Mal Frazier (they/them)

@malf.bsky.social

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Your favorite editorial toddler. Acquiring for Tor and Bramble. PNW 🌲

OBSTETRIX by Naomi Kritzer, a pink book swaddled in a blue baby blanket
Big blue IKEA whale with a zip open mouth, a remote control monster truck has been shoved half into the mouth. Several child sized sneakers lay scattered in the frame, indicating the culprits.
Barred owl looking at the camera from a moss covered tree at twilight
the uh. logo? graphic? promo image? for Game Changer. the original image shows a rainbow blob with "I've been queer the whole time" this has been poorly edited to say "we've been queer the whole time" the art credit is to "@beyondWhatIsSeen"
Junk mail reading: Let's reconnect this year We're reaching out via snail mail because at some point you unsubscribed from Reunion Homecoming email communications. Reunion Homecoming is going to be an unforgettable event, and it won't be the same without you. Please take a moment to update your permissions. Nearly all of our reunion communications are now digital, and we don't want you to miss out! Update your email permissions online alu.ms/resubscribe with reference R-703512
Screenshot of AO3. The bottom of a chapter. Fic text reads “and then he pulls the trigger.” Buttons read: top, previous chapter, next chapter, kudos, bookmark, comments (35).
This Gilded Abyss by Rebecca Thorne sitting atop Hell’s Heart by Alexis Hall sitting atop What We Are Seeking by Cameron Reed, on a bookshelf full of sff novels.
screen shot of two comments in a word doc: Frazier, Mal: does she have nipples? replying, John Scalzi: She does now!
Pothos climbing a bookshelf, nearly reaching the ceiling
Gray tabby sleeping on a couch, using the arm as a pillow
Another photo of a white and purple three pedaled flower with folded leaves, at night, in a forest
Flower with three petals and no leaves
Large gray tabby in small mango box. Only his front feet in the box
Grey tabby cat sniffing a human hand with a stupid look on his face
screenshot of a tweet from @drdevonprice reading "it's fast fashion to You. im wearing a forever21 sweater i got during the bush administration"
States of rot by Linnea sterte showing a falling alien whale
ARC copy of How to Fake It in Society by KJ Charles
Three incoming text messages reading: This makes me want to do nothing but sit and read this book all day It’s happening to me just as you warned I cannot stop thinking about this book even while doing totally unrelated tasks
Cover of This Gilded Abyss by Rebecca Thorne, showing an image of an art deco cityscape surrounded by water from a sinking porthole. The book is faintly golden
Bowl of chestnuts absolutely dwarfing a gallon of milk
BALD MAN PUNCHES MAN WITH HAIR SINGLE TEAR "FAMILY" HUBCAP POV PREVIOUSLY UNKNOWN SUPERPOWER REVEALED PHYSICS WORD PROBLEM GENERATED THE CROSS NECKLACE BECOMES PLOT RELEVANT VIN DIESEL MAKES tiny mouth VIN DIESEL RUN BALD MAN PUNCHES ANOTHER BALD MAN TOILET PAPER POV (GRATUITOUS BUTT SHOT) CORONA AD CAR EXPLODES FOR NO REASON CHARACTER REVEALS IMMORTALITY VEST CHARACTER COMES BACK FROM DEAD THE NOS MAKES A SOUND WHEN THE CAP FLIPS OPEN WOMAN'S FACE PHOTOSHOPPED INTO UNCANNY VALLEY FUN SUBTITLES CAR REVEALS SUPERPOWERS NUKES NEXT LOCATION (FREE SPACE) INEXPLICABLE COSTUME CHANGE THE GANG COMMITS MASS MURDER (50+) FAMILY BARBECUE (FREE SPACE)
Cover of an early reading copy of HELL’S HEART by Alexis Hall, which features a pink tentacled getting handsy with the type
Advanced copy of WHAT WE ARE SEEKING by Cameron Reed
Close up of a vividly pink orchid with a massive, trailing inflorescence
Three unbaked pecan sticky buns in a miniature pie tin. They’re under the cloche of a cake stand, on a dirty silver tray, with a silver bowl balanced so that the sunlight will reflect onto the buns and make them rise faster
Meme showing someone sitting at a table with a banner on it that says “tallships are spaceships. Change my mind” the “tallships are spaceships” has been photoshopped into the meme format
