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Loretta Chefchaouni @writerlyme.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

I'm thrilled and honored to share that The Lustrous Dark is a Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection!!!!🖤✨🖤✨🖤✨ This sticker is dedicated to little Loretta who always rode her bike to the library and came home with plastic bags bulging with books hanging from the handlebars!💜🥹😭

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Gwenyth Reitz @gwenythreitz.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Check out this jaw-dropping cover for The Lustrous Dark by @writerlyme.bsky.social Inspired by North African folklore, this haunting story is beautiful inside & out! Perfect for readers hungry for: ✨ Ancient Magic ✨ Bone-chilling monsters ✨ Haunted forests ✨ Toxic mothers ✨ Political revolutions

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Leanne (L. A.) Schwartz @schwartzwords.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Hey if you’re wanting to support autistic voices/curl up with an autistic hero who’s mad as fuck about the state of the world (and uh gonna bang a hot conwoman about it) this sale’s going till the end of the month! All ebook platforms✨ bookshop.org/p/books/my-k...

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My Kind of Trouble: A Novel

A Novel

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Mackenzie @mlynmarrbooks.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

I’m so excited to help reveal the cover for Loretta Chefchaouni’s GORGEOUS debut novel, The Lustrous Dark!! Get ready to fight the patriarchy and dive into this lush, mystical fairy tale world on May 19! ✨preorder now✨ Cover artist: Tom Roberts Publisher: Peachtree Teen

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Loretta Chefchaouni @writerlyme.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

COVER REVEAL!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm so excited to share the cover of The Lustrous Dark with you! It's everything I could have asked for! Tom Roberts perfectly captured the dark fairytale and epic fantasy vibes of the book! Available for pre-order and on Goodreads!

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Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

We are thrilled to help reveal the cover for The Lustrous Dark by Loretta Chefchaouni! A lush YA fantasy inspired by Moroccan folklore, The Lustrous Dark is for fans of haunted forests, sweet romance, and stories that are "beautiful and a little gross." reactormag.com/cover-reveal...

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Revealing The Lustrous Dark by Loretta Chefchaouni - Reactor

A sweeping YA fantasy inspired by a Moroccan folktale, arriving May 2026

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Boyds Mills @boydsmills.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

Word garden inspiration: Let Children Laugh Forever! 💙💚

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Loretta Chefchaouni @writerlyme.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Convincing you to add THE LUSTROUS DARK to Goodreads with a single snippet: THE LUSTROUS DARK is a YA fantasy retelling of a Moroccan folktale that combines the lush world of This Woven Kingdom with the mother trauma of Snow White and a dash of Tim Burton (think seven ghouls)! #booksky #2026debuts

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Loretta Chefchaouni @writerlyme.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

IT'S PM OFFICIAL!!!!!!! ✨🖤✨🖤✨🖤✨🖤✨🖤✨ I'm so excited for all the things to come over the next year, and very thankful to those who are here to share it with me and the ones who played a part in helping me get this far! 😭🫶🏼 #2026debuts #booksky #booksbooksbooks #readreadread #YAfantasy

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Briana Garrett ✨ Love Be Damned Out Now! @brianawrites.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

This is not a humble brag i promise! But i blew past my optimistic goal of 40 books sold before my book came out, and so now i have a new goal of 100 books sold before the end of the summer!🙏🏾

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Loretta Chefchaouni @writerlyme.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

My book combining the lush mythology of This Woven Kingdom with the mother trauma of Snow White is being published! I’m thrilled to work with Ashley Hearn at Peachtree Teen who gets all the layers of The Lustrous Dark and has the vision to grow this story into its final form!!

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Children's Bookshelf @pwkidsbookshelf.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Coming soon: new projects from @shihopate.bsky.social @umurrayhusted.bsky.social @writerlyme.bsky.social + more buff.ly/88cTNyN

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Loretta Chefchaouni @writerlyme.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

If you're in the Seattle area, you can come see me at my first ever author events on Thursday April 17th to celebrate my friends' book releases and discuss Muslim books! You might even hear a sneaky peeky preview about my secret newsy news!! 🤫🤫🤫

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juliaalexwrites.bsky.social @juliaalexwrites.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Get ready to board The Celestial with me in 2026! NIGHTMARE ON THE CELESTIAL is a YA fantasy perfect for fans of HOTEL MAGNIFIQUE and CARAVAL. This sweeping fantasy has romance, magic, mystery, a loveably chaotic found family, and a darker side to the luxurious entertainment aboard.

