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Dorian Maffei
@dorianmaffei.bsky.social
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Literary Agent at Kimberley Cameron & Associates. She/her.
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aealexander.bsky.social
This one's on my TBR! #FirstLineFriday #Fantasy #YA @mzmauthor.bsky.social
"Azul del Arroyo didn't fully know what would happen when she set out to bring her older sister back to life, but since she was ten, she didn't much care." —Maria Z. Medina, Mistress of Bones #FirstLineFriday
November 21, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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rhiannonagrist.bsky.social
I, Rhiannon Grist, am not your boss. I am incapable of making you fill out your timesheet, answer your emails, or preorder my cottagegore horror HOME SICK coming out with @solarisbooks.bsky.social in 2026.

So only do it if you want to. Preorder, I mean.

You should probably do your timesheets.
November 25, 2025 at 10:29 AM
dorianmaffei.bsky.social
HOUSE OF MONSTROUS WOMEN by @daphnefama.bsky.social was just featured in ELLE Magazine's "How Feminist Horror Novels Are Redefining Fear in 2025" 😈 We love to see it!

www.elle.com/culture/book...
Inside the Modern Rise of Feminist Horror Novels—and Why We’re Drawn to Them
With horror sales spiking, feminist titles are casting a spell.
www.elle.com
November 18, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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rhiannonagrist.bsky.social
More from the People cover reveal for HOME SICK last Friday 👀🪓🐑
A screen grab of the People article headline reading "Rhiannon Grist's 'cottagegore' Horror Home Sick will make your skin crawl. See the cover! (Exclusive)." There is a picture of the cover which fearture two creepy sheep looking out at the viewer against a dark pink gradient. There is also a rather nice photo of Rhiannon, looking off as a golden beam of light dances across her eyes and cheeks. A screengrab from the article reading "Home Sick follows Tamsin, who is trying to move forward after a violent incident rocks her workplace. To get away, she finds a new home in the Scottish countryside, in a remote cottage where the possibilities to reinvent herself seem endless. But Tamsin’s new home isn’t as isolated as she thought. Beyond a thin wall is her neighbor, a woman who is never without an "unnerving smile,” per the book's synopsis. When a series of unsettling events begin to happen inside Tamsin’s cottage, she believes her neighbor may be even more sinister than she first suspected." A screen grab of the article reading "Grist deems Home Sick an “anti-Hallmark book,” putting a dark twist on the familiar trope of a main character’s fresh start. “A burnt-out woman moves to the countryside, but instead of falling in love with a local, she falls into a nightmare. Instead of escapism, she gets a confrontation,” Grist says. “It’s cottagegore with unhinged women, creepy folktales and the world’s worst fixer-upper." And Grist says she’s seen many early readers recognize themselves in Tamsin — an “eye-opening” experience that she hopes will continue upon publication. “There's so much pressure to have everything together these days, but so many of us feel like we’re holding on by a thread,” the author says. “I hope readers will find more than a horror story in Home Sick. I hope they use it to exorcise their own demons, too.”"
November 17, 2025 at 11:43 AM
dorianmaffei.bsky.social
😍!! It's a perfect time for you to preorder!
November 14, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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jessgofton.bsky.social
I'm beyond excited for everyone to get their hands on this book next summer! I can't remember the last time I had to put a horror novel down for a little bit in the middle of reading because it hit too close to home (sick).

HOME SICK is a phenomenal debut and it's available to preorder now! 🏘️
November 14, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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rhiannonagrist.bsky.social
HOME SICK
14 JULY 2026
@solarisbooks.bsky.social

Cover by the amazing @katieklim.bsky.social
November 14, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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rhiannonagrist.bsky.social
Sorry for the delay.
We had to wait on timezones.
Because HOME SICK just had its cover reveal in People Magazine.
@solarisbooks.bsky.social
Rhiannon Grist’s ‘Cottagegore’ Horror 'Home Sick' Will Make Your Skin Crawl — See the Cover! (Exclusive)
Rhiannon Grist is debuting a new psychological horror novel. PEOPLE has an exclusive preview of 'Home Sick', a new book that puts a dark spin on the haunted house story.
people.com
November 14, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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rhiannonagrist.bsky.social
"This place, I thought it would be perfect.
I thought, I want it to be perfect.
Please, let it be perfect."
- House by Charlie xcx ft. John Cale

