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Heather Kassner @heatherkassner.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Hello! My YA romantic fantasy comes out 10/27 with S&S: In which a dust-fingered spellwright must team up with an insufferably charming (and rather sleepy) magician to uncover the secrets of a dangerous grimoire before its curse claims them both. www.simonandschuster.com/books/Spellw...

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Spellwright

A plucky writer of spells must team up with a frustratingly charming magician to uncover the secrets of a dangerous grimoire—and maybe open her hea...

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Heather Kassner @heatherkassner.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

💫 Cover Reveal 💫 I'm absolutely delighted to share the cover for SPELLWRIGHT, which I have been marveling over for weeks! It's everything I could have hoped for, and it's all thanks to Mary Metzger for the beautiful illustration and Michael McCartney for the perfect design.

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Gwenyth Reitz @gwenythreitz.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

As a THANK YOU to future YOU'RE DEAD TO ME, REED WALKER readers & supporters who’ll be with me from the beginning I'm holding an ✨appreciation giveaway✨ On 10/21 a winner will be chosen at random & announced in my first newsletter! Link in my bio! 👻👻 #WritingCommunity #debut #newsletter #booksky

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Marley Rose-Teter @marleyroseteter.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Well, the rabbit's out of the PM bag! I have a lot of thoughts on what it means at last to be fulfilling the dream I've nurtured since I was 7 years old, but for right now I'm afraid all I have for you is the mental image of me flapping in a circle while I shout, I'M GOING TO BE A PUBLISHED AUTHOR!!

Publishers Marketplace Deal Report for THE BONE BRIDES, by Marley Rose-Teter. Imprint: Page Street. Marley Rose-Teter's THE BONE BRIDES, pitched as Howl's Moving Castle by way of Guillermo del Toro, in which a girl must save her changeling girlfriend from a terrifying faerie realm before they both end up trapped in skins not their own, to Lauren Knowles at Page Street, for publication in fall 2026, by Hannah Andrade at Bradford Literary Agency (world English).

The PM announcement is decorated with a border image showing a moody autumnal forest and some cute skeleton bunnies.

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Heather Kassner @heatherkassner.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Oh, congratulations! And these comps! 🤩

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Christina Orlando @cxorlando.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

I don't know how it got to be the end of summer but... Hi! I'm the book content editor for Reactor Mag and I'm looking for 2026 sci-fi, fantasy, horror, and crossover speculative books! If you've got an adult or YA SFFH book publishing next year please share the link/info here!

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Heather Kassner @heatherkassner.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

Hi! My YA cozy and curse-filled YA fantasy (Spellwright) is coming fall 2026 with Atheneum/S&S! 🖤

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Shen Tao @dragons.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

So excited to share the beautiful cover of my debut fantasy, #ThePoetEmpress, which I am absolutely floored by! 🥰 It's comes out from Bramble 01.20.26 next year! (Credits to artist Kelly Chong & designer Esther S. Kim!) bit.ly/ThePoetEmpress

The cover of Bramble's edition of The Poet Empress by Shen Tao

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Jozette Allah-Mensah @jozettewrites.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

We’re going to GREECE!!

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lauren ✨ read THINGS LOST & MISSING on webtoon @laurenanalepa.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Hi #PortfolioDay ! I'm Lauren, a comic writer/illustrator and high school art teacher (teaching a comics course) I'm eager to work on ya, genre fiction, and queer stories. I'm repped by @sknigge.bsky.social at High Line Literary 💖 you can find my work and commission info at laurenanalepa.com

comic page in mostly purple and teal. the first panel has a black blotch appearing. The caption text reads "but when I moved my eyes, the blotch moved with my gaze--"
in the second panel, a girl with a bob is peeking into a cubicle, asking "Hey Elisabeth, I think I need to go." to a blonde woman, who is looking over in surprise.
In the third and final panel, the blond woman is shown from the front, but her face is obscured by an ink splotch. A caption text box reads "--and it was slowly growing larger."

a two page comic spread with vibrant, sunset colors. The first page is three panels, starting with a caption text box reading "Beacon's Landing, Sunset."
Panel 1: a redheaded witch is flying towards a tower on a broom, with a magpie flying next to her. the sun is setting behind the tower.
In the second panel, she's touching down from her broom onto a cobblestone street. The third panel shows some people in witches' hats walking, their shadows long in the sunset light.

