Kennedy Cole (❛◡❛✿)🍒 has a book deal!!!

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THE OTHERWOODS x creepy Candy Land

To save her best friend, Nora quests through a warped candy world based off an old video game. To win, she must trust a wicked boy who offers to be her guide—for a price. But here, treats are torture and losing means being trapped forever 💀 🍭

#questpit #AG #MG #H

THE IMMORTAL'S ASSISTANT

📚 dark academia
🍃 nature magic
🩸 blood magic
👻 hauntings
🕯️ found family
⚔️ reluctant hero
🩶 hurt/comfort romance

#QuestPit #Q #PR #F #A

#agentguide #amquerying #querying #writingcommunity #litagents #writersky #booksky

When a Halloween ghost hunt awakens a haunting family legacy, 12 y/o Casey must figure out who he is beyond his recent grief, and who he refuses to become. Especially since his sister’s soul, and reality itself, depends on it. #questpit #MG #H #OS

🥹🥹 THANK YOU J.P.!!!

Publisher's Marketplace deal report dated 1/31/25 for Kennedy Cole's THERE USED TO BE PEOPLE, pitched as S.A Cosby meets Invasion of the Body Snatchers, in which the only Black detective in a 1970s Mississippi police department and his bumbling partner must work together on an unusual murder case that goes from standard investigation to something not of this world, exploring themes of race, queerness, and societal change, to Candice Coote at Berkley, in a significant deal, in a pre-empt, in a two-book deal, for publication in 2026, by Alex Brown at Mad Woman Literary Agency (world).

🥳 NEW DEAL ANNOUNCEMENT (AGAIN...we are killing it, y'all) 🥳 Congratulations to @kennedywrites.bsky.social on their debut deal for THERE USED TO BE PEOPLE, about a Black detective in 1970s Mississippi working a case that goes from standard to not of this world, out in 2026!

A Publishers Marketplace deal for THERE USED TO BE PEOPLE, Kennedy Cole’s debut horror novel, sold to Candice Coote at Berkley for publication in 2026, by Alex Brown at Mad Woman Literary Agency.

Just dropping in to share this 🤭

My debut horror novel THERE USED TO BE PEOPLE will be published with Berkley in 2026!!

THE FOXGLOVE KING x GIDEON THE NINTH
Ex-girlfriends investigate the murder they’ve both been accused of, unraveling the mystery of the magic that connects them both and trying to ignore old feelings.

Featuring:
🫀morally gray women
🫀sentient, decaying magic
🫀political intrigue
#BluePit #F #A #OS

GIDEON THE NINTH X THE FOXGLOVE KING
An adult sapphic fantasy that features:
🫀a twisty murder mystery
🫀childhood friends-to-enemies-to-???
🫀lots of yearning
🫀sentient, decaying magic
🫀political intrigue, betrayal, and corrupt women

#BluePit 📖 #A #F #OS

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A slide features tropes and themes

NINTH HOUSE x LUCIFER

Cheating death is a dangerous business, but it's the only work Marian believes she deserves. All she wants is to pay off her debts and be left alone, but Hell and its demons have other plans for the girl who got away.

#BluePit #W #A #D #F 📖

When a Halloween ghost hunt awakens a haunting family legacy, 12 yo Casey must figure out who he is beyond his recent grief, and who he refuses to become. Especially since his sister’s soul, and reality itself, depends on it. #BluePit #MG #H #OS

When a cult-driven murder-spree hits a 1980s Midwest PTA, Janet puts her true crime obsession to work. Alongside her misfit mom friends—a writer, a goth, & a sickly sweet PTA matriarch—Janet must uncover the real monster panting beneath their home town, before it claims them all. #BluePit #A #H #W

EEEEEE!!!!

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A quote "she was like winter incarnate; like ice given life, her blush a flame amidst the snow."

PRIORY OF THE ORANGE TREE X DAUGHTER OF NO WORLDS

🖤 Imperialistic religion vs displaced nomads
🖤 Grumpy x sunshine enemies-to-lovers
🖤 Dragons misused as weapons of war
🖤 Healing from political & personal trauma
🖤 Written from MMC's perspective
🖤 Agonisingly slow-burn romance

#bluepit #w #a #f 📖

You’ve got this JP!!!

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I finished revising my novel yesterday :)

Bought a PS5 on Black Friday and now I’m addicted to Hogwarts Legacy and haven’t written in days help

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Back from vacation and ready to revise 😎

That’s still a lot and I hope you’re still proud!

oh no 🥲 what did Skyrim do…my partner is insisting I buy it

One week from Black Friday and I’m already seeing sales 🧍‍♀️guys do I get Skyrim for my Nintendo Switch or a %50 off book haul from Barnes and Noble…or both? :’)

I’ve gotten so much good publishing news this last week 😭 I can’t wait to share it with everyone!! Aaaaaahhh

Hi J.P.!! 😇

My horror novel, THERE USED TO BE PEOPLE, follows Samuel, the only Black detective in a small-town Mississippi police department. When a mailman is found murdered in the bathroom of a gay bar, Samuel reluctantly teams up with cynical detective Harvey to track down the perpetrators. 👀🛸

Congratulations!! 🥳🥳🥳

Thank you so much!! 🥹❤️

Congratulations Arianna!! AAAAH

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Eeee!!!