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Taylor Epperson

@bytaylorepperson.bsky.social
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romance + fantasy author if not writing, probably chasing my kids rep: Emily Forney at BookEnds Literary Agency

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Noelle Monét | BOUND BY FURY out now!! @noellemonet.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
LEGENDBORN x ACE OF ♠️ in MYSTIC FALLS When a 16 yo girl’s rage-induced powers lead her to a boarding school in the NC mountains, she’ll unravel a tale that spans generations & uncover her family’s ties to the town’s insidious past—but the truth comes at a cost… becoming a prophecy incarnate. 🔗⬇️
Creepy old Victorian in autumn
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Taylor Epperson @bytaylorepperson.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
EEEEPPP goosebumps and chills and thrills
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hiatus | black as diamond OUT NOW 🍉 @nebulouswrites.com · 10/01/2025
i'm BOUNCING OFF THE WALLS to finally announce that my debut novel (zoinks!) is being published by @binderybooks.bsky.social in 2026!! thanks so much to @emilykaitlin.bsky.social and @ezeekat.bsky.social for allowing me the opportunity to bring this self-indulgent story into the world! (art by me)
Digital art of Asaru and Wren. Text reads Black as Diamond. Asaru is a brown skinned man on the left with braided hair, spotted wings, and a tail, wearing a tunic with black tights. Wren is a brown skinned man on the right with curly black hair, a scarred face, and black arms, wearing a red shirt and blue necklace.Publisher's marketplace deal report for Black as Diamond by U.M. Agoawike from the imprint Bindery Books. Dated January 7, 2025
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leona has an agent✨🦋 @leonahwrites.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
ONE DARK WINDOW x THE LAST UNICORN 🌿witch clans, dead cave women, & angry spirits 🌝three magic users go on a quest to find a rumored cure to the personification of death 🍁a girl with bone magic, & a dead mom 🌝dark, consequential magic 🌿inspired by ukrainian folklore #Bluepit #YA #Q 📖
A teal green organic shape used as a background to “An agents guide to (in one font) THE BONE COLLECTOR (shaded in another font)” there’s a woodland picture in the backgroundPitch & Vibes in black lettering
below the title is a series of inserts with three book covers: “I’m Afraid You’ve Got Dragons,” “Daughter of the Bone Forest,” and “The Last Unicorn.” the pictures in between are of a girl looking off to the side, a girl with a deer skull looking at the camera, a girl drinking wine looking at the viewer, and a stain glass window depicting a knight fighting a dragon. 
below that is an organic brown/gray bubble with text that reads “After a deadly sickness known as Chuma begins to infect her siblings, Olena Thunderchild—secret bone magic user who can make deals with the dead—plunges into the mythical forest to find the cure.”A Simple Snippet
“‘They haunt you. You let them haunt your dreams,’ Olena states the obvious. She’s the one who should be haunted in dreams and life. She is the one that speaks to spirits and has one stored in her pocket at this very moment, yet she never sees them in her dreams. When she’s done with a spirit, they simply fade from all existence.
‘They’re a piece of me now. I can’t erase how I used them.’”
there is character art on the bottom and a background of dragons flying.Reader Reviews:
the list of screenshotted reactions to the story:
-her giving her braid to the fish is so clever. I’m obsessed 
-the end here just makes you want to keep going!
-i think it’s progressing perfectly. i don’t think it’s slow at all. the magic system [is] so really unique. i love the conflict. 
-i am excited about this book very much
-read chapter 1. the ending is gorgeous, i literally widened my eyes. i loveee the setting, the religion, the moon castle
-Well!! that chapter took a turn! I really enjoyed this. You have a very rich world and characters. And I’m very intrigued to see what will happen next!
-i read this chapter so fast! so good
- suzanne’s dzia dziu: “good.”
the background is a girl and in a dress staring out the window
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Ash 🐉 CHILD OF THE DRAGON @ashintheashes.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
I’ll shut up in a minute but only after I SCREAM ABOUT THIS ORANGE BANNER!! AAAAHHHHHHHHH
A screenshot from Amazon that reads:

Artifice & Access: a disability in fantasy anthology Paperback – January 25, 2025
by Ella T Holmes (Compiler)
In orange, it reads: 
#1 New Release in Teen & Young Adult Fairy Tale & Folklore Anthologies
See all formats and editionsA screenshot from Amazon that reads:

Ella T Holmes
Artifice & Access: a disability in fantasy anthology 
In orange, it reads: 
“Top New Release” short story in Teen and young adult literature 
Beneath is the teal cover of Artifice and Access
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Brianna Heath | Author @briannahwrites.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
The vague era is over! I'm beyond excited to share the news that my debut novel will be coming to you in spring 2026 from Sourcebooks/Poisoned Pen Press. I'm so thrilled MJ gets my vision for this book & grateful to the amazing @jennaschmenna.bsky.social for helping find a perfect home for it ❤️🧡🤍
Screenshot of a Publisher's Marketplace deal report for debut fiction.
ROBBIE MCNEIL'S HIT LIST By Brianna Heath
Imprint: Sourcebooks
Brianna Heath's ROBBIE MCNEIL'S HIT LIST, a mystery romp following a contract killer who wants to run her karaoke bar with her queerplatonic soulmate in peace, but when one of her targets vanishes without a trace suddenly all of her rules go out the window, to MJ Johnston at Sourcebooks, in a two-book deal, by Jenna Satterthwaite at Storm Literary Agency (NA).
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Taylor Epperson @bytaylorepperson.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
I'll be honest I forgot I had this app
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Taylor Epperson @bytaylorepperson.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
MY BOOK COMES OUT NEXT YEAR!!!! HEY HEY!!!
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Rachael A Edwards 🌙 @rachaelawrites.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
Hello to all the new folk! Thank you for following :) as it is debut year's eve, I thought I'd remind everyone that my YA fantasy debut, A Fate Unwoven, comes out in September 2025 and I'd be honoured if you felt like adding it to your TBR shelf on Goodreads :) www.goodreads.com/book/show/22...
goodreads.com
A Fate Unwoven
A heretical storyteller partners with an ancient spirit…
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Taylor Epperson @bytaylorepperson.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
casually nods to self while editing, not knowing if I'm making this book better or worse, sure mhhmmm
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Sophie Cass (is agented) @scasswriting.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
A little snippet to celebrate finishing the first draft of the mother-daughter dual POV, eco-horror-romantasy novel that has consumed me for the past few months 🖤✨ #writingcommunity
A snippet of prose, reading: "I would tear this world apart and then stitch it back together again, thread by frayed thread, if only for a heartbeat’s worth of that smile."
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Rachael A Edwards 🌙 @rachaelawrites.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
Want to read a book ft a FMC with these vibes? Then you might like my debut YA fantasy A Fate Unwoven, out in the US next fall with Peachtree Teen ❄️ Add it to GR: www.goodreads.com/book/show/22... #BookSky
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Taylor Epperson @bytaylorepperson.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
my background writing noise for the past three days has been lord of the rings fellowship of the ring. You'll never not be loved by me
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cam! 🐍 瑷薇 @camiscribbles.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
WHY YOU SHOULD APPLY TO A WRITING MENTORSHIP (ft the old guard of mentorships, my experience as a mentee, and Roundtable Mentor) in 2022, I was a mentee hopeful with a manuscript that would later become my debut novel. Why did i choose to do a mentorship?
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Taylor Epperson @bytaylorepperson.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
being an author is so funny because you're announcing book 1 and marketing book 1 while writing and editing book 2 while brainstorming and plotting books 3-7
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Sierra Branham @sierrabranham.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
AHHHHHHHHHHHH Beyond thrilled to join the DAW team with my debut trilogy ✨💜🚀
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Sierra Branham @sierrabranham.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
We’re ✨PM OFFICIAL✨ friends! My debut romantic and political space opera coming Spring 2026! I’m over the actual moon about this 🚀🥹✨
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DAW Books @dawbooks.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Join us in welcoming Sierra Branham to DAW Books and brace yourselves for murder, mayhem, and royal intrigue on the set of the galaxy's hottest dating show! Learn more about her 2026 debut on the blog: astrapublishinghouse.com/2024/12/11/d...
Acquisition Announcement: LOVE GALAXY by Sierra Branham
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Taylor Epperson @bytaylorepperson.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
