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mel thomas @pagemelt.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

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Leslie René ✨ @leslier.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Dear #romancelandia! My debut romantasy MAGGIE AND ARTHUR'S MAGIC MOMENT is Read Now on #netgalley for ONE MORE DAY!

Headline: Read Now on Netgalley! Feb 24 & 25. Over a pink background with purple clouds there's the book cover for Maggie and Arthur's Magic Moment is a plus size white woman with auburn hair embracing a taller white man with glasses. The tagline is Love has them under its spell. It's by Leslie René.

Headline: Read Now on Netgalley! Feb 24 & 25. The book cover for Maggie and Arthur's Magic Moment is a plus size white woman with auburn hair embracing a taller white man with glasses. The tagline is Love has them under its spell. It's by Leslie René. Next to the cover is a quote that says "From their first masked meeting to the story's emotional resolution, Maggie and Arthur had me spellbound" from Emily Krempholtz, USA Today Bestselling author of Violet Thistlewaite is Not A Villain Anymore

Headline: Read Now on Netgalley, February 24 & 25. Trope map. In the center is book cover for Maggie and Arthur's Magic Moment is a plus size white woman with auburn hair embracing a taller white man with glasses. The tagline is Love has them under its spell. It's by Leslie René. The tropes are: professors sharing only one office, I've read all your research as flirting, MCs in their 30s still figuring life out, plus-size FMC, magical masquerade with secret identity, light academia but in a small liberal arts college facing budget cuts way, ghosts boils and wraith, grumpy x grumpy, only one sleeping bag

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Leslie René ✨ @leslier.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

I (M, 35) hooked up with a masked stranger at a Beltane festival. I just realized she is another professor (F, 33) at the magical college where I teach. We're sharing an office because I accidentally set off a dangerous spell now threatening the school. If I don't tell her we kissed, AITA?

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Leslie René ✨ @leslier.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

So thrilled to share the cover for my debut novel, MAGGIE AND ARTHUR'S MAGIC MOMENT! When two grumpy professors at a magical college are forced into tight quarters, they'll have to defeat a dangerous spell that has overtaken their academic building—if they can handle the shared office hours first. ✨

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Leslie René ✨ @leslier.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

Chelsea is such an amazing writer! Her book is an incredible, propulsive romantasy that I can't put down!

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Leslie René ✨ @leslier.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

After watching back to back, I think S2 of Andor is better. S1 maybe has more memorable moments (Maarva's funeral, the prison) but S2 tells a more cohesive story and has incredible performances by Luna, Dulau, Arjona, and O'Reilly that rely less on monologues than on more quiet, physical acting.

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Neѕѕα @nessamoulay.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

introducing the agent’s guide to: ⤜ THESE WISHLESS SOULS ⤛ 🌙 North African myths 🌊 a sentient lake 💀 soul-starved ghouls ❄️ a flesh-eating frost ⚔️ a little heresy #YA #F #Q #questpit #agentsguide #amquerying

An agent's guide to THESE WISHLESS SOULS, YA fantasy

Moodboard + Tropes: ancestral guilt, north african monsters, flesh-eating frost, sentient lake, deadly vows, meddling gods, "her life before yours", "rebel & losing herself; obey & losing everyone else"

Pitch: When a flesh-eating frost starts killing her family one by one, 17yo Chemsa must bring her "chosen one" sister back to life to stop it—before the frost claims her next.

First lines:
Chapter One:
It's my mother who found it first.
I deserve a lashing for referring to my aunt as *it*, but this is considering what little the curse has left of Tata Fatima.

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Leslie René ✨ @leslier.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

pandan latte and writing session let's goooooo

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Leslie René ✨ @leslier.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Listening to Dating Dr. Dil while I clean and absolutely giggling. Nisha Sharma! Writer that you are!

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Leslie René ✨ @leslier.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Now that I've finished, this was about ANA MARÍA AND THE FOX by @lianainbloom.bsky.social. When Gideon said, "Marry me instead" I was giggling and kicking my feet. It's so good!

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Leslie René ✨ @leslier.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

RILO KILEY TOURING IN 2025???????

