Leanne Schwartz (L.A. Schwartz) has two 2024 books
@lifebreakingin
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YA fantasy: A PRAYER FOR VENGEANCE / TO A DARKER SHORE (April 30 2024) / adult romcom: MY KIND OF TROUBLE (Oct 8 2024) / theater / autistic / Rep: Lee O’Brien
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✨MY BOOKS✨
💖🗡️🌙 A Prayer for Vengeance
❤️🔥😈🔥 To a Darker Shore
🎶📚💋 My Kind of Trouble
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when there’s publishing drama
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writers tweeting all about books they haven't written yet
My annual posting of the dogs photoshopped out of the show.
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Writers when we start drafting a new book but don't want to start drafting a new book
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✨Book news!✨
Thrilled to announce my debut, A PRAYER FOR VENGEANCE, coming Fall 2023 from
@PageStreetKids
.
I can hardly express what it means to bring a YA fantasy with autistic and fat main characters to bookshelves, and I can’t wait for you all to meet Milo and Gia.
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it’s fine it’s fine I’m on track
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sometimes you have to put an f bomb into a scene fully knowing you'll remove it while editing, just to help find the voice. a bay leaf f bomb
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autism is not an excuse for racist behavior autism is not an excuse for racist behavior autism is not an excuse for racist behavior autism is not an excuse for racist behavior autism is not an excuse for racist behavior autism is not an excuse for racist behavior autism is not an
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✨Overjoyed to announce I’m now represented by
@LeePaigeOBrien
of IGLA✨
I’m so thrilled with Lee’s vision for TO A DARKER SHORE, and I know they’ll be an incredible champion for all my lush, romantic, fat-positive, autistic fantasies, and many other exciting projects to come.
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🌙✨COVER REVEAL🌙✨
I'm so thrilled to share the cover for A PRAYER FOR VENGEANCE, beautifully designed and illustrated by Emma Hardy.
It means the world to me how this cover brings to life for YA fantasy readers my fat and fierce heroine.
AND SHE'S GONNA BE STAMPED IN FOIL💖
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🔥😈COVER REVEAL😈🔥
THRILLED to share the cover of TO A DARKER SHORE, my YA romantic fantasy about an autistic inventor going to hell to avenge her best friend sacrificed in her place—only to find him alive but monstrously transformed.
🔥By one of my favorite artists,
@flaroh
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🔥BOOK NEWS: WE'RE GOING TO HELL🔥
Ecstatic to announce TO A DARKER SHORE from Page Street YA winter 2024! With autistic best friends to monsters to lovers, dissections of beauty standards and ableism, religious trauma, demi rep, and the biggest game of the floor is lava ever🔥
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If your feed’s anything like mine it’s nonstop
#Bridgerton
, so I thought I’d share a special
#Polin
face cast for conwoman Harmony and autistic librarian Preston from My Kind of Trouble BECAUSE—
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✨publishers marketplace official🎉
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@EvaVBGibson
@MeredithIreland
I thought I was being cute about loving my new place/being a homebody! I didn’t know I was casting a spell😩
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a professional review opening this way
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@camphalfblood
This parent recently overheard her 11yo, who's read all your books this summer, discussing gender fluid and bisexual characters that she loves, using those terms, and felt grateful she's seeing positive representations and is prepared to understand herself/be an ally🤷♀️
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🎉SURPRISE I wrote a gender-swapped Music Man homage and it’s marching your way THIS FALL🎶📚❤️
So thrilled to announce MY KIND OF TROUBLE, my debut adult romcom featuring a slick conwoman and autistic librarian, perfect for fans of Spoiler Alert and Act Your Age, Eve Brown.
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every midlist author on my tl:
Walsh says, in discussing the work publishers put into each book, says it’s not as if some authors get paper plates and others get fine China.
#DOJvPRH
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⭐️It’s a STAR from Kirkus!!⭐️
Elated that Kirkus loves my debut young adult fantasy A Prayer for Vengeance, about an autistic poet who awakens a murderous statue and their race against false histories, an immortal tyrant, and hungry monsters at the gates.
