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#SEAsianPit @seasianpit.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

As we’re entering a new season of pitch events, we want to remind querying authors of some schmagent red flags. This is your sign to reach out if you need help vetting your agent list!! cre: @lillyluwrites.bsky.social @solarhoang.bsky.social 🧵1/2

SCHMAGENT RED FLAGS TO LOOK OUT FOR by Lilly Lu and Solar Hoàng

01. CHARGING FOR EDITORIAL SERVICES

An agency will never charge you money! Editorial services on top of rep is also a conflict of interest and is the classic sign of a schmagency. This applies to agents plugging their external editorial service as well.

02. FOUNDER HAS NO AGENCY EXPERIENCE

Agenting is an apprenticeship -based profession. Many agents go through YEARS of training and networking under a mentor before taking on their own clients, let alone founding their own agency. Without years of experience, they would not have industry connections to submit your manuscript(s) to.

03. A YAPPY AND ONLINE TWITTER AGENT

It’s not bad if an agent is active on social media, but it might be a red flag if they do not many sales or no sales to major publishers in combination with no mentorship. Another MAJOR point: if they're always weighing in on dramas just to get engagement. Publishers pay attention to socmed!

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Lilly Lu✨is 👀👀👀!!! @lillyluwrites.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

🏳️‍🌈BUFFY x SAILOR MOON A depressed grim reaper runs into the soul that got away—a now vampire wanting to move on—but first they must hunt her killer before he targets another woman. DEATH WISH is out January! “Heart-warming, heart-wrenching” -my editor #questpit #A #P #RF

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Lilly Lu✨is 👀👀👀!!! @lillyluwrites.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

GOOD NEWS! My #sapphic debut is up for pre-orders! DEATH WISH follows a depressed grim reaper who finds the soul that got away—a now vampire looking to move on—but first they must find her killer before be targets another woman. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/829783... #writingcommunity

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Lilly Lu✨is 👀👀👀!!! @lillyluwrites.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

I wrote about getting your first chapter query-ready! Now on the @roundtablementor.bsky.social substack! 💗 #writingcommunity #amquerying open.substack.com/pub/roundtab...

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Lilly Lu✨is 👀👀👀!!! @lillyluwrites.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

#amquerying folks, I have donated a query package critique for kidlit4ceasefire’s fundraiser! See hundreds of publishing items here: www.32auctions.com/KidLit4Cease... #writingcommunity

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Lilly Lu✨is 👀👀👀!!! @lillyluwrites.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

So stoked to be working with Nika Clarke and Priyanka Watson on their beautiful romance books!!! #writingcommunity

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Lilly Lu✨is 👀👀👀!!! @lillyluwrites.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

i still cannot believe i sold my queer fantasy debut this year—it was my fourth book on sub, with my third agent. A great agent makes all the difference. Please fight for the best, don’t settle for less with your work, & don’t give up 🥹 #WritingCommunity

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Lilly Lu✨is 👀👀👀!!! @lillyluwrites.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

THE NEWS IS OUT! My supernatural sapphic romance is getting published by @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social 💫💗🧛‍♀️ This one’s for the gaysians, diaspora daughters, Los Angeles, found family, folks fighting against societal “should”s, folks who think “hey, we deserve better.” #WritingCommunity

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Lilly Lu✨is 👀👀👀!!! @lillyluwrites.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

guys there’s a scene in my book where i talk about six and seven (re: tarot cards) and last night i went NOOOOOOOO and changed it 🤦🏻‍♀️

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C.L. (Cyndi) Pauwels @clpauwels.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

So very much this. I remember cringing before a Board member when I was staff for an esteemed writers conference when she insisted, without malice - just ignorance, that writers should be willing to pay the (too high for me) fees because we all "need to invest in our work." #WritingCommunity

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sunyi @sunyidean.com · 04/12/2025

Love it 🙌

Things You Can Make ChatGPT Write for You
- Hayley DeRoche
Your last words
But before them
What to murmur to a lover in bed
What to say in the group chat when someone's
Sister mother brother is dead and
The apology you could never quite get right for a friend And hell why not make the robot compose your proposal
Your wedding toast, too
Your best friend's birthday roast
You could ask it to write a custom lullaby For the baby snuffling at your breast.
You can cradle to grave away
Every warm human word
You could ever have said
And when they chisel your gravestone
For your final rest
We can ask ChatGPT
Because it knew you best

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Lilly Lu✨is 👀👀👀!!! @lillyluwrites.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

I wrote about how wealth isn’t just “more time to write,” but resource-having in a way most of us can’t even imagine lillyluwrites.substack.com/p/wealth-acc...

