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Akiho @babumura.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

WATER MOON x ADDIE LARUE An immortal mage takes bribes and fakes results for her soulmate business. It’s all for her goal: reincarnate the friend she lost centuries ago. 🌷morally gray aroace MC 💔a (shady) soulmate business 🔬whimsical STEM-based magic #roundtablementor #F #A #UN

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Alyson Greene @alysoncgreene.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

To scare away the PTA, a single mom claims to be a witch. When displays of roadkill and pentagrams appear at school, she’s the main suspect. To clear her name, she works with the asst principal to find the culprit, but they struggle to keep their eyes (and hands) off each other. #roundtablementor #R

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FT Zahra @ftzahra.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

ADDIE LA RUE X BEFORE I FALL On the verge of death, Safa makes a desperate bargain with a mysterious jinn. Now she has 3 obscure clues, 0 memories and 1 month to win back her life. 💘 Reluctant Allies-to-lovers 🔍 Amnesia with a twist 🇵🇰-rep & folklore ⏳ ticking clock #roundtablementor #ya #f #un

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Alyson Greene @alysoncgreene.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

MAKE ME YOUR WITCH A Sapphic rom-com about a single mom claiming to be a witch with 👵🏻👵🏽 Gen X romance 🧑‍🧑‍🧒‍🧒 motherhood vs personal life 🏳️‍🌈 discovering queerness after divorce 🧙 found family of witches 🕯️hilarious mishaps with spells gone wrong #roundtablementor #R #un

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MelonieWithAnO @meloniewithano.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

PJO XTrumanShow Being the gods' pawn isn’t new to 15y/o Mia Miller, an anxious girl w/ music magic. But when a quest to Nashville is derailed by a book where she’s the MC, Mia & BFF must find the author & salvage her quest, before Olympus finds out. #roundtablementor #YA #F #UN

Image grid: Greek statue, a raven, girl crying, girl holding arm up with magic, an oracle, magic lights, a face statue, Nashville at night. Text: "Music will be the death of me."

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Crissie (C.T. Wood) @crissthecreative.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

When Larkin discovers she’s pregnant after a very out-of-character one-night stand with a man who turns out to be the Greek god Apollo, she must face monsters, vengeful gods, & most terrifyingly, her feelings for Apollo to protect herself & her unborn child. #roundtablementor #A #R #F #Con #UN

A a graphic showing a temporary cover of a book called a Greek god got me pregnant by CT Wood showing the various tropes and themes of the book including one bed, Demi FMC #ownvoices, bi MMC, accidental pregnancy/force, proximity, nerdy girl and golden retriever boy, dysfunctional family (I mean, they are the great gods),love versus lust monster fights, sun related double entendres, forbidden love, and love is both medicine and poison

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Sonja J Kaye @sonjajkaye.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

Natalie pretends to be a good girl at the country’s most elite boarding school but secretly craves to hurt(kill?) people. Wouldn't that be more fun? When new girl Aylin sees through Nat’s mask a game of cat&mouse begins where desire and danger blur. Until someone dies #roundtablementor #YA #T #UN

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elif ⚡ @rydeen1997.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

Meet NYMPH'S POND, mentored by @cjsubko.bsky.social! ♥ BOOK OF LOVE x OUR WIVES UNDER THE SEA 🧜 an artist's coming of age 🧜 complex mom-daughter r/s 🧜 hostile small town 🧜 majority queer female cast 🧜 battles w/ self-esteem 🧜 water powers as a gate to past trauma #roundtablementor #A #F #L

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rachael 💙🌸 @rachaelallysa.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

BIANCA TORRExLAMAR GILES When town sweetheart goes missing, Etta can’t pass up the chance to fix her financial issues and debunk the town swamp monster. But when fact blurs with fiction, it leaves her overwhelmed questioning who—or what—she can trust #roundtablementor #YA #M #UN

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Natalia Wik is in her ✨querying✨ era @weavinguptales.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

Sailor Moon x The Untamed but sapphic x Indonesian mythology A messy time-bending magical girl makes a pact with a queen of monsters to save her cursed family, but she must literally steal the heart of her true love to do so 🫀🗡️✨ #roundtablementor #YA #F #UN

