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Mad Woman Literary Agency @madwomanliterary.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

We have a cover! @ccfosterwrites.bsky.social debut gothic romantasy WHAT LIES BETWEEN is out on January 5! #booksky

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#DVpit - Diverse Voices Pitch @dvpit.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

📣Announcing #PreDV and #DVParty!📣 Excited to bring back #PreDV & #DVParty leading up to #DVPit! Practice your pitches during #PreDV on Mon, Sept 29, 2025! Get to know your fellow participants during #DVParty from Oct 2-Oct 7! Follow this account or dvpit.carrd.co for all official announcements!

#preDV September 29th, 2025 12PM - 5PM ET

Join us for our practice vent, #preDV on Bluesky!
Come with your best pitches and receive4 feedback from agented authors.

All participants are welcome to also give feedback and make friends during the community event before Oct 8th's #DVpit.
More info at dvpit.carrd.co

#DVparty
October 2nd - October 7th 2025

October 2nd (Day 1): Post a moodboard/art

October 3rd (Day 2): Introduce your main character

October 4th (Day 3): Opening LInes

October 5th (Day 4): Your Story as a meme/gif

October 6th (Day 5): Your Story's theme song/playlist

October 7th (Day 6): Hype your next project

Post on Bluesky with the #DVparty hashtag. Open all day. Please use alt-text if you post images. No AI generated images allowed. Have fun and make friends leading up to #DVpit! More info at dvpit.carrd.co

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C.C. Foster 👻🫀🔔 @ccfosterwrites.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

30 poisoned guests. 3 antidotes. 1 killer banquet. 🫀 A condemned mortician infiltrates a sentient manor seeking proof of her sister's death. Survival means outwitting the host's lethal magic--and the specter that's slowly killing him. {2027 Voyager} #authorsky #writingcommunity #writersky #author

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Nadine Flint @nadineflintbooks.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

Can we have a moment for Ruth McKell’s cover reveal for her debut HONEY IN HER VEINS? Cottagecore fantasy about about a man with a monster in his head who reunites with his first love to find mythical honey in the woods of Appalachia 🐝🐝🐝

A honey gold background with a silhouette of a man and woman. Bees fly around them. The title reads HONEY IN HER VEINS by Ruth McKell

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C.C. Foster 👻🫀🔔 @ccfosterwrites.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

The main trio of comps for WHAT LIES BETWEEN, a gothic fantasy horror retelling of The Tell-Tale Heart, coming 2027 with @harpervoyagerus.bsky.social 💀 Mortician FMC 👻 Ghosts 🤝 Neuro magic system 🫀 Dual POV Villain romance 🩸30 poisoned guests / 3 antidotes #writingcommunity #writers #authorsky

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Cailin Barrett-Bressack @cailinwrites.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

If you like grounded, speculative novels featuring woman-led cults, unique depictions of grief, off-beat humor, sister relationships, and neuroscience, then BOY do I have the book for you! 🐐 #Questpit #AG #A #S

Guide to: The Magic of Now
The story of a 62-year-old farmer, the goat her sister may be reincarnated into, and the new age cult that could be behind it.
By: Cailin Barrett-Bressack
Rep: Alex Land, Mad Woman Literary Agency

The Pitch
Gyla, 62-year old in mourning, encounters a mysterious goat on her farm that she suspects contains the consciousness of her recently deceased sister, Tina. Her quest for answers eventually leads to ReNewAll, a reclusive new-age community fixated on death and grieving– and with a goat on their brochures.
In addition to nonsensical classes like Stargazing with Your Eyes Closed and Untangling the Truth through Macrame, ReNewAll and its neuroscientist leader teach The Magic of Now, a practice that allows members to vividly revisit memories of their deceased loved ones.
As Gyla grows from skeptic and unlikely cult infiltrator to a willing member of ReNewAll’s inner circle, she must ultimately choose between immersing herself in an illusion of the past where Tina is still alive (and human), or dedicating herself to the imperfect (but tangible) version of her sister that is trapped inside the body of a goat.