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Leslie René ✨ @leslier.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

I love romance novels so much because there is nothing quite like encountering a beloved trope and it feeling like a delightful surprise.

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Leslie René ✨ @leslier.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

It is a dream come true to share that my book, MAGGIE AND ARTHUR’S MAGIC MOMENT, is going to be published by @berkleyromance.bsky.social in 2026! I'm so grateful to my amazing editor Sarah and my incredible agent @btaylorbooks.bsky.social I can't wait for you to read it! #booksky #romancelandia

A Publishers Marketplace Deal Report on a handdrawn background featuring ghosts, hawthorns, moons, and skeletons. It says: Category: Fiction: Romantasy
MAGGIE AND ARTHUR'S MAGIC MOMENT by Leslie Rene

Leslie Rene's MAGGIE AND ARTHUR'S MAGIC MOMENT, a cozy romantasy with an academic twist which brings a professor of incantations and linguistics together with the university's leading--and most brooding--alchemist in order to contain a destructive, ghostly magic that threatens the school, to Sarah Blumenstock at Berkley, in a six-figure deal, in a pre-empt, in a two-book deal, for publication in summer 2026 by Brent Taylor at TriadaUS Literary Agency (world)

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Leslie René ✨ @leslier.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

A casual mention of the classic cane toad documentary in WHEN AMONG CROWS by @veronicaroth.bsky.social?! I am obsessed.

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Leslie René ✨ @leslier.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

The kids are learning cursive again!

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Leslie René ✨ @leslier.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

the weather in the DC area is vile, which is fitting, I guess 🫠

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Leslie René ✨ @leslier.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

You know what, let's talk about books. #booksky 📚A thread of my 2025 reads📚

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Leslie René ✨ @leslier.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

time to go back to blogs and stumbleupon

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Leslie René ✨ @leslier.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Brent has been such an incredible partner over the last (almost!) year. You should send him your queries!!

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Leslie René ✨ @leslier.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

I've been rewatching LOST and what show is doing it big like this now? Cinematic, original score, spooky and mysterious? I haven't been able to watch a lot of recent television, but Severance is the one I could think of (though Lost is more campy than Severance)

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Noelle Monét | BOUND BY FURY out now!! @noellemonet.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

We're 15 away from 100 adds on goodreads! BOUND BY FURY is LEGENDBORN x ACE OF SPADES in MYSTIC FALLS ⭐️ childhood friends to enemies ⭐️ ancestral magic ⭐️ multigenerational war ⭐️ it's NOT magic school but it IS haunted af ⭐️ dark academia vibes ⭐️ birds (derogatory) ⭐️ the himbo to klaus coded pipeline

mock cover with characters from BOUND BY FURY with white text for the title and author name Noelle Monét

bound by fury deal announcement

noelle monét's bound by fury, a debut contemporary fantasy pitched as legendborn meets mystic falls, where a rage-inducing encounter awakens abilities in a 16 yo leading her to an elite boarding school in the nc 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 maragret k mcelderry books in a six figure deal at auction in a two book deal for pub sprint 2026 by jenissa graham at bookends

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Ashtyn Butuso @ashtynbutuso.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

I feel so bad for people born in the olden days. They never even got to create scalable solutions by leveraging AI integration

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Leslie René ✨ @leslier.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

I was going to post about how many times we had to go to urgent care this weekend, but I know better than that. The weekend isn't over yet 😮‍💨

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Leslie René ✨ @leslier.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Let me get the convo started! I finished BEFORE I LET GO by Kennedy Ryan this morning and now I'm doing some long overdue beta reading that I'm LOVING.

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Leslie René ✨ @leslier.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

How are we this morning #writingcommunity and #booksky? What are you reading this weekend?

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

I have to unexpectedly move at the end of this month so if you wanna buy my books so I will get hired to write more books, that would be amazing <3

preetichhibber.com

Fiction — Preeti Chhibber

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Leslie René ✨ @leslier.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

niche content, but I absolutely did have this spread from EEK HALLOWEEN by Sandra Boynton in mind when I composed the previous post

The spread from Sandra Boynton's eek halloween with the chickens that says "strange things are happening"

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Leslie René ✨ @leslier.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

sneaking onto nighttime bluesky to whisper: ✨vague✨ things are happening, watch this space

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Leslie René ✨ @leslier.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

the sky was such a pretty bright blue this weekend

A photo of the beach looking toward Atlantic City on a late November morning. The sky is a brilliant blue dotted with fluffy wispy clouds

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Leslie René ✨ @leslier.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

I don't have many author dreams, but one day being featured in NPR's BOOKS WE LOVE (formerly the Book Concierge) is one of them.

