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Brianna Heath | Author @briannahwrites.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

I have a hard time managing more than 1 social media, but I've been reminded Bsky exists & people still follow me over here 💙 So in super fun news, I have a new book coming out next year & we got to announce in in People Magazine, which was absolutely mindbogglingly cool. people.com/the-pendleto...

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‘Knives Out’ Meets ‘The Addams Family’ in ‘The Pendleton Family’s Guide to Accidental Murder’ — See the Cover! (Exclusive)

Everyone is suspicious and they all have something to hide in this delightful new domestic mystery from Brianna Heath. See the cover here!

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Brianna Heath | Author @briannahwrites.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Absolutely thrilled by this review! 💖 I love seeing when someone truly gets the book and the characters. Thank you @thelesbianreview.com for reading!

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Brianna Heath | Author @briannahwrites.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

🎉 Launch Party for Robbie McNeil's Hit List! 🎉 Join us at the Lavender Library on March 24! I will be in conversation with the absolutely delightful Michelle Chouinard. We'll chat about the book, give you fun swag, & celebrate the release of my debut! wildsistersbookco.com/events/44772...

Background of dark purple bricks. Top: Tuesday, March 24, 6pm. Stylized neon sign reads "Launch Event." On the left: Brianna Heath in conversation with Michelle Chouinard (pictures of Michelle's books The Serial Killer Guide to San Francisco and A Tour to Die For). On the right: Book Robbie McNeil's Hit List with a dark cover showing a neon sign shaped like an arm holding a knife. The sign is the colors of the lesbian flag. Bottom: Lavender Library, 1414 21st St, Sacramento, CA.

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Brianna Heath | Author @briannahwrites.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

✨️Preorder Campaign!✨️ When you pre-order Robbie McNeil's Hit List from Wild Sisters Book Co, you'll get a really cool book I wrote AND a bookmark, a Be Gay Do Crime sticker sheet with character art by @earlronove, and a coaster from Robbie's karaoke bar. 🔗 www.wildsistersbookco.com/item/-Az7-_I...

Robbie McNeil's Hit List. Images of the book (dark cover with a neon sign shaped like an arm holding a knife in the colors of the lesbian flag), two sides of a bookmark, a sticker sheet with three round stickers each with one of the main characters' faces, and a round bar coaster for Coda Karaoke Bar. Below the images, text reads: Preorder your copy from Wild Sisters Book Company and receive a sticker sheet, bar coaster, and bookmark!

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A quirky, queer, crime-filled mystery following a contract killer who breaks all her rules when she is hired to kill someone who doesn't exist...

For this hitwoman, curiosity may be killer.

Contract killer Robbie McNeil never asks questions. Her mission is simple. Do the job. Get paid. Get back to running the karaoke bar she co-owns with her queerplatonic partner and fellow contract killer, Dee. And it works... Until their ambitious new theatrical venture breaks the bank.

When a mysterious new client hires Robbie for a hit, she takes the job, even though it's sketchy as hell he won't tell her anything but the target's name. But hey, she didn't build her reputation by being curious, and she desperately needs the cash.

Except something about this new target doesn't add up. When he disappears with no record he ever existed, she chucks her no-questions-asked policy out the window, determined to figure out who this target really is. But the price for asking questions is high and might just cost Robbie everything she holds dear.

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Brianna Heath | Author @briannahwrites.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

We're getting so close now!! Only 2 months until my weird little story about contract killer lesbians who run a karaoke bar is out in the world! 💖🔪

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Rukman Ragas | ருக்மன் @rukman.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Contract signed, so I'm thrilled to announce my poem, "There are lonely things in the forest" will be coming out with @thedeadlands.com next year. i wrote it because I loved Mary Oliver's Wild Geese so much, so much that it hurt and it kinda spilt over.

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Brianna Heath | Author @briannahwrites.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Just an author trying to keep up with social media here, but hey!! I got my dream narrator for Robbie McNeil's Hit List! I'm thrilled to have Mara Wilson narrating and grateful to my pub team for making it happen! It's available for pre-order wherever you get your audiobooks! #WritingCommunity 📚💙

Cover of Robbie McNeil's Hit List, which shows a neon sign shaped like an arm holding a knife. The sign is the colors of the lesbian flag. An image of white headphones sits next to the cover. Text below reads "Narrated by Mara Wilson" with fine print at the bottom that says "March 24, 2026. Available for pre-order now!" The graphic is set against a backdrop of a dark magenta brick wall.

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S.M. Levine @smlevine.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Available now!! I’m so thrilled to share the audiobook of Less than Perfect with you today. You can listen now on Spotify, and all audiobook platforms! open.spotify.com/show/1yhs3TE...

Now available Less than Perfect audiobook.

