Mark O’Brien

Please book me for a freelance edit for your query, first ten pages, or manuscript so I can go take my boyfriend to see You Can See Everything. I've edited authors you know and love on books you've probably read and didn't know I worked on throughout my eleven years in publishing. bookmarkobrien.com

When will it be Daylight Spending Time?

I hate literary agent Halloween. What do you mean you’re a nudge on a follow-up on a bump on a “just circling back!”?

maybe The Society of Authors should advocate for authors instead of advocating for the author work-stealing machine

Simon & Schuster & Garfunkel

You will never catch me making a Toaster Strudel and not drawing a smiley face with the little icing packet. It wouldn’t be in my character.

Live, laugh, love, lurk, lunge, lacerate

Ms. Monroe has acquired a new box

Narnia books as Isekai Manga

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, and I pretty much picked one and moved on with it

how about some good news: new cat just dropped!!!!

I'm booking freelance edits for full manuscripts as soon as October. I've worked in book publishing for eleven years at places like Writers House, Triada US, Stonesong, Entangled, and NetGalley, and I have edited #1 best sellers and major award winners. Reach out here! bookmarkobrien.com

Whenever I refer to “the haters,” know that I am talking about my biological family

Monroe read your posts, and she has concerns.

Go off king! Oh wait sorry that was unclear. King, you are being stripped of your crown and exiled. There, much more direct.

As a new Harry Potter trailer makes the rounds, it bears repeating that there’s no way to watch this show without supporting J.K. Rowling’s bigotry and the structural violence she’s inflicting on the trans community.

Me, a literary agent who does not read nor represent horror novels and thrillers, says so on his agency’s website, and does not include those genres as options on his QueryManager, when checking my queries every day and seeing more horror novels and thrillers: “Oh.”

I really cannot think of a greater honor than to have the Muppets say this about you upon your passing

[Exit Queen.]

Dolly Parton, among a thousand other amazing things she did in her life, gifted over 330 million books to kids through her Imagination Library program. Her passing is a tremendous loss to the world, but you can support the program today to keep it going imaginationlibrary.com

Impressed (derogatory) with the gall of querying writers who do not follow any of my submission guidelines but do, regardless, feel entitled to follow up with me every single day, sometimes more than once a day. You better twirl those red flags.

Every queer person should get a free monthly felony

Could an LLM extend a meaningful invitation to vampire for purposes of threshold crossing?

unfortunately i am invisible now due to having been disappeared :(

Fixed a toilet on my own…

Post Malone implies the existence of Pre Malone

real silly girl hours

I used to read the almanac for fun 💅🏻

What’s the suburban equivalent of “this book made me miss my subway stop”?

I’m being impersonated by a scammer. Like any reputable agent, I will never refer querying writers to a freelance editor. Nor will I contact writers directly from a Gmail account. My agency has some tips for identifying these sorts of scams: www.azantianlitagency.com/scams

It’s always panem et circenses, never panem lightly toasted et a little bit of butter

I had a great chat with John Parker on @thegailyshow.org yesterday. Check out the second half for: the EEOC refusing to investigate trans cases, the right’s fury over MyGender Dolls, and anti-trans crusaders turning on women’s rights (as we always said they would). www.youtube.com/live/knPxQzk...

My eleven-year anniversary of working in book publishing is on Saturday, and I’m very proud. It is the honor of my life to work with so much incredible art.