My second grader and I, writing our respective stories by the fire on this chilly Sunday morning. #momswhowrite #writingcommunity #amediting #YA

Best part about my two days away was gaining some concept clarity… what had to go, what needed to be pushed. I’m not sure I would have had the headspace to entertain these ideas if I hadn’t been in a different setting than normal! #writingcommunity #amediting #YA

Mom Writing Retreat Complete! Didn’t sleep as much as I hoped, but I made some good progress on my manuscript edits and rethinking my query. The backdrop was pretty incredible… reminds me why I set my book in northern New England. #amediting #writingcommunity #YA #artaspower #quantumtheory

Tales from a Mom’s Self-Imposed Writing Retreat: - Cut a chapter I’ve always adored but realized is superfluous to the plot! ✂️ - Realized I had two versions of a chapter in my Scrivener binder… hello instant 2k word count reduction! 🎉 - Had my first ever facial! 🧘 #writingcommunity #amediting #YA

My spouse gifted me two nights away so I can sleep and write! So here I am up north drinking wine by a fire and bashing out edits and a new query letter! #amediting #amquerying #writingcommmunity #momsgonewild

I’ve got newer comps (GALLANT x A DEADLY EDUCATION) — but how do I reference older books that capture the spirit of my story (TIMELINE x GOLDEN COMPASS x SONG OF THE LIONESS) in #querying #writingcommunity #amediting #amquerying #YA

I once went to a faculty / staff writer’s group at work, and I was the only non-faculty AND the only one working on a fiction piece (never mind young adult fantasy!). Everyone else was working on grants or journal articles! Oy. 😑 #writingcommunity #YA #HigherEd #amquerying

Art is a medium where it feels easier to demonstrate what you’re good at on this platform—compared to writing! I always thought if I published I’d like to try my hand at my own cover. #YA #writingcommunity #Q

👋 Hi, I’m Rach! I started studying journalism, but switched to architecture school back in the day! So I love to draw + write! I also am an avid runner, mom to two little boys, painter, architect, food fiend, wine witch, and campus planner at an Ivy League university. #gobruno #YA #writingcommunity

💯 fumbling through this as a newb: THROUGH THE PINES 🎨 foster kid whose drawings open portals 🏫 island boarding school hiding secrets 💫 quantum physics equals magic 🏰 visions of a boy in another world 🌉 one girl connecting two universes 🍰 layered mystery #Q #YA #F #writingcommunity #questpit

Fun Fact: when I was wrapping up my story, I sent my manuscript to one of my fave podcast hosts—a well-known economist. He said I should pursue publication, and that encouragement gave me the little push I needed to launch my query quest. #YA #Fantasy #Y #writingcommunity #Q

After a heist gone wrong binds a thief to the soul of a long-dead hero, she must outrun the law and bargain with a vilified goddess for her life, all while deciding whether the world would be better off with her survival or the hero's resurrection. #QuestPit #Q #A #F #DF

Chess is a reaper-in-training. Her boyfriend is possessed by death itself. One impossible choice: save the world or save the boy she loves. As ghosts rise and rogue reapers hunt her, Chess must embrace her powers or lose everything. #questpit #YA #Q #F #PR #Disability

ONE DARK WINDOW X KATABASIS Nocturne Collegiate is celebrated as a sanctuary from warring Queendoms and brutal vampires, but Alyss knows better—its guardian murdered her sister, and now she's come for revenge.🌙🦇⚔️ #QuestPit #OS #AG #YA #F

MARK OF A MAGPIE is #OnSubmission! 🐦‍⬛📖 When a small-town thief crosses paths with the kingdom’s big-shot assassin, an unlikely partnership is born; but can their goals align before their egos and secrets land them both a spot on the gallows? #QuestPit #YA #A #F #RF #OS #DIS #EditorsGuide #Editors

Aaryana is winning the contest that decides who will be the next Queen/King but her enemies—which may include her sisters—are determined to change that 👸ambitious FMC w/ soft❤️ 🫅brooding LI who’s protective of his siblings 🧜‍♀️sea folk 💘fake courting 🖤slow🔥hate-2-love 💔forbidden love #QuestPit #Y #F #P

THROUGH THE PINES A foster kid whose sketches open portals is sent to a mysterious boarding school on a remote island. There, missing teens, quantum physics, and another world begin to collide and she discovers her own life is tangled in a much bigger mystery. #questpit #YA #F

Granted, I’m a small person (and this has nothing to do with querying or writing), but look at the size of our four month old black lab’s paws! #blacklab #blacklabpuppy

Writing while working full-time and parenting is HARD. I’m still surprised that the story I’d been holding for years finally crystallized during the busiest season of my life. #Q #amquerying #YA #F #writingcommunity

I’m an architect by trade and by golly… querying feels a bit like architecture school: putting your ideas into the world, taking criticism, iterating, tinkering, doubting then feeling bursts of enthusiasm! #architectureschool #Querying #YA #YAFantasy #revise

I’m writing a YA fantasy about a girl whose drawings open portals between worlds. It’s part dark-academia, part physics, part found family. I’m here to talk about writing, revision, querying, and the weird emotional landscape of making a book! #querying #q #YA #quantum #entanglement

Tiny Pitch: Edith lands a spot at an elite island school, where she discovers her art can manipulate quantum probabilities and rip open portals to an entangled, medieval parallel realm. There, she finds a mysterious boy from her dreams and children who have gone missing from her own world. #Q #YA

Hello Blue Sky! As a millennial, my preferred social is IG…but as I’m actively querying, this is what the Google machine says I need to be doing. So here I am! Hello! #Q #YA #YAFantasy #quantum #parallelworlds #artaspower #boardingschool #entanglement