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Loretta Chefchaouni @writerlyme.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

What is your cat's favorite toy? And why is it a shoelace?

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Loretta Chefchaouni @writerlyme.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

THIS BOOK! What a beautiful, profound, and masterfully crafted read!! It took my breath away every time I picked it up to read it and the last 20% of the story was !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #booksky #thekeepersofrecordsofrevolution #fledgling

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Loretta Chefchaouni @writerlyme.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

2025 OUT: Jumping to the worst conclusion about everything and worrying about things I can't control. IN: Trusting Allah's plans.

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Wild Elephant 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸 @wildelphy.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Israel just murdered Khaled Nabhan, whose story garnered global attention last year when CNN ran a report about Israel slaughtering his grandchild "the soul of [his] soul" Khaled had been sharing videos depicting daily life in Gaza Israel also recently bombed his brother's home.

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Loretta Chefchaouni @writerlyme.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

I'm so in love with the art piece I commissioned! (The artist is Nadya.ez on IG.) 😍 I'm trying to hold off on sharing it until I'm able to add it to a certain announcement, but I reached the midpoint in revisions and couldn't resist doing a "sneak peek" reveal for now! 😭 #booksky #revising #art

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Lilistrations 🍉 @lilistrations.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Last #kidlitartpostcard of the year!! :) My name is Lilibeth Jimenez. I am a Mexican American author&illustrator. I am available for picture book and board book projects. Reach out to my agent, Sophie Sheumaker, for inquiries. #illustrator #kidlitart #illustration #childrensbooks

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Sandra Proudman @sandraproudman.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Please share widely 🙏🏼 I am taking item donations (literally anything from the publishing community or readers) for the next #KidLit4Ceasefire fundraiser to run Jan 15th through 31st. I am at about 100 items, trying to get to at least 500. airtable.com/appgMC1CTRup...

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Leanne (L. A.) Schwartz @schwartzwords.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

This #InternationalDayOfPersonsWithDisabilities I’m thinking about threats to healthcare and disabled student services, but grateful for my community, and the chance to highlight disabled experiences in all my books. I want to share some resources for those who want to learn and support.

Me, a fat white person, smiling and sitting and leaning over my three books standing on display: My Kind of Trouble, A Prayer for Vengeance, and To a Darker Shore, with soft light from a two windows behind me

My Kind of Trouble book cover: teal background with a bold white san serif font reading MY KIND OF across the top and between two figures, TROUBLE written in large script over the two figures, and a small script font reading “a novel” tucked into a bookshelf near the bottom. The two figures are a tall dark-haired man in glasses, brown tweed jacket, jeans, and sneakers, carrying an overly tall stack of books and smiling at a glamorous fat blonde woman in a low-cut red dress, choker, and red lipstick sitting on a low bookcase, holding a book in her lap, and smiling back slyly. The books are in pinks and purples. The author L. A. Schwartz is written at the bottom.

A PRAYER FOR VENGEANCE cover, reading “Leanne Schwartz, A PRAYER FOR VENGEANCE” and featuring a fat teenage girl in gladiator sandals and a sparkling draped dress with a high slit revealing one thick thigh as she stalks forward, lowered sword ready in one hand and dripping three drops of blood. She is surrounded by classical columns topped with stars and an archway of moon phases, topped with a large crescent moon. The cover is in a pink to dark wine color scheme, on a parchment background.

