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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

I am also obsessed with Several People Are Typing!!

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

This last couple rounds of drama made me come back here. I can't do it over there!

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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 · 11/03/2025

I can't wait for my copy! Congrats!!

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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

If an author can make me pick up a book because it has marriage of convenience and then I'm still kicking my feet and gasping when someone says "what if you married me"???? Art! Skill! Talent!

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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

🌼THE LAST TALE OF THE FLOWER BRIDE 🌼 by Roshani Chokshi

Book cover of a woman with flowers in her hair looking over her shoulder behind the title text

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

🛸BEAUTYLAND🛸 by Marie-Helene Bertino

Book cover of Beautyland, all in purples

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

🪨OVER SEA, UNDER STONE🪨 by Susan Cooper

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

🇮🇹HER FAKE WEDDING DATE IN SICILY🇮🇹 by @authorjennylane.bsky.social (out August 26)

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

👶MARGO'S GOT MONEY PROBLEMS👶 by Rufi Thorpe

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

🔔WHAT WAKES THE BELLS🔔 by @zipitelle.bsky.social (out March 11)

Book cover of a young woman in front of a stained glass window

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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 · 18/12/2024

If you have a dog or cat with a Home Again microchip, it's $19.99 a year for "free" poison control calls, plus some other benefits. We always did that and it felt worth it, but we had a dog who required nearly annual poison control calls ha

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Leslie René ✨ @leslier.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Oh this is perfect - I've been meaning to watch!

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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

I reread the Hunger Games last year! 10 out of 10 experience.

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

they got me this morning too on a simple "what are you reading" post 😮‍💨

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

I've been meaning to read this forever. I loved Interior Chinatown. I'm reading The Seige of Burning Grass by Premee Mohamed!

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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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