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for anyone curious, the facial expressions only got more chaotic with time 😂
Change your gender, become a poet, catapult yourself into the sun. There are no rules. You can do anything you want.
really really excited that ON SUNDAYS SHE PICKED FLOWERS is out in the world 🖤🥀 Yah Yah Scholfield is an exquisite writer and this book is just a tour de force all around
horror fans (yes YOU 🫵), do not miss this one!!!
www.simonandschuster.com/books/On-Sun...
The book cover for ON SUNDAYS SHE PICKED FLOWERS by Yah Yah Scholfield. A portrait of a Black woman peers out at the reader; only part of her face is visible as colorful flora and fauna encompass her. The title is overlayed in white serif text.
The book cover for SABER-TOOTH by Robin Gow. The illustration shows a young boy in the top third of the cover digging a hole near a tree in a backyard. The bottom two-thirds of the cover shows what lies in the dirt beneath his feet: a giant sabertooth tiger skeleton with glowing red eyes. The title is in yellow text between the boy and the skeleton.
The book cover for DEATH BY IRISH COFFEE by Alex Erickson. As with the other Bookstore Cafe Mysteries, the cover features a black and white cat as well as the title drink. In this case, the cat is laying on a table wearing a green Irish hat and looking adorably grumpy. Next to the cat is a bottle with a skull and crossbones on it as well as a delicious-looking coffee with an Irish flag sticking out of the top of it. The bookstore in the background has some St. Patrick's Day decor, and the title is overlayed in white font at the top of the book.
When it comes to books, more is more — we have three client books publishing today! A very happy #bookbirthday to:
🥀 ON SUNDAYS SHE PICKED FLOWERS by Yah Yah Scholfield
❤️🔥 SABER-TOOTH by @robin-gow-poet.bsky.social
☕️ DEATH BY IRISH COFFEE by Alex Erickson
The JAB team sends a BIG congratulations to @dirtbagqueer.rocks — her debut novel, ONE OF THE BOYS, is the 2026 Stonewall Award Winner! 🎉💖
awfulagent.com/one-of-the-b...
so exciting and so so deserved for victoria and jordan!!! 💕 congratulations to ONE OF THE BOYS!
including ON SUNDAYS SHE PICKED FLOWERS by Yah Yah Scholfield!
"Occasionally I open a book and the first sentence just knocks me flat on my ass—and if we’re starting there, you just know the rest is gonna be devastating." ✨
This JAB Wrapped post gets longer and longer every year (which is a good problem to have)!
We're very proud of the work we do at JABberwocky and are even more excited about our growing list of clients and their work ✨ Cheers to another book-filled year!
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Tomorrow tomorrow!
The entire team at JABberwocky would like to give a HUGE congratulations to @brandonsanderson.com — over 50 MILLION copies of his books have been sold worldwide! 🎉📚
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Authors Clay McLeod Chapman (left) and Victor Manibo (right) sit in leather armchairs on a small stage in the Strand Bookstore's Rare Book Room. A sign with the Strand's logo is centered behind the authors and fairy lights are strung above them. The authors are holding microphones and are discussing THE VILLA, ONCE BELOVED, the latest novel from Victor Manibo.
A photo featuring a copy of THE VILLA, ONCE BELOVED, the latest novel out from Victor Manibo. The book is displayed on a small table between two leather armchairs where the authors will sit and discuss the book. A sign featuring The Strand Bookstore's logo is centered behind the table.
The JAB team had a great time at the launch event for THE VILLA, ONCE BELOVED at The Strand✨
@victormanibo.com and @claymcleod.bsky.social discussed the journey of pivoting into horror writing, weaving colonialism into the Gothic, and... sexy gravedigging (you'll have to read the book for this one)
we should not be letting any company get away with blaming AI for their failures. I'm not even sure how we got to this point. people are like "it's just a tool" okay so is a forklift and we still hold somebody responsible when it goes wrong and hurts someone. this is YOUR AI!
i'm aiming to catch up on my reading while closed, so if you have an outstanding query, i hope to have a response for you as soon as i can! thanks so much for your patience 🙏
querying writers! i'll be closing to queries on monday, november 17th and will be closed at least through january 2026.
as a reminder, i only accept queries through querymanager — please do not email me your submission while i am closed, it will just be deleted 😅
Forty hours left until this giveaway closes! We're giving away ten ARCs of @victormanibo.com 's THE VILLA, ONCE BELOVED on Goodreads and it will, err, haunt you if you don't get in on that . . .
