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Courtney Floyd @courtney-floyd.com · 18h

94 and I'm going to collapse into bed now because I have a very early day tomorrow

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Courtney Floyd @courtney-floyd.com · 24/09/2026

90! And I'm working on three things that I'm hoping to have ready to submit in October. Maybe I can do the thing. 😮‍💨

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Courtney Floyd @courtney-floyd.com · 24/09/2026

89 and running out of time 😅 will I get to 100 by the end of the calendar year???? stay tuned

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MK Hardy @mkhardywrites.com · 24/09/2026

The Haunting of Avis Lovelock is now out in paperback, ebook, and audiobook from @solarisbooks. Join Avis and the other passengers of the Excambion as they undertake a transatlantic crossing full of ghosts, mysterious lights on the water, and hidden secrets... Get your copy today! geni.us/avisl

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Courtney Floyd @courtney-floyd.com · 21/09/2026

chapstick (why flavored if not snack)

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Courtney Floyd @courtney-floyd.com · 15/09/2026

I use music to think about character arcs when I'm drafting, and so instead of theme songs I usually have a status quo song and an end of arc song (or songs) for my MCs.

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Rebecca Matte @rebeccamatte.com · 14/09/2026

I am officially open to queries! My plan is to stay open until I reach 250, with the goal of opening periodically (every other month?) once I find a balance. #amquerying #amwriting #literaryagent

Instagram graphic with text covering it that says “my QM inbox is open!”

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Courtney Floyd @courtney-floyd.com · 08/09/2026

reposting this thread because instant TBR 👀👀👀

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Rebecca Matte @rebeccamatte.com · 04/09/2026

I am opening to 250 new #queries on September 14! I have an evergreen #mswl but some things I am particularly excited about right now are in the thread below! I'm actively looking for some new authors to work with at KT, & I can't wait to see what you have for me 👀 #amquerying #amwriting #agenting

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Manuscript Wishlist — Rebecca Matte | Matter Services, LLC

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Erik Grove @erikgrove.com · 02/09/2026

Put me on your 2027 lists. I swear I will be super normal about it. I might make you soup. … what do you mean that’s not normal

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Small Wonders @smallwondersmag.com · 25/08/2026

Ever wanted to know what goes on behind the curtain at Small Wonders? We are looking for more first readers! If you're interested to help make the magic happen, fill out this form: airtable.com/applzdlHLTpe...

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Kermit the Frog Peeks from Curtains

Alt: Kermit the Frog Peeks from behind the stage curtain on the Muppet Show, and encourages folks to fill out the first reader form for Small Wonders.

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Courtney Floyd @courtney-floyd.com · 25/08/2026

fuck it we're going low tech

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Rebecca Matte @rebeccamatte.com · 25/08/2026

Big news! I’m delighted to share that today I started a new role as Agent at @ktliterary.bsky.social literary! Both my evergreen #MSWL and details about my entirely separate legal practice Matter Services LLC can be found here: www.rebeccamatte.com.

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Courtney Floyd @courtney-floyd.com · 19/08/2026

late to the party but I hear we're posting about our books? here's me posing a blow-up of my cover for HIGHER MAGIC, aka my favorite object from debut year magic grad school from a 1st-gen pov replete with disability rep, talking skull, irreverent Jane Austen quotes, love, & collective action

Me, hand on hip and smiling giddily at the camera while holding a giant foam sign with the cover of HIGHER MAGIC on it. I'm wearing my grad school union shirt, which reads I like big books & I cannot lie.

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Courtney Floyd @courtney-floyd.com · 14/08/2026

En route to Providence to check out Necronomicon! This is the first con I haven't been on programming for in over a year, and I'm excited to just hang out.

