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Working to create space for voices of diverse backgrounds & perspectives in adult & children’s literature. 🕯

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Weaver Literary Agency @weaverliterary.bsky.social · Jun 10

🕸 Query Here 🕸

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Weaver Literary Agency @weaverliterary.bsky.social · 15d

Open to my usual genres, but my current obsessions & priority (esp. YA & MG): slasher rom coms, horror comedy, pop-culture horror, thrillers, & whimsigoth. Imagine Fear Street x Jennifer’s Body, w/ Scream Queens wit, Ace of Spades tension, & Addams Family & Beetlejuice flair. 🥀

Weaver Literary Agency @weaverliterary.bsky.social · 23d

#mswl

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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 ♥️

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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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Weaver Literary Agency @weaverliterary.bsky.social · Jul 23

New release, new usa today bestseller 🥳🥳

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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.

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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 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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Weaver Literary Agency @weaverliterary.bsky.social · Jul 11

If you're not following Kath, you definitely should be because you may just miss something ✨big✨. 👀🤫

Weaver Literary Agency @weaverliterary.bsky.social · Jul 1

🕸 FULL MANUSCRIPT CRITIQUE 🕸

Available for an MG, YA, or Adult fantasy or romance.

All funds will go toward evacuations, helping immigrant families, & protecting trans youth.

If interested, visit 32auctions.com/WTPTeaserFundraiser

Hosted by the lovely & generous @sandraproudman.bsky.social

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Weaver Literary Agency @weaverliterary.bsky.social · Jun 27

Number 1 Spiegel Bestseller!

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Kesia Lupo @keslupo.bsky.social · Jun 25

My big news got announced in @thebookseller.com this morning! I’m so thrilled to be joining @macmillankidsuk.bsky.social on 7th July as Commissioning Editor. 🧵

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Weaver Literary Agency @weaverliterary.bsky.social · Jun 26

Weaver Literary Agency @weaverliterary.bsky.social · Jun 23

✨️ Available for preorder now ✨️

Weaver Literary Agency @weaverliterary.bsky.social · Jun 18

#mswl #amquerying #writingcommunity

Weaver Literary Agency @weaverliterary.bsky.social · Jun 10

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Weaver Literary Agency @weaverliterary.bsky.social · Jun 10

2025 CHECK-IN:

11 deals (25 books total)
1 YA fantasy, 1 adult thriller, 9 adult fantasy/romantasy/epic fantasy

4 IP projects (3 adult, 1 YA)

2 film (both dark romance)

2 audio (contemporary romance)

10000000 (kidding, obvi) foreign deals

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Helen Lane @helenlane.bsky.social · Apr 28

Admin days in publishing are the worst. Just let me read the books.

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Weaver Literary Agency @weaverliterary.bsky.social · Apr 28

Cover launch! To get his ship back, a con artist swindles alien blueprints to sell. But the programmer he hires to decode the data may have plans of her own. GALAXY GRIFTER by
@AllaZaykova
is available June 2025 from Orbit US.

Design by Alexia E. Pereira
Art by
@pixelgarbage

Weaver Literary Agency @weaverliterary.bsky.social · Apr 25

One of the BEST series I have ever read. 👏

LaDarrion Williams @itsladarrion.bsky.social · Apr 21

Yeahhh if you like #Sinners, you’ll like the BLOOD AT RHE ROOT series.

www.penguinrandomhouse.com/series/G3W/b...

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Weaver Literary Agency @weaverliterary.bsky.social · Apr 25

✨COVER REVEAL✨

💀 Adult Sapphic Romance
🪻 High Heat
💀 A haunted B&B, on an isolated island
🪻 "She'll do anything to protect her girl..."
💀 World's Bravest Dog
🪻 Dark magic & darker family secrets

*available for preorder now

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sophia slade | NIGHTSTRIDER out now!!! @theneonvulture.bsky.social · Apr 24

VEILWEAVER is 25% off on @barnesandnoble.com until tomorrow!!! if you've yet to pre-order the sequel to my nightmare fantasy book NIGHTSTRIDER now is the perfect time!!!

graphic announcing a 25% off sale with code PREORDER25 through barnes and noble for VEILWEAVER

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Weaver Literary Agency @weaverliterary.bsky.social · Apr 24

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Weaver Literary Agency @weaverliterary.bsky.social · Apr 23

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Helen Lane @helenlane.bsky.social · Apr 23

My agenting group worked out (with a chart) our ages. Turns out I’m the oldest. Now people are naming themselves age related titles and the word matriarch has been introduced. So anyone considering working in publishing a heads up that there will soon be 18 less agents in the world. Prep your CVs