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Madeline "Maddog" White @lightinthegrimdark.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

The roofs of the sod houses in my post-apocalyptic society, and the eyes of my gay gangster love interest

Madeline "Maddog" White @lightinthegrimdark.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Good girls don't take dangerous investigations into their own hands, but Liv's used to being a disappointment. Art by @smallbentosakura.bsky.social #TheEnd #amquerying #dystopiansuspense

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Madeline "Maddog" White @lightinthegrimdark.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

I've got a gangster body horror short coming up in the brand new pub SLUGGER!

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Madeline "Maddog" White @lightinthegrimdark.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Unfortunately this scene from my dystopian book is entirely based on the reality of the dish return at my college :( #amquerying

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Madeline "Maddog" White @lightinthegrimdark.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

My bestie got an agent, and one of my favorite books ever is one step closer to being in the world!!!!!

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Madeline "Maddog" White @lightinthegrimdark.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Don't worry "Smart Bitches, Trashy Books" - I am.

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Madeline "Maddog" White @lightinthegrimdark.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

So if a salad is more than 23 bites big it becomes a Caesar by the end?

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Madeline "Maddog" White @lightinthegrimdark.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

"Prey animal rage" and "predator animal fear"? That's just the two POVs in #TheScourge

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Madeline "Maddog" White @lightinthegrimdark.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Me: Why is this playlist so sad? Also Me: Oh wait this is my Dead Deer Playlist #ASOFTPLACETOLAND #amquerying

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Madeline "Maddog" White @lightinthegrimdark.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Watching in real time as people seriously propose your dystopia as a solution 👀👀👀👀 #THE_END - adult gritty dystopia coming to the query trenches soon! #author #dystopia #amquerying

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Madeline "Maddog" White @lightinthegrimdark.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Love is love, sure, but confusing hatelovefucking is also confusing hatelovefucking and we should honor that in all orientations 😇 #TheScourge #WIP

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Madeline "Maddog" White @lightinthegrimdark.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

To say I'm absolutely wrecked by Andor (and the following rewatch of Rogue One) would be a woeful understatement.

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Madeline "Maddog" White @lightinthegrimdark.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Do you love toxic mlm relationships where the energy is Chokehold by Sleep Token? If so, Scourge is the book for you. open.spotify.com/track/0JzQSY...

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Chokehold

Sleep Token · Vore · Song · 2023

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Madeline "Maddog" White @lightinthegrimdark.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

My story “The Day They Shot Khalil Rucker” is in an antifa lit journal, and they’re giving copies to folks who back the kickstarter for a volume 2! Help support people using art to push back on the rise of fascism by backing here: bit.ly/ALJKick ❤️🖤❤️

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Antifa Lit Journal: Volume 2

Help authors and poets use their writing to fight fascism!

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Madeline "Maddog" White @lightinthegrimdark.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

When this is the dynamic between the two characters in your book except they're both POV characters and which is which depends on who you ask (both are liars) open.spotify.com/track/7zbPWQ...

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hunter

Paris Paloma · Cacophony · Song · 2024

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Madeline "Maddog" White @lightinthegrimdark.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

I keep telling myself I'll cultivate a very demure, very mindful author profile on here sometime, but let's be real, I won't. So I'm gonna start contextless goblinposting about my books now. Here's a song that manages to feel like both Soft Place & Splinter (a feat) open.spotify.com/track/5cgacD...

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Blood Upon the Snow

Hozier, Bear McCreary · God of War Ragnarök (Original Soundtrack) · Song · 2022

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Madeline "Maddog" White @lightinthegrimdark.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Can't wait to send you my eerie Appalachian fantasy that genre-bends cozy with grimdark!

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Madeline "Maddog" White @lightinthegrimdark.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

I've been trying to learn how to paint/draw people (either digitally or on paper). It's humbling, as I've been doing fiber art pretty exclusively these past few years and I'm actually *good* at that, but it's still fun. Here's Brigid, the MC from the book I'm querying, A SOFT PLACE TO LAND

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Madeline "Maddog" White @lightinthegrimdark.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Thank you! I call it "cozy grimdark" for a reason!

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Madeline "Maddog" White @lightinthegrimdark.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Lesbian longing? ✅ Beautiful forest? ✅ Cheerful animal companions? ✅ Trapped for eternity as the sole human in a gentle but lonely afterlife, where the only way out is to find true internal peace? ✅ - Wait... What? A SOFT PLACE TO LAND (or is it?) #P2Ppit #Q #A #F #U

A dark tangle of forest starkly black against a pale orange and pink sunset (Photo by me)

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Madeline "Maddog" White @lightinthegrimdark.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Is that a *talking deer*? In this afterlife, anything is possible. Except purpose. Or progress. Or other people. In order to escape her pleasant purgatory, Brigid must make peace with her life (and death) But how can she, with so many regrets? #P2Ppit #Q #A #F #U

A cute, sketch-style drawing of a deer with giant ears, on a bright green background

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Madeline "Maddog" White @lightinthegrimdark.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Bury your gays is over - it’s time to bring them back to life. The grim twist on fairytale nostalgia of How To Be Eaten + woodsy women’s magic of Weyward Cozy + high stakes & real depth Unapologetically queer (own voice) A SOFT PLACE TO LAND #P2Ppit #Q #A #F #U

Moodboard featuring browns and greens, pictures of the woods, a mouse, two deer, a coyote, and a few witchy images of a woman

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Madeline "Maddog" White @lightinthegrimdark.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Aww, thank you so much!!! I'm glad you loved it and so hope I get the chance to share it with more people!