✨I'M GOING TO BE A PUBLISHED AUTHOR✨ I am so very excited to announce my adult fantasy romcom, SECOND TIME'S A CHARM, will be published with @grand central in summer 2026 🤍
Publishers Marketplace
Category: Fiction: Romantasy
SECOND TIME'S A CHARM By Taylor Epperson
Imprint: Grand Central
Deal Report
December 9, 2024
Taylor Epperson's SECOND TIME'S A CHARM, a cozy fantasy rom-com, in which a disgraced witch, who inherits her father's sanctuary for magical creatures, is reunited with the town golden boy, who is also her ex-turned-possible-assassin, to save her family's legacy, to Kirsiah Depp at Grand Central, in a two-book deal, for publication in summer 2026, by Emily Forney at BookEnds (world).
Summer 2026
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Taylor Epperson @bytaylorepperson.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
I'm still getting used to this place but WATCH THIS SPACE TOMORROW!!! (Or one of my other 100000 platforms)
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Taylor Epperson @bytaylorepperson.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
if my characters don't stop gazing and staring and looking idk what I'm going to do
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Noelle Monét | BOUND BY FURY out now!! @noellemonet.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
HEY YOU 🫵🏽 DO YOU LOVE BONNIE BENNETT AND THINK SHE SHOULD HAVE HER VERY OWN STORY? DO YOU LOVE THE VIBES OF EARLY 2000s PARANORMAL ROMANCE? (BUT MAKE IT BLACK) DO YOU LOVE TWO GRUMPY TRAUMATIZED JERKS YEARNING FOR EACH OTHER AT A HAUNTED BOARDING SCHOOL? OK GREAT ADD MY BOOK ON GOODREADS ⬇️
Noelle Monét with deal announcement mug
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Taylor Epperson @bytaylorepperson.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
the best thing about this wip is how pathetic the LI is ... we're tucking locks of hair behind the ear, brushing knuckles down her cheek, and wait I HAVE TO BREAK HIS HEART
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Taylor Epperson @bytaylorepperson.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Every night I battle: staying up late to edit OR going to sleep so I can edit better tomorrow and every day I face the consequences of either one
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kamilah cole @wordsiren.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
🚨THIS ENDS IN EMBERS COVER REVEAL🚨 Dragons started this war. Sisters will end it. The UK cover for This Ends in Embers, designed by Taj Francis, is here and she's GORGEOUS. Out 6 Feb 2025: geni.us/ThisEndsInEm...
The UK cover of THIS ENDS IN EMBERS by Kamilah Cole
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Taylor Epperson @bytaylorepperson.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
happy "is your book out yet" day to those that celebrate!
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Taylor Epperson @bytaylorepperson.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
returning home to take over her father's sanctuary for magical creatures, Reece finds herself knee-deep in feathers, dirt, and debt, unless she can accept help (and maybe love) from her ex 💚✨
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Taylor Epperson @bytaylorepperson.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
I love editing my book and adding a sentence and then finding that sentence a paragraph down and having to edit even more
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Taylor Epperson @bytaylorepperson.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
thinking about the screw you (angry) to screw you (wink wink) bantering exes in my adult fantasy romcom about saving a sanctuary for magical creatures #writingcommunity
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Taylor Epperson @bytaylorepperson.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
💚🎄🍀🌲🌴🐍🐸☘️🍃🌱🐢🌳🍏
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Taylor Epperson @bytaylorepperson.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
I just think it would read better in italics is all
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Taylor Epperson @bytaylorepperson.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
current writing struggle is "this needs more" to "now it reads like I'm trying too hard" which I could explain but iykyk I GUESS
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Rachael A Edwards 🌙 @rachaelawrites.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Welcome to the world of A Fate Unwoven ❄️ A Fate Unwoven is out in the US fall 2025 with @peachtreeteen , and you can add it on Goodreads now: www.goodreads.com/book/show/22... Credit to this incredible map goes to @nerdymaps!
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Taylor Epperson @bytaylorepperson.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
writing a smart character is the hardest thing I've ever done and will not be doing it again
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Taylor Epperson @bytaylorepperson.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Knee deep in feathers, dirt, & DEBT, Reece must work w/ the 1 person she hates - her ex - to save her sanctuary for magical creatures before all goes up in dragon fire - messy grump x assassin sunshine - magical market, 📚, & 💐 - screw you😡 to screw you😉
3 x 3 collage of nine photos (cozy, soft)

