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Haley ✨

@halphelan.bsky.social

romance + fantasy writer | she/her 🩷💜💙 rep’d by Cathie Hedrick-Armstrong

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Gwend💫lyn Vines@gwenvines.academics.blue · last yr.

ARCANE x BLD OVR BRIGHT HVN x DISCO ELYSIUM 🧑‍🎓cut-throat postgrad STEM academia w/ 🩺corrupted magic tech/ethics 🩻body horror 🤌obsessive ace yearning 🧠neurodivergence as power 🚨unreliable narrator 🛠️blacksmith biceps 🏆dangerous duels 🌿strange plants 👤& the strange man growing them #questpit #A #F #Q

Image from a medical textbook of a man with his arm extended, skeletal structure shown in part, with the text "an agent's guide to SEE IN ME THE WOLF by Gwendolyn Vines," an #agentguide #agentsguide for an #amquerying manuscript.PITCH: (dark STEM academic science fantasy, 107,000 words) When Institute grad student Jim invents a device that could revolutionize medicine, his intoxicating suitemate Bash warns him it could be weaponized—and stops at nothing to prove his point. Are Jim's degree & the lives he could save worth staining his conscience? For fans of: the grounded and ugly magical academia of BLOOD OVER BRIGHT HAVEN, BABEL, and THE TWO DOCTORS GORSKI; the criticism of tech venture capitalism of RIPE; the obsessive acespec yearning, body horror, and unreliable narrator of DON'T LET THE FOREST IN, and the corruption of tech and its makers of ARCANE.A painting in the background of a blond man viewed in profile, head bowed, with an X drawn across his face through which an xray of his skull and spine is visible. The text reads THEMES: ivory tower classism & egos manipulative relationships neurodivergence as power grey ethics in technology academic power abuse consent in medicine code-switching in the lower right hand corner in dark text, it reads (there was only one bed)Image: a silhouette walking up the stairs, head haloed by a lit chandelier. EXCERPT from SEE IN ME THE WOLF by Gwendolyn Vines/@gwenvines This time, though, it was not Six whose face was bathed and baptized by light. It was Bash’s, his lone gold hoop gleaming amidst his curls, the spindly shadows of his lashes stretching over his dark eyes, and the sleeve of his linen robe where it draped from his arm rendered translucent by the sun’s rays. It was Bash who sat atop his regal, woody throne and passed judgment upon Jim. Jim, his blond hair set aflame not by Kontrolle or diffuser but by the sun’s fleeting gift, stared back, waiting. Unlike Etienne, the King Reluctant, Jim had never been told he was the best. Unlike Six, the King Desirous, Jim had never needed to be the best. Unlike Bash, the King Apparent, Jim had never been the best. Jim’s calling, his compulsion, was to be of use. That is all he had ever needed, wanted, or been. And it was Bash, now, to whom he wished to be useful.
Lauren Groff@legroff.bsky.social · last yr.

Fellow authors, I love you, and I know it feels like we don’t have a choice, but B&N and Am*zon both scheduled sales this week to preempt Independent Bookstore Day, a hugely vital source of income for indie bookstores. Please don’t promote their sales; please promote your local indie this week.

Kelly Beck@kellylbeck.bsky.social · last yr.

When town disaster & trailer park queen, Stella, robs a bank to pay for her grandmother's care, she didn't expect the teller to be her neat & tidy ex-boyfriend. Kidnapping him to save her identity, they weave through her hair-brained escape...& like, omg she's actually pulling this off? #PosterPitW

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Haley ✨@halphelan.bsky.social · 2y ago

A little moodboard to soft launch my sapphic, low fantasy romance about a magical renaissance faire and the witch who has to team up with a human to save it from going into foreclosure Coming soon to #editors 🧚‍♀️

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Haley ✨@halphelan.bsky.social · 2y ago

What if…we made a discord group open to all authors with a smooch in their book, regardless of genre, to collaborate, share and grow? A space to find beta readers, query critiques and industry knowledge from other authors willing to lend a hand down? Any takers? 👀 @kellylbeck.bsky.social

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Haley ✨@halphelan.bsky.social · 2y ago

It’s been a minute since I’ve been active, so I thought a reintroduction was needed ❤️ I write romantic SFF, and my urban paranormal romance, IF THE MOON HAD TEETH, is on submission with my wonderful agent, Cathie Hedrick-Armstrong. I’m currently drafting a sapphic futuristic dystopian ✨

A picture of yours truly ❤️Text: An editors guide to IF THE MOON HAD TEETH by Haley Phelan Set on the backdrop of a full moon Text: THE PITCH dahlia-half human, half vampire-goes undercover to court the most dangerous vampire hunter, compelling him in order to find a cure poisoning the blood of humans. There’s only one problem. For the first time, she craves the taste of blood. His.