Moodboard of 7 images including an open pocket watch held in a hand, two faceless girls in an embrace and wearing old-fashioned dresses, an Indonesian mythological figure with fangs and large eyes, an Indonesian dagger, hands clasping potion bottles, a body of water flowing, a dagger being held by a faceless figure in an old-fashioned dress

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Round Table Mentor @roundtablementor.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

AND WE’RE LIVE! Welcome to our #roundtablementor mentee pitch party! From 8am EST until 8pm EST, you can browse the #roundtablementor hashtag across Twitter and Bluesky to see what our mentees have been up to. (Spoiler: They’ve been writing amazing stories 💅)

Center text reads MENTEE PITCH PARTY. In the upper left are the words Round Table Mentor. In the bottom right are the words Starting Now, 8am- 8PM EST, and the URL www.roundtablementor.com

White box with the words: Showcase rules. 8am - 8pm EST, Hosted on Twitter and Bluesky, Up to 3 pitches, Mood boards allowed, Use #roundtablementor hashtag for visibility, Include age group and genre tags, Only RTM mentees may pitch, but everyone is encouraged to boost and like pitches!

White box with the words: Showcase hashtags. Age group tags: PB | MG | YA | NA | A
#Con = contemporary
#F = fantasy
#GN = graphic novel
#HI = historical
#H = horror
#L = literary
#M = mystery

White box with the words: Showcase hashtags. Age group tags: PB | MG | YA | NA | A
#NF = nonfiction
#MEM = memoir
#R = romance
#SF = sci-fi
#SP = screenplay / play
#SH = short story collection
#T = thriller
#UP = upmarket / book club
#W = women’s fiction
#AG = agented
#UN = unagented

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kamilah cole @wordsiren.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

It's Non-Binary Peoples Day, so let me shout out my some of my favorite enbies, with books you can order AND preorder! HOLLOW by @taylorlgrothe.bsky.social THE PRINCESS KNIGHT by @caitsbooks.bsky.social DANIEL DECONSTRUCTED by James Ramos you know where to shop: bookshop.org

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Taylor Grothe @taylorlgrothe.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

THE NEWS IS OUT! Say hello to Lethal Kiss, a queer dark academia horror romance out in fall 2026 from Tor Nightfire!! It's all about a draugr and a mortal, both assistant professors, tangled up in mxrder on their prestigious university campus 🥰 I'm so excited to bring Marcella and Lacie to you!

Taylor Grothe's LETHAL KISS, a queer dark academia horror romance where two Nordic Studies assistant professors—a draugr whose eternal hunger for blood is only matched by her craving for knowledge and the human who sees her as a rival for tenure-are forced to team up to uncover the truth behind a slew of missing people at their college, pitched as Jennifer's Body meets Ninth House, to Troix Jackson at Nightfire, in a significant deal, at auction, in a two-book deal, for publication in fall 2026, by Victoria Marini at High Line Literary Collective (world).

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Tammy @ Books, Bones & Buffy @booksbonesbuffy.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

18 Upcoming Queer Horror Books for June Pride Month In honor of Pride Month, and as part of my Summer of Horror event, I'm thrilled to present a bunch of upcoming queer horror books! All of these feature queer characters, queer themes, and/or are written by queer authors, and most of them were…

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18 Upcoming Queer Horror Books for June Pride Month

In honor of Pride Month, and as part of my Summer of Horror event, I'm thrilled to present a bunch of upcoming queer horror books! All of these feature queer characters, queer themes, and/or are written by queer authors, and most of them were already on my TBR, I only had to do a little research to round out the list.

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Caitlin Starling @caitlinstarling.com · 28/05/2025

the way I screamed (USA Today bestseller list!!!!)

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Taylor Grothe @taylorlgrothe.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Hollow is in the TOP 15 MOST REQUESTED HORROR BOOKS ON NETGALLEY WHAT 😭❤️😭❤️😭 thank you all so much

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Taylor Grothe @taylorlgrothe.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

I could absolutely screech with joy because: Hollow is on Netgalley!!!! Ahhh!! And not only is Hollow on Netgalley, but it’s on the front page of most requested horror books!! 😭😭😭 you can request Hollow now!!!