Top row, Left to Right: white dragon between trees drinking from lake, back of a blonde man in white shirt outside, birds eye view of blonde man in a white shirt dancing with brunette girl in white dress

Middle row, Left to Right: warm picture of apples & pie, "I can't say hello to you and risk another goodbye" - Taylor Swift, two hands reaching for each other

Bottom row, Left to Right: woman laying in grass with trees above her, woman with a deer, cozy little house with chickens outside
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Taylor Epperson @bytaylorepperson.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
this time last year, I wouldn't have dreamed of being where I am today on this journey. this is can be such a hard industry, but no matter what stage you're at, you should be proud. You're already on the way
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Taylor Epperson @bytaylorepperson.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
#editors Guide to Second Time's a Charm ✨ you might not live in this magical small town, but I have all the gossip of everything you need to know right here 🤫 Not sure what's hotter: the chemistry or the dragon 🔥 in my cozy Adult Fantasy Romcom ft a lot of fun and a swoony romance 👀🤍
A SANCTUARY FOR MAGICAL CREATURES, ITS NEW (STUBBORN & STRUGGLING) OWNER AND HER PART-TIME ASSASSIN EX-BOYFRIEND an adult fantasy rom-com
A GUIDE
STAC
BY TAYLOR EPPERSONTHE PITCH
SECOND TIME'S A CHARM combines the banter and cozy atmosphere of Emily Henry's
BOOK LOVERS with the light fantasy and second chance romance elements of Erin
Sterling's THE EX HEX
Forced to return home to run her father's sancturary for magical creatures, Reece McCarthen is knee deep in feathers, flames, and debt, unless she can accept help —and maybe love— from part-time assassin ex-boyfriendTROPES: IF YOU LOVE 
2ND chance romance
FMC Grumpy x MMC Sunshine
wound healing 
only one bed 
reluctant allies
yearning, pining, banter 
stars hollow + magic
cozy cottagecore vibes
Represented by Emily Forney at BookEnds LiteraryFor fans of: 
The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna

Book Lovers by Emily Henry

Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree

The Ex Hex by Erin Sterling
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Taylor Epperson @bytaylorepperson.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
draft 2 is so fun for me, like look at this pile of Trash! Let's organize it into what we can recycle and what needs thrown out
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Taylor Epperson @bytaylorepperson.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
new profile / new intro! Hi! I'm Taylor, a stay at home mom & author repped by BookEnds I wrote an adult fantasy romcom about a woman who returns to her hometown to take over her father's sanctuary for magical creatures, coming to face everything she ran from - INCLUDING her part-time assassin EX
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Taylor Epperson @bytaylorepperson.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
yesterday a family member, at a family event, said maybe when my books get published I can come read a the school where she teaches. It was then, in front of grandparents and all, that I had to explain I wrote Adult romance
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Taylor Epperson @bytaylorepperson.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
joining in on Sunday Snippet!! ✨ a peek into my fantasy romcom (that I'll properly introduce here soon!) #sundaysnippet #booksky
I went from running a cute little flower boutique with my best friend to dodging chicken flames and raccoon shit. A beautiful transformation; truthfully. This had to be the punch line of a bad joke, except it's just me— getting punched.
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