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Kathleen Carr Foster @kathleencarrfoster.bsky.social · Jun 30

I’m so excited to share news of my book deal!. Many thanks to the great @frecklywench.bsky.social at Aevitas Creative!. I’m thrilled to be working with @viengsamai.bsky.social , @mcflycahill90.bsky.social and the rest of the team at @erewhonbooks.bsky.social and @kensingtonbooks.bsky.social !

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Cassandra Jeanne Farrin @cassandrafarrin.com · 8h

🔥 Love that! Have you read PROPHET by Helen Macdonald and Sin Blaché? That was a fun one in this vein, too, although maybe more New Weird / VanderMeer than what you’re doing here?

Cassandra Jeanne Farrin @cassandrafarrin.com · 9h

the tyranny of the “standard plot” 😭

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Cassandra Jeanne Farrin @cassandrafarrin.com · 9h

ooohhhh 👀

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Cassandra Jeanne Farrin @cassandrafarrin.com · 9h

THEY ARE!! I don’t know what it is about space stations, but they just have so much potential for strangeness. Maybe it’s the sense that they are a crossroads of the universe like a lot of real historical imperial cities so often were, where a lot of different things can come together unexpectedly.

Cassandra Jeanne Farrin @cassandrafarrin.com · 9h

Utterly in love with this pitch!

Mihika Biswas @mihika-biswas.bsky.social · 16h

A reimagining of the TITANIC in Space🚀🚢

The Sungrazer, a decadent space liner, offers new possibilities for working people like Seren, an aerial silks performer, on a new planet.

But aboard, ambitious CEOs and politicians gamble with the fate of the ship and the lives of many.
#DVPit #SF #A #Asian

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Cassandra Jeanne Farrin @cassandrafarrin.com · 9h

aw, always love to hear that! I was thinking of MOTHEATER when I read your pitch!!

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Cassandra Jeanne Farrin @cassandrafarrin.com · 9h

Such a fun pitch! Good luck today!

Cassandra Jeanne Farrin @cassandrafarrin.com · 9h

Loving this setting AND the music magic!

raya 🇱🇧 @rayrx.bsky.social · 20h

To save her family from a memory-stealing plague ravaging 1920s Lebanon, Eura enlists the help of a rival village’s prized musician to find a cure. But there are darker forces at play, and they must confront ghosts of their pasts—even if it ends with 1 of them in the realm below.

#MENA #MV #DVPit

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Cassandra Jeanne Farrin @cassandrafarrin.com · 9h

this sounds amazing as hell (complimentary)

jay kang romanus @jelliclejay.bsky.social · 10h

SUMMER SONS x CAMP DAMASCUS

BLESSED BE THE FLESH is an adult horror romance about an amnesiac cult escapee and the lonely trucker who picks him off the side of the highway. Remembering his past may destroy him, but what he's forgotten will destroy the world.

#DVpit #A #H #LGBT

A collage with images of sweaty boys almost kissing, a human/bird monster, and a cowboy pulling a horse under an intensely cloudy sky. There are also the words “A love like that made me someone new. Not even because I chose to change, I had no choice in the matter; the feeling swept me up and molded me into someone I didn’t recognize before I could look down and understand just what I had gotten myself into.”

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Cassandra Jeanne Farrin @cassandrafarrin.com · 10h

Straith has a disarmingly charming narrative voice that takes you somewhere unexpected every time. 💙

Straith 🍉 @straith.ca · 18h

GREY GARDENS in space:

A fledgling documentarian gets overly entangled with two deposed Imperials in exile on a once-opulent space station.

He must choose: launch his career as a truth-teller, or protect these people from the judgment of a hostile audience.

#DVpit #A #SF #LGBT #TV #novella

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Cassandra Jeanne Farrin @cassandrafarrin.com · 10h

Oh man, give me a disintegrating space station and leaders in disgrace to suss out ANY time.

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Cassandra Jeanne Farrin @cassandrafarrin.com · 10h

I had the privilege of reading excerpts of this novel as part of the Clarion Novel Workshop. Uniquely voiced and so vibrant! Agent friends, I hope you’ll check this one out!

Thenmozhi Soundararajan/Dalit Diva ✨️is querying✨️ @dalitdiva.bsky.social · 17h

WE SANG DOWN THE EMPIRE 85,000 Word #Spaceopera
🛸 Nesamma Abbas, a washed-up alien musician,
🎸 joins a rebel rock band to take down the Human Empire
✨with a martial art of sound ⚡🎶
.😢She must confront her pain,
🧘‍♀️ Master her powers
⚔️ & choose: revolution
❤️ or redemption
#WOC #Asian #SFF #DVpit

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Cassandra Jeanne Farrin @cassandrafarrin.com · 1d

🥲 I *will* survive the writing of this novel!

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Cassandra Jeanne Farrin @cassandrafarrin.com · 1d

Omg, I am so close 😭! I have like a chapter and a half, and then a couple little revisions that I want to do to kind of round it out before I send it to @thaisafonso.bsky.social to read. I’m off work next week so fingers crossed I will finish!!

