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Mac Crane (they/them) @mcrane12.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Hey Boston folks, I’ll be doing an event with the inimitable @thefrankiedlc.news on June 18 at All She Wrote Books at 7 pm. The event is ticketed so get your ticket here! www.allshewrotebooks.com/events-1/all...

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All She Wrote x Mac Crane | All She Wrote Books

Join us as we welcome Mac Crane in conversation with Frankie de la Cretaz in celebration of Crane's new book, A Sharp Endless Need!

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Maggie Cooper @frecklywench.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

so lovely to have you in class, Sarah!

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Maggie Cooper @frecklywench.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

one more week to sign up for my virtual query letter class with GrubStreet! is writing a query letter the most fun part of publishing a book? no! but with some solid guidance from yours truly, I promise you can do it & do it well! grubstreet.org/seminar/what...

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GrubStreet | What Agents Want From Your Query

The nation's leading and largest center for creative writing for over 25 years, GrubStreet offers classes and events for writers from all stages and…

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Maggie Cooper @frecklywench.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

thank you so much for reading! 🏴‍☠️🎢 💃🏻

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Bull City Press @bullcitypress.com · 16/05/2025

Hey BCP fam! We're excited to share that our summer chapbook open reading period is underway. Poetry, fiction and creative nonfiction, we want to read it ALL! The nitty gritty full details are available at our website (buff.ly/qnH1l7I).

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Maggie Cooper @frecklywench.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

"Each new one has its own problems I need to solve. Maybe the only thing that changes is now I’m ready for them..." @mcrane12.bsky.social, on writing a second novel: bombmagazine.org/articles/202...

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BOMB Magazine | Mac Crane by Elizabeth Endicott

In this novel, queer teens ball on and off the court.

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Maggie Cooper @frecklywench.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

& HOLLER, @denalisai.bsky.social's gorgeous and galvanizing graphic memoir about climate activism in Appalachia, out today from Timber Press! join us online for Denali's virtual launch ~tomorrow~ with Loyalty Bookstore and the STAY Project: denali-sai.com/events/

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Events – Denali Sai Nalamalapu

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Maggie Cooper @frecklywench.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

A SHOWGIRL'S RULES FOR FALLING IN LOVE, Alice Murphy's utterly delightful dual-timeline romance about two proud fat women and the people who love them, out today from Union Square! come hang out at Alice's virtual event with the lovely ladies of Read My Lips 5/22: read-my-lips-boston.square.site

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Read My Lips Boston | Read My Lips Boston | An inclusive romance bookstore

A pop-up bookshop specializing in diverse romance. Women & disability-owned. Find us at our monthly pop-ups all around Boston!

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Maggie Cooper @frecklywench.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

A SHARP ENDLESS NEED, @mcrane12.bsky.social's stunning coming of age novel about queerness, obsession, and basketball, out today from Dial! read the glowing NYTBR right here: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/b...

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In This Queer Sports Novel, Basketball Is Both Desire and Destruction

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Maggie Cooper @frecklywench.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

it's a great day for books! congratulations to three incredible authors celebrating their publication days today!! in alphabetical order by last name, please give it up for:

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Jack Shoulder @jackshoulder.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

It's always a joy seeing @museumbums.bsky.social on the shelf in bookstores! 👍🏛️🍑🥰 Two very happy authors in Waterstones Manchester 🥰 @thehistoryboy.bsky.social

Two very happy boys in front of the book they wrote

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Maggie Cooper @frecklywench.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

over the moon to be working with Maia on the story of my new favorite historical bisexuals! 📚✨😍

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Maggie Cooper @frecklywench.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

💜 honored to be in this great lineup of recommendations!

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Xulin Wang | 王许琳 @xulinillu.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

I'm super excited to share the cover I made for the pitch package of my upcoming graphic memoir What We Leave Behind! I'm really happy with how it turned out 😌 Now back to writing! 🧑‍💻🧑‍🎨 @kotalinejones.bsky.social @abramscomicarts.bsky.social @frecklywench.bsky.social #comic #chinesecanadian #aapi

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Mac Crane (they/them) @mcrane12.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

book tour alert! San Diego, LA, Boston, Brooklyn, Philly, & Madison friends, come through & hang out. I’ll be in convo with some brilliant kind writers for my novel A SHARP ENDLESS NEED, I would love to see you ❤️🏀

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Maggie Cooper @frecklywench.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

excellent breakdown of what to look for! (if it seems to good to be true, alas, it probably is.)

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Maggie Cooper @frecklywench.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

truly the perfect topic for a workshop! bring on the strange taxonomies and the taxonomies of the strange!

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Maggie Cooper @frecklywench.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

just about ten days left to register for the always-delightful North Carolina Writers' Network conference, support Asheville's rebuilding, and hang out with yours truly while I meet with writers and eat as many giant biscuits as I possibly can!

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Maggie Cooper @frecklywench.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

out today: PROSE TO THE PEOPLE, Katie Mitchell’s gorgeous celebration of Black bookstores! join Katie and some other amazing writers and booksellers are upcoming events in Atlanta (tonight!), DC, Philly, and beyond! for all the details: www.prosetothepeople.com/events

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Sarah Fawn Montgomery @sfmontgomery.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

I’m talking a/b my @sundresspub.bsky.social craft book NERVE and ways disabled, chronically ill, and neurodivergent writers can unlearn workshop ableism to develop their writing practices with @thewriterscenter.bsky.social on Tuesday, May 13 at 7 pm EDT. This virtual craft talk is free!

