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Myra Naik @myranaik.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Hima dreams of making a living selling her magical healing makeup. While working as a shopkeeper, she mourns the loss of her mother’s healing power. She blames the nobility who failed to defend her town against the monsters who stole her mother’s connection to their magic. #DVpit #YA #F #POC #WOC #⚔️

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Myra Naik @myranaik.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

When a common girl who crafts magical healing makeup is accidentally bonded to a dangerous nobleman to protect their homeland from vicious monsters, she’ll have to battle her feelings or take up the mantle of warrior if she wishes to save herself or her kingdom. #DVpit #YA #F #Asian #POC #WOC

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Myra Naik @myranaik.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Margaret Rogerson X Studio Ghibli Set in a world plagued by monsters, an ambitious makeup artist with an axe to grind unwittingly bonds with a dangerous noble, leaving her fate and the fate of their kingdom depending on their fragile and contentious partnership. #DVpit #YA #F #R #Asian #POC #WOC

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Myra Naik @myranaik.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

P. 11: A sneak peek! When a common girl who crafts magical healing makeup is accidentally bonded to a dangerous nobleman to protect their homeland from monsters, she’ll have to battle her feelings or take up the mantle of warrior if she wishes to save herself or her kingdom. #DVparty #YA #F #POC #⚔️

This is a poster that contains a short excerpt from page 11 of my book, THE STRANDS OF OUR MAGIC. I created this through a Canva.com template titled, “Colorful Elegant Feminine Love Romance Fantasy Book Cover,” by Nasiyat Akmatova. (In my first lines post on October 4, I mentioned that the floral frame illustration is by GDJ from Pixabay. I hadn’t yet found the creator of the poster as a whole when I had posted my first lines the other day.)

A little about this poster: The background of this poster is a deep gold and the floral frame surrounding the title of my book and my excerpt is indigo. My excerpt is also indigo, but the title, THE STRANDS OF OUR MAGIC, and a little note I made about Hima at the bottom of the page is a cream color.

My note about Hima is the following.

Hima knows
"all that glitters
is not gold."
But if it glitters,
how can she resist?

This note is to the right of a cartoon silhouette of a woman’s face turned to the right.

Between my title and my note about Hima is the excerpt from my book. The text is the following.

I was more than ready to get this over with and return home. When I looked around the ballroom, my mood abruptly lifted.

The image of the nobles in their balcony level drew me in like a moth to a flame. As an artist, I couldn’t help but be enchanted by a beautiful sight, no matter what the sight stood for...and, oh, the way the court members’ vivid balloon gowns sashayed as they clinked their crystal wine glasses made them look absolutely ethereal.

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Myra Naik @myranaik.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

#DVparty 🎶 for my project! “Suraj Hua Maddham” from Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham Classic Hindi movie songs often inspire my writing. Here, the intensity of the couple’s desire is revealed subtly but vividly through moonlight so bright, it burns. And a sky that melts around them. #YA #F #POC

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Myra Naik @myranaik.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

This is a poster that contains the first lines of my book, THE STRANDS OF OUR MAGIC. I created this through a Canva.com template titled, "Colorful Elegant Feminine Love Romance Fantasy Book Cover." The floral frame illustration is by GDJ from Pixabay.

A little about the poster: The background of this poster is an indigo blue and the floral frame surrounding the title of my book and the first lines is a golden hue.

The following is the text of my poster.

The Strands of Our Magic

I stared into a brass hand mirror, observing the smallest motions of the court lady behind me. Soon, she would stumble out of my makeup shop, her silk purse filled with so many of my lovely products it would be bursting at the seams.

But I was getting ahead of myself.

First, I had to find the pinprick hole in this lady’s pampered life and convince her that my cosmetics could patch it up perfectly. Unfortunately, her expression didn’t reveal anything.

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Myra Naik @myranaik.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

MC: Hima dreams of making a living selling her magical subtly healing makeup. While working as a shopkeeper, she mourns the loss of her mother’s healing power. She blames the nobility who failed to defend her town against the monsters who stole her mother’s connection to their magic. #F #YA #DVparty

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Myra Naik @myranaik.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Hi all! Here is my mood board for #DVparty! THE STRANDS OF OUR MAGIC * sparkling ballrooms and nightmarish beasts * powerful plants and magical swords * dollops of humor and bursts of raw emotion * romantic abandon hemmed in by agonizing restraint Image credits in alt-text #Asian #POC #YA #F #R

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Jodi Meadows @jodimeadows.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Publishing gave me ANOTHER good news this week?? Wow. I need to go lie down. But first, check out that banner CONFESSIONS FROM THE GROUP CHAT is sporting! She's an Amazon Editor's Choice/best book for ages 9-12! Probably because of the cat.

A screenshot from a listing on Amazon for Confessions From the Group Chat. Under the title, there's a black banner that reads "Editor's Choice. books ages 9-12." Followed by the flap copy for the book:
What happens in the group chat stays in the group chat… until it doesn’t.

Virginia Vaughn just wants to fit in with her super-popular friend group. That means she doesn’t let them know how much she loves the library, she never speaks a word about her massive crush on tragically unpopular Grayson, and she says nasty things she doesn’t actually mean. But only in the group chat, so it’s harmless, right?

