Nephele Tempest
@nepheletempest.bsky.social
Literary agent at The Knight Agency, writer, and unapologetic bookworm. 📚 She/her. Pasadena, CA.
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If you're looking to keep writing through this busy month, check out my December Writing Challenge. Never too late to start and all the words count. Just a nice, easy nudge to keep your creativity flowing through the holidays. nepheletempest.substack.com/p/working-th...
Working Through the Chaos
Welcome to the 2025 December Writing Challenge
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December 5, 2025 at 3:25 PM
If you're looking to keep writing through this busy month, check out my December Writing Challenge. Never too late to start and all the words count. Just a nice, easy nudge to keep your creativity flowing through the holidays. nepheletempest.substack.com/p/working-th...
Happy Friday! Who has writing plans this weekend? Maybe a fun writing-sprints session over coffee with some friends? If you're participating in my December Writing Challenge, now is the time to schedule in your writing the next couple of days, before other shiny activities fill your schedule.😉
December 5, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Happy Friday! Who has writing plans this weekend? Maybe a fun writing-sprints session over coffee with some friends? If you're participating in my December Writing Challenge, now is the time to schedule in your writing the next couple of days, before other shiny activities fill your schedule.😉
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The end of the year makes me long for very specific sorts of books. Discussing reading in December in today's newsletter: nepheletempest.substack.com/p/end-the-ye...
End the Year Reading
Thoughts on Books for December
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December 4, 2025 at 4:01 AM
The end of the year makes me long for very specific sorts of books. Discussing reading in December in today's newsletter: nepheletempest.substack.com/p/end-the-ye...
The end of the year makes me long for very specific sorts of books. Discussing reading in December in today's newsletter: nepheletempest.substack.com/p/end-the-ye...
End the Year Reading
Thoughts on Books for December
nepheletempest.substack.com
December 4, 2025 at 4:01 AM
The end of the year makes me long for very specific sorts of books. Discussing reading in December in today's newsletter: nepheletempest.substack.com/p/end-the-ye...
Who's participating in my annual December Writing Challenge? How are you doing, working writing into your daily schedule? I've been getting words down early, over coffee, before I even download new emails. Perfect for avoiding distractions. #DecWritingChallenge
December 3, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Who's participating in my annual December Writing Challenge? How are you doing, working writing into your daily schedule? I've been getting words down early, over coffee, before I even download new emails. Perfect for avoiding distractions. #DecWritingChallenge
Far too much politics in my feed this morning. What's everyone reading? I just started the first volume of Solvej Balle's On the Calculation of Volume (yes, I'm late to the party) and I'm transfixed. Kinda wishing I stayed up late last night to finish it, but then I'd just be dashing out for book 2.
December 3, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Far too much politics in my feed this morning. What's everyone reading? I just started the first volume of Solvej Balle's On the Calculation of Volume (yes, I'm late to the party) and I'm transfixed. Kinda wishing I stayed up late last night to finish it, but then I'd just be dashing out for book 2.
Challenge day 2! Who's writing today? Have you put in your time yet? Remember, all the words count. Work on your current project or take this holiday season as a time to play and experiment. You've got this! #DecWritingChallenge
Hey writers! Who's joining me for my annual December Writing Challenge this year? We're kicking off today. No big word-count goals. Just butt in chair, getting some words down, keeping your creative muscles flexing through the holiday season. Details: nepheletempest.substack.com/p/working-th...
Working Through the Chaos
Welcome to the 2025 December Writing Challenge
nepheletempest.substack.com
December 2, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Challenge day 2! Who's writing today? Have you put in your time yet? Remember, all the words count. Work on your current project or take this holiday season as a time to play and experiment. You've got this! #DecWritingChallenge
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The real question is not "Why is Bluesky so left-coded," the real question is "Why can't the right exist in a social media environment without algorithmic assistance, where people can ignore them"
December 2, 2025 at 3:08 PM
The real question is not "Why is Bluesky so left-coded," the real question is "Why can't the right exist in a social media environment without algorithmic assistance, where people can ignore them"
Hey writers! Who's joining me for my annual December Writing Challenge this year? We're kicking off today. No big word-count goals. Just butt in chair, getting some words down, keeping your creative muscles flexing through the holiday season. Details: nepheletempest.substack.com/p/working-th...
Working Through the Chaos
Welcome to the 2025 December Writing Challenge
nepheletempest.substack.com
December 1, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Hey writers! Who's joining me for my annual December Writing Challenge this year? We're kicking off today. No big word-count goals. Just butt in chair, getting some words down, keeping your creative muscles flexing through the holiday season. Details: nepheletempest.substack.com/p/working-th...
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Are you joining me for this year's December Writing Challenge? Keep your creative muscles primed and start 2026 with great momentum. Get all the details for this low-key challenge in my most recent newsletter: nepheletempest.substack.com/p/working-th...
Working Through the Chaos
Welcome to the 2025 December Writing Challenge
nepheletempest.substack.com
November 30, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Are you joining me for this year's December Writing Challenge? Keep your creative muscles primed and start 2026 with great momentum. Get all the details for this low-key challenge in my most recent newsletter: nepheletempest.substack.com/p/working-th...
Are you joining me for this year's December Writing Challenge? Keep your creative muscles primed and start 2026 with great momentum. Get all the details for this low-key challenge in my most recent newsletter: nepheletempest.substack.com/p/working-th...
Working Through the Chaos
Welcome to the 2025 December Writing Challenge
nepheletempest.substack.com
November 30, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Are you joining me for this year's December Writing Challenge? Keep your creative muscles primed and start 2026 with great momentum. Get all the details for this low-key challenge in my most recent newsletter: nepheletempest.substack.com/p/working-th...
