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Taylor Grothe @taylorlgrothe.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

SURPRISE! I get to write another book with the phenomenal Ashley Hearn at Peachtree Teen!!!! I'm so excited to share this horromantasy with you NEXT FALL (ahhhh!!!) What if my migraine auras were actually magic? What if the lymphatic system held the power to change reality? 👀 let’s find out!!

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Category: Childen's: Young Adult Fiction

Of Auras and Shadows by Taylor Grothe
Imprint: Peachtree Teen
Author of forthcoming HOLLOW Taylor Grothe's OF AURAS AND SHADOWS, a queer YA fantasy, pitched as combining the romance of A Dark and Drowning Tide with the horror of The Witcher, in which a girl, who suffers from migraines, falls through one of her auras and into the autumnal, wraith-filled Otherworld, where she meets a sharp-edged girl who is being ritualistically used by the ruling secular cult that promised to cure her, and vows to save the girl she's growing to love, even if it means becoming a pawn in the cult's plans for war, to Ashley Hearn at Peachtree Teen, for publication in fall 2026, by Larissa Melo Pienkowski at Jill Grinberg Literary Management (world).

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Danielle 🖤 @ddinatalewrites.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

After a holiday hiatus, I’m back to working on edits/draft 2 of TMTMU, my YA gothic fantasy! There’s a lot of work ahead but I’m telling myself not to rush. It’s okay to take as much time as I need to tell this particular story the right way. New moodboard to celebrate 🖤

A mood board that shows various images of two girls, some in black and white and others in full, dark colors

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Danielle 🖤 @ddinatalewrites.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Usually I’m overwhelmed when I sit down to edit a book, but this time I’m weirdly calm? And excited? I will not be deceived. Where is my panic

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Danielle 🖤 @ddinatalewrites.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

My mom used to read with me all the time, but life happened and she got away from it. I recently gave her a book to read and she devoured it. Then she asked me to pick out more for her. I’m so excited to go to the bookstore and add a few books to her Christmas presents. 🥹

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Danielle 🖤 @ddinatalewrites.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Tell me why I, a person who notoriously struggles with time travel narratives, now have an idea for a story involving time-based magic. 🫠

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questpit || next event: NOV 4th @questpit.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Seasons greetings! We’re so happy to announce our 2025 #questpit event list! We hope you all are having a lovely start to your December and we hope to see you here starting in February next year.

a pink background banner litter with candy canes and simple wreaths with red bows. A green box is in the center and white lettering reads “Our 2025 Event List: February 12th, May 7th, August 6th, and November 5th”

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Danielle 🖤 @ddinatalewrites.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Obligatory Spotify Wrapped post! Guess how many of the top songs are on my current writing playlist

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Top Artists: Taylor Swift, Florence + The Machine, Halsey, Hozier, Chappell Roan

Top Songs: The Albatross, Who’s Afraid of Little Old Me, So Long, London, The Great War, Seven Devils

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Danielle 🖤 @ddinatalewrites.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

I wonder what it’s like to have a Spotify Wrapped that isn’t influenced by writing/book playlists

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Danielle 🖤 @ddinatalewrites.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Good luck to all the eldest daughters this month. I’ve already picked and bought half the gifts for my parents and started planning the baking schedule.

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Taco Bell Quarterly @tacobellquarterly.org · 02/12/2024

Writing is fine. It's literally the most embarrassing thing on earth to emotionally put yourself on full display for rejection or validation, but it's good. I enjoy it. I find it therapeutic to horrify myself.

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Danielle 🖤 @ddinatalewrites.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

What do you mean the next audiobook I’m going to listen to won’t be read by Will Patton???

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Danielle 🖤 @ddinatalewrites.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

I have binged both The Raven Cycle and The Dreamer Trilogy and now I don’t know what to do with myself 🧍🏻‍♀️

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 29/07/2024

hey not to be all corny but please understand and internalize that your creative work is vital and beautiful whether others see/hear it or not and that your creative expression enriches the world just by your having done it

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Danielle 🖤 @ddinatalewrites.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Holidays are fun because my habit of baking instead of writing is actually a reasonable excuse

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wwxwashere.bsky.social @wwxwashere.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

i love fictional women who lie cheat manipulate steal kill destroy. take those male dominated fields. “but what if she’s a bitch” even better!!!! i support women’s wrongs too

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Danielle 🖤 @ddinatalewrites.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Writers this is your reminder to go outside, hang out with a friend, or partake in another hobby. We are so often in our heads and it’s important to come back to reality and refill our wells.

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birukti @biruktiwrites.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

a few years ago, I attended my first publishing conference, and the advice was so good I spent the whole time frantically writing it all down. wanted to circulate them again, and so: ✨here are 11 advice from editors✨

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Danielle 🖤 @ddinatalewrites.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

I’m basic and everything I write is in Times New Roman

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kamilah cole @wordsiren.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

✨ YA BOOK NEWS ✨ I'm so excited to announce that my next YA duology, a romantasy called WICKED ENDEAVORS, is coming in Summer 2026! If So Let Them Burn was about the power of love, then Wicked Endeavors is about the poisonous yet motivating power of hate. Black female rage abounds in this one 😈

Author of So Let Them Burn and the forthcoming This Ends In Embers Kamilah Cole's WICKED ENDEAVORS, a YA romantasy duology set in a Spanish Renaissance-inspired kingdom, about a vengeful teen who cons her way into a high society of elite witches, only for her revenge to be threatened by her warring feelings for both a manipulative enemy prince and the stoic childhood friend who betrayed her, pitched as a love letter to the power of Black women's anger, to Alexandra Hightower at Little, Brown Children's, in a six-figure deal , at auction, in a two-book deal, for publication in summer 2026, by Emily Forney at BookEnds (world).