A book cover for TO A DARKER SHORE featuring a fat girl in a bodice and skirt running and carrying a crossbow, a wry, determined smile on her white face looking over a shoulder, dark hair flying behind her. She’s above the pit of hell and surrounded by levels of hell, with fire, devils, mirrors, and towers rising up to mountains and a sun in the sky, watched over by a large face of a golden god. The image is set between two golden columns. A sad monster boy watches the girl from behind a broken mirror, bloody hand pressed to the glass. Colors are red, gold, and purple. Author’s name at the bottom: Leanne Schwartz

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Khadijah VanBrakle @khadijahvanbrakle.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Excited to share the cover of my next Contemporary YA novel, MY PERFECT FAMILY 💜 iA, it's being released on July 1st, 2025, from Holiday House #BlackAmericanMuslimYAauthor #NewMexicoauthor

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Maria Tureaud 🕯✒️🕯✒️ @mariatureaud.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Okay friends, it's time to give back in a major way. For the first time ever, I'm offering 50% off all Full Manuscript Critiques, and 30% off all Full Manuscript Developmental Edits. Happy #cybermonday #writingcommunity #writersky Please send all inquiries through my website: www.mariatureaud.com

Full Manuscript Sale: For the first time ever take 50% off the cost of all full manuscript critiques and 30% off all full manuscript developmental edits. www.mariatureaud.com

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Loretta Chefchaouni @writerlyme.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

So being a writer is really just waking up every day and convincing yourself all over again that you can, in fact, write, no matter what you accomplish or what stage you are at in the process, huh?

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Loretta Chefchaouni @writerlyme.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

YESSS! and more diverse horror of all kinds, including Muslim Horror!!!!

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Taylor Grothe @taylorlgrothe.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

I think we're going to see a HUGE proliferation of #horror over the next four years. We will need the catharsis, and of all sorts: splatterpunk, weird, cosmic/eldritch, folk/cult, Gothic, and bubblegum, to name a few. Horror contains multitudes. Horror can heal. Horror lets us know we aren't alone.

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Katie Abdou @kaitlynabdou.com · 19/11/2024

GIVEAWAY TIME! I am hosting a GIVEAWAY on my newsletter! To enter, share this post, sign up for my mailing list, and fill out the form linked in my "welcome" e-mail! bit.ly/3Zbdw8Y Winner will be selected on December 15th!

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Loretta Chefchaouni @writerlyme.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Saw a friend, met some new writers, and spent all my money on books at the Miami Book Fair this weekend! 😊And the weather was perfect!!

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Lilly Lu✨is 👀👀👀!!! @lillyluwrites.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

✨We are PM official!✨ My middle-grade debut is a love letter to #BTS, by fans for fans! The book is BDS-friendly & portions of proceeds will be donated to causes we care about, center of mind Pal BTS fans 💜 @majablanque.bsky.social & I hope this book will be a spot of joy in these times.

Publishers Marketplace screenshot of Lilly and Maja’s book announcement with BTS illustration by Maja in the background

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Loretta Chefchaouni @writerlyme.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Hi #booksky!!! 👋🏻👋🏻 I'm Loretta, a YA fantasy author of lush worlds with a sprinkle of spooky who loves cats, coffee, and connecting with other writers! I've been through every stage of the writing, querying, and submission process, and am 👀👀👀 24-7 now because I'm very bad at keeping ✨secrets✨! 😅😭

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Melissa Kendall @makendallauthor.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

🚀✨ LAUNCH DAY✨🚀 Mentor to the Marquess is AVAILABLE NOW on Azn and KU! Mentor to the Marquess is an extra spicy Victorian romance with autistic rep and mystery solving. Cover by Kim Killion.

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At the center, the book cover for Mentor to the Marquess by Melissa Kendall.

The book summary for mentor to the Marquess

A survivor of spousal abuse, matchmaker Olivia Heather, the Dowager Countess of Allen, devotes her time to preventing the young ladies of society from following in her footsteps—until a series of newspaper articles accuse her of murdering her late husband.

Her plan to use her feminine wiles to convince the man responsible for the attacks to stop is stymied when the man in question, the infuriatingly handsome Thellusson Vaith, Marquess Lowell, requests that she find a love match for his daughter.

