allison e. crisostomo

Love sibling narratives.

Happy to announce the story selections for our very first YA anthology! Congrats to all!

Release day is November 5! Sign-up to be part of our cover reveal and release day blast, or receive an ARC. bio.site/nicolefrailbooks

#booksky #ireadya #romancelandia #writingcommunity #indiepress

Graphic of cabaret theater with text on top. MS title: STRUNG UP IN THE STUDIO. Songlist: 1. Louder than words (Tick, Tick…Boom) 2. No One Mourns the Wicked (Wicked) 3. Climbing Uphill (The Last Five Years) 4. Maybe This Time (Cabaret) 5. Tonight (West Side Story) 6. Meek Shall Inherit (Little Shop of Horrors)

Back for #DVParty with a theatrical playlist to sum up my theatrical manuscript!

What do I need ready for RevPit #10Queries? Don't forget to sign up for substack and follow on bluesky

THIS FRIDAY!!! Are you excited, #RevPit?! If you're gearing up to enter RevPit #10Queries, here's everything you need:

⭐Complete query letter
⭐First 5 pages of manuscript

The query and first 5 pages will need to be uploaded to the form in one document and should be a standard manuscript format

Graphic with book cover “Sweet Dreams Are Made of Confit” and the text: “Don’t you have dreams, Patate?” she asked. “Yes, of course,” he said reasonably. “I dream about duck confit.”

Folks! For those who don’t know, my short story SWEET DREAMS ARE MADE OF CONFIT is available now on all platforms you can find ebooks! Link in bio if you love cats 😻

Amateur sleuth Aderyn is a hardworking stage manager hoping for the chance to prove herself in the theater community she loves. She is stubborn, clever, and overprotective of her feelings to the detriment of her relationships.

Solving a murder ought to help clear things up.

#DVParty #DVPit #Mys #A

Working on some emotional beats and now wondering if this will end up more a short novel than a novella 🫠

thank you!

From left to right: 1. A chest of glowing green potion vials, 2. a cutting board with delicate purple rose petals and a small gray bowl, 3. a vibrant branch covered in moss and glowing pink mushrooms. Next row: 4. an open book with a key and a feather sits on a table in front of potion vials, 5. a black cat on a wooden plank has glowing yellow eyes, 6. a seaweed covered sea at dusk with rolling hills/mountains in the background. Next row: 7. a bench in front of a quiet pond with bright green trees surrounding it, 8. bright ivy leaves. The overall moodboard is predominantly created with shades of green and accented with shades of purple/pink. Picture credits: 1. PORNTHIP ALOUNTHONG: Xamneua, Laos 2.Elina Sazonova from capturenow 3. adege from pixabay 4. RDNE Stock project from Pexels 5. Marcus Lange on Unsplash 6. Quang Nguyen Vinh from Pexels 7. menita from pixabay 8. Personal photo

I'm excited to participate in DVPit next week!

Here's my moodboard for my cozy romantic fantasy 💚

POTIONS UNINCORPORATED

💜 Chronic Illness Rep
🌱 Plant Magic
💚 Bisexual Witches
🐈‍⬛ A Snarky Familiar
😈 Evil Pharmaceutical Potion Company
☀️ Grumpy X Sunshine Romance
☕ Cozy Vibes

#DVParty #cozyfantasy

STRUNG UP IN THE STUDIO - a cozy mystery featuring an ace fil-am lead and lots of drama

#DVParty #DVPit

#DVpit 2025 has 70+ Agents & Editors committed to participate & boost marginalized creators from the following literary agencies and publishers: Andrea Brown Lit Ash Literary Azantian Literary Agency Dystel, Goderich & Bourret Folio Literary Management Gallt & Zacker Literary Gelfman Schneider Literary Hachette Grand Central Publishing Little Brown Books for Young Readers Harper Collins Harlequin Hanover Square HG Literary Inked in Gray Press Jill Grinberg Literary Jean V. Naggar Literary Agency Macmillan Feiwel & Friends Farrar, Straus & Giroux Roaring Brook Press Saturday books Wednesday books Mad Woman Literary Neighborhood Literary New Leaf Literary & Media Open Book Literary Page Street Publishing Park, Fine & Brower Penguin Random House Ballantine Berkley Delacorte Labyrinth Road Penguin Workshop Viking Root Literary Simon & Schuster Aladdin Atheneum Atria McElderry Sheldon Fogelman Agency Sourcebooks Stonefruit Studio Triada US Writers House Zando

#DVpit is 1 week away!

We're excited to have over 70+ Agents & Editors committed to participate & boost marginalized creators from dozens of literary agencies and publishing imprints!

For the next week we'll be having a #DVparty to get hyped up for the event!

more info: dvpit.carrd.co

#writersky

All right, hello October! Prepping for #FirstDraftFall where I hope to draft a fresh novella while also beginning revisions on an early project. Novella is a cozy multiversal romp that’s been rattling in my brain and yearns to get on page.

