James Schannep

Author of Social Vampire (shortlist 2023 Bath Novel Awards) & the @clickyourpoison interactive gamebook series. Approximately 3% famous. Seeking new rep!

[James Schannep @JamesSchannep]

Books I'm #querying, a 🧵

(a bit about me: my previous agent, Kesia Lupo @ Donald Maass, changed careers and I'm now seeking new rep. Writer of teen & adult Sci-Fi, contemporary, dystopian, interactive fiction, and some horror)

[James Schannep @JamesSchannep]

@Kestrel_Bates Glad to hear it. Good luck in the trenches!

[James Schannep @JamesSchannep]

Please don't do this. Your audience is not a single agent. The right rep will believe in your voice.

[Kestrel Bates is Querying @Kestrel_Bates]

The deeper I get into the querying trenches the more interesting it becomes. Are any querying authors out there sending out different versions of their manuscript based on the agent's tastes? I just learned this is a thing a may give it a try. 😁
#WritingCommunity #AmQuerying

[James Schannep @JamesSchannep]

@sanchez_m_m My pen name will be "Award Winning" and we can co-write the book!

[James Schannep @JamesSchannep]

What if I write a novel called "Best" and sell copies of it directly, thus making me a Best-selling author?

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[James Schannep @JamesSchannep]

@WzWritaObscura Me, showing up for the premiere, ready for Oscar Weiner puns.

[John Doomer @jonathandoomer]

I’m not anti-AI.

I like MRI machines. I like collision avoidance systems in airplanes. I like software that can detect cancer before a doctor can. I like machine vision systems that stop factory workers from getting their hands crushed in hydraulic presses.

That’s what computers are supposed to do.

Cold. Precise. Mechanical.

I don’t need a technology to “express itself.”

The problem started when Silicon Valley decided the machine should paint. The machine should write poetry. The machine should compose symphonies and generate films and imitate the human soul like a skinwalker wearing a beret.

Now every ad, every song, every image online has this faint chemical aftertaste to it. Like the entire culture is being slowly replaced with synthetic substitutes because executives realized audiences consume slop at the same rate they consume art.

And the worst part is they call this “democratizing creativity.”

No. Creativity was already democratized. A guy with a guitar and 3 friends in a garage could make something beautiful. A college kid with a cracked copy of Photoshop could make an album cover that changed someone’s life.

What they actually democratized was content production.

Factories. Throughput. Infinite generation.

A machine can diagnose my low testosterone. Fine.

I just don’t want it writing the eulogy.

[James Schannep @JamesSchannep]

It's Vennsday.

[James Schannep @JamesSchannep]

@JessicaGraceLit I'm very much in the dark part of this journey. Book died on sub, agent changed careers. Still looking for a way forward and trying to figure everything out.

[James Schannep @JamesSchannep]

@MG_Whitmarsh Thanks so much! And congratulations again on your win :D

[James Schannep @JamesSchannep]

Part of the fun of the @bathnovelaward Children's Award is that Junior Judges pick the shortlist. Check out my favorite line from the feedback I received!

A heartfelt THANK YOU to Caroline Ambrose and the BNA team and to judge Clare Wallace for her kind words. @LitAgentClare

[James Schannep @JamesSchannep]

Proud to say I was shortlisted for the 2025 Bath Children's Novel Award for my MG novel. Congratulations to the winner and my fellow listees! Additionally, the YA novel I'm querying received honorable mention in the Top 100 of 2,401 entries 🏆
#BathNovelAwards

[James Schannep @JamesSchannep]

@beggug1 Thanks so much!

[James Schannep @JamesSchannep]

Proud to say I was shortlisted for the 2025 Bath Children's Novel Award for my MG novel. Congratulations to the winner and my fellow listees! Additionally, the YA novel I'm querying received honorable mention in the Top 100 of 2,401 entries 🏆
#BathNovelAwards

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@TomNotes1 Thanks!

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@Isaackery Thanks! Remember, these things are very subjective. 2400 labors of love were submitted 📖

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@slyvestang Thanks!

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@AuthorKaybee Thank you 😊

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@postler Thanks! 💪💪💪

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@JohnRobieIsBack Thanks, Mark!

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@p_m_sylvestre Much appreciated!

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@NatalieO73314 Thank you!

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@Soph__Pl Thanks, Soph! I appreciate the support 🙏