Leslie René ✨

Maggie and Arthur's Magic Moment by Leslie René: 9780593956182 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books A dangerous spell gone wrong forces the passionate professor of incantations to share tight quarters with her magical college’s leading—and most brooding—alchemist. Despite the college’s...

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I (M, 35) hooked up with a masked stranger at a Beltane festival. I just realized she is another professor (F, 33) at the magical college where I teach. We're sharing an office because I accidentally set off a dangerous spell now threatening the school. If I don't tell her we kissed, AITA?

So thrilled to share the cover for my debut novel, MAGGIE AND ARTHUR'S MAGIC MOMENT! When two grumpy professors at a magical college are forced into tight quarters, they'll have to defeat a dangerous spell that has overtaken their academic building—if they can handle the shared office hours first. ✨

Chelsea is such an amazing writer! Her book is an incredible, propulsive romantasy that I can't put down!

I am also obsessed with Several People Are Typing!!

Can't wait to listen!!!!

This last couple rounds of drama made me come back here. I can't do it over there!

After watching back to back, I think S2 of Andor is better. S1 maybe has more memorable moments (Maarva's funeral, the prison) but S2 tells a more cohesive story and has incredible performances by Luna, Dulau, Arjona, and O'Reilly that rely less on monologues than on more quiet, physical acting.

An agent's guide to THESE WISHLESS SOULS, YA fantasy

Moodboard + Tropes: ancestral guilt, north african monsters, flesh-eating frost, sentient lake, deadly vows, meddling gods, "her life before yours", "rebel & losing herself; obey & losing everyone else"

Pitch: When a flesh-eating frost starts killing her family one by one, 17yo Chemsa must bring her "chosen one" sister back to life to stop it—before the frost claims her next.

First lines: Chapter One: It's my mother who found it first. I deserve a lashing for referring to my aunt as *it*, but this is considering what little the curse has left of Tata Fatima.

introducing the agent’s guide to:

⤜ THESE WISHLESS SOULS ⤛

🌙 North African myths
🌊 a sentient lake
💀 soul-starved ghouls
❄️ a flesh-eating frost
⚔️ a little heresy

#YA #F #Q #questpit
#agentsguide #amquerying

I can't wait for my copy! Congrats!!

selfie with iced pandan latte

pandan latte and writing session let's goooooo

Listening to Dating Dr. Dil while I clean and absolutely giggling. Nisha Sharma! Writer that you are!

Now that I've finished, this was about ANA MARÍA AND THE FOX by @lianainbloom.bsky.social. When Gideon said, "Marry me instead" I was giggling and kicking my feet. It's so good!

RILO KILEY TOURING IN 2025???????

If an author can make me pick up a book because it has marriage of convenience and then I'm still kicking my feet and gasping when someone says "what if you married me"???? Art! Skill! Talent!

I love romance novels so much because there is nothing quite like encountering a beloved trope and it feeling like a delightful surprise.

A Publishers Marketplace Deal Report on a handdrawn background featuring ghosts, hawthorns, moons, and skeletons. It says: Category: Fiction: Romantasy MAGGIE AND ARTHUR'S MAGIC MOMENT by Leslie Rene Leslie Rene's MAGGIE AND ARTHUR'S MAGIC MOMENT, a cozy romantasy with an academic twist which brings a professor of incantations and linguistics together with the university's leading--and most brooding--alchemist in order to contain a destructive, ghostly magic that threatens the school, to Sarah Blumenstock at Berkley, in a six-figure deal, in a pre-empt, in a two-book deal, for publication in summer 2026 by Brent Taylor at TriadaUS Literary Agency (world)

It is a dream come true to share that my book, MAGGIE AND ARTHUR’S MAGIC MOMENT, is going to be published by @berkleyromance.bsky.social in 2026! I'm so grateful to my amazing editor Sarah and my incredible agent @btaylorbooks.bsky.social I can't wait for you to read it! #booksky #romancelandia

👀👀👀 me pls!

A casual mention of the classic cane toad documentary in WHEN AMONG CROWS by @veronicaroth.bsky.social?! I am obsessed.

The kids are learning cursive again!

the weather in the DC area is vile, which is fitting, I guess 🫠

Book cover of a woman with flowers in her hair looking over her shoulder behind the title text

🌼THE LAST TALE OF THE FLOWER BRIDE 🌼 by Roshani Chokshi

Book cover of Beautyland, all in purples

🛸BEAUTYLAND🛸 by Marie-Helene Bertino

Book cover of 3 children and a looming shadow

🪨OVER SEA, UNDER STONE🪨 by Susan Cooper

A beautifully drawn cover of a young woman holding a fawn and a tea cup. There are butterflies flying around her and out of the tea cup

🦋MIDNIGHT ROOMS🦋 by @okokno.bsky.social

🇮🇹HER FAKE WEDDING DATE IN SICILY🇮🇹 by @authorjennylane.bsky.social (out August 26)

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👶MARGO'S GOT MONEY PROBLEMS👶 by Rufi Thorpe

Book cover of a young woman in front of a stained glass window

🔔WHAT WAKES THE BELLS🔔 by @zipitelle.bsky.social (out March 11)

You know what, let's talk about books. #booksky

📚A thread of my 2025 reads📚