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Taylor Grothe @taylorlgrothe.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

[grabs bullhorn] HOLLOW IS GETTING A MULTI-STOP TOUR AHHHHHHHH 😭 mark your calendars for debut week!!

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Taylor Grothe @taylorlgrothe.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Being Publishing Vague is SO HARD, like what do you mean I can’t tell my thousands best friends about my news?!?????

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Sadie Hartmann (Mother Horror) @sadiehartmann.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

YA & Middle Grade Horror I'm excited about! I already read and loved HOLLOW by @taylorlgrothe.bsky.social All of these books are on my TBR!

ANOTHER by Paul Tremblay
BROKEN DOLLS by Ally Malinenko
MYSTERY JAMES DIGS HER OWN GRAVE by Ally Russell
RIDE OR DIE by Delilah Dawson-
THE SILENCED by Diana Rodriguez Wallach
HAZELTHORN by CG DREWS-
WHEN DEVILS SING Xan Kaur-
PREDATORY NATURES by Amy Goldsmith-
HOLLOW by Taylor Grothe
YOU'VE AWOKEN HER by Ann Dávila Cardinal
THE DUKE STEALS HEARTS AND OTHER BODY PARTS by Elias Cold
THEY BLOOM AT NIGHT by Trang Thanh Tran

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Taylor Grothe @taylorlgrothe.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Me and my agent matching each other’s freak on a cosmic level 😌

Taylor Grothe
To: Victoria Marini >
Friday
Okay—| KNOW. I know. I'm like six months early on this, but I wanted to get you the pitch in case it's, like, too much. Let me know!!

Victoria Marini
To: Taylor Grothe >
I LOOOOOVE THIS!

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Taylor Grothe @taylorlgrothe.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

It’s taken a long time for me to settle on what to say about the LibGen database and theft of books for AI. But I think I’m there now. I spent decades of my life unready to begin. I spent late nights, hunched over sleeping infants, squinting to read in low light.

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Taylor Grothe @taylorlgrothe.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

[deep breath] OHMYGOD I have such INCREDIBLE news and I CANNOT TALK ABOUT IT I AM DSHKJFSDKHJF

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Taylor Grothe @taylorlgrothe.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Today is the LAST DAY to apply to be a part of Hollow's street team!! It's wild to me how many people have applied already (~100!! what!) but the form isn't closed yet! Open to international, too, but space is limited because I'm responsible for funding this deep, dark forest :)

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Taylor Grothe @taylorlgrothe.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Me: [marks something unread so I can deal with it later] Me: Me: Me: ooh look a notification! 😒😒😒😒😒😒

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S.E. Reed @writingwithreed.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

What an incredibly thoughtful and helpful video by the talented @taylorlgrothe.bsky.social 🫶🏻 youtu.be/I4ioSUnnpt8

youtu.be

Autism and Writing with Taylor Grothe

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Taylor Grothe @taylorlgrothe.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

An evergreen reminder that if you post anything HP related I’m immediately unfollowing you. In this political climate where trans and nonbinary rights are under attack, your complicity in supporting a major anti-trans author is telling.

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Taylor Grothe @taylorlgrothe.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Took the kiddos out for a celebratory dinner and put on makeup properly for the first time in weeks, pls applaud

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Sofia Ajram @sofiaajram.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Trans Rights Readathon is March 21-31 🏳️‍⚧️ and since it is especially needed this year, I made a booklist of trans horror authors to seek out and discover (myself included). These are exceptional works of fiction in a variety of formats, so please—take your pick (but do!)

