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Laura Crockett @lecrockett.bsky.social · Dec 31

MSWL for 2025 is live! scribblesandwanderlust.com/2024/12/31/m...

MSWL for 2025

Also known as What I’d Like to See in my Agent Inbox in 2025 In general, my manuscript wish list stays the same no matter the season or year! But for 2025, I am aiming to be even more particu…

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Laura Crockett @lecrockett.bsky.social · 10d

I’m not able to properly participate in #DVpit, but I’d love to hear from you! 📚

• MSWL: scribblesandwanderlust.com/2024/12/31/m...
• Sub Guidelines: www.triadaus.com/laura

#YA #A #CON #HF #RomCom #SFF #F #WF #H

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Triada US Lit Agency @triadaus.bsky.social · Sep 16

A wonderful @slj.com interview with Chloe Gong on identity, international relations, and virtual reality in COLDWIRE! #TeamTriada #BookSky
www.schoollibraryjournal.com/story/chloe-...

Q&A: Chloe Gong on identity, international relations, and virtual reality in

In this exclusive interview, Chloe Gong talks with SLJ about her writing process and the themes in her new dystopian novel Coldwire, publishing in November.

www.schoollibraryjournal.com

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Triada US Lit Agency @triadaus.bsky.social · 16d

An excellent Cosmopolitan interview and COLDWIRE excerpt with Chloe Gong! #TeamTriada #BookSky
www.cosmopolitan.com/entertainmen...

Exclusive: Chloe Gong Says She Feels Like a Prophet After Writing ‘Coldwire’ and You Can See For Yourself With This Excerpt

She's been planning this story out for years, but she didn't think the real world would catch up with the fantasy so fast.

www.cosmopolitan.com

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Triada US Lit Agency @triadaus.bsky.social · Sep 18

Congratulations to @sharonchoe.bsky.social on the sale of THE QUEEN OF THE SPIRIT WOODS! #TeamTriada #BookSky

A Publisher's Weekly deal announcement which features a photo of author Sharon Choe and reads as follows: Kristie Choi at Atheneum has acquired The Queen of the Spirit Woods and a sequel, a YA debut by Sharon Choe, pitched as The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea meets The Cruel Prince. In this epic YA romantic fantasy inspired by Korean history, a girl who has faked her way into becoming a royal kitchen maid is embroiled in palace intrigue and forbidden love after stumbling into the mysterious Spirit Woods and unwittingly becoming a vessel for 10,000 nature spirits. Publication is set for fall 2026; Laura Crockett at Triada US handled the deal for world rights.

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Children's B🎃🎃kshelf @pwkidsbookshelf.bsky.social · Sep 18

Announcing new deals for @caitlinr.bsky.social @medenkuyatt.bsky.social @ciccotello.bsky.social @sharonchoe.bsky.social + more

Rights Report: Week of September 15, 2025

New deals for Vanessa Montalban, Lila Riesen, Elle Gonzalez Rose, and others.

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Children's B🎃🎃kshelf @pwkidsbookshelf.bsky.social · 29d

Announcing new deals for @caitlinr.bsky.social @medenkuyatt.bsky.social @ciccotello.bsky.social @sharonchoe.bsky.social + more buff.ly/JBxonYK

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Dr Sharon Choe @sharonchoe.bsky.social · 29d

Delighted to announce my YA debut THE QUEEN OF THE SPIRIT WOODS is coming out with Atheneum, Fall 2026!

The first in a duology inspired by Korean history, you can expect:
🍄 Palace political intrigue
🍄 A magic system grounded in Korean shamanism
🍄 Dae Jang Geum vibes (iykyk)

Sharon Choe’s THE QUEEN OF THE SPIRIT WOODS, pitched as inspired by Korean history, about a girl who, after faking her way into becoming a royal kitchen maid, is embroiled in dangerous palace intrigue and forbidden love when she stumbles into the mysterious Spirit Woods and unwittingly becomes a vessel for 10,000 nature spirits, to Kristie Choi at Atheneum, in a two-book deal, for publication in fall 2026, by Laura Crockett at TriadaUS Literary Agency (world).

Who will save the saviors when all is nought but stardust & ash? Who will help the cursed, the forgotten, the condemned—the betrayed?

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Laura Crockett @lecrockett.bsky.social · Sep 18

Hello, what’s this beautiful cover reveal on People? Why, it’s Ana Holguin’s wonderful sophomore romance, SECOND CHANCE DUET! people.com/ana-holguin-...

Ana Holguin’s 'Second Chance Duet' Is an Homage to Latinx and Hispanic Creatives — See the Cover! (Exclusive)

Ana Holguin will publish a new rom-com, 'Second Chance Duet', in spring 2026. The book follows the relationship between a music composer and her college nemesis, who reunite to work on a project toget...

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Laura Crockett @lecrockett.bsky.social · Sep 15

- Jane Austen
- Romantic and Gothic literature
- Music history—specifically the composers’ bios & influences
- if it’s an audio category: accents, specifically in the UK, & where they’re from

Sam would be good with actors, movies, & TV shows, as well as operas, music theory, & music history.

