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Michelle Witte @michellewitte.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I’ll share more details soon, but there’s a teaser near the end of this article about a piece of news I’ve been sitting on for one of my authors for months that we can now share. Congrats to @agathechavelucas.bsky.social for having three books with the new imprint Norton Waverly from @wwnorton.com!

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Agathe Chave-Lucas 🇫🇷🇪🇸 @agathechavelucas.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I haven’t posted about Blackberry in a while, because she was sick, but she’s now feeling better! She had a urinary infection that required two different antibiotic treatments (and a very expensive vet consultation)… Here she is wrapped up in a towel, ready to get her meds! #caturday

A black-and-white cat in the arms of a human wearing a green tshirt. The cat is wrapped in a white towel.

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Agathe Chave-Lucas 🇫🇷🇪🇸 @agathechavelucas.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

“Do not feed the unicorns” I (very) often complain about Paris, but now and then it still absolutely stuns me... (Also, I’ve been living in this neighborhood for 4 years and seen the unicorn tapestry in the museum just behind, so how could I have missed this????) #stunday

A sign on a fence that reads “Ne pas nourrir les licornes” (do not feed the unicorns). Behind the fence is a medieval building, which is part of the Middle Ages museum.

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Agathe Chave-Lucas 🇫🇷🇪🇸 @agathechavelucas.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I already knew for a thousand different reasons that my agent was a great fit, but here's extra proof... (Also, is now the right time to mention I've added a cat named Pétale to my manuscript, just because every story's better with a cat and how could I have not included one before?????)

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Agathe Chave-Lucas 🇫🇷🇪🇸 @agathechavelucas.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I never would have thought so a few years ago, but I can’t wait for winter to arrive again (and for the temperatures to go down). This picture was taken in January 2026 in Paris. #stunday

Paris rooftops under the snow; the picture is taken from inside an apartment and the snow accumulating on the windowsill and on the glass is visible.

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Agathe Chave-Lucas 🇫🇷🇪🇸 @agathechavelucas.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Blackberry the multimodal cat (thanks @actfortransit.bsky.social for calling her that!) took the ferry again. She’s very intrigued by the general concept of boats — and of things floating on water — though she hasn’t quite figured it out yet… #caturday

A black and white cat sitting next to the window of a ferry, inside the ferry. Through the window, a view of the sea with several boats, and, further away, the coast.

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Agathe Chave-Lucas 🇫🇷🇪🇸 @agathechavelucas.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

there still are slivers of light through the walls, but soon the house will collapse. #stunday #haiku #imageandverse

A hole inside a stone cliff, through which the sea is visible.

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Agathe Chave-Lucas 🇫🇷🇪🇸 @agathechavelucas.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I am not an illustrator but my poetry is very visual & tied to visual art. Here’s a poem/illustration inspired by ancient Iranian vases (~4000 BC, more info in alt text) about nature & our forgetfulness. I am a YA author & poet rep’d by Michelle Witte. #kidlitartpostcard #imageandverse

A mother leopard and her cub at the bottom of a hill; at the top a mountain goat and a human behind a tree with spiral leaves.

All throughout the illustration the words of a poem:

the flick of a tail,
a leap, clean as an arrow
that pierces the sky.

watching eyes,
in awe, in fear, in wonder,
in tears & agony.

fingers, dipped in black,
itching to capture
what they cannot comprehend.

millennia & yet
so little has changed;
we are the same,
except when we
(choose to) forget.

A vase exhibited in the Louvre museum, excavated at Tepe Sialk (modern-day Iran, province of Isfahan), dating back to 3500-4000 BC.
At the top of the vase are leopards all following each other; underneath there are geometric patterns.

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Agathe Chave-Lucas 🇫🇷🇪🇸 @agathechavelucas.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Cats and tigers share 96% of their genes and I never had trouble believing it with Boreas … #caturday

A black cat yawning inside a circular bookshelf, surrounded by books and CDs.

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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

From the abstract: “promoting a woman to Associate Professor increases female faculty by 1.5 members after 15 years, leads to six additional female PhD graduates over the following decade, and raises the number who subsequently remain in academia and reach tenured positions”

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Mediapart @mediapart.fr · 27/07/2026

« La qualité de l’air retourne à des niveaux néfastes à cause des mégafeux » L’heure n’est pas à la résignation mais à l’action, selon les scientifiques rebelles invités d’« À l’air libre ». Pour (re)voir notre émission 👉‍ l.mediapart.fr/VW3

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Agathe Chave-Lucas 🇫🇷🇪🇸 @agathechavelucas.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Seen today in Paris on the Simone de Beauvoir bridge in the 13th arrondissement. The mother duck was very determined and knew exactly where she was going (the bridge leads to a park). The resourcefulness of animals always amazes me (and gives me hope too)... #stunday

A mother duck and her two ducklings on a wooden bridge over the Seine.

