Cassandra Jeanne Farrin
SFF writer, poet & folklorist (rep: Thais Afonso & Jen Azantian) 👾 Director, Erewhon Books 📚 Shin Buddhist & adoptive parent of 3 w/my twin sis 🍵 Guilty of writing in my journals AND my books. 🫣 Clarion West NWW ‘25.
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- Reposted by Cassandra Jeanne Farrinyou will have to pry the millennial “lol” from my cold dead hands. i don’t know how else to express minor despair. if i didn’t say “lol” after admitting i’m a husk inside, i’d have to develop emotional resilience, and i simply don’t have time for that
- Reposted by Cassandra Jeanne FarrinSo honored to share that It’s All In Your Head got a Kirkus Starred Review!! ⭐️
- and then there’s the variation where you’re standing awkwardly in the doorway until your secret hockey boyfriend says, “come stay in my caaaabin, it’s private, we’ll have a great time” and then the nurse comes in and asks if she should be worried you’re going to smother him with a pillow
- Reposted by Cassandra Jeanne FarrinWe asked @lavanya.bsky.social for her best book of '25, the book she'd love for Xmas & her anticipated read of '26. Read the full article: geni.us/SolarisBks2025 to find out why she picked @slhuang.com @robertjbennett.bsky.social @samitbasu.bsky.social & more! geni.us/killingspell
- Adored #SongSungBlue, especially the performance of Kate Hudson! This movie was so, so unbelievably kind in its handling of the real difficulties faced by low-income families, yet it was woven into this incredibly fun, singable, nostalgic story of Neil Diamond fandom, too. Fantastic.
- Reposted by Cassandra Jeanne FarrinKate Hudson in her best performance is as Claire in Song Sung Blue. Jackman did a pretty good Neil Diamond but I loved him for the human side of Mike. A great Christmas movie for us.
- Reposted by Cassandra Jeanne FarrinAll my awards-eligible 2025 publications!! It’s been a good publishing year. Thanks to @titanbooks.bsky.social @spotifyforauthors.bsky.social @nightmare-magazine.com @crepuscularmag.bsky.social @thedeadlands.com @khoreo.bsky.social @horrortree.com for sharing my stories & essays with the world! 🖤🖤🖤
- Reposted by Cassandra Jeanne FarrinTalking to one of these types at a con who asked how I 'got in' with so many 'famous writers' who I'd been talking to and I said "we made friends before anyone knew who we were decades ago by striking up interesting conversations and enjoying each other's company" and he kept re-asking the question.
- They have come to the convention hoping to "break in" and then find themselves -- shocker! -- a "nobody in the book world." Yeah no shit! We all are! I have gently told guys like this a million times that it takes most of us *years* of hard work but they do not believe that could be true for them. +
- If you’re someone who doesn’t emote much, Shane is so relatable. The real thought is always the undercurrent, whereas Ilya says the emotional part out loud. But then Ilya never calls him on it, like, “Hey, you said to be honest with each other.” He KNOWS that this IS Shane being open. #heatedrivalry
- Reposted by Cassandra Jeanne Farrinshane being gobsmacked at ilya calling himself his boyfriend after they professed their love and shane literally mapped out a whole 10 year twelve step plan for them to be together forever like you have to laugh #HeatedRivalry
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- Reposted by Cassandra Jeanne FarrinTo add to this - THE MEMORY HUNTERS is not inspired by the Middle Ages. Valerian IV does not wear plate armor. But she does have a sword, is sworn to guard her charge, and went to combat school. And I wrote her specifically to fulfill the princess/knight trope. Sapphically.
