Tonight’s chapter: good food, great company, questionable chopstick confidence. Zero editing needed.

This snippet from THE LOST ROSE OF ROSSLYN comes from the MC's fight to access her adoption case — In the Matter of Baby Girl Jennings. She stood in a courtroom asking for answers locked inside sealed files, visible to clerks but closed to her. #amquerying #writingcommunity #adoptionstory

She was the first member of my birth family that I ever spoke to. I’ll never forget calling her out of the blue in 1991 and shocking her with the news that she was my grandmother. #adoption #birthfamilyreunion #amquerying #storytelling #writingcommunity

Julie has just learned that life she with her adoptive family was never as separate from her birth family as she believed. From THE LOST ROSE OF ROSSLYN Women’s dual-timeline fiction #WIPSnips (face) 📖 Ch 2: The Call #AmQuerying #WomensFiction #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #AdoptionReunion

Learning about social media for authors from @leeannward-writer.bsky.social of Writing Away Refuge on this Saturday morning. Great tips!

That moment when an adoptee finally understands what it's like to have someone look like her. From The Lost Rose of Rosslyn. #BookSky #WomensFiction #AmQuerying #WritingCommunity

An adoptee and her dying birth mother trace their bloodline through six centuries of women who faced impossible choices. Now she faces hers: keep demanding answers about her father and lose her mother, or let the truth go to the grave. #WSPit #Q #A #WF #HI #AmQuerying

Here's how to enter the LitConnect soft launch giveaway: 1. Follow us on Bluesky or X 2. Repost this post 3. Join the waitlist (links in comments below) That's it. All four prizes. All entrants eligible. More details on the prizes this week. #WritingCommunity #AmQuerying #AmWriting

McAlester, Oklahoma shaped Brenda long before she understood how deeply. In a place where reputation mattered, one mistake could send a young woman away — and leave a silence that lasted for decades. One of the locations behind The Lost Rose of Rosslyn. #amquerying #writingcommunity

Great Writer’s Workshop class today by Mark Gottlieb! Booking a 93,000-word novel down into one sentence is way harder than it sounds!

Thirteen years ago, I made a phone call I’d waited 48 years to make. It gave me a father, a friendship, and a future I never expected. Some calls change everything. Read more on my blog - jenniferkalkman.com/some-calls-c... #WritingCommunity #AmQuerying

#WomenWritersNet A1 I'm writing women's book club fiction with a dual-timeline historical thread. This scene is set in 1862 in a cabin in Missouri between the FMC and a soldier she has nursed back to health and fallen in love with.

A few of the things that inspire me as a person. They are part of who I am, so they indirectly helped shape the story I told in The Lost Rose of Rosslyn. #AmQuerying #WritingCommunity #WomensFiction

A cry rose at the edge of the clearing… From THE LOST ROSE OF ROSSLYN Women’s dual-timeline fiction #WIPSnips (hurt) 📖 Ch 17: The Divide #AmQuerying #BookClubFiction #WomensFiction #WritingCommunity #WriteSky

Some family memories aren’t written down. They’re ridden down hills. Some of my fondest memories are tied to a 75-year-old wooden sled. Dad used to pull me around on it, and then he did the same for my kids. This winter, my grandson enjoyed it. Same sled. Same joy. jenniferkalkman.com/the-sled/

An adoptee and her dying birth mother trace their bloodline through six centuries of women who faced impossible choices. Now she faces hers: keep demanding answers about her father and lose her mother, or let the truth go to the grave. #WritingCommunity #AmQuerying #HistoricalFiction #WomensFiction