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Melissa Edwards @melissaedwards.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Happy happy pub day to Mara Williams and THE TRUTH IS IN THE DETOURS!

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Melissa Edwards @melissaedwards.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

A very happy publication day to @gtkarber.bsky.social and MURDLE THE CASE OF THE SEVEN SKULLS!

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Melissa Edwards @melissaedwards.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

A very happy publication day to @diannefreeman.bsky.social and A DAUGHTER’S GUIDE TO MOTHERS AND MURDER! (This series has the best covers… not to mention what’s inside!)

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Melissa Edwards @melissaedwards.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

It’s a very spicy Tuesday for Josie Juniper and COMING IN HOT! Happy Pub Day!

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Melissa Edwards @melissaedwards.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

I love Tuesdays. Two steamy summer romances out today! Happy Pub Day Holly and Meredith!

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Melissa Edwards @melissaedwards.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

This is going to be so freaking cool. I am over the moon for @yasminangoe.bsky.social!

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Melissa Edwards @melissaedwards.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Happy happy pub day to Ashley Winstead for THIS BOOK WILL BURY ME and Holly James for THE BIG FIX. Two incredible books by two incredible authors. I could not be prouder.

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Melissa Edwards @melissaedwards.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

I’m so sorry. (Also that like is a solidarity like.)

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Melissa Edwards @melissaedwards.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

This is excellent and necessary advice

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Melissa Edwards @melissaedwards.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

It’s a 5 day beach vacation so I have two new hardcovers, an ebook, and two audiobooks. But is it enough?

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Melissa Edwards @melissaedwards.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Both a sample and a query letter please!

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Melissa Edwards @melissaedwards.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

NEVER PLANNED ON YOU has all the hilarious and flirty banter I could want in a romance! Lindsay brings the rom AND the com, and for that we love her.

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Melissa Edwards @melissaedwards.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

GOAT IS THE G.O.A.T. is a hilarious picture book about being the best YOU can be— and it has perfect word play in true Bea Birdsong fashion.

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Melissa Edwards @melissaedwards.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Happy Pub Day to two of my authors today! @beabirdsong.bsky.social and @lindsayhameroff.bsky.social, both deliver the laughs for very different audiences.

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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Even worse incompetence: they accidentally fired, then apparently today un-fired, hundreds of the people who manage America's nuclear weapons.

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Melissa Edwards @melissaedwards.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

I’m always surprised by the brilliance! Don’t let me hinder someone’s creativity, right?

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Melissa Edwards @melissaedwards.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

#MSWL ultimately I don’t even know what I don’t know I want. If you wrote brilliant commercial fiction, I want to see it.

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PRINT RUN @printrunpodcast.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

like, people say "MSWL" like they say "google it" now; it's a term and function so ubiquitous that I think people forget that it hasn't always existed, that people actually had the idea and created it. the @manuscriptacademy.bsky.social team deserves way more credit than they get on that.

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Melissa Edwards @melissaedwards.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

If you find me through #MSWL Day and you’d like to submit: please query me at submissions at Stonesong dot com and include my name in the letter. I’d love to hear from you!

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Melissa Edwards @melissaedwards.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

#MSWL: I might as well speak it into the universe— more puzzle books! Puzzle books with a unique spin, whether that’s plot or a new puzzle style or a voice all their own.

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Melissa Edwards @melissaedwards.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

I find time travel a little challenging mentally but always happy to receive a query

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Melissa Edwards @melissaedwards.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

More #MSWL: dark romance of all sorts. I love how dark romance is pushing boundaries. Would be happy to see it expand even further.

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Melissa Edwards @melissaedwards.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Happy #MSWL day! I’d love to see more thrillers in my inbox. All sorts: procedurals, psychological suspense, domestic, espionage, assassin. All commercial thriller, all day.

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Bea Birdsong @beabirdsong.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

I’m thrilled to share this deal! ME TOO!, written by me and illustrated by John Ledda, will be out in the world in 2027! So many thanks to @nancyrosep.bsky.social, @caitlintutterow.bsky.social, and my agent, @melissaedwards.bsky.social!

Nancy Paulsen and Caitlin Tutterow at Penguin/Nancy Paulsen Books have bought world rights to Me Too! by Bea Birdsong, illustrated by John Ledda, a picture book inspired by a popular call-and-response classroom game employed by teachers in the beginning of the school year to render connections among students. Publication is scheduled for summer 2027; Melissa Edwards at Stonesong represented the author, and Ana Crespo at East West Literary Agency represented the illustrator.

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G. T. Karber @gtkarber.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

You can now pre-order a brand new puzzle book from me at Bordergrams.com. Divide the words and conquer the world!

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Melissa Edwards @melissaedwards.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Thank you! Truly could not be fancier (I am currently in my freezing apartment, googling new socks)

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Melissa Edwards @melissaedwards.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

A completely meaningless landmark but one I did not see in my future when I started in publishing as an assistant 12 years ago

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Mónica Mancillas Author @monicamancillas.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

It’s pub day!!! Happy birthday to Julian and Dulce and their delicious summer adventure! Viva Fidelia! @scholastic #tacotuesdays #mónicamancillas #middlegradebooks #romcombooks #dualpov #kidlit #latinxbooks #scholastic

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G. T. Karber @gtkarber.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

Hard to believe that a year and a half after it's release, Murdle is the #8 book in the US. I hope everyone who bought a copy for Christmas has a wonderful time solving the murders with their loved ones!

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Melissa Edwards @melissaedwards.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Nothing makes me request a query faster than a solid premise and a bad title I know I could help improve

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Yasmin Angoe @yasminangoe.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

I am deeply honored that Not What She Seems, was selected as one of Brittle Paper’s 100 Notable African Books of 2024! This 🇬🇭 girl doesn’t know what say except, Thank you @brittlepaper.bsky.social 🥰 Link to see the entire list (and to get reading): brittlepaper.com/100-notable-...

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Melissa Edwards @melissaedwards.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

I want for books what Taylor Sheridan is doing for TV: propulsive, soapy, high drama, gripping, wrong in a good way, can’t look away. #mswl

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