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CL Montblanc @clmontblanc.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

my books as a single image so it is easy to know what they are and maybe people might be interested. both out now with @wednesdaybooks.bsky.social

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CL Montblanc @clmontblanc.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

THEY WANT US DĖAD is ✨OUT✨ NOW (for those new here, that’s my YA mystery about true crıme content creators who get trapped in their own murdėr mystery, and there’s 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ romance and banter and Booklist called it “Clue meets Bodıes Bodıes Bodıes” while Kirkus deemed it “Wry and wickedly entertaining.”)

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CL Montblanc @clmontblanc.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

This is my 3rd or 4th year as a first reader for #revpit. I've also been a 2x mentor with RT Mentor and was a mentee myself with AMM. There are two main things I personally hope that applicants are aware of: 🧵

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CL Montblanc @clmontblanc.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

happy TDOV everybody I write 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ mysteries that counter the scary stuff with romance, humor, and hope and my next book is coming out April 28th

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CL Montblanc @clmontblanc.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

guys has my author photo actually looked like this in the ebook this whole time

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rachael 💙🌸 @rachaelallysa.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

BIANCA TORRExLAMAR GILES When town sweetheart goes missing, Etta can’t pass up the chance to fix her financial issues and debunk the town swamp monster. But when fact blurs with fiction, it leaves her overwhelmed questioning who—or what—she can trust #roundtablementor #YA #M #UN

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CL Montblanc @clmontblanc.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

you can now read my book early 🔪 it's a YA mystery with murder and twists and stuff but there's also enemies-to-lovers banter between an enby MC and autistic LI and you'll have to find out if they maybe get to kill people a little bit too 🥰

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CL Montblanc @clmontblanc.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

They Want Us Dead is about to start making its first baby steps into this world 👶 So here are some basic facts about the book that should help with what to expect and how to categorize it!

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CL Montblanc @clmontblanc.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

autistic people make the best music but then they'll go on hiatus for 10 years to run an aviation magazine or give lectures on soviet bootleg technology

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CL Montblanc @clmontblanc.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

coping with grief in the normal ways: becoming a gym bro. collecting bags full of hair. working at a haunted house. carrying a platypus everywhere.

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CL Montblanc @clmontblanc.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

it's understandable to have angry thoughts about the publishing industry but somehow time and time again it ends with authors fighting other authors—a lateral or downward punch—and no meaningful action

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CL Montblanc @clmontblanc.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

heyyy so while you're taking advantage of the sales how about you throw me into your cart?? 😚🔪 this book is perfect if you like queer romance but have the attention span of a fly and want some murder and mystery to season your banter. it comes out april next year—and that's a threat.

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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 27/06/2025

As a queer author, thank you for buying our gay books in response to the challenges and bans and court decisions, but I implore you to go stand up for your public libraries and schools—they’re our greatest advocates, and they’re kind of the main target of this whole effort.

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Jen @popgoesthereader.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

🌈 195 2025 Young Adult Books Featuring LGBTQIA+ Representation 🌈 popgoesthereader.com/195-2025-you... #BookSky #YALit #KidLit #Pride #PrideMonth

A compilation of twenty-one 2025 young adult book covers in shades of pink and purple. Books featured include if We Were A Movie, I Love You S'More, Love At Second Sight, Togetha, Out of Step, Into You, Finding Prince Charming, Call Your Boyfriend, Chaos King, Hit Me With Your Best Charm, The Assassin's Guide To Babysitting, All-Nighter, Why On Earth, Run Away With Me, On Starlit Shores, There's Always Next Year, We Were Villains, Lucha of the Forgotten Spring, Nav's Foolproof Guide To Falling In Love, The Good Vampire's Guide To Blood and Boyfriends, The L.O.V.E. Club and Come Home To My Heart.

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Linsey Miller │ editing The Alchemy of Lies @linseymiller.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

🎓THIS WEEK🎓 I'll be visiting Dallas this week to do an event with @clmontblanc.bsky.social at @interabangbooks.bsky.social! Join us at 6pm to chat about writing and get your books signed! 📚 interabangbooks.com/event/2025-0...

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Jen @popgoesthereader.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

🏖️ 70 2025 Young Adult Books For Your Summer Beach Bag 🏖️ popgoesthereader.com/70-2025-youn... #BookSky #YALit #KidLit

A collage of twenty-one young adult books being published in 2025. Books featured include With You Were Her, All Paths Lead To Paris, Never Thought I'd End Up Here, Get Real, Chloe Torres, Amelia, If Only, Summer Girls, How To Survive A Slasher, Audre & Bash Are Just Friends, Run Away With Me, Wandering Wild, Love At Full Tilt, The Great Misfortune of Stella Sedgwick, Take A Chance On Me, Donut Summer, Nothing Bad Happens Here, Nav's Foolproof Guide To Falling In Love, Wish Upon A K-Star, All-Nighter, If We Were A Movie, I Love You S'more and Salvación.

