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Leslie Varney - Agent/Cofounder

@virtuallyleslie.bsky.social
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Prentis Literary Agency 🖨📚 • Representing diverse, inclusive voices in modern literature • SF, Fantasy, Romance, Horror, Thriller, Mystery, YA, MG

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Leslie Varney - Agent/Cofounder @virtuallyleslie.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
I've known a few people who have lost a child, or have lost the child-that-was through disaster. That's forever devastating. There is no going back to who you were. You don't recover, and you never move on. That's how I know that a fetus isn't a child.
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Leslie Varney - Agent/Cofounder @virtuallyleslie.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
This is how I know a fetus isn't a child. I've known many people who have lost an embryo or a fetus, meaning the pregnancy was wanted and anticipated with joy. I have lost one myself. It's incredibly painful and often devastating in the aftermath. But we (mostly) recover and move on.
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Mostly True News @mostlytruenews.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
A Wisconsin board says Elon Musk likely broke the law by giving voters $1 million. Filthiest thing I've seen a billionaire do broad daylight in my lifetime. Strait out attacking democracy with money.
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Leslie Varney - Agent/Cofounder @virtuallyleslie.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
📚💙 AUTHORS: How did you come to your story? What led you? What connections did you make to get there? Why are you passionate about this story? What childhood nightmares informed it? How has it evolved through time? #writtingcommunity #writingtips #writerLift #AuthorsOfTwitter #publishing #booksky
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Paul Price @swimsure.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
'Facebook made a presentation ... bragging that its ability to monitor users’ online lives enabled them to know exactly when teenage girls were feeling “worthless”, “insecure”, “stressed”, “anxious”, & “like a failure”. Those were optimal moments for selling.' www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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At last, David has landed a double punch on the tech Goliaths. Now to hit them even harder | Jonathan Freedland
The US court verdicts declaring Meta liable for getting people addicted and ruining lives must be just the start of a global fightback, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland
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Leslie Varney - Agent/Cofounder @virtuallyleslie.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
So darn cute! Do I wish I could win? 😭 Yes I do! www.instagram.com/p/DWZNA9YAUG...
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Del Rey and Random House Worlds on Instagram: "🐉 GIVEAWAY 🐉⁣ ⁣ Del Rey and Roamin' Bison Workshop are teaming up to give one lucky winner the first two books in the Nampeshiweisit series by Moniquill ...
165 likes, 8 comments - delreybooks on March 27, 2026: "🐉 GIVEAWAY 🐉⁣ ⁣ Del Rey and Roamin' Bison Workshop are teaming up to give one lucky winner the first two books in the Nampeshiweisit series by M...
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Leslie Varney - Agent/Cofounder @virtuallyleslie.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
We're excited to announce that we've signed Sally! I think she's gonna be a hoot to work with 🦉🦉
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Leslie Varney - Agent/Cofounder @virtuallyleslie.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
One of my favorite compliments came from him, and he gave it to me many times. He'd say I had the meanest eyes of anyone he'd ever seen, except for himself 😆
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Leslie Varney - Agent/Cofounder @virtuallyleslie.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
One of my oldsters died last night. It was a good death: peaceful, in his sleep, age 93. He was one of the many important adults in my life: a firm, even stern, lawman who reminded me a bit of Archie Bunker and a bit of Carroll O'Connor playing Archie Bunker.
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Leslie Varney - Agent/Cofounder @virtuallyleslie.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
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Leslie Varney - Agent/Cofounder @virtuallyleslie.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
🐲📚 Perfect holiday gift for #dragon lovers! To Shape a Dragon's Breath paired with the pre-order of sequel To Ride a Rising Storm, by Moniquill Blackgoose! Epic #fantasy with #diverse voices and #anticolonial attitude! Grab both now! #FantasyBooks #DragonFantasy #IndigenousAuthors #DiverseFantasy
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Leslie Varney - Agent/Cofounder @virtuallyleslie.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
🩵❤️💙🩷💚🧡💛
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Leslie Varney - Agent/Cofounder @virtuallyleslie.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
🐲📚 Perfect holiday gift for #dragon lovers! To Shape a Dragon's Breath paired with the pre-order of sequel To Ride a Rising Storm, by Moniquill Blackgoose! Epic #fantasy with #diverse voices and #anti-colonial attitude! Grab both now! #FantasyBooks #DragonFantasy #IndigenousAuthors #DiverseFantasy
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Bluesky Fanatic @blueskyfanatic.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Wasn't the Republican Party up in arms over a former President's blow job? But fucking little girls is okay? ======================
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Leslie Varney - Agent/Cofounder @virtuallyleslie.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
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Leslie Varney - Agent/Cofounder @virtuallyleslie.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
It's one of the rare times I really wish I were back home!
