Katrina 🌙

So excited to Welcome Bria Ross to the CLA Team!! 🎉✨ Bria’s horror fantasy absolutely hit the mark on delivering a tale with teeth and creeping atmosphere. I can’t wait for editors to start reading this razor sharp fantasy! 🦴💀✨

@rrreadsbooks @TommyDeanWriter !!! 👀

freaking the hell out about this one….

If you're sitting on a manuscript waiting for the right moment to query, I want you to understand: the "right moment" in traditional publishing doesn't exist right now.

Can’t wait to see everyone in the GTA tomorrow for the Toronto Writing Workshop! ✨ Thank you to everyone who has signed up, I can’t wait to hear your pitches! 🎉

🌟SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT🌟 As part of our mission to uplift MENA authors we have secured *guaranteed* agent participation for #MENApit tomorrow! 🥳 This is just one way we’re showcasing MENA writers & their stories. Our stories deserve to be heard & these agents fully agree!! 1/3

Editors I respect are leaving. Books sections are closing. I'm watching this industry shrink in real time, and I don't have a neat answer for what comes next—but I think pretending everything is fine is worse than talking about it.

@myleejmiller @libraryoflg @REstepLit Congratulations!! 🥳

I HAVE A BOOK DEAL??? Yes, that's right - I HAVE A BOOK DEAL!! For Bone Dust, which is now titled "HEART OF BONE"! I could not be more ecstatic to share this news with you all, and I owe a massive thanks to my agent @REstepLit and everyone who helped make this happen!

PRH having a slew of layoffs just months after S&S did theirs is just so disheartening. It’s hard not to feel jaded. I feel so bad for all my editorial colleagues and for the fact that Dial BYFR has been completely shuttered. We need books. Children need books.

👀👀👀✨(vibes in agenting mode today)

Publishing advice from even five years ago doesn’t always apply to now, and that’s unsettling.

Have a hankering to read this weekend? Here are a few of my published romantasy books! To Find a King Of Songs and Saltwater A Kiss of Blades (novella) For more of my books, check out heathercarter-author.com/books

New Client Announcement 📣✨ I’m thrilled to announce that I get to work with the talented Venus Wambura, whose swoon-worthy romance absolutely knocked my socks off! 💫✨ I’m so honoured to be championing such an amazing author, and I cant wait to see what the future holds! ☺️

I've been working on this massive project quietly for almost two years, and I'm SO excited to finally share it. 🎉 I wrote a book with the creator of @QueryTracker, the #1 tool writers use to research and track agent submissions. If querying has ever felt confusing, overwhelming, or just completely opaque, we wrote this guide for YOU. We use real industry data (from agent surveys + more than 4 million actual queries) to bring you never-before-seen insights into the querying process. If you're wondering: -What does that rejection REALLY mean? -How many queries are considered "normal"? -What are my real chances of getting representation? ...make sure to preorder it today! ☺️

honoring some amazing books/series by woc today 🫶🏽

Finished reading “A Mouthful of Dust” and absolutely needed this 10/10 read! ✨ my inner dark whimsy is alive again 🤍

hot take Tuesday👀

@AWritersLifeTBC If the manuscript has gone under revisions, I’d be happy to take a look ☺️

Hello Katrina! 😊 I previously queried Corvisiero Lit back in October 2025. However, my MS has since undergone significant revisions. Would I be able to query you? It's an upmarket dark romantic fantasy I believe closely aligns with your MSWL. Gideon The Ninth is actually one of my comps!

Excited to finally share my 2026 MSWL which has expanded into Middle Grade, Adult/YA genres for Upmarket Literary Fiction, Romance, Soft Sci-fi, and more. 🫶🤍✨ #MSWL

@hlwampler1 Absolutely!

@bookishmoons BIG question....your QM doesn't have MG horror...but your adorable mswl says you want it, can I send MG horror?

This is a reminder that I reply to ALL queries ☺️ if you haven’t heard from me yet, it’s likely you’re in my maybe pile 🫶