We're continuing our First Pages Events!
💥In the body of the email, submit your first page (no more than 300 words) to queryconundrum@gmail.com
💥Join us March 25th at 7:00 Eastern Time on Youtube @literarylenspodcast
We will read as many submissions as we can!
#queryhelp #firstpages #literaryagent
Happy book birthday to these amazing new releases!
⚾️ MEET ME UNDER THE LIGHTS 🎭
Romeo and Juliet meets baseball.
🕰️ IF WE NEVER END ♥️
Can true love stay alive even if someone is dead?
🐴 RHEA’S RODEO 🤠
A feel good story celebrating Escaramiza Charra, women’s Mexican rodeo.
#bookreleases #yaromance
When estranged sisters discover one of them may get murdered, they have no choice but to return to Tennessee, where secrets, and a body, are buried.
Learn more about @emmacwellsbooks.bsky.social's upcoming thriller here!
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Repped by @annmrose.bsky.social
#thrillerbook
Starting soon! Join us here: www.youtube.com/live/4dMYVE-...
About Blood Relay In this richly layered debut thriller reminiscent of the real issue of missing and murdered Indigenous people, a badass Choctaw detective discovers an insidious plot against her reservation while investigating the disappearance of a beloved champion athlete.
Blood Relay is out now! 🐎🐎🐎
“ . . . a satisfying, deeply felt, and uncomfortably relevant crime story.” —Publishers Weekly
#thrillerbooks #detectivestory #Choctaw
We've been a bit busy 📚💥
#writingcommunity #readingcommunity
Your secret code is FEB26 - use it at checkout to get 25% off Books Coming Soon like @caitlinrozakis.bsky.social's STARTUP HELL.
Promo runs through February 20th.
Visit: www.waterstones.com/campaign/feb... to preorder now!
#WPreorder #readingcommunity
Our first "First Pages" event was a hit, so we're running it back!
💥Submit your first page (no more than 300 words) in the body of the email to queryconundrum@gmail.com
💥Join us February 25 at 7:00 P.M. Eastern Time at www.youtube.com/@LiteraryLen...
#firstpages #writingcommunity
why won't this billionaire die? Johnny Compton's Dead First is a spine-chilling supernatural horror about the pursuit of power and the undying need for reckoning
New from @comptonwrites.bsky.social -- a bone-chilling new novel about a private investigator hired by a mysterious billionaire to discover why he can’t die.
☠️☠️☠️
#horrorbooks #horrorsky
Congrats Jonathan! Love the @comptonwrites.bsky.social shout out, too!
True, Shocking, & Out Now Ungrateful Bastard blows the roof off of the Mower case from the cradle to the (escape) coffin. Order today From Bloomsbury Publishing and The Tobias Literary Agency
A gripping account, Ungrateful Bastard reveals the tragic events that shaped a killer's dark psyche, and the prison climate that allowed him to practice an escape repeatedly, without prison guards ever catching on.
Get your copy: www.bloomsbury.com/us/ungratefu...
#truecrime #mowermurders
Literary agent Lane Heymont @thetobiasagency.bsky.social (Fiction Nonfiction; General, Horror, Thriller) opened to queries. https://duotrope.com... #amquerying
ITW Finalist for Best Young Adult Novel By Diana Rodrigues Wallach Author of Hatchet Girls
Congratulations to @dianawallachauthor.bsky.social whose book, THE SILENCED is a finalist in the 2026 ITW Thriller Awards for Best Young Adult Novel.
#bestyabooks #yathriller #thrillerbookawards #thrillerbooks #thrillerbooksaddict #thrillersky
Currently Listening Midnight Somewhere Johnny Compton
REVIEW Midnight Somewhere By Johnny Compton "The best ghost stories are meant to be read aloud. Here, the author and eight top-flight voice talents deliver the tense, devastating, chilling, and often brutal tones expressed in these 21 contemporary horror tales." Kirkus Audiobook Reviews
"Turn out the lights, listen closely, and try not to scream." @audiofilemagazine.bsky.social
If you're ready for late nights and big frights, grab a copy of @comptonwrites.bsky.social's MIDNIGHT SOMEWHERE audiobook.
Full Review: www.audiofilemagazine.com/reviews/read...
#horror #audiobooks
It will happen again!
Goodreads Giveaway Confessions of a Mango Begins 1/23/2026 Ends 2/22/2026
The CONFESSIONS OF A MANGO Goodreads Giveaway is ON!
Enter to win an ARC of this heartfelt novel about a neurodivergent girl that challenges us to reexamine what makes someone “gifted."
www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...
#goodreadsgiveaway #giveaway #bookcommunity #writingcommunity
"Here, the author [ @comptonwrites.bsky.social ] and eight top-flight voice talents deliver the tense, devastating, chilling, and often brutal tones expressed in these 21 contemporary horror tales."
Thanks for the review @audiofilemagazine.bsky.social
www.audiofilemagazine.com/reviews/read...
UPDATE: Due to weather impacting a few of our agents, we've moved our AMA LIVE First Pages Event to THURSDAY 1/29/2026. Spread the word!
New Link Here: www.youtube.com/live/OVvJzf3...
TOMORROW join us here for our first pages AMA event! Send your first page to queryconundrum@gmail.com to participate (first page limit = 300 words).
See you there!
www.youtube.com/live/OVvJzf3...
THAT LIBRARIAN by Amanda Jones is on the list!
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New Year, New Books.
#booknews #bookdeals #writingcommunity #readingcommunity
Out Today: Tina and Tuck are back for another adventure—this time, to solve a ghostly mystery at Boone School! Perfect for young readers who are ready to make the leap from picture books to chapter books.
Grab Your Copy Here: www.simonandschuster.com/books/Tuck-a...
Coming Soon! AMA LIVE FIRST PAGES EVENT Jan 28, 2026 Get Feedback On Your First Page Send your manuscript’s first page (no more than 300 words) to queryconundrum@gmail.com. Then, tune in to our next AMA LIVE (link in bio) on January 28th, 2026 at 7:00 Eastern Time to get live feedback on your work. We’ll get through as many submissions as we can. See you there! Submit to queryconundrum@gmail.com
You asked for it, and we're delivering.
Don't miss the "First Pages" event during our next AMA LIVE. Happening January 28 on the Literary Lens podcast feed www.youtube.com/@LiteraryLen...
#writingcommunity #writesky
It's Tuesday....which means book release day!
Welcome to the world Small-Girl Zora and the Shower of Stories & First Love Language paperback edition!
#bookrelease #newbooks #readersky
Dionna L. Mann's Mama's Chicken and Dumplings, a Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection is out in paperback today!
Order Your Copy Here: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/743852...
Happy Book Birthday to "Do I Love You? Yes I Do!" written by Ruth Foreman and illustrated by Raissa Figueroa.
Don't miss the picture book Kirkus Reviews called, "A vibrant, immersive celebration of infinite love that's sure to fill young readers with joy."
#newpicturebooks #bookbirthday
Art Coulson and Winona Nelson's ALL THE STARS IN THE SKY received a shout out in SJL's "31 Days, 31 Lists: 2025 Unconventional Children’s Books."
The article specifically calls out an indigneous beadwork tradition used in the illustrations.
#childrensbooks #kitlit #picturebooks
"The author’s depiction of Native life is full of distinctive personalities who will hold readers’ attention, and her visceral fight scenes have a grittier, more lived-in edge than those in the average cop novel. The result is a satisfying, deeply felt, and uncomfortably relevant crime story."