Page two is a single panel of the same redheaded witch looking up at a tall building. A second caption reads "Artificer's Square, Artisan District."

a character design layout of a man in a green three piece suit with tails. He has the expression of the criminally insane.

two girls stand back to back in front of a medieval style window set into a stone wall. The light coming in the window is cold and blue. On the left is a girl with elven ears and white hair, holding a sword. Her eyes are cast towards the girl behind her, and her expression is a mixture of angry and sad.
On the right is a girl with long red hair. She is also looking back behind her at the other girl, but her expression is just sad

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Heather Kassner @heatherkassner.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

I typed The End on SPELLWRIGHT!!! And it’s in my editor’s hands!!! 🎉

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Heather Kassner @heatherkassner.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Oh, hi! I’ve published in MG, but my YA debut was announced this month, and I’d love to be added! 🖤

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Heather Kassner @heatherkassner.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Aw, Chloe!!! Makes me so happy!!! 🖤

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Heather Kassner @heatherkassner.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

PM official! I’m so excited SPELLWRIGHT, my debut YA, will be publishing with Atheneum/S&S in Fall 2026. It has: 💫 A cozy spellshop 🖤 Unbreakable curses 💫 A Howl-adjacent, sleepy-eyed magician 🖤 A dust-fingered spellwright 💫 A barefoot ball 🖤 A gargoyle-guarded library 💫 A spoiled marmalade cat

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Heather Kassner @heatherkassner.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Just…I love writing. It’s like having a dream I actually remember in the morning.

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Heather Kassner @heatherkassner.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

My gram is the reason I love hummingbirds, fairy tales, and writing about magic. She’s also the reason I’m still on Facebook! 🤣 When I posted about SPELLWRIGHT, she was right there replying, saying she can’t wait for publication and my heart twinged. She’s 98, and that feels like magic too. ✨

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Julia McCarthy @thejumbles.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

I simply cannot wait for SPELLWRIGHT!! I tumbled headfirst into @heatherkassner.bsky.social ‘s delicious, sparkling, luminous world and fell utterly in love. This one’s good for what ails ya! A cozy warm heart hug, with the perfect dash of magic and smooches—what more could a gal ask for? ✨

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Heather Kassner @heatherkassner.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Thank you, Elliott!! I still can’t quite believe it!! ✨

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Sheyla Knigge @sknigge.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

So excited for the world to fall for Fia and her magic the way we have 😍

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Heather Kassner @heatherkassner.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Thank you so much for believing in this story, Julia! 🖤✨

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Heather Kassner @heatherkassner.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

I’m so grateful for my agents, @litagentmarini.bsky.social and @sknigge.bsky.social and for my editor, @thejumbles.bsky.social. *Extra thanks to Julia for the Howl-adjacent descriptor for this frustratingly sleepy and maddingly magical boy.

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Heather Kassner @heatherkassner.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

This story (my debut YA!) has been so joyful to write, filled with romantic whimsy and unbreakable curses, a cozy spellshop and dark grimoires, a Howl-adjacent* magician and a heart-guarded spellwright—all the things I desperately want to indulge in when the world has spun us upside-down.

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Heather Kassner @heatherkassner.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Sill laughing, still crying, with the sweetness of this news: SPELLWRIGHT is going to be published by Atheneum/S&S in Fall 2026.

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Heather Kassner @heatherkassner.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Really missing my dad today. ♥️

Photo of a little girl sitting on the couch next to her dad, who she loves very much.

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Heather Kassner @heatherkassner.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

I’ve been long overdue for a new author photo, and thanks to my husband, I finally have one. 🦋

Author portrait of a woman with long hair, wearing a black shirt with butterflies and a tiny skull necklace

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Shana Targosz @shanatargosz.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

✨ Blurb Reveal ✨ Only nine weeks remain until THE UNDERWILD: RIVER OF SPIRITS magically appears on shelves! Get ready to explore the Underworld on March 25, 2025 (Aladdin books/S&S) ✨ This blurb is from Heather Kassner, who has been an incredible friend and champion of my writing 🖤✨

Blurb for THE UNDERWILD: RIVER OF SPIRITS that reads:
An unforgettable tale that ferries you into the dark heart of the Underworld, where myths are wonderfully (and wickedly) real, hope counters grief, and perilous adventure abounds.
Blurb by Heather Kassner, author of The Bone Garden, The Forest of Stars, and The Plentiful Darkness.

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Heather Kassner @heatherkassner.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Really liking my inbox right now. 😌

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