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Cassandra Jeanne Farrin @cassandrafarrin.com · 4d

YES!! I’m so glad you were able to put down some words even with pain making that difficult.

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Amy Jo (AJ) Cousins @ajcousins.bsky.social · 4d

If you haven't read The Unbroken by CL Clark, it's brilliant and on sale for $4.99 at Kobo (and presumably elsewhere). SO GOOD + the final bk in the trilogy just came out! Highly rec'd. Military fantasy deeply immersed in colonialism, two mesmerizing women, a queen and a conscript soldier. SO GOOD.

Screenshot of the AMAZING cover art for The Unbroken by CL Clark, showing a muscular black woman standing in a moorish arch doorway with her bare arms extended to touch the post on either side, wearing what looks like black leather armor and a sword in a belt, with a blurry dusty yellow scene behind the arch. Text in white near the top reads, "Every empire demands revolution."

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Mihika Biswas @mihika-biswas.bsky.social · 6d

Moodboard for my reimagining of the Titanic in space! 🚀🛳️🪐

Seren, a famous aerial silks performer and acrobat, once believed the Sungrazer was her ticket to a new life. Now she's not sure the ship will ever reach.

[TITANIC in space x CARAVEL]

#DVParty #SF #Mys #A #Asian #ND

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Palin Chawinwit🌺 @palinchawinwit.bsky.social · 6d

EMILY WILDE X SANGU MANDANNA X GHIBLI

very late to Day 1 of #DVParty, but here's my contemporary grounded fantasy about mythical flora and fauna in SEAsia

🌺 academic rivals-to-lovers x found family
🌺 love letter to/critique of academia
🌺 deadly forest, but also bakery, and everything cozy

An atmospheric collage of nine photos:

1. An underwater scene with sunlight filtering through lily pads

2. A cluster of dark lily pads with a single white lotus blooming.

3. A carved stone temple entrance

4. Ancient temple ruins with massive roots through them.

5. A woman in a light dress in a valley

6. Two people sitting in tall grass looking out at the water

7. A pair sitting by a calm lakeshore

8. A traditional wooden Thai house above a lily pond.

9. Sunlight shining through large lotus leaves from below.

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Cassandra Jeanne Farrin @cassandrafarrin.com · 4d

The posts starting to accumulate for #DVpit are looking really exciting! Fingers crossed for you all!

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Abbey ابي 🌻✨ @abbeyfwilliams.bsky.social · 6d

Happy #DVparty day 1, y’all! Here’s a moodboard for my Arab folklore-inspired YA contemporary fantasy featuring:

🗡a stabby ace girl who sees jinn
🏔️a hidden magical realm
💕a tight-knit Lebanese American family
🗝️secrets, banter, and (gasp!) betrayal
💫anxiety/OCD themes

#YA #F

A 3-by-3 icon moodboard for Unveiling the Stars, featuring the following images from left to right: the Gapstow Bridge in New York’s Central Park; a hand with flames dancing at its fingertips; a fountain with roses in the water; a dark-haired Lebanese girl staring into the distance; a quote that reads “We are living, breathing stories, made up of the tales others tell us and those we tell ourselves: light, dark, and the shadows in between”; a cat sitting in a window at night; giant redwood trees in a forest; a dark-haired boy surrounded by foliage; and New York City in the autumn.

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R.L. Nguyen @rlnguyenwrites.bsky.social · 6d

Mood board for the Vietnamese gothic fairy tale retelling I've been practice pitching this week for DVpit!

Think the vibes were worth all the nights of writing until 2am? 👀

#DVparty #storyaesthetic

A collage of images of a woman, a man, Vietnam, and Vietnamese food.

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Marie Sotiriou @mariesotiriou.bsky.social · 4d

The dark fantasy “Metal from Heaven” by August Clarke is very good.

A political revolution against capitalism led by a lesbian bandit biker gang - it’s bloody, queer, intense, visceral, & sensual. Lyrical prose with Mad Max frenetic energy. 🌈📚

Lambda Literary @lambdaliterary.org · 4d

🎉🎉🎉 Congratulations to the 2025 Lambda Literary Award Winner for LGBTQ+ Speculative Fiction: Metal From Heaven by August Clarke! 🎉🎉🎉 @sapphomancer.bsky.social @erewhonbooks.bsky.social @kensingtonbooks.bsky.social
#Lammys2025 #LammyAwards

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Cassandra Jeanne Farrin @cassandrafarrin.com · 4d

Fuck yes, WE LOVE TO SEE IT!!!!! 💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜

Lambda Literary @lambdaliterary.org · 4d

🎉🎉🎉 Congratulations to the 2025 Lambda Literary Award Winner for LGBTQ+ Speculative Fiction: Metal From Heaven by August Clarke! 🎉🎉🎉 @sapphomancer.bsky.social @erewhonbooks.bsky.social @kensingtonbooks.bsky.social
#Lammys2025 #LammyAwards

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · Aug 27

Hi authors! Please remember to file a claim!

Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · Aug 27

AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.

Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action

Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.

arstechnica.com

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