- Reposted by Cassandra Jeanne FarrinMAD SISTERS OF ESI is eligible for awards this season:
- Reposted by Cassandra Jeanne Farrinwow apparently it's """"""""unacceptable"""""""" to say "I'm always a slut for maple bars" in a professional context
- Reposted by Cassandra Jeanne Farrin“Reiner, 78, was an avuncular public figure through it all … a quietly brilliant force in the industry, producing the kind of intelligent, varied #films no one could have expected from a man audiences once knew best as ‘Meathead’.” www.theatlantic.com/culture/2025... #RIP #RobReiner
- I had a friendship (situationship?) just like this one, and I’ve always been grateful to this movie for capturing how it felt. Loved many of his other shows, as well, but this was my personal favorite. RIP, Rob & Michelle.
- When Harry Met Sally… Quite possibly the best rom-com ever made. #RobReiner
- “Love the monster breeding inside you and slaughter him with love. Love the shipwreck of your body, your mind’s salted garden…” Exactly what I needed today. 💕 @themarginalian.org.web.brid.gy www.themarginalian.org/2025/12/10/j...
- Reposted by Cassandra Jeanne FarrinIn a new interview with @mcflycahill90.bsky.social, @victormanibo.com discusses Filipino history, "gloomth", and what drew him to gothic horror with his latest novel The Villa, Once Beloved!
- Reposted by Cassandra Jeanne FarrinMy love for em dashes is as old as the hills and as mighty as my inability to make a transition between thoughts literally any other way and I will be damned if I let the clankers take that from me
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Happy #caturday from Fitzwilliam Darcy, whose good opinion once lost is lost forever (except if you give him chin scritches) - Reposted by Cassandra Jeanne FarrinThe Wind in the Willows illustration by Inga Moore
- Reposted by Cassandra Jeanne FarrinMost economists agree that by age 50, you should: - own at least one magic sword - get advice from an enchanted bear skull - be covered by a thin layer of moss & lichen - disappear into a malevolent fog once a month - become a creature of myth & legend in the old forest
- Reposted by Cassandra Jeanne FarrinTHE CURSE OF HESTER GARDENS in "a must-read" debut perfect for fans of Tananarive Due and Johnny Compton. Tamika Thompson delivers a gripping domestic horror about motherhood, grief, and the ghosts born of injustice. Learn more about the book here: bit.ly/47EsdEo #EWGC
- I finished reading DEMON SONG by Kelsea Yu, and it was a beautiful take on diaspora experience and Chinese opera and completely delivered on the Phantom of the Opera (but make it sapphic)! Very sensual with some intense body horror moments, done beautifully. www.kelseayu.com/demon-song
- @anovelescape.bsky.social I truly loved it! 🖤💕💀
- Reposted by Cassandra Jeanne FarrinThank you to everyone at the #NO_KINGS rallies for making your voices heard & being part of history. The massive crowds were joyful, passionate & spectacular! So were the signs...
- I finished my novel draft today!!!!!!! This was a project for which I wrote the earliest words several years ago, so it was especially emotional to see it finally reach completion. 💙
- Reposted by Cassandra Jeanne FarrinThis is Idaho 💙
- Reposted by Cassandra Jeanne FarrinJust finished listening to A Philosophy of Thieves by @franwilde.bsky.social I did not plan on finishing it this quickly, but was swept away. It was loads of fun with loads of fascinating characters. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/781353...
- Reposted by Cassandra Jeanne Farrinand here's a static cover reveal post for people who want to skip the book trailer and/or hate videos! cover art by Lucy Rose THE LORD OF THE WOOD releases in July 2026, from @hanoversquarepress.bsky.social! #author preorder now: gatheringvolumes.com/item/44euZQq...
- Reposted by Cassandra Jeanne FarrinI’m so excited to share news of my book deal!. Many thanks to the great @frecklywench.bsky.social at Aevitas Creative!. I’m thrilled to be working with @viengsamai.bsky.social , @mcflycahill90.bsky.social and the rest of the team at @erewhonbooks.bsky.social and @kensingtonbooks.bsky.social !
- Utterly in love with this pitch!
- Loving this setting AND the music magic!