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🌙✨Today Milo’s prayer wakes Gia’s vengeance, and their book is out in the world!! A PRAYER FOR VENGEANCE is available now💖
It's a dream come true to be published, but even more for it to be with this book, centering and celebrating a fat heroine and an autistic hero.
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🎶📚ART REVEAL📚🎶
Thought we could celebrate National Librarian Day by sharing this preorder character art
@littlelundmark
made of autistic librarian Preston Jones and con woman Harmony Hale from my debut adult romcom MY KIND OF TROUBLE!!
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OH MY GOSH
@alechiawrites
and I are THRILLED to welcome
@lifebreakingin
and her gorgeous fat-positive fantasy WE SHALL BE MONSTERS to
#TeamMarshmallow
and
#pitchwars
!
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✨My
#PitchWars
showcase entry is live! And my mentors had this stunning art made—look at my murder statue!
Gia wakes from centuries as a statue to a world that worships her ex-crush who trapped her—and to the handsome autistic poet who freed her.
#PWYA
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I grew up in a Northern California farmland town. I am holding these children and victims in my heart, right next to the rage towards the cowardly, greedy lawmakers who refuse to act to protect them.
Thinking of these students tonight, hoping for a full recovery. This news barely made a blip today. Which is becoming tragic in itself.
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my turn to say there's something amazing in my inbox😭
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✨A PRAYER FOR VENGEANCE ARC UNBOXING✨
still wrapping my head around how there's really a book with a fat heroine in a glittering dress holding a bloody sword on the cover DREAMS COME TRUE
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publishers marketplace official🦋🔥
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🔥Hey
#PitchWars
!
#PWParty20
🔥
Day 1: WE SHALL BE MONSTERS is a YA fantasy about a plus-size warrior who wakes after centuries as a statue to a world that worships the immortal man/her ex-crush who trapped her—and to the cute autistic boy who accidentally freed her.
It's a
#PWParty20
! Want a sneak peek at this year's mentees projects? Follow along over the next ten days...
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@anneursu
YIKES. I sometimes have parents of my students bemoaning to me that their voracious reader only reads fantasy, and I’m always agog that people think like that!
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finally a win for autistics this week
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@misskubelik
I’m so tired and sad too. The shading is maybe dramatic but also feels like trying to create an even slimmer impression. So many kids being told their even slightly bigger bodies are not allowed to exist in media. That they are not allowed to be heroes.
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when an author whose book you comped while querying gives your book a really lovely blurb🥹
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@tomi_adeyemi
I’m so, so sorry. Please lmk if residents of San Diego can help demand a proper response from the department.
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“We’re already in hell, may as well sin.”
To a Darker Shore, my YA romantasy about a fat autistic inventor and demi autistic painter going to hell and becoming monsters for each other is out on shelves today!!🔥😈❤️🔥
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🌙This seems the perfect time to share the preorder art for A PRAYER FOR VENGEANCE, two saint icon cards featuring murder statue Gia and autistic poet Milo, with prayers from the book on the backs, illustrated by the immensely talented
@mcapriglioneart
✨
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@SketchesbyBoze
tried to learn how to human from mostly books and observation with middling success
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what level of representation of neurodivergent characters would you be “comfortable with” then? because we’re barely beginning to finally get books written from our own perspective, with centered ND characters, rather than atrociously inaccurate rep and side characters
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#DVpit
is in two weeks! Last year's event helped connect me with my fantastic agent (and I ❤️ pitching!) so I want to do a ✨GIVEAWAY✨
RT/F for a chance for a query, first 10, and pitch critique. I'll draw a winner next weekend and help you make your pitch/query package shine✨
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why I wrote a romcom where the fat heroine eats ice cream on the page and it only ends up on the floor because she drops it herself to suck face with the hot hero BECAUSE FAT PEOPLE DESERVE ALL GOOD THINGS
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GET IN WE’RE GOING TO HELL
MY TO A DARKER SHORE FINAL COPIES ARE HERE
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Support books about fat people by fat people that won't hurt fat people challenge 2019
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@MsYouDoYou
@chel_c_cam
It’s absolutely the same families from our school who don’t vaccinate who are refusing masks.
