Calenn Lithgow Writes 🌊🌲

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Writer, moongazer, dyke 🌊 sci-fi 🌌|🌲fantasy🧚🏼‍♂️|🔻always queer🏳️‍🌈 On Submission: BRIGHTER THAN TWO MOONS Website & Blog: calennlithgow.com Represented by Kim Carson-Bodie at Susan Schulman Literary Agency (they/them)

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Cover page for the pitch deck; a ship sailing a tumultuous ocean against a night-blue starry sky that features two moons and a comet chasing the sailboat. One moon is ringed by debris left over from an asteroid strike. Text reads: BRIGHTER THAN TWO MOONS Apparently saving the world is a group project, and Lyr is captain of this sinking ship. Adult sapphic science fiction; a first-contact adventure at sea. 107,000 words. Authored by Calenn Lithgow, represented by Kim Carson at Susan Schulman Literary Agency.
Book of the month for July goes to SONG OF THE HUNTRESS. It will compete with my next august read to advance to the next tier.
Pothos plant hanging by a window near a decorative wall fabric hanging
Cover for the book *Song of the Huntress* by Lucy Holland
Picture of the entrance to an IMAX theatre showing The Odyssey
Éowyn looking horrified and harassed on the battle field, with the caption “How your email finds me”
Book cover for THE CHILDREN OF GODS AND FIGHTING MEN by Shauna Lawless, decorated with a combination of Celtic- and Viking-style swords, axes, ravens, fire, and vines.
Sokka and Zuko looking a little too self satisfied.
Book of the Year Bracket, showing the top books I’ve read from Jan - Jun, with TBR brackets for July - December. All are competing for top slot. First half of the year: Jan: Where the Axe is Buried v Feb: Hild. Hild wins. Mar: The Salt Stones vs Apr: The Wolf and the Woodsman. The Salt Stone wins. May: The Lost Queen vs Jun: The Devourers. The Devourers win. Third tier: Hild vs Salt Stones vs Devourers. Hild and Salt Stones advance. A note saying "this is hard" and Hild by Nicola Griffith wins. Brackets will continue from July - Dec to similarly compete for Best Second Half of Year, competing with Hild for Calenn's Book of the Year.
A picture of a toad (or a frog? Im not a biologist!!) sheltering from rainfall beneath a large, tall mushroom.
WIP Snip set against a misty lake surrounded by trees. The project title is Mist over Runefire. The WIPSnip word of the day is Quarter. WIP snip text reads: “Why have they enclosed the springs?” Taelyn demanded. “This was once open to the seasons.” Vrainskya wasn’t sure they would call this enclosed. Stone, carved into square blocks, did provide four walls and a roof. But wide openings, free from shutters, provided views across the sea to the west and into a small garden to their east. Archways with no door opened to breezeways and courtyards. But the Elfra of the Golden Wood was right in some ways; it did protect them from the delicate rainfall that had just descended upon Alažana. Vrainskya slipped free of their clothes. Their pack, bow, and arrows had already been taken by an elfra of the Sun Drenched Throne to quarters where they would spend the evening. The hot spring’s water tingled against their skin as they sunk into a carved, smooth depression in the floor. “This is why you have all lost your aesria,” Taelyn declared. “You turn your back on the rest of the world, sectioning yourself off from wildkin. How can you expect to be a part of the stream when you have planted yourselves miles from from the water?”
Picture of a sailboat sailing against a sea and a starry sky with the manuscript title, BRIGHTER THAN TWO MOONS. Author: Calenn Lithgow. Agent: Kim Carson at Susan Schulman Literary Agency. On submission: Adult Sapphic Sci Fi at 104,000 words.
Picture of a sailboat sailing against a sea and a starry sky with the manuscript title, BRIGHTER THAN TWO MOONS. Author: Calenn Lithgow. Agent: Kim Carson at Susan Schulman Literary Agency. On submission: Adult Sapphic Sci Fi at 104,000 words.
Picture of a sailboat sailing against a sea and a starry sky with the manuscript title, BRIGHTER THAN TWO MOONS. Author: Calenn Lithgow. Agent: Kim Carson at Susan Schulman Literary Agency. On submission: Adult Sapphic Sci Fi at 104,000 words.
Storefront that reads “GAI CHICKEN & RICE” with a rainbow flag in the window.
Video of a very tall (10’) flowering bush with dozens of bees landing on clusters of flowers. Sound is faint but if you increase sound, you can hear the buzz!
Picture of me (Calenn) wearing a loud-patterned button down shirt.
Work in progress map made using Inkarnate, with a sea to the east, human + elvish settlements, vast forests, mountain ranges, and rivers
A picture of two crunch wraps in Taco Bell packaging on a counter with a waterfall of excessive hot sauce packages (more than 20, probably less than 50) cascading between them.
WIP Snip excerpt reads: A wet grip took hold of Taelyn’s ankle and yanked her down into the sand. As her hand was wrenched free of Vrainskya’s, the selch pounced, licking the edges of her aesria, their acidic fangs gnawing at the seams. It was automatic: Taelyn’s free leg kicked hard at her attacker. Her foot met a slimy, bony surface. The accompyaning garbled screech and release of her ankle told her she’d hit home. A jolt of guilt shot through her core; she did not want to harm them, but how could she help it, when they wanted to harm her? Before the elfra could drag herself back to standing, a flood of cold enveloped her body, clouding her vision and pouring saltwater into her mouth. It was the tide, come to gobble any creature who was mad enough to be caught on its shore. It floated her body up in its embrace, then began to drag her out on its frothy palenquin— Something grabbed Taelyn by her collar, fighting the sea’s attempt to claim her for itself.
A picture of the book Hild by Nicola Griffith.
A scam email from someone named “Sophie expert” offering promotional services for a fee.
VHS collection of seven of Carl Sagan’s COSMOS, spanning thirteen episodes.
Two dark natural wood canes with light knobbed handles that curve at the head. You can see the tiny pricks off the stalk of the can where the thorns have been cut and sanded down.
Text on top of an image of a sailboat on a sea, on a sea against the backdrop of a glimmering night sky. Text reads: “BRIGHTER THAN TWO MOONS | An Agent’s Guide | Adult Sapphic Sci-Fi at 99,000 words”
Screenshot of text that reads: “I can’t reply. All I can do is curl in on myself and cry and think about how the worst part about meeting Thalia was that I got used to having another person around. Someone who might comfort me if I cried. Someone to touch. Someone who touched me. I don’t know how I got on without it for so long. And now I don’t remember how to shut that part of me down. I knew I shouldn’t have gotten into that bed with her. I knew I shouldn’t have held her after she almost drowned. Because now I’m the one who’s fucking drowning, and no one cares enough about me to dive into these depths and pull me out.”
Screenshot of a manuscript. Text reads: “There isn’t much time to do anything but prepare for the storm to hit,” Halle says, drawing my attention back to the horizon. My heart skips a beat. The sky, so recently orange with sunset, is now ominously gray. The first tendrils of a cold front push through my curls as its fingers wrap around my throat like a noose.
Screenshot of text that reads: The S-HOPE (Seeking Habitable Options for Planetary Emigration) satellite, launched thirteen years ago, has identified two potentially viable alternatives for human habitation beyond Earth. The question of how our human population could reach these planets is beyond the scope of this work; instead, this report focuses on options for colonizing and developing MRC PA-374d, the fourth planet orbiting the PA-374 orange dwarf star.
A redhead standing in fire with a forest backdrop.
Sophie and Howl in the closing scene, on the bow of the castle staring into each other’s eyes.
Red clay cliffs with beveled patterns, sage and yellow flowers at its base, blue sky in the background