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Leslie Varney - Agent/Cofounder @virtuallyleslie.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
It's still going to need pushing everywhere, so keep the pressure on! But also, great work getting here 👏
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rebel.resist @sam--2025.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
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Leslie Varney - Agent/Cofounder @virtuallyleslie.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
I am on The Cozy Nook on Tuesday! I'm very much looking forward to this!! #sff #sciencefiction #fantasy #horror #speculative #fiction #book #podcast #publishing #WritingCommunity #amwriting #writerslife
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Leslie Varney - Agent/Cofounder @virtuallyleslie.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
WA was the state to go left in the last election and we have no income tax
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Mignon Fogarty @grammargirl.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
This is the most complete information I've seen about the Anthropic copyright settlement — dates of when things are likely to happen, what to do now, and what it all means for different types of writers. nwu.org/anthropic/
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Settlement of AI lawsuit gets tentative approval; some writers will get paid, but mostly only if they make claims | NWU
On September 25, 2025, Judge William Alsup of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California gave preliminary (tentative) approval to a proposed $1.5 billion settlement of some of the...
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Matthew Cooke @matthewcooke.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Is MAGA a fascist movement? NEW VIDEO. You tell me? www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0om...
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Is MAGA really a fascist movement?
YouTube video by Matthew Cooke
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 24/09/2025
BREAKING: Democrat Adelita Grijalva has won the special election in AZ-7 to fill her late father's US House seat. The discharge petition to release the Epstein files needs one more signature, and she's expected to sign it. www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...
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Arizona Special Election 2025 Live Results
View results from the 2025 Arizona House Special Election. Follow live outcomes as votes are added up on Election Day.
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Leslie Varney - Agent/Cofounder @virtuallyleslie.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
When the people who should be your community cancel you for standing up to someone for their histrionic attention-seeking behavior and contribution to making events unsafe, it's hard to stay loyal and support them.
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Leslie Varney - Agent/Cofounder @virtuallyleslie.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
It's hard to stay loyal to those who won't stay loyal to you.
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Otter Poppa's Poppaler Nature Facts @peezkyweezky.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
What liberals are experiencing right now is complicity; and they are not capable. So they imagine the fascism they’ve enjoyed and minimized their whole lives is the result of the uncouth man, not of decades of incrementalism ratcheting us into accepting evil as a given, lesser evil as the standard.
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Leslie Varney - Agent/Cofounder @virtuallyleslie.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
I disagree. Look at the actions of some of the most staunchly conservative coming out to denounce Trump's censorship overreach. That said, many can't rip off their blinders.
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Leslie Varney - Agent/Cofounder @virtuallyleslie.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
📚💙 🖊📜 This is the most tortured metaphor I've ever created! Shout-out for all the labored, tormented literary devices!
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Leslie Varney - Agent/Cofounder @virtuallyleslie.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
🧚🏾‍♀️🤍🤴🏻🤍🧟
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Leslie Varney - Agent/Cofounder @virtuallyleslie.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
I am so frequently critical of the Authoritarian Right, but I admit, I am so proud of those who've said no, this we won't support! You have restored a small part of the faith I once had. I would ask you to do the same with the Epstein information, as Mr. Kirk advocated for. It's time we know
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
“He says, ‘We can do this the easy way, or we can do this the hard way,’” Cruz quoted FCC chairman Brendan Carr. “That’s right out of a mafioso coming into a bar going, ‘Nice bar you have here, it’d be a shame if something happened to it.’”
