Nora Long Bellot

Freelance editor par excellence, Former agent at Writers House LLC. Unrepentant book nerd. (she/her)

[Nora Long Bellot @NoraLong10]

@HubCityPress Editor, primarily developmental, but I’ve done some book coaching too if that’s of interest! https://t.co/JlbD3VisY6

[Anahita Karthik 💌 @ana_scribe]

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[Nora Long Bellot @NoraLong10]

Hey, publishing hivemind: what's your opinion of the f-word in YA? I tend to fall on the side of "probably okay as long as it's in character and not too frequent or gratuitous," but in the current book-banning climate I'd love to see other people's intuitions

[Nora Long Bellot @NoraLong10]

@SecretFormulaNY That's it, thanks! It's kinda become a meme in our relationship lol

[Nora Long Bellot @NoraLong10]

@SecretFormulaNY My wife and I were at the time travel AfterDark in September and can't remember the name of a cartoon. It was a very trippy time-loop episode where everyone was wearing bondage gear. The line "time is in the mind" came up. Do you remember the name?

[Nora Long Bellot @NoraLong10]

@KateAMcMullen So when I'm in the mood to cook I usually look up a fun recipe online to try out, often inspired by an interesting ingredient I found from one of Queens' many multicultural grocery stores. But also the thing I cook most often is my mom's chili recipe lol

[Nora Long Bellot @NoraLong10]

@SWekstein I'm realizing my fave recent adult reads have been more SF than F, but if you're up for that, highly recommend both THE SPACE BETWEEN WORLDS and BATTLE OF THE LINGUIST MAGES (for very different reasons lol)

[Nora Long Bellot @NoraLong10]

@AllieLevick Congratulations!!!!!!

[Nora Long Bellot @NoraLong10]

@smathewss Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line by Deepa Anappara

[Cameron Kellogg @kellogg_camille]

My editor pet peeve (and I promise I’m saying this to be helpful, not to be mean!!) is MG and YA books that are set in the 70s, 80s, or 90s for no reason other than that’s when the author was a kid

[Whores of Yore @WhoresofYore]

In 1922, neighbours heard screams coming from a house in the affluent LA area of Layfette Park. When the police arrived, they found Fred Oesterreich dead & his wife Dolly locked inside in a closet. They were certain Dolly had done it, but they had no idea how.

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[Nora Long Bellot @NoraLong10]

@JsanchezTaylor Surprised nobody’s mentioned @pdjeliclark yet; Haunting of Tram Car 015 is such a cool noir/fantasy world

[Nora Long Bellot @NoraLong10]

@ellievberg @Gap @OldNavy Ewwww

[Nora Long Bellot @NoraLong10]

Look, I like rom-coms, unapologetically. This was a good rom-com, plus it went to a sex-positive, "edgy" place without feeling gratuitous, plus it had some nuanced things to say about how different queer ppl package their identities for the straights, plus the cast was incredible

[Guy Branum @guybranum]

In talking about how cruelly @billyeichner, white, cis, rich, hot- or not-hot-enough-to-be-a-movie-star (depending on who's tweeting) demanded the queer community support his movie, a thing that is rarely mentioned is the rest of the cast.

[Nora Long Bellot @NoraLong10]

@maine_witch Yeah, my mom uses it and she’s from Oklahoma. I grew up in the Chicago area, though, and my impression was it’s a south/southwest thing

[Dr. Heather Rose Jones @heatherosejones]

Seeing that #LGBWithTheT is trending, let me add my bit from the niche angle of an amateur scholar of queer history, focusing on lesbian-adjacent figures.
In my experience and in my opinion, there is no lesbian history without trans history. 1/n

[Nora Long Bellot @NoraLong10]

Okay everything about this is false, but also does JCO think that…only teenagers like character-driven stories? Like, JCO *writes* character-driven stories, are those all YA?

[Emily Thiede @EKTwrites]

I think I just pulled a muscle from how hard I sighed at this take

[Dana Schwartz - on hiatus @DanaSchwartzzz]

Why is anyone wasting their breath arguing that a "mermaid shouldn't be black" when instead you could be talking about the time Hans Christian Andersen showed up as a guest at Charles Dickens's house and absolutely ruined his life for a month straight

[Gabino Iglesias @Gabino_Iglesias]

Hey, here’s an awesome idea: leave it the fuck alone. Now is not a good time.

[Justin Gregg @justindgregg]

It’s publication day for If Nietzsche Were a Narwhal! https://t.co/qGZHs1e0rK a HUGE thank you @pronoydsarkar, @lisadimona, and everyone at @littlebrown!