Still the mother duck and her two ducklings seen from a closer angle

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Agathe Chave-Lucas 🇫🇷🇪🇸 @agathechavelucas.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Sorry for ruining the cuteness of #caturday but how is it that, when the world is literally burning, some, instead of extinguishing the flames, use cats (????) to spread fires? Blackberry is deeply concerned and telling everyone to respect water (and cats, and nature) and stay hydrated…

Snapshot from a France24 article saying: “Thousands of emergency workers in Italy battled scores of fires in Sicily and the Calabria region, where a local official said arsonists had started fires by tying rags soaked in flammable liquid to the tails of stray cats to spread the flames.

One firefighter died after falling ill while battling the flames in Sicily, the interior minister said.”

Link to the article: https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20260724-spain-declares-state-of-emergency-and-france-seeks-eu-help-as-wildfires-rage?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=bluesky&utm_source=shorty&utm_slink=f24.my%2FC4XA

Blackberry, a black and white cat, drinking from a (human) glass. The water level is low, and her entire head is in the glass to reach the water.

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Agathe Chave-Lucas 🇫🇷🇪🇸 @agathechavelucas.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Sometimes the cat weighs less than 6 pounds and still takes more space than any other human in the household …

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Agathe Chave-Lucas 🇫🇷🇪🇸 @agathechavelucas.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

a butterfly landed in your hair & did not want to leave. I said it was your lotus-coconut shampoo you said it felt like a fragile miracle. #smallpoemsunday (thanks @tomsnarsky.bsky.social !) with the picture of the butterfly that inspired it. #stunday #imageandverse

A black-and-cream butterfly that landed in a person’s black hair.

The same black-and-cream butterfly against a white wall.

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Agathe Chave-Lucas 🇫🇷🇪🇸 @agathechavelucas.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Here's a slightly weird (maybe not weird enough?) poem for #WeirdPoemWednesday about being small (thanks @tomsnarsky.bsky.social !)

Small

I am small
& my younger self
would have wanted more;

she'd have thought
I'd be big by now
(big name, big prize, big house)

but instead I am tiny,
maybe even smaller
than who I used to be.

tiny as the piece of bone
worn smooth with salt & sun
I picked up on the beach today;

tiny as the beige-and-black butterfly
lying in a dappled patch of light
I let out through the window today;

tiny as the poem
I spent today writer;
tiny as today.

I am small
but maybe I'd rather stay
just like that.

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Agathe Chave-Lucas 🇫🇷🇪🇸 @agathechavelucas.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

We found this baby bird in the garden today (there was a lot of wind and we couldn’t find the nest) so we’ve put him in a cardboard box and have been feeding him with a syringe… We think it’s a goldfinch (and hope we’ll manage to keep him alive) #birdoftheday

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Agathe Chave-Lucas 🇫🇷🇪🇸 @agathechavelucas.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Despite her love of travel — she took the boat again this week — Blackberry also loves to stay in bed all day long to nap. During her morning naps (whose rules are very different from afternoon ones), she often disappears under the covers — and often scares me because I can’t find her… #caturday

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Agathe Chave-Lucas 🇫🇷🇪🇸 @agathechavelucas.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

I’m (clearly) not an illustrator but my poetry is very visual (& visualizing poems often gives me inspiration), so here’s a tree/poem about falling down. #kidlitartpostcard I’m a YA author and poet, rep’d by Michelle Witte. #ImageandVerse

A tree whose leaves are falling with a fox underneath. A poem is handwritten between the falling leaves:

with every gust of wind
with every curious hand
with every flight of birds
with every fall
you fall / fall / fall

you fall & do not try
to rise again

you fall & know the beauty
of being down

you fall & slowly learn
to become other

you fall but it is not
the end at all

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Agathe Chave-Lucas 🇫🇷🇪🇸 @agathechavelucas.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

After a week of literally living in an oven (turning on the fan felt like putting on the convection mode), it finally cooled down in Paris yesterday night with the storms. I managed to get some lightning bolts with the Eiffel Tower (perk of a hellish studio under the roofs) #STUNday #photography

Paris rooftops in the evening with a lightning bolt illuminating the sky and the Eiffel Tower lit up in orange

An almost black sky of Paris at night, only broken by a white lightning bolt zigzagging above a church spire on the left and the Eiffel Tower on the right