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Maggie Cooper @frecklywench.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

I’ll be signing copies of THE THEME PARK OF WOMEN’S BODIES today from 2-3 at the Bull City table! Come by to say hi & pick up one of my fancy new stickers! 💜

sticker with vintage navel photo and text reading “a woman’s place is on the high seas”

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Maggie Cooper @frecklywench.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

behind on my updates, but very excited to have welcomed these two wonderful books to the world this week and last—both Hali and Carla are such inspirations to me in thinking about how we can be remaking the world with community, creativity, and compassion! out now from Zando and S&S!

hang with white skin holding up orange hardcover book entitled THE BIG WE by Hali Lee

hand with white skin holding hardcover book entitled RENEGRADE GRIEF by Carla Fernandez

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Maggie Cooper @frecklywench.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

so excited to be sharing news of @xulinillu.bsky.social's graphic memoir, forthcoming from Abrams ComicArts!

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Jackie Domenus @jackiedwrites.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

AWP folks! Mark your calendars and RSVP here: partiful.com/e/pHRGJ7xAd9...! The event is free but we highly suggest making a donation to LA fire relief funds.

Flyer for offsite AWP event Existence as Resistance: A Queer and Trans Memoir event featuring Krys Malcolm Belc, Zoe Bossiere, KB Brookins, and Jackie Domenus. March 26 at 7pm at Liberation Coffee House at the Los Angeles LGBT Center.

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Allegra Rosenberg @tchotchke.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Two years ago, I discovered a love story hidden within Scott’s last Antarctic expedition—between two of his officers, Pennell and Atkinson. They survived the tragedy which took Scott’s life and shocked the world, but further dangers still lay ahead for them. magazine.atavist.com/from-antarct...

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The Love Story Hiding in a Legendary Tragedy

Captain Robert Falcon Scott’s doomed journey to Antarctica captivated the world. But hidden within the legend was a story that has never been told—a love affair between two of the crew who survived.

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Maggie Cooper @frecklywench.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

if you love dramatic stories of polar exploration & queer love stories hidden in old diaries, well... @tchotchke.bsky.social has a story for you!

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Maggie Cooper @frecklywench.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

“My favorite type of horror is less about monsters and murderers than about internal terrors: the things we’re ashamed of, the things we desire, the things we hide from others and from ourselves.” love this essay from Margie Sarsfield @barnesandnoble.com www.barnesandnoble.com/blog/margie-...

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Haunted: A Guest Post by Margie Sarsfield - B&N Reads

Read on for an exclusive essay from author Margie Sarsfield on how it feels to publish her debut novel and what went into crafting Beta Vulgaris.

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Maggie Cooper @frecklywench.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

thank you so much for this thoughtful read!

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Maggie Cooper @frecklywench.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

always a great day for some angry feminist flash fiction

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Maggie Cooper @frecklywench.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

I'm hearing from my Asheville pals that the city very much wants us to come and enjoy the mountain beauty, spend our money on delicious food & beverage, and otherwise support their rebuilding! all that + great writing classes + nice people—how can you go wrong?

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Maggie Cooper @frecklywench.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

oh look! a photo of my face to let you know that I'm looking forward to meeting some wonderful writers at the @ncwritersnetwork.bsky.social spring conference in Asheville this May & now is the perfect time to sign up: www.ncwriters.org/programs/con...

graphic of white woman with brown hair and freckles with text reading Agent Aevitas Creative Management, Manuscript Mart, Maggie Cooper, 2024 Spring Conference, May 2-4 Asheville, registration now open ncwriters.org

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Maggie Cooper @frecklywench.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

read Amy's very excellent collection!

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Maggie Cooper @frecklywench.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

you're 100% right! I know from my librarian friends that you all are doing LOTS of work to make the apparent magic happen, often under pretty thankless circumstances, so thank you!!

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Maggie Cooper @frecklywench.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

I just went to my library and checked out two puzzles, an alien romance, a backlist mystery, a new literary novel, and a cookbook. libraries! are! magic! ✨ 📚

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Maggie Cooper @frecklywench.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

delighted to see some early love for Katie Mitchell's gorgeous PROSE TO THE PEOPLE: A CELEBRATION OF BLACK BOOKSTORES, coming April 8th! www.elle.com/culture/book...

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38 Books to Read During Black History Month and Forever

Support your local Black-owned bookstore when you check out these titles.

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Maggie Cooper @frecklywench.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

it helps to work with lovely writers such as yourself!!

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Maggie Cooper @frecklywench.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Hi, Alessandra! I accept new queries the first week of every month, so I’ll open again on March 1st!

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Maggie Cooper @frecklywench.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

I am! I open for new queries the first week of every month—so March 1st through the 7th will be the next window!

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Maggie Cooper @frecklywench.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

right now, I am particularly thirsty for queer romance (high concept, speculative, or historical), grounded fantasy (cozy or literary > epic), and literary fiction about gender and the body, queer and trans histories and futures, and characters who are trying hard to imagine a kinder world.

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Maggie Cooper @frecklywench.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

some keywords that always catch my attention, in no particular order: queer, trans, archive, epistolary, speculative, fabulist, weird, dis/ability, theater, classroom, library, romance, quirky, cozy, culinary, madcap, haberdashery, rabbit. 🐇

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Maggie Cooper @frecklywench.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

I'm open to queries on QueryManager for the first week of every month, and there's lots more info to peruse here: querytracker.net/query/cooper/

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Query Maggie Cooper at Aevitas Creative Management

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