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Megan Sajbel Field @megansajbelfield.bsky.social · 22d

I love your book so much! 💛

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Sophie Cass (is agented) @scasswriting.bsky.social · 22d

Updated #editors guide to my soon-to-be #onsub dual pov eco-fantasy novel SALTSTONE 🌿 ✨

OUR WIVES UNDER THE SEA x THE WITCHER x PAN'S LABYRINTH

When Olive’s nature-loving daughter goes missing, she accompanies a grumpy mercenary into the Wilds to find her.

Rep: Ciara Finan

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zilla @zillawrites.bsky.social · 23d

The new Agent's Guide to
MURDER NIGHT AT HOTEL ADAIR, my The Haunting of Hill House x The Shining #A #H project.

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At Hotel Adair, the rooms are luxurious, the deaths are creative, and the check-out time is non-negotiable.
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MURDER NIGHT AT HOTEL ADAIR comps and tropes

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Sierra Branham @sierrabranham.bsky.social · Aug 27

The cover for my debut SF sapphic romantic thriller is now out in the world!

Credit for the gorgeous artwork goes to Artem Chebokha!

LGBTQReads @lgbtqreads.bsky.social · Aug 27

Exclusive Cover Reveal: Love Galaxy by Sierra Branham

Today on the site, I'm delighted to reveal the cover of Love Galaxy by Sierra Branham, a Sapphic Sci-Fi Thriller releasing from DAW on May 5, 2026! Here's the story: A romantic science fiction thriller in which a young woman from a dead-end…

Exclusive Cover Reveal: Love Galaxy by Sierra Branham

Today on the site, I'm delighted to reveal the cover of Love Galaxy by Sierra Branham, a Sapphic Sci-Fi Thriller releasing from DAW on May 5, 2026! Here's the story: A romantic science fiction thriller in which a young woman from a dead-end planet gets cast on a reality TV show to compete for the hand of the prince—or princess. But not everyone is there for the right reasons…

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Megan Sajbel Field @megansajbelfield.bsky.social · Aug 28

🌹Introducing Curse Becomes Her🌹

This book has:
🌹 Enemies to Lovers
🌹 Forced Proximity
🌹 Familiars Fall First
🌹 Sapphic Romance
🌹 Screw You 🔪 to Screw You ♥️

@weaverliterary.bsky.social

Curse Becomes Her
Adult Fantasy
Megan Sajbel Field

CURSE BECOMES HER is an adult sapphic fantasy, perfect for fans of Stephanie Burgis’s Wooing The Witch Queen and Death Becomes Her.
When opposing coven leaders Daša and Maren find their magic failing, they immediately blame each other. As mortal enemies, it only makes sense. But things aren’t so simple. They’ve both been cursed, and the only way to break free is to work together—if they can manage to do so without killing each other. As they search for answers, they must fend off bloodthirsty mushrooms, investigate bleeding trees, and avoid murderous corpses. All while somehow nurturing a fragile trust and ignoring very inconvenient romantic feelings, before the curse takes their magic, killing them both and destroying their coven lands.

Comps
Someone You Can Build A Nest in
Agatha All Along
Death Becomes Her
Wooing the Witch Queen

Tropes
Enemies to Lovers
Whimsical Horror
Sapphic Romance
Opposites Attract
The Familiars Fall First
Forced Proximity
Only One Bed
Screw You 🔪To Screw You ❤

Vibes
marrow squishing under your fingers; freshly brewed tea; a knife at your throat; burnt sugar and rose; heart fluttering in your chest; the flap of blue butterfly wings; the stitch of longing; silk sheets; magic sliding over your skin; impending rain; tears falling down your cheeks; soft touches; the sweep of lips on the inside of your wrist

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#DVpit - Diverse Voices Pitch @dvpit.bsky.social · Aug 27

#DVpit 2025 is coming up!
🎉And we have over 70 agents & editors committed to participate in this pitch event for marginalized creators!🎉
✍️Polish up those pitches before October 8, 2025
🔗And go to dvpit.carrd.co for more info

#writersky #authorsky #booksky

#DVpit 2025
Over 70 agents & editors committed to participate and counting
43 agents
31 editors
October 8, 2025
follow us at @dvpit.bsky.social for more updates!