Nonetheless determined to make him pay for his misdeeds, Olivia vows to ignore the attraction simmering between them—until she learns that he hasn’t bedded a woman since his wife’s death nearly twenty years prior. Unable to resist the sensitive, guilt-ridden marquess, she takes on a new role: Mentoring him in the ways of pleasure.

But when they discover letters that suggest someone is manipulating Thel’s daughter using the same techniques that Olivia’s husband once used against her, they must delve into Olivia’s wounded past and resolve old family conflicts before the marquess’s daughter is in danger and Olivia is arrested for a crime she did not commit.

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Rose Black @wordsofrablack.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

It's publication day! This little book has had a hard journey to print, but I've already had amazing reviews and I'm so proud of the story. FATED WINDS is about not conforming, fighting Fate, saying "this is who I am". It's also about healing, kindness, and family. I really hope you love it too

Hard back edition of FATED WINDS AND PROMISING SEAS with a plushie narwhal, turtle and lionfish around it.

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Loretta Chefchaouni @writerlyme.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

An escape room for writers but it's just you and a blank screen. Good luck. #mondaymemes #booksky

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M.O. (Mindy) Yuksel @moyuksel.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Curious about the inspiration behind Sami’s Special Gift? Watch the 12x12 Book Chat where I share my publishing journey and read the story aloud! Plus, PB creators, apply for a 12x12 scholarship by 11/30! Thank you to 12x12 for hosting! Links in comments. @12x12challenge.bsky.social

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Loretta Chefchaouni @writerlyme.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Hazel, Chibi, and Beetlejuice say they love butterfies!! #BWtoBF #booksky

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Leigh Anne Carter @lacarterbooks.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

I’m thrilled to share the COVER REVEAL of my first author-illustrator picture book! #kidlitart YETI IS NOT READY FOR SCHOOL • Out July 1, 2025 • Preorders open: lacarter.com/books More below! 🩵

Yeti is blue and wears a dark blue bow in her fur. She’s struggling to hold her school supplies and some have fallen out of her hands onto the floor. She has a trepidatious look.

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Ash 🐉 CHILD OF THE DRAGON @ashintheashes.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

I'm putting together a starter pack of 2026 debut authors!! There are many more to come and many more will be added before then so definitely follow along! 2026 debut group is an incredible cohort of authors so you definitely don't want to miss this! go.bsky.app/9Sw356k

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Loretta Chefchaouni @writerlyme.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Post a picture of yourself to show the newbies what they’re dealing with. 🦃 💜

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Noelle Monét | BOUND BY FURY out now!! @noellemonet.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

😭👉🏽👈🏽

character art with a deal announcement.
Kai and Harper from BOUND BY FURY in the bottom left corner, a green zodiac wheel behind the announcement with forest in the back.

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Khadijah VanBrakle @khadijahvanbrakle.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Here are some details of my 2nd Contemporary YA standalone novel. MY PERFECT FAMILY is due out July 1st, 2025, from Holiday House #NewMexicoAuthor #BlackAmericanMuslimAuthor

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Loretta Chefchaouni @writerlyme.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Mermaid mug ✅ Capybara pants ✅ Today's goal: finish revising act one!

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birdie schae ☀️ add SMASH OR PASS on Goodreads! @birdienotabird.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

IT’S HAPPENING 🫶 My sapphic YA beach volleyball romcom is being published by Knopf BFYR / Penguin Random House !! 🧡🏐🩷 SMASH OR PASS is my love letter to autistic girls, summer camp, team sports & so much more. I truly can’t wait for you all to meet Ellie & her friends in 2026!!✨

Marisa DiNovis at Knopf has bought Birdie Schae’s debut YA novel, SMASH OR PASS. The sapphic romance follows 16-year-old Ellie, an autistic people-pleaser whose plan to reinvent herself at beach volleyball summer camp takes an unexpected turn when she finds herself falling for her grumpy teammate. Publication is slated for summer 2026; Brent Taylor at Triada US negotiated the deal for North American rights.

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Loretta Chefchaouni @writerlyme.bsky.social · 09/10/2023

No one can tell me that my cats don't understand everything I say when I talk to them.

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