HOME SICK cover reveal tomorrow.
@solarisbooks.bsky.social
A moody graphic of a blank book cover with a question mark in the front, against dark misty trees, surrounded by the words "Home Sick cover reveal tomorrow".
November 13, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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mzmauthor.bsky.social
Convincing you to read my debut YA/crossover Fantasy MISTRESS OF BONES with the first sentence! Share yours if you want!
Screenshot of the first page of MISTRESS OF BONES with the following text: Chapter I - Death - Nine Years Earlier: Azul del Arroyo didn't fully know what would happen when she set out to bring her older sister back to life, but since she was ten, she didn't much care.
November 12, 2025 at 3:45 AM
dorianmaffei.bsky.social
In love with this cover reveal for Vacationship's OH MY AFFOGATO by Donna Ghorbanpoor written with Daphne Ang! Get ready for an epic vacation through the Amalfi coast on May 5, 2026! 😍

www.simonandschuster.com/books/Oh-My-...
Cover for Vacationship's OH MY AFFOGATO by Daphne Ang and Donna Ghorbanpoor. A guy and a girl are on a blue Vespa scooter against the backdrop of the Amalfi Coast. The girl is looking over her shoulder at another guy leaning on the stone wall. As a whole, the cover has a retro postcard styling in it's colors and composition.
November 3, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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daphnefama.bsky.social
www.vulture.com/article/best...
The 16 Best Horror Books of 2025 (So Far)
From techno-terrors to rural cannibalism, angelic visitations to squirmy alien sex, there is a new novel for every spooky vibe.
www.vulture.com
October 17, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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daphnefama.bsky.social
HMW made the @vulture.com list, and my heart is doing tiny bat flips. Appreciate the love! 🖤
October 17, 2025 at 6:49 PM
dorianmaffei.bsky.social
Next Saturday!
A graphic from Sourcebooks Fire that says "Celebrate Halloweek with Midnight Reads" and includes a photo of author Alex Travis next to the cover of her book THE PAYBACK GIRLS and author Christina Ferko next to THE DARKNESS GREETED HER. The event is set for October 25th @ 5pm at People's Books in Takoma Park, MD
October 18, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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multcolib.bsky.social
Want to read something "Scary but not in the way the world is scary?" Try House of Monstrous Women by @daphnefama.bsky.social. #AskALibrarian
House of Monstrous Women — Multnomah County Library
House of Monstrous Women — Fama, Daphne, — "A young woman is drawn into a dangerous game after being invited to the mazelike home of her childhood friend, a rumored witch, in this gothic horror set in...
multcolib.bibliocommons.com
October 16, 2025 at 4:38 PM
dorianmaffei.bsky.social
The perfect news to celebrate for spooky season!! So excited for more forthcoming @elainechen.com books! ONE OF US IS ALREADY DEAD is a suspenseful horror novel about the challenges women face in middle age, and past mistakes coming back to haunt you 😈
Publishers Marketplace horror deal announcement: E. L. Chen's ONE OF US IS ALREADY DEAD, pitched as inspired by The Blair Witch Project, in which a recently divorced middle-aged mother is invited to the 25th anniversary reunion special of the notorious found footage horror movie she once starred in, and must figure out if she is unknowingly starring in a sequel or if the ghosts of her past mistakes have come back to haunt her, to Bradley Englert at Run For It, in a very nice deal, in a two-book deal, by Dorian Maffei at Kimberley Cameron & Associates (world). Film/TV: Kim Yau at Echo Lake Entertainment
October 13, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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elainechen.com
Kermit flail! Giddy I can finally announce that @orbitbooks.bsky.social's horror imprint, Run For It, has acquired my mid-life crisis found footage horror movie novel ONE OF US IS ALREADY DEAD. 🪰 1/
A graphic from Run For It with a photo of me, a middle-aged Asian woman with long black hair and glasses wearing an olive green bomber jacket. Above is a red banner that reads, "Acquisition Announcement", and below is "One of Us Is Already Dead, E. L. Chen."
October 13, 2025 at 3:19 PM
dorianmaffei.bsky.social
Happy #DVPit day! I’m so excited to be checking out all your amazing pitches later today! If I ❤️ and you feel we’d be a good match, please fill out my submission form (w/ the pitch included somewhere), and attach the 1st 50 pages of your ms via the following link:

