Rachel Diebel 🌻

BA @PLUNEWS, MS @PaceUniversity || OR➡️NY || Editor @FeiwelFriends/@SquareFishBooks || Opinions mine, esp. the hockey ones || she/her || 💖💜💙

[jade @arsnlism]

happy pride month

[raCquel marie✨updates @blondewithab00k]

my books are perfect for fans of yellowjackets:

❤️‍🔥queer teens trying to survive by whatever means during a rabies-induced zombie apocalypse
💜gay soccer

[Rachel Diebel 🌻 @diebelra]

I only tweet stat updates now, apparently.

Total '24 subs: 299
I've responded to all thru the end of Oct except one (277 of 299)
Acquired 6 bks (one 2 bk deal) - 2 debuts & 2 returning authors, 3 YA, 3 GNs. Lost 2 projects. Two submissions pending further action in the new year

[Britney 🍉 🥀PREORDER BLOOD MOON🥀 @britneyslewis]

Its awkward and uncomfortable when someone asks me why—if im traditionally published—they cant find my books in their local stores. And, here’s why….
(Full video: https://t.co/x3vsRqNYA1)

[Rachel Chinouriri @rachelchinourir]

If being hard on yourself worked, it would've worked by now

[Allegra Martschenko *On bluesky @AllegraMartsch]

STEM dark academia.

[soph! @shesdrawingaces]

ok which one of you did this

[raCquel marie✨updates @blondewithab00k]

COVER REVEAL 🧟‍♀️🔪

designed by: Abby Granata
illustrated by: @nicole_rifkin

so excited to share the gory gorgeous glorious cover for my zombie apocalypse grief ocd book ❤️‍🩹

IF WE SURVIVE THIS 6.17.25
preorder!: https://t.co/kHElJJWzzr

[micha 🎀 @mewgami]

CLOCK IT.

[Rachel Diebel 🌻 @diebelra]

#MSWL obviously

[raCquel marie✨updates @blondewithab00k]

it’s #SapphicSeptember & #BiVisibilityMonth so may I interest anyone in:

🧡coming out/of age set during prom & grad prep
💚sapphic soccer rivals forced to co-captain a team to lovers
💜estranged childhood best friends reconnect years after their friend’s death (bi boy/pan girl)

[Krys ࣪ ִֶָ ⊹ @loveinalemonpie]

— books written by filipino authors 🇵🇭

these books shed light on filipino folklore, myths, culture, political landscape, history, diaspora + immigrant experience, and slice of life

more recs are linked in the thread 🫶🏼

[2024 Debuts @2024Debuts]

Summer may be ending soon, but the #2024Debuts August releases are just heating up!

[The Word | A Storytelling Sanctuary @wordisdiversity]

Meet our Young Adult Fiction Editor-Mentor @diebelra Rachel is an editor at @FeiwelFriends, acquiring middle grade, young adult, and graphic novels. Applications are open! Read the FAQs. Applications close Sunday, 8/4 at 11:59 pm US Denver MT. Apply here: https://t.co/QJp7tWu1UX

[Rachel Diebel 🌻 @diebelra]

I overdid it a tiny bit on acquisitions in the early part of 2023, so that's part of why you're seeing a lower number this year. My capacity was too close to max 😅

[Rachel Diebel 🌻 @diebelra]

It's halfway through the year so it's STATS SEASON!

Jan-July submissions in 2024: 170 (more than 1 per working day...)

Acquisitions: 2 option projects (YA & GN), 1 debut author (YA, 2 book deal), 1 new GN pending (YA)

Responded to all subs through May 15th (with 1 exception)

[Rachel Diebel 🌻 @diebelra]

Compare to 2023 stats for this same time period:

Jan-July submissions: About the same, 175

Acquisitions: 3 option projects (PB, YA, MG) , 2 debut GNs (1 from a '22 sub, MG & YA), 1 new-to-me YA author, 3 bk debut MG series (from '22 sub)

[Lindsay Gibbs @linzsports]

Sending so much love to queer USWNT fans and especially especially trans USWNT fans because this is some bullshit!!! I believe in grace and second chances but that comes with accountability and education, not coddling.

[Rachel Diebel 🌻 @diebelra]

Just made a big stride towards adulthood and dropped out of the Spotify family plan I've been in with one college friend and 4 absolute strangers since 2016

[Rachel Diebel 🌻 @diebelra]

THAT'S MY FRIEND EMILY! AND HER AUTHOR!

[Eugene Lee Yang @EugeneLeeYang]

author era ✍🏼📚🏳️‍🌈 @MacmillanUSA