Reading Black Salt Queen by Samantha Bansil and finally got the hold from my library for the audiobook to Laila Lalami’s The Dream Hotel!

Highly recommend this one!

Cat in an art scratcher

Sprigatito is a masterpiece

I thought I wouldn’t need to, but after I started it just made everything click into place again. It’s such a time consuming thing but it’s SO helpful!

Retyping my cozy mystery is such a pain because it’s WORKING. It’s making this ms BETTER. How dare this method prove VALUABLE.

Happy Fall!

Check out all the awesome books you can get (including mine!) for FREE right now! Stock up and get reading!

(SWEET DREAMS ARE MADE OF CONFIT is free on all platforms 👀)

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#FirstDraftFall - Weeknight Writers The Weeknight Writers answer to NaNoWriMo, #FirstDraftFall is a challenge to write a first draft in October - December.

Looking for something to fill the NaNoWriMo-shaped voice in your life? Check out #FirstDraftFall, our challenge to write a first draft in the fall, separated into three parts:

October - Planning
November - Drafting
December (until the 12th) - Wrapping up

See the full schedule at the link below!

MURDER NIGHT AT HOTEL ADAIR

MURDER NIGHT AT HOTEL ADAIR pitch

MURDER NIGHT AT HOTEL ADAIR comps and tropes

MURDER NIGHT AT HOTEL ADAIR first page

The new Agent's Guide to
MURDER NIGHT AT HOTEL ADAIR, my The Haunting of Hill House x The Shining #A #H project.

───── ⋆⋅🩸⋅⋆ ─────
At Hotel Adair, the rooms are luxurious, the deaths are creative, and the check-out time is non-negotiable.
───── ⋆⋅🩸⋅⋆ ─────

ginger cat sleeping

tabby cat about to eat her treats

So happy to have these guys with me. #caturday

August was such a mixed bag. Looking forward to September. Going to a literary fest, re-typing my cozy, lots of reading planned, and playing with drafts! I’m glad I got to submit some things recently so I can focus on all my WIPs.

A digital illustration of an opossum walking on its hind legs holding a sign that says “abolish ice”. The image is very high contrast and is mostly red, black and white with some yellow highlights.

I was going to wait on publishing this one but it seems even more relevant now. No human being is illegal.
#resist #abolishice

Cover for Sweet Dreams Are Made of Confit by Allison E. Crisostomo, with Attic Ebooks logo and paw prints

Quote from Sweet Dreams Are Made of Confit with galaxy background and cat swiping at stars. Quote is "She let out a long, loud, mournful yowl while neither of her companions made a sound."

✨New release!✨

A belated happy pub day to @aecwrites.bsky.social and Sweet Dreams Are Made of Confit! This short story ebook is inspired by a true story, and it's not to be missed!

✨Cat POV
✨1960s France
✨Space Age
✨Unlikely Friends
✨Stickers w PoP!

#booksky💙📚 #newrelease #shortstory #indiepub

The text: Available August 28th! book cover of SWEET DREAMS ARE MADE OF CONFIT bottom text: Preorder link in bio!

My short story SWEET DREAMS ARE MADE OF CONFIT is available this week!

Send me proof of purchase and you get FREE stickers!

A coworker saved this sticker for me! Cats and space!

Circus tricks. Martial arts. Improv comedy. A stage manager sees it all. But when her arrogant boss dies, she has to solve the murder. Otherwise, her career may be on the line, or worse, the show won’t go on!

💜Found Family
🤍Ace feelings
🩶NYC Theater Community
🖤Filipina American Rep

#A #M #Queerpit

Collage with the MS title STRUNG UP IN THE STUDIO. Images: A NYC lower east side street at night; a night club performance venue; a circus performer on silks; stage lights; and Filipino Christmas light-up stars.

ARSENIC & ADOBO X KILLER CONTENT

When a stage manager stumbles across the body of the egotistical theater owner, she must cast her community as suspects to solve the case, or the theater may shut down and the curtain may fall on her career before it starts.

#A #M #Cozy #Ace #Queerpit #POC

THE HENNA WARS X NEVER HAVE I EVER

My #agentsguide for DARED TO IGNORE YOU, a YA Contemporary featuring:

💖Sapphic enemies to lovers
🥻South Asian FMC
🦋Coming-of-age in the UK
🔪Revenge from outcast
🎤 Grammar school drama

#Litagent #amquerying #ownvoices #QueerPit #Q #YA #COA

The Handyman Method x Scream 2

When a canceled flight strands Cody & friends in Wales, she must find a hotel w/vacancy before the storm hits. But a surprise engagement and 10 days worth of tension lead to a rising body count.

Hotel Adair has been waiting.

#Queerpit #A #H