Justin Brouckaert
@jahbarchart.bsky.social
Agent / Editor / Writer
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I've recently learned that, in what has to be one of the most pathetic attempts at fraud in recent history, someone is impersonating me and asking for money to read queries. I would never do that! Nor would any legitimate literary agent. We work on spec, getting paid only when the author is paid.
Podcasts on Netflix...somehow the most confusing of all the things happening right now!
January 14, 2026 at 9:50 PM
Podcasts on Netflix...somehow the most confusing of all the things happening right now!
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Judge these books by their covers
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Judge these books by their covers
David Gee designs some eye-catching book covers, including mine. He shared how he approaches his work.
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January 7, 2026 at 3:44 PM
Judge these books by their covers
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open.substack.com/pub/dannyfun...
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My feature on Jollibee is out today!!! Read on for a tale about fried chicken, sweet spaghetti, and postcolonial revenge 🇵🇭
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
Can Jollibee Beat American Fast Food at Its Own Game?
A fast-growing Filipino chain is serving burgers and chicken that seem like typical American fare—until you taste them.
www.theatlantic.com
December 9, 2025 at 4:29 PM
My feature on Jollibee is out today!!! Read on for a tale about fried chicken, sweet spaghetti, and postcolonial revenge 🇵🇭
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
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Jeremy B. Jones and Denton Loving discuss Jones’s new memoir “Cipher,” the process of journaling, what it’s like to be haunted, and whether the past offers any hope for our current times.
Decoding an Ancestor’s Scandalous, Encrypted Diaries - Electric Literature
In “Cipher,” Jeremy B. Jones uses the nineteenth-century life of his forefather to better understand the present
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December 1, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Jeremy B. Jones and Denton Loving discuss Jones’s new memoir “Cipher,” the process of journaling, what it’s like to be haunted, and whether the past offers any hope for our current times.
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This is a thrilling list of books that deserve attention and love. Small press publication is thriving.
If you only look at one year-end "best of" books list, make it this thoughtful one of underrecognized gems from @literaryhub.bsky.social lithub.com/100-notable-...
100 Notable Small Press Books of 2025
The idea of 100 Notable Small Press Books was born November 2024, after The New York Times’s annual 100 Notable Books list featured eighty-two books from the Big Five publishing houses (Pengu…
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December 1, 2025 at 2:23 PM
This is a thrilling list of books that deserve attention and love. Small press publication is thriving.
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Thrilled to read this starred review in @ala-booklist.bsky.social. Thank you!
"Funt masterfully chronicles the meteoric rise in gambling and societal acceptance of a predatory business in a book that will simultaneously inform and alarm readers."
"Everybody Loses" is available for preorder.
"Funt masterfully chronicles the meteoric rise in gambling and societal acceptance of a predatory business in a book that will simultaneously inform and alarm readers."
"Everybody Loses" is available for preorder.
November 5, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Thrilled to read this starred review in @ala-booklist.bsky.social. Thank you!
"Funt masterfully chronicles the meteoric rise in gambling and societal acceptance of a predatory business in a book that will simultaneously inform and alarm readers."
"Everybody Loses" is available for preorder.
"Funt masterfully chronicles the meteoric rise in gambling and societal acceptance of a predatory business in a book that will simultaneously inform and alarm readers."
"Everybody Loses" is available for preorder.
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🚨 TODAY IS THE DAY 🚨
Black-Owned: The Revolutionary Life of the Black Bookstore is finally here. There are so many people to thank, so many people who have held me through this journey. I am grateful. Grateful. Grateful. @jahbarchart.bsky.social
Black-Owned: The Revolutionary Life of the Black Bookstore is finally here. There are so many people to thank, so many people who have held me through this journey. I am grateful. Grateful. Grateful. @jahbarchart.bsky.social
November 4, 2025 at 1:32 PM
🚨 TODAY IS THE DAY 🚨
Black-Owned: The Revolutionary Life of the Black Bookstore is finally here. There are so many people to thank, so many people who have held me through this journey. I am grateful. Grateful. Grateful. @jahbarchart.bsky.social
Black-Owned: The Revolutionary Life of the Black Bookstore is finally here. There are so many people to thank, so many people who have held me through this journey. I am grateful. Grateful. Grateful. @jahbarchart.bsky.social
Recommended reading for anyone haunted by the AI actress story: Olga Ravn's THE EMPLOYEES. My favorite reading experience of the past few years.