Over an image of a Black girl in a renaissance gown holding a dagger and smirking at the audience, drawn by cutetanuki-chan on Tumblr

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Danielle 🖤 @ddinatalewrites.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Ahh that’s amazing! ARO is also very close to my next read and I’m excited yet terrified. So glad she unlocked the door for you!

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Danielle 🖤 @ddinatalewrites.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

I would like to be on the list! Pretty please 🫶🏻

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Danielle 🖤 @ddinatalewrites.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Oh sorry, you heard me say “I’m writing” didn’t you? Common mistake. I actually said I’m spiraling :)

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Danielle 🖤 @ddinatalewrites.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

*stares at MonstrousWIP* Yeah…only one thing…hahahahaaa

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Danielle 🖤 @ddinatalewrites.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

What’s wrong with a little emphasis?? I will never understand

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Danielle 🖤 @ddinatalewrites.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Sometimes I lament that I’m not where I want to be. That 4 years have passed and I’m still in the same place. But if I had gotten agented on the first book, would I have written the ones that followed? Would I have challenged my own writing? Food for thought for those still chasing the dream. 💜

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birukti @biruktiwrites.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

✨ANNOUNCEMENT✨ After a decade of writing and more than a dozen manuscripts, I can now say: I am going to be a published author! My debut follows an Ethiopian-American college dropout infiltrating Harvard to scam a wealthy friend group. So, so excited to share this with y'all!*

A Publisher's Marketplace screenshot over a character art of a black girl in a black dress holding a glass of wine. The screenshot reads:

TOO PRETTY TO LIE
By Birukti Tsige
Fiction: Debut
November 14, 2024
Birukti Tsige's TOO PRETTY TO LIE, a heist-revenge novel pitched in the vein of PORTRAIT OF A THIEF, following a hustler as she infiltrates the Harvard elite to steal from the sons and daughters of the rich and powerful, to Nidhi Pugalia at Viking, by Jennifer March Soloway at Andrea Brown Literary Agency (world).
soloway@andreabrownlit.com

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Sandra Proudman @sandraproudman.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Writing and storytelling is one of the most powerful things in this world and we won’t let them take it away from us that’s for damn sure.

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Danielle 🖤 @ddinatalewrites.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Just used “head canon” in conversation with someone I’m not sure knows what that means and now I fear I’ve exposed myself

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Danielle 🖤 @ddinatalewrites.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Every time I see something for this book I’m reminded about how badly I need it 😍

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Danielle 🖤 @ddinatalewrites.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

These characters have me in a chokehold😭

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Danielle 🖤 @ddinatalewrites.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

I have so many thoughts to process!

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Danielle 🖤 @ddinatalewrites.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

This looks SO GOOD!! And I love the pitch!!

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Noelle Monét | BOUND BY FURY out now!! @noellemonet.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

✨HOW IT STARTED // HOW IT'S GOING✨ I'm THRILLED to announce that my debut YA fantasy BOUND BY FURY will be published with S&S in Spring of 2026! I am endlessly grateful for my incredible agent Jenissa Graham at Bookends Lit & DREAM editor Sarah McCabe for making my dreams come true! 🧵 1/11

photo of the first ever printed version of this manuscript, formerly titled BLACK MOUNTAIN ACADEMY

Kai and Harper from BOUND BY FURY in the bottom left corner, a green zodiac wheel behind the announcement with forest in the back.

BOUND BY FURY
By Noelle Monet
Children's: Young Adult Fiction
Today
Noelle Monet's BOUND BY FURY, a debut contemporary fantasy pitched as Legendborn meets Mystic Falls, where a rage-inducing encounter awakens abilities in a sixteen-year-old, leading her to an elite boarding school in the North Carolina Mountains, where she unravels a tale that spans generations, but the truth about her family's connection to the town's racist past comes at a cost—becoming a prophecy incarnate, to Sarah McCabe at Margaret K. McElderry Books, in a six-figure deal, at auction, in a two-book deal, for publication in spring 2026, by Jenissa Graham at BookEnds (NA). UK: jgraham@bookendsliterary.com

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Danielle 🖤 @ddinatalewrites.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Finished The Raven Cycle series and now I need to go scream into a pillow

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christine calella @christinecalella.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Being honest: it was incredibly frustrating that I spent years trying to build up my writing community on Twitter only to powerlessly watch the site die before my eyes in the months leading up to my YA debut. Please be kind and share this reintroduction thread so I can find my people!

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Danielle 🖤 @ddinatalewrites.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Emma if you’re still taking names I would love to be on this

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#BluePit - A Storytelling Hype & Pitch Event @bluepit.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

A lot of pitch events are coming to BlueSky! Here's a starter pack of all the ones we've seen! If you are running a pitch event and we've missed you, please let us know so we can add you! go.bsky.app/UzNMwUV

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Danielle 🖤 @ddinatalewrites.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

Since it’s so quiet on here, what if I start live-posting my reactions to the rest of The Raven Boys series? What then?

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Melissa Caruso @melissacaruso.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

So HEY!!!!! My book is out in ONE WEEK!!!! I have so many things to yell about, but I haven't been yelling recently because Reasons. But I'm going to resume yelling now because I'm incredibly proud of this book and it gives me joy and I'm not going to let anyone take that from me!

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jamison shea 🌛 @wickedjamison.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

howdy, I published a book and finished my darling dark fantasy duology today. I AM THE DARK THAT ANSWERS WHEN YOU CALL is out now. 🌚🖤

a photo of me, Jamison Shea, a black author with black rimmed glasses, a mixture of black and golden locks, gold rings through both nostrils and septum. I hold a book - I Am the Dark, which has a black girl screaming on the cover.

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