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i've been dipping into romance novels to get more of a feel for the romance of this book and tbh i highly recommend this strategy like reading outside your genre WORKS
back on here bc i want to share stream of consciousness drafting updates. um anyway i just went into a fugue state and wrote a prologue for crypts 30 minutes flat
Image shows an illustration of an open book with roses and leaves growing out of it. Text reads: "Reedsy Short Story Contest #307: A STudy in Secrets. In collaboration with Lynn D. Jung. Deadline: June 20 11:59 PM EST. Win $250"
so so stoked to announce that today kicks off the short story contest i am hosting via @reedsy.bsky.social ! The theme is "A Study in Secrets" and there are 5 prompts to choose from.
learn more & enter: tinyurl.com/4vhbz5h7
Publishers Marketplace International rights UK Fiction deal report which reads as follows: Lynn D. Jung's MOTHSBLOOD, to Sam Bradbury at Del Rey UK, with Feranmi Ojutiku editing, in a very nice deal, at auction, for publication in fall 2026, by Laura Crockett at TriadaUS Literary Agency. Film/TV: uwe@triadaus.com Foreign/Translation: foreign@triadaus.com
Congratulations to @lynndjungbooks.bsky.social on the sale of MOTHSBLOOD! #TeamTriada #BookSky
every day a different student asks me if i've seen the minecraft movie yet (i'm pushing 30)
Del Rey has triumphed in a five-way auction for @lynndjungbooks.bsky.social "chilling, propulsive and fantastical" dark academia debut. Mothsblood will be published as a lead title in October 2026 👇#BookSky
🦋 MOTHSBLOOD is coming to the UK! ⛈️
I'm so excited to finally be able to share this incredible news, and I'm so grateful to Sam and Feranmi for believing in this book, and to Laura for championing it.
Fall '26!
Oh wow thank you for tagging me, i had no idea! And congrats on being mentioned as well!
"We Cast Our Eyes to the Unknowable Now" got a lovely mention in this - thank you Reactor!
Ready to review LOCAL HEAVENS by KM Fajardo? Now available on Netgalley.
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ARCs for LOCAL HEAVENS, my dystopian love story/queer cyberpunk Gatsby reimagining, are available for request on Netgalley
feeling a little emo today 🥲 i hope this little fever dream finds its ppl <3
📌 tropes, comps + blurb are pinned (in my cover reveal thread)
asked for roaring 20s x cyberpunk & the team came through like omg. from the diffused neon, shadowed city, bi flag colours for THE most bi panic story ever… im blessed 💗💙💜
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LOCAL HEAVENS—a queer dystopian love story + cyberpunk Gatsby reimagining. on capitalism, the American Nightmare & radical hope. out Oct 14th.
design: Charlotte Strick
art: @madebykaran
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🥲 solidarity
idk if it's just me, but lately writing is a neverending cycle of 'oh man this book is so bad' and 'oh man i will never write anything as good as this book ever again.' (pls tell me i'm not the only one) 😭
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WHEN THEY BURNED THE BUTTERFLY is my sapphic adult fantasy about a girl gang in 1970s postcolonial singapore, and i got the mean pyro femme art of my DREAMS. it's out oct 21 from @torbooks & you can preorder now!!
🎨 @carissasusilo.bsky.social (art) & esther kim (design)
The cover of THE ISLE IN THE SILVER SEA, my sapphic lady knight/witch reincarnation romance, out in October. ⚔️🔮🌊
i haven't had a drop of coffee or energy drink in almost two months for health reasons but the health reasons have persisted nonetheless 🫠
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Excited to reveal the US cover of THE MAIDEN AND HER MONSTER, my sapphic adult fantasy inspired by Jewish mythology. It comes out Sept 9, 2025 with @torbooks.bsky.social!
You can preorder now!
Designer: Lesley Worrell
Artist: Christin Engelberth
Author's photo and a screenshot of a Publisher's Weekly deal announcement over a black and white photo of a moth. Header text reads 'MOTHSBLOOD, fall 2026' "Kenli Manning at Bloomsbury US preempted North American rights to Lynn D. Jung's debut novel, Mothsblood, about "an ambitious alchemist who must uncover the dark secrets of her university," from Laura Crockett at TriadaUS Literary Agency."
A Publisher's Marketplace deal announcement over a dark academia moodboard. Category: Fiction: Debut MOTHSBLOOD by Lynn D. Jung Imprint: Bloomsbury "Lynn D. Jung's MOTHSBLOOD, set in modern-day Paris, following an ambitious alchemist who must uncover the dark secrets of her university when the murder of an immortal professor forces her to confront the mysterious past she's trying to escape, pitched for fans of THE STARLESS SEA and NINTH HOUSE, to Kenli Manning at Bloomsbury, in a pre-empt, for publication in fall 2026, by Laura Crockett at TriadaUS Literary Agency (NA)." Film/TV: uwe@triadaus.com Foreign/Translation: foreign@triadaus.com
🍂 my debut novel, a dark academia adult fantasy about a truly messy woman & alchemy & immortality & BUGS, is out fall 2026 from bloomsbury us!
This is what the government did with 120K+ Japanese Americans in 1942.
I know. I was there in those camps.
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There are over 260 AMAZING items to bid on in the 2nd annual #KidLit4Ceasefire auction from year-long mentorships to signed books to full manuscript critiques to art commissions the fundraiser has you covered! 🇵🇸
Link:
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If you're looking for a full manuscript critique for your YA or adult science fiction/fantasy/spec manuscript, I've donated one to #KidLit4Ceasefire ! The auction will run from 1/15 - 1/31
Link: shorturl.at/Arkvg
A thumbnail for a YouTube video showing a dark-haired woman holding up a mug. Text reads "A year's worth of Writing"
2024 wins:
✨ finished revising MOTHS, my dark ac adult fantasy set in Paris
✨ started drafting CRYPTS, a gothic adult fantasy ft. necromancers
✨ signed with a literary agent (yay)!
2025 goals:
🌱 finish CRYPTS
🌱 level up my writing
🌱 ....????
see the full video here: tinyurl.com/yu2bzx2e
An excerpt from "We Cast Our Eyes to the Unknowable Now." "The streets of Koreatown are wounded. Battle scars from the earthquake years gouge Western, Olympic, and Sixth, fissures so wide and deep Christina used to believe the Grand Canyon had grown legs and walked itself across the desert and into their neighborhood."
Artwork samples on an orange background. Text reads "12 new climate fiction stories. Read now. Imagine 2200."
Hello #writingcommunity! As an introduction (or re-introduction) I'd like to share the cli-fi piece of mine that released today: "We Cast Our Eyes to the Unknowable Now."
Read here for free: grist.org/climate-fict...