SOME NEWS! It's been a total joy working with
@ChloeSeager
and everyone at
@MMLitAgency
and I'm so excited to take this next step. To all the brilliant authors who have trusted me with their work so far - THANK YOU! Here's to making even more magic! 🪄
I am reading submissions and I think it's time to a
#MSWL
#thread
of things I'm looking for! Tbh I'm open to magic of all kinds and I love to be surprised but there are a few specific vibes that I would love to see more of...
#amwriting
#amquerying
Good luck to everyone participating in
#KidLitPit
and/or
#JoyPit
today! I'll be taking a look as I'm on the hunt for some more magical gems. If I like your pitch, please submit through the
@MMLitAgency
website! 💕
Hello,
#writingcommunity
! I’ll be perusing your fabulous pitches in today’s
#MoodPitch
, so if I like your pitch, please submit by sending it to me at
Very excited to find some more brilliant SFF! ✨
It has officially been ONE YEAR at
@MMLitAgency
with
@ChloeSeager
! That's a whole year of working with all my lovely authors, starting conversations in the middle of sentences with
@PalindromeTodd
and telling
@agent_bal
every other thought in my head. Here's to making magic!🥳🪄
I will be taking a look at
#QueerPit
tonight and tomorrow morning! If I ❤️ your pitch, please query me through the
@MMLitAgency
website! SEND ME ALL THE MAGICAL GAY THINGS 🏳️🌈💕🧙♀️
I'm so thrilled that this gorgeous, violent and magical epic has found a brilliant home with
@HarperVoyagerUK
! Huge congratulations to
@maithree_w
and all her morally grey characters that I just KNOW everyone is going to love. 🎉💕
I'm reading submissions and I am DYING to be romanced by a new romantasy. Please! Send me all your angsty, magical books where grumpy humans (or non-humans) become puddles of sunshine because they fall in love. Bonus points if it's queer.
Meet our brand new Associate Agent,
@madsphyllis
, in our latest Day in the Life post! 🌟
Maddy represents Science Fiction and Fantasy for all ages and also works with
@ChloeSeager
.
I am SO excited to work with
@mstevensonbooks
on her brilliant and cosy romantasy! Her book galloped away with my heart and I cannot wait to watch it captivate readers everywhere!🐎🪄💕
I am thrilled to announce that I'm now represented by
@madsphyllis
of
@MMLitAgency
! Working with Maddy is an absolute ✨dream✨ and I can't wait for our next steps together!
I have fallen for all the Little Mermaid hype and now I am craving a mer fantasy. Give me Atlantis! Give me terrifying or sexy merpeople! Give me emotions so deep they make the ocean feel shallow! Send me all your water based magic books! I want to swim in them 🌊
#MSWL
I’m back from the most brilliant Bologna and finally able to talk about this fantastic book!!
@KatjaLKaine
has created a world filled with feminine rage and brimming with magic and I can’t wait to see it come to life!! 🎉💕
I'm so excited to welcome
@KatjaLKaine
to
@MMLitAgency
! Her brilliant fantasy had me absolutely hooked and I can't wait to share it with the world! ❤️🔥
I am effervescent with joy to share that I am now repped by Maddy Belton of the Madeleine Milburn Agency! 🥳🥂♥️😊
I am so thrilled that Maddy loved my feminst fantasy and am excited for what comes next!😃
@madsphyllis
I am SO THRILLED to be working with Jess on her gorgeous starry sorry! Here’s to brining the night sky to life and providing a guiding light through the darkest of times…💕✨
Ok... here it goes... I am joyous and beyond my wildest dreams delighted to share the news that I have signed with the wonderful
@madeleinemilburn
@madsphyllis
Literary Agency for my forthcoming debut fantasy novel!!! ✨✨✨
#dreamcometrue
I am on my third beauty and the beast re-telling of the week and I still believe it is the GOAT for romantasy. Say what you will, but when it hits it HITS. Give me bookish girls, heart-breaking curses and heroes that need healing over and over forever. 💕
Absolutely thrilled to announce the wonderful news that I'm now repped by the amazing
@madsphyllis
at
@MMLitAgency
✨so excited for all the amazing things to come!
