emily gray

My amazing agent opens to queries in FORTY FIVE MINUTES go check out her MSWL she’s genuinely the best ❤️

IT'S MY AGENT SIB'S BOOK BIRTHDAYYYYY. GO GET YOURSELF A COPY OF HIGHER MAGIC ASAP!!!

If you like HIGHER MAGIC, I bet you'll go feral for everything by:

@hgparry.bsky.social (esp. THE SCHOLAR AND THE LAST FAERIE DOOR)
@elizmanderson.com (esp. THE KEEPER OF LONELY SPIRITS)
@sylviecathrall.bsky.social (The Sunken Archive duology 😍)
and Emily Tesh's THE INCANDESCENT

I certainly do.

(It’s a good thing I’ve raised a kid with good taste)

I reached a new stage of parenting where I’m reading fanfic of my favorite couple from my kid’s favorite show because damnit if we’re gonna watch this 900 times in a row I might as well get into it with you

“Trad cath” is, weirdly, code for “unfamiliar with Catholicism”

A quote graphic featuring an image of the moon beneath the following text: HIGHER MAGIC Magic, like genius, is almost completely unglamorous in practice. How did Edison put it? Ninety-nine percent perspiration to one percent inspiration? To get to glamour— pun intended —you have to slog through miles of grueling, galling, and gut-wrenching first. Some of you won't make it. -PROFESSOR WILLIAM PUTNAM, SPELLS & METHODS OUT IN 9 DAYS.

9 days until HIGHER MAGIC is out!

This snippet is one of my favorite chapter epigraphs. (I wouldn’t recommend taking classes with Prof. Putnam 😅.)

#Booksky #HigherMagic
@htpbooks.bsky.social @htphive.bsky.social

A quote graphic featuring a decorative image of the moon, the skull from HIGHER MAGIC’s cover, and the following text: HIGHER MAGIC "I used algorithm-and rune-enhanced Markov Chains to train a spellwork construct to identify common patterns in early novels and grimoires from the same period. Once it's fixed, it should. caught myself, tried again. "It will generate new narrations using those patterns and, hopefully…. um… definitely?" I cleared my throat, wishing I could shed another layer. The office felt at least ten degrees hotter than it had been when I'd walked in. OUT IN 10 DAYS.

10 days until HIGHER MAGIC is out! I loved the way @mkhardywrites.com did their countdown with snips from their novel, so I’m doing that, too.

In this snippet, Bartleby is practicing describing her exam spell with her mentor. It’s… not going great. @htpbooks.bsky.social @htphive.bsky.social

Not to be a total nerd but like

Even in the original Star Wars movies not everyone thought the genocide was bad. The movies were just from the pov of people who did.

Like it’s very much part of the plot!

It’s one of my favorite days of the year: the Bookmarks Festival of Books and Authors! Excited to hear panels from @scalzi.com @annaleen.bsky.social @tracydeonn.bsky.social and MORE 😍

She is precious I love her

I literally posted one of Charlie Kirk’s own quotes on the ⏰app and people are like “YOU’RE CELEBRATING THE DEATH OF A HUMAN BEING!!!! WE’RE GONNA SEND THIS TO YOUR BOSS AND GET YOU FIRED!!!”

Jokes on you bestie, I already got fired this week. 👍🏻

ILY bestie thank youuuuu so much. I’ve been annoying you with this book for years

ILY dannyyyyy my students still talk about getting to meet you on zoom last year

Just lost my job so this feels like a good time to remind folks I have a whole book coming out next year!! It has spaceships and kissing and the crushing weight of unbecoming a person that no longer serves you!! Crowned by the Stars, out fall 2026 with Berkley! 🪐

Oh my god I have a reason to live again

omg thank you so much for all the recs!!! i will be checking all of these out immediately.

Someone has made a tiktok account filming and mocking unhoused people near my home and it pisses me off so bad I can’t stand it

graphic of a gold star written "has never even opened ChatGPT"

alleged Catholic JD Vance shits on Matthew 25:40, calls the Son of God an NPC

BOOK REC REQUEST!
Does anyone have any good middle grade book suggestions with characters who use mobility aids? I have a student who is a voracious reader and I would love to get some books for my classroom library that represent her ❤️

despite the horrors, i have turned in my NEW DRAFT!!!!!

are people actually bitching about this??? for real???

toothless from how to train your dragon is looking at the camera with a caption that says ' i dragoning intensifies ' ALT: toothless from how to train your dragon is looking at the camera with a caption that says ' i dragoning intensifies '

Damn some days I wake up and I really want to indulge my 13 year old self and write a book with dragons. I need something that feels like Eragon did the first time I read it.

maybe the true villain is the self doubt we conquered along the way

now THAT is the question isn't it. this book has an outlandish number of villains lol

Sometimes I worry the villain of this book feels almost cartoonishly evil, then I read the news and see cartoonish evil unfolding around us in real time every day and no one doing anything about it

two women are standing next to each other in a living room and one of them is saying `` that 's not how this works ! '' ALT: two women are standing next to each other in a living room and one of them is saying `` that 's not how this works ! ''

you may not understand everything but at least you’re not the coworker who told me the union rep was “just as bad as the billionaires” bc she asked for $60 in union dues and that you’re better off doing doing mutual aid work on your own instead of with people who share your values, goals, and vision

i highly doubt anyone here is keeping up with small-town north carolina politics but the district i teach it was mismanaged into a 50 million dollar budget crisis and at every new meeting they tell us something fun and exciting like "we don't have crossing guards anymore" (no i am not joking)

the intensity of my anger at those who would criminalize the homeless — a population literally created by the greed and callousness of the ruling class — is very hard to contain. it was you who dismantled the safety net. if you don’t like the results, put it back