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Screenshot from publishers marketplace that reads: “Margaret Owen's ROOTBOUND, set a month after the events of Tangled, in which the rookie princess Rapunzel and her rogue-turned-suitor Eugene are pulled into a high-stakes diplomatic mission to a mysterious kingdom, where they must uncover the secrets of the royal family, Rapunzel's lost magic, and Eugene's past in order get back home, to Flannery Wiest at Disney-Hyperion, with Hali Baumstein editing, by Victoria Marini at High Line Literary Collective.” Has a fancy decorative border against a blue/purple background with faint gold celestial charts!

Surprise! You didn’t think I’d have just the one book coming out in 2025, did you? Disney asked me to write a follow-up to TANGLED—a horrible decision, really—and as I dearly love that movie, how could I say no?

(It may have also given me the chance to put “Give that horse a sword” in a book.)

A graphic depicting character art from THE SEA HIDES ITS DEAD against an ocean background, with "cover coming soon" over the characters' heads. The book's title and release date are also included.

A plot blurb for THE SEA HIDES ITS DEAD, with the header "ATONE OR DIE" : Grad student Caro has no idea what she wants to do with her life, but when an opportunity arises to act as a research assistant on an anthropological expedition for her professor and lover, Edward Beck, she doesn’t hesitate. Beck assembles a team of academics and professionals to study the ancient sea-based Cult of the Leviathan, and the expedition descends into the sea caves where the cult are said to have dwelt. But when the cave entrance collapses, trapping them inside, the expedition will find they are not alone in the darkness. Surrounded by strange artefacts and scattered bones, an ancient trial has been set in motion. One by one, the members of the expedition will be tested and forced to atone for their greatest sin… or die.

So what’s this thing about, anyway? 🌊✨🗡️

Here’s a blurb to tide you over (ba dum tsss). THE SEA HIDES ITS DEAD is coming Summer 2026 from Orbit US/UK. The Descent x Dante’s Inferno — claustrophobia, eldritch cults, and biblically accurate angels, oh my! Art by @warickaart.bsky.social 🖤 #booksky

going from editing & revising to make ur prose perfect, to drafting where nothing makes sense is truly something i will never ever ever EVER be prepared for

JFSKGJDSK well do pinterest and canva and goodreads count as writing ... bc if not i have a grand total of 5 writing tabs open .... and i think 2 of those are duplicates ... 😀

i have 62 tabs in each window i know my computer hates my guts...

excited to read after a 4 month long reading slump and excited to write after 9 months of agonizing over my projects ... i prayed for times like this

a woman in a black shirt is standing in the snow ALT: a woman in a black shirt is standing in the snow

a first draft is supposed to be bad, a first draft is for discovery, a first draft will have plot holes and thats ok, a first draft will not be polished and thats ok, a first—

shocked and upset

writing really is a muscle because why did i forget how to write a query 😭

i know this is my Professional and Writerly account but they're shutting down dramacool y'all don't talk to me

Name 5 SFF authors whose books you will buy without even reading the synopsis

Laini Taylor
Chloe Gong
R.F. Kuang
Leigh Bardugo
Elizabeth Lim

noooo not the fear of not being a good enough writer to do my project justice again ...

SOOOOO GORGEOUS <333

Oh, quick question, if you’d be so kind…

HOW THE FUCK IS NOVEMBER MORE THAN HALFWAY DONE ALREADY?!?

"Do you feel rotten yet? Take my hand; let the blood I've soaked in rot you, too."

commissioned this GORGEOUS art of my gothic horror wip's three sisters from the talented @lunacwriting.bsky.social!

this was a specific, challenging piece and she nailed it 💖 #writingcommunity #writersky #booksky

him and yeosang ... i feel insane

i've cracked the code i fear

i started a kdrama because i was on my period and felt like ass but now i'm on episode 4 and i don't want to stop watching so i'm simply gonna call it research for my wip bc the male lead matches the love interest of my WIP 🙂↕️

u get it

so you're saying it's never ending ... haha (im kidding i love writing, writing is my best friend)

aura win hello ...

i'm in your walls i'm under your bed i need ittttt

VOICE: the :| face but in words

this is what writing is all about

and this book finally allows me to have a love interest nicknamed kai y'all don't understand this is my #1 writer goal ever. i love the name kai so much all of my MMC names are literally just remixes of kai (kavi, jai) but i can finally have a MMC that's actually nicknamed kai

i'm FINALLY reading an arc with my own two eyeballs (and glasses) and the ideas it has given me for my desi myth wip feat. my rivals-to-lovers-to-betrayal but i still love you-to-enemies book .... save me desi myth wip save me

there are two wolves inside of me (first person pov that objectively AND subjectively fits better for my wip versus multipov third bc i wanna give my love interest a pov soooooo bad)

u can take the girl away from the supernatural fandom but u can never reverse the brain damage it caused her ...

had to take out the album bc i don't listen to albums as a whole i fear... but if i did it'd be half of BTS' discography tbh

Introduce yourself with:

One book 📚— If You Could See The Sun by Ann Liang/Foul Lady Fortune by Chloe Gong
One movie 🎥— ... Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani (2013)
One TV show📺— Crash Landing On You (2019)/Supernatural (2005)