Thank you for an amazing
#PitDark
day! Sharing all my pitches below for TYRANT SPELL, a dark fantasy murder mystery set in the 1920s where poetry = magic 🖋️🩸🖤 It will be on submission soon
#editors
!
#YA
#NA
#DF
#MM
#HF
🎉 Publishers Marketplace official 🎉
Thank you to my amazing agent, Vicky, and Team Quill & Crow! I’m so excited to share this story with readers in 2026 ❤️
✨THRILLED✨ to share I have signed w
@vickyweberbooks
at
@Tpurcellagency
!
I’m still processing this entire month and that it all actually happened (to me, no less!). I am so grateful for Vicky’s belief in me and my queer gothic novel, and I’m so ready for the journey ahead ❤️🌈
Bronte's search for her missing mother leads her to an abandoned school, where she and 7 spell writing poets are handed a scrap of verse and a challenge: finish it and they'll survive. The only problem? Bronte can't write a spell to save her life.
#YouDeservepIt
#YA
#OS
Soon!
Book 1 *off doing exciting things* 👀
Book 2 *off to beta readers* 🥰😬
Husband: you going to relax and take a break now?
Me: *immediately buys new fancy notebook to plot book 3* 🤓
🔪Queer Dark Fantasy Mystery☠️
Non-magical Bronte infiltrates a retreat for spellwriting poets, where their mysterious host begins killing them off one by one
🖊️poetry is magic
⚔️words are a weapon
🖤bi/nb romance
A STUDY IN DROWNINGxAND THEN THERE WERE NONE
#YA
#QuestPit
Woke up, watched the women's gymnastics final, and then used all the leftover adrenaline and stress to finish my edits. Draft is in my agent's inbox now 🫣
Every few years, I like to surprise my husband and blow up our lives by doing crazy things like grad school, or writing books, or quitting my job so I can freelance + we can travel the world. Just booked our first slow travel trip for the end of the year: 3 months in Portugal! ✈️
Happy Pride! ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜
I grew up in a more conservative community, where queerness was never discussed. Discovering queer stories saved my life by giving me the language to understand and embrace who I am. Please keep reading, writing, and publishing queer books ❤️
Thank you for all the
#YouDeservepIt
love yesterday 🥰 I loved meeting so many new writers and hearing about all the amazing books I need agents and editors to pick up so I can read them asap 🥳
Bronte's search for her missing mother leads her to an abandoned school, where she and 7 spell writing poets are handed a scrap of verse and a challenge: finish it and they'll survive. The only problem? Bronte can't write a spell to save her life.
#YouDeservepIt
#YA
#OS
Soon!
ASIDxAgatha Christie
Bronte's no poet. If she could pen magic, she'd understand her mother's world enough to know why she vanished without a trace. Or why Bronte's been abducted to a deserted school to finish a spell before the clock runs out
#YouDeservepIt
#YA
#OS
soon
#editors
Nonmagical Bronte infiltrates a retreat for spell writing poets to find her missing mother. But when poets start dying, she must race to unmask the killer in their midst before she's the next victim.
🖊️ poetry = magic
⚔️ words = weapons
🥀 bi/nb 🖤
#YouDeservepIt
#YA
#OS
Soon!
Surprise! I’m open to queries…now! In celebration of lots of ✨vague✨ news I’ll be sharing soon, I’m going to stay open indefinitely (or until I need a break to catch up) Check out my updated
#mswl
It's day two of
#AllYouCanWriteAugust
, which means it's time to talk about your MC(s)! Feel free to introduce them to us any way you'd like! Simple introductions, snippets, moodboards, etc. are all welcome.
Got so daunted staring at my brand new scrivener document this morning that I ended up writing the first part of chapter 1 on my notes app to ease myself into it 😂
Thank you for all the
#UnhingedPit
love ❤️ In true unhinged fashion, I decided to participate day of and put this together in 5 mins in Canva 😂
Hopefully will be out on sub with this one soon!🤞
Spent the last week in Chicago attending a conference with the most incredible, supportive authors, met my agent (& her adorable daughter) in person for the first time, pretended to know about architecture on a boat tour, and drank too much chai while revising book 2 🔪🩸🖊️
Ecstatic that I'll be attending the
@Tin_House
summer workshop this July! Applying was definitely one of those "it'll probably never happen, but at least fail big" moments, but my lil queer fantasy whodunnit did it ☺️
OMG BRIANA 🥹☺️❤️ Briana helped me so much with developmental edits and mentoring me in general when I was just starting out and had no clue what I was doing. Everyone should go read ON GOOD AUTHORITY right now!! It’s a gothic masterpiece!
Hi, hello, I am here to inform everyone that they are NOT ready for the queer Gothic masterpiece with which they will (soon, I hope) one day be blessed.
GIRD YOUR LOINS, PEOPLE.
⛈️🩷💜💙⛈️
I’m thrilled to share that I’ve joined the team at Creative Media Agency!! I will forever be grateful for my time at
@Tpurcellagency
but I’m excited for this new chapter in my agenting career!
@emmayuanwrites
I had 15 full requests before my offer, then 4 more after my nudge. I def agree it’s a luck/perseverance thing - my now agent was one of my early queries and I spent 6 more months revising and querying others before signing with her.