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Madeline "Maddog" White @lightinthegrimdark.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Coming to the trenches this month! Here is my agent guide to my "cozy grimdark" adult fantasy A SOFT PLACE TO LAND Complete at 80k words #amquerying #agentguide #authorcommunity

A green panel with a deer, a spiderweb, plants, and an apple, with the text "An agent's guide to A SOFT PLACE TO LAND by Madeline White"

For fans of:
Books - Weyward by Emily Hart, How to Be Eaten by Maria Adelmann, and All the Crooked Saints by Maggie Steifater
Songs - Cry, "Wolf" by molly ofgeography, village song by Paris Paloma, marjorie by Taylor Swift, ROADS UNTRAVELLED by Linkin Park, White Winter Hymnal by Fleet Foxes, and Keep You Safe by The Crane Wives
Other - The art of August Friedrich Schenck, spiced hot chocolate, the smell of decay that permeates the woods in autumn
Themes - Lesbian love, queerness in rural Appalachia, belonging and becoming, finding your courage

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Madeline "Maddog" White @lightinthegrimdark.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Both my besties finished beta'ing both my nearly-query-ready books the same weekend so needless to say I'm breathing into a paper bag

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Madeline "Maddog" White @lightinthegrimdark.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Ahhhhh it makes me SO HAPPY you loved it so much! I can't wait to edit The Scourge so you can read it!

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Madeline "Maddog" White @lightinthegrimdark.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

I'm SO CLOSE to querying A Soft Place To Land and I absolutely CANNOT WAIT

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Madeline "Maddog" White @lightinthegrimdark.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

This is a favorite bit of A Soft Place to Land for me. It's been so fun trying to make this magical place come to life, despite the main character's tendency to be a skeptic.

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Madeline "Maddog" White @lightinthegrimdark.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

I'm determined to hit the query trenches this month, so from now on no more terrible boys or political intrigue - all that exists is a deer, a coyote, and a terrifyingly static afterlife that Brigid never wanted for herself.

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Madeline "Maddog" White @lightinthegrimdark.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

Hair is hard and so is Wolf but here’s an attempt. Also from The Scourge. (I really should be drawing characters from the books I’m actually querying, but these piece of shit boys are just too fun) #amquerying #grimdark #dystopianauthors #newartist

A greasy-looking man with long hair and a jacket smokes a cigarette and looks haunted and exhausted. It’s a line drawing in black and white except for his amber eyes and the glow of his joint.

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Madeline "Maddog" White @lightinthegrimdark.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

I’m going to try to be more active this year. This works well because I’m also trying to learn to draw my characters. So here’s one of Rampage from The Scourge, in the wake of That Scene (iykyk). For some reason it cropped weird so definitely click it! #amquerying #newauthor #grimdark

A man with a shaved head and a many-times-broken nose has his head in his hand. He is slouched and depressed, with his eyes closed, bent over. He is splattered with blood and his knuckles are crusted with it. In front of him is a vial and a needle. The title of the picture is “Choices”. It is in black and white except the blood.

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Madeline "Maddog" White @lightinthegrimdark.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Bsky please stop showing me liberal pandering I’m a fucking anarchist

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Madeline "Maddog" White @lightinthegrimdark.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

I don’t have any murders to cover up but at least I’m a radical anarcha-feminist so you might dig my sci-fis

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Madeline "Maddog" White @lightinthegrimdark.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Hi new followers! I'm an author seeking representation! Here are some fun facts to introduce myself: 1) I once ate a chocolate croissant during a field dissection 2) I think that grimdark & hopepunk have lots in common if you like watching things burn 3) My degree is in anthropology and it shows

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Madeline "Maddog" White @lightinthegrimdark.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

They may be able to get it on loan for you! It's a brutal book but one of my favorites

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Madeline "Maddog" White @lightinthegrimdark.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 12 My Dog Always Eats First: Homeless People and Their Animals by Leslie Irvine #BookSky💙📚 #Books #BookChallenge

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Madeline "Maddog" White @lightinthegrimdark.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 11 First Home, Forever Home: How to Start and Run a Shelter Intervention Program by Lori Weise #BookSky💙📚 #Books #BookChallenge

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Madeline "Maddog" White @lightinthegrimdark.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 10 Edible Landscaping with a Permaculture Twist: How to Have Your Yard and Eat It Too by Michael Judd #BookSky💙📚 #Books #BookChallenge

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