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Tesia Tsai @tesiatsai.bsky.social · Jun 13

I'm donating a query critique, and there are other amazing offers from authors, illustrators, and agents! 💕

Lilly Lu✨is 👀👀👀!!! @lillyluwrites.bsky.social · Jun 13

Hey #amquerying #writingcommunity! We are doing a mini fundraiser for mutual aid in LA/OC! Donate to an org below, DM me the receipt, bid on items, win prizes like query critiques, AMAs, & tarot readings! ⭐️ Thanks to @michellejingchan.bsky.social for co-organizing 💜

How to enter: 🧵

How to enter: donate to one of the orgs listed, dm me a receipt, $10 is 1 raffle ticket

Query critiques from Amanda Carbonell, Ashyle Jordan, and Noelle Monet

Query critiques from authors Yuva Harish, Tesia Tsai, Kayla Morton and Audrey Goldberg Ruoff

AMA from Michelle Jing Chan and Jessica Yoon

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Tesia Tsai @tesiatsai.bsky.social · Apr 24

Oops, totally forgot to post this here! Discount code is PREORDER25
#bnpreorder

Tesia Tsai @tesiatsai.bsky.social · Apr 21

Thank youuu! ❤️

Tesia Tsai @tesiatsai.bsky.social · Apr 21

So excited to share the cover for my debut, Deathly Fates, coming April 2026! Preorder and add on Goodreads! 🥰

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Caitlyn Averett @craverett.bsky.social · Feb 18

It’s #AromanticAwarenessWeek and I just so happen to have an aromantic YA romcom out next year! It’s also got an ace MC (actually two), so if you like queerplatonic love stories and cringey puns, you can add it on Goodreads! www.goodreads.com/book/show/22...

#AroWeek #AspecAuthors #ASAW

WE NOT YOUR TYPICAL LOVE STORY_by C.R. Averett Word doc. Text on page reads:
For a while, I thought being aromantic meant being alone and that was that. But it's not so straightforward—no pun intended.

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T. A. Chan @authortachan.bsky.social · Feb 5

Hello! Finally, an intro:

ABOUT ME
✏️ writer
🐟 obsessed w/ fish
🐕 & dogs
☕ & coffee

ONE LAST GAME (fall '25) - Adult speculative
♟️ high stakes game
🌱 eco friendly dystopia
🩸 over throwing immoral systems

THE CELESTIAL SEAS (spring '26) - YA sci fi
🐳 moby dick
✨ ...in space
🌈 & make it queer

Imani, a character from the novella One Last Game. She is a woman in her with dark brown hair in a braid, a dark green jump suit, and tool kit.

Niko, a character from the novella One Last Game. He is wearing a purple and gold track suit and has light brown hair with a serious looking face.

Ishara and the space whale from the novel, The Celestial Seas. Ishara is a girl falling through an ocean of stars. She has long black hair and is wearing a white futuristic looking space suit. The space whale has six flippers and is made of mechanical components.

The space whale from The Celestial Seas. The whale is primarily colored white and blue. It has a crown of spikes, six flippers, and a fierce looking gaze.

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T. A. Chan @authortachan.bsky.social · Jan 11

✨ BOOK DEAL ANNOUNCEMENT✨

excited ONE LAST GAME found a home with @patrickswenson.bsky.social thanks to @karlydizon.bsky.social

If you like stories with:
♟️ high stakes game
🌱 eco friendly dystopia
🩸 over throwing immoral systems
🗡️ b e t r a y a l s

This might be for you!

#writingcommunity

Book deal announcement for a novella by T A Chan to Fairwood Press by Karly Dizon

Character art of a young man posed with a leg crossed in a purple and gold uniform

Character art of a young woman in a green jumpsuit and radio in hand

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T. A. Chan @authortachan.bsky.social · Dec 7

Hello fellow writers! If you are a 2026 Debut Author being traditionally published, don't forget to join the 2026 Debut Discord here: forms.gle/KtSnFmXSquCA...

and also connect with other folks from your year with this starter pack here: go.bsky.app/9Sw356k

#writingcommunity #2026debut #amwriting

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Solaris Books @solarisbooks.bsky.social · Nov 30

🚨COVER REVEAL🚨

We're celebrating St Andrew's day with a cover reveal! Feast your eyes upon the cover for @mkhardywrites.bsky.social's sublimely Scottish, sapphic, gothic novel - THE NEEDFIRE!

Out in the UK on 31st July 2025. Preorder now: https://geni.us/needfire
Cover art by Holly Macdonald.

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Lilly Lu✨is 👀👀👀!!! @lillyluwrites.bsky.social · Nov 24

I want to see your adult, YA, MG manuscripts, #amquerying writers! Especially spec fic by BIPOC / marginalized authors!

Apps open Dec 1-15 ✨

Round Table Mentor @roundtablementor.bsky.social · Nov 23

Attention #writingcommunity! Round Table Mentor opens for our second year of mentee applications in just over a week. Please help us spread the word, and if you are an unagented author seeking trad or indie publication, we hope you'll consider applying!

Mentee applications open December 1-15. roundtablementor.com/apply

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kamilah cole @wordsiren.bsky.social · Nov 21

✨ YA BOOK NEWS ✨

I'm so excited to announce that my next YA duology, a romantasy called WICKED ENDEAVORS, is coming in Summer 2026!

If So Let Them Burn was about the power of love, then Wicked Endeavors is about the poisonous yet motivating power of hate. Black female rage abounds in this one 😈

Author of So Let Them Burn and the forthcoming This Ends In Embers Kamilah Cole's WICKED ENDEAVORS, a YA romantasy duology set in a Spanish Renaissance-inspired kingdom, about a vengeful teen who cons her way into a high society of elite witches, only for her revenge to be threatened by her warring feelings for both a manipulative enemy prince and the stoic childhood friend who betrayed her, pitched as a love letter to the power of Black women's anger, to Alexandra Hightower at Little, Brown Children's, in a six-figure deal , at auction, in a two-book deal, for publication in summer 2026, by Emily Forney at BookEnds (world).

Over an image of a Black girl in a renaissance gown holding a dagger and smirking at the audience, drawn by cutetanuki-chan on Tumblr

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clare edge ✨ @clarewonders.bsky.social · Nov 20

Hey you, yes, you, the creative who has been doubting yourself. You owe it to yourself and your muse to be interested in your own ideas. You are always your first audience. Let yourself be delighted by your own flights of fancy.

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Lilly Lu✨is 👀👀👀!!! @lillyluwrites.bsky.social · Nov 19

A love letter to BTS, for fans by fans 💜

Happy to announce this joyful book I’ve been working on since 2022 with @featherfully.bsky.social & @majablanque.bsky.social Inspired by BTS’s music, Maja & I want to speak ourselves: the book is BDS-friendly & a portion of proceeds will go to Pal ARMYs.

Book announcement from pub weekly! Maja’s beautiful art of BTS roleplaying as Jin’s bodyguard on the top

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Ash 🐉 CHILD OF THE DRAGON @ashintheashes.bsky.social · Nov 18

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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