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Wealth, Access, and Writing

or, we need to talk about socioeconomic privilege

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Lilly Lu✨is 👀👀👀!!! @lillyluwrites.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

roundtablementor hopefuls, pls check your emails for full requests! we are so keen to read your beautiful books!

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Lilly Lu✨is 👀👀👀!!! @lillyluwrites.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

this is why, as a literature teacher, i mask. My livelihood depends on it and my students’ wellbeing too 😭

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Lilly Lu✨is 👀👀👀!!! @lillyluwrites.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

4 books on sub…so much heartache, but finally…..!!! #writingcommunity

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Lilly Lu✨is 👀👀👀!!! @lillyluwrites.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

my @roundtablementor.bsky.social 2025 mentee @taylorkowens.bsky.social sent me a thank-you gift 🥹 so lucky to have had such wonderful mentees turn into such wonderful friends in this wild wild industry. really lucky to be part of your journey, honored to be in each other’s lives 💗 #writingcommunity

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T. A. Chan @authortachan.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

psssssttt just found out there are 15 print copies of The Celestial Seas up for grabs in a Goodreads giveaway! If a queer Moby Dick in space sounds fun please go check it out ✨✨✨ #thecelestialseas #scifibooks

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Danai Christopoulou | VILE LADY VILLAINS out NOW @danaiwrites.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

It’s here: the cover for the UK edition of VILE LADY VILLAINS, coming out April 02 2026 by Penguin Michael Joseph🖤

The cover for Danai’s debut novel, VILE VILLAINS illustrated by Audrey Benjaminsen

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Lilly Lu✨is 👀👀👀!!! @lillyluwrites.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

#amquerying #writingcommunity, Round Table Mentor apps are now open! I cannot wait to read your manuscripts 😍

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Audrey Goldberg Ruoff @audreyruoff.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

The only spell I have against hopelessness at the moment is to help community. So if you would like to support Marylanders in need (we have so many federal workers) here's my MD Food Bank fundraiser mdfoodbank.funraise.org/fundraiser/a...

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Donate to the Maryland Food Bank

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Michelle Jing Chan (she/her) 🌈 @michellejingchan.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

✨ COMMISSIONS OPEN (kind of!) I’m auctioning a rare #commission spot for @geekgirlcon ‘s virtual silent auction! GGC is a nonprofit, 100% volunteer-run convention in Seattle that has been a safe space for marginalized fandom folks for the past 10+ years. ➡️visit givebutter.com/c/KKmh5b/auc...

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Are you a marginalized author (or the editor/agent/publicist of one) who has a trad pub book coming out in 2026 that is science fiction, fantasy, or horror and either adult or young adult? This book critic wants to know about it! Small press strongly encouraged. bookjockeyalex.com/contact/

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Contact

I’m currently open to sensitivity/authenticity reading. Please see the full list of what I cover and rates. In your email below, please include a description of the work, the estimated word c…

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Lilly Lu✨is 👀👀👀!!! @lillyluwrites.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Our AMA is live!!! Let me know in comments below if you have questions about my MSWL or the program :)) #roundtablementor #writingcommunity #amquerying

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Round Table Mentor @roundtablementor.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Today’s the day! Have a question about the program, application process, or our mentors? Ask it below! #writingmentorship #roundtablementor #writingcommunity

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Lilly Lu✨is 👀👀👀!!! @lillyluwrites.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Agents!!! I was soooo lucky to mentor Taylor and read this beautiful, genre-bendy book!!!

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Lilly Lu✨is 👀👀👀!!! @lillyluwrites.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

*FRANKENSTEIN SPOILERS * As someone who teaches frankenstein every year, I had SO many thoughts about this film. I am a fan of GTD’s movies. Loved the nested doll structure and how freaky Elizabeth was. Loved the costumes, acting, and music Was very ? about the time period shift by 50 years+

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Maia Kobabe @redgoldsparks.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

Happy Ace Week :)

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Lilly Lu✨is 👀👀👀!!! @lillyluwrites.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

Happy Ace Week!!! Boosting this lovely panel of authors I got to speak with about publishing and aceness 💜 #happyaceweek #writingcommunity

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Nicholas E. Miller, Ph.D. @uncannydazzler.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

Excited to share that *Critical Approaches to Transmedia Storytelling in K-Pop* is now available for pre-order from @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social! This collection brings together an international group of scholars explores how K-pop reimagines narrative across media. www.bloomsbury.com/us/critical-...