Not a normal amount of pie. In fact far, far too much pie.
White and purple orchid, one bloom open and one bud
Flash phonograph of a small sunflower with several sleeping bees
A moth orchid with two blooms open. It’s a slightly freckled lilac with purple veins through a green background.
Moth orchid plant held in hand with the entire plant—leaves roots and all—visible. The roots look like little green tentacles.
Video of many many bumblebees in a large lavender bush
Enormous pink lily in bloom
bro the "happy" ending solution as brain in a brain???? you were NOT LYING about how much ms reed wrote this specifically for me babe I GASPED I thought it might happen. like no of course not. Maya was completely justified in her decision but I was HOPING. like the longer the conversation went on the more I switched to maya's side. but let me tell you that GASP OF HOPE fucking got me yo how did Cameron do that to me? how did she do that???
“My biggest concern regarding romantasy is how publishing’s eagerness to embrace this subgenre is going hand-in-hand with slipping on or abandoning commitments to diversity,” she said. “BookTok is the power behind Romantasy’s rise and the driving force of sales right now. But BookTok also has a racism problem baked into its algorithm. As long as retailers prioritize titles based on TikTok popularity, and publishers mine this for sales, how can BIPOC authors expect to have the same explosive success as top-selling white Romantasy authors? What can we do as an industry—what can I do as an editor—to level the playing field, even if it means going against TikTok? It’s one of the top questions I’ve been chewing over these days.”
Close up of gladiolus flowers so red they almost glow with white flecks in their throats
Orchid flower. Dark purple brown with five sharp spikes and an open mouth with a white mustache. Below, a big round petal in deep violet, flecked with white
Screenshot of a discord message reading: Gretchen 7/4/25 01:37 MAL. THIS FUCKING BOOK. I’m going to make so many people read it and I’m so mad I have to wait a whole year I’m at …83% I was supposed to work today and all I wanted to do was keep reading Desert left hand of darkness undersells it, tbh
Young woman in an armchair reading on a laptop. She’s peering through her fingers in horror
Lake cushman seen from the mountain above
Pink and white parasitic flowers on forest floor
The glacier on mount olympus, in Washington. There is a circle drawn where if you zoom in, you can see microscopic, indistinguishable human figures crossing the glacier, which show how enormous it is. The human figures are so tiny you can barely count their number.
Looking up a snowy mountain straight into the sun, which peeks out from behind a pine
Clouds reflected off a lake at sunset
Pic of three cinnamon rolls in a miniature pie dish
1 can/350 ml condensed milk (not sweetened! Can also sub for water/milk+ milk powder) 225 ml milk 960g bread flour, some whole wheat 5 eggs 1.25T salt 1.5T yeast 225g/2 sticks butter Beat for longer than you think, add butter and beat again. Rise Roll out half the dough from chilled. Add 5/8c aka maybe 200g sugar, 1-2T molasses, 4t cinnamon, 1t ginger, 1-4t cardamom to 115g/1 stick melted butter. Make cinnamon rolls. Bake at 350 until 200F internal.
28oz can of san marzano tomatoes inexplicably dwarfed by three rhubarb plants in an unweeded garden
Kitchen island with a big gray tabby sitting on the shelf, eating treats. An elderly corgi supervises. Mal’s hand and leg poke into the picture, holding a treat.
Two black cats, one staring at a hand holding a treat, the other staring at a cat tree.
Two black cats highly foreshortened as they stare into/near the camera in a messy apartment, fisheye lens
Grey tabby sleeping with his head on a forearm, my hand tucked into his armpit
Tabby and white cat squinting lovingly at the camera from her sheepskin nest
Gray tabby in a rocking chair with a brown sheepskin
The novel Start Villain by John Scalzi, which has a cat in a suit on the cover. Googly eyes have been pasted over the cat’s eyes.