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Courtney Floyd @courtney-floyd.com · 13/08/2026

I signed the contract this week, so that means I can share that I'll have a poem out with @strangehorizons.bsky.social in the nearish future! This one came about because I wanted to write a horror poem and ALSO (subconsciously) bc I ate fiddlehead ferns for the first time this year 😅

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Leanne (L. A.) Schwartz @schwartzwords.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Fyi it can be a challenge finding copies of My Kind of Trouble in the US but the ebook will be a daily deal this Tuesday (I think like $1-2?) if you’re wanting to check it out💗

"That rare kind of voice that leaps off the page. A knock-out adult romance debut."
-Courtney Kae, author of In the Event of Love
"Fabulously well crafted and full of all the charm in the world. These characters grabbed my heart and didn't let go.
Schwartz is one to watch."
-Charlotte Stein, author of When Grumpy Met Sunshine
"Schwartz proves herself a worthy successor to Meredith Willson."
-Publishers Weekly
"Are you checking anything out?" "Oh, definitely."
L.A. SCHWARTZ
A slick conwoman selling a fake music festival meets her match in a hot and nerdy autistic small-town librarian fighting book bans, in this gender-swapped homage to The Music Man perfect for fans of Spoiler Alert and Act Your Age, Eve Brown.

US print/ebook/audiobook • UK paperback (FREE US/world shipping from Blackwell's) / ebook

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

yall (writers, researchers, etc) are using zotero, right. open-source bibliography software that saves all your sources & notes? i realize i sound like an insta influencer but it's the only thing in my life that is even slightly organized. i still have my notes from grad school!!

screenshot of a bibliography. A book called "At Home with Empire: Metropolitan Culture..." is highlighted. Notes on the side talk about the duality of domestic/foreign, home/other, and the family metaphor in imperial Britain. Ch. 3: A homogenous society? Britain's internal 'others', Laura Tabili

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Courtney Floyd @courtney-floyd.com · 30/07/2026

*Squints at that Wired article. Wearily taps the sign.*

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Small Wonders @smallwondersmag.com · 27/07/2026

Every time someone subscribes to a SFF magazine, a wonder gets its wings. And also, authors and artists get paid. It's pretty neat. Subscribe to Small Wonders today! store.smallwondersma...

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Mari Ness, writer of things @mariness.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

And we now have an OFFICIAL HUGO AWARD FOR BEST POEM! (until at least 2029, heh) (when we get to do all of this ratification stuff AGAIN)

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Courtney Floyd @courtney-floyd.com · 23/07/2026

Experimenting with scraps. No idea what I’m doing with this but it’s fun!

An appliqué made out of a block print of a pocket sized fountain pen and a blot of ink made of purple bat motif fabric.

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Erik Grove @erikgrove.com · 18/07/2026

Who wants to see something cool? 😎 🐕 ✨ Releasing March 2, 2027. Preorders coming soon. thelongredtomorrow.com for updates!

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K.A. Doore @kadoore.com · 18/07/2026

Some of us had life get in the way Some of us had breakdowns Some of us were focusing on just keeping our head above water Some of us wrote books that simply went nowhere... several times And some of us had all of the above

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Courtney Floyd @courtney-floyd.com · 17/07/2026

Summer hangs at the river near the willows hit just a little different with my current audiobook selection 😅

Languid river with willows clustering in the background.

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Allison Pottern @apottern.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Logan's raising money to be able to attend @viableparadise.bsky.social. This workshop changed my life, I'm not even joking, so I know what kind of impact it can have on a spec fic writer's confidence and career. Let's support them a/o signal boost! 🚀 gofund.me/c6ded66a9

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Donate to Help Send Logan to Viable Paradise!, organized by Logan Hoffman-Smith

Hello!! I’m Logan (they/them) a queer Hong Kong-born adoptee SF/F writer from … Logan Hoffman-Smith needs your support for Help Send Logan to Viable Paradise!

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Courtney Floyd @courtney-floyd.com · 17/07/2026

Apropos of too many things lately, here's a spite poem I wrote a few weeks ago **makes unflinching eye contact while jamming more em dashes in** full disrespect to anyone writing with AI and also to the idea that we should change our voices and styles because the plagiarism machine is copying us

I will not cede my em dashes
I gathered them over countless afternoons in the languorous haze of foxing pages––breathing in the must of bygone times.