The Comps
How to Age Disgracefully: quirky humor and warmly acerbic wit
Aimee Bender: surrealism used to highlight life’s bittersweet beauty
Catherine House: speculative exploration of insular communities
Eternal Sunshine: themes of memory and identity
comp cults: Teal Swan, Mother God, Elizabeth Holmes

A Snippet:
The Milky Way painted across the bowl of sky is technicolor and dizzying. The stars seem close enough that if she were to reach out and run her hands across the pricks of them, they’d snag splinters in her fingertips.
The wind grows louder. Gyla walks towards her pond, the forest pressing into the shore on three sides. Later in the spring, the pond's surface will be laced with pale green algae, but this early in the season the water is smooth glass, reflecting the night sky and also—the goat.
Gyla sees its reflection first, then draws her eyes up to where it stands motionless across the water. It’s hard to make out every detail in the muted blues of night, but she can tell who it is the moment she sees it.
“Tina?” Gyla whispers. The goat cocks its head to one side in response.
Gyla is not sure why she says her sister’s name aloud. It’s a physical knowing, the same way she senses weather changes in the marrow of her right knee. When she sees the goat, she feels her sister with her for the first time in months.
The goat approaches her cautiously. Its ear is pierced where an identification tag had been, but the tag is gone, and Gyla can see the stars reflecting on the surface of the pond through the small empty window in the cartilage.
Gyla knows she should be wondering if her mind is playing tricks on her. But she doesn’t waver in her conviction. Somehow, she can tell–this is her sister.
It’s Tina.

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Sammy Holden @holdencreates.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

SIX OF CROWS X A DARK & DROWNING TIDE A flirty rogue & a haughty noble on a deadly quest must trust each other to gain power they desperately need—if only they’d stop lying to each other. -Sapphic yearning/bickering -Vicious gods -Eye-centered magic system #QuestPit #AG #F #A

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Carly is ✨AGENTED✨ @cjvickwrites.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

SOUTHERN BOOK CLUBS GUIDE TO SLAYING VAMPIRES x HYSTERIA 💋middle-aged feminist rage 🛼campy 80s setting 💋body horror 🛼satanic panic backdrop 💋dark humor 🛼the darkest of deals 💋bubblegum horror #QuestPit #AG #A #H #W #WIP #editorguide

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Carly is ✨AGENTED✨ @cjvickwrites.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

When a cult-driven murder-spree hits an 80s midwest PTA, Janet puts her true crime obsession to work. Alongside her misfit mom friends—a writer, a goth, & a sickly sweet PTA matriarch—Janet must uncover the real monster in town, before it claims them all. #QuestPit #AG #A #H #WIP

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Katy Lapierre 🖤 ✨ @katylapierre.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

THE OTHERWOODS x creepy Candy Land To wish her wish come true and fix her ruined life, 13yo Nora plays the ultimate Game, leaping into a candy world laced with poison and riddles. But the Game's rigged, treats are torture, and she’s one wrong bite from being trapped forever. #questpit #mg #h #ag

Collage of candy canes, a muddy bog, a watch, a lollipop, a girl lost in the woods, an image of a snake biting a hand with text that
reads: trust no one; a noose shaped from candy, dark chocolate, a red necklace, a dark castle draped in fog. Text over a dark candy patterned background reads: spells gone wrong, "ah trust issues," magic watch, time to get questing, torture by lollipop, deadly candy even deadlier games, inconvenient crushes, sugar transformation body horror, bewitched necklace.

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Cailin Barrett-Bressack @cailinwrites.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Gyla's sister's soul has returned as a goat, and her only lead to why is a new-age cult that vividly relives memories. As Gyla goes from skeptic to inner circle, she must choose: an illusion of the past where her sister is alive (and human), or acceptance of her sister's new form 🐐 #questpit #AG #A

The Magic of Now
The story of a 62-year-old-farmer, the goat her sister may be reincarnated into, and the new age cult that could be behind it.
Unique manifestations of grief
woman-led cult
offbeat humor
central sister relationship
older female protagonist
neuroscience meets "woo" pseudoscience
By: Cailin Barrett Bressack
Rep: Alex Land, Mad woman literary agency

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Sammy Holden @holdencreates.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

GIDEON THE NINTH X THE FOXGLOVE KING A sapphic political intrigue fantasy that features: - a twisty murder mystery - sentient, decaying magic with a price - magical history lost to corruption - childhood friends-to-enemies-to-???? - women’s wrongs #QuestPit #AG #A #F

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Sammy Holden @holdencreates.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

WARCROSS x ONE OF US IS LYING A group of rivals get stuck inside a glitching VR competition and must overcome their longstanding grudges to break themselves out—or they'll lose their minds to the simulation before they figure out who’s trapped them inside. #QuestPit #AG #YA #SF

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Katy Lapierre 🖤 ✨ @katylapierre.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

UNDEAD GIRL GANG x BRING HER BACK When Parker's family ink magic predicts her best friend's death, there's only one option—cast a forbidden spell to resurrect her. But an ink demon lurks and one wrong step in the spell will damn both their souls to an inky hell forever. #questpit #ya #h #ag

