Leslie René ✨

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Reader & writer of SFF and romance ✍🏻. MAGGIE AND ARTHUR'S MAGIC MOMENT👻✨ (Berkley, Summer 2026) Also: Mom. Science writer. She/her. Rep: Brent Taylor at TriadaUS. 🐦: @byleslierene 🧵📷 :@leslieshouldbewriting https://byleslierene.com

Headline: Read Now on Netgalley! Feb 24 & 25. Over a pink background with purple clouds there's the book cover for Maggie and Arthur's Magic Moment is a plus size white woman with auburn hair embracing a taller white man with glasses. The tagline is Love has them under its spell. It's by Leslie René.
selfie with iced pandan latte
A Publishers Marketplace Deal Report on a handdrawn background featuring ghosts, hawthorns, moons, and skeletons. It says: Category: Fiction: Romantasy MAGGIE AND ARTHUR'S MAGIC MOMENT by Leslie Rene Leslie Rene's MAGGIE AND ARTHUR'S MAGIC MOMENT, a cozy romantasy with an academic twist which brings a professor of incantations and linguistics together with the university's leading--and most brooding--alchemist in order to contain a destructive, ghostly magic that threatens the school, to Sarah Blumenstock at Berkley, in a six-figure deal, in a pre-empt, in a two-book deal, for publication in summer 2026 by Brent Taylor at TriadaUS Literary Agency (world)
Book cover of a woman with flowers in her hair looking over her shoulder behind the title text
Book cover of Beautyland, all in purples
Book cover of 3 children and a looming shadow
A beautifully drawn cover of a young woman holding a fawn and a tea cup. There are butterflies flying around her and out of the tea cup
A book cover with a young woman laying on a couch
Book cover of a young woman in front of a stained glass window
The spread from Sandra Boynton's eek halloween with the chickens that says "strange things are happening"
A photo of the beach looking toward Atlantic City on a late November morning. The sky is a brilliant blue dotted with fluffy wispy clouds
A plus size woman with auburn hair wearing a mask made out of leaves and petals kissing a tall man wearing a tweed jacket and also wearing a mask. They are surrounded by bonfires on the beach beneath a full moon
A painting of Maggie with the screenshot of a post that says "if you want to date me you have to defeat my 7 evil attempts to push you away and sabotage the relationship"
An illustration of Maggie, a plus size white woman with freckled and auburn hair. She's reading a romance novel. There's a screenshot of a post that says "stop thinking about me I can hear you"
Book cover for Before I Let Go by Kennedy Ryan. Features a Black woman with her eyes closed and her face tilted up. The background is orange and blue and there are gold, orange and blue flowers in the foreground.
half a crocheted hat in front of a TV in the background showing arcane
A painting of Maggie and Arthur kissing on a beach at night surrounded by bonfires. They are wearing masks
A collage moodboard featuring old book illustrations of a star and a banshee, photos of hands holding, a fuzzy, ghostly image of a man, a black and white photo of an eye, a man and woman on the beach, and a man and woman kissing. There is the line "drawn together like beads on a string" there are stars dotted throughout
Maggie, a plus-size woman with auburn wavy hair reading a romance novel in her office on an emerald green couch.
A jpbrammer text screenshot that says "wow what a beautiful essay. For a clown to write. On clown dot com."
Start of a crochet project photographed in front of a lawn with a pumpkin and fallen leaves
A photo of a shelf with the completed Lego bookshelf, a print with two hands that says joy/pain and a vintage souvenir from Puerto Rico in 1989 that came from my grandmother's house
A selfie during a writing session when I blended into the wall. I am a white woman with freckled skin, curly dark brown hair and dark eyes. I'm wearing headphones and the wall and my sweater are both a forest green.
a selfie of Leslie, a white woman with freckled skin, curly dark brown hair, and brown eyes. She's wearing a black and white striped shirt and a gold necklace. the wall behind her is forest green
Selfie of the author, who is a white woman with dark brown curly hair, brown eyes, and freckled skin.
Maggie and Arthur sitting on the green sofa in Maggie's office reading books. Maggie's legs are curled over Arthur's lap as they read. Her office is full of a lot of fun things on the walls like old maps, moon phase charts, a poster of the in-story legend "Branagh's Aubade," a stained glass window, and mirrors.
a painting of a plus-size woman wearing a flowy light blue dress with pale peach skin and auburn hair kissing a man with black hair wearing a tweed jacket. He also has pale skin. They are on the beach at night, with a full moon casting a reflection on the water. There are bonfires all around them.
A still from Pokémon Ultimate Journeys. In the first panel, Ash and Pikachu are watching Gengar battle. He has a bead of sweat on his forehead. The caption says, "Gengar is being overwhelmed by fatigue!" The second panel shows Gengar holding his eyes open and grimacing. The caption says, "Oh, but it's managing to tough it out and stay awake!"
Laurel and Cal in Laurel's notion shop. Laurel is standing and knitting. She is a plus-sized woman with big, curly light brown hair, white skin, and freckles. Cal is a tall man with warm brown skin, dark brown/almost black hair, and a smile on his face. He is holding the yarn that Laurel is using to knit with and staring at her lovingly. Laurel has a bemused look on her face. The shop is cluttered with yarn and scissors and needles. There are shells and flowers hanging from the ceiling (asters and chrysanthemum). Behind the shop counter is an old grandfather clock with a moon on its face.