Had my first free moment in this wild, wonderful Tin House week, so I sat down to read the notes of my workshop leader, Aiden Thomas (!). Getting such constructive and positive feedback from an author I madly admire has me so 🥹🥹😭 one more pass and into my agent’s inbox it goes
After years of griping about how they backed off from exploring Benedict’s sexuality in s2, why of course I stayed up till 2am binging all eps and weeping tears of queer joy 🥹
Q&C began as a collective & would not be where she is today without her Crows: the many talented authors, poets, artists who keep her going. Thank you for understanding that the mission is beyond egos & accolades—it’s about the art. Much love & respect to you all 🖤🪶 - Cassandra
I like finding old copies of my favorite classics that inspired my love of reading and writing. The draft I just finished has some Brontë *vibes* so I added these beauties from the 1890s to my little collection ☺️
We cannot wait to bring you Catherine Fearns’s most recent novel, THE FAULT MIRROR, a speculative fiction tale of a castle that becomes a bastion of spiritualism in the 1900s until it is taken over by sinister forces during the First World War and mysteriously disappears… 👀📚
FIRST UP, i will be at
@Powells
in Beaverton with
@prernapickett
to kick off the tour on 9/3! join us at 7pm!
Powell's literally cant get rid of me and after 2 years, i get to celebrate one of my books! more info here!
@SaffiWrites
Always do a vibe check and trust your gut! The first reader I swapped with was...not a good match (their feedback was basically if they found my book on a shelf, they'd put it back 😂). I welcome critical feedback, but you want it to come from someone who's rooting for you.
Thank you for all the
#questpit
love 🥰 The best part was meeting so many new writing friends. The worst part was that none of these were books I could order right this very second. I had to pick my jaw off the floor so many times yesterday when reading everyone’s pitches! ❤️
🔪Queer Dark Fantasy Mystery☠️
Non-magical Bronte infiltrates a retreat for spellwriting poets, where their mysterious host begins killing them off one by one
🖊️poetry is magic
⚔️words are a weapon
🖤bi/nb romance
A STUDY IN DROWNINGxAND THEN THERE WERE NONE
#YA
#QuestPit
I told teenage me to stop and get a "real adult job." I did but then got bad burnout and to combat it, I wrote a book just for me on nights and on weekends. That book is now coming out in 2026 ☺️
Spent over an hour begging my dog to eat his flea and tick medicine because I had the audacity not to have his favorite American cheese in the fridge and he had to settle for it mozzarella wrapped instead 🥲
Officially on sub with MUST LOVE GOATS!
A journalist from the city hides at a TN goat farm after being unjustly accused of sleeping her way to the top. She plans for redemption, while trying not to fall for the man she calls "Barn Troll."
#editors
talk with
@C_H_Armstrong
❤️🐐
Honorable mention to the cicadas of Deerfield who gave me some not insignificant trauma I’ll have to work through later (one landed on me as soon as I stepped outside!!)
*sets OOO email*
Thank you for your email! I was avoiding the 3 library books I have to read asap by browsing for more books online, so now I have 5 library books to finish within the next few weeks. If this is urgent and you need to contact me, please don't.
Q&C is so grateful to have acquired HINTERLAND, an elevated horror fiction novel pitched as YELLOWJACKETS meets THE CABIN AT THE END OF THE WORLD, by Logan Spurgeon, coming winter of 2025 📚✍🏻
GIVEAWAY! Hi everyone! I’m hard at work setting up my romance bookstore, Grand Gesture Books, in Portland, OR! It will be open later this year. If you donate $25 or more within the next 24 hours, I’ll send you a $50 gift card to
@Bookshop_Org
♥️
She was the sea, he was the land.
🌿🧜♀️🌊🏝️⚔️
A social pariah with a traumatic past must choose between her steadfast—but insecure—childhood friend and a charming castaway…if the mythical sea monster hungry for her hidden power doesn’t kill her first.
#questpit
#os
#ag
I am officially on sub with THIS SPLINTERED SEA! 🎉
When the king’s trials open only to men, Briar disguises herself as a pirate to break the curse keeping her landlocked and powerless for a century 🌊
#editors
if you’re interested, reach out to
@C_H_Armstrong
🩷
@vickyweberbooks
@Tpurcellagency
I tried to get a pic of me signing my contract for this announcement, but I was flustered after walking in the rain to FedEx to print it. So instead, here's my very unserious Canva attempt 🙃
One of the best rejections I ever received was from an agent who (after being encouraging about my writing) told me my book seemed exactly like what another agent they know was looking for. It was something they absolutely didn't have to do, but it meant the world to me ☺️
Writers. I knew it's rare to get rejection with feedback. What was the best rejection feedback you've gotten? One that was useful, or one that left you feeling good? I want to highlight the positives.
THE WIVES OF HERRICK HALL: 🩶 silver for fog, phantoms, and a bone-clinging chill
TS: 💙 blue as dark as a stormy sea for secrets, lies, and stolen identities
SleepwalkingWIP: 💛 yellow for the oppressive summer sun, bees buzzing in a rose garden, and honey-coated threats
Do your books have colors assigned to them or just me?
MUST LOVE GOATS: ♥️ red for big barns, ambition, and the scarlet letter on Ryan’s chest
WHO COULD STAY: 🐊 green for envy, raging jealousy, and the color of southern swamps
#WritingCommunity
@matthewhubbard
I used to work for the 🐭 and am my friends’ go to trip planning resource 🙈 Lightning lane is so worth it. When you book one ride or scan a res, book another as soon as you’re able. Also, if a virtual queue drops at a specific time, refresh the app like two secs before!
Catch the 2024
#thsw
mixtape tour
@Reed_College_
July 14th-20th. Featuring all the bangers and deep cuts from some of today's elite hit makers. Nightly, 7:30pm, with ASL.
@LornaR1980
Congratulations, that’s an extraordinary achievement!! ❤️ I’m sorry your milestone isn’t being celebrated as it should be at home, but I’m so excited and happy for you!
just finished up my last session with truly INCREDIBLE writers i got to work with at
@Tin_House
this last week.
it really reminded me how much i LOVE leading workshops and teaching craft 💖💖💖