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Cailin Barrett-Bressack @cailinwrites.bsky.social · 6d

Oh this sounds SO fun

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Cailin Barrett-Bressack @cailinwrites.bsky.social · 6d

Teasing my WIP using my last 8 internet searches 🐦

#SpecLit #Authors #AmDrafting #Writesky

google searches of the following:
Do pigeons sneeze?
history of rorschack test
weirdest constellations
food served at manhattan central booking
do pigeons have taste buds
how high can a house sparrow fly
social media tracking through ip address
plant roots electricity microbiology

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Cailin Barrett-Bressack @cailinwrites.bsky.social · 16d

AIMEE BENDER X ETERNAL SUNSHINE

Based on beta reader reviews, you'll come to
THE MAGIC OF NOW for cults & Goat Tension™️ but stay for the existentialism & sobbing!

#A #Spec about a 62-year-old farmer, the 🐐 her sister is reincarnated into & the new age cult that could be behind it
#UnhingedPit #AG

The Magic of Now
Beta Reader Comments for
By: Cailin Barrett-Bressack
Rep: Alex Land, MWLA
I sat down after work today intending to read another fifty pages and ended up reading the whole ding-dang book.
Holy shit this is such a good twist
was not ready for this
what i love most about this book is how it challenges your perceptions about existentialism and what it means to be human. Who knew hearing a goat's perception could make you think so deeply?
i would die for these nuns
this feels like her azula moment
ok yas girlboss except
goat tension

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Cailin Barrett-Bressack @cailinwrites.bsky.social · 16d

Cult books unite!

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Bookishbabeiswriting @bookbabewriting.bsky.social · 16d

Red flags for my Sapphic bubblegum horror
Lyric's red flags:
Obsessed with her best friend
In the midst of a coming of rage
Eleanor's red flags:
Will ditch you for boys
Possibly a cult member
Is the last person said boys were seen with before they disappeared
#unhingedpit #YA #H #AG

Lyric: In love with her best friend,thinks her friend and the dead boys showing up are connected, smart and loyal a concoction for trouble. Quote "Every day I choose to have her in my life like a toxic habit I can't quite quit."
images of girl running in cowgirl boots and image of girl with lighter under tongue

Eleanor: may or may not be a part of a cult, has a taste for boys and an unhealthy obsession with her best friend, is a ride or die quite literally. Quote-"do I need to kick someone's add because you know I will do it. " images of girl with red on her hands, and another with a girl licking a lollipop.

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Cailin Barrett-Bressack @cailinwrites.bsky.social · 16d

🫴💸
(Thank you!!)

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Cailin Barrett-Bressack @cailinwrites.bsky.social · Aug 6

If you like grounded, speculative novels featuring woman-led cults, unique depictions of grief, off-beat humor, sister relationships, and neuroscience, then BOY do I have the book for you! 🐐
#Questpit #AG #A #S

Guide to: The Magic of Now
The story of a 62-year-old farmer, the goat her sister may be reincarnated into, and the new age cult that could be behind it.
By: Cailin Barrett-Bressack
Rep: Alex Land, Mad Woman Literary Agency

The Pitch
Gyla, 62-year old in mourning, encounters a mysterious goat on her farm that she suspects contains the consciousness of her recently deceased sister, Tina. Her quest for answers eventually leads to ReNewAll, a reclusive new-age community fixated on death and grieving– and with a goat on their brochures.
In addition to nonsensical classes like Stargazing with Your Eyes Closed and Untangling the Truth through Macrame, ReNewAll and its neuroscientist leader teach The Magic of Now, a practice that allows members to vividly revisit memories of their deceased loved ones.
As Gyla grows from skeptic and unlikely cult infiltrator to a willing member of ReNewAll’s inner circle, she must ultimately choose between immersing herself in an illusion of the past where Tina is still alive (and human), or dedicating herself to the imperfect (but tangible) version of her sister that is trapped inside the body of a goat.