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CL Montblanc @clmontblanc.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

This is what happens when you write a NB/M rom-com but then decide forced proximity would be way more fun if they're fighting for their lives against a murderer. And it's available to order NOW from wherever you get your books! us.macmillan.com/books/9781250340535/theywantusdead/

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LGBTQReads @lgbtqreads.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Happy Pride Month! This year, LGBTQ Reads is partnering with @bookshop.org for a sale on over 100 books by LGBTQIA+ authors using code PRIDE25! bookshop.org/info/pride

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Y.M. Resnik @ymresnik.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

Happy Pride! Check out these 2025 debut novels with sapphic rep. Want to help a debut? Repost this, follow and interact, add to goodreads and review, request on netgalley and upvote/review, request from library, review on major retailers, preorder//order. Books listed in alt text and comments.

ALICE RUE EVADES THE TRUTH by @ emilyzipps
HER FAKE WEDDING DATE IN SICILY by @authorjennylane
TARNISHED by @ericaroseberhart
THE BELLES by @lndhop
THE ELYSIUM HEIST by @ymresnik
THE FACELESS THINGS WE ADORE by @stopithester
THE MAIDEN AND HER MONSTER by @maddiesmartinez
THE NEEDFIRE by @mkhardywrites

ALL (DEAD) GIRLS LIE @piperlwhite
BEA MULLINS TAKES A SHOT by @authoremilydeibert
HOLLOW by @taylorlgrothe
IT’S A LOVE/SKATE RELATIONSHIP by @carlijcorson
MY LIPS HER VOICE by @llmadridwrites
PRIDE OR DIE by @clmontblanc
PRINCESS AND THE PAUPER by @isabellekellywrites
THE LIBRARY OF LOST GIRLS by @kristenpips

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Linsey Miller │ editing The Alchemy of Lies @linseymiller.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

🎉JUNE EVENTS🎉 9 June | 6PM | Austin, TX Join @jasmineintheskye.bsky.social and me at BookPeople! info 🫀 shorturl.at/jddMY 18 June | 6PM | Dallas, TX Join @clmontblanc.bsky.social and me at Interabang Books! info 🫀 shorturl.at/2opVZ

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CL Montblanc @clmontblanc.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

📢 BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT! 📢 my next YA mystery, THEY WANT US DEAD, releases on april 28, 2026! if this sounds like something you'd enjoy, stay tuned, because more news is coming very soon! 💛🤍💜🖤

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Elle Grenier @elleoftheball.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

✨🪞 She’s here 🪞✨ I’m *beyond* excited to team up with @LGBTQReads to reveal the cover for THIS WRETCHED BEAUTY, out February 17th, 2026. Shoutout to cover artist @vetyyr and designer L. Whitt for bringing to life the dramatic cover of my dreams. Check out the full reveal over on LGBTQReads!

A young woman stands hunched over a dark desk in the bottom half of the picture. Her face is hidden behind shoulder-length golden-blonde hair with strawberry undertones. Her dress is long with pink and blue accents, but leaves her shoulders and upper back exposed. A white, smoke-like fog rises off her and into the painted portrait behind her, which holds a young figure in white with a malicious glint in their eye and a wicked smile. The frame is curved and wooden, and the backdrop of the portrait is an ominous purple smoke. At the bottom of the image is the title "This Wretched Beauty" in a large, elegant font, as well as the words "A Dorian Gray Remix" framed beneath it in a smaller, sleeker font. At the top of the page is the name "Elle Grenier" in the same font as "A Dorian Gray Remix."

The cover sits in front of a dark magenta background with a smoky texture, and is surrounded by a dot-line silver frame with elaborate detailing across the four corners.

The background is the same smoky magenta as for the cover reveal. This time, in the middle of the same silver frame is a text box holding the following words:

London, 1867. Dorian Gray is the heir to a title and their family’s estate, but they’ve never been given the chance to decide whether that’s actually what they want out of life. Forcibly estranged from their father by their manipulative grandfather, Dorian feels trapped in the life that has been decided for them.