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DAW Books @dawbooks.bsky.social · Aug 27

Here's the cover of LOVE GALAXY by Sierra Branham (5.5.2026) in which a young woman from a dead-end planet gets cast on a reality TV show to compete for the prince—or princess. But not everyone is there for the right reasons…

Art: Artem Chebokha
Design: Jenna Stempel-Lobell

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Megan Sajbel Field @megansajbelfield.bsky.social · Aug 24

I feel the same about you! 💛

Megan Sajbel Field @megansajbelfield.bsky.social · Aug 22

This book is one of my all time favorite reads! It’s smart, funny, and unputdownable! Add it on goodreads and make sure to follow Sierra to learn more about her stunning debut!! 🌌

Sierra Branham @sierrabranham.bsky.social · Aug 22

Mark your calendars! We have a US cover reveal date for LOVE GALAXY, my debut sapphic SF romantic thriller about murder on a reality tv show in space with forbidden romance and lots of yearning!

Available to add on Goodreads now, link in the comments below 👇

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Sierra Branham @sierrabranham.bsky.social · Aug 22

www.goodreads.com/book/show/23...

Love Galaxy

A romantic science fiction thriller in which a young wo…

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Sierra Branham @sierrabranham.bsky.social · Aug 22

Mark your calendars! We have a US cover reveal date for LOVE GALAXY, my debut sapphic SF romantic thriller about murder on a reality tv show in space with forbidden romance and lots of yearning!

Available to add on Goodreads now, link in the comments below 👇

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Megan Sajbel Field @megansajbelfield.bsky.social · Aug 21

I love you! 💛

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Megan Sajbel Field @megansajbelfield.bsky.social · Aug 20

I am so excited for this book! 💛

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zilla @zillawrites.bsky.social · Aug 20

When a woman moves in with her grandmother to take care of her family farm, the town where she was raised isn't what she remembers. Those in charge? Widows from bizarre farm accidents plaguing the county.

#CattleWIP

Thank you to @megansajbelfield.bsky.social for making these gorgeous graphics!

misty pasture with cow poking his head through a fence

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zilla @zillawrites.bsky.social · Aug 6

This Wretched Valley x Scream 2

💖The Best Friend.
🔪The Ex.
💍The Best Friend's Fiance.
🎧The Tagalong.
💅The Frenemy.
🤳The Influencer.

They all have secrets they're keeping from each other. But Hotel Adair knows, and it's ready to bleed them out.

#QuestPit #Q #A #H

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zilla @zillawrites.bsky.social · Aug 6

Hotel Adair’s wallpaper doesn’t peel. Its piano stays in perfect tune. Its plush carpet hides all stains—but grandeur only lasts when the hotel has been fed. Lately, the halls echo with hunger.

But Cody & her friends have plenty of secrets to satisfy it.

#QuestPit #Q #A #H

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zilla @zillawrites.bsky.social · Aug 6

At Hotel Adair, doors lock themselves, spectral scenes play out in empty rooms, &Cody's friends die in ways her favorite slashers can’t script. If she wants to protect her bff &survive, she must become a Final Girl who doesn’t just fight monsters but herself.

#QuestPit #Q #A #H

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We Need Diverse Books @weneeddiversebooks.bsky.social · Aug 6

LEGENDARY FRYBREAD DRIVE-IN hits shelves on August 26th! Here’s a special look at the amazing Indigenous authors featured in this all-new anthology from Heartdrum, along with a teaser of their stories 👀💚

✨ bit.ly/LegendaryFryb...

Graphic with a blurred photo of tall grass against a hazy summer sky in the background. The graphic displays a synopsis for “Legendary Frybread Drive-In”: “Featuring the voices of both new and acclaimed Indigenous writers and edited by bestselling Muscogee author Cynthia Leitich Smith, this collection of interconnected stories serves up laughter, love, Native pride, and the world’s best frybread. The road to Sandy June's Legendary Frybread Drive-In slips through every rez and alongside every urban Native hangout. The menu offers a rotating feast, including traditional eats and tasty snacks. But Sandy June's serves up more than food: it hosts live music, movie nights, unexpected family reunions, love long lost, and love found again. That big green-and-gold neon sign beckons to teens of every tribal Nation, often when they need it most.”

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zilla @zillawrites.bsky.social · Aug 6

The Handyman Method x Scream 2

When a canceled flight strands Cody & friends in Wales, she must find a hotel w/vacancy before the storm hits. But a surprise engagement and 10 days worth of tension lead to a rising body count.