A PW article by Elyse Martin titled Moor or Less, with the subtitle reading "New Novels Unearth Ghotic Horrors in an Arizona Mine, Rural Japan, and Beyond". The first few paragraphs read as follows: "Since 1764, when Horace Walpole captivated readers with The Castle of Otranto, gothic novels have been shaped by, and have sometimes been synonymous with, their locales. “With all genres, setting matters,” says Yah Yah Scholfield, debut author of the Southern gothic On Sundays She Picked Flowers (Saga, Jan. 2026). “But with gothic fiction in particular, the setting is a character all its own. You can’t have Wuthering Heights without the moors, and you can’t have Rebecca without Manderley.” PW spoke with Scholfield and other authors about the importance of place in their forthcoming gothic horror novels. As in real estate, it’s all about location, location, location. Scholfield’s gothic references include Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House and We Have Always Lived in the Castle, and Toni Morrison’s Beloved, particularly “the concept of this place that is so sick and heavy with human living,” they say. Their debut follows Judith Rice, who as an adult in 1965 flees her abusive mother abusive to a run-down house in the forests of southern Georgia, where she contends with the ghosts of the house’s violent past as well as her own." The rest of the article continues on with non-JAB clients.
Debut author Yah Yah Scholfield also made their PW debut in an interview about global Gothic fiction! ON SUNDAYS SHE PICKED FLOWERS is set in southern Georgia and is forthcoming 1/27/25 🥀
www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
Word of mouth is important to a book's success. So, if you'd like to see the authors who wrote your favourite stories commissioned to write more, please keep talking about all the #books you love.
It’s been a whirlwind time at New York Comic Con so far — here are some client highlights we’ve seen! 🧵
@mauricebroaddus.bsky.social was on the fantastic Young, Gifted & Whack panel, covering the intersections of creativity and nerdom among Black communities, moderated by Wayne Brady! #nycc
Humor, hijinks, and whodunit coming next year to a bookstore near you!!
Friendly reminder that I will be closing to queries on August 31 (a week from today). The next time I will be open to queries will likely be next summer, so last call to get in your submissions! #amquerying #amagenting
Congrats to our very own @rebeccafraimow.bsky.social on winning, along with Emily Tesh, the Hugo Award for Best Fancast for Eighty Days of Diana Wynne Jones
All of this is to say, that I know QueryManager gives a lot of stats and data to querying authors now and while it's useful information, don't spend too much time trying to decipher the data. Each agent tackles their query inbox differently.
We have more clients attending @seattlein2025.org than any other WorldCon in the history of WorldCon, too many to list. We hope everyone has a great time, and you can buy their great books any day, any time, at WorldCon and away.
Now that it's August 1st, friendly reminder that I will be closing to queries at the end of the month and I will remain CLOSED until next somewhere. So last call! Here's a quick #MSWL about some things I'd love to see more of this month #amquerying #amagenting
Author Silvia Moreno-Garcia stands behind a table at the Strand, ready to sign a fan's books
A hand with a small moon tattoo holding up THE BEWITCHING by Silvia Moreno-Garcia against a backdrop of chairs from the signing and bookshelves at The Strand
NYT bestselling author Silvia Moreno-Garcia pointing to a copy of THE BEWITCHING displayed on the front window of The Strand
A stack of copies of THE BEWITCHING by Silvia Moreno-Garcia with one displayed copy in front on a shelf; a stack of MEXICAN GOTHIC paperbacks are next to it
Congratulations to @silviamg.bsky.social for an excellent event at The Strand last night! The JAB team had a blast celebrating the launch of THE BEWITCHING ✨
Be sure to catch Silvia live on her book tour: silviamoreno-garcia.com/events/
I can’t believe I’m holding the trade paperback for Barstow! It’s been a dream come true working with @darkhorse.com The book comes out in September and is available for pre-order on Amazon and Barnes & Noble now. 🖤🏜️💀🌵
Feast your eyes on the gorgeous cover for Yah Yah Scholfield's ON SUNDAYS SHE PICKED FLOWERS, a sinister and surreal Southern Gothic debut for fans of Lone Women, Sorrowland, and The Reformatory! Out in hardcover January '26; preorder your copy now!
Cover design: Beth Steidle (@beth.steidle on IG)
Alec-Nevala Lee interviewed me for NYT! The story mentions Lovecraft (my thesis was on women, eugenics & HPL), how weird it was when they optioned Mexican Gothic, & that I don't watch superhero flicks (sorry! I gorge on Sinners & Nosferatu, not Marvel. mmm... Horror)
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/b...
As someone who mostly reads horror, I'll never understand the vitriol towards "cozy" books. People say they are escapist, unserious, allowing readers to avoid big issues. And I'm like, girl, WHEN did your dark romance book fix society? Did I BLINK and miss your detective thriller solving crime?
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