- this sounds amazing as hell (complimentary)
- Straith has a disarmingly charming narrative voice that takes you somewhere unexpected every time. 💙
- I had the privilege of reading excerpts of this novel as part of the Clarion Novel Workshop. Uniquely voiced and so vibrant! Agent friends, I hope you’ll check this one out!
- WE SANG DOWN THE EMPIRE 85,000 Word #Spaceopera 🛸 Nesamma Abbas, a washed-up alien musician, 🎸 joins a rebel rock band to take down the Human Empire ✨with a martial art of sound ⚡🎶 .😢She must confront her pain, 🧘♀️ Master her powers ⚔️ & choose: revolution ❤️ or redemption #WOC #Asian #SFF #DVpit
- Reposted by Cassandra Jeanne FarrinIf you haven't read The Unbroken by CL Clark, it's brilliant and on sale for $4.99 at Kobo (and presumably elsewhere). SO GOOD + the final bk in the trilogy just came out! Highly rec'd. Military fantasy deeply immersed in colonialism, two mesmerizing women, a queen and a conscript soldier. SO GOOD.
- Reposted by Cassandra Jeanne FarrinMoodboard for my reimagining of the Titanic in space! 🚀🛳️🪐 Seren, a famous aerial silks performer and acrobat, once believed the Sungrazer was her ticket to a new life. Now she's not sure the ship will ever reach. [TITANIC in space x CARAVEL] #DVParty #SF #Mys #A #Asian #ND
- Reposted by Cassandra Jeanne FarrinEMILY WILDE X SANGU MANDANNA X GHIBLI very late to Day 1 of #DVParty, but here's my contemporary grounded fantasy about mythical flora and fauna in SEAsia 🌺 academic rivals-to-lovers x found family 🌺 love letter to/critique of academia 🌺 deadly forest, but also bakery, and everything cozy
- The posts starting to accumulate for #DVpit are looking really exciting! Fingers crossed for you all!
- Reposted by Cassandra Jeanne FarrinHappy #DVparty day 1, y’all! Here’s a moodboard for my Arab folklore-inspired YA contemporary fantasy featuring: 🗡a stabby ace girl who sees jinn 🏔️a hidden magical realm 💕a tight-knit Lebanese American family 🗝️secrets, banter, and (gasp!) betrayal 💫anxiety/OCD themes #YA #F
- Reposted by Cassandra Jeanne FarrinMood board for the Vietnamese gothic fairy tale retelling I've been practice pitching this week for DVpit! Think the vibes were worth all the nights of writing until 2am? 👀 #DVparty #storyaesthetic
- Reposted by Cassandra Jeanne FarrinThe dark fantasy “Metal from Heaven” by August Clarke is very good. A political revolution against capitalism led by a lesbian bandit biker gang - it’s bloody, queer, intense, visceral, & sensual. Lyrical prose with Mad Max frenetic energy. 🌈📚
- 🎉🎉🎉 Congratulations to the 2025 Lambda Literary Award Winner for LGBTQ+ Speculative Fiction: Metal From Heaven by August Clarke! 🎉🎉🎉 @sapphomancer.bsky.social @erewhonbooks.bsky.social @kensingtonbooks.bsky.social #Lammys2025 #LammyAwards
- Fuck yes, WE LOVE TO SEE IT!!!!! 💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜
- 🎉🎉🎉 Congratulations to the 2025 Lambda Literary Award Winner for LGBTQ+ Speculative Fiction: Metal From Heaven by August Clarke! 🎉🎉🎉 @sapphomancer.bsky.social @erewhonbooks.bsky.social @kensingtonbooks.bsky.social #Lammys2025 #LammyAwards
- Reposted by Cassandra Jeanne FarrinHi authors! Please remember to file a claim!
- For those of you interested in joining the next cohort of the Clarion Novel-Writing Workshop, see my fellow cohort member Jen Brown’s notes on her experience! THIS! ⭐️💜
- Ahem...might I offer you some joy, in these trying times? Applications for @clarionwest.bsky.social's 2026 Novel Writing Workshop open soon. So, I wrote about my application experience & programmatic takeaways, thus far. If you're thinking about applying? Do it. ✊🏾 jencbrown.com/2025/09/27/o...