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Taylor Grothe @taylorlgrothe.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

I’m not on here much but: 👀I AM PUBLISHING VAGUE👀

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Taylor Grothe @taylorlgrothe.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

That screech (positive) you heard was me in Connecticut because [redacted]

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Elspeth Wilson @elspethwrites.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

"I love conceptualizing characters who are ND, because ND brains are beautiful, wonderful places—but we also experience significant barriers to entry & stigmas that I like to challenge." This quote 😭💗 a joy to interview @taylorlgrothe.bsky.social about their writing #BookSky tinyurl.com/mvy95nhb

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I love conceptualizing characters who are ND, because ND brains are beautiful, wonderful places

Taylor Grothe's (neurodivergent) notes on writing

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Taylor Grothe @taylorlgrothe.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Exciting things are afoot my friends!!! 😭 I've been asking you to light all your candles already--but if you have room for one more, I would love you for it!

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Taylor Grothe @taylorlgrothe.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Oh, yeah, I’m so totally normal and fine and really—REALLY—a reasonable level of excited [high pitched screech]

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Taylor Grothe @taylorlgrothe.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

I haven’t been here much but I have to tell you something [takes breath] aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa (positive)

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Taylor Grothe @taylorlgrothe.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

It’s official!! MFA’d 😌🎉🥳

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Taylor Grothe @taylorlgrothe.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Your evergreen reminder to subscribe to my substack where you can see FUN GOODIES early--and this coming missive, Hollow's preorder art before anyone else!!! substack.com/@hallowedwords

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Taylor Grothe | Substack

writing, publishing, & reading ✺ ✺ Hollow (Fall 2025) ✺ ✺ Of Auras and Shadows (Fall 2026)

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Taylor Grothe @taylorlgrothe.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

I may be hearing really good secret news this week, so please light your candles for me 🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️ I could really use this win. It's been a loooooong season.

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Taylor Grothe @taylorlgrothe.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

My entire brand is “I support femmes’ rights and femmes’ wrongs and ESPECIALLY femmes angry kissing,” and the far right can literally do nothing about it 😌

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Taylor Grothe @taylorlgrothe.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

✨RFK can fig ht me✨ My books will always be about neurodiversity and chronic illness and angry femmes fighting back against the patriarchy, about intersectional feminism and the beauty of our world's natural variation.

She never got her footing, and any time Cassie tried to explain how it was too much, that between her anxiety and her trichotillomania and autism diagnosis she was drowning, drowning, drowning, and her mother just nodded and told her to smile, to try and keep up and not break down.
Surrounded by:
Autistic MC
trichotillomania rep
Internalized ableism
Chronic illness
Self acceptance
Systemic prejudice
Hollow
September 30, 2025
Peachtree Teen

As a child, I used to think my pain was a result of some evil inside me, a curse or an omen. But as I grew, it became the single predictable thing in my existence; for all I hate it, it clings to me like a puppy or a crow starved for nourishment. My sick headaches are as much a part of me as any other piece of my body.
Surrounded by:
Migraine rep
Chronic illness rep
Femme rage
Dangerous magic threatening men
Secular cult
Allegorical monsters
Of auras and shadows
Peachtree teen
Fall 2026

I grin at him, pulling my oxblood lips wide. My teeth glimmer. "Why are you so worried about a couple of boys,
Dean Hansen?"
I can't help it. I want him to fear me and what I can do. I'm riding right up to the line I drew in the sand myself: to never tell anyone what I am, especially not a mortal man.
Surrounded by:
Horrid men exposed
Anxiety rep
Monsterf*ckers
Blo ody justice
Self-assured femmes
Autistic coded MC
Lethal Kiss
Taylor Grothe

I won't let her have the last of me. I won't let her use them to end me. If I'm an abomination, I'm the one she made.
Surrounded by:
Eldritch abomination
Catholic guilt
Monsterf*ckers
Internalized ableism
Femme rage
Nonbinary, autistic MC

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Taylor Grothe @taylorlgrothe.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

A reminder that I have a NINTH HOUSE meets JENNIFER’S BODY proposal out there in the world and I might be getting closer to being able to share it!! If you like whip smart, fast-paced dark academia adult crossover with something ✨worse✨ than succubae, let me know 😌

A mood board featuring: a view out a dark academia window into a courtyard, a long hallway in an opulent university, hands clutching books, the words "she's full of rage", a blo od-stained woman, the words "see you in
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Thea Lyons 🌈 Updates Only. Please 👀 at my 📚. 💜 @alethearlyons.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Need some Tuesday night plans? Join @taylorlgrothe.bsky.social, @bookishduck.bsky.social, @edcrockerbooks.bsky.social, and I on March 4th as we talk about books, SFFH, and writing shenanigans. Link to follow, but stick it in your diary now. You know how quickly Tuesdays get booked up.

