A publishers marketplace report reading: Category: Childen's: Young Adult Fiction Of Auras and Shadows by Taylor Grothe Imprint: Peachtree Teen Author of forthcoming HOLLOW Taylor Grothe's OF AURAS AND SHADOWS, a queer YA fantasy, pitched as combining the romance of A Dark and Drowning Tide with the horror of The Witcher, in which a girl, who suffers from migraines, falls through one of her auras and into the autumnal, wraith-filled Otherworld, where she meets a sharp-edged girl who is being ritualistically used by the ruling secular cult that promised to cure her, and vows to save the girl she's growing to love, even if it means becoming a pawn in the cult's plans for war, to Ashley Hearn at Peachtree Teen, for publication in fall 2026, by Larissa Melo Pienkowski at Jill Grinberg Literary Management (world).

SURPRISE! I get to write another book with the phenomenal Ashley Hearn at Peachtree Teen!!!!

I'm so excited to share this horromantasy with you NEXT FALL (ahhhh!!!)

What if my migraine auras were actually magic? What if the lymphatic system held the power to change reality? 👀 let’s find out!!

A mood board that shows various images of two girls, some in black and white and others in full, dark colors

After a holiday hiatus, I’m back to working on edits/draft 2 of TMTMU, my YA gothic fantasy!

There’s a lot of work ahead but I’m telling myself not to rush. It’s okay to take as much time as I need to tell this particular story the right way.

New moodboard to celebrate 🖤

Usually I’m overwhelmed when I sit down to edit a book, but this time I’m weirdly calm? And excited?

I will not be deceived. Where is my panic

My mom used to read with me all the time, but life happened and she got away from it.

I recently gave her a book to read and she devoured it. Then she asked me to pick out more for her. I’m so excited to go to the bookstore and add a few books to her Christmas presents. 🥹

Tell me why I, a person who notoriously struggles with time travel narratives, now have an idea for a story involving time-based magic. 🫠

a pink background banner litter with candy canes and simple wreaths with red bows. A green box is in the center and white lettering reads “Our 2025 Event List: February 12th, May 7th, August 6th, and November 5th”

Seasons greetings! We’re so happy to announce our 2025 #questpit event list! We hope you all are having a lovely start to your December and we hope to see you here starting in February next year.

Spotify Wrapped Graphic Top Artists: Taylor Swift, Florence + The Machine, Halsey, Hozier, Chappell Roan Top Songs: The Albatross, Who’s Afraid of Little Old Me, So Long, London, The Great War, Seven Devils

Obligatory Spotify Wrapped post! Guess how many of the top songs are on my current writing playlist

I wonder what it’s like to have a Spotify Wrapped that isn’t influenced by writing/book playlists

Ahhh congrats!!

Good luck to all the eldest daughters this month. I’ve already picked and bought half the gifts for my parents and started planning the baking schedule.

Writing is fine. It's literally the most embarrassing thing on earth to emotionally put yourself on full display for rejection or validation, but it's good. I enjoy it. I find it therapeutic to horrify myself.

What do you mean the next audiobook I’m going to listen to won’t be read by Will Patton???

I have binged both The Raven Cycle and The Dreamer Trilogy and now I don’t know what to do with myself 🧍🏻‍♀️

hey not to be all corny but please understand and internalize that your creative work is vital and beautiful whether others see/hear it or not and that your creative expression enriches the world just by your having done it

Holidays are fun because my habit of baking instead of writing is actually a reasonable excuse

i love fictional women who lie cheat manipulate steal kill destroy. take those male dominated fields. “but what if she’s a bitch” even better!!!! i support women’s wrongs too

Writers this is your reminder to go outside, hang out with a friend, or partake in another hobby. We are so often in our heads and it’s important to come back to reality and refill our wells.

a few years ago, I attended my first publishing conference, and the advice was so good I spent the whole time frantically writing it all down. wanted to circulate them again, and so:

✨here are 11 advice from editors✨

I’m basic and everything I write is in Times New Roman

AHH CONGRATS!!!

Author of So Let Them Burn and the forthcoming This Ends In Embers Kamilah Cole's WICKED ENDEAVORS, a YA romantasy duology set in a Spanish Renaissance-inspired kingdom, about a vengeful teen who cons her way into a high society of elite witches, only for her revenge to be threatened by her warring feelings for both a manipulative enemy prince and the stoic childhood friend who betrayed her, pitched as a love letter to the power of Black women's anger, to Alexandra Hightower at Little, Brown Children's, in a six-figure deal , at auction, in a two-book deal, for publication in summer 2026, by Emily Forney at BookEnds (world). Over an image of a Black girl in a renaissance gown holding a dagger and smirking at the audience, drawn by cutetanuki-chan on Tumblr

✨ YA BOOK NEWS ✨

I'm so excited to announce that my next YA duology, a romantasy called WICKED ENDEAVORS, is coming in Summer 2026!

If So Let Them Burn was about the power of love, then Wicked Endeavors is about the poisonous yet motivating power of hate. Black female rage abounds in this one 😈

Ahh that’s amazing! ARO is also very close to my next read and I’m excited yet terrified. So glad she unlocked the door for you!

A Ruinous Fate is SO GOOD

I would like to be on the list! Pretty please 🫶🏻

Congrats Ari!!! 🥳

Oh sorry, you heard me say “I’m writing” didn’t you? Common mistake. I actually said I’m spiraling :)

Meeee please

*stares at MonstrousWIP* Yeah…only one thing…hahahahaaa

What’s wrong with a little emphasis?? I will never understand

Sometimes I lament that I’m not where I want to be. That 4 years have passed and I’m still in the same place.

But if I had gotten agented on the first book, would I have written the ones that followed? Would I have challenged my own writing?

Food for thought for those still chasing the dream. 💜