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Cailin Barrett-Bressack

@cailinwrites.bsky.social

NYC-based Author (upmarket spec fic) https://www.cailinwrites.com/ Rep: @alexbrownwrites, Mad Woman Lit Agency

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Cailin Barrett-Bressack @cailinwrites.bsky.social · 3mo ago

PigeonWIP has all your favorite tropes: - morally grey (and literally grey) MC - Flockmates to lovers - Only one nest Okay, maybe not those exact tropes…. Can’t wait to share more about this unhinged take on the “birds aren’t real” conspiracy soon! @writerpit.bsky.social #WIP #Specfic #Agented

Quote that reads "This country has not gone 'to the birds'. If it had, we'd be better for it. The birds are the best of us, i'm afraid."
Images of police cars, surveillance cameras, birds flying, a pigeon, fields of flowers, NYC skyline, and a sign that says "Big Data is Watching You".

Deena 🇵🇸 دينا @deenahelm.bsky.social · 3mo ago

When you are Palestinian, or any marginalized identity, there is no easy ability to figure out if you want to “enter” occupation or discrimination. There is no door to step into. There is just reality. open.substack.com/pub/deenahel...

A dark background with text that says:
Horror, Palestine, and the terror of reality

Smaller URL at the bottom: deenahelm.substack.com

Mad Woman Literary Agency @madwomanliterary.bsky.social · 4mo ago

We have a cover! @stephwrites.bsky.social's debut fantasy HELLBOUND is out on August 25 from @alcovepress! #booksky

Stephanie Binx 😈 Pre-order HELLBOUND @stephwrites.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Long have we waited. But today is the day. ❤️‍🔥 HELLBOUND cover reveal ❤️‍🔥

Rosie || R&Q Editing @rosie-j-potter.bsky.social · 4mo ago

I am THRILLED to help @stephwrites.bsky.social reveal the cover for her debut HELLBOUND. I am FERAL for this book (have read it twice) & can’t wait to read it again when I can get my grabby hands on a gorgeous print copy. Art: Corinne Reid Coming August 25 from Alcove Press #BookSky #WriteSky

HELLBOUND, a novel, by Stephanie Binx. Illustration of a woman under water held down by an anchor. She holds a knife and tentacle like hands are reaching for her to pull her back down.

Katy Lapierre 🖤 ✨@katylapierre.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Eventually I’ll have more to say about this book, but for now, here’s a peek at this MG contemp fantasy, featuring an anxious 12yo who craves control and a trapped Story Spinner boy who's responsible for the threads of human fate. @posterpitevent 🏷️ #posterpit #mg #fantasy #ag #writingcommunity

Katy Lapierre 🖤 ✨@katylapierre.bsky.social · 4mo ago

DON'T LET THE FOREST IN x BRING HER BACK When Parker's family ink magic predicts her bff's death, there's only one option—cast a forbidden spell to resurrect her. But an ink demon lurks and one wrong spell will damn both their souls to an inky hell #posterpit #ya #horror #ag

A movie style poster of a teenage girl collapsed on the ground over a wooded background in one section and an ocean background in another with ink spots over the image. Text reads INK BECOMES HER for the title and "spin changes people" for a tagline. Subtext reads: tattoo magic, BFFs to the grave and back, sentient ink demon. Represented by Alex Land @ MWLA.

Collage featuring pagan witch candles and magic spell books, tattoos, a desperate hand reaching out of the ocean, a dandelion on fire, an inky hand clutching at a pale throat.

Black and white image of a person with multiple hands clutching at bare skin of their back in torment. Foreground text reads: In my family, fate isn’t etched in stone, it’s inked in skin.

Cailin Barrett-Bressack @cailinwrites.bsky.social · 4mo ago

The Magic of Now: the story of a 62 year old farmer, the goat her sister is reincarnated into, and the new-age cult that might be behind it 🐐 Aimee Bender X Eternal Sunshine X Catherine House #PosterPit #ag #spf

The magic of now
Woman led cult
Goat tension
Humor and tears
Best supporting goat

Stephanie Binx 😈 Pre-order HELLBOUND @stephwrites.bsky.social · 4mo ago

I’m going to drop so much HELLBOUND news on y’all on April 29th. You are not prepared. Unless you take steps now to GET prepared. #booksky

Yalda is AGENTED💫@yaldacollection.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Have you heard? 👀 WORKED 2 DEATH has gone under the knife 🔪 : A ransom plot goes horribly awry when a trio of cash-strapped colleagues kidnap their nepobaby manager on a work trip, and find themselves embroiled in the lethal world of Fintech’s elite. #menapit #agented

Taco Bell Quarterly @tacobellquarterly.org · 5mo ago

Books should take forever to write. They should torture you your entire life and the things you could have said slightly better should haunt you forever. This is what art is for, transferring the discomfort of being human into something relatable to the other humans

Deena 🇵🇸 دينا @deenahelm.bsky.social · 6mo ago

✨ UK COVER REVEAL ✨ If you're interested in a story about a Palestinian haunted house, the three generations of women who are ancestrally tied to it, and discovering the price of the past, this comes out September 22, 2026! Preorder here: linktr.ee/deenahelm

The UK cover for Our Cut of Salt, which depicts the title on the top half on a beige background. The bottom half shows the bottom half of a woman's face, overlaid with windows and doors, and shaded in red as the top part of her face crumbles. On the side is Palestinian embroidery in the colors of black, green, and red.