The Comps
How to Age Disgracefully: quirky humor and warmly acerbic wit
Aimee Bender: surrealism used to highlight life’s bittersweet beauty
Catherine House: speculative exploration of insular communities
Eternal Sunshine: themes of memory and identity
comp cults: Teal Swan, Mother God, Elizabeth Holmes

A Snippet:
The Milky Way painted across the bowl of sky is technicolor and dizzying. The stars seem close enough that if she were to reach out and run her hands across the pricks of them, they’d snag splinters in her fingertips.
The wind grows louder. Gyla walks towards her pond, the forest pressing into the shore on three sides. Later in the spring, the pond's surface will be laced with pale green algae, but this early in the season the water is smooth glass, reflecting the night sky and also—the goat.
Gyla sees its reflection first, then draws her eyes up to where it stands motionless across the water. It’s hard to make out every detail in the muted blues of night, but she can tell who it is the moment she sees it.
“Tina?” Gyla whispers. The goat cocks its head to one side in response.
Gyla is not sure why she says her sister’s name aloud. It’s a physical knowing, the same way she senses weather changes in the marrow of her right knee. When she sees the goat, she feels her sister with her for the first time in months.
The goat approaches her cautiously. Its ear is pierced where an identification tag had been, but the tag is gone, and Gyla can see the stars reflecting on the surface of the pond through the small empty window in the cartilage.
Gyla knows she should be wondering if her mind is playing tricks on her. But she doesn’t waver in her conviction. Somehow, she can tell–this is her sister.
It’s Tina.

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Cailin Barrett-Bressack @cailinwrites.bsky.social · 16d

AIMEE BENDER X ETERNAL SUNSHINE

Based on beta reader reviews, you'll come to
THE MAGIC OF NOW for cults & Goat Tension™️ but stay for the existentialism & sobbing!

#A #Spec about a 62-year-old farmer, the 🐐 her sister is reincarnated into & the new age cult that could be behind it
#UnhingedPit #AG

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Cailin Barrett-Bressack @cailinwrites.bsky.social · 17d

I LOVE this idea! So fun!

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Carly is ✨AGENTED✨ @cjvickwrites.bsky.social · Sep 3

I made a thing to celebrate a thing.😈🛼💕💄

HORROR MOTH is a whole-heart homage to all the campy, blood drenched 80s horror I grew up on.

The ragtag group of pi$$ed off middle-aged final girls are just the cherry on top. 🍒💋

#WritingCommunity #horror #writers

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Alex Land @alexbrownwrites.bsky.social · Aug 26

I am re-opening to queries for underrepresented/marginalized writers ONLY!

If you think we’d be a good fit, feel free to use this link to query me: QueryTracker.net/query/AlexBr...

I’ll try to stay open for at least a month! Can’t wait to read your work!!! 🥳

Query Alex Land at Mad Woman Literary Agency

QueryTracker.net

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Cailin Barrett-Bressack @cailinwrites.bsky.social · Aug 22

This book has EVERYTHING: trash raccoon MC, demon parties, slow burn romance, and its all wrapped up into the fabulous critique of capitalism we all need

I could not be more EXCITED for @stephwrites.bsky.social and for the rest of YOU to read this friggin' book

Stephanie Binx @stephwrites.bsky.social · Aug 22

It’s official!

@alcovepress.bsky.social is bringing HELLBOUND to a bookstore near you in Fall 2026!

A publisher’s marketplace deal announces HELLBOUND has been acquired by Alcove Press for publication in Fall 2026. The background depicts a man and a woman facing away from each other.

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Sandra Proudman @sandraproudman.bsky.social · Aug 11

✨Please share and bookmark!✨

In one week the We The People Summer fundraiser will begin to benefit #KidLit4Ceasefire families in Gaza and immigrant and trans rights!

www.32auctions.com/WeThePeopleS...