September 30, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Recommended reading for anyone haunted by the AI actress story: Olga Ravn's THE EMPLOYEES. My favorite reading experience of the past few years.
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Is today the South's biggest pub day?! LULLABY FOR THE GRIEVING joins new works by my good pals John T. Edge and @thejeremybjones.bsky.social. Go get them wherever books are sold!
September 16, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Is today the South's biggest pub day?! LULLABY FOR THE GRIEVING joins new works by my good pals John T. Edge and @thejeremybjones.bsky.social. Go get them wherever books are sold!
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my book’s out today or whatever
September 16, 2025 at 3:53 PM
my book’s out today or whatever
This is such a cool idea.
Big news for authors with out-of-print prose books looking for a new home:
We're opening up submissions to our Lost/Found imprint on 9/3! We were so happy to rehome Brooke Shaffner's COUNTRY OF UNDER last year + now we're ready to rehome more.
Full details forthcoming, but the pertinent ones are:
We're opening up submissions to our Lost/Found imprint on 9/3! We were so happy to rehome Brooke Shaffner's COUNTRY OF UNDER last year + now we're ready to rehome more.
Full details forthcoming, but the pertinent ones are:
August 20, 2025 at 3:15 PM
This is such a cool idea.
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I've recently learned that, in what has to be one of the most pathetic attempts at fraud in recent history, someone is impersonating me and asking for money to read queries. I would never do that! Nor would any legitimate literary agent. We work on spec, getting paid only when the author is paid.
July 23, 2025 at 1:55 PM
I've recently learned that, in what has to be one of the most pathetic attempts at fraud in recent history, someone is impersonating me and asking for money to read queries. I would never do that! Nor would any legitimate literary agent. We work on spec, getting paid only when the author is paid.
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Preorders are live for this major anthology edited by Michael Welch. I am always stoked for work that shows honest aspects of the Midwest, especially the Great Lakes Region. Honored to be in these pages.
Preorders are open for "On an Inland Sea: Writing the Great Lakes," coming your way from @beltpublishing.bsky.social on March 10, 2026!
Featuring everything from shipwrecks & ice caves to zebra mussels & manoomin, & 32 writers on why the lakes loom so large.
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Featuring everything from shipwrecks & ice caves to zebra mussels & manoomin, & 32 writers on why the lakes loom so large.
beltpublishing.com/products/on-...
June 23, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Preorders are live for this major anthology edited by Michael Welch. I am always stoked for work that shows honest aspects of the Midwest, especially the Great Lakes Region. Honored to be in these pages.
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At a time of fleeting memes and cultural platforms operated by multibillion-dollar companies, an old mode of creativity and community-building gets a second life. www.wired.com/story/zines-...
Social Media Replaced Zines. Now Zines Are Taking the Power Back
At a time of fleeting memes and cultural platforms operated by multibillion-dollar companies, an old mode of creativity and community-building gets a second life.
www.wired.com
June 16, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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"EVERYBODY LOSES: The Tumultuous Rise of American Sports Gambling" is available for preorder!
What's at stake as billions of dollars are spent to turn a nation of sports fans into a nation of sports gamblers?
My findings after 300+ interviews are alarming.
www.simonandschuster.com/books/Everyb...
What's at stake as billions of dollars are spent to turn a nation of sports fans into a nation of sports gamblers?
My findings after 300+ interviews are alarming.
www.simonandschuster.com/books/Everyb...
Everybody Loses
This jaw-dropping book pulls back the curtain on the alluring yet perilous world of American sports gambling.Everybody Loses is the first major inv...
www.simonandschuster.com
June 11, 2025 at 1:37 PM
"EVERYBODY LOSES: The Tumultuous Rise of American Sports Gambling" is available for preorder!
What's at stake as billions of dollars are spent to turn a nation of sports fans into a nation of sports gamblers?
My findings after 300+ interviews are alarming.
www.simonandschuster.com/books/Everyb...
What's at stake as billions of dollars are spent to turn a nation of sports fans into a nation of sports gamblers?