Cailin Barrett-Bressack @cailinwrites.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Happy almost Valentine’s Day from my novel-in-progress! Because even though birds aren’t real, my excitement about the second draft of this book absolutely is 😎 #writing #writercommunity #valentines #wip #capitalismsucks #birdsarentreal

Roses are red, Hydrangeas are teal, capitalism sucks and birds aren't real

Cailin Barrett-Bressack @cailinwrites.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Kicking off 2026 with a re-intro! I’m Cailin, a writer focused on grounded spec fic. Current projects: 🐐The Magic of Now, about a woman reincarnated as a goat, and the cult her sister infiltrates to figure out why, and 🐦Pigeon WIP, an unhinged exploration of the Birds Aren’t Real conspiracy

Stephanie Binx 😈 Pre-order HELLBOUND @stephwrites.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Very excited to announce the Hellbound street team roster! These amazing humans are in for a hell of a ride. #seeyouinhell

Cailin Barrett-Bressack @cailinwrites.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Trust me, you're going to want to pre-order Hellbound to start reading it as quickly as possible

Stephanie Binx 😈 Pre-order HELLBOUND@stephwrites.bsky.social · 9mo ago

It’s TIME. Pre-orders for my dark contemporary romantasy HELLBOUND are live! Link in my bio. 💜

Cailin Barrett-Bressack @cailinwrites.bsky.social · 9mo ago

My rough drafts are, indeed, very rough. I leave tons of notes like these for “future Cailin" to fix. Very soon, "future Cailin" will become "present Cailin" on this project… but let’s not think about that yet 🫣

Stephanie Binx 😈 Pre-order HELLBOUND @stephwrites.bsky.social · 9mo ago

My debut novel HELLBOUND hits shelves on August 25, 2026! And today you can add it on Goodreads 🎉 ❤️ #writingcommunity #booksky www.goodreads.com/book/show/24...

Hellbound is now on goodreads. Coming August 25, 2026 from Alcove Press.

Cailin Barrett-Bressack @cailinwrites.bsky.social · 10mo ago

When Gyla discovers her deceased sister’s soul is trapped in a goat's body, she will do anything to figure out why–including joining a cult. AIMEE BENDER X ETERNAL SUNSHINE X CATHERINE HOUSE #Questpit #AG #S

The Magic of Now
The story of a 62 year old farmer, the goat her sister may be reincarnated into, and the new age cult that could be behind it.
Unique manifestations of grief
woman led cult
offbeat humor
central sister relationship
neuroscience meets "woo" psyeudoscience
Older female protagonist
by cailin barrett bressack
rep: alex land, MWLA
Images of goat, field, meditation, brain scan, farms.

Cailin Barrett-Bressack @cailinwrites.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Guide to THE MAGIC OF NOW The story of a 62-year-old farmer, the goat her sister is reincarnated into, and the new age cult that could be behind it Feat: 🐐women-led cult 🐐explorations of grief 🐐sister relationship 🐐neuroscience 🐐offbeat humor 🐐surrealism x light sci fi #Questpit #AG #A #S

The Magic of Now

The story of a 62-year-old farmer,
the goat her sister may be reincarnated into,
and the new age cult that could be behind it.
Guide to
By: Cailin Barrett-Bressack
Rep: Alex Land, Mad Woman Literary Agency

Gyla, 62-year old in mourning, encounters a mysterious goat on her farm that she suspects contains the consciousness of her recently deceased sister, Tina. Her quest for answers eventually leads to ReNewAll, a reclusive new-age community fixated on death and grieving– and with a goat on their brochures.
In addition to nonsensical classes like Stargazing with Your Eyes Closed and Untangling the Truth through Macrame, ReNewAll and its neuroscientist leader teach The Magic of Now, a practice that allows members to vividly revisit memories of their deceased loved ones.
As Gyla grows from skeptic and unlikely cult infiltrator to a willing member of ReNewAll’s inner circle, she must ultimately choose between immersing herself in an illusion of the past where Tina is still alive (and human), or dedicating herself to the imperfect (but tangible) version of her sister that is trapped inside the body of a goat.
The Pitch

The Comps
cult comps
Teal
Swan
Mother
God
Elizabeth Holmes
quirky humor and warmly acerbic wit
surrealism that highlights life’s bittersweet beauty
speculative exploration of insular communities
themes of memory and identity
Eternal Sunshine
Catherine House
Aimee Bender
How to Age Disgracefully

A Snippet
The Milky Way painted across the bowl of sky is technicolor and dizzying. The stars seem close enough that if she were to reach out and run her hands across the pricks of them, they’d snag splinters in her fingertips.

