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Ali Herring, literary agent

@herringali.bsky.social
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Senior Literary Agent, Spencerhill Associates. Twin mom+1 📚 Eclectic in life & books. I 💙 Jane Austen & SFF in equal doses. #TeamSpencerhill Ali-ens 👽 rock! My site/MSWL: aliherringwrites.wordpress.com & how to query: www.spencerhillassociates.com

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Ali Herring, literary agent @herringali.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
DEAL ANNOUNCEMENT TIME!! 📣💕 Can’t wait for the world to open the pages on Chloe’s story! From the uber talented, belly-laugh and tear-jerk inducing debut author @vickielan.bsky.social, acquired and edited by the awesome @ardyce.bsky.social and published by @unionsqandco.bsky.social!
Crying in H Mart meets Mars attacks! Deal announcement for Vickie Lan’s debut: But First Take Off Your Shoes. Fiction: Debut, Speculative Sandbox podcast host Vickie Lan's BUT FIRST TAKE OFF YOUR SHOES, pitched as Crying in H-Mart meets Mars Attacks, set against an alien invasion, a biracial daughter and her estranged Vietnamese mother try to reconcile as cities crumble, green laser beams rain down, and old grudges reemerge, giving space to memory, culture and identity amid the author's campy humor, even as their encounter with the matriarchal alien leader, whose relationship with her subordinates mirrors their own, may be key to saving the world, to Ardyce Alspach at Union Square & Co, in a good deal, in a pre-empt, in a two-book deal, for publication in fall 2027 and Fall 2028, by Ali Herring at Spencerhill Associates (world).

Rights: Film/TV: Mary Pender at WME
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Ali Herring, literary agent @herringali.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
I mean, Elon gave everyone a reason to return to Twitter today. 😆
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Ali Herring, literary agent @herringali.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Super happy to have this new tool in hand to read subs & client work. I 💙 kindle on my phone but with calls, emails & socials it’s become too distracting! So thankful to my sweet artistic daughter for caring & crafting an aesthetic case for me that fits me perfectly & sets the tone. Gonna go read!
Kindle color soft box Case for my kindle my daughter crafted with publishing stickers and quotes
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Ali Herring, literary agent @herringali.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
So excited! Congrats @lorasenf.bsky.social & @ardyce.bsky.social! This book is soooooo gooooooood!
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Ali Herring, literary agent @herringali.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Agents with clients on sub to editors are like kids on a road trip with their parents: “Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet?” 😆🚘
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Ali Herring, literary agent @herringali.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
I find when the clocks switch is over to 1:37 AM, I’ve made a mistake.
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Ali Herring, literary agent @herringali.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Well, hello (you deadly) gorgeous beauty you…
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Ali Herring, literary agent @herringali.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Closing deals is fun fun fun! Happy inbox this week!
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Ali Herring, literary agent @herringali.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
For all my women's fiction readers out there...this story will break your heart & then put it back together again with a superglue made of love, forgiveness, hope, & the hands of a community holding those up who can't hold themselves alone anymore. Happy Pub Day to Paige! @alcovepress.bsky.social
Happy pub day to Paige Dinneny graphic for her debut novel End of August.
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Ali Herring, literary agent @herringali.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Pretty sure I'm legally required to post this. But also super grateful to be in the business of books. 🖤📚
Publishers lunch announcement showing Ali Herring and Sandy Harding promoted to Senior Agents at Spencerhill. :)
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Lora Senf @lorasenf.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Thank you @horrorwritersassoc.bsky.social 🖤
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Lora Senf @lorasenf.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Finally able to share the cover of the next Blight Harbor book, PENNIES. Illustrator Alfredo Cáceres & designer Karyn Lee have created something beautiful, special, & truly unique. PENNIES is set 100 years before THE CLACKITY but I promise there are some familiar characters. PENNIES is out 9/23/25
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Ali Herring, literary agent @herringali.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Friday is always the day I learn how many loads of laundry I’ve done without folding them.
