Susan B. James

My Finn does that too. Especially with the water we keep by our bed. He now has his own that I keep full to the top just for him.

"In YA, I would love a voice-y, meaningful coming of age story like DARIUS THE GREAT IS NOT OKAY by Adib Khorram or FIREKEEPER’S DAUGHTER by Angeline Boulley."
Marina Green #MSWL

psliterary.com/submissions/

"I’m interested in love stories that may not fit the definition of romance, such as found family, platonic soulmates, and relationships without a happily ever after."
Rose Ferrao #MSWL

psliterary.com/submissions/

#BookologyThursday📚🍀🐇🧙
Sneak Peek! 👀
Pages from my upcoming book:

"March Madness: Leprechauns, Hares, & Witches Folklore."
A Spring Coloring Book 🍀🌷

by Nifty Buckles

Launching Soon. 🚢

You can pre-Order on my Shop page.
niftybucklesfolklore.fun/march-madnes...
#BookchatWeekly

At first mom was like nah they can’t do it.. Then one fell in and she’s like ok we’re doing it..🦆♥️

"When anxious, uneasy, and bad thoughts come, I go to the sea, and the sea drowns them out with its great wide sounds, cleanses me with its noise, and imposes a rhythm upon everything in me that is bewildered and confused."
~ Rainer Maria Rilke

Lovely!
Trouble.

Jonathon Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susannah Clarke.

We call it the parkway. We plant/mow/water it, but it is actually owned by the city.

New Agent Alert!

Madelyn Knecht has recently started acquiring at Storm Literary. Madelyn is looking for Adult, YA, and select MG!

Discover the full MSWL and how to query on our blog:
www.writingdayworkshops.com/blog

#amwriting #amquerying #literaryagent #writingcommunity #writing

It sounds like a cool and very plausible idea, but I can't think where I've seen it.

We like to discuss tropes or other commonly-seen scenarios in media on these days. We understand not everyone likes tropes or thinks about their stories in those terms. We are not here to dictate what is or not a trope, and we never say writers MUST use tropes. We're just here to talk about stories.

And as I was green and carefree, famous among the barns
About the happy yard and singing as the farm was home

~Dylan Thomas

This week #BookologyThursday takes a pastoral jaunt in literature, art & lore with the theme:

🍃🐏IDYLLIC IDYLS🐑🍃

🎨Dora Carrington (1921)

It is another Tuesday so there shall be another #kidlitchat (at 9PM Eastern/6PM Pacific) right here on Bluesky. If you're thinking "gosh, it'd be swell to talk with other #kidlit fans and creators for an hour"... 1) you'd be right and 2) you should join us! See you soon!

What Makes a Query Feel Like a "Big Book"? | The Manuscript Academy Agents don't just read for quality — they read for urgency. Here's how to make your query feel like a book they need to read right now.

Agents don't just read for quality.

They read for urgency.

New post on how to make your query feel like a book they need to read Right! Now!--before someone else gets it first.

manuscriptacademy.com/what-makes-a-query-feel-like-a-big-book

It's a COVER REVEAL 👀

I'm crazy excited to share the cover for the second book in my novella series, THE LADY WIDOW: CAPTURED AMONG THE STARS 😆

The journey continues where DEATH AMONG THE STARS left off and it's coming to you May 26, 2026!

writteninmelanin.com/store/p/tlw2p

#BookSky #BlackAuthor

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#WritingCommunity #Booksky 💙📚

Alphabet #BookChallenge #Booksky
Doing two again today: V, W

The first, with one of my most favorite characters, Reepicheep
The second was Queen Victoria's favorite book:

How many agents do you query at a time?

Answering some of our most asked questions.

Leave room for error and never query your whole list at once!

#writer #author #writingcommunity #querying #writerslife

And Pan made sing for thee his forest-hive;
Aye on the shores of darkness there is light, And precipices show untrodden green.

~John Keats (died #OTD 1821)
🎨Allen Todd Yeager
#bookchatweekly

Join us this week as #BookologyThursday explores:

🌊 What Lies Beneath 🌊

Creatures, treasures, and monsters that lurk in the depths in literature, art, and lore.

art by Sebastian Giacobino

#TBRuary #Booksky

I do remember why, but I never remember to get the book!
Thanks for reminding me.

unspooling thoughts and knots of doubt-wonderful image!

Five women authors by whom I've read at least five books:

Juliet Marillier
Jane Austen
Beth Brower
Kate DiCamillo
Naomi Novik

Marillier's Daughter of the Forest is one of my top all time favorite books. My daughter's too.

And the first of the Bridei books- Well of Shadows?

I love her heriones and their love interests. Red, oh my.

And thanks, for listing Brennan. I've wanted to read her books and somehow forgot!

Hello, writers. I’ll be reopening submissions beginning the first week of March for adult fiction and nonfiction. I will be giving total priority to diverse voices; however, writers of all backgrounds are welcome to submit. #MSWL #queries #nonfiction #fiction

Alphabet #BookChallenge #Booksky
I wasn't online yesterday so two letters: T and U

the first being so delightly odd

the second being that rare Hardy novel that doesn't make you completely depressed

"Oh, I'm burning! I wish I were out of doors! I wish I were a girl again, half savage and hardy, and free; and laughing at injuries, not maddening under them!"
~ Emily Brontë, 'Wuthering Heights'

Boreas (1903)
John William Waterhouse

Crop of a painting by Haeko-Maruda showing a skull from which strange blossoms are blooming.

"Chattering finch and water-fly
Are not merrier than I;
Here among the flowers I lie
Laughing everlastingly,
No; I may not tell the best;
Surely, friends, I might have guessed
Death was but the good King's jest,
It was hid so carefully."

- G K Chesterton, 'The Skeleton'
#BookWormSat #poem #poetry

#WIPSnip #WriteSky #WritingCommunity