+ A small thread of other ways to help that are now live and will be live long-term:

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Cailin Barrett-Bressack @cailinwrites.bsky.social · Aug 21

a cat peeking out of a wicker basket with its eyes wide open

ALT: a cat peeking out of a wicker basket with its eyes wide open

media.tenor.com

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Deena 🇵🇸 دينا @deenahelm.bsky.social · Aug 18

This has started today - you can bid on over 380+ items now! I’ve donated three 30 page critiques but there are lots of other great items out there: www.32auctions.com/WeThePeopleS...

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Darelle @darellecowley.bsky.social · Aug 16

Something wicked is waiting in the woods...

...and she's hungry.

#PosterPit #A #AG #F #WIP

A poster mock up with a forest background, howling wolf in shadows with text.

Text reads:
Political Intrigue
One Horse
Fairytale Retelling
Found Family
Stolen Magic

Something wicked is waiting in the woods

Best Howl, Riveting Spell Casting, Worst Timing

Project Fairytale

90% Outlined

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Sammy Holden @holdencreates.bsky.social · Aug 16

WARCROSS x ONE OF US IS LYING

DEADLY ARCHETYPES is a fast paced, grounded YA sci-fi that features:
- a high-tech, high stakes VR competition game
- an unlikely group of allies
- the ticking clock of a mind control glitch
- hero x villain archetypes
#PosterPit #AG #SF #YA

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Cailin Barrett-Bressack @cailinwrites.bsky.social · Aug 16

goosebumps

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Cailin Barrett-Bressack @cailinwrites.bsky.social · Aug 16

🫴

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Cailin Barrett-Bressack @cailinwrites.bsky.social · Aug 16

I need this for spooky season 🐺

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Cailin Barrett-Bressack @cailinwrites.bsky.social · Aug 16

I have this loaded on my e-reader and this poster makes me even more excited to dive in as soon as I can 🤤

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Chezza @chezza.bsky.social · Aug 16

DAUGHTER OF MOON GODDESS x SONG TO DROWN RIVERS

Falling in love shouldn't be this difficult. When family and fate are trying to keep them apart, how far will Shizhi and Mingniu go to defend their love? To the stars above...or hell itself?

Art by hisurii❤️
#PosterPit #AG #F

Movie poster for A Fate Woven in Starlight by Chezza Lee. A feminist take on an epic Chinese love story about fate, sacrifice, and women reclaiming their place in their own stories.

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Bookishbabeiswriting @bookbabewriting.bsky.social · Aug 16

🌲 Spooky mountainside town
👀suspicious locals
🌲missing hikers
👀aloof and mysterious bartender with plenty of secrets to hide
🌲#ownvoice Indigenous, Queer, and Autistic rep
#PosterPit #A #AG #R #H

WOLF RIVER, written by H.D. Pine represented by Alex Land @MWLA. Sapphic romance, paranormal mystery, forced proximity, annoyances to lovers. Images of foggy mountainside river, moon, claw marks on building, and wolf howling

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Bookishbabeiswriting @bookbabewriting.bsky.social · Aug 16

✨Boys are disappearing in Lyric's backwards backwoods town
🎀 her friend/crush Eleanor was the last to see them
✨Eleanor's cultish town nearby may be to blame
🎀 gives maneater a whole new meaning
✨more than just their friendship is changing...
#YA #H #R #posterpit #ag

A string of missing people and animal attacks, two best friends, one... KILLER SUMMER. Written by H.D> Pine, represented by Alex Land @ Mad Woman Literary Agency. Pink undertones, with images of girl licking red off hands, black and white corn fields, girl with lighter before mouth.

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Katy Lapierre 🖤 ✨ @katylapierre.bsky.social · Aug 16

UNDEAD GIRL GANG x BRING HER BACK

When Parker's family ink magic predicts her bff's death, there's only one option—cast a forbidden spell to resurrect her. But an ink demon lurks and one wrong spell cast will damn both their souls to an inky hell forever.

#posterpit #ya #h #ag

White text reading Ink Becomes Her. Background shows a girl collapsed on the ground and an inky dark hand reaching out to grab her

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