A image of the dunes at night behind a photo collage showing: the beach, tattoos, moonlight behind dark trees, a couple holding hands, a spell book, two friends covering each other's eyes, an inky hand over a pale throat, a hand sinking into the ocean

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kamilah cole @wordsiren.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

Black girls on fairy tale-inspired covers that's it, that's the tweet

cover of DEADLY EVER AFTER by Brittany Johnson

cover of UNTIL THE CLOCK STRIKES MIDNIGHT by Alechia Dow

cover of WISH OF THE WICKED by Danielle Paige

uk cover of SLEEP LIKE DEATH by Kalynn Bayron

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C.C. Foster 👻🫀🔔 @ccfosterwrites.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

Follow me on Instagram for updates on my debut novel WHAT LIES BETWEEN and other writing things 🤭🫶🏻 www.instagram.com/ccfosterwrit...

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Sammy Holden @holdencreates.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

ADADTxSOC A flirty rogue and a haughty noble on a dangerous quest must trust each other to get what they want most—power. 👁️reluctant allies-to-lovers 👁️sapphic love triangle (thief x princess x knight) 👁️vicious gods 👁️magic system centered around eyes #questpit #AG #F #A

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Carly is ✨AGENTED✨ @cjvickwrites.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

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Katy Lapierre 🖤 ✨ @katylapierre.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

ALL THAT CONSUMES US x CURIOUS TIDES Maine’s rocky coast was supposed to be a fresh start, but what Quincy finds instead is a closet full of family skeletons & a secret society determined to make her the next sacrificial initiate in their town-wide Faustian pact 💀 #questpit #ya #df #ag #w

Collage featuring antique chair in weak sunlight, books piled besides a crooked lamp in a dark room, sea cliffs in the winter, a girl standing in the falling snow staring at the camera, image of the Wiccan wheel of the year, people clinking brandy glasses, students in preppy clothes in class, a teenager in prep school uniform climbing a dark wooden staircase, a skull on a table, a snow covered street, teenagers gathered at a bonfire.

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C.C. Foster 👻🫀🔔 @ccfosterwrites.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Back in January, I wrote about a young telepath named Selena Lotus, her battle with grief, and the struggle of reclaiming her identity after the death of her twin brother left her hollow. I had no idea that mere months later this book would become my most personal one yet. 🪷💔❤️‍🩹

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Mad Woman Literary Agency @madwomanliterary.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

We're spotlighting some of our #illustrators who are available for YA covers! First up is @kelseykingillustration.bsky.social #kidlitart #art #illustration

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C.C. Foster 👻🫀🔔 @ccfosterwrites.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

I can't believe these are going to be in my PUBLISHED BOOKS. I have AUTHOR PHOTOS??? 😭

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C.C. Foster 👻🫀🔔 @ccfosterwrites.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

Happy #IndieBookstoreDay!! You can find participating stores near you right HERE: www.indiebound.org/independent-... #indiebookstore #writingcommunity #authorsky #bookishsky #independentbookstore

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C.C. Foster 👻🫀🔔 @ccfosterwrites.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

It was a privilege and an honor to walk my grandad into my nan's funeral yesterday. Life has a way of running in circles, and this one sure felt bittersweet 💔. 2025 // 2017

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C.C. Foster 👻🫀🔔 @ccfosterwrites.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

I will be working on critiques sporadically this week and expect to be slower responding to emails and new form submissions. My grandma's funeral is tomorrow so I will be unresponsive as we take time to grieve. ❤️‍🩹

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C.C. Foster 👻🫀🔔 @ccfosterwrites.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Query Critiques are open! For more information, detailed pricing, and a peek at the legal disclaimer, head over to my blog: ccfosterwrites.wordpress.com #querytips #querycritique #authorsky #writersky #writingcommunity #amquerying #amagented

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#DVpit - Diverse Voices Pitch @dvpit.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Marginalized creators! Polish up those manuscripts, #DVPit returns October 2025 on bluesky with over 40 participating agents and editors! #booksky #writersky

returning october 2025
#DVPit
now on bluesky
40+ participating agents & editors (and counting)
follow us at @dvpit.bsky.social for more updates!

