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Madeleine Gunhart
@madeleinegunhart.bsky.social
Writer of Romantasy + Witchy Nonfiction. Tarot reader. The other PNW cryptid. She/they

Represented by @thejordache.bsky.social

www.madeleinegunhart.com
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So very excited to be sharing this news! !My story about a lovestruck wizard trying to “cure” death and the beautiful grim reaper who slowly falls in love with being alive is slated to be published with Ace Books (Penguin Random House) in 2027!
Whenever I hear about the “Nuggets“ playing, this is what I picture
November 23, 2025 at 3:56 AM
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Happy holidays to me - my editor at Clarion just told me my #kidlit Advent holiday title, JINGLE ALL THE WAY HOME, has earned a spot on the Indie Bestsellers List!

Illustrated by Kathryn Selbert. Available at your local independent bookstore (or wherever books are sold).

🎁❄️🐶🎄📖
November 21, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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We get messages like this every day. Jail library patron ❤️ #ilovemyjob
November 22, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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So very excited to be sharing this news! !My story about a lovestruck wizard trying to “cure” death and the beautiful grim reaper who slowly falls in love with being alive is slated to be published with Ace Books (Penguin Random House) in 2027!
November 20, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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Also, you know I love a client meet-up at Disneyland! I actually read the first draft of @madeleinegunhart.bsky.social's CULL ME, MAYBE sitting on the curb of Main Street waiting for last year's Christmas parade.

And now we have announced the deal! YAY!
Major shout out to my agent, @thejordache.bsky.social who always believed and stood by me during years-worth of “almosts.” Forever obsessed with our Chip & Dale “prom pic” and eternally grateful for your loyalty and support.
November 20, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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Y'ALL. @madeleinegunhart.bsky.social has been with me for years and we've had so many near misses. Last year I told her "Maybe try a cozy fantasy?" and CULL ME, MAYBE was born.

So thrilled for Madeleine and can't wait for more people to read this fantastic book.

AND! This is my first ADULT deal!
So very excited to be sharing this news! !My story about a lovestruck wizard trying to “cure” death and the beautiful grim reaper who slowly falls in love with being alive is slated to be published with Ace Books (Penguin Random House) in 2027!
November 20, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Jordan is amazing for many reasons, including her continued flexibility and trust as I try new things. I never thought of myself as a fantasy writer before, but as soon as I started brainstorming CULL ME, MAYBE, I fell in love and everything seemed to click into place.
Y'ALL. @madeleinegunhart.bsky.social has been with me for years and we've had so many near misses. Last year I told her "Maybe try a cozy fantasy?" and CULL ME, MAYBE was born.

So thrilled for Madeleine and can't wait for more people to read this fantastic book.

AND! This is my first ADULT deal!
So very excited to be sharing this news! !My story about a lovestruck wizard trying to “cure” death and the beautiful grim reaper who slowly falls in love with being alive is slated to be published with Ace Books (Penguin Random House) in 2027!
November 21, 2025 at 1:56 AM
So very excited to be sharing this news! !My story about a lovestruck wizard trying to “cure” death and the beautiful grim reaper who slowly falls in love with being alive is slated to be published with Ace Books (Penguin Random House) in 2027!
November 20, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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1. The Trump administration has just quietly updated the State Department website to indicate that it may invalidate transgender people's passports.

This comes a week after a SCOTUS ruling blocking lower rulings allowing trans people to update them.

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Trump Admin Quietly Changes State Department Page To Indicate It May Invalidate Trans Passports
The change comes after the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the administration and lifted a temporary injunction.
www.erininthemorning.com
November 14, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.

Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
November 13, 2025 at 11:33 AM
I think the moment in THE GIVER when Jonas notices the apple change in a way he can’t yet describe or understand legitimately changed the wiring of my 11yo brain.
performative reading, lack of reading skills, nobody's reading anymore -- NO!

tell me about a book that changed you

for me? the *extremely* ahistorical novel, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY which I read at 13 and was like, "Oh, art can be *everything* to a maker, for good and bad"
November 12, 2025 at 2:01 AM
AI is the mind-killer
November 11, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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The far right is obsessed with Lord of the Rings and Musk keeps posting about "hobbits" because modern scientific racism owes more to fantasy worlds and gaming systems than genetic science, and they see both as effective mediums for right-wing propaganda www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Why Elon Musk Needs Dungeons and Dragons to Be Racist
The fantastical roots of “scientific racism”
www.theatlantic.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Highly recommended tatting up toy catalogues as a fun creative outlet
November 11, 2025 at 4:50 AM
Architectural critic Herbert Muschamp once wrote, “Seattle’s new Central Library is a blazing chandelier to swing your dreams upon,“ which imo is an apt description of the magic of libraries in general. I’ll never forget the awe I felt exploring this building & its many treasures for the first time.
November 9, 2025 at 7:43 AM
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every generation loves Rumours. it’s fucking Rumours
November 9, 2025 at 2:55 AM
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While they’re still screwing about with SNAP, it’s a good idea to donate to pet shelters, too.

If you dare show up with “poor people shouldn’t have pets”, I will tear such a new one it generates a black hole.

apnews.com/article/pets...
Families on SNAP worry about not just feeding themselves but also their pets
With SNAP benefits going out late, nonprofits are begging for pet food donations to prevent desperate owners from surrendering their dogs and cats to animal shelters.
apnews.com
November 8, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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What if agents of the state and our government *fed* kids and didn’t fucking indiscriminately spray them with dangerous poison. How cool would that would be.
November 9, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Today’s show is brought to you by the letter F! Fund PBS. Fight the power. Feed your neighbors. F*** ICE . Free Palestine, Sudan, & Congo. Flatten anti-trans rhetoric. Familiarize yourself w/ disability activism. Fund mutual aid. Forget AI. Find courage. Facilitate change. Forge a better world.
November 9, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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I'm very grateful to @jasonkoebler.bsky.social for letting me speak on the relationship between AI and book bans.

This is a great and thorough article, and I'm glad I got a chance to say a thing I say a lot but that-- without the context Jason provides-- makes me sound a little conspiracy minded.
November 6, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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This is an absolutely tragic gutting of one of the best politics desks in the country
I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.

certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
November 3, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Even during the hardest times, humans continue to create wondrous things. I can’t see this stopping, no matter the obstacles. I don’t believe art will ever “peak.”

On the other hand, Muppet Bohemian Rhapsody. 🙏
November 3, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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it gets tiring to keep explaining what it means to be poor to people.

it is not that poor people don’t know that cooking is cheaper:

cooking costs time. it costs pots and pans. it costs a working stove and your utilities on. it costs you’ve been on your feet all day and your babies are tired.
November 2, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Excerpt from WAR TALK by Arundhati Roy:

“Our strategy should be not only to confront empire, but to lay siege to it. To deprive it of oxygen. To shame it.” (1/4)
October 30, 2025 at 5:26 AM
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Every time I start feeling despair I am reminded that many, many people want to help, actually.
The people yearn for (democratic) socialism (this one will make you cry)
October 30, 2025 at 2:28 AM