But when she has a blowout fight with her clique—specifically, with the Queen Bee herself—her mean texts are posted online for the entire school to see! And, suddenly, Virginia has no one but her cat to talk to.

Cue "Knight Errant," a mystery boy at school who texts Virginia by accident—and who quickly becomes her closest confidante. Though they send messages back and forth for hours every night, Virginia doesn’t want him to know which classmate she is (because then he’ll connect her to the mean texts ALL OVER THE INTERNET). She likes him, but she really likes Grayson, too. Can she find the strength to tell Knight who she really is? And will Grayson—who has become her only ally at school—give up on her when the awful things she’s said about him are finally posted?

Confessions from the Group Chat is the second middle-grade romcom from New York Times bestselling author Jodi Meadow (Bye Forever, I Guess; My Lady Jane, now a streaming series). Sweet, funny, and authentically messy, this is an ultra-cute story about middle-school misbehavior, innocent first love, and the inner life of a repentant mean girl.

A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection

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#DVpit - Diverse Voices Pitch @dvpit.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

With #DVpit only a week away, we ask anyone planning to participate to thoroughly review the rules & guidelines first: dvpit.carrd.co - This is a pitch event for unagented MARGINALIZED WRITERS & ARTISTS seeking rep - Must have a completed manuscript or portfolio to pitch - Pitch only once/hour

dvpit.carrd.co

DVpit

pitch event for creators from marginalized communities.

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Myra Naik @myranaik.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

I am obsessed 😍 with hearing about people's ✍️ schedules. If you are a writer, let's chat! * How do you schedule your writing sessions? (time based/ word count based/ it depends) * When do you write vs. read? * What do you read and how? (🎧/📚) #amwriting #writingcommunity #amreading #writingschedule

This is a photo of a closed laptop, matcha, and a book titled "Art Record Covers," which was part of the coffee shop table decor.

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Ren Hutchings @voidcricket.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

My soft sci-fi novella, THE LEGEND LIMINAL, is out today from @starsandsabers.bsky.social! 💫 Climb into the camper van for a surreal roadtrip that slides out of time & reality. TLL is a story about grief, hope, and the shining lifeline of human connection. 🔗: www.starsandsabers.com/books/the-le...

Ren holds up a copy of The Legend Liminal, with an empty desert highway in the background. The cover of the book features a camper van driving on a road shaped like an infinity symbol, in front of a vaporwave-style sunset.

The cover of The Legend Liminal by Ren Hutchings is superimposed on an image of an empty desert highway, surrounded by text that says:

➜ Surreal contemporary speculative novella
➜ A slip out of time & reality
➜ Friends on a fateful roadtrip
➜ An unsettling liminal world
➜ A mysterious spooky cat
➜ Messy sibling relationships
➜ Vibes: Donnie Darko meets FINNA
➜ Navigating grief & finding lifelines in one another

The cover of the book features a camper van driving on a road shaped like an infinity symbol, in front of a vaporwave-style sunset.

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Kat Cho @katchowrites.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Wow! Never thought I'd see WICKED FOX in the New York Times more than 6 years after it came out! Thanks for the shout-out @smartbitches.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/b... #booksky #twilight

Cover of young adult novel wicked fox. A Korean girl in the foreground with a ghostly fox tail. Stands with a Korean teenage boy in a school uniform. They're framed by a pink full moon

Wicked Fox
By Kat Cho

For "Twilight" fans who love K-Dramas, Cho's romantic fantasy set in Seoul is an addictive read. Gu Miyoung is a nine tailed fox who feeds on the gi, or life energy, of evil men -- a source of unlimited nourishment. Her existence is lonely, with only her mother as a companion. But one night, she stops a goblin from killing a human, a laid back gamer named Ahn Jihoon. When she loses her fox bead and Jihoon sees her nine tailed form, their lives become intertwined -- with shared dreams, deadly secrets, forbidden attraction and grave danger

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🎃 Emily 🎃 @emmy.baby · 30/09/2025

Okay, funny bookstore category

Book section labeled "Most Stolen Books"

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kamilah cole @wordsiren.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

✨ BLURB REVEAL ✨ My love for @chelsabdullah.bsky.social is well-documented, but I can't tell you how flattered I was that she loved my Adult debut. An Arcane Inheritance is out on December 30, 2025. The Stardust Thief and The Ashfire King are out as well. Buy them! bookshop.org/p/books/an-a...

"Unforgettable and unputdownable, An Arcane Inheritance is a visceral dream of a novel that will haunt you even in the daylight hours. Kamilah Cole has woven a genre-defining triumph." -Chelsea Abdullah, award-winning author of The Stardust Thief and The Ashfire King

The hardcover and paperback copies of The Stardust Thief and a 3D cover of The Ashfire King, all by Chelsea Abdullah

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Children's Bookshelf @pwkidsbookshelf.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

“I like to think of ‘Make Me a Monster’ as a continuation of ‘Frankenstein’ ”: Kalynn Bayron on how her new YA novel ‘Make Me a Monster’ puts a modern spin on Mary Shelley’s classic buff.ly/XaELiJ5

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Myra Naik @myranaik.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

How soothing it is, seeing my cats resting beside me when I am drafting plot progressions for my next WIP! Of course, when they are trying to gnaw on the corner of my laptop it is not so soothing.😂 #amwriting #writingcommunity #writingwithcats #cats #catsandbooks

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