Hotel Adair has been waiting.

#QuestPit #Q #A #H

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Megan Sajbel Field @megansajbelfield.bsky.social · Jul 22

Everything 🌲THERE’S SOMETHING IN THE WOODS🌲in one place.

This young adult fantasy has:
🌲Isolated Locations
🌲Monstrous Visions
🌲Family Secrets
🌲Gloomy Forests

🌲 Editors if interested please contact my agent @weaverliterary.bsky.social 🌲

There’s Something In The Woods
Young Adult Fantasy
Megan Sajbel Field

Pitch
There’s something in the woods is a Slovenian-inspired young adult fantasy, perfect for fans of Vanessa Len’ Only A Monster and Susan Dennard’s The Luminaries.
Janja’s life is turned upside down with a town-wide game of hide-and-seek goes horribly wrong and her girlfriend goes missing. But in order to get her girlfriend back alive, Janja must unravel the town’s most insidious secret before it’s too late.

Comps
All these bodies
The bad ones
The luminaries
Only a monster
Tropes
Small town secrets
There’s something wrong with the adults
Isolated locations
Paranormal attacks
Don’t go into the woods
Can’t escape
The feeling of being watched
Impulsive decisions

Vibes
A chill down your spine; the bitter taste of lies; blood-soaked skin; muffled voices; the smell of smoke; the stitch of longing; blank stares; dirt under your fingernails; shadows creeping in the woods; the fear of being alone: the bite of ice in the air; a prickle on the back of your neck; panic freezing your limbs

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Megan Sajbel Field @megansajbelfield.bsky.social · Jul 22

🌲This book lives rent free in my head.🌲

Janja’s life is turned upside down when a town-wide game of hide-&-seek goes horribly wrong & her girlfriend goes missing. But to get her back alive, Janja must unravel the town’s most insidious secret before it’s too late.

@weaverliterary.bsky.social

Movie poster with three laureled words up top reading, from left to right, small town secrets, isolated locations, stay out of the forest.

Below the title reads There’s Something In The Woods. Below that a tag line reads Don’t look it in the eye.

At the bottom is a pitch reading: only a monster meets the luminaries then under that reads:
Janja’s life is turned upside down when a town-wide game of hide-and-seek goes horribly wrong and her girlfriend goes missing. But in order to get her girlfriend back alive, Janja must unravel the town’s most insidious secret before it’s too late.

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Megan Sajbel Field @megansajbelfield.bsky.social · Jul 3

I love you! 💛💛💛

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Megan Sajbel Field @megansajbelfield.bsky.social · Jul 1

You’re so talented! 💛💛💛

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Megan Sajbel Field @megansajbelfield.bsky.social · Jul 1

Your book is amazing. 😍 I love it so so much.

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Megan Sajbel Field @megansajbelfield.bsky.social · Jul 1

This book is so freaking good! 😍 I can’t even begin to tell you how much I love it.

zilla @zillawrites.bsky.social · Jul 1

Introducing an agent's guide to
MURDER NIGHT AT HOTEL ADAIR, my The Shining meets Scream #A #H project.

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At Hotel Adair, the rooms are luxurious, the deaths are creative, and the check-out time is non-negotiable.
───── ⋆⋅🩸⋅⋆ ─────

ALT: reddish textured background with a vintage key in the center. The following white text overlaid: THIS MURDER NIGHT AT HOTEL ADAIR. By RJ Hawthorne

ALT: reddish textured background with a vintage marquee scroll at the top, framing the word PITCH. White text underneath.

ALT: reddish textured background with a vintage marquee scroll at the top, framing the word COMPS. There are pictures of The Handyman Method by Nick Cutter and Andrew Sullivan, Scream 2, At Dead of Night, and My Heart is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones. Midway down is another vintage marquee scroll at the top, framing the word TROPES. In a bulleted list: Horror Movie Rules & Final Girl References; Platonic Heartbreak; Psychological Horror (or is it?); OCD, Chronic Pain, and Asexual representation; Sentient & Hungry Hotel; Let the bodies hit the floor

ALT: reddish textured background with a vintage marquee scroll at the top, framing the word FIRST PAGE. There’s a picture of old paper with black text on it.

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