I want to remind #querying authors out there that people posting that they queried for two weeks and got an offer of rep is NOT the norm. Wonderful for those people. But for so many of us, we're querying for months or years with maybe hundreds of rejections. KEEP 👏🏻 GOING

Who’s sick of adulting? 😂🙋🏻‍♀️ If I won the lottery, I’d spend my days: Read 📖 Write ✍🏼 Listen to emo 🖤 Lift heavy sh*t 💪🏻 Drink black coffee ☕️ Exist under a heated blanket 🔥 What’s one thing you’d love to have more time for? #booksky #adulting #millennial #writer #elderemo

Going on submission! Current mood: 🫠🥳🫣😅🤞🏻 Authors and agents, what’s the most important advice you have? #writing #writingcommunity #onsub #onsubmission #authorlife #literaryagent #booksky

I HAVE AN AGENT!!!!! 🥹 I’m thrilled and honored to now be represented by Katie Monson of SBR Media. So for those who… 💔Love a romance w/ first love ache 🖤Are nostalgic millennials 😭Want to laugh, cry, and hope IT SHOULD’VE BEEN YOU 📖 is now one step closer to being in your hands!

Happy Indie Bookstore Day to all the businesses that house and support the work from some of the most talented and hardworking authors out there ❤️❤️❤️❤️ #booksky #indiebookstores #indieauthors #indiebooks

@posterpitevent.bsky.social #posterpit #q #wf PAST LIVESxNORMAL PEOPLE Twelve years after a first love is torn apart by trauma, Aurora and Gale prepare to meet again. As their past resurfaces, she must decide whether the pull she feels toward him has to do with love, mythology, or self-reckoning.

Literary agents: What’s the protocol if you have a full and want to proceed? Do you email asking to set up a call? Do you just call? Ask me how many “possible spam” calls I’ve elected to actually pick up lately. 😅 #querytrenches

😮‍💨😮‍💨😮‍💨😮‍💨 Check out ✨THE SPACES BETWEEN✨in Back Roads Literary Review’s Spring 2026 issue! Krystal is drawn to Gale’s quiet intensity, believing love will be enough—until the name Aurora surfaces and everything shifts. Can she stay, or walk away? bit.ly/thespacesbet... #booksky #writingcommunity

THE SPACES BETWEEN, set in the world of IT SHOULD’VE BEEN YOU, was published today in Back Roads Literary Review. 🎉🎉🎉 Krystal is drawn to Gale’s quiet intensity, believing love will be enough—until the name Aurora surfaces and everything shifts. Will she stay, or walk away? bit.ly/thespacesbet...

#booksky #amquerying

Hoping for good news today because today marks 20 years since the real-life climax of It Should’ve Been You ❤️💫 #booksky #writingcommunity #amquerying #querytrenches

I know my husband thinks I’m a 10 when I send him a reel or a meme and I hear him cackle in the other room.

Bleh. Nudging agents on fulls makes me so nervous. #writingcommunity #booksky #amquerying #querytrenches

✨HALFWAY THERE!!✨ Just passed 40k. #writingcommunity #wip #booksky Sera and Reed’s story is coming together. 😉 PUNK ROCK, PRINCESS 🤘🏼 🎸 older brother’s best friend 🎸 one bed 🎸 friends to enemies to lovers 🎸dual POV 🎸forced proximity

Over 3,000 words this week. ✍🏼 Clap it out for the full-time working mom who still 👏 got 👏 it 👏 done 👏 #wip #authormom #writingcommunity #workingmom

Here's a "murdered darling" from IT SHOULD'VE BEEN YOU. 📖 For fans of The Paper Palace by Miranda Cowley Heller and Everything After by Jill Santopolo. #revpit #revpitwaiting #wf #bc #a #q #amquerying #booksky #querytrenches #firstdraft #murderyourdarlings

So happy to announce that THE SPACES BETWEEN, a short story set in the world of IT SHOULD'VE BEEN YOU (#amquerying), will be published in Back Roads Literary Review's short story anthology! #shortstory #writingcommunity #writing #booksky

We need a funny one today for April Fool's Day, so I'm recycling the meme I used for #ChaosPit 🤣 📖 IT SHOULD'VE BEEN YOU, 89k, Women's Fiction The boy who once made Aurora feel most alive is now the man who could unravel everything she’s built since she let him go. #revpit #revpitwaiting

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

#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

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.