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valentina sainato 🌿🍄 (closed to queries)
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she/they || ✨ mostly void, partially stars ✨|| associate agent at JABberwocky Literary Agency
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awfulagent.bsky.social
The JAB team had a great time at the launch event for THE VILLA, ONCE BELOVED at The Strand✨

@victormanibo.com and @claymcleod.bsky.social discussed the journey of pivoting into horror writing, weaving colonialism into the Gothic, and... sexy gravedigging (you'll have to read the book for this one)
Authors Clay McLeod Chapman (left) and Victor Manibo (right) sit in leather armchairs on a small stage in the Strand Bookstore's Rare Book Room. A sign with the Strand's logo is centered behind the authors and fairy lights are strung above them. The authors are holding microphones and are discussing THE VILLA, ONCE BELOVED, the latest novel from Victor Manibo. A photo featuring a copy of THE VILLA, ONCE BELOVED, the latest novel out from Victor Manibo. The book is displayed on a small table between two leather armchairs where the authors will sit and discuss the book. A sign featuring The Strand Bookstore's logo is centered behind the table.
November 25, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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cait.bsky.social
we should not be letting any company get away with blaming AI for their failures. I'm not even sure how we got to this point. people are like "it's just a tool" okay so is a forklift and we still hold somebody responsible when it goes wrong and hurts someone. this is YOUR AI!
November 10, 2025 at 4:05 PM
valentinasainato.bsky.social
i'm aiming to catch up on my reading while closed, so if you have an outstanding query, i hope to have a response for you as soon as i can! thanks so much for your patience 🙏
November 5, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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awfulagent.bsky.social
Debut author Yah Yah Scholfield also made their PW debut in an interview about global Gothic fiction! ON SUNDAYS SHE PICKED FLOWERS is set in southern Georgia and is forthcoming 1/27/25 🥀

www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
A PW article by Elyse Martin titled Moor or Less, with the subtitle reading "New Novels Unearth Ghotic Horrors in an Arizona Mine, Rural Japan, and Beyond". The first few paragraphs read as follows: "Since 1764, when Horace Walpole captivated readers with The Castle of Otranto, gothic novels have been shaped by, and have sometimes been synonymous with, their locales. “With all genres, setting matters,” says Yah Yah Scholfield, debut author of the Southern gothic On Sundays She Picked Flowers (Saga, Jan. 2026). “But with gothic fiction in particular, the setting is a character all its own. You can’t have Wuthering Heights without the moors, and you can’t have Rebecca without Manderley.” PW spoke with Scholfield and other authors about the importance of place in their forthcoming gothic horror novels. As in real estate, it’s all about location, location, location. Scholfield’s gothic references include Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House and We Have Always Lived in the Castle, and Toni Morrison’s Beloved, particularly “the concept of this place that is so sick and heavy with human living,” they say. Their debut follows Judith Rice, who as an adult in 1965 flees her abusive mother abusive to a run-down house in the forests of southern Georgia, where she contends with the ghosts of the house’s violent past as well as her own." The rest of the article continues on with non-JAB clients.
October 16, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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thejordache.bsky.social
All of this is to say, that I know QueryManager gives a lot of stats and data to querying authors now and while it's useful information, don't spend too much time trying to decipher the data. Each agent tackles their query inbox differently.
August 12, 2025 at 8:25 PM