I know what "they" say, but I want to hear from real literary agents: When is a nudge on a partial or full appropriate? Is it three and six months, respectively? #literaryagents #writingcommunity #querytrenches

Here are some of my favorite funny quotes (out of context) from IT SHOULD'VE BEEN YOU #revpitwaiting #booksky #revpit #amquerying

#10queries feels a bit like reading horoscopes. You always want to twist the message into something that applies to you(r manuscript) #revpit #revpitteasers #revpitwaiting

PUNK ROCK PRINCESS 🤘🏼 📖 💫older brother’s best friend 💫friends to enemies to lovers 💫forced proximity #booksky #wip #writingcommunity #revpit #revpitwaiting

Smaller vague author news! 🎉🎉🎉🎉 (For my short story, THE SPACES BETWEEN, set in the world of It Should’ve Been You.) #writingcommunity #booksky #shortstory #vagueauthornews

It’s so much easier to squeak out 1,500 words a day when I’m not agonizing over every single word in a first draft. #writingcommunity #wip #booksky

Carley Fortune 🎉🎉🎉@carleyfortune.bsky.social has been a huge inspiration. She writes such bittersweet, nostalgic love stories that have a slow burn that delivers in a way that’s sensual and sexy but not raunchy. It’s exactly the way I tried to write IT SHOULD’VE BEEN YOU. #revpitwaiting #revpit

Captain Oats couldn’t get enough of me when I was pregnant… Now he only likes me if I pet him while he eats lol #revpitwaiting #revpit

IT SHOULD'VE BEEN YOU will ABSOLUTELY have a playlist. 🎧 And for my #elderemo #millennials, it's going to be 🔥 If I had to pick a song, though, I'd pick "Nevergreen" by Voila feat. Kellin Quinn @kellinquinn.bsky.social #revpitwaiting #revpit @reviseresub.bsky.social #amquerying #querytrenches

#RevPitWaiting for Tuesday, March 24: Do you have a theme song or a playlist for your book? Share it with us! 🎶

Someone will inevitably scoff at this (🖕🏼), but IT ENDS WITH US crushed me. Lily and Atlas' story reminded me so much of my own childhood love story that it was the catalyst to taking that story and transforming it into Gale and Aurora's story in IT SHOULD'VE BEEN YOU. #revpitwaiting #amquerying

Can you imagine how much quicker I’ll write Punk Rock, Princess once I get out of the query trenches? 🙃 #writingcommunity #amquerying #querytrenches

This line from It Should've Been You never fails to make me cry. #RevPitWaiting #writingcommunity #amquerying #booksky #querytrenches

Welp, we're up to four fulls and two partials for It Should've Been You, and ya girl doesn't know how she's going to wait 3-6 months for replies...

IT SHOULD’VE BEEN YOU 📖 Women’s fiction (w/ romance) #writingcommunity #booksky #revpitwaiting ✨Nostalgic ✨Millennial ✨Yearning ✨Past vs. present ✨Young love ✨Regret

IT SHOULD'VE BEEN YOU 📖 #RevPitWaiting Aurora @ 15—good girl, wanting to be seen for who she is, not what she looks like. Gale @ 16—"bad" boy with a heart of gold & a load of secrets. ⏳ Aurora @ 35— mother and wife struggling to fix her marriage in the face of fading intimacy & memories of Gale

IT SHOULD’VE BEEN YOU 📖 is a dual-timeline women’s fiction novel about a woman navigating the unraveling of her marriage, only to find herself pulled back toward the first love she never forgot and the question that never stopped lingering: what if? ❤️first love ⌛️millennial nostalgia #RevPitWaiting

#wipsnips #writingcommunity #wip #writinginprogress @wipsnips.bsky.social PUNK ROCK, PRINCESS 🎸 🤘🏼Older brother's best friend 🤘🏼Rockstar MMC 🤘🏼Forced proximity 🤘🏼 One bed 🤘🏼 Friends to enemies to lovers

Reposting this for editors and agents participating in #revpit

#wipsnips @wipsnips.bsky.social PUNK ROCK PRINCESS 🤘🏼 📖 Sera is the publicist for her brother’s rock band, where Reed, her childhood crush and her brother’s best friend, is now a notorious playboy. Forced to work and live together, they must confront old feelings and save the band’s career.