My findings after 300+ interviews are alarming.
www.simonandschuster.com/books/Everyb...
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My doctor said if y’all don’t preorder my book, ima die. If it ain’t one thing it’s another😞😞 #BlackSky #BlackBookSky
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/734577...
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/734577...
Black-Owned by Char Adams: 9780593474235 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
NBC News reporter Char Adams writes a deeply compelling and rigorously reported history of Black political movements, told through the lens of Black-owned bookstores, which have been centers for organ...
www.penguinrandomhouse.com
April 7, 2025 at 6:47 PM
My doctor said if y’all don’t preorder my book, ima die. If it ain’t one thing it’s another😞😞 #BlackSky #BlackBookSky
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/734577...
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/734577...
We could have a serious conversation about ORIGINAL SIN, sure. Or we could ask: Was it really necessary for Jake Tapper to do his Biden impression for every single quote on the audiobook?!
May 23, 2025 at 1:47 PM
We could have a serious conversation about ORIGINAL SIN, sure. Or we could ask: Was it really necessary for Jake Tapper to do his Biden impression for every single quote on the audiobook?!
Chicago pope got Bluesky looking like 2014 Twitter!
May 9, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Chicago pope got Bluesky looking like 2014 Twitter!
I'm so grateful for the death of Twitter. If we had gotten this type of Pistons season in 2015 at the height of my social media addiction, y'all would have seen me GO THROUGH IT in real time.
May 2, 2025 at 1:38 PM
I'm so grateful for the death of Twitter. If we had gotten this type of Pistons season in 2015 at the height of my social media addiction, y'all would have seen me GO THROUGH IT in real time.
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@maris.bsky.social wants to know why so many book workers in corporate publishing don’t make a living wage.
As Big Publishing Gets More Corporate, Shouldn’t the Salaries Go Up?
I guess we’re doing this again. Over the past few weeks I’ve seen a few posts (I’m not linking to the posts in order to protect the innocent and underpaid) about how dismal publishing salaries are,…
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February 27, 2025 at 4:30 PM
@maris.bsky.social wants to know why so many book workers in corporate publishing don’t make a living wage.
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Annnndddd we have a cover! 📚
Pre-order is now available for “Black-Owned: The Revolutionary Life of the Black Bookstore.” It’s the first-ever full length book chronicling the history of Black-owned bookstores in the U.S.
Pre-order here: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/734577...
Pre-order is now available for “Black-Owned: The Revolutionary Life of the Black Bookstore.” It’s the first-ever full length book chronicling the history of Black-owned bookstores in the U.S.
Pre-order here: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/734577...
February 19, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Annnndddd we have a cover! 📚
Pre-order is now available for “Black-Owned: The Revolutionary Life of the Black Bookstore.” It’s the first-ever full length book chronicling the history of Black-owned bookstores in the U.S.
Pre-order here: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/734577...
Pre-order is now available for “Black-Owned: The Revolutionary Life of the Black Bookstore.” It’s the first-ever full length book chronicling the history of Black-owned bookstores in the U.S.
Pre-order here: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/734577...
Pretty excited for this event next week, which should be a fun & friendly space to address any & all questions you might have about working with a literary agent (like me?!) www.eventbrite.com/e/how-to-fin...
How to Find a Literary Agent
Professional literary agents will answer all your questions about finding an agent, and why you may need one, during this virtual event.
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February 6, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Pretty excited for this event next week, which should be a fun & friendly space to address any & all questions you might have about working with a literary agent (like me?!) www.eventbrite.com/e/how-to-fin...
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Y’all the publishing scams are wild this year. Writers take note!
🚨Important🚨: Scammers continue to impersonate literary agents and agencies, and are now doing so using fake @aalitagents.com emails. AALA members DO NOT have personal email addresses associated with the AALA . Stay informed: aalitagents.org/literary-age... Authors, please share this information!
Literary Agent Scam Alerts - Association of American Literary Agents
Scammers are impersonating literary agents, using deceptive email addresses to target authors. AALA members never charge reading fees or use @aalitagents.com addresses. Always verify agent authenticit...
aalitagents.org
December 19, 2024 at 11:57 PM
Y’all the publishing scams are wild this year. Writers take note!