Rebecca Matte

Bland corporate office with a cosplay short sword sitting on a round table

Today, for just a brief time, my office is ready for adventure

I’m a personal fan of Robin Peguero, who was a law school classmate and a Jan 6 prosecutor!

OMEGA Buy tickets – OMEGA

Just a few days left to get your tickets for OMEGACon - an online megagames convention easily accessible to all time zones from CET to PST (outside of that is doable, but less convenient).

www.tickettailor.com/events/omega

#megagames #rpg

We're hiring an assistant to join us in our San Diego office. Looking for someone who's interested in supporting the infrastructure and inner workings of a literary agency. Please share in your circles!

Emily Gray has wonderful SF romance coming out in November 2026 - BY THE LIGHT OF THR STARS!

www.barnesandnoble.com/w/by-the-lig...

I’m growing to love it!

I am not generally open to horror EXCEPT that I don’t mind horror elements.

It’s complicated - I am learning more about horror and enjoying more of it, but I am a scaredy cat. If it fairly falls under romance, try me!

Yay! Can't wait!

It will be this spring! Probably May? I'm trying to be responsive and responsible with my inbox, and I am expecting 5 manuscripts (from my evil, wonderful coordinated 9 writer clients who all send me things at once)

I love the sound of all of that! Please do put me on the list! I will open sometime this spring, just not sure when!

I'm not open at the moment, and unfortunately do not represent women's fiction. While it sounds amazing, I try to be very limited in my focus so I can specialize and really get to know the areas I represent.

Hi! If it is a substantial developmental rewrite (not just some small line edits, you are welcome to resubmit) - just flag that in the query letter

Definitely still interested! I tend to build a cumulative MSWL, rather than replacing the old one. This list is just what is like, newly exciting and most up to date.

This is extremely true. Arts improve with practice and must artists just get better and better.

I know writing best and average debut age for a novelist is 35, and every book is better written than the last.

Some skills can peak fast: math, music, swimming; others slow: writing, fencing, painting

I'll be coming up with some posts for this today myself. But remember your book doesn't have to be a perfect match to my #MSWL to send it to me. If I'm open to your genre and you think we could be a good fit, please query me! Link in my pinned post.

Just a quick anti- #MSWL

No chosen ones - I want regular people being heroes, stepping up

Not really into fae - it's not an absolute no, but a general preference

Also not really into non humanoid aliens. This is off trend, I know, but it doesn't really hit for me.

#MSWL day

You might be noticing a trend - I want to feel things and process things through other worlds and magics. I like catharsis, but more than that I like people banding together to take on evil things and tear it down to *build something new*

The world may be broken, but hope is not crazy.

#MSWL day

6) This one is super specific - fantasy Dirk Pitt (by Clive Cussler) adventures (ideally feat. a female protagonist)

Science/magic forward, death defying, taking on billionaires, incredible adventure

(Please no military/colonial fantasies/exploitation/Islamaphobia - we know better)

#MSWL day

3) YA focused on BIG feelings, where magic serves as a proxy for those feelings

4) Something fun and escapist

5) Stuff that feels like being a 90s kid/early 2000s teen - bright colors, big personalities, chunky shoes, fewer screens, more optimism

#MSWL day

1) Gayer, swoonier romance (gay, here, meaning any LGBTQ+ pairing that leans into the queerness of it)

2) Small stories with BIG personal stakes (e.g. TJ Klune esque), preferably with magic but not required if romance

In honor of #MSWL day, seemed like a good time to share some things I'm especially excited about.

My clients are prepared to inundate me shortly with manuscripts, so not sure when I'll open, but I promise to keep you updated!

So I feel (both as a reader & author) like discoverability of new books is down lately, especially for the midlist. Please tell me some recently published (past year-ish) SFF books you loved that are midlist/overlooked/deserve more hype! (And please share your recs/this list!)

My recs in reply!

Higher Magic by Courtney Floyd! Dark academia at a public university with a first gen mage trying to get her degree, using collective action to fight institutions ableism and creating a semi sentient skull who speaks like a jane Austen novel!

Please wait for me to open!

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Mine?

Is 14 still available, by chance?

I DM’d you!

gradient.horse Draw a horse, watch it run!

omg everybody go draw a horse this is what the internet was made for

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i’m sick of the shit from josh shapiro and other jewish politicians who are like, yeah, they’re only nazis if they’re from germany and using trains to send people to the camps, otherwise they’re sparkling white supremacist fascists

“never again” doesn’t just mean “to us” it means never again. now.

Book nook in wood painted to look like a library organized in rainbow. The top floor has stained glass and an owl, the bottom floor has lights in a circle that look like a summoning circle. There are two d&d minis placed inside

Bookshelf painted teal with fantasy books and a book nook of a library inside

First ever book nook from @worksofwhimsy.bsky.social - a library in my library, for my D&D minis to study up between sessions!