I am so proud to represent the immensely talented
@chronicles_of_n
and these cosy, spicy books! Also, I'm very excited to have more people to swoon over Scott and Dina with! 🎉💕 😂
I am so excited to work with
@chronicles_of_n
on this cosy, sexy book. I adore it SO MUCH. It's the perfect combination of magic, spice and wholesomeness. It's going to bring so much joy! Editors - watch this space!
I am so over the moon to announce that I'm now represented by
@madsphyllis
at
@MMLitAgency
✨✨ Maddy's passion for HENNA AND HEXES blew me away and I'm so excited to be working with her!
It has it's flaws but I have been LOVING the Avatar live action and now I might need to re-watch all the animated episodes? Zuko has my heart forever. If you are writing a Zuko hero, please sub me!
#mswl
🥹
Today I read an EXCELLENT book by a client, picked up the new Emily Henry and finished listening to the wonderful Divine Rivals by
@_RebeccaRoss
and once again I am here to say I LOVE BOOKS. They are glorious vehicles of joy.
I could write many many essays on what
@ChloeSeager
has taught me about being a great agent. A superstar in her own right who's never too busy to talk out a plot point, or push me in the right direction. 💕
This is such great news! Little me who always had to order in the SFF titles at Waterstones is screaming. Adult me is equally delighted tbh 🎉💕 Also Godkiller by
@HFKaner
is excellent...
Are you
#writing
MG, YA or adult
#sciencefiction
or fantasy? Then why not enter this
#writingcompetition
? The lucky winner will be chosen by
@madsphyllis
at Madeleine Milburn and the top prize is an online consultation to discuss your book!
Enter at:
Our GSFF Book of the Month for June is is a brilliant and heartfelt sci-fi debut - Lord of the Empty Isles by
@JulesArbeaux
✨🌌💫
Our edition has a beautiful digitally sprayed edge matching the cover and hidden foiling. It will be signed and numbered by the author!
Always wanted to write a SFF novel but don’t know where to start? Want to improve your SFF writing skills? Join Orbit for a FREE virtual event series this fall that will take you from inspiration to planning to getting words on the page. Register now:
Wishing everyone a brilliant Christmas! May you find some time to read something great and dress up your animals (if they’ll allow it) accordingly 🥰💕See you in 2024! 🎉
Back at my desk to these absolutely BEAUTIFUL proofs from
@DelReyBooks
for BEST HEX EVER by
@chronicles_of_n
🎉 I can’t wait for the cosiest, sexiest spooky season yet 💕
I am endlessly in love with
@JulesArbeaux
and their writing! This book made me sob (happy AND sad tears) and I cannot wait for people to become obsessed with it. It's so sad! It's so joyful! It's so queer!
Absolutely thrilled it landed with
@hodderscape
and
@molluskey
💕
🌌✨I have NEWS! ✨🌌
Ahhh, I'm shaking, so blown away that this is real. Hugely thankful to DREAM editor
@molluskey
and the world's coolest agent
@madsphyllis
for making this dream come true!
.
@ChloeSeager
has been promoted to director of Children’s and YA at the Madeleine Milburn Literary Agency (
@MMLitAgency
) and Oliva Maidment has been appointed head of books, working closely with the directors to implement strategy.
Happy publication day to LORD OF THE EMPTY ISLES and
@JulesArbeaux
💕 I can’t wait for the sad messy space gays to takeover the hearts and minds of new readers and for us to all cry together. Here’s to transforming grief into space adevenutes! 🪐
The power of SFF ✨
Biggest congratulations to
@kuangrf
,
@NatashaBardon
&
@HarperVoyagerUK
who just swept fiction book, editor & imprint of the year at the
#BritishBookAwards
👏🏻
(Babel also took home the Nebula for novel of the year this morning, so… absolute slay of a day)
I am delighted to be working with
@merrowchild
on all her spooky endeavours! I loved Sixteen Souls with my whole heart and it is a joy to be part of Rosie’s publishing journey. 🎉💕👻
I am about to go on holiday and I instead of packing, like any sane person would do, I have spent the three hours of my life deciding what to read. Like any sane person would do.
1 year of working with total superstar
@madsphyllis
🥳 🎉 in return for all her hard work, she gets an embarrassing giant balloon and an awkward video circulated on social media
Eeeeee! The news is out! Cosy, spooky, gloriously queer and more than a little bit heart-breaking I knew as soon as I read
@merrowchild
’s outline for this graphic novel that it was going to be special! I can’t wait for everyone to read this! 👻💕
Absolutely squealing to have this gorgeous proof land on my desk this morning form
@orbitbooks
and
@chronicles_of_n
🤩 Very excited to get my Wendell Bambleby fix!!