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Agathe Chave-Lucas 🇫🇷🇪🇸 @agathechavelucas.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Happy #caturday! Blackberry the multimodal cat (thanks @actfortransit.bsky.social for calling her that) loves the train, because she can chill on the seats and eat whenever she’s hungry. (She also really prefers low-carbon modes of transportation when it’s possible)

A black and white cat on the seat of a train

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Action Committee for Transit 👣🚲🚇🚍🚊🧑🏻‍🦽 @actfortransit.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

The #TransitCat of the day is multimodal.💜

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Agathe Chave-Lucas 🇫🇷🇪🇸 @agathechavelucas.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

For health reasons Blackberry cannot stay alone for more than 6 hours so she goes wherever we go! As an island dweller, she often takes the boat (also the plane, car, bus, train, metro)… She’s a great traveling companion (napped on my knees most of the way in the ferry today)! #caturday

A cat looking out of the window in a ferry

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Agathe Chave-Lucas 🇫🇷🇪🇸 @agathechavelucas.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

I used to care about the too-frequent laughs the whistles the oohs and aahs the head shakes and eye rolls I used to care to feel the burn of unshed tears and bottled shame but the truth is: a body is a body is a body but the truth is: my body is my body is my body.

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Agathe Chave-Lucas 🇫🇷🇪🇸 @agathechavelucas.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Not quite sure what it means about humanity that The Epic of Gilgamesh, one of the oldest literary works written ~ 2000BC, is literally about a tyrannical king who abuses men and women for fun and whose main goals in life are to destroy the world's forests and become immortal...

Small statue of Gilgamesh walking on the demon Humbaba in the department of Near Eastern Antiquities at the Louvre museum; accompanying text in French and English next to the glass case. Behind, a view of Rivoli street.

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Agathe Chave-Lucas 🇫🇷🇪🇸 @agathechavelucas.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

It's usually quite fun to be on an island with wild goats...but it's much less fun when the dogs decide to chase after the goats and I have to chase after the dogs chasing after the goats. (In the second blurry picture, the dogs are the two dots ahead of me and the goats are near the rocks)

A herd of wild goats standing at the edge of a cliff; a brilliant blue sea behind and a blue sky with only a few wisps of clouds

A blurry picture of a woman running after two dogs, another dog behind her

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Agathe Chave-Lucas 🇫🇷🇪🇸 @agathechavelucas.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

I'm not an illustrator (as you can obviously see), but my poetry is very visual & plays with space & shape, so I thought I'd post a little drawing of how I pictured a poem. #KidLitArtPostcard I'm a YA author and poet, rep'd by Michelle Witte.

A girl on a sailing boat with a choppy sea, birds overhead and wind. A poem is written in the wind & air.
Text of the poem:
with each lapping wave
with each flapping wing
with each spray of foam
with each gust of wind

she was reminded
again & again
that there would be
a new beginning

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Agathe Chave-Lucas 🇫🇷🇪🇸 @agathechavelucas.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

What better way to work on a (dead) manuscript than with a tiny & very live monster? #KidlitZombieWeek Literary sacrifice/murder is often my way of reviving stories (as in literally chopping off the head & the limbs of the story to get back to its heart)

Black and white tuxedo cat sitting behind a computer with an open Word file. The cat's tongue is sticking out and the cat looks like a little monster.

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Agathe Chave-Lucas 🇫🇷🇪🇸 @agathechavelucas.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

If you've ever been supremely annoyed by someone telling you that a woman who was "the first woman" to have done something in her field didn't "really" count because tons of men had done it before, then you'll love Tapputi! She was one of the first known chemists (regardless of gender) in 1200 BC!🧪✨

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Agathe Chave-Lucas 🇫🇷🇪🇸 @agathechavelucas.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Did you know that there already were petroleum wars in the 18th century BC in Mesopotamia? You can learn all about it (and a lot of other things) in the exhibit Primordial Water and its associated trail, on which I've been working for 3 years, and that just opened in the Louvre Museum!

Entrance of the Ancient Near Eastern department of the Louvre museum, repainted in blue for the occasion of the exhibit Primordial Water, Lessons of Mesopotamia. At the center is the Stela of Vultures.

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Agathe Chave-Lucas 🇫🇷🇪🇸 @agathechavelucas.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Hi there, I'm new to Bluesky and hoping to connect with the writing and scientific community! I write in the YA space about girls in science and/or ancient civilizations, and I'm represented by @michellewitte.bsky.social of Mansion Street Literary! (More to come about my favorite female scientists)

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