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I'm truly happy for you all and at the same time looking forward to when ya fantasy adaptations include fat girls
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WE GOT THE HOUSE
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*strolls into this trend 30 minutes late with starbucks*
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🎺🎶COVER REVEAL🎶🎺
Thrilled to share the cover of my adult romcom debut, MY KIND OF TROUBLE, featuring a slick con woman falling for an autistic librarian fighting book bans!
Immense thanks to artist
@stephsing
and
@alcovepress
for this incredible cover💕📚🎶
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My debut is out THIS MONTH
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A HEAVY BOX HAS ARRIVED IN THE MAIL IT FEELS LIKE BOOKS
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so should we maybe consider how silly it is for some pubs to be putting so much stock in GRs stats
like amazon displaying ratings and potentially affecting careers is bad enough when shenanigans like this are going on all the time
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Meg. Jo. Beth. Amy. Long ago the four sisters lived together in harmony. Then everything changed when AMY THREW JO’S BOOK INTO THE FUCKING FIRE
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was just venting today to friends about the agent who (years ago) rejected my fat warrior princess YA fantasy right around the same time they signed a fat warrior princess YA fantasy by a straight sized author
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So yeah I forgot to mention it here but recently I finished a thing
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🌙A PRAYER FOR VENGEANCE✨
🗡️YA fantasy featuring a murderous statue and the autistic poet who woke her, racing to topple an immortal tyrant/her ex
🔥September 19th from Page Street YA
💖cover with gorgeous fat heroine stamped in pink foil
🖤preorder:
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WE SHALL BE MONSTERS aka
#MurderStatue
post🌙🗡🖤
Featuring:
-Enemies to lovers
-Sister angst
-Fat angry girl with sword
-Autistic poet with nothing he’s poor ok
-Magic system based on 3 states of matter
👀plus a snippet of my favorite murder statue POV
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I have taken
the egg
that was in
the vinegar
and which
you were probably
leaving
for 1 day
forgive me
it was ominous
so blue
and bigger than before
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SERIOUSLY somebody pinch me
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one year to the day after the email that changed everything I’m checking over final edits for PRAYER so please give me a number between 1-359 and I’ll give you a line✨
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🎉It’s about to get louder—just like Harmony Hale likes it! Thrilled to share that my debut adult romcom My Kind of Trouble will be an audiobook!! I’m so glad readers will be able to experience Harmony and Preston’s story this way. It feels like they’re getting their own OBC💕
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I am the luckiest💕💖💕 and I’m grateful for this opportunity!
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ARE YOU KIDDING ME😍🤩🌙✨💖
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❤️🔥character art reveal❤️🔥
As we wrap up
#AceWeek
, hit just SIX MONTHS FROM TODAY till To a Darker Shore releases, and make the e-ARC available for request on NetGalley, I’m thrilled to share this artwork by
@littlelundmark
of Alesta and Kyrian❤️🔥
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I both support authors posting their own hot selfies and wrote an entire book about the dangers of moralizing beauty and injustice/ableism of pretty privilege
owning your confidence? yes! the industry trading on looks? that’s a disappointed dad sigh from me
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Obligatory "I'm participating in
#PitMad
tomorrow" tweet! I super appreciate any boosting💖 RT and comment (and heck I promise I don't even mind stray likes) if you want to support a fierce fat protagonist with this energy!
