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Zilla Novikov (she/her) is on her fourth iteration of living through this timeline, and she's starting to get the hang of it. She compiled the sum total of her wisdom into The Sad Bastard Cookbook: Food You Can Make So You Don't Die, which she co-authored with Rachel A. Rosen. Query, on the other hand, contains no wisdom whatsoever. ...more

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The Haunting of Modesto O'Brien: A Novel by Brit Griffin. The illustration shows two back to back figures in cowboy hats. In between them is what looks like a red flame and the silhouette of a cowboy on a horse.


Rachel: Joining us today is Brit Griffin to talk about her novel, the Haunting of Modesto O’Brien! Brit, tell us about your work!

Brit: A gothic tale from deep within the boreal forest…

Violence and greed have intruded into a wild and remote land. It’s 1907, and silver feve

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“As far as I can tell, activism is composed of meetings, spreadsheets, and arts and crafts.”
Zilla Novikov, Query

“One of the questions you ask writers to answer in their Query Tracker submissions to you is "Why are you querying me?" and I don’t know how to break this to you, but it’s because you’re an agent.”
Zilla Novikov, Query

“Your agency bio states that you’re looking for great books but life is hard, Alister Tylte, and sometimes you have to settle for what you can get. Sometimes you’re someone’s McGill, but sometimes you’re their safety school, and that’s okay. I believe my book is a book, and you should probably be satisfied with that for your list.”
Zilla Novikov, Query

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“a damn roach…[that] scuttled around just like Nate; reappearing, existing forever, never dying. Like Twinkies. So bad, yet deeply desired.”
Rachel Corsini, Sushi and Sea Lions

“But maybe healing from the wound on my foot was just the beginning. Maybe I still needed to heal the wound on my heart, too.”
Rachel Corsini, Sushi and Sea Lions

“I couldn't believe this was happening. That I could possibly be everything Vinny wanted. That this was real life and I was here being carried to Vinny's bed like a princess. Like his princess.”
Rachel Corsini, Sushi and Sea Lions

“I used to be alive, filled with fire, consuming the world like tomorrow might never come. I relished a good love story, the exertion of leaping across a ballet studio, the sighs a piece of art could emit from me. Since the injury, since my heartbreak, I'd lost my desire. It was time to find it again and the Billys weren't doing the trick.”
Rachel Corsini, Sushi and Sea Lions

“I glanced over at...Billy? I think his name was Billy. If it was, he'd be the third one since the walking boot came off. Like the Three Billy Goats Gruff. Trip trap, trip trap right into my bed. Especially after one too many Pinot Grigios.”
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