UPDATES ONLY Taylor Grothe says ✨Add HOLLOW on GR✨
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HOLLOW (Sept 30, 2025), THESE DREAMING SPIRES (Sept 2, 2025), OAAS (Peachtree Teen, Fall '26) | MFA ‘24 | BLM | 🍉 | Autie™ | Repped by: @LitAgentMarini
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Cait Corrain is claiming that autism was a contributing factor for how she review bombed authors. Hi. No. Having autism doesn’t make you a shitty person. Stop contributing to the narrative that all autistic people are unfeeling, unthinking automatons. Get the hell out.
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Help me understand why most people over the age of 45 I know are so openly hostile to/hate tattoos? Because like… what is the issue. Really.
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Queer horror is important. Seeing queer characters who aren’t perfect, who have impulsions less than pure, and in situations you couldn’t imagine for any cishet character, is important. Stop telling queer authors how their queer characters should act, so help me god.
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Every half an hour or so, my husband pops in and whispers, his eyes glimmering, “You’re agented!”. Normalize having a partner who supports all your dreams.
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FRIENDS, unsolicited writing advice! As you finish each chapter in your book, write down 2-4 sentences that describe the main action. It'll make your synopsis much, MUCH easier to complete ahead of querying!. #WritingCommunity. .
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One time I was texting my agent (long may she thrive), worrying about whether my work was good enough to be picked up by any editor on our sub list, & she said something I want y’all to internalize:. “We’re not going to compare ourselves to professionally edited, pubbed authors.”.
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Lol when will authors put trigger warnings in their books, a real and salient question from someone whose day was RUINED by something I read but did not consent to.
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It is my honor, joy, and starstruck excitement to announce:. 🎊✨I have a book deal!!!!!✨🎊. I'm forever grateful to @lmpnk for standing by my side on this VERY long journey, and to @AshleyHearn & @peachtreeteen for seeing Cassie as the hero she truly is. See you in Fall 2025!
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Disabled characters, including those with "invisible" disabilities, like autism, AD(H)D, SPD, etc, should be represented in a disability-centered narrative that does not force them to become neurotypical or abled. Their disability should lead/inform the narrative arc.
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I am so thrilled, overwhelmed, and grateful to announce that I am now repped by @lmpnk at @jillgrinberglit! I am floored by her passionate understanding of my spooky writing, and I know we’ll go far together. Larissa, thank you for taking a chance on me! Here’s to the future 🥂✨
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Had a very bad mental health day/episode yesterday ✔️. Survived ✔️
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Discourse time. People are allowed to be excited over getting an agent if it makes them happy. They’re allowed to proudly post their stats. Twitter is an app. You can turn off notifs for keywords. This is adult education. No one owes you silence. Being happy for others is a skill.
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I routinely read other writers' manuscripts and I am regularly amazed by how much raw talent there is waiting to be discovered. Many are unagented, but some have found agents. The only difference is that the agented writers have professional advice in edits. A 🧵 of 10.
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Am I 30? 18? 65? Idk man but my hair is cool so
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✨I am so thrilled and overwhelmed to announce that I am now represented by @l_e_thompson at @triadaus!✨. Elle is the absolute perfect champion for my queer gothic horror novel, NORNAKONA! I can't wait to get to work!
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We can disagree about a lot of things, but let's all agree the British English way to spell 'axe' is the correct one.
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I want to tell you something tough to swallow. This is just THE bitter pill of publishing:. Writers, no matter how hard you work, how beautiful your words, or urgent your message, no matter if you're pubbed or still in the trenches, no one will have the same urgency as you. 1/1.
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Can’t believe I have to say this, but: if a writer posts a snippet of their work and you think it’s your chance to offer unsolicited critique, it’s NOT. E V E R.
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Real talk: writing when you’re sad is HARD. Writing when the future seems murky is HARD. If this is you, you’re doing amazing. Doesn’t matter if you get 100 words down or 1000. You’re doing it, and through adversity 🤍.
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I just want you all to know that it’s OKAY if you queried your book before it was ready. It’s okay if you had no idea what a query letter was and just TRIED. Most people (me included) did this. It doesn’t mean you won’t succeed. It’s okay to make mistakes. You’re on the path.
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✨I am now repped by the incredible @LitAgentMarini!!!✨. The news is out!!! And what news it is!! From the moment Victoria and I got on the phone, I could feel her excitement about my work. I am so honored and still pinching myself!!
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When your pink princess daughter turns four, you pull out all the stops, obviously🌸🌺💖. Here’s hoping my stress-baking habit makes the darling girl’s birthday just a little sweeter 🎈
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Would you rather lick the floor of a public restroom or write a synopsis, and which public restroom would you choose?.
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Did it hurt? When you realized that your books are all just you writing your trauma out in fictionalized ways?.
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I just want to be hot and creative and have a book deal, is that too much to ask 🥲.
