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Maxine Vee @maxinevee.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Woodland Painting 🪵🎨 #art

An illustration of a woman painting in the outdoors. She’s surrounded by deer as she paints on her canvas. We see a large tree framing the composition and two deer resting on the ground surrounded by flowers.

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Rosemary MacArthur @rosemac.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

🙋‍♀️ what do the cards have to say for me?

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Rosemary MacArthur @rosemac.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

I am nothing if not still a little obsessed with The Scorpio Races (help I first read it fourteen years ago)

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Rosemary MacArthur @rosemac.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

I am happy to share an #agentsguide for my YA Fantasy, THE SELKIE'S DAUGHTER. #amquerying #agentguide #yafantasy

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An agent's guide to The Selkie's Daughter
YA Fantasy Romance
94k

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Pitch
When Meirta learns that the village she’s called home her whole life may be hiding secrets (one of which might concern her selkie mother who fled to the ocean years ago), she must count on unlikely allies to help her unlock the magic of her selkie heritage and discover what the village tried to bury.

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Neither of them let go of the other. But Lena did raise her other hand, & a second later, Meirta felt the pattern of the wind shift as Lena took hold of it. The snow swirled around them, caught in the flow of Lena’s magic, so it danced in restless, ever-changing mosaics. There was a bird, and then a butterfly, and then a deer. When Lena let the magic go, she took a step closer to Meirta, whispering in her ear.

“Now you try.”

Meirta shivered, feeling the warmth of Lena’s breath flutter down her neck, the ghost of her nose tracing her skin. She leaned towards her without thinking, not wanting Lena to move away.

Lena didn’t. She stood so close to Meirta that she could feel every breath the elf-girl took.

Meirta raised her own hand, trying to focus on the wind when everything inside of her was chanting fire, fire, fire, but this time it was a delicious sort of fire that she thought she would crave for the rest of her life.

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Comps
Isolated seaside small town setting
Sweet, slow-burn romance (but make it queer)
Uncovering lies
Girls with big, complicated emotions
Atmospheric prose
Creatures from Celtic mythology
Girls discovering their own anger

Beside the comps are images of four books. The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater, A Study in Drowning by Ava Reid, A Consuming Fire by Laura Weymouth, and A House of Salt and Sorrows by Erin Craig

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Meredith Rae @merethebookgal.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Take a look at my updated #agentguide / #agentsguide for the YA fantasy manuscript I #amquerying

A greenish gray background with an image of a foggy island and the text “An Agent’s Guide to FORGED IN DARKNESS YA Celtic-inspired fantasy 89k”

THE PITCH
A teen blacksmith must embark on a quest with the boy she hates to reforge a magic relic and free their island from a tyrannical god — otherwise, her life belongs to the island's fog-worshiping cult.

SNIPPET

Cold wind burned Barra's cheeks as she exited the church, but at least the rain had stopped. She gazed out over the cliffside and down to the harbor, where three ships nearing completion swayed in the choppy water. Barra tensed at the sight. If only she could destroy them and everything they stood for.

The Salt Sisters at work below were like a swarm of ants, and the sound of their steady hammering carried across the breeze. Barra eyed the shrouded sun's position in the sky. The solstice ever-neared, along with the vows she was pledged to take.

COMPS
The cover of The Hedgewitch of Foxhall with “Slow burn” and “Celtic setting” the cover of BLADE OF SECRETS with “Blacksmith MC” and “Anxiety Rep” and the cover of THE BONE HOUSES with “Banter/Humor” and “Dangerous quest”

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Nature is Incredible @natureisincredible.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

How seals sleep underwater

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SCRUFFY🌎🐾 @scruffyseawolf.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

finally colored those seals from a couple weeks ago

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Rosemary MacArthur @rosemac.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Update: this was followed by The Script’s Breakeven. They’re really going through it.

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Rosemary MacArthur @rosemac.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

One of my apartment neighbors is blasting my tears ricochet at 11:34am on a Thursday. I’m a little worried for them.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 11/02/2025

I hate to inform you of this, but you are, in fact, the adult in the room.