Blue-pink background.
Title: The Somnia Launch Party
4 Columns with 3 squares each.
1. 'Hosted by Brigids Gate Press'
Broken Trail cover
Photo of Amanda Casile (she/her)
2. Photo of Alethea Lyons (she/ze)
The Hiding cover
The Somnia cover
3. 'Tuesday March 4th 2pm EST / 7pm GMT'
Lightfall cover
Photo of Ed Crocker (he/him)
4. Photo of Taylor Grothe (they/them)
Hollow cover
Temporary cover for Of Auras and Shadows

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Taylor Grothe @taylorlgrothe.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

DID YOU KNOW! You can preorder my very queer, very scary, very neurodiverse YA horror???? Did you also know that it is #3 out of all the ND YA on Barnes and Noble, and TOP 10 in YA horror?? I hope you all will love Cassie as much as I do 🥹

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Taylor Grothe @taylorlgrothe.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

When I started writing 5 years ago, I could never have imagined this. I’m so grateful to you, for making this autistic, queer book such a success. For propelling Cassie. For your support. Top 10: Teen Horror Top 10: Teen Paranormal Suspense Top 15: Teen Thrillers #2 Teen Neurodiversity Book

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Taylor Grothe @taylorlgrothe.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

I am so thrilled to release the cover of my debut YA horror novel, HOLLOW, out with Peachtree Teen on September 30, 2025!!!

A photo of trees with the cover of HOLLOW under "official cover reveal"

Don't Let the Forest In meets The Whispering Dark in a queer YA cult horror following a recently diagnosed autistic teen who becomes enmeshed in a community of outcasts harboring sinister secrets.
After a meltdown in her school cafeteria prompts an unwanted autism diagnosis, Cassie Davis moves back to her hometown in upstate New York, where her mom hopes the familiarity will allow Cassie to feel normal again.
Cassie's never truly felt normal anywhere, but she does crave the ease she used to have with her old friends.
Problem is that her friends aren't so eager to welcome her back into the fold.
They extend an olive branch by inviting her on their backpacking trip to Hollow Ridge, in the upper reaches of the Adirondacks. But when a fight breaks out their first night, Cassie wakes to a barren campsite-her friends all gone.
With severe weather approaching and nearing sensory overload, Cassie is saved by a boy named Kaleb, who whisks her away to a compound of artists and outcasts he calls the Roost. As Kaleb tends to her injuries, Cassie begins to feel-for the first time in her life-that she can truly be herself. But as the days pass, strange happenings around the Roost make Cassie question her instincts.
Noises in the trees grow louder, begging the question: Are the dangers in the forest, on the trail, or in the Roost itself?
In a world where autistic characters rarely get to be the hero of their own stories, Cassie Davis's one-step-back, two-steps-forward journey to unmasking makes Hollow as much a love letter to neurodiversity as it is a haunting tale you'll want to read with the lights on.

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Taylor Grothe @taylorlgrothe.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

🎉🌈COVER REVEAL TOMORROW🌈🎉 Ahhhh I’m so excited to announce that my cover goes LIVE tomorrow!! Check this space at 12:30pm EST to see the most beautiful cover EVER 😭✨

On a gray paper package
Hollow cover reveal
A tag that says: Open on Feb 4

Hollow
She never wanted to be a hero.
Now, she’ll have to become one

BI/PAN REP
eerie, dark forest
autism & anxiety rep
NERD-CORE
BROKEN FRIENDS
off-the-grid compound
nonbinary LI
SO MANY SECRETS
WOUND-TENDING
too many crows
childhood crushes to [redacted]
LOST BOY
COTTAGEGORE
morally gray community

September 30, 2025
Peachtree Teen

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Tananarive Due - The Reformatory @tananarivedue.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Black History is American History.

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