querytracker.net/query/dorian...
Query Dorian Maffei at Kimberley Cameron & Associates
QueryTracker.net
October 8, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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dvpit.bsky.social
#DVpit 2025 has officially begun!
Today, Oct 8, 2025 from 8AM-8PM ET marginalized creators seeking out representation can pitch their completed manuscripts & portfolios to participating Agents & Editors!
Don't forget to use #DVpit in your posts!
Pls read rules before participating: dvpit.carrd.co
#DVPit Rules -#DVpit (Diverse Voices Pitch) is a Bluesky event for marginalized creators that have been historically underrepresented in publishing to pitch their work to agents & editors -Post your pitch on Bluesky on Wednesday, Oct 8, 2025 between 8AM ET - 8PM ET -Only post once per hour (6 max pitches per project) -Must have a polished, query ready manuscript or art portfolio. -Pitch must include the #DVpit hashtag (illustrators pitching their art must use the #DVArt hashtag) -A like from an agent = a query request -A repost from an editor = interest in submission once you've signed with an agent -A like from an editor = editor who takes unagented submissions -Please do not like or repost a pitch if you are not an agent or an editor. Support other creators by replying to their pitch or quote-reposting their pitches -Visit dvpit.carrd.co for more detailed guidelines.
October 8, 2025 at 12:03 PM
dorianmaffei.bsky.social
📢 I'll be closing to submissions on October 15th (most likely for the remainder of 2025)! Get your subs in before then! 📢
September 29, 2025 at 11:28 PM
dorianmaffei.bsky.social
Huge congrats to @damiwriteshere.bsky.social! 🎉 I'm so thrilled that readers will have the opportunity to be swept up in this story as much as I was. The opening line completely grabbed me by the heart and never let go: "The wind spoke the language of the dead."😍

2027 can't come soon enough!
PW Children's Bookshelf announcement that has author Dami Salako's portrait on the left and a deal description that reads: "Mara Delgado-Sanchez at Tor Books has bought The Sun Has a Shadow and a second untitled book by Dami Salako. In this Nigerian-inspired YA fantasy set in a world plagued by perpetual darkness and shadow-monsters, a boy must guide the last remaining phoenix-rider on a perilous journey to save their kingdom. Publication is scheduled for winter 2027; Dorian Maffei at Kimberley Cameron & Associates negotiated the deal for world English rights."
September 26, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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mzmauthor.bsky.social
I have been in drafting cave and now in editing cave and discord cave (which is a very dangerous cave to be in considering I'm supposed to be doing the second item on the list, lol) but here's some photos from friends who spotted MISTRESS OF BONES in the wild! 😍 (have you?! Send me the pics!!!)
MISTRESS OF BONES hardcover on a table at Barnes & Noble surrounded by other fantasy books such as Yuli by S. Jae-Jones, Dream by the Shadows by Logan Karlie, and By Invitation Only by Alexandra Brown Chang among others. MISTRESS OF BONES hardcover on display at a bookstore shelf right next to Vampire Academy, which I've read like 1232131 times, and yes, this coincidence makes me grin like a book gremlin.
September 12, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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electricliterature.com
Folk horrors that will crawl beneath your skin and make your blood run cold. (@daphnefama.bsky.social)
8 Folklore-Inspired Horror Novels That Will Make Your Skin Crawl - Electric Literature
Prejudice, misogyny, and colonial violence are the real terror in these books that will make your blood run cold
buff.ly
September 2, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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splturnthepage.bsky.social
And here's 363C! Jessikah chatted with Daphne Fama about HOUSE OF MONSTROUS WOMEN, which mixes Gothic and folk horror during the Marcos regime in the 1980’s Philippines. Make sure this one is on your TBR list. @daphnefama.bsky.social @prhlibrary.bsky.social

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August 14, 2025 at 1:58 PM
dorianmaffei.bsky.social
So great to see Alex Travis' THE PAYBACK GIRLS at the top of this list of 14 Teen-Approved Books to Add to Your Own Teen's TBR Pile by Parents magazine! www.parents.com/teen-approve...
The cover of THE PAYBACK GIRLS has pink lockers with a spray-painted red heart dripping down them and "THE PAYBACK GIRLS" stenciled in it
August 15, 2025 at 4:57 PM