Helen Gosselin - Very Rarely Here

I read and listened to 42 books in 2025, and to round out the last few hours of the year, here were my favorites! If you're on the hunt for your next read(s), I highly recommend these! #WritingCommunity #booktwt

@sj_cristea OMG CONGRATS!!!

It’s official!!! I’m gonna be a published author!! Words cannot describe how grateful I have felt these last few months, this is an absolute dream come true ❤️ Skeeter Pete 🐕🐶 is gonna steal your hearts (unless you’re a cat person 🤭)

I am so excited to announce that I am officially agented by the incredible Brent Taylor at Triada US! From our very first call I was wowed by Brent’s vision for THE BOG PRINCE and his drive to get it onto bookshelves someday. I’m thrilled to be chasing that dream together 🥳

I’m over the moon to announce I’m now represented by Via Romano at Creative Artists Agency! Her passion for my sapphic books blew me away, and I couldn’t ask for a better advocate! Editors 👀 I’m currently revising my Sapphic Folk Horromance, coming soon

“It was what she demanded of me, to be empty of all else but her and the music.”🎻 Thrilled to share the first piece of art for THE HAUNTING OF LADY DEATH, my sapphic phantom of the opera retelling. @lepetitghostcat KILLED this sultry, gothic portrait of Lady Death and Kasia🥀

Philipp Grubauer wins this year's Kraken Fan Favorite Award

Thrilled to announce I’m now represented by @JennaSchmenna at @StormLiterary ! Her vision for THE FRUITIST aligned perfectly with my own and I can’t wait for what comes next. Here’s to more weird genre-bending stories and never giving up on your dreams!🥂🎉🍓

✨NEW BOOK NEWS✨ Excited to share my next book, THE HAUNTING OF LADY DEATH, a sapphic Phantom of the Opera retelling, for fans of Deathless and A Dowry of Blood, is coming from @torbooks and @UKTor in feb 2027 🥀🖤

PERIOD!!!!

This is literally what my students say when they get busted using AI. “I didn’t use it to write my paper just for brainstorming, outlining, and editing.” Yeah that’s most of what writing is.

Nikki Hiltz, a transgender & non-binary Olympian, speaks out against the event’s new anti-trans policy: “I don't know who needs to hear this but ZERO trans women competed in the Paris Olympics. Only ONE trans woman weightlifter competed in Tokyo 2021 and she did not win a medal. Can we please stop obsessing over trans people? And idk maybe focus our time, energy, and resources into real problems women's sports face?”

ICYMI: The #SeattleTorrent have been named as the 2026 Seattle Pride Parade grand marshals alongside community activist, Deanute Damper

violet "is there something 👀👀👀 you wanna 👀👀 tell me 👀👀👀 francesca 👀👀👀" bridgerton

The news is out…. I’M GOING TO BE A PUBLISHED AUTHOR!!!! This is a dream come true 🥹✨ I’m so thankful for my incredible editor Jennifer Thompson at Scholastic and for my star of a literary agent Bethany Weaver 🩷 2027 & 2028 is the year of slasher romcoms, baby!!!!✨⏰🔪💌

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Rachel Reid on queer literature becoming more mainstream: "I feel like definitely the big turning point was 'Red, White & Royal Blue' because 'Heated Rivalry' came out in March of 2019. I believe Red, White & Royal Blue came out in May or April...I think a lot of us who were writing queer romance at the time were like, ‘Holy smokes! This is going to change everything.’ And it kind of did, because before that queer romance just wasn’t in stores, it wasn’t in the romance section, it was nowhere...it was almost like a secret underground thing. Then suddenly it became a much bigger thing. Now there’s tables and big booksellers that are just queer romance right at the front of the store. It’s very, very different...My books were never in print until pretty recently, the Game Changers books were printed in the trade paperback format in November of last year for the first time, and it’s only just now since the show that the big booksellers like Barnes and Noble are carrying them. So even when they were in print, they weren’t getting ordered by the by the big booksellers. Just in the short amount of time that I’ve been writing these books, the change has been huge and it’s been really exciting." 🔗: thepinknews.com/2026/03/23/hea…

It’s a dream come true to announce that I’ve signed with Brent Taylor at @triadaus ! Brent’s passion for AMM blew me away, and I’m so excited to work with him! This project got multiple offers, so I wanted to thank the other amazing agents who gave this story a chance!

@abigailwad @triadaus Ah, congrats! That’s so awesome!!! Welcome!

Do not fret, dearest readers, for a certain countess shall find love again... Bridgerton Season 5 is now in production.

So excited to finally share that my first published book will be coming in Fall of 2027!! The community here has really shown up for White Trash Witchcraft across the years and I'm so incredibly to all of you! 💛