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Leslie Varney - Agent/Cofounder @virtuallyleslie.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Turns out most of the self-righteous Right are Wonderbread Fluffernutters: tasteless white squish on the outside, synthetic white glop on the inside, and a thin layer of appropriated and emptied Brownness
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Leslie Varney - Agent/Cofounder @virtuallyleslie.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
The #Right sprinting to embrace #fascism so to prevent #socialism is so on-brand. They want smaller #government & no Nanny-state…until they don't, because it hurts their #feelings. Meaning they finally feel the same pain they've been inflicting or ignoring.
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Leslie Varney - Agent/Cofounder @virtuallyleslie.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Who else wants to place bets on how long it takes the #RadRight and #MAGA to start comparing #CharlieKirk's widow to #RosaParks or #HarrietTubman?
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Wil Wheaton ❌👑 @wilwheaton.net · 18/09/2025
It's pretty easy to cancel your Disney+ subscription, and a coordinated, national day of cancellations would send a very clear message about our values as Americans.
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Leslie Varney - Agent/Cofounder @virtuallyleslie.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
We now have Karl Rove to thank for defending civil liberties from Presidential overreach coming from the far right. The infinite parallel universe theory has been proven!
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
a bit unclear on what we are and are not allowed to say right now according to the government
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Leslie Varney - Agent/Cofounder @virtuallyleslie.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Grimly humorous, I suppose. The blind killing the blind, and it not having any effect on the outcome whatsoever.
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Leslie Varney - Agent/Cofounder @virtuallyleslie.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
And the oligarchs laugh on their thrones, and applaud your viciousness, and your blinders. But remember this, whichever lemmings end up victorious in this hate-off isn't going to stop the foundational problem because the foundational problem doesn't come from ideology.
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Leslie Varney - Agent/Cofounder @virtuallyleslie.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
That anyone says otherwise is the most disgusting. To say that, you say you matter more than another. And there is nothing more vile or less morally virtuous than that. And beyond that, you're all senseless lemmings tearing your beloved country apart.
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Leslie Varney - Agent/Cofounder @virtuallyleslie.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
For every hypocrite out there, left, right, and center. Your fucking ideologies don't give you special privilege to hypocrisy. Melissa Hortman's assassination, along with the murder of her husband, was disgusting. Charlie Kirk's assassination was disgusting.
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Leslie Varney - Agent/Cofounder @virtuallyleslie.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
Once upon a time, I was a person Or was it all a fairytale Did I ever reason, or ache, or love Did I ever exist, or was it all make-believe
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Leslie Varney - Agent/Cofounder @virtuallyleslie.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
In an Era of Deep Polarization, Unity Is Not Trump’s Mission www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/u...
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In an Era of Deep Polarization, Unity Is Not Trump’s Mission
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Leslie Varney - Agent/Cofounder @virtuallyleslie.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
In an Era of Deep Polarization, Unity Is Not Trump’s Mission www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/u...
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In an Era of Deep Polarization, Unity Is Not Trump’s Mission
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Leslie Varney - Agent/Cofounder @virtuallyleslie.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
We can acknowledge the irony, discuss the symmetry of recent political assassinations, question if Mr. Kirk's own rhetoric inspired the assassin, comment on how divisiveness has turned us into a dystopic and dysfunctional society of gun-wielding avengers, but to cheer this is obscene! It's never OK!
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Leslie Varney - Agent/Cofounder @virtuallyleslie.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
I had no idea 90% of people are in the bottom 50% of the cultivated.
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Leslie Varney - Agent/Cofounder @virtuallyleslie.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
I don't know, but I'm glad I stopped. I suppose it's up us each to decide what we think is safe, and act accordingly. 9/9
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Leslie Varney - Agent/Cofounder @virtuallyleslie.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
Were the officers trying to help her? Did they think she had done something? Were they questioning her? Had they advised her of her rights? Were they harassing her? If she ran, would they have let her go? Or would they have shot? 8/9
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Leslie Varney - Agent/Cofounder @virtuallyleslie.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
The officers all get in the cars, which btw are blocking the bus stop, and zoom off. I walk to the woman to ask if I can give her a ride or any assistance, but she's extremely distraught and thinks I'm with the police, and she shambles away. 7/9
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