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Ali Herring, literary agent @herringali.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Sad to share but blessed to celebrate the remarkable life of our founder, Karen Solem, who passed this Sunday. She helped build the romance genre to powerhouse status, publishing Nora Roberts first 100 books, & was also a trailblazer who paved the way for women in publishing.
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Ali Herring, literary agent @herringali.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
I particularly love the darkly delicious nested narratives in @lorasenf.bsky.social’s The Losting Fountain. But out of those, Noemi’s haunts me. I love it but it haunts me. But bad things happen when one world bleeds into another.
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Ali Herring, literary agent @herringali.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Went outside my timezone over break and my body clock is HIGHLY confused. 😵‍💫
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tom from tom and jerry is holding a brush in his nose
Alt: tom from tom and jerry is holding a brush painting open eyes on his closed one’s
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Ali Herring, literary agent @herringali.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
This is the book I signed Lora for. She casually mentioned she had this other book called The Clackity, which ended up being her debut and a book some of you may know, but this is where her story started. I’m so proud to see it out in the world today. Congrats Lora.
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Ali Herring, literary agent @herringali.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
Merry Christmas!!! (This is so neat!) 🎄
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Ali Herring, literary agent @herringali.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
Good morning from someone who has actually wrapped the majority of their Christmas presents, but was so tired last night that they took the trashcan down to the curb and then immediately turned around and took the trashcan back to the house, and then back to the curb lol. 🎄 🥱
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a woman in a pink dress is holding a cat in the hat stuffed animal .
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Ali Herring, literary agent @herringali.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Recs pls! This may be like a very nuanced question, but I need to literally throw out most of the towels we own, & I would like to buy some large bath sheets that are fluffy, nice quality, don’t break the bank, but “ also fast drying b/c some of these are going l to college dorms soon!
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Ali Herring, literary agent @herringali.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
My December social calendar is WAY too full for an introvert.
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Lora Senf @lorasenf.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
THE LOSTING FOUNTAIN is out in two weeks. It's a different sort of book from me & is a love letter to Story. This one is a great mg/ya crossover dark fantasy. Themes of loss, family, & home. Plus monsters. Signed copies from Auntie's Bookstore & Wishing Tree Books in Spokane, WA. Out 12/31/24 🖤
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Ali Herring, literary agent @herringali.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
THE BEST GIFT you can give a child is not a book, but a LOVE OF READING. That may start with the kind of book they love - a picture book, a graphic novel, great non-fiction like the ‘who was…’ series, an early reader, a novel!!! But read together! It’s wonderful thing to share!
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Ali Herring, literary agent @herringali.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Me when I answer a call I don’t recognize and get that little Boop sound: “I do not suffer fools.”
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Ali Herring, literary agent @herringali.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Sometimes you delete a tweet when the cat gets out of the bag a bit early!
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Ali Herring, literary agent @herringali.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
Annual holiday reminder: If you get an agent offer around the holidays, wait to ask for answers until after! This is vacation & family time for us. Many of us will politely step aside, so you may limit your options/offers. I usually recommend waiting until at least 1/20! Don’t feel pressured …
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Kaz Windness she/her @kazwindness.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
You think publishing is slow, just wait. And wait some more.
Image of Yoda unalived on deathbed with x’s over eyes. Caption says “Payment Delivered”
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Jo Conklin Author @joconklin.com · 14/12/2024
Haven’t printed anything, but updated my printer software and now it says I’m out of cyan. 🤔 I’m understandably suspicious. After all, this came completely out of the blue.
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Lora Senf @lorasenf.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
So many incredible authors in LONG DIVISION from @badhandbooks.bsky.social Proud to be part of it. You can order this one today.
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ABadChoiceOfWords @abadchoiceofwords.bsky.social · 07/10/2024
When I was tiny, my mother read me The Hobbit. Then she dropped The Lord of the Rings on my bed. Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark. Edward Gorey. Shel Silverstein. Action. Strangeness. Violence, even. Things kids seek that are sanitized elsewhere. And beneath it all: mastery on the page.
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Ali Herring, literary agent @herringali.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
I often wish I could reset myself and feel all those first feelings again reading a new book—feelings of surprise, of understanding, of excitement, of tension and curiosity and wonder—all those magical moments when you know nothing and everything is new.
