Amber Baird

Someone should write a book like Haunting of Hill House but Eleanor and Theodora end up together.

You ever start a book and know it’ll be ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ from the first 20 pages? I imagine that’s the feeling agents are looking for. (CR: Happy People Don’t Live Here by Amber Sparks and OMG.)

Horror & Disability. Help us write disabled takes on horror movies for a free zine. We are looking for volunteers who are interested in writing 300-350 words, (about 1-2 paragraphs) on how disability is portrayed in horror movies. Please feel free to reach out for more information. Deadline 24th October 2025 Contact Richardamm(at)gmail.com Find our free disability zines: https://linktr.ee/disabilityark

We are looking for volunteers who are interested in writing 300-350 words, (about 1-2 paragraphs) on how disability is portrayed in horror movies. Deadline 24th October 2025
Contact Richardamm(at)gmail.com
Find our free disability zines: linktr.ee/disabilityark

BURRITO GODS revision progress:

25000/70000

So far, the draft has been very clean, far less has been needed than when I was revising my last novel. Hope I don't find any major plot holes soon...

*SUBMISSION WINDOW NOW OPEN 5 DAYS ONLY*

We're open to unagented subs from 6-12 Oct. For this submission period we are looking for novellas only (35K-50K). We're specifically looking for novellas that play w horror, mystery, weird & the unusual.

More info 🐐
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I must read this!

Oooh this sounds great.

I am so here for this.

Okay, this sounds incredible.

This sounds sooo good.

This sounds so fun!

Those comps. 😍

First panel is a mood board in pink, gold, and blue. "To the Burrito Gods" printed in the middle. Images in the board: two hands clasping, a burrito, a rainbow, something on fire, someone praying, an eye up close, a smashed up car, a computer and sketchbook, a series of knives. On the right panel against a grungy green background, info: Desperate Amanda doesn't have a lot of options in rural Oregon, but she thinks her dreams have come true when she's hired at Burrito Gods, a hip fast-casual joint, making a thriving wage, only to find that to climb the ranks she'll have to lose her soul. Movie poster for Sorry to Bother You X book cover for Pizza Girl. TO THE BURRITO GODS is a horror story about working in food service featuring a late queer coming-of-age for fans of Rachel Harrison and Grady Hendrix.

TO THE BURRITO GODS: a horror story about working in food service.

⛪️ workplace cult
🌯 foodie satire
💋 sapphic w/ trans LI

Querying soon. #DVPit #A #H #LF #LGBT #WIP

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So excited that I've been invited to audit the @tinhouse.bsky.social Autumn workshop. 😍

Thank you so much! I definitely will.

Our October graphics look so cute! And what a fun month we have planned:

🍂InCOMParable: A New Approach to Comps
🍁Live Panel with Macmillan Editor Christina Lopez
🎃 #MSWL Live Agent Panel: Horror
☎️Publishing Help Desk (for all your un-Google-able questions)

More here! manuscriptacademy.com/calendar

Now, after a major revision, down to a punchy 75k and scarier than ever. #amquerying #agentguide #agentsguide

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Show me your cat.

Since I heard that “pad” used for human walking is an AI thing, I have noticed instances of it in every single pre-AI book I’ve read. Calling BS. 💜

BURRITO GODS revision progress:

15000/70000

BURRITO GODS revision progress:

10000/70000

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It should be illegal for advertisement email subjects to start with RE:

Jerks keep making me think I got a query reply, but nope just an ad for jeans.

BURRITO GODS revision progress:

5000/70000

I hope to finish by Thanksgiving.

Any holiday anthologies seeking somber ghost stories about domestic violence? I'm struggling with where to submit this!

To be clear, I'm looking for something more casual than a "professional beta reader," ideally something reciprocal with a peer.

Seeking beta readers for my queer horror novel about working in food service. Likely later this fall.

Just message me if you’re interested. (Open to exchange beta service for books of a similar genre also.)

The cover of MAKE ME BETTER features a feminine figure in the middle of a series of distorted concentric rings. The field is black, and the lettering, figure, and rings are all in bright hypercolor. Will Staehle is the artist who created this and I would die in battle for him

Announcing MAKE ME BETTER (May 2026)

There is no grief at Kindred Cove, because there is no suffering. Nothing's ever lost.
Celia’s ready to be healed by the community that lives there. She’s ready to be transformed.
She's ready to believe.

✨Cover by Will Staehle

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I like spec fic but don’t usually go for fantasy. Loving Bury Our Bones and Gifted & Talented both way more than expected. So: please recommend books like these that do NOT take place in a second world and are NOT part of a series. (Female or queer authors preferred.)

Books flat lay on a table: My Sister the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite Flowers in the Attic by VC Andrews Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn Boy Parts by Eliza Clark Exquisite Corpse by Poppy Z Brite

Influences for KINSHIP, the literary horror novel I’m #querying.

My Sister the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite
Flowers in the Attic by VC Andrews
Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn
Boy Parts by Eliza Clark
Exquisite Corpse by Poppy Z Brite

READ STORY: Stella’s Stars Originally published in PULP LIT MAG, Issue 1, page 123. Best of Net 2025 Finalist. Stella explained that learning how to calculate redshift had a “catastrophic” effect on her spiritually. She had …

Since it's no longer accessible on the journal website while it's on hiatus, I've posted my Best of the Net 2025 finalist queer retro-futuristic STEM cult story "Stella's Stars" on my website.