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Writers!! I come with a question: how many tattoos do you have, if any?. I’ll start. I have eight ✒️.
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My daughter’s 6th birthday cake! 🦄 I bake when stressed, and between sub and my partner’s accident, I’ve been a tangle of nerves. Obsessive baking, check!
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Is my book trash or is my blood sugar just low? A memoir.
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Me sending my agent an email first thing Monday: GOOD MORNING, IT IS I, your newest and most annoying client 😎.
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We are PM official!!!! 🌲☺️♥️🎊✨
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An evergreen truth of publishing is that it doesn't matter if your book is good. Full stop. What matters is if it can be sold based on its premise. It's nice to have a good book--even preferable. But is that the thing that makes the difference? No.
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I got a sneak peak of my new headshots!! I. Am. So. Excited. And this isn't even one of the witchy ones!!!
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A gentle reminder since my book deal got announced! . Please don’t call me “girl” or “queen” or use she/her pronouns for me ☺️ I know I present femme but NB folks don’t owe you androgyny. Thank you!.
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You people who write out of chronological order terrify me. Your sheer POWER.
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I hate discourse. Let me just say this now: should I ever be published, I know I’ll make mistakes. I’m a human, after all. And when I do, I hope you don’t go for my throat. Because, if things were reversed, I would never go for yours.
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I just sent my third book to my agent and 🥺🥺🥺 Thinking of the days when I was struggling so hard to get words down and envision a future. Past me would be proud to see how far I've come 💗. Keep going, friends. It gets better!.
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Hi. I have some news!. I am so SO honored to announce that I am going to be acting as the graduate Assistant Managing Editor of @brevitymag!!. I am humbled and so, so excited to read all this amazing work ❤️
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😭😭😭😭 I just got paid for my BOOK!!!! FOR THE FIRST TIME!!!!! 😭😭😭😭😭😭 sobbing at my desk.
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I once knew the owners of Sage and Sparrow, and frankly they are the last people I would trust with editorial work, and also generally. As a writer, it is so welcome to get any warm reception, which is how untrustworthy presses prey on us. Please, I’m begging you, stay away!.
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Rejections aren’t an indictment of your writing 🥰 They’re just proof you’re putting yourself out there over and over 🥰. #WritingCommunity.
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Truly cannot stand how I feel and look right now, but I put on a swimsuit and seized the day so 🤷
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Hey friends. I did a thing ❤️🔥
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So I went to a wedding today 🌻
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Dear Agent, . Please love my query and request a full. I worked hard and have a fragile ego. I live in grave fear, .Taylor.
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Also ✨the algorithm✨ is burying all my tweets, send smoke signals if you can see this 🥹.
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Am I cool yet? ✨🌈
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Hi autistic writers should be able to represent autism in an authentic way in their narrative instead of being told to make their disability more palatable.
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Hi yes I cannot stress this fact enough: when you decide to be a writer, literally 95% of the work is editing. Get comfortable with relearning how to write and approach your work every single draft, and with red ink. There will be a lot of it. I am still learning, all the time.
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My agent: I’m gonna send this thing I’m so proud of you. Me: [bursts into tears in a public place]. May you find someone in your life (not even necessarily an agent or publishing professional) who supports you and cares for your writing ❤️.
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It’s my balloon day!! This year is already shaping up to be the best yet!!. Here’s to 33 🌈✨
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Babe, are you okay? You're reading from your TBR pile instead of buying new books. worried.
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Two weeks. Two days. 80K. I do not recommend this. But here we are. 💫IT CAME FROM THE FOREST IS DONE*💫. *lol, yea right
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So many of my friends (including me) want solely to be midlist authors. We don't expect (nor even want) huge advances on our books. We have modest dreams of sharing our words. It occasionally boggles my mind to think about the gatekeeping. Like, I'll do the thing, but. .
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Y’all someone just messaged me to tell me that a query I helped them on got them their first full request!! I am grinning ear to ear!!! 😭😭😭😭😭 my heart is just glowing!!. #amquerying.
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It’s my balloon day and what I want is for everyone to be kind to themselves and each other, and to take the ‘aspiring’ out of their bio 🤍. And a book deal but maybe that’s asking too much 😂
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I'm vibrating out of my skin because I have the most wonderful news and––––. Dreams come true!!!!!!.
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Today you get to see my hair again, I don't make the rules
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FIRST STORY ACCEPTANCE OF 2023 🎉🎉🎉.
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So if overt facism prevails, I want to see every single publishing imprint hauling ass getting diverse books printed. I’m so serious, they better double their marginalized authors. Look what the hell is happening. Look at it and tell me we don’t need diverse books to educate.
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The witch has some big news!!. I am PUBLISHED!!. Huge thank you to @coffin_bell for printing my weird, scary, murderous woman 🎉.
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What I want everyone to know about going into a professional writing career is that no matter how hard you work, there will always be someone ahead of you. Someone will always get a deal before you. You will always feel like you're trailing behind. It's okay. You're not failing.
