Lori Galvin

Intentionality! Intentionality! Intentionality! Podcast Episode · The Shit No One Tells You About Writing · 09/11/2025 · 31m

Excellent interview with Danya Kukafka about her writing process, particularly how Notes on an Execution evolved. Yes, evolved--novels, especially great ones can take a LONG time to get there. Keep going! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...

#writers looking for agents. You don't have to 'know' someone. I've signed clients from Querymanager and sold their books. Here's a great example--Tamara L. Miller (Into the Fall, Thomas & Mercer 2025) talks about her experience on David Gwyn's Thriller 101 podcast. thriller101.com/tamar…

Wahoo for debut authors!!!! Congratulations, @tfmkevin.bsky.social 🥳 cc: Ballantine, Penguin Random House, Aevitas Creative Managment.

Sorry! I was open to horror crossovers for a while--such as thrillers with elements of horror, but wasn't getting what I was looking for--check out my colleagues' mswl on the Aevitas website--they may be looking. Good luck!

#writers I opened back up to queries and some people have questioned whether I'm using an algorithm because I respond quickly--nope. I read every query myself and I know what I'm looking for, so yes, I can be fast. I respect every writer who submits. Keep going. I'm rooting for you all. 💪📚

Back open to queries, mswl included. querytracker.net/query/QueryL...

Beyond the Query: The First 50 Pages Chantelle Aimée Osman, senior editor at Simon & Schuster's newest imprint, Simon Maverick, will examine what agents and editors hope to see in the first 50 pages of your manuscript. Join us for an ins...

Hey, everyone! I'll be talking to @pipelineartists.bsky.social about the importance of the first 50 pages of your manuscript and how to make them shine on July 23rd, sign up here, and get a copy of my Quick & Dirty Guide to: Editing!

I don’t know how else to explain this…if you’re cheering for someone else’s rights to be taken away, you’re cheering for your own to disappear too. This isn’t cake. You don’t get more by refusing to share. Either everyone has rights, or no one really does. Thats it. It’s simple.

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Coming up in June! 6/18, I'll be at Thrillerfest in NYC talking getting an agent today with @cbuccibookman.bsky.social, and taking pitches at Pitchfest, 6/18. On 6/21, catch me online talking query letters www.eventbrite.com/e/query-lett...

This is 4-8% of my budget. We'll survive. But we are all going to have to buy more books and support the institutions we want to keep around for the next four years.

Support Hub City Writers Project Become a member or make a donation to the Hub City Writers Project to support the mission to nurture writers and cultivate readers in Spartanburg and across the Southeast.

Many small presses are nonprofits and you can directly support their work by making a recurring tax deductible donation. (Ours is www.hubcity.org/support)

Two years in a row. @marythor.bsky.social is working on a novel too! 😍

Dang x 2!!!!!!

😍😍😍

Coming '26! Mary Thorson's powerfully feminist short stories inspired by true crime. I've been a fan since stumbling on a shoutout to her latest short story on social media. And she's working on a novel! Congrats, @marythor.bsky.social !!!! And nice to work with you Rock and a Hard Place Press!

WAHOO!!!!! 😍

Esmond Harmsworth obituary: literary agent from Rothermere family Scion of newspaper family whose advice to potential author clients was to avoid heart-shaped paper and spelling mistakes, dies aged 57

It's been a tough week at the agency. Esmond was a wonderful mentor. www.thetimes.com/uk/obituarie...

Ugh, true.

oh no!

Ever tried in-person writing meetups?

Local writing groups connect you with like-minded writers and help you carve out dedicated writing time. Even if feedback isn’t built into the program, you can potentially find critique partners there.

Here’s where to look. ⬇️

Writers! Open to queries. (Still finishing some fulls but queries are open!) querytracker.net/query/QueryL...

if the government is willing to disappear immigrants for their writing, they’re willing to do the same to citizens.

Writers! I am opening up for queries NEXT WEEK 4/3 and should be open for a month or so. If you have a query from me prior to 2/19, you'll hear from me before I reopen. querytracker.net/query/1731

Feel this so hard. Experienced on a sub once and was SO BUMMED.

Recently read his Catching the Big Fish. Pretty great.

#Writers I'm closed to queries for a bit--will reopen in a March/April. 📚

UGH!!!!!

always a great day for some angry feminist flash fiction

graphic of white woman with brown hair and freckles with text reading Agent Aevitas Creative Management, Manuscript Mart, Maggie Cooper, 2024 Spring Conference, May 2-4 Asheville, registration now open ncwriters.org

oh look! a photo of my face to let you know that I'm looking forward to meeting some wonderful writers at the @ncwritersnetwork.bsky.social spring conference in Asheville this May & now is the perfect time to sign up: www.ncwriters.org/programs/con...