Then one night they sneak out of their grandfather’s house, they meet a sweet and talented young painter named Basil, who immediately recognizes Dorian as his new muse. They agree to sit for Basil for a portrait, and Dorian is struck by the beauty and depth that Basil paints into their likeness—and they dare to begin hoping there might be more to life than being their grandfather’s perfect, empty-headed heir.

Dorian is further elated when Basil introduces them to the world of molly houses and drag performers—they’ve never seen such joyful variety of humanity and gender expression. But, as the barrier between the London she knows and the one she's discovering begins to crumble, Dorian must face the fact that freedom and safety do not always come hand in hand.

The aftermath of this realization pulls Dorian into a terrible downward spiral, torn between guilt over their own actions and hatred for the suffocating expectations of society, prompting them to push away those closest to them, surrounding themself instead with vapid courtiers and decadent socialites. And as Dorian’s spiral of self-loathing deepens, something strange happens—Basil’s portrait of them begins to change. Their smile becomes a little sharper, the glint in their eyes a little colder.

Dorian will have to choose—embrace the wickedness within and allow themself to become what they were always meant to be, or dare to try for something far more fragile and dangerous: a life of their own making.

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CL Montblanc @clmontblanc.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

if you were trying to buy a grave plot but the dude's name was Colton would you go somewhere else

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CL Montblanc @clmontblanc.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

got maam'd at the store yesterday and sir'd today so basically I'm they/themming by PEMDAS

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Linsey Miller │ editing The Alchemy of Lies @linseymiller.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

🌈TOMORROW🎉 Join @clmontblanc.bsky.social and I at @bookpeople.bsky.social to celebrate the launch of PRIDE OR DIE! 📖 bookpeople.com/event/cl-montblanc-pride-or-die "A swift and suspenseful mystery full of righteous anger, comedic cynicism, and queer joy." - School Library Journal

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CL Montblanc @clmontblanc.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

PRIDE OR DIE IS ✨OUT✨ NOW! four years ago I wrote a chaotic gay mystery with zero hopes in my heart—only the desire to make something that would’ve brought me joy as a teen. all I can think right now is just how grateful I am for all of you. love y’all and hope the book brings you a smile or two 💕

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CL Montblanc @clmontblanc.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

✨ TRADE REVIEWS! ✨ as of now I've had four of them, and each had wonderful things to say! 😭 they called Pride or Die "witty" "clever" "comedic" "delightfully authentic" and full of "joyful queer chaos" which is so cool bc that was always the goal!

“A murder mystery without the murder, this debut hits all the right notes of the genre without being too formulaic. Witty, strongly characterized teens speak clearly about the forces they’re up against, with steadily developing action and believable red herrings. VERDICT: A swift and suspenseful mystery full of righteous anger, comedic cynicism, and queer joy in spite of small-minded attempts to suppress it."

“The fast-paced plot and delicious mystery more than carry the narrative. A delicate queer romance that slowly blossoms throughout the story is the icing on the cake.

[An] engaging queer not-so-murder mystery with a touch of humor and a splash of romance.”

“In addition to modeling accountability reasonably and well, the teen characters are delightfully authentic down to the way they each message their group chat. Joyful queer chaos is present and accounted for throughout.”

“Using arch prose, debut author Montblanc candidly depicts the queer protagonists’ experiences living ‘in a town full of ‘traditional’ families with bigoted values.’ An unlikely romance and splashes of gallows humor add playful energy to this clever mystery.”

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CL Montblanc @clmontblanc.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

I always associate pivotal moments in my life with whichever memes were prominent at the time, meaning I'll forever remember my debut alongside 🤪 CHICKEN JOCKEYYY 😏 and that's pretty great

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 04/04/2025

In the ten days since Rümeysa Öztürk was detained by US ICE agents, her lawyers say their client has had three asthma attacks. During that time, ICE has not provided the detained student her inhaler, per her lawyers and three US Senators, or other medication required by law.

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ICE is reportedly violating detained Tufts student’s right to medical care

Democrats say that Rümeysa Öztürk's inhaler has been withheld and she has had repeated asthma attacks.

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Linsey Miller │ editing The Alchemy of Lies @linseymiller.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

✨E V E N T S✨ 4/17/25 - @clmontblanc.bsky.social's event for PRIDE OR DIE at @bookpeople.bsky.social 4/26/25 - Austin Public Library's GAB Fest, a free all-day event ft. panels (mine on YA lit is at 1230!) and book sales 🌈 shorturl.at/5xnp1 📚 shorturl.at/fLgVH

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CL Montblanc's Pride or Die tour April 17th, 6PM Austin, TX BookPeople
Austin Public Library's Greater Austin Book Fest April 26th, 1230PM Young Adult Panel
more details at linseymiller.com/news-events

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CL Montblanc with Linsey Miller (author of What We Devour)
Thurs. Apr. 17 at 6PM
603 N Lamar Blvd. Austin, TX

Austin Public Library Greater Austin Book Fest graphic with a crow flying out of a book and saying into a disembodied microphone Meet me at GAB Fest!

