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Jenna DeVillier @jennadevillier.bsky.social · 7d

More character art!! Huge thank you to the amazing @carolinejamhour.bsky.social for this gorgeous painting of Medusa 💚

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Jenna DeVillier @jennadevillier.bsky.social · 14d

Just commissioned my first piece of character art and I’m obsessed!

Meet Odessa (left) and Bas (right) 😍

@cludia.bsky.social did an incredible job - definitely commission her if you’re thinking about getting art done!!

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Jenna DeVillier @jennadevillier.bsky.social · 14d

Just commissioned my first piece of character art and I’m obsessed!

Meet Odessa (left) and Bas (right) 😍

@cludia.bsky.social did an incredible job - definitely commission her if you’re thinking about getting art done!!

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Jenna DeVillier @jennadevillier.bsky.social · Aug 6

🧁 Magical baking competition
❤️‍🔥 Romance filled with yearning
⚔️ A city crackling with rebellion
🕛 Midnight kitchen meetups
🫂 Found family
🤲 Touch-starved MMC
🎨 Art as magic

Jenna DeVillier @jennadevillier.bsky.social · Aug 6

PITCH: A young woman sneaks her way into a magical baking contest but gets pulled into an elusive aristocrat's lavish world and his nefarious plan as rebellion brews in their city.

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Jenna DeVillier @jennadevillier.bsky.social · Aug 6

I’m so excited to share @annamwrites.bsky.social’s gorgeous cover for her debut YA fantasy!

RELEASE DATE: June 23, 2026 from Henry Holt
Available for preorder and to add on Goodreads now! (See Anna’s Linktree: linktr.ee/annamercierw...)
Cover art: Sonia Lai (@pochipop on IG)

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Jenna DeVillier @jennadevillier.bsky.social · Aug 5

This week’s Substack post is live! Told y’all it would be much shorter 😉

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Writing/Life Update 8.5.25

Teaching + Revision + A Regular Newsletter, Oh My

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Jenna DeVillier @jennadevillier.bsky.social · Aug 3

I queried my agent 2 years ago today 🥰🥹

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Christina Orlando @cxorlando.bsky.social · Aug 1

I don't know how it got to be the end of summer but...

Hi! I'm the book content editor for Reactor Mag and I'm looking for 2026 sci-fi, fantasy, horror, and crossover speculative books! If you've got an adult or YA SFFH book publishing next year please share the link/info here!

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PRINT RUN @printrunpodcast.bsky.social · Aug 1

NEW EPISODE

....well? Can they?

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Episode 180—Can Agents Read?

This week we took a look at a substack piece (link below!) that argued that literary agents can’t or don’t read well, as a jumping-off point to discuss the big picture of the query process, the ways w

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Jenna DeVillier @jennadevillier.bsky.social · Aug 1

I thought @printrunpodcast.bsky.social should know that I am one of their overlap listeners who is a writer/Book Person and also a Football Person 🤓

Jenna DeVillier @jennadevillier.bsky.social · Jul 29

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My first Substack post is live!

How I Got My Agent

8.5 years, 5 manuscripts, and one almost-quitting later

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Jenna DeVillier @jennadevillier.bsky.social · Jul 28

Made a cute little logo for it and everything!

Jenna DeVillier @jennadevillier.bsky.social · Jul 27

Stardust & Inkwells
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Still trying to figure out this platform, but it’s set up! I will be making my first post early this week sometime

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One author’s journey navigating the ins and out of traditional publishing while teaching 7th grade ELA full time. Click to read Stardust & Inkwells, by Jenna DeVillier, a Substack publication. Launche...

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Jenna DeVillier @jennadevillier.bsky.social · Jul 26

My profile on @letterboxd: boxd.it/6LUc7

If anyone wants to follow me and my unhinged lists on Letterboxd, you can find me here! I’m thinking about writing about some of my favorite movies when I inevitably start my Substack 🥰

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Jenna uses Letterboxd to share film reviews and lists. 995 films watched. Favorites: Wicked (2024), Moulin Rouge! (2001), Poor Things (2023), Interstellar (2014).

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Jenna DeVillier @jennadevillier.bsky.social · Jul 7

Every time I see this argument I feel so insane because?? Writers came first?? The machine got them FROM US??

Idk about anyone else, but I learned to use em dashes by reading classic literature at a formative age and surmising that em dashes were simply ✨ fancy commas ✨

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Jenna DeVillier @jennadevillier.bsky.social · Jul 7

I want to get back on Hinge but also.. oof. To be fair, it’s better than some of the other apps

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · Jul 4

I dunno, maybe you also needed to see this seven month old video of Sam Neill asking you if you want to fly through some lavender like a bumblebee

x: www.instagram.com/reel/DE1XGxD...

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Jenna DeVillier @jennadevillier.bsky.social · Jul 7

I am trying to reverse engineer this book I want to do a massive revision on, and I’m struggling so much 🥲

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Jenna DeVillier @jennadevillier.bsky.social · Jul 6

Ack, my keyboard and Kindle came in today!

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Donato @donatoarts.bsky.social · Jul 2

The Argonath
36" x 36" Oil on Panel
collection of Lucas Schroeder
Detailed progress development of the oil painting and sketches is now shared on the MuddyColors.com blog post:
www.muddycolors.com/2025/07/the-...