@swiftiepitch.bsky.social #swiftiepitch #querytrenches 📖IT SHOULD'VE BEEN YOU📖Women's Fiction/89k Twelve years after her first love broke her heart💔, Aurora must face Gale again, risking the marriage 💍 she’s built and the family she loves to confront a love she never fully let go. SONG: THE 1

Meet the writers of #revpit! Hi, I’m Rebecca Rome👋🏼 a women’s fiction author currently querying It Should’ve Been You. I’m 40% to do lists, 20% four-letter words, 10% introvert, 10% directionally challenged and 20% audiobook convert as a full-time working mom ♥️ #revpitwaiting

@reviseresub.bsky.social #RevPit And now we wait....

Who's pumped for #RevPit!?!

#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #WIPsnips @wipsnips.bsky.social 📖 IT SHOULD'VE BEEN YOU 📖 89k, #WF #Q Twelve years after her first love broke her heart, Aurora must face Gale again, risking the marriage she’s built and the family she loves to confront a love she never fully let go.

#writingcommunity #booksky #writing What do we think of The Authors Guild's Human Authored Certification? I registered my first published book (under my real name), but...where do you put the logo? Is this something that will help curb AI writing? Do we think this will become a requirement?

#writesky#writingcommunity #writingprompts #wipsnips @wipsnips.bsky.social 📖 IT SHOULDVE BEEN YOU 📖 Dual timeline women’s fiction with romantic elements - 89k

Agent Guide to 📖 IT SHOULD'VE BEEN YOU 📖 #amquerying #querytrenches #writingcommunity

#writingcommunity #writeSky #writingprompts #wipsnips @wipsnips.bsky.social “face” in Punk Rock, Princess 🎸 ⚠️WIP⚠️

This Friday! Who's ready to meet our annual contest #RevPit editors? In the coming weeks, each will host an #AskEditor session where you'll be able to ask about their wishlist, editing process, and more!

📖 IT SHOULD’VE BEEN YOU 📖 #WF /89k/ #Q When a thirty-something woman reaches out to her first love after twelve years, she must decide whether she’s seeking closure or the spark she once had with him – even if it means leaving the safety of her fading marriage. #questpit

⏳ She’s only fifteen—but everything’s about to change. ⠀ 𝐌𝐞𝐞𝐭 𝐀𝐮𝐫𝐨𝐫𝐚 𝐑𝐢𝐝𝐠𝐞𝐟𝐢𝐞𝐥𝐝: 📓 Honor student 🤘🏼Dating a flaky drummer 💄 Over being treated like Barbie ⠀ Then Gale shows up. ⠀ He’s messy. risky. But she can’t logic her way out of the spark.🔥 Do you relate to Aurora at all? Leave me an emoji! 👇🏻

FINALLY #querying! Look for a #litagent who wants a character-driven contemporary romance that blends elements of new adult and upmarket fiction. A dual-timeline story that turns the typical second-chance romance HEA on its head. Oh, and Kleenex. You'll need Kleenex.

👀SNEAK PEEK! “What about you?” I ask, my voice softer now, hesitant. “Are you the same Gale I remember?” He doesn’t answer right away. His eyes are fixed on the road ahead, his expression unreadable in my peripheral vision. Finally, he exhales, his voice low. “That’s a tough question to answer.”

✨MEET GALE ✨ Mysterious, charming, and unpredictable, Gale's quiet confidence and magnetic pull are impossible to ignore. He’s always been a question mark for Aurora, a deep pull that builds into something raw, intense, and unforgettable. Should it have always been him? 💫 #booksky #romance #wip

#romanceauthors and other #fictionauthors out there: How long was your manuscript? I’m almost done and I’m estimating 110,000 words. #itshouldvebeenyou #wip #secondchanceromance

Chapter 29 done! ✍🏼 And it was a doozy. The spiciest one by far and one I had a personal obligation to get just right ❤️ #booksky #romancenovel #romancebooks #wip #writingcommunity #itshouldvebeenyou #galeandaurora

I really don’t want to grade right now. I just want to live in my book’s world. 🙃 #booksky #author

Holy moly. 10,000 words this week. As the kids say, I’m cookin’! #wip #romancebooks #itshouldvebeenyou #galeandaurora #secondchanceromance #booksky #authors #writingcommunity

MEET AURORA 🖤 The protagonist of It Should’ve Been You—and my pen name. 🤔 Coincidence? Not quite. This “fictional” story is a memoir in disguise. Aurora is an emo cheerleader 🖤, valedictorian 🤓 & dreamer 🤘🏼, carrying memories📓 and a deep bond with Gale. This is her story—and mine. 💕 #booksky