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Critical Approaches to Transmedia Storytelling in K-Pop

In Critical Approaches to Transmedia Storytelling in K-Pop, contributors present a variety of compelling case studies to argue that K-pop has evolved beyond a m…

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Lilly Lu✨is 👀👀👀!!! @lillyluwrites.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

excited to be returning as a mentor this year for fantasy & romance! MSWL to come 👀 #amquerying authors, watch this space! In a world where a lot of industry knowledge has been lost to the vicissitudes of twt, mentorships like this are invaluable! (They’re how I got agented & found friends!)

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Chris Loar @chrisloar.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Scholars of eighteenth-century topics: consider submitting your work to *Digital Defoe*. We publish essays on Defoe, but also on his "contemporaries," which we're inclined to interpret broadly. More info here: call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/10/...

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cfp | call for papers

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Taylor ✨querying a horror rom 👽♥️🎲✨ @taylorkowens.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

Now for BlueSky! After being selected as a Round Table Mentor finalist, and 7 long months of revisions, I'm back! And I’m proud to announce this author is back in the query trenches! To kick it off, I’m reposting a revised version of my pitch deck. 🥳🥂 #writer #querying #horror #romance

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Lilly Lu✨is 👀👀👀!!! @lillyluwrites.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

Today is the day 📣📣📣 I donated a query critique and a 30-min publishing journey tarot reading!!! Please find HUNDREDS of publishing items up for bid to benefit #kidlit4ceasefire, trans and immigrant rights 🏳️‍🌈💗🍉 www.32auctions.com/WeThePeopleS... #writingcommunity #amquerying

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We The People Summer Fundraiser

Silent auction 'We The People Summer Fundraiser' hosted online at 32auctions.

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Lilly Lu✨is 👀👀👀!!! @lillyluwrites.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

I wrote about the role of literature (as an author and a lit prof) in these hard times. #writingcommunity substack.com/home/post/p-...

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writing in hard times

thoughts on the role of literature right now

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#EnbyLife Journal @enbylife.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

We have new poetry on #EnbyLife Journal! Read Lilly Lu’s vivid piece ‘O to be gaysian!’ @lillyluwrites.bsky.social 💖 READ MORE: enbylife.net/2025/07/04/o...

Social media tile with an abstract artwork featuring vibrant, textured brushstrokes in neon pinks, oranges, blues, yellows, and purples. Overlaid on the left side is a pale pink text box with the following poem excerpt: ‘arms wound / around the / wondrous sounds / of tata tatata / 他她X也.’ Below the poem, in bold black text: 'O to be gaysian!' by Lilly Lu.

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Lilly Lu✨is 👀👀👀!!! @lillyluwrites.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

6 more hours to bid & some query critiques still unclaimed!!! #amquerying #writingcommunity 📣📣📣

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Lilly Lu✨is 👀👀👀!!! @lillyluwrites.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Bidding closes Friday at 12pm PT, and we have SO MANY QUERY CRITIQUES LEFT 📣📣 donate to an LA mutual fund, dm me the receipt, and enter for a prize! #amquerying #writingcommunity

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Noelle Monét | BOUND BY FURY out now!! @noellemonet.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Wanna chance to win a query package critique from me??? ⬇️⬇️⬇️

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Lilly Lu✨is 👀👀👀!!! @lillyluwrites.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

so many unclaimed AMAs and query critiques for #amquerying #writingcommunity! Donate to a mutual aid fund and bid for an item! Help us reach our next $100 goal 💜📣

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Lilly Lu✨is 👀👀👀!!! @lillyluwrites.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Hey #amquerying #writingcommunity! We are doing a mini fundraiser for mutual aid in LA/OC! Donate to an org below, DM me the receipt, bid on items, win prizes like query critiques, AMAs, & tarot readings! ⭐️ Thanks to @michellejingchan.bsky.social for co-organizing 💜 How to enter: 🧵