April 26, 2025
Central Library
710 W Cesar Chavez St

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CL Montblanc @clmontblanc.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

(deep breath) I have always loved the white lotus s3 theme and I actually think it's much better than the other one/s

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CL Montblanc @clmontblanc.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

I would have been the perfect ghostwriter for jimmy beast but they were "too scared of [my] power" ✍️🔥

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steven monacelli @stevanzetti.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Freedom of speech, freedom of expression, etc.

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CL Montblanc @clmontblanc.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

✨ BOOK TOUR ANNOUNCEMENT ✨ this april, come watch these four immensely talented authors interrogate one unknown person who compulsively references five nights at freddy's when nervous. touring as a debut seems like an impossible task, but I would love to get to meet some of y'all!

PRIDE OR DIE - the tour -

April 15, 6PM
Frisco, TX
Barnes & Noble Stonebriar
With Patrice Caldwell

April 16, 7PM
Dallas, TX
Half Price Books Flagship
With Ashley Schumacher

April 17, 6PM
Austin, TX
BookPeople
With Linsey Miller

April 19, 3PM
Los Angeles, CA
Annabelle’s Book Club
With Justine Pucella Winans

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CL Montblanc @clmontblanc.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

events news... it begins 👀 (come see the fabulous linsey miller, and I will also be there)

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CL Montblanc @clmontblanc.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

my nightmare scenario is anything where some hyperenthusiastic lady is doing that "alright everybody, now shake it out! wiggle those arms! it's okay if you feel a lil bit silly 🤭 but I need to see everybody moving!" bs

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CL Montblanc @clmontblanc.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

OHHHH MY GOSH thank you so much shelby!!! 😭 💕

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CL Montblanc @clmontblanc.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

😭🫶💕 this is the nicest Pride or Die review, thank you Sam!!

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CL Montblanc @clmontblanc.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

agents need to start preparing for my amazing mentee!! she's written such a fun scooby doo vibes mystery starring a black, autistic, lovable-to-pieces teen sleuth who's searching for the missing town sweetheart... who may or may not have been taken by a louisiana swamp monster 👀 🔍🐊

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Macmillan Library @macmillanlib.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

PRIDE OR DIE by @clmontblanc.bsky.social is a laugh-out-loud funny investigative novel, with hilarious banter and a twist you definitely won’t see coming, but at its heart, it’s an exploration of queer friendship and society. Read our full review here! tinyurl.com/237jejdm

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CL Montblanc @clmontblanc.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Important Pride or Die Facts 😍 If you are expecting it to be a serious, intense crime novel and not Irreverent Goofs 4 Teens, please let this be your warning!

WHAT 2 KNOW
MYSTERY - NOT REALLY A THRILLER
SAPPHIC - F/F ROMANCE
YA - FOR AGES 13-18
COMEDY - CAMPY AND SATIRICAL
LESBIAN MC - BI/PAN/NB/TRANS/UNLABELED CAST
4/15/25 - THAT IS THE RELEASE DATE

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Sandra Proudman @sandraproudman.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

✨PLEASE SHARE✨ It is live!!! 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: bit.ly/KidLit4Cease...

A graphic that says 260+ items #KidLit4Ceasefire 2025 Auction (January 15-31st) Visit Auction: https://bit.ly/kidlit4ceasefire2025auction

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Veronica Bane @veronicabane.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Los Angeles teachers, if you lost your classroom library in the fire, I am a HS English teacher and YA author and I will get you books whenever you're ready for them. The bookish community is here for you. There is no expiration date. tinyurl.com/LAFireBookDo...

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Kyle Lukoff @kylelukoff.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Did you know that Highlights has been running a scholarship for trans women and transfemme people who want to write children's and YA? You can apply here, or share it with your friends, or donate if you're so incline! www.highlightsfoundation.org/trans-women-...

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Trans Women Write Scholarship - Highlights Foundation

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CL Montblanc @clmontblanc.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

shoutout to every trans-coded scientist character

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CL Montblanc @clmontblanc.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

the escape room I just did had a bunch of hyperrealistic poop props which really tickled me so I kept holding them up to the cameras like an animal crossing villager

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