his conquest shatters the astral realm and ignites a cataclysm. But her feelings for the princess she must manipulate are growing. Mita must decide if she can let go of her feelings to prevent destruction — or if her love for Catryn will end them all.
November 18, 2024 at 6:59 PM
tthegardengirl.bsky.social
Can’t wait to read this book!! Congrats Rose! 🌊🐠
wordsofrablack.bsky.social Rose Black @wordsofrablack.bsky.social · Nov 19
It's publication day!

This little book has had a hard journey to print, but I've already had amazing reviews and I'm so proud of the story.

FATED WINDS is about not conforming, fighting Fate, saying "this is who I am". It's also about healing, kindness, and family.

I really hope you love it too
Hard back edition of FATED WINDS AND PROMISING SEAS with a plushie narwhal, turtle and lionfish around it.
November 19, 2024 at 4:24 PM
tthegardengirl.bsky.social
Hey fam! Thought I should introduce myself and my book!

I am a sapphic author of SFFH and my fantasy about a spy who must collapse an empire from within and the princess she is falling for is currently on sub!

✨🌙👩🏽‍❤️‍💋‍👩🏻
On a lilac background, roman pillars and grapevines frame the test: An Editor's Guide to my 107k Adult Romantic Fantasy. Comps: The Bone Shard Daughter, Seven Faceless Saints, The Jasmine Throne, The City of Dusk. Elements: Sapphic slow burn, Burning down empires, Bath Scene, Religious astral magic, HIGH stakes Gold filigree frames a picture of a curly haired brunette in a navy tunic dress staring hopelessly into the face of a fat woman in a pink and silver chained outfit, whose long black hair falls into her face. The pair are backlit by peachy light. Below text reads: Within an empire built on revisionist history, Mita knows the truth. She must kill the emperor before his conquest shatters the astral realm and ignites a cataclysm. But her feelings for the princess she must manipulate are growing. Mita must decide if she can let go of her feelings to prevent destruction — or if her love for Catryn will end them all.
November 18, 2024 at 6:59 PM
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danaiwrites.bsky.social
The book is also available for pre-order. Yes, already! If you want to give yourself a gift that will reach you in the future like a stabby sapphic time capsule, you can pre-order VILE LADY VILLAINS here: www.penguin.co.uk/books/470416...
Vile Lady Villains
PRE-ORDER THE WORLD-BURNING HORROMANTASY, BRINGING TOGETHER LITERATURE'S MOST FAMOUS LADY VILLAINS, LADY MACBETH AND KLYTEMNESTRA . . . For fans of A Dowry of Blood, Clytemnestra, and Piranesi, Vile ...
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November 18, 2024 at 5:07 PM
tthegardengirl.bsky.social
SO UNBELIEVABLY EXCITED FOR THIS!!! ✨
danaiwrites.bsky.social Danai Christopoulou | Pre-order VILE LADY VILLAINS @danaiwrites.bsky.social · Nov 18
I cannot believe I finally get to announce this. An unhinged dream, so many years and monologues in the making. I'm elate to announce my debut novel VILE LADY VILLAINS, a horromantasy about Klytemnestra and Lady Macbeth, will be published with Penguin Michael Joseph in 2026.
November 18, 2024 at 6:44 PM
tthegardengirl.bsky.social
Introduce yourself with four video games:
Image for Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom Image for video game Spiritfarer Image of video game the legend of Zelda twilight princess Image for video game Europa
November 18, 2024 at 4:37 AM
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mstevensonbooks.bsky.social
BEHOOVED is an adult fantasy rom com with bi4bi and disability rep about a noblewoman who enters an arranged marriage, accidentally turns her husband into a horse on their wedding night, and has to work with him to stop a plot against the throne ✨ Out May 20, 2025!
Cover of Behooved by M Stevenson
November 17, 2024 at 5:53 PM
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audriserat.bsky.social
if anyone is looking for an editor/sensitivity reader, feel free to contact me!
i've worked for publishers like macmillan, harpercollins & sourcebooks
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October 20, 2024 at 2:44 PM
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schwartzwords.bsky.social
my book A Prayer for Vengeance is out TOMORROW and today we’re celebrating fat YA covers🔥🔥🔥

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A collage of fat YA covers
September 18, 2023 at 2:41 PM
tthegardengirl.bsky.social
Sorry I haven’t been here as much folks! It’s hard to maintain so many different platforms at once 😵‍💫
September 18, 2023 at 8:58 PM
tthegardengirl.bsky.social
Sammy’s cataracts don’t stop him from scavenging for lost balls (never from the neighbors yard, nooo 😉) and he loves them so much he will take them on his walks. Store toys just aren’t as good as foraged toys
A big golden lab smiles up at the camera on a red rug
August 31, 2023 at 3:34 AM
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katherinelocke.bsky.social
Friends, Kānaka Maoli pub folks are running a Books for Maui auction to raise funds for Lāhainā and are seeking donations from publishing industry folks. This fundraiser specifically centers Native Hawaiians in its relief efforts and is being run by Native Hawaiians. Please consider donating!
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August 15, 2023 at 1:14 AM
tthegardengirl.bsky.social
Cheeky little aesthetic for mushroom book! This book drew so much inspiration from the wetlands of New England and the environments my mother taught me about growing up and why it's so important to protect! #writingcommunity #fantasy
A moodboard with an image of yellowing cattails, a golden capped mushroom in the dark, blue glowing jelly fish, a red haired woman staring pensively, dark grey clouds with the Taylor Swift lyrics "I knew you Leaving like a Father Running Like Water" from 'Cardigan', a picture of hands reaching for the sun over water, a red salamander on the forest floor, a woodland scene backlit by the sun, and mushrooms from an underside angle with sunlight filtering through.
August 14, 2023 at 6:32 PM