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C.C. Foster 👻🫀🔔 @ccfosterwrites.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Playing a dangerous game called "How many Ghibli films can I watch in a single day without getting too distracted from my developmental edits?" Hint: I'm losing.

media.tenor.com

a cartoon character with no face is standing in the rain in front of flowers

ALT: a cartoon character with no face is standing in the rain in front of flowers

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C.C. Foster 👻🫀🔔 @ccfosterwrites.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

"Will you carve me open like those bodies on your table?" he whispered. "Are you so desperate to know my heart?" #2027debut #harpercollins #authorsky #writingcommunity

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🍂 Michelle 🕯️ @mdkerkhoven.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

My sapphic YA dark fantasy with horror elements and crossover potential, 𝐖𝐇𝐄𝐑𝐄 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐖𝐈𝐂𝐊𝐄𝐃 𝐋𝐈𝐄, has: 🫀 • Chronic illness rep 🧹 • Witches ⚓️ • A ghost ship 🍂 • Sleuthing lesbians 🌊 • Coastal town w/ sinister secrets #PopUpPitE #LuckyPit

THE PITCH

(Cover images of Where the Dark Stands Still, Midnight Mass, What Wakes the Bells, and The Wicked Deep)

A suspected witch makes a pact with the captain of the ghost ship terrorizing her pious coastal town to break the ship’s curse and clear her name—only the town’s cryptic pastor will stop at nothing to keep the curse unbroken.

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Kayla Hill @kaylahillbooks.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Excited to share that I’m now represented by the wonderful Bethany Weaver at @weaverliterary.bsky.social! 🥳😭🎻 I'm so thrilled for Bethany's vision for THE SPINNERS' GUILD and for the opportunity to work together. 🖤

Image of Kayla with text that says Now represented by: Weaver Literary Agency

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C.C. Foster 👻🫀🔔 @ccfosterwrites.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Since we're all collectively distraught over this fish: what if I told you that I wrote an entire sapphic dark academia novel inspired by the concept of how anglerfish mate?? 😅🐟

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Kayla Hill @kaylahillbooks.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

He’s a threat to the crown they both serve. 👑 ⁣ She’s a threat to more than just his heart. 💔 As the web tightens, the Spinners always come first.⁣ 🎻 THE SPINNERS' GUILD, an adult romantic fantasy #QuestPit #A #F #RF #Q

A violin hidden behind a web. Text says: An agent's guide to THE SPINNERS' GUILD

DEAHNNA’s music gifts her the power to Spin listeners under her spell, compelling them to reveal secrets she can use to protect her city. After two years spent abroad as a diplomat, she uncovers news of a brewing revolution that sends her rushing home, where she’s tasked to root out the rebels—only to discover that the one behind it is none other than her once great love: Zephyr, the monarch’s own son.

ZEPHYR’s city is flooding and he will do anything to save his people, even if it means overthrowing his own tyrannical mother. When the monarch closes the borders, shutting off the city’s final hope for aid, he must decide if he can trust Deahnna with his secret, or if she’s a threat to more than just his heart.

Together, they’ll have to work through old heartbreak and incite a rebellion if they want to shatter the sovereign’s grip on the city before it sinks beneath the waves.

The tropes: music-based magic system, second-chance romance, glittering political intrigue, ballroom mayhem

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Mad Woman Literary Agency @madwomanliterary.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

🥳 NEW DEAL ANNOUNCEMENT 🥳 Congratulations to Isabel Sterling and look out for WITH ALL MY HAUNTED HEART, a sapphic paranormal romance about a witch hired to haunt a small-town B&B, only to find herself spellbound by her client, in Fall 2026!

A Publisher's Marketplace deal report dated 2/5/25 for Isabel Sterling's WITH ALL MY HAUNTED HEART, a sapphic paranormal romance about a witch who's hired to haunt a small-town B&B, only to find herself spellbound by her non-magical client, to Liz Sellers at Berkley, in a good deal, in an exclusive submission, in a two-book deal, for publication in fall 2026, by Danielle Burby at Mad Woman Literary Agency (world). Film/TV: Olivia Fanaro and Laura Pawlak at UTA

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Kennedy Cole (❛◡❛✿)🍒 has a book deal!!! @kennedywrites.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Just dropping in to share this 🤭 My debut horror novel THERE USED TO BE PEOPLE will be published with Berkley in 2026!!

A Publishers Marketplace deal for THERE USED TO BE PEOPLE, Kennedy Cole’s debut horror novel, sold to Candice Coote at Berkley for publication in 2026, by Alex Brown at Mad Woman Literary Agency.

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Stephanie Binx 😈 HELLBOUND @stephwrites.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Hi hello, I am losing my mind over the WIP @polinagipp.bsky.social sent me. She always makes my book monsters look perfect 🥹🖤 Vale and Marian (Valerian lolololol) from the dark urban fantasy I sent to my agent last night at long last.

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