Tiff Bartel

@tiffbartel.com

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Viet-Canadian writer, multidisciplinary artist, general goblin on Treaty 1 territory. Queer, neurodivergent, she/they. SCBWI. https://tiffbartel.com Rep: Katie Blagden @ The Ampersand Agency

illustration of Nim, a fox spirit from my book, dreaming, and the text: It's official! Tiff Bartel is represented by Katie Blagden at The Ampersand Agency.
Dark background with light text: Snaggleteeth: A Novel Adult Science Fiction / 96,000 words In an isolated tech company town, a lonely audiovisual archivist seeks the help of an illegal repair shopkeep to save his fox spirit-shaped robot friend and unravel a mystery involving stolen memories while confronting his own grief about the past.
anthony oliviera tweet: i am obsessed with anxious soft goth boys and their enormous golden retriever boyfriends
Gif of Chidi from The Good Place: "Actually, the answer is... in this book about the theory of contractualism. "We We Owe To Each Other"
Karakuri Corporation ominously cute fake website: KareCorp Cares About You! ♥ Since 2030, the Karakuri Corporation has provided synthetic Companions™ for life-long care and partnership. Upgrade Today! Image of a cute robot girl with a heart
"I'm going to blab to everyone about my favourite types of microfilm until they send me home early," Bertram threatened, and meant it.
Movie poster style graphic featuring yellow text over the painting Judith and Her Maidservant by Artemisia Gentileschi ("Judith and her Maidservant is a c. 1615 painting[1] by the Italian baroque artist Artemisia Gentileschi. The painting depicts Judith and her maidservant leaving the scene where they have just beheaded general Holofernes, whose head is in the basket carried by the maidservant. It hangs in the Pitti Palace, Florence."); the text: a win for girls who love monsters or long to be the monster; horse girls top pick 2026; COMING SOON: RELICT; Never forget. Never forgive; Gothic Horror, Sapphic Revenge, Female Rage; RATED R for Sex, Gore, Monster Romance
Movie poster style image featuring an illustration of the main character (a skinny Asian nerd with glasses) and his fox spirit-shaped robot friend on a red background; Title: Snaggleteeth, A Novel; Tagline: Clear Eyes. Sharp teeth. Can't lose.; Other text: 96k words/adult SFF; queer/bipoc characters; Asian/ND rep; Restricted Rating symbol box: disaster bisexuals, questionable life choices, robots gone rogue; NOW QUERYING; small text: nerdy agender archivist embarks on a quest to save his fox spirit-shaped robot friend, unravels a mystery involving stolen memories and falls in love with a grumpy bookseller in the process.
Refuse To Be Done by Matt Bell
Never Say You Can't Survive by Charlie Jane Anders
Nine Stories by JD Salinger
Mood board 1 w/ retro rainbow borders: lanterns in Vietnam, a person approaching an abandoned radio tower, a bunch of colourful patch cables on a synthesizer, a staticy CRT TV screen in a dark red room, a statue of a fox spirit wearing a red bandana in a Buddhist temple, a pink computer room from the show Maniac, a colourful diagram of musical scales, rows of pink storage boxes in a basement, a small Asian child holding hands with a robot
"Snaggleteeth A Novel Adult Science Fiction / 96,000 words In an isolated tech company town, a lonely audiovisual archivist seeks the help of an illegal repair shopkeep to save his fox spirit-shaped robot friend and unravel a mystery involving stolen memories while confronting his own grief about the past."
screenshot of tiff's website rebuilt as a basic static html webpage
Cover of the novel Moondust in My Hairnet by JR Creaden with a pretty illustrated cover of an astronaut in a lunar scene and shiny spot gloss on the title lettering
query status with grey x on query tracker
cartoon illustration of my novel SNAGGLETEETH's characters as dogs: main character Bertram as a scrappy terrier, love interest Cedar as a big gentle Newfoundland, antagonist Bijou as a fancy spoiled lapdog
1st slide (dark blue background with vhs tape rainbow design and light text): now querying SNAGGLETEETH / adult speculative fiction / near-future fabulism / folklore & robots / 96k words
Text: Snaggleteeth / Now Querying, Image: statue of a fox spirit with a rainbow border
Sylvester the cat looking stressed while smoking cigarettes and drinking coffee
Colorful vibes-based moodboard featuring brightly-coloured retro tech, music, and Southeast Asian cultural elements
tweet by @thegorezone: bro what do you mean i should learn how to code or become an influencer. im meant to be an 80s video store clerk recommending gory horror movies to the neighbourhood scamps. im meant to be a small town radio dj who plays too much new wave and ges involved in a local mystery.
Mood board for Snaggleteeth framed with retro rainbow: top row - Hoi An lanterns (via unsplash) / person going to abandoned radio tower (via unsplash) / colourful rainbow wires (via unsplash) / middle row - tv displaying static in a red room (via unsplash) / ho ly tinh fox spirit statue in a vietnamese temple (via unsplash) / pink retro computer control room (from the show Maniac on netflix) / a rainbow retro diagram showing a music chart (vintage book cover by unknown artist) / pink retro archival boxes (via unsplash) / small asian child in a pink hoodie holding hands with a robot (via unsplash)
