You will have 0 books if you don't try. Rejection is part of the bargain. Never