GiannaMarie

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🕯️Today is Disability Day of Mourning, when our community remembers disabled people lost to filicide. Join us tonight 6pm ET for ASAN’s virtual vigil: youtu.be/HeF3LrHTuBM

#DDoM2026

Are you an organizational whiz with great attention to detail and an interest in the world of publishing? This is an in-person job opportunity based in San Diego.

For now I’m only looking for fiction, but never say never! I’m a big reader of disability nonfiction in my personal life. I’d recommend trying @ericsmithrocks.bsky.social the next time he opens back up!

Sorry it took so long! ❤️

I think the conversation about disability rep is a lot more complicated than that, especially because of discrimination and the necessity of hiding disability sometimes! I’m definitely willing to look at non-own-voices, or own voices books where the author isn’t willing to publicly disclose. ❤️

#MSWL My main priority still remains to make space in the industry for stories about disability AND stories by disabled authors. If that's you, and your book is in one of my categories, please send! I'll give almost anything a try if it's through a disability lens or has a crip sensibility. :)

#MSWL More specifically, I'm really hoping to sign an adult SFF book with a disabled protagonist this year, and I'm dying for the next SICK KIDS IN LOVE. I want YA disability romance so, so, so bad!

For #MSWL #MSWLDay 2026, I'm really, really looking for disabled authors of color! If you have an adult SFF book or any genre of MG or YA novels, please send it my way!

Hi everyone! Thanks so much for your patience waiting for me to reopen to queries––it's finally time! :D

You can find my QM here: querytracker.net/query/3926

And my MSWL here: manuscriptwishlist.com/mswl-post/gi...

This is live, friends! You can also bid on a critique from me in here.

House passes bill that would criminalize protesting in a mask without a doctor's note Anti-masking laws have never been taken up by the U.S. Supreme Court and have had mixed results in lower courts.

If anyone in Alabama who both protests and takes Covid seriously wants to talk to me about your problems with the bill, my email is jmetraux@motherjones.com (reposts appreciated) www.alreporter.com/2026/01/28/d...

Congrats to you too, Jordan!!! ☺️☺️☺️

Y’all!!!!!! @dirtbagqueer.rocks won the Stonewall for ONE OF THE BOYS!!!!!!!

So proud of Victoria and this book! Huge thanks to @capaciousmood.bsky.social and @levinequerido.bsky.social for helping to bring this book to life!!!!

Let’s go!!!!!!

I have never been so vindicated about anything in my life, except maybe OOTB hitting bestseller lists 🎊🥰

Congratulations, Raven!! I'm sooo excited to see this in stores. I KNEW someone would scoop it up! :)

Hi! I was initially planning to open back up in early January, but some health plot developments are unfolding! I’ll update when I can. :)

Closing in on the end of SOME DESPERATE GLORY by @emilytesh.net and I am so anxious it’s making me nauseas 😭 this act three is a doozy 😭

Well, the fact that Leverage Redemption won’t get a season 4 isn’t exactly a surprise, but I am so sad 😭 every episode this year was so delightful and I’m really, really hoping we’ll get lucky again and a third iteration of Leverage will be in our future sometime 🤞🏻

All right, my QM is officially closed for the year! As publishing slows down for a few weeks, I'll be hunkering down to get some rest. I'll see you all in January. :)

Hi! Genre categories in adult SFFH are definitely a slippery slope––I'm not looking for pure horror, but I am definitely interested in spec, so feel free to send it my way! However, I am closing my QM inbox for the year as we speak, so I'll be happy to review it in January! :)

All right, I know my inbox wasn't open for that long, but I am preparing to close for the year THIS SUNDAY, December 7.

If you've got something for me, now's your chance! Send it in before Sunday, or else wait until January. :)

A lot of people who look like me will have a lot to say about Alice in coming days and I stand by this: We take up too much space, something Alice and I talked about a lot. I'm focusing on letting Alice speak for herself, and uplifting those she asked to represent her.

Shutdown Deal Kills Rules to Prevent Food Contamination and Foodborne Illnesses The gutting of these rules coincides with a huge increase in hospitalizations and deaths from foodborne illnesses.

Congress’s shutdown deal eliminated key food safety rules, blocking agencies from enforcing measures to prevent contamination and trace outbreaks. This rollback has coincided with a surge in hospitalizations and deaths from foodborne illnesses.

What a privilege it is to be a younger disabled person in a community shaped by Alice Wong. Rest in peace, Alice.

For a detailed accounting of what I'm looking for, please consult my #mswl www.manuscriptwishlist.com/mswl-post/gi... ! It's up to date. :)

Happy fall, everyone! 🍂 I am officially open to queries once again! If you've got something in my categories, please submit to my QM at querytracker.net/query/3926 !

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Hooray! @authorsabb.bsky.social is *OFFICIALLY* a nonprofit, and is now open for donations!

For the last two years we've been doing all this w free tools, or paying out of pocket, & we were STILL able to get SO MUCH DONE.

Imagine what we could do with $$$

www.authorsagainstbookbans.com/donate/

Heads up for local friends.

I'm running a free, virtual event with the Orange County Library System in about half an hour to talk about taking your book on sub! My goal is to put writers' anxieties to rest and demystify one of the most nerve-wracking stages in the publication journey. attend.ocls.org/event/14071355

It’s been a pleasure working with Lex and everyone in the politics vertical at Teen Vogue. I’m heartbroken that my column, Disability Visibility, is gone. Teen Vogue was one of the few places that published disabled journalists regularly. I just spent the last 2 months working on my next column