Skylar Anthony ✦ Magic, Mayhem & Space Elves 🧝🚀

What my covers would be if OBTS was only one genre. But why settle when you can have them all? She's a thief with hidden magic & one chance for escape. He's a spy sworn to stop dangerous magical tech. Together they pull off a heist for the ages. Get on my 🔗🌳. #questpit #P #SFF

@Soph__Pl @bookvault_app Thank you!

@skylarantwrites @bookvault_app Beautiful!

OMG look at the pretty!! Huge thanks to Avery Bridge for sending these photos along. The deluxe edition of Once Bitten, Twice Spy turned out so nice. @bookvault_app did such a great job with these, which are only available on my website.

@LanaWrightBooks @bookvault_app 🫶🫶

@skylarantwrites @bookvault_app Will be ordering. 💖💖

I have actually written this week!! 🎉✨ It’s only like 200 words, but I’m actually putting digital pen to virtual paper and getting words down for book 2. Between all the outline and prewriting and just being crazy busy, I haven’t really written in months! (Book 1 on KU.)

A little BTS of the new Once Bitten, Twice Spy cover. Wynn was my unofficial teen art director—sharp notes, strong opinions, and honestly made it better. Loved getting to make this one together. ❤️✨

@BeccaACarter Absolutely post on main about good reviews. It's engaging AND good marketing.

I don't know the etiquette about posting on main about reviews but a friend just sent me a screenshot of my first one on Netgalley and it's a glowing five star review and if you need me I'll be sobbing in a corner 😭❤️

Thanks to whoever read MY ENTIRE BOOK this morning on KU. 👀🫶 #indieauthor #KindleUnlimited #romantasy

Random emails from "book clubs", "authors", and promoters: "I read your book and was really impressed with your writing." Me: "I have literally (no exaggeration) sold 7 copies total with 81 pages total KENP read in the 1.5 month it's been out, and I know most of those."

@HLCarter_Author We watched the first episode as a family (after my wife and I traveled 5 hours to meet up with my kids at their grandparents house). It was late so we went to bed. They stayed up and watched the rest without us. Disowned. Both of them. 😭😂

Happy Stranger Things Day to all who celebrate!

@annlittler (By that I mean at some point you just step away or you’ll edit forever. Whitman had 7 different editions of his book because he couldn’t stop rewriting it.

@annlittler When you stop? That’s been my conclusion. You edit until you don’t. Whitman edited Leaves of Grass until he died.

But how do you know when the editing is finished???

@purely_sophia Congrats! Best of luck!

Exciting news! I’m self publishing my zombie apocalypse novel in spring 2026! Though my agent and I are working toward traditionally publishing an upmarket novel, I’m excited to get this one out on my own timeline. #WritingCommunity

@BeccaACarter Yeah, typos do be like that sometimes.

Dear future reader, If any typo or inconsistency snuck past moi, my acquisitions editor, my dev editor, my copyeditor, and my proofreader, it's earned its place in my book 😃

@annlittler 👀👀👀👀

@skylarantwrites Yeah. You’ll have to wait a little bit 😉

Got excited yesterday and bought some books from authors I’m moots with on X. Won’t share which ones until I’ve read them. I love leaving a nice review-shaped surprise 🥰

So, I did a thing… 👀 I wanted my cover to better match sci fi romance / urban romantasy vibes. So I came up with a new one…

@annlittler This is why I write secondary world fantasy. I get to make up the rules. I’d rather spend hours world building than 5 mins Googling for an answer. 😂 Because the fear of getting something wrong is REAL.

Anyone else spend hours down a rabbit hole researching stuff for their WIPs? I had no idea that Scottish schools go back so early—mid August! In England kids usually head back in September. Glad I clocked that as it would have impacted my story a lot.

✨Cover reveal✨ I'm thrilled to reveal the cover of An Inheritance of Lies, coming out on May 5, 2026 with Lake Union. You can pre-ørder now everywhere and âdd on Goodreads! 🔗s below!

@clgslr The original stat came from someone offering editorial services. From what I can tell, she hasn’t been an agent since 2013. Not a reliable source for this data, IMO.

I just did the math because I was curious, and of all projects I've ever put on sub, only 30% have been officially shelved *and one shelved project just got new interest while I was chatting with an editor, so nothing is truly ever dead (unless the author wants it to be)