The wind grows louder. Gyla walks towards her pond, the forest pressing into the shore on three sides. Later in the spring, the pond's surface will be laced with pale green algae, but this early in the season the water is smooth glass, reflecting the night sky and also—the goat.

Gyla sees its reflection first, then draws her eyes up to where it stands motionless across the water. It’s hard to make out every detail in the muted blues of night, but she can tell who it is the moment she sees it.

“Tina?” Gyla whispers. The goat cocks its head to one side in response.

Gyla is not sure why she says her sister’s name aloud. It’s a physical knowing, the same way she senses weather changes in the marrow of her right knee. When she sees the goat, she feels her sister with her for the first time in months.

The goat approaches her cautiously. Its ear is pierced where an identification tag had been, but the tag is gone, and Gyla can see the stars reflecting on the surface of the pond through the small empty window in the cartilage.

Gyla knows she should be wondering if her mind is playing tricks on her. But she doesn’t waver in her conviction. Somehow, she can tell–this is her sister.

It’s Tina.

Bookishbabeiswriting @bookbabewriting.bsky.social · 10mo ago

🌲Spooky mountainside town 📷 missing hikers 🌲 aloof and mysterious bartender with plenty of secrets to hide 📷 suspicious locals 🌲#ownvoice Indigenous, Queer, and Autistic rep #Questpit #A #AG #PR #H #W

Water dripping off leaf, old motel sign, mountainside river, girl in leather jacket, wild howling, girl on computer, hand and wild print, foggy forest, missing posters, full moon

Bookishbabeiswriting @bookbabewriting.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Jennifer's Body x Together We Rot Boys start to disappear in Lyric’s backwards backwoods town and her best friend/crush Eleanor was the last person they were seen with, leaving Lyric to investigate if something is monstrously wrong with her friend. #Questpit #YA #AG #H #R #Ownvoice

old church, girl running in cowboy boots, old bible, girl with lighter under tongue, old cassette, girl licking red off hands, fair at night, old field, old church and pews

Cailin Barrett-Bressack @cailinwrites.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Chezza Lee📚@chezza.bsky.social · 10mo ago

IMMORTAL x A SONG TO DROWN RIVERS A reincarnated immortal and an emotionally damaged cowherd must escape the heavenly forces intent on tearing them apart. ✨A love destined to fail ✨A jealous Celestial Empress ✨An underworld filled with both torture and hope #questpit #AG #RF

Photo of a man and woman in hanfu holding a red string. A FATE WOVEN IN STARLIGHT. Quote: “I meant it when I said I feel a connection between us, Shizhi. Like we’re meant to be together, but the feeling has an edge of uncertainty. I can’t explain it.”

Chezza Lee📚@chezza.bsky.social · 10mo ago

THE JASMINE THRONE x THE HURRICANE WARS Captured in the palace of her nemesis, a demon queen plots her revenge. If only the woman who killed her mother wasn’t so irresistibly alluring… 🪻Blood poison magic 🪻Detestable immortals 🪻Food as seduction #questpit #AG #RF

Photo of two women, one in red robes and one in blue. There is a graphic of monkshood on the side. BLOOMS IN POISON. Quote: “I suppose that debt can only be repaid with my life,” said Jing. “I’m afraid I cannot pay it just yet, little queen.” “I shall ensure that you will.”

Katy Lapierre 🖤 ✨@katylapierre.bsky.social · 10mo ago

DON'T LET THE FOREST IN x BRING HER BACK When Parker's family ink magic predicts her best friend's death, there's only one option—cast a forbidden spell to resurrect her. But an ink demon lurks and one wrong spell will damn both their souls to an inky hell for all eternity 💀. #questpit #ya #h #ag

Photo collage showing: bonfire on a beach, a person inking a tattoo on a forearm, dark trees in front of the moon, a couple holding hands, ink blossoming out of a book, two friends covering each other's eyes, and ink hand holding a burned bundle of sticks, a charred dandelion, Wiccan symbols in the sand, a person's hand reaching out from a dark ocean, a person with a cloud of ink coming from their mouth.

Yalda is AGENTED💫@yaldacollection.bsky.social · 10mo ago

THE MAID X FINLAY DONOVAN 10 coworkers. 1 dead manager. A trio of coworkers must find their office manager's killer, before their scathing resignation emails are discovered, making them the prime suspects. #questpit #editorsguide #AG 🏃‍♀️Escape room whodunit 💘 Office romance

Cailin Barrett-Bressack @cailinwrites.bsky.social · 10mo ago

A New York City snippet from my WIP to remind everyone to please get out and vote for @zohrankmamdani today❤️ We deserve a little hope, don’t you think?

AS Crowder @ascrowder.bsky.social · 10mo ago

My style involves questions! The most important thing for me is making my mentee’s book the most *that book* it can be, so I will be asking about intentions. I don’t want to take apart what works, but I want to hone what’s there (which isn’t to say no rewrites, just intentional ones) #HiveMentor

WriteHive 🐝@writehive.bsky.social · 10mo ago

#HiveMentor Ask Me Anything Q1: What is your mentorship style? What can mentees expect from working with you?