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Leslie René ✨ @leslier.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

one of my favorite days of the year!!!!!

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Speaking of clicking links to articles I’ve written about books, NPR’s Books We Love 2024 is live! I have a ton of recs in here. 🧵 apps.npr.org/best-books/#...

apps.npr.org

Books We Love

Here are 350+ great reads from 2024 hand-picked just for you by NPR staff and trusted critics.

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Donyae Coles @okokno.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

My book came out this year.

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

@clearsky.app has been down for most of the past week. Justin works on it himself. He needs engineering help: Backend python, postgres, JS/react/UI skills ping @thieflord.dev if you can help Clearsky is 3rd party, but it provides essential services. For one, I can't do user moderation without it.

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Odette Locke | Writer and Illustrator @odettelocke.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Hi! I’m Odette. I’m a fantasy romance writer and illustrator. I’m here to: 😍 Find books and art to fall in love with 📝 Share my works in progress ✨ Talk writing process 💕 Connect about our characters and stories If that’s what you’re into, comment your favorite trope.

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Brodie Waddell @brodiewaddell.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

How long would your commute take in 1680? Mine would be about a day and a half. @camunicampop.bsky.social has a brilliant tool for calculating travel times in Roman, 1680, 1830, 1911 and 2024. 🗃️ www.travelintimes.org/journey/52.2...

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Leslie René ✨ @leslier.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

When linguist Maggie's academic building is infested with ghostly magic, she has to share her office with the famous (& famously broody) alchemist Arthur. To get her office back, she offers to help him get rid of the magic, all while trying to find the masked stranger she kissed on Beltane 🤿👻

A plus size woman with auburn hair wearing a mask made out of leaves and petals kissing a tall man wearing a tweed jacket and also wearing a mask. They are surrounded by bonfires on the beach beneath a full moon

The same picture of the couple kissing plus the quote "She wanted to memorize the topography of their bodies together, everywhere skin touched skin, lips touched lips."

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Safiya Bint Saleh @safiyabintsaleh.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

I'd really love to meet more BIPOC writers. I didn't take the opportunity years ago on book twt and I don't want to repeat the same mistake! Anyone have recommendations or any starter packs out there for BIPOC writers (regardless of status — aspiring, unagented, agented, published, etc)?

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Caleb Dume @thacalebdume.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

As Bouie and Serwer have said frequently, make this administration fight EVERY battle.

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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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faedenbooks.bsky.social @faedenbooks.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

If you're interested in: a) spicy fae romance b) helping with WNC hurricane relief Then please consider buying my debut, Mortal Memories! For every purchase made through this link, I'll be donating $5! shop.ingramspark.com/b/084?EDbS0p...

A book cover. The title "Mortal Memories" is written in white and gold in the center. Beneath that is the author's name: F. A. Eden.

Around the edges of the book you can see the gold curly frame of a hand mirror, with white-and-gold roses interspersed with it. Instead of a reflection in the center there are leaves fading into darkness (behind the title and author name)

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Jenny Lane @authorjennylane.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

If we can have the snowman movie #HotFrosty and all its ridiculous and lovely magic, then we deserve #AllIWantForChristmasIsHughes! Who doesn't want the heir to the Santa throne falling in love with his BFF, causing his magic to manifest? SINGLE ALL THE WAY X HOT FROSTY #netflixchristmasmovie

mood board for two men falling in love at Christmas...oh. and one will be Santa one day.

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Leslie René ✨ @leslier.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

I have a lot of interesting content planned for my newsletter in the next few months: - How I Survived Querying (aka Mom Advice For Querying Writers) - How I Got My Agent (with stats for the nosy, don't worry, I am you) - How To Write An Entire Novel First Draft On Your Phone Without Crying

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