Today I’ve been doing comp research so my TBR is growing exponentially 🤓📚 #amagenting

Had the most unhinged interaction with a customer (I work at a bookstore) that I’ve had in ages yesterday (and it took like 45 min, maybe longer?) so I guess we’re truly in retail holiday season now 🙄🙃

This is the most thought I’ve given to a Halloween costume maybe ever, putting my surgery scar to use. Happy Halloween!

Nobody EVER asks what all the candy is for when you buy $150 worth during October and all I’m saying is let’s keep that energy for cheese all year round because I’m tired of all the questions

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.

Caught my wife and my cat red-handed

One-handed editing while cradling this baby

Even on the weekends 🙄

Finally able to update (this is embarassing and I hate that it's the truth) that I'm into February for my inbox. It sounds terrible (it is terrible) but it's progress. #amagenting #ambehind #amediting #amreading

The optics of Trump building a ballroom that 99.9% of Americans will never set foot in while millions line up for food banks are worth more than any policy paper or economic proposal. This image is a visceral punch in the mouth that needs no words. It should haunt the GOP for a generation.

Best coworker

‘Scuse me, I didn’t think I had to say this but apparently I do, so to be clear, that means no passes today please and thank you

Editors! As always, all I want for my birthday is some good news for a client (or more than one). Which of you want to make this happen for us?

It's not just authors refreshing their emails every other second. #amagenting

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

Look at me! Momentarily under 800 messages in my inbox again!

Why is my wife's answer to whatever is not working with my computer to power it down? Doesn't she know I have 700 open tabs and can't just do that???

A good day for this reminder

Beautiful day in Portland for there to be #NoKings. Hard to see but there are a lot of people at the waterfront and crossing the bridge.

I might never recover from the amount of garlic that was in my dinner tonight. (Unfortunately for my family I can make another two meals out of the leftovers.)

They are rarely seen this close together

The joy of editing these client manuscripts that are just so damn good! #amagenting #amediting

This cover is *chef’s kiss*

Alright I have to leave #DVpit to go to a meeting. I'll likely keep scrolling if I have time at my paying job over the next couple of days. I hope this was awesome for everyone, and if you didn't get likes or interest, know it's a LOT to look through and not everyone saw your pitches. Keep going!

I'm really liking these PB pitches, maybe I need to figure out how to rep them 😅

Sounds so sweet!

alright apparently I'm okay with ghosts now

I normally would have finished this client edit hours ago but all are so distracting #DVpit

#cantstopwontstop #DVPit

PB folks, this sounds so cute!

Time travel through lightning! Someone grab this!

Finishing a client edit and toggling back to #DVpit pitches today. It’s a good day to be #amagenting!

I'm not really looking for paranormal so this isn't for me, but this sounds SO GOOD, someone scoop it up!

My most favorite pitch event is #DVPit! If I ♥️ your pitch and you think we'd be a good fit, send me your pitch, query, synopsis, and first ~25 pages to my email: elisa @ macgregorliterary .com & put DVpit request in the subject line and/or early in the email so I don't delete (I'm otherwise closed)

Eeeeek! 🩵

Back to editing!

My morning

Heard some amazing pitches today at @writingdaywksp.bsky.social pitch sessions. How are there so many of you all with such great ideas?! Can’t wait to read, but early inbox first.

Just had to get the check early at a restaurant and take the rest of my dinner home because I forgot about book club 😅

Got my post-surgery self out of bed this morning to send my kid off to school, like I’d missed doing the last few days, only to find that it’s Saturday.

Today’s recovery photo, hanging out on the couch with my ice pack (in a pillowcase)around my neck, reading and watching the third round of the US Open with little breaks for work.

Today’s recovery photo, hanging out on the couch with my ice pack (in a pillowcase)around my neck, reading and watching the third round of the US Open with little breaks for work.

I’m even willing to receive these emails over the weekend!

He’s trying to both curl up on me but also stay away from the ice pack around my neck

Anyone out there mothering with chronic pain? Sarah wants to talk to you for her book CHRONIC, coming out fall ‘27!

good lord i really hate two factor identification

3 more weeks later: 3/8 on sub, 2 *this close* to submission-ready, 4 in general or late stage edits, 1 offer made (and declined), 1 100% new ms to start next week before 2 more clients send new mss. And I've made it halfway through the 3rd round of the US Open!

Yay me, finished the book for tonight's group way early for a change! Boo, me, trying to remember anything about it to bring to the discussion tonight...

I am no longer feeling like I'm just barely not drowning and am very happily (and sustainably, at least for a while longer) treading water in the sea of work and manuscripts