Jules Nickerson
Writer of horror and dark academia
Rep: Katie Shea Boutillier at Donald Maass
julesnickerson.com
- Reposted by Jules NickersonONE DARK WINDOW X KATABASIS Nocturne Collegiate is celebrated as a sanctuary from warring Queendoms and brutal vampires, but Alyss knows better—its guardian murdered her sister, and now she's come for revenge.🌙🦇⚔️ #QuestPit #OS #AG #YA #F
- Reposted by Jules NickersonWith a little less than two months until the 2025 #SmoochPit Agent Showcase, here's a moodboard & vibes for GUMIHO! I can't wait to share my Korean folklore-inspired adult fantasy blended with strong elements of horror and romance! #writingcommunity #fantasy #urbanfantasy #romance #horror
- Reposted by Jules Nickerson92K - Dual POV - YA FANTASY 🏰 HERS - FANTASY 🛝 Childhood Friends 👭 Sister Bonds 👩🍼 Inherited Magic 🏃♀️➡️ Leap, Then Look 💋 Kiss, Marry, or Kill? 🧌 HIS - HORROR 💑 Childhood Sweethearts 💕 Self-Sacrificing Loyalty 💀 Soul Selling 🤔 Anxious, Overthinker 🫀 Cannibal Witch #Bluepit #bluepit📖#YA #Fantasy
- Reposted by Jules NickersonAn #editorsguide to 🌲THE LAND OF UNDYING SUMMER🌲 This romantic fantasy has: 🐻❄️ Canadian subarctic inspired setting 🌋Roots in animistic religion ⚡️A physics based magic system 👵🏽 Crotchety immortals 🏠 Complex family dynamics 🌎 Accessible worldbuilding #bluepit📖 #A #F #R #FR #OS soon 👀
- Reposted by Jules NickersonA DOWRY OF BLOOD x THE BACHELOR Holland only agrees to date Dracula on TV to boost her influencer career. When producer manipulation goes too far, she tries to leave, but finds the eliminated girls haven’t been sent home—they’ve been fed on. #BluePit 📖 #A #H #W #HU
- Reposted by Jules NickersonI’m thrilled to finally share the updated guide to my gothic horror novel, THE BANSHEE OF CLAN MURTAGH. Now revised through the 2025 SmoochPit Mentorship program! 🖤 Medieval Ireland 🖤 She's the monster 🖤 Bubonic plague 🖤 Only one grave #agentsguide #gothic #horrormance
- Reposted by Jules NickersonNYT offers a survey of the state of book publishing that feels hopeful. Also a nice mention for the newly-launched horror store, Twisted Spine. This is a gift article. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/30/b...
- Last Call for Mass Market Paperbacks "According to Circana BookScan, mass market unit sales plunged from 131 million in 2004 to 21 million in 2024, a drop of about 84%, and sales this year through October were about 15 million units." www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
- Congrats Zilla!! The blood and sweat was worth it🩸🩸🩸
- They say the final act is the hardest to survive. After a lot of blood, sweat, and eleventh-hour decisions, I’m beyond thrilled to announce that I’m now represented by @alexbrownwrites.bsky.social at Mad Woman Literary Agency! I can't wait to work on making Hotel Adair even more deadly.
- Taking a break from the keyboard this week...
- Reposted by Jules NickersonExcited to announce that Our Elsewhere has won the general fiction category for the 2025 Book Pipeline Unpublished contest! bookpipeline.com/winners Honored they recognized Our Elsewhere--a speculative fiction where a widow journeys across worlds via death to find and save her husband.
- Reposted by Jules NickersonI'm going to do a little thread on how the money from books works for traditionally published authors because people have questions, and this is always useful info to share IMO. First, a big disclaimer that every contract is different, and there are a million factors that can change things. 1/
- Reposted by Jules NickersonSourcebooks is the fifth-largest trade publisher as measured by print books sold, breaking the dominance of the biggest conglomerates for the first time since Bookscan started> lunch.publishersmarketplace.com/2025/11/sour...
- Reposted by Jules NickersonTALK TO ME x THE GIRLS ARE ALL SO NICE HERE x CABIN IN THE WOODS * dual timeline * tarot & ouija boards & seances * OBX setting * bachelorette weekend with a body count * best friends forever (as a curse)
- Reposted by Jules NickersonSimon & Schuster Executive Fiction Publisher @phoebeannmorgan.bsky.social joins us to talk about the decisions that go into acquiring and marketing books. Plus, what happens in auctions and why she started The Honest Editor Substack! Watch now: youtu.be/SJXs6kut_EU Or listen: linktr.ee/ukpageone
- Reposted by Jules Nickerson“TWC Live! Literary Agents on Publishing in a Time of Unrest” premieres TONIGHT at 7:00 p.m. ET! See @frecklywench.bsky.social, of Aevitas Creative Management, Danya Kukafka of Trellis Literary Management, and @ericsmithrocks.bsky.social of Neighborhood Literary on AWP’s YouTube channel.
- Reposted by Jules Nickersonwould love to expand my CP network! esp for my adult fantasy: WILL OF THE MANY X NAUSICAA After conjuring the ghost of bone magic's inventor, uni student Aris attracts the attention of an undead professor who would kill to keep the secret of magic's origins buried. #FiFRevPit #WritingCommunity
- I am so thrilled to announce that I am now represented by Katie Shea Boutillier at Donald Maass Literary Agency! I am looking forward to working together on IVORY TOWER, a psychological horror and dark academia novel.
- What I’m reading this weekend: Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield It’s a horror novel about a woman who returns from a catastrophic deep-sea mission but is no longer the same. #BookSky
- Reposted by Jules NickersonWant to work on tension, character & querying - for free? Check out our #MSWL live replay from last week! One attendee said “I feel like I just had an entire MFA course. Except MFA programs get snooty about 'genre fiction.' " Check it out! manuscriptacademy.com/mswl-live-ag...
- Reposted by Jules NickersonManuscript wishlists are live! We recommend popping over to our website to peruse mentor profiles before mentee applications open on Nov 6th 👀 Important note: Contrary to previous rounds, we are only accepting complete manuscripts this year! www.roundtablementor.com/mentors
- Reposted by Jules NickersonNot to be THAT dictionary, but… It’s ‘per se,’ not ‘per say.’ It’s ‘dog-eat-dog world,’ not ‘doggy-dog world.’ It’s ‘hunger pangs,’ not ‘hunger pains.’ It’s ‘one and the same,’ not ‘one in the same.’ It's 'buck naked,' not 'butt naked.'
- Visited a castle yesterday for some writing inspiration... #WritingCommunity
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- The NYPL horror committee read more than 150 titles published since last Halloween to select their 20 favorites: #BookSky #horror www.nypl.org/books-more/r...