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Candice Huber (they/them) @candice.tubbyandcoos.com · 10/02/2025

It's a real problem 📚📚📚

A photo of Kendrick Lamar at the Super Bowl halftime show facing the camera as he smiles and walks past.

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Rosemary MacArthur @rosemac.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Meirta (YA fantasy THE SELKIE’S DAUGHTER) probably loves summer the most. Her birthday is in summer & she has lots of fond memories with her mother Collie (Spooky Horse Story WIP) loves fall. It’s the least painful time of year for barn chores & the most beautiful time for a ride in the woods

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Rosemary MacArthur @rosemac.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

I am nothing if not thinking of dragons

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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

gritty has seized control of the federal government

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Sam On The Computer @samalexjohnston.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

MY MUM, SEPTEMBER 11TH 2001: oh God. It's all too much MY DAD: Jesus. Did you hear about the Pentagon ME, SIX YEARS OLD, HAVING LEARNED MY SHAPES THAT MORNING: yes :)

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Dani Fiend 👹 @danifinnwrites.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

The Subtle Art of Giving a Fuck about the Right Things

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Rosemary MacArthur @rosemac.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Every night my cat runs into the same problem. Either she stays on the floor, squeaking her little heart out for attention—or she jumps onto the bed & immediately gets attention & love & gasps of “oh! Hello!” It’s a tough choice. Scientists are searching for the answer. Until then, she squeaks.

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Tiffany Morris @tiffmorris.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

“Wouldst thou like the taste of butter? A pretty dress?” would absolutely work on me. I always want the taste of butter and a pretty dress.

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Abra / Jessica Conwell, Carmella Creeper's Gender Doula🏳️‍⚧️ 🇲🇽🌼 @pairofclaws.bsky.social · 22/02/2024

On that note: Trans authors (I mean authors who are trans, NOT cis people who write about trans people), drop your book links here and I'll try to repost as many as I can throughout the day. Cis people: Repost trans authors' book links. Cis people who want to complain about being excluded: gtfo

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Fated Mates @fatedmates.net · 02/02/2025

Bookshop.org is offering 20% off this collection of romances by black authors with code BHM25. We've talked about quite a few of them on the show, and two were Best of 2024 picks.

bookshop.org

Romance Books to Celebrate Black History Month 2025

Celebrate Black History Month with Bookshop.org’s curated recommendations by Black authors.

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Rosemary MacArthur @rosemac.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

I just saw an actual commercial for tumblr. I thought we were all supposed to stumble into a tumblr account and go from there

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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

They should have a Biggest Album Grammy for whoever put out the record with the largest diameter in the previous year

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Rosemary MacArthur @rosemac.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

It’s my hope that any horse girl would feel seen in this story 🤞

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Rosemary MacArthur @rosemac.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Querying one book, drafting another. Spooky Horse WIP has so many pieces of my own experience in the horse world. The good, the bad, the ugly, the ghost horses. #writingcommunity #amwriting

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Octopus/Caveman @octopuscaveman.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

If a horse sees you doing a nazi salute, it’s gonna chomp your arm right off. Horses don’t play around. Fuck your nazi shit.

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lukelukeluke @lukelukeluke.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Here is a nice mushroom

A single brown Mycena mushroom with a very flat cap and fuzzy stem grows between fallen burgundy oak leaves and pine needles on the forest floor

All photos by me

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Kumail Nanjiani @kumail.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

De-Nazify shit.

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Rosemary MacArthur @rosemac.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

THE SELKIE’S DAUGHTER is a YA fantasy featuring 🦭Slow burn sapphic romance 🌊Old secrets & ancient magic 🦭Romantic magic lessons under the stars 🌊One angry father & many sad daughters 🦭 Selkies & water horses & creepy elves

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Rosemary MacArthur @rosemac.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Hi friends. I'm new to trying to post on Bluesky. You can call me Rosemary. I write books. Some of them are fantasy. Some of them have romance. Many of them have horses. None of them are published (but I'm trying). I have a horse (Geno) and a cat (Juniper). Currently querying THE SELKIE'S DAUGHTER.

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