An ‘Buffy’ spin-off audio series ‘SLAYERS: A BUFFYVERSE STORY’ is in the works.
The series follows Spike set 20 years after the ‘Buffy’ series finale, the original cast are all reprising their roles.
Premieres on October 12.
New
#Agent121
dates with
@madsphyllis
are now on our website! A great chance for feedback on your submission package.
Maddy loves SFF inc: grim dark, thriller, historical, romance, cosy fantasy, sci-fi, epic, MG/YA fantasy, mythology & fairy tale.
Book:
Crumbling worlds and too powerful gods that must be humbled by loving someone or something powerless. Give me angst or give me death. Or both at once!💀 😂
#MSWL
Magical spice of all kinds! As creative and kinky as possible whilst still being marketable for trad publishing! Push my limits but I still want plot. 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️
#MSWL
✨ I’m absolutely thrilled to share the news that little ol’ me and my book are now repped by the amazing
@madsphyllis
at
@MMLitAgency
✨
It’s honestly a dream come true & I’m so incredibly excited. Thank you, Maddy!!
Fairytale but make it horror! Full disclosure I am a bit of a horror wimp but I do love books that scare me so long as there is a crumb of hope for me to cling to. Even if you crush that hope at the end. 😰😰
#MSWL
This is such excellent advice! I'm always asking authors to consider how love (of all kinds) impacts their characters and what it means for their actions and the wider world. 💕🪄
For our ROMANCING SFF series, Katherine Garcia Ley explores the ways that asking your characters about their love lives can help your character building. Read her suggested questions here: …
This is very general, but I will never get tired of non-western inspired world building, especially in epic fantasy! I still don't think we have touched the surface!
#MSWL
EEEE! The news is out! The excitement for this book is so contagious and watching
@PalindromeTodd
do this deal was so exciting! Mega congrats
@KirstyStories
on writing an absolute swoon of a book.🎉🎉
And the news is out! I am so proud of
@KirstyStories
and her truly phenomenal THE LOVE OF MY AFTERLIFE 🩷
@katie_loughnane
and the whole team at
@centurybooksuk
have the most exciting plans for publication so watch this space 👀
I was lucky enough to start my year somewhere warm and sunny and these books were the most excellent companions! No notes. Only excellence. Put them on your tbr! Absolutely God-tier vibes!
I am so thrilled about this!!
@jared_poon
has created the most fun, thrilling and heartwarming world and cast of characters and I can’t wait for everyone to meet them! Excited to be working with
@emilycbyron
and
@angelicachong_
on this one! 🎉💖
Lovingly staring at the UK and US proofs of BEST HEX EVER by
@chronicles_of_n
and feeling all kinds of excitement for people to discover the spicy cosy chaos of one of my favourite bookish couples yet! 😈💕🥹
Happy Publication Day to GWEN AND ART ARE NOT IN LOVE!
This brilliant and hilarious queer medieval rom com by
@lexcroucher
is available now in the UK! We can’t wait for everyone to fall in love with this fantastic book 🎉📚
In this week’s
@thebookseller
I spoke to the wonderful
@LucyJaneWood
about her cosy fantasy tale Rewitched ‘that speaks to the power of self-actualisation and the importance of family and friendship’ 🧙🏼✨
Cover launch! THE NIGHTSHADE GOD by
@hwhittenwrites
, the final book in the The Nightshade Crown trilogy, is coming March 2025. Learn more:
Design by
@VonBrooklyn
Art by Mike Heath / Magnus Creative
We are so delighted to finally share the cover for BEST HEX EVER! ✨ One of our most exciting debuts for 2024, this is an irresistibly cosy and spicy fantasy romance, which we know you’re all going to fall head over heels for!
Available to pre-order now!
@chronicles_of_n
I am so thrilled to be working with
@linhswrite
. Her glorious worldbuilding, fascinating characters and beautiful plot captivated me from the first page! I can’t stop thinking about this book! 🎉💕
✨📜✨
Thrilled to announce that I'm now represented by
@madsphyllis
at
@MMLitAgency
. I loved Maddy's passion and vision for my island fantasy adventure and I look forward to working with her and the team! Truly a dream upon dream come true!