- I have 3 chapters left to draft in my manuscript, but I couldn’t resist picking up ALIEN OCEANS to begin research for the new novel trying to coax my attention away. (Thank goodness both MSS & my Clarion NWW cohort are prepared to yell at me to FINISH THE DRAFT. I need you guys to keep me honest.)
- Reposted by Cassandra Jeanne FarrinHey #DVparty! Here’s the moodboard for my #SpaceOpera WE SANG DOWN THE EMPIRE. Washed-up alien musician Nesamma Abbas joins a rebel rock band to take down the Human Empire with a martial art of sound. She must confront her pain, master her powers and choose between revolution or redemption.
- Reposted by Cassandra Jeanne Farrini would like to go back to being anxious about irrational, or at least highly improbable, things
- he’s way cooler than me
- I NEED IT!!!!!!
- so excited to announce that my debut poetry collection 🌬️WE IN/EXHALE ODYSSEYS 🌬️will be forthcoming in 2027 with @badhandbooks.bsky.social 👀‼️✨
- Proof of life! I had a wonderful time at #WorldCon2025 last week, met a great many of you, sang sea shanties about spaceships (yes, really!), composed two new poems in the fantastic SF Poetry workshop, worked on my novel with Clarion friends, and will resurrect sometime next year probably. 😴❤️🔥✨
- Reposted by Cassandra Jeanne FarrinI'll admit, I was skeptical when they said Gemini was just like a bunch of PhDs. But I gotta admit they nailed it.
- Brava, @dianapho.bsky.social !!!!! You deserve this and so much more!!!!!! 🎉
- The #HigoAward for Best Editor, Long Form goes to Diana Pho.
- Reposted by Cassandra Jeanne FarrinThrilled to get to talk to students at The High School of Art And Design as part of their launch for the AAPI Club's anthology, "Have You Eaten Yet"! The 28-page collection anthology features stories that illustrates the deep cultural connections between food and history across AAPI communities.
- Reposted by Cassandra Jeanne FarrinToday marks one month of WHEN THE TIDES HELD THE MOON! To celebrate, the team at @erewhonbooks.bsky.social and I pulled together a special behind-the-art featurette about how this fully illustrated historical romantasy was created. I hope you enjoy it! youtu.be/IGHoH9yZYqE?...
- Reposted by Cassandra Jeanne Farrin✨🖤📕BOOK DEAL!! 🌊👻✨ Absolutely thrilled to share that my very first horror novel, STORMRAVEN, will be coming out next spring with @simonandschuster.bsky.social (US) & @titanbooks.bsky.social (UK)!!! 🥳 Thank you @jenazantian.bsky.social, @ed-schlesinger.bsky.social, & @dancarpenter.bsky.social 🧵⏬ 👀
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- Reposted by Cassandra Jeanne FarrinDoing some research: the more I zoom in on these Jan Toorop illustrations, the weirder and awesomer they get!... His Indonesian background echoes through in the Wajang-like figures...
- Boosting!! Will never get over at that gorgeous cover. 🥹
- Good news, North Americans! The Serpent Called Mercy’s ebook is on promo for just $4.99 — monster fights, political intrigue, and found family await. Buy now: astrapublishinghouse.com/product/the-... 📚 Yoink it before the deal ends. Or gift a copy to a friend! Or an enemy, I’m not picky!
- Reposted by Cassandra Jeanne Farrin"Whatever you think of the advent of romantasy onto the SFF scene, be assured that it isn’t a problem to be solved. It’s an opportunity." @readingtheend.bsky.social discusses where romance & romantasy sit within genre–and how to get the right book to the right person: reactormag.com/how-do-you-s...
- Fun things about making books for a living: picking the colors of the case stamp, drawing lil plants for chapter head designs