I unearthed them in a hundred many-branching conversations––no eye contact, just enthusiasm and did you know that rabbit trailing bliss.

I knelt at Emily Dickinson’s feet, and Emily Brontë’s, felt the press of punctuation against each shoulder––a knighting. A charge.

I will not cede them. I am oath-bound, sworn in fealty to complexity, to the broken, never-ending word. I must wield––.

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Courtney Floyd @courtney-floyd.com · 16/07/2026

HAPPY BOOK DAY @mkhardywrites.com! pool reading party anyone?🌊

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OTHERSIDE @othersidespec.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

ICYMI, we are OPEN to original fiction and poetry by 2SLGBTQIA+ authors through July 21st! We're having the best time reading your wonderful work. Still deciding what to send us? We asked our reading team what they'd like to see more of, and they answered! Guidelines: othersidespec.com/guidelines

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Courtney Floyd @courtney-floyd.com · 09/07/2026

Day 8: I read "The Cleave" by Peter M. Ball. It's a fascinating take on a multiverse story that feels really resonant. And it taught me a new word. "Rort." #StoryADay

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The Cleave - Small Wonders

My father abandoned us after my eighth birthday, driving his Mercedes into a winter storm after using Cleave in the study.

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Unfortunately... Podcast @unfortunatelypod.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

INCOMING! We're going to be at @readercon.bsky.social and perhaps doing some pod recording. Find Courtney or Mona for info and swag!

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Authors Against Book Bans @authorsabb.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Join @authorlevai.bsky.social and others for their ReaderCon panel “Fighting for the Freedom to Read“ schedule.readercon.org/id/2a57472c-...

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Readercon 35 Program Guide

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Courtney Floyd @courtney-floyd.com · 07/07/2026

I think I might have auto approval for Tanya Huff's new work on netgalley? What a world. 🤩 The comps, y'all The tongue-in-cheek tip of the title to Saved By the Bell The fact that it's focused on the teachers ahhh it's gonna be fun I can tell

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Saved by the Spell by Tanya Huff: 9780756420611 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

Abbott Elementary, but make it magical: from the beloved Tanya Huff comes a new cozy fantasy novel perfect for fans of The Grimoire Grammar School Parent Teacher Association At the High School for M...

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Courtney Floyd @courtney-floyd.com · 07/07/2026

For context weird af is high praise

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Courtney Floyd @courtney-floyd.com · 04/07/2026

87! How does this feel feasible all of a sudden

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Courtney Floyd @courtney-floyd.com · 02/07/2026

Day 2: another friend story day! I read "Vitrification" by @callmeishmael.bsky.social, and I'll let my reading notes speak for themselves: Damn. It’s kind of like that Patrick Swayze pottery scene but make it gay necromancy dammmmmmn. #StoryADay

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Vitrification - OTHERSIDE

By the time you come to your senses, his parents have already arranged for him to be burned. Your rage can’t save his body, but you rescue him from them one last time. You spin and spin the cold metal...

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Courtney Floyd @courtney-floyd.com · 02/07/2026

OKAY! Inspired by @bzelkovich.bsky.social and my oft muttered resolution to read more short fic, I am embarking on a quest to read and post about 1 short story every day this month. #StoryADay I shall thread all of them here.

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Courtney Floyd @courtney-floyd.com · 01/07/2026

It's been a minute since I've posted about HIGHER MAGIC, my debut fantasy novel. So, hey! It's disability pride and if you like magic academia, disability justice, stories with collective action, and/or snarky narration skulls have I got the book for you!

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Viable Paradise @viableparadise.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Notifications have been sent out. If you applied this year and have not heard from us, first check your spam filter. If that doesn’t help, please contact us here or at the contact at viableparadise.com email.

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