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Jenna Satterthwaite @jennaschmenna.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Goal unlocked that I didn’t even know I had until it just happened: being on the same list as a client (@briannahwrites.bsky.social) 😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍

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Brianna Heath | Author @briannahwrites.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

I continue to be incapable of maintaining multiple social media platforms, but hi, I'm still alive and also I wrote a thing about some publishing struggle feels... briannaheath.substack.com/p/juggling-a...

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Juggling and struggling

The publishing process vs the creative process

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Brianna Heath | Author @briannahwrites.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

I'm very bad at having more than one social media, so I've neglected bsky over here, but popping up with my latest blog post! open.substack.com/pub/briannah...

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Asking total strangers to say nice things about you(r book)

Getting author blurbs: expectation vs reality

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OTHERSIDE @othersidespec.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Get some expert eyes on your query letter and make the querying process less stressful! We're thrilled to offer a critique from @briannahwrites.bsky.social, author of spectacularly described “be gay, do crime” mystery romp ROBBIE MCNEIL’S HIT LIST! www.kickstarter.com/projects/hyb...

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Brianna Heath | Author @briannahwrites.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

New blog post up! Hoping this one is helpful for #AmQuerying folks. I break down the process I went through refining my query letter into the version that eventually got me an agent. #WritingCommunity open.substack.com/pub/briannah...

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Dissecting my query blurb

Actual versions of my query & how it changed over time

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Brianna Heath | Author @briannahwrites.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

And here she is!!! The cover for Robbie McNeil's Hit List!

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Brianna Heath | Author @briannahwrites.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Pssst, the cover reveal for Robbie McNeil's Hit List is coming on Thursday! I'll crosspost later in the day, but you can follow me on IG to see it first! #WritingCommunity #BookSky

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Brianna Heath | Author @briannahwrites.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Pssst, if you haven't pre-ordered Couples Session by SM Levine, now is a great time to go do that!

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Brianna Heath | Author @briannahwrites.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Nothing makes me feel quite so defeated as Talenti jar lids...

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Brianna Heath | Author @briannahwrites.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Check out the website I made my fellow debut trade pub authors! We're still building out the site's catalog as release dates are finalized, covers revealed, & pre-orders opened, so check regularly as our list of books continues to grow! 2026debuts.com

A mock screen and phone showing the website home page, which has a blue banner reading 2026 debut books. Beneath these images text reads: A central place to find books from next year's debut authors! 2026debuts.com

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Brianna Heath | Author @briannahwrites.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

New post drop! Outlining isn't one-size-fits-all, and I have so many methods that I go through to find the one that fits each book! (Post available in both text and audio formats!) open.substack.com/pub/briannah...

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3 (and a half) strategies I use for outlining a book

Presented in increasing order of how unhinged I get

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Brianna Heath | Author @briannahwrites.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

Me: I really should do my laundry. It feels like it's been a while. The spider who's taken up residence in my washing machine: Excuse me, who the fuck are you???

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Jenna Satterthwaite @jennaschmenna.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Ah! Do NOT miss this giveaway! www.goodreads.com/giveaway/ent...

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Goodreads

See what your friends are reading

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Brianna Heath | Author @briannahwrites.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Being delighted and entertained by my own writing never gets old. I know the goal is to write something other readers will enjoy, but I am always the target audience and I love this book.

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Brianna Heath | Author @briannahwrites.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Me over here making notes on my blurb request spreadsheet 👀👀👀 (This is a super helpful post that makes the process seem way less daunting!)

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Brianna Heath | Author @briannahwrites.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

A fantasy where all the sources of magical power in the world were being depleted and one girl could create power from nothing and needed to, obviously, save the world. (Actually 1 other person had her power, so I made them friends and then killed off that character. For the angst. As you do.)

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Millie Abecassis @millieabecassis.com · 06/06/2025

Help a gal and add BRIGHT CITY, SHATTERED to your want-to-read shelf on Goodreads! It's free and will make my day ❤️

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Bright City, Shattered

Reine just started her job as head of security at Clean…

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Jackson Ford @realjacksonford.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

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Brianna Heath | Author @briannahwrites.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

New post about the long and winding journey my book went through for its final title! It's been quite the adventure for my little change-averse heart 😅 But I am learning not to put too much pressure on myself to come up with perfect titles for new WIPs.

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The Evolution of a Book Title

A tale of jokes, ethics exams, March Madness brackets, and… aliens?

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Brianna Heath | Author @briannahwrites.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

Not me making a firm rule of no more requesting things on NetGalley until I catch up on my current shelf, and then immediately breaking that the second I realized @allietherin.bsky.social's latest (Vicounts & Villainy) was up... 👀👀👀

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Brianna Heath | Author @briannahwrites.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

Coming out of my writing cave (& doing just fine). I finished my latest book! And let's agree, writing a book can be HARD! If you're struggling, my mentor @realjacksonford.bsky.social has a free guide to help you to the finish line! jacksonfordauthor.com/newsletter #WritingCommunity #AmDrafting

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Newsletter — Jackson Ford

Get Jackson Ford’s free writing manual, Don’t F*cking Quit, by signing up to his weekly email newsletter, which has updates on his books, activities, events and more.