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WE CLOSED ON OUR NEW HOME
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look I stoutly believe authors don’t belong in review spaces and reviewers need to feel free to say what they think, and I greatly appreciate the work of volunteers supporting children’s books, but this is still affiliated with a national book council. with these stated values:
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🌙💖✨I’m beyond thrilled that Prayer will be in Fae Crate’s September box! The artwork they’ve created for the cover and card are both absolute dreams!!🌙💖✨
✨SEPTEMBER BOOK REVEAL✨
We are including A Prayer For Vengeance by
@lifebreakingin
w/ an ALL-NEW cover with beautiful jacket with foiling details by
@nearixx
, a signed bookplate, and an author letter in our September "Stone Cold" crate! ✨
SHOP HERE:
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I know
#PitchWars
is never easy, with the massive rewrites, late nights, etc, but this year’s cohort did it all with no childcare/schools/coffeeshops/libraries, and through the stress and grief of a pandemic and especially scary politics. And my fellow mentees’ books are STUNNING
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Hi
#PWPoePrompts
! I’m Leanne, a 2020 mentee currently working on a new YA fantasy with a plus-size autistic shepherdess who steals the sky, a demi hero, chub rub in the furnace of hell, monster kissing, and the biggest game of the floor is lava ever🔥
#PitchWars
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saw my book in the store for the first time and definitely didn’t yell and cry!!💖
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please bake up okay please bake up okay
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Serious offer, friends, if you didn't see your name on that
#PitchWars
list & need someone to vent to, I have a strong cone of silence, virtual hugs/tissues/chocolate, & real words of support, and am happy to help with any last-minute prep if you're subbing to
#AuthorMentorMatch
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just spelled silhouette right on the first try please clap
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🌙✨YELLING check out this STUNNING cosplay of Gia and Prayer's cover by @/thecalicoqueen!!🔥🔥🔥
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whew To a Darker Shore’s release week and Yallwest are in the bag, time for a little break and—NOPE JUST KIDDING ANNOUNCEMENT TIME🎉🇬🇧🔥
My debut adult romcom My Kind of Trouble, about a conwoman falling for an autistic librarian fighting book bans, is coming to the UK!!
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mostly not a person today but a quick reminder before
#AutismAcceptanceMonth
is over that you can preorder my debut with an autistic hero, do it for Milo he may not be an actual sanct but he protects small children and feeds stray cats and stray murder statues
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🌟IT’S A STAR FOR TO A DARKER SHORE!! Thank you to Booklist for this lovely review; my heart is so full and I hope readers find Kyrian and Alesta’s story just as resonant when it releases next month❤️🔥
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someday it will be my book
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Someone who dressed as her own comic superhero last night is super excited about her new Zodiac Starforce shirt
@PlinaGanucheau
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I finally get to share PRAYER's gorgeous cover with you all later this month!
Sign up for the Page Street Kids newsletter to see it first, and the rest of the Fall 23 covers, and for a chance to win some books!!
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anyone care to join me in a primal scream
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@HMack3
@ChristineBK4
@AliceOllstein
I didn't know this until recently, but causing mental harm and forcibly removing children are part of the definition of genocide per the United Nations
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autistic hero + confident af fat heroine
grumpy idealist + sunshine cynic
sweet romance + open-door spice
autistic masking + she just always lies
fake dating but only one knows it's fake + oops it's not fake
melty ice cream cones + fogged up glasses
= Liar romcom!
#PitLight
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in that landscape, Elle McNicoll’s books are a gift. female autistic rep has been vanishingly rare until recent years. and this is what she faces as an author—a platformed reviewer having/voicing that initial reaction, before being able to acknowledge her mastery as a storyteller
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ya publishing actually care about teen readers challenge
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Just a general reminder to be careful when finding CPs and sharing your work. It's so important to build your writing community, but you want to work with people who behave professionally online/IRL, and find positive partners for your writing journey💕
#AuthorMentorMatch
#AMMfam
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🌙PRAYER PREORDER CAMPAIGN✨
Very excited to at last share full details of all the beautiful character art and other goodies you can receive when you preorder or request your library purchase A PRAYER FOR VENGEANCE:
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✨hi friends I'm Leanne I write YA fantasy with vengeful girls and soft boys, murder statues and monsters, autistic, fat, and demi rep—as well as adult romance with slightly less crime and way more kissing
#WritersOfTwitter
can we bring this back? it was so much fun! (re)introduce yourself with
#writersoftwitter
! 👀💜
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