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Jessica DeLand - Author (is getting published! 😱)
@delandjessica.bsky.social
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~ X/IG/🧵@delandjessica
~ YA Contemporary Fantasy #author
~ debut WAKE coming Spring 2027 from Phoenix Moirai & @whimsillusion.bsky.social
~ 2022 Killer Nashville Claymore Finalist
~ #nospice #cleanreads #writer
~ 💍mom of 4
~ #LDS
https://jessicadeland.net/
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Thanks!! ☺️
November 29, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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Thank you!! ☺️
November 29, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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😂😂
November 7, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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😂😂 I love this meme, it's so versatile 😂
November 7, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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Wow, thank you! ☺️ Same right back to you. I always enjoy swapping support.
November 6, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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November 6, 2025 at 3:32 AM
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Thank you so much!!
November 5, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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Main image made by @lifebestill on X, though I made a few minor changes in Photoshop with her permission. Feather and ropes are verified stock images.

Wake coming Spring 2027 through Phoenix Moirai and @whimsillusion.bsky.social
November 5, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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☺️ Same!
November 5, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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Love the pitch card with the sketches! Perfectly captures the essence of this amazing book. ☺️
November 5, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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😂 Perfect use of GIF! And it captures the humor in the book, too. Highly recommend.
November 5, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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WAKE coming Spring 2027 through Phoenix Moirai & @whimsillusion.bsky.social.
Agents Guide panel titled Wake beside a feather and top half of a ballerina. Top right corner reads: "YA Contemporary Fantasy, Coming Spring 2027, Jessica DeLand." Main text reads: "18-year-old Rikma dreams of being a professional ballerina until her alcoholic father kills himself and her aunt in a drunk driving accident. Moving in with her unstable uncle and cousins, she sacrifices dance to shoulder their stability despite her panic disorder. Duped by a new friend, she’s kidnapped by fantasy fugitives and taken to their planet to free their captive leader—the murderous, dark psychogenic vampire, Kinito. Unbeknownst to her, a fragment of Kinito’s magic is entwined with her soul. They force her to use it to free Kinito, who wants back what is his. Going into hiding in Dallas, her captors discover extracting the magic will kill Rikma and lose Kinito’s power. So Kinito threatens her family to make her live with her captors until it can be returned. Grieving the ballet school they forbid, she uncovers their secrets to reclaim her freedom. But when she develops feelings for one of her captors and others become like family, she must choose: them or her dream." Bottom half of panel is bordered in ice, and there's a feather texture in the background.
November 5, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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☺️ Thank you!
November 5, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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November 5, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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November 5, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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WAKE coming Spring 2027 through Phoenix Moirai & @whimsillusion.bsky.social.
Pitch card with image of a ballerina's spread legs en pointe with rope tying the ankles together. Ice creeps in on the sides. Segmented fairy wings are in the upper left corner & a badge reading, "Killer Nashville Claymore Finalist" is in the upper right. A circle in the center with a feather on the bottom encloses the text, "Wake, YA Contemporary Fantasy, By Jessica DeLand, Coming Spring 2027" bracketed by the publisher/imprint Whimsillusion and Phoenix Moirai logos. Below reads, "A ballerina with a panic disorder gets kidnapped by fantasy fugitives desperate for their leader’s magic trapped inside her, but when they threaten her family so she'll live with them until it’s returned & also forbid ballet school, she must decide between allying with them or freedom and following her dream as she finds herself bonding with her kidnappers." Bottom has book/movie covers for "Howl's Moving Castle," "A Curse So Dark & Lonely," "The Inheritance Games," "The Cruel Prince," & "The Prison Healer."
November 5, 2025 at 3:42 PM