I have only been agenting about 3 years and much of my brand prior to agenting was publicly built around kidlit. But I do SO much more! 😊 buff.ly/UvV6FHc
03.12.2025 15:20 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
I have only been agenting about 3 years and much of my brand prior to agenting was publicly built around kidlit. But I do SO much more! 😊 buff.ly/UvV6FHc
03.12.2025 15:20 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
The moment we've all been waiting for...
Best in Volume for Volume 2 goes to....
@kgrose.bsky.social Karen Grose for:
Best Not Repeat What I'm Telling You
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Big thanks to David Gwyn @davidgwyn.bsky.social for tackling this incredible task.
Most thriller writers kill their own stories with generic questions like "Who did it?"
Writer and book coach Julie Tyler Ruiz shared a genius fix...
Check out her framework
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Tomorrow's Thriller 101 Newsletter has...
💡 Insights on your opening pages
🚨 An update on the Storyteller's Society
❓ A question about what we should build next (have your voice heard!)
🔦 An agent spotlight
Sign up now so you don't miss it!
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"You should never write your first page first... the first page you write on your first draft will not be the first page that ends up in your book."
Latest episode breaks down writing coach April Davila's formula for first pages that hook agents & readers 👇
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You know how your brain asks you to check your email for query responses as soon as you sit down to write?
It can be distracting and slow your creative process!
Check out this Silos method in the Thriller 101 episode today
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One of the top reasons agents stop reading your opening pages?
Your opening might not be a true "scene"
@amynielsen.bsky.social shares insights on developing an opening agents will love
#thriller #amquerying #WritingCommunity
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My query inbox is open for all my desired genres, plus I'd love to see a literary mystery in the vein of Tana French, Megan Miranda, or something gritty like David Joy and Michael Farris Smith!
05.05.2025 15:06 — 👍 7 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
Thriller, mystery, suspense, crime fiction writers.
Here's a list of 125+ literary agents looking for YOU
thriller101.kit.com/agentlist
From what I can tell, the average writer sends close to 100 queries before finding an agent (if they find one at all)
Don't waste your time pitching to agents who don't represent your genre.
It's an absolute waste of time
Find agents that are actually looking for YOUR BOOK
I’m looking for an author & their agent to be interviewed on Thriller 101! Ideally published or soon to be published…
Would love to ask:
- what the agent liked about the submission
- how “the call” went
- why the author signed w/ the agent
- what the process has been like since signing
DM me!
Congratulations Meg!
10.04.2025 14:51 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Storyteller's Society Book Club Meeting #1 is in the books!
Author: @lizalterman.bsky.social
@katieisenhuth.bsky.social @wininoid.bsky.social @leslieconner13.bsky.social @megauchenbach.bsky.social
We talked about...
- opening chapters
- reading vs. audiobook
- character development
And more!
You've waited long enough. How about we announce #BunkerSquirrel Magazine's Volume 1 #BestInVolume?
Drumroll please.....
Congratulations @writernatswift.bsky.social Nat Swift !🥳🥂
Read Yield Ahead: www.bunkersquirrel.com/yield-ahead....
Thank you @clgslr.bsky.social for judging!
I'm finally on Query Tracker! If you've been waiting for this, send me your pitches! #MSWL Crime/Mystery/Thriller/Suspense/Upmarket novels.
querytracker.net/query/TDRL
Come see @blacktopkid.bsky.social, @itsmarkyall.bsky.social, and me next Saturday at Magic City Books! It’s going to be a fantastic time you don’t want to miss!
15.03.2025 20:26 — 👍 12 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Keith Roysdon @keithroysdon.bsky.social shines in this layered piece, taking us on a fantastic journey in only 300 words.
Now That's a Deep Subject
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We're open for vol 2:
#Prompt You think you're ready for the truth?
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Congrats Vicky!
06.03.2025 22:56 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Welcome!!
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Going to Left Coast Crime? I’ll be on the “Writing About Difficult Subjects” panel Thursday at 3:45 with @pegbrantley.bsky.social, @amyriversauthor.bsky.social, George Cramer, moderated by Sandra Murphy. Come say hi and find out why they put me on the ‘let’s get depressing’ panel two years in a row!
05.03.2025 17:49 — 👍 5 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Hey everyone! This week is the monthly #ThrillsandChills chat w/ me & @kellymalacko.bsky.social on Thursday at 8pm CST!
#writingcommunity #horror #mystery #suspense #thriller #amwriting #amediting
An all-new episode drops this Wednesday! All about vetting agents... and we chat about some of the shady stuff that you sometimes see. 👀
03.03.2025 21:29 — 👍 12 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 1So much value and it's only Part 1!! More to come with @amynielsen.bsky.social
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I always love chatting with
@davidgwyn.bsky.social about anything publishing! If you are are Thriller writer this is a must-listen podcast! #writingcommunity #amquerying
"The query is basically the resume for your book, not the jacket copy."
Literary agent @amynielsen.bsky.social breaks down EXACTLY what writers need in their queries to stand out
Learn the structure agents actually want to see!
#AmQuerying #literaryagent #MSWL
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THE INSTITUTE X SUCH SHARP TEETH X STRANGER THINGS
To Shasha the war with the Tenocks was ancient history until she finds a boy hiding in the desert. They say he can read minds, move objects with his mind, and burn skin to ash with just a touch. All he wants is a friend...
#WSPitQ #F #A #SFF
Finding a community is the best part of events like that
27.02.2025 01:34 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0This…I’m obsessed with this
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Collage of photos - showing women at lunch and crime scenes.
Murder was just a story, until one of them became the plot.
Five women create an investigative murder podcast to escape their boring lives, until a murder at a true crime convention forces them to investigate one of their own.
#WIPit #WIPitw #A #T
#WSPit #WSPitW #A #F #M #Hu #R #blackbooksky
THE WOLF AMONG US ❦ ONCE UPON A TIME
📖set in the late 90s-early 00s
📖red riding hood x big bad wolf
📖black mc who is struggling to write her next book
📖morally grey sheriff "protecting" the city
📖realm hopping to solve mysteries and save fairy tales