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NOT ME GETTING LIFE-CHANGING NEWS.
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The book I was thiiiiis close to shelving while querying is now on sub. Keep going ❤️ the world needs your story.
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SURPRISE! I get to write another book with the phenomenal @AshleyHearn at @peachtreeteen!!!!. I'm so excited to share this horromantasy with you NEXT FALL (ahhhh!!!). What if my migraine auras were actually magic? What if the lymphatic system held the power to change reality? 👀
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If anyone thinks you are a lesser writer because it wasn't your 1st, 2nd, or even 3rd book that got you agented, published, whatever, you just stop talking to that person immediately. In a career that is nearly 100% luck, there's no such thing as standardized achievement.
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Wish me luck, friends! NORNAKONA is officially out on submission with editors!!✨🌟🌈💫🥂
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I don’t know who needs to hear this, but you’re still a writer if you take a step away from your work. You’ll get back to it when you’re ready and rested ❤️. #WritingCommunity.
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Am I the only person who gets SUPER DUPER excited when writers I love follow back? I mean. This is like, stuff of dreams. They made some of the best words??? And now they follow ME?????? WHOMST.
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Okay. Well. The Witch is in.
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HELLO! I am taking a break in my editing because I got the rest of my author photos. The witch is back in town!
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Apropos of nothing, making querying authors who are vulnerable feel badly for asking why they were rejected is not the damn move. Glad we cleared that up.
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I love it when someone says my MCs, all women, are unlikeable. Yes, I too am an unlikeable woman, great success! This was my GOAL.
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As a queer and married cis-passing woman with two children, I panic every time I send my sapphic novels out into the universe. I worry about backlash. My kids' safety. My own. But what's happened is delightful: I was met with support. Always. And love. #queerenough.
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She may have Covid but she also had a new, witchy bathing suit, and you better believe she wants the serotonin
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Hi friends and happy Friday! A little announcement 🤍
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I have been on sub for one month today 🥳🎉🙌🏻 I know this isn’t a traditional milestone—we all want deals immediately—but surviving this time feels momentous. So I’m celebrating it. With a giant cup of coffee ☕️✨. Happy Monday! Manifesting all good things this week✨.
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Do you have any personal Easter Eggs hidden in your WIPs? My pets sometimes appear in mine 👀.
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Head Witch in Charge™
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Me: I'm going to sell my book in a six figure deal!.Also me: I would sell my book for a wad of chewing gum and an IOU, please, for Christmas?.
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Mastered it ✔️. MFA Nonfiction class of summer 2024 🥺. It’s wild to think that two intense years of study have come to an end. In that time I sold my first two books, wrote (and rewrote) my graduate thesis, and have some exciting ~things~ on the horizon 🤞🏻👀 onward!
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Lol this industry revolves around writers doing constant unpaid labor even before they have the *chance* to make a living doing that same exact labor, stop telling writers that they should just suck it up.
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I'm just a girl.Standing in front of the last 13k of this book.Waiting for it to write itself.
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It's Friday and I would like to inform you all:. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA.
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I miss the part of the pandemic where we all listened to sea shanties.
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Ooo I am FIVE followers away from 1.4k! Let's do a #writerslift! Drop your links, books, or just a hello :) Let's support each other! RT, like, make new friends!. Oh, and it's #PitMad tomorrow! If you're taking part, let me know so I can RT you <3. #WritingCommunity #writerscafe.
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Me: I will not compare my first draft writing to this highly polished, already published book.Me:.Me:.Also me: Okay but—.
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Very proud of this winged liner, pls validate me 😂
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Hey #WritingCommunity!. I’m Taylor, and I’m a writer of YA and adult horror/dark fantasy with autistic MCs and LGBTQ casts 🥰 My debut, HOLLOW, comes out with Peachtree Teen next year! I’d be honored if you added it on GR ♥️ I’m also three cats in a trench coat and v unserious 🫶
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I think Twitter may have put me in the penalty box for some reason! If you can see this. send smoke signals 👀.
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It's always hard to pick an author photo! Vote below 👀 . Photos by Sylvie Rosokoff :)
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The amount of times people ask me what I write and I say “horror” and they say “WHORES?!” is frankly appalling and unconscionable.
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Allow me to become 👀 vague 👀.
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A girl goes to a gala✨
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Something I haven’t talked much about on here but I think is worth addressing is what happens when you hit a quiet period in your career before a deal (btwn books, mid-querying, on sub, or even btwn deals) and how the silence can wreak havoc on productivity.
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Hello??? Am I dreaming!!?
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Hey. Can I level with you all a moment? Writing is hard. This industry is really tough. People—editors, agents, and writers—are drowning under the weight of everything piled on them. It’s not in your head.
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My 'rents: Hey we've never read any of your books! Send us one!. Me:
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