What am I working on at the moment? How does a speculative romance with time travel, love triangles, racing against death, and boudoir photoshoots sound? #romanceauthor

Do I really need something new to have nightmares about? Has this world not given us enough already?

TFW your agent pitches your book as “Ali Hazelwood x The Kiss quotient.” And also comps you to Rachel Lynn Solomon and Jessica Joyce. 🤩🤯

You know what I hate? “No one owes you anything.” Umm, hi 👋 welcome to society. It’s all good and well to have boundaries, and you can do it while still affording people basic respect, kindness, and human decency. And don’t forget—if you don’t owe anyone anything, no one owes you anything either.

I’ve been rereading the Hunger Games series & there’s no way my fibro’s letting my sight read tonight so I was going to listen to a different audiobook. But then I was like, “Wait! It’s gotta be on Libby. Maybe there’s no hold,” and now I’m happily going to cocoon myself with Catching Fire on audio

Do you ever stop and wonder if your pets look at you the way you look at them? Like, when they’re staring at you through the open bathroom door do they think “aww, she’s so cute when she poops?”

So the first thing the next Democratic president is going to do is outlaw assault rifles via executive order, right? Who cares if it’s unconstitutional, any pewpew enthusiast who wants one will have to sue the gov’t individually to get their killing machines back. No universal injunctions for you.

Ahhhhhhh! I’m done with my edits for my agent. I did submit one reworked chapter to my critique group for Thursday and might need to make a tweek or two. And my inner perfectionist will likely want one more read through, but basically I’m done 🎉

I couldn’t share this when I got it because I couldn’t announce my offer yet, but I was thinking about how this is the best rejection I have ever received for anything ever so I thought I’d share now.

Remembering that time an editor offered to look at my opening pages & told me the reason agents were passing was because b/c my readers (I write romance) were "women with no more than a high school education" & I needed to "dumb it down." Not even an hour later, I had an offer of rep.

Just had an emotional breakdown in therapy. Which I know is the place FOR emotional breakdowns. And I yet, I still feel like 🫣

The thing about fibro is it makes u feel like ur dying but ur not. Not a single cell of tissue damage. Just ur brain yelling at u like ur standing on hot coals & getting mad because u won’t get off the burning floor and ur like—“I would brain, but the floor isn’t burning. Also, I’m lying in bed.”

I finished the new ending of my book for my agent. Now to do an editing pass and send it to the critique partners.

The Right: American women aren't having enough babies, it's a crisis! Soon we won't have enough people to sustain the "work force" Also the Right: Immigrants are stealing all the jobs. We need to mass deport them or America is doomed. But sure...it's not about racism 🙄

An NPR editor on Threads just literally typed out, with their whole chest, that widespread protests against an authoritarian regime during a constitutional crisis, isn’t “newsworthy.”

Fascism thrives on suppressing dissent. By making people scared to speak up. To show up. They do this so they can control the narrative. If peaceful protests were useless, fascist regimes wouldn’t be so scared of them. So ignore the voices that belittle us for our “uselss parades.” Keep showing up.

New York was out in full force today.

Manhattan bound 🗽 Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.

Sometimes I want to look my moderate friends who, in 2015 thought I was worried over nothing, right in the eye and be like—remember when you told me I was being dramatic about Trump? Sometimes I do say it. Othertimes I remember that I now need them to teach me how to shoot, so I bite my tongue.

im sorry to be so divisive and partisan but i dont think the government should be inventing a criminal history out of thin air to justify sending someone to a concentration camp in a foreign country

I don’t know if I should be insulted that AARP thinks I’m old enough to retire or flattered that they think I have anywhere near enough money to retire.

I’ve been rewatching Lost and all I can think about is how many of them are going to wind up with malignant melanoma.

I just received a new query rejection. Though I was done with those when I signed with my agent 😂 Can confirm rejection hurts a lot less these days. #querytrenches

No one is safe. If you think they won’t come for you just because you were born here or to American parents, you’re wrong. They’ll get rid of anyone who is politically expedient.

Someday I’ll sit down with the intent to write and actually do it. Today doesn’t look like that day.

Final Querying Stats of a newly agented author... Queries sent: 77 Query rejections: 44 CNRs: 22 Partial requests: 1 (ultimately rejected) Full requests: 10 (6 were after my offer of rep) Full MS rejections: 7 Full MS ghostings: 1 Offers of representation: 2

One problem with having 3 pets is that I only have 2 hands.

Time to work on edits for my agent. (I’m not sure that’ll ever get old (the agent part, not the edits. Edits will definitely get old 😂))

I'm thrilled and a little bit awed to announce that me and my book are now officially represented by @awritesinger.bsky.social of @triadaus.bsky.social I'm so excited to be working with her to make my author dreams come true.

One thing I didn’t consider when I decided to write a dual POV romance instead of single POV like my last book, is that when I need to add, delete, or move a scene, it throws off the entire balance of the POVs. #authors

How’s your day going? #vetmed PS-guess the breed

When the endorphins of a hookup with her brother’s best friend result in an improved bedside manner at work, vet intern Brie Spurling convinces him to agree to a situationship so she can impress her boss and get the recommendation she needs to score a coveted zoo residency position. #questpit #R

I just want everyone to know he swaddled himself in this blanket

Another one bites the dust. I’m so grateful for such specific feedback but rejection still sucks.

When your sister reads your book…😂

Frankie is definitely a fall. Also, Luigi is bringing orange back.

Female neurosurgeons be out there like “I can fix him.”

Just sent a break up text to my therapist and I feel slightly nauseated 😬

Authors and agents, what's the best way to word a nudge on a query. Let's say the agent's website says they respond in 6-8 weeks. Around 6 weeks, the agent responded to all the queries around yours on QT and has continued to respond to queries submitted after yours and it's now 8 weeks. #amquerying

Reading “By a Thread” by Lucy Score and have to say, I have a lot of reasons to hate Trump, but the latest is that he has ruined the trope where the rich alphahole is all “I’m going to take care of you whether you like it or not.”

Another day, another query rejection. Fortunately I still have 13 outstanding queries and 1 outstanding full so I shall live to write another day. #querytrenches #author #amquerying

Desperately trying to convince myself it’s a bad idea to pick my book up at 10PM at night under the guise of reading “just one chapter” before bed.

Republicans: Immigrants are taking all the jobs Also Republicans: We need to get the birth rate up or there won’t be enough people to do all the jobs.

I’m bored but too tired to do anything #fibromyalgia #chronicillness

Whhhhhhhy does this keep happening to me? 😫 #querytrenches #author #tradpublishing

I’m not even half way through my WIP but I just had a great idea for a book that perfectly subverts the dreaded secret baby trope! I wrote the idea down for later and am trying to make my brain focus on what I’m currently working on.!#author #writing #romanceauthor #romancebooks

I'm Lauren, a small animal vet and asexual writer of spicy romance. I mostly post about books, politics, and life with fibromyalgia. As Matt Gaetz once put it when he reposted one of my TikToks on Twitter, I am an over-educated, under-loved, cat (and dog) lady and I wear that like a badge of honor.

Woot! I broke 40k words today in my WIP. I feel like these last 10k words have been crawling out of me at a snail’s pace.

At 25 you still have an entire lifetime to achieve your publishing dreams. At 39 you have decades to see your books come to life. At 70 you could spend your retirement sitting at a cafe in Paris writing your debut novel. It’s never too late to become an author. #author