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Ally Ally Oxenfree @allymalinenko.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
I hope Jim Henson haunts them all
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Ali Herring, literary agent @herringali.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
I feel like such a conspiracy theorist (I’m not), but is the White House gaslighting people? Is it some kind of folie a deux on a mass scale? Or should we all be worried? I want to see more news video & better quality at that. But, do you question the FBI over something fake? No.
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Ali Herring, literary agent @herringali.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Did we all hear that Google's new chip may have accessed the multiverse? Between this and the UFO/UAPs over New Jersey, it's been a big couple weeks for the part of my brain that thrives on SFF. techcrunch.com/2024/12/10/g...
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Google says its new quantum chip indicates that multiple universes exist | TechCrunch
Google announced its latest quantum chip, Willow. But what really caught the industry's attention was a wild claim tucked into the blog post.
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Ali Herring, literary agent @herringali.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
I’ve been marinating these for 24 hours. 🤤
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Ali Herring, literary agent @herringali.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
I have to say I am completely enamored with the drones/UFO/UAPs flying over New Jersey. Is it our govt? A private citizen? A corporation? Aliens? Another country? Like this is a spiral for me…
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Ali Herring, literary agent @herringali.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Fashion is always cyclical.
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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Somebody said Home Alone is “Middle Grade Die Hard” and I haven’t slept in days
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Ali Herring, literary agent @herringali.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
My nephew got into GA Tech early admit! Our daughter starts at UGA in the fall. His dad kindly pointed out that the next UGA vs Tech game day is going to be intense lol. 🏈 Congrats E! We knew you’d do it! 🚀
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Elana Roth Parker @elanaroth.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Get out of my head, Caroline.
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Ali Herring, literary agent @herringali.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Merry Christmas! This season’s Herring Family Chalkboard! 🎄 🎁 ⛄️
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Ali Herring, literary agent @herringali.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
You know the reason my junk drawer is so junked? Just took a rubber band off some napkin-wrapped takeout silverware to recycle the fork and thought, “Hey, that’s a nice rubber band,” and put it in my junk drawer.
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Alex Borbolla @alexborbolla.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Wanna work in children’s books/know someone who does? Bloomsbury is hiring an editorial assistant! (Note: I am not involved in the hiring process.) recruiting.paylocity.com/recruiting/j...
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Bloomsbury - Editorial Assistant, Children's Trade
Established in 1998 and located in midtown Manhattan, Bloomsbury USA is an independent, general interest publisher of adult and children’s books which has become known for both its high-quality fictio...
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Ali Herring, literary agent @herringali.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Somebody really needs to buy my client’s aliens invading earth novel before real aliens actually invade earth. You know humans need a roadmap for how to handle these things. Also, it’s hilarious and also deeply moving, and how does anyone actually pull that off? @vickielan.bsky.social does.
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a group of people wearing party hats including one that says ' happy birthday '
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Lora Senf @lorasenf.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
One month until THE LOSTING FOUNTAIN creeps into the world. YA dark fantasy, 14-17 y/o MCs, themes of loss, home, and searching for the place you belong. Signed copies available from Auntie's and Wishing Tree Books in Spokane, WA. Preorders and library requests mean a lot. 🖤 Out 12/31/24
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🎃Nunzerwolf 🐺 🍵🍃 @spookarties.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Robocop is a movie about a guy who gets killed on the job and they still made him go back to work
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Jo Conklin Author @joconklin.com · 30/11/2024
If you’re looking for a free way to support an author, did you know you can ask your library to stock a book you want to read that they don’t have yet? And usually it’s a very basic online form? Google your library name plus the words “request a title” or “suggest a title” to find yours.
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Ali Herring, literary agent @herringali.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
I went to Costco hungry. I’m in trouble.
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Ali Herring, literary agent @herringali.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
My family is currently discussing a horror movie they just saw and it sounds like they are talking about a fever dream.
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Renee Runge, literary agent @reneerunge.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
i wanna see your book-related tattoos 👀👇🏻
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