(all slides are in the style of a vintage 80s/90s VHS box cover) / 1st slide: An Agent's Guide to Snaggleteeth / adult science fiction / near-future cyberpunk / retro tech & robots / 80k words
it's the same words as the post, but in meme format, featuring a skunk/raccoon/opossum as the first trio, and danny devito burning money as late-stage capitalism
Text meme: 1st person: pioneering something called "gritted teeth optimism" where everything is gonna turn out okay even if I have to bite and claw and gnash my way through it 2nd person: everything's gonna be fine and it's not negotiable
meme: I'm in this photo and I don't like it
Kyle Mooney smiling and playing guitar in blue light
bunch of wires on a modular synth
wedding invite art featuring illustrations of tiff and david and their dog and cat, surrounded by flowers and birds in oranges, reds, and yellows. hand-written text says "you're invited!"
Text: I'm normally pretty good(???) at dressing things from memory, but there are a few things that--no matter how many times I've tried--instantly turn my brain into a blank slate... (Cartoon of nervous Tiff, drawing and sweating nervously) / BICYCLES (bad drawing of a bike) I rode one 5 min ago and yet I've never seen one in my life! So many angles??? / HUMAN FEET (bad drawing of stinky feet) do I even have these?? What??? Totally alien??? / HORSES (bad drawing of a horse) Blissfully ignorant! Too many knees!!! / Tiff Bartel #makeaterribkecomicday2025
Charlie from Its Always Sunny in front of a conspiracy wall of paper and gibberish connected with string
1st panel: every since the dawn of time, people have loved treating themselves to a weird lil beverage / 2nd panel: caveperson licking a toad and dreaming up a weird lil beverage / 3rd panel: rat character sliding down a rainbow with a pop saying "yippeee!!! it's dream-flavoured!" / 4th panel: experience some small crumb of excitement without breaking the bank! lord knows it's hard to afford fun in this capitalist hellscape / 5th panel: a rat dragon hoarding cans and bottles of various drinks. text: weird lil beverages: they're obtainable!
Selfie of Tiff wearing clubmaster glasses and a magenta collared dress patterned with Bride of Frankenstein; she has long, curly dark hair and a messy kitchen in the background.
Stevie Budd from Schitt's Creek
Illustration of a tired-looking Kyle Mooney from the music video for Blue Car; he is holding a hose and a towel because he is (presumably) washing the blue car in question.
old fanart sketch of Fenneko (a fennec fox on her phone) and Haida (a nervous hyena) from Aggretsuko on a pink background
"I want these men to kiss each other. I was rooting for these two old men to smooch!"
ben whishaw and romola garai as freddie and bel on the BBC's The Hour
WARNING INJURY AND DEATH HAVE REWARDED CARELESS SIGHT-SEERS HERE THE OCEAN AND ROCKS ARE TREACHEROUS SAVOUR THE SEA FROM A DISTANCE
a very 1998 advertisement on the back of a Disney Adventures magazine featuring Small Soldiers, Looney Tunes, and Rugrats Giga Pets and very of-the-time fonts and design choices
illustrated green icon of tiff in a black peter pan collar dress
Display cabinet containing a bunch of vintage toy robots, including a bunch of Furby, a Pleo, a Poo-Chi, etc.
18.1 kg bag of rice for $28.88
sheepdog with lyrics from the mountain goats surrounding it: i am going to make it through this year if it kills me
photo of tiff at 21 looking scruffy from camping and sitting in a diner
illustration of a mouse in a cozy sweater with a mug of hot chocolate, next to a big festive mug of hot chocolate for the viewer
I kept a streak for 985 days! I'm safe from Duo. For now.
janet from the good place holding a cactus
bob odenkirk and kevin macdonald onstage
tiff at the narcisse snake dens kissing handfuls of snakes
illustration of a cat using a phone and giving the viewer the middle finger. band name, Man Candy, is spelled out using the phone cord below.
sketch of winegum, a yellow, orange and black guppy
sketch of nicolette's aorable chinchilla surrounded by hearts and sparkles
sketch of a dutch rabbit and an otter rex type rabbit? idk
Your Result: Alienation You create from alienation. There is a distance not only between yourself and others, but between yourself and what you are expected to be, yourself and your own humanity. Your honest self feels too divorced from what it should be for it to have any place among everyone else. Your art is an expression of your estrangement from normalcy and other's expectations. It is strange and shocking because you feel that is what you are when you are not pretending to be otherwise. You do not create things to be pretty or pleasing to others, but to be raw and confusing. You have always felt different, so you want to create things that are remarkably different from the norm. It is an expression of your own strangeness, which seems to have no place but in your art. Your work is a sanctuary for everything that alienates you from the world at large.
cover of We Need Everyone, illustrated by Tiff Bartel, featuring 3 award seals
screenshot of tiff's profile saying she now has 666 followers
google maps directions saying it will take 15 minutes to drive, 55 minutes to use public transit, 1hr 42 min to walk, or 31 min to bike
guillermo from what we do in the shadows: a bespectacled man in a fun sweater