I have now watched this and my heart is SO FULL. Cried happy little gay tears because I am nothing if not a sappy romance girlie and this is the kind of representation that makes me feel all warm and fuzzy💕
The MOST beautiful cover for the MOST beautiful book. Truly the most gorgeous bundle of happy sad people doing stupid things! By the one and only
@JulesArbeaux
🌜REVEAL🌛
One curse. Two sworn enemies. Thousands of lives in the balance.
Winter's Orbit meets The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet in this emotional yet action-packed science-fiction novel.
Pre-order Lord of the Empty Isles by
@JulesArbeaux
now:
Congratulations to the incredibly talented
@transhorrors
on his beautiful, haunting debut, Old Wounds. This book both terrified me and made me sob and I can’t wait to see it publish in the US with
@DelacortePress
🥹
I dunno how to properly articulate the agony of reading a book knowing you're going to offer on it by like page 80 and then having to hold yourself together and make yourself finish the rest of the book like a reasonable person before doing so
“Iron Flame has lit up the charts, topping the Official UK Top 50 by over 36,000 units, giving imprint Piatkus its first-ever overall number one and becoming-with a slight caveat--the fastest-selling Science Fiction & Fantasy novel since records began.”
What a great day 🐉✨
I could not agree with
@AbiRFellows
more! I had a similar experience where queer literature led me to who I am today and I am eternally grateful for those books and the world they opened up to me. There needs to be more of them and they need to be accessible to all. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
The day after I filed this piece my timeline was full of pics of parts of the progress pride flag being destroyed. So it bears repeating: in a year of growing anti-LGBTQIA sentiment and legislation, we need to keep these books in schools and libraries 💪🏻
happy frankfurt season, yearly reminder that the premise of the proposal is that sandra bullock has to fake date her assistant for a green card marriage bc she flew to the book fair on an expired visa to avoid losing don delillo to viking 10/10 honestly
I am a huge
@hwhittenwrites
fan and this is fabulous news! I was thrilled to get my copy and it looks like so was everyone else! If you're writing something like this my submission inbox is very much open...❤️🔥
SO excited for everyone to have their hearts and minds destroyed by this truly magical duology! Huge congratulations to the brilliant
@TheLindseyByrd
😍
I'm *delighted* to announce I've acquired
@TheLindseyByrd
's incredible lyrical queer fantasy THE SUN BLESSED PRINCE. On a hotly-contested battlefield, a prince whose touch kindles life meets an assassin whose touch grants death. Out next year! Info:
In a week full of good news, I’m absolutely DELIGHTED to announce that
@TheLindseyByrd
and her deliciously slowburn, enemies-to-lovers queer romantasy series, THE SUN BLESSED PRINCE and THE MOON BLESSED KING, are coming in Spring 2025 and 2026 from
@randomhouseca
and
@UKTor
🎉
The excitement in the office about this is absolutely contagious! If The List isn’t on your radar yet it should be!!
Huge congratulations to all involved 🎉💕
Sitting on this news has perhaps been the hardest professional challenge of my career so far. I am SO excited for the magnificent genius that is
@yomiadegoke
and
#TheList
, which is going to be KILLER on screen. And, it's A24. A24!!!! Mark your diaries people.
It's
#AceAwarenessWeek
so I wanted to quietly make you aware that my science-fantasy (out with
@hodderscape
next June) with soulbonds, secrets, & an ace lead in a book that centers queerplatonic love and found family can be preordered and added on GR this
#AceWeek
✨
Excited to be expanding the MM children's team! Come work with me and
@madsphyllis
- we promise fun and plenty of cake 🧡 No previous experience or qualifications necessary to apply, just a passion for children's and YA books
from chappell roan going mainstream and rosalia and hunter schafer dating in 2019 being confirmed to billie's new song about eating a girl out and renee rapp bringing the L word cast to introduce her on coachella. this is the year of the lesbians the rest of you do better
I see the fanfic discourse is rearing its ugly head again, so may I add that it is literally my job to edit and acquire SFF books, and some of the best writing and some of my favourite authors are fanfic. anyone who says that fanfic writers aren't real writers is clueless