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Ronove (aka S. Jean) @earlronove.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

hey, guess who got Errant Wings and Wherever the Stars call up in Queer Liberation Library?? Me! Check them out! Also, if you don't have a digital library card through them, consider getting one!! queerliblib.overdrive.com/search/creat...

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Queer Liberation Library

Browse, borrow, and enjoy titles from the Queer Liberation Library digital collection.

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Ronove (aka S. Jean) @earlronove.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Starting my Pride sale a little early since I'll be unavailable the start of June... For all of Pride, support indie queer creatives! You're bound to find some really, really good & unique stuff. All my ebooks are 50% off over on itchio, so be sure to check them out, too! 🌈 itch.io/s/153748/202...

A pride sale ad. Along the top is a cream colored banner with two rainbows on either side and the text reads: "Pride 2025 Sale! Ebooks 50% off!" Below it has the background of a faded out library shelf with Vahn holding a stack of books to the side and smiling at the deal he got on so many books. At the lower left corner are a bunch of book covers haphazardly pasted together, each one by S. Jean. The text on this part of the image reads: "This Pride, support a queer creative! Find all my ebooks 50% OFF at my itchio! https://itch.io/s/153748/2025-pride-sale"

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Jenna Satterthwaite @jennaschmenna.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

y'all, my client @chuckstorla.com's hilarious, satirical murder mystery is "READ NOW" on Netgalley and readers are eating it up like candy--RUN DON'T WALK!!!! @stormliterary.bsky.social

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Claire Barner | Sci-fi Romance Writer @clairebarner.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Doing a signed ARC giveaway of Moonrising over on Instagram!

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Brianna Heath | Author @briannahwrites.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

⏬️Critique or positivity pass!⏬️

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Gabino Iglesias @gabino.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Real publishers don’t ask you for money. Real agents don’t ask you for money.

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Brianna Heath | Author @briannahwrites.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Back on my blog shenanigans! Having a call with an agent is really exciting and also ULTIMATE BRAIN CHAOS TIME. So here's a bit about what I did to help tame the brain chaos before my first agent call last year! open.substack.com/pub/briannah...

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Preparing my neurodivergent brain for "The Call"

"Hi, I'm Brianna and I'm a mess!"

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Brianna Heath | Author @briannahwrites.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Reminder to agents that it only takes a minute to go remove "why are you the best person to tell this story?" from your QM form and stop making authors uncomfortable/making marginalized authors feel like they have to disclose parts of their identity they don't want to! #AskAgent #WritingCommunity

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Soumi Roy🏳️‍🌈🇮🇳 in 🇰🇷 @soumiroy1.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

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! www.32auctions.com/HelpSoumiReb...

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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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Brianna Heath | Author @briannahwrites.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Have hit the 50% mark for my new WIP so I thought I'd throw together a little guide to celebrate... 👀🗡️🏚️

Image of a large Victorian mansion lit up at night, and text: A Guide to Murder Estate (WIP). Be family, do crime.

Pitch. For generations, the Pendleton family has produced a long line of thieves, forgers, grifters, smugglers, and yes, killers. When Emmeline Pendleton plans a celebration for the patriarch’s 90th birthday, the family’s grand Victorian estate fills up with relatives. Old grudges and rivalries immediately begin to simmer, but when a dead body shows up in the garden fountain, the heat turns up.

Although each person claims not to know the victim or to have killed him, Em knows the culprit must be someone at this party, and their secrets could endanger the whole family. To protect the people she loves, she's determined to find the killer, but the secrets and lies her investigation unearths may tear the family apart along the way.

Snippet: In the center of the garden sat a fountain with three sculpted tiers rising from a carved stone base. Among the lilies and clumps of algae in the lower basin was a body, facedown, wearing a very bloody shirt.

Well, fuck.

This most certainly was not in the spreadsheet.

For fans of... Knives Out, Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone, Microsoft Excel, and Clue.

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Brianna Heath | Author @briannahwrites.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

Did I attend a Catholic funeral mass this morning with a priest who didn't seem to know what he was doing? Yes. Do I want to write a book now with a grifter who pretends to be a priest and is very bad at it? Also yes 😂

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Brianna Heath | Author @briannahwrites.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

In the nicest way possible, nobody cares about you. They're in their own worlds with their own worries and not caring about you or some awkward thing you said/did that you keep dwelling on. You do not need to spend time worrying others think badly of you because they're not thinking of you at all.

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