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It's that time of year! Who's joining me for my annual December Writing Challenge, starting Monday? Full details in the newsletter: nepheletempest.substack.com/p/working-th...
Working Through the Chaos
Welcome to the 2025 December Writing Challenge
nepheletempest.substack.com
November 26, 2025 at 6:43 PM
It's that time of year! Who's joining me for my annual December Writing Challenge, starting Monday? Full details in the newsletter: nepheletempest.substack.com/p/working-th...
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Elliott Erwitt, Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. New York City, USA. 1988.
November 27, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Elliott Erwitt, Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. New York City, USA. 1988.
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Why that novel you've read five times might be the key to your next big writing project, today in my newsletter: nepheletempest.substack.com/p/writing-as...
Writing as Reinvention
Everything Old Is New Again
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November 20, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Why that novel you've read five times might be the key to your next big writing project, today in my newsletter: nepheletempest.substack.com/p/writing-as...
It's that time of year! Who's joining me for my annual December Writing Challenge, starting Monday? Full details in the newsletter: nepheletempest.substack.com/p/working-th...
Working Through the Chaos
Welcome to the 2025 December Writing Challenge
nepheletempest.substack.com
November 26, 2025 at 6:43 PM
It's that time of year! Who's joining me for my annual December Writing Challenge, starting Monday? Full details in the newsletter: nepheletempest.substack.com/p/working-th...
Why that novel you've read five times might be the key to your next big writing project, today in my newsletter: nepheletempest.substack.com/p/writing-as...
Writing as Reinvention
Everything Old Is New Again
nepheletempest.substack.com
November 20, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Why that novel you've read five times might be the key to your next big writing project, today in my newsletter: nepheletempest.substack.com/p/writing-as...
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Writer Beware is always looking to hear about stuff like this [email protected]
There’s another wave of author impersonators offering consultations/mentoring for a price. (I got one from “Claire Keegan” telling me I’m very promising!) I’m sure you are great, but I didn’t email to tell you how swell you are. Here’s info on book scams: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/prh-fraud/
November 11, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Writer Beware is always looking to hear about stuff like this [email protected]
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What's the difference between a conversation in real life and one on the page? Discussing dialogue, today in the newsletter: nepheletempest.substack.com/p/let-them-s...
Let Them Speak
Writing Compelling Dialogue for Your Characters
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November 6, 2025 at 6:06 PM
What's the difference between a conversation in real life and one on the page? Discussing dialogue, today in the newsletter: nepheletempest.substack.com/p/let-them-s...
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It’s #FridayReads time! Let’s boost all signals. Repost this and let us know what to repost for you. I’m sharing this one because it’s very timely, helped me land an agent, was a Stoker nominee, was published in France and Italy, and it’s 30% off!
www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0316...
www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0316...
November 7, 2025 at 3:03 PM
It’s #FridayReads time! Let’s boost all signals. Repost this and let us know what to repost for you. I’m sharing this one because it’s very timely, helped me land an agent, was a Stoker nominee, was published in France and Italy, and it’s 30% off!
www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0316...
www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0316...
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Like you give away tax cuts to big corporations and the richest Americans?
Trump on SNAP: "Our country has to remain very liquid because problems, catastrophes, wars -- it could be anything. We have to remain liquid. We can't give everything away."
November 7, 2025 at 3:31 AM
Like you give away tax cuts to big corporations and the richest Americans?
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I called Ossoff about this yday, but I may call again today tbh. He's worried about reelection but he has to know that if he screws this up he's gonna lose us.
(If your senator is one of the few listed here, please call!)
(If your senator is one of the few listed here, please call!)
Readers in Arizona, Michigan, & Georgia!
Your senators have been getting a LOT of dedicated pressure to end the shutdown, without fixing healthcare.
If you have a minute, go ahead & give them a call!
Their job is to respond to constituents & they're mostly hearing from GOP voters rn.
Your senators have been getting a LOT of dedicated pressure to end the shutdown, without fixing healthcare.
If you have a minute, go ahead & give them a call!
Their job is to respond to constituents & they're mostly hearing from GOP voters rn.
November 6, 2025 at 4:33 PM
I called Ossoff about this yday, but I may call again today tbh. He's worried about reelection but he has to know that if he screws this up he's gonna lose us.
(If your senator is one of the few listed here, please call!)
(If your senator is one of the few listed here, please call!)
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What's the difference between a conversation in real life and one on the page? Discussing dialogue, today in the newsletter: nepheletempest.substack.com/p/let-them-s...
Let Them Speak
Writing Compelling Dialogue for Your Characters
nepheletempest.substack.com
November 6, 2025 at 6:06 PM
What's the difference between a conversation in real life and one on the page? Discussing dialogue, today in the newsletter: nepheletempest.substack.com/p/let-them-s...
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"The Republican Party has created an entirely avoidable mess for itself. By taking a resolute stand in favor of making healthcare unobtainable for many Americans, and now threatening to starve children to achieve that perverse goal, they have made performative cruelty their political calling card."
Mike Johnson's lies keep getting lost in the facts
The shutdown is exposing the speaker's slimy disingenuousness.
www.publicnotice.co
November 4, 2025 at 9:27 PM
"The Republican Party has created an entirely avoidable mess for itself. By taking a resolute stand in favor of making healthcare unobtainable for many Americans, and now threatening to starve children to achieve that perverse goal, they have made performative cruelty their political calling card."
Ever pulled out a book and started reading in a café? What about a bar? Have I got the book club for you, today in the newsletter: nepheletempest.substack.com/p/reading-in...
Reading in Public
A Different Sort of Book Club
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October 30, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Ever pulled out a book and started reading in a café? What about a bar? Have I got the book club for you, today in the newsletter: nepheletempest.substack.com/p/reading-in...