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Triada US Lit Agency @triadaus.bsky.social · Sep 10

Excited to see Chloe Gong's COLDWIRE included on @peoplemag.bsky.social's list of Must-Read Books of Fall 2025! #TeamTriada #BookSky
people.com/people-must-...

PEOPLE’s Must-Read Books of Fall 2025: Chloe Gong, Catherine Newman and More

These are the fiction and nonfiction books PEOPLE editors are most excited for you to read this fall, including thrillers, romance, fantasy and dystopia and more.

people.com

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Laura Crockett @lecrockett.bsky.social · Sep 9

I love this feeling. It’s so indescribable to folks outside this position. There’s pride, joy, excited anticipation…the best!

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Triada US Lit Agency @triadaus.bsky.social · Sep 8

"Gong capably explores themes of diaspora, corporate control, and artificial intelligence while spinning a labyrinthine mystery with a sprinkle of romance." A lovely review from @publisherswkly.bsky.social for Chloe Gong's COLDWIRE! #TeamTriada #BookSky
www.publishersweekly.com/9781665960137

Coldwire (Coldwire #1) by Chloe Gong

In a near-future world ravaged by deadly disease and extreme weather caused by climate change, humans rebuff reality for a virtu...

www.publishersweekly.com

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Laura Crockett @lecrockett.bsky.social · Sep 4

You are most welcome!!

Laura Crockett @lecrockett.bsky.social · Sep 4

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I combined all my previous Gothic reading lists into one Behemoth. #booktok #literature #reading #gothic #horror

TikTok video by Dr. Rebecca Marks

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Laura Crockett @lecrockett.bsky.social · Sep 3

(Gothic fiction is MY FREAKING JAM, I could talk for hours about the birth of the mother of genre fiction, the birth of *the freaking novel*, and how it’s because of gothic fic that we still read for pleasure today—but I’ll just stick to shouting the book titles with immense joy.)

Laura Crockett @lecrockett.bsky.social · Sep 3

An hour ago a friend shared a video of a Cambridge professor sharing a gothic fiction reading list, and I downright SQUEALED and GUSHED about every single book listed.

Now it’s just after 7pm and I’m ready for bed.

The energy whiplash is astounding.

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Triada US Lit Agency @triadaus.bsky.social · Sep 3

"Grand in scope and overflowing with promise." A lovely review from Booklist for THE ISLE IN THE SILVER SEA by @tashasuri.bsky.social! #TeamTriada #BookSky
www.booklistonline.com/products/981...

Booklist Online: Leading Book Discovery

www.booklistonline.com

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Triada US Lit Agency @triadaus.bsky.social · Aug 25

A wonderful podcast interview on Aromantic and Asexual YA Romance with THANKS FOR LISTENING author @mollyhoran.bsky.social! #TeamTriada #BookSky
smartbitchestrashybooks.com/podcast/680-...

680. Aromantic and Asexual YA Romance with Molly Horan

Smart Bitches, Trashy Books

smartbitchestrashybooks.com

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Triada US Lit Agency @triadaus.bsky.social · Aug 25

Excited to see @hannahnicolemae.bsky.social's ACCOMPLICE TO THE VILLAIN and @tashasuri.bsky.social's THE ISLE IN THE SILVER SEA on Goodread's Guide to New Fall Romance and Romantasy! #TeamTriada #BookSky
www.goodreads.com/blog/show/29...

Your Guide to New Fall Romance and Romantasy

Autumn is Mother Nature’s coziest season. Everyone knows this. It’s a time for knit sweaters, ceramic mugs, and earth tones. And if you’re lucky—roma...

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Laura Crockett @lecrockett.bsky.social · Aug 24

And now another dear, wonderful, beautiful soul full of love and light has passed far, far too soon. So vibrant and healthy, my age, yet a heart attack took him down.

Hold your loved ones close. Remind them how much you love them.

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Laura Crockett @lecrockett.bsky.social · Aug 16

Rest in peace, Debbie. You were a force of nature. I only hope to be half as incredible and headstrong as you.

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Laura Crockett @lecrockett.bsky.social · Aug 16

She would tell me to blow my nose, get up, and carry on. She would tell me to sing my heart out at her service. She would tell me to read books and travel and ask questions and stand up for what’s right. She would tell me to stop crying, because there is more work to be done and life left to live.

Laura Crockett @lecrockett.bsky.social · Aug 16

She is not the first of my friends—this year and in the past 10 years—nor will she be the last.

But my heart is heavy. It’s so hard to process.

Many of my other friends do not have these kinds of relationships. They don’t understand it outside of familial context.

This grief is different.

Laura Crockett @lecrockett.bsky.social · Aug 16

But the hard part of these friendships is that we DO forget our age differences. We forget the fragility of the aging body.

One minute she’s here, laughing and full of life and a force to be reckoned with.

The next minute, she’s gone.

How.

How.

Laura Crockett @lecrockett.bsky.social · Aug 16

It’s so special. I do not want to discount the friendships I have with folks my own age—but I don’t think society really sees, honors, or values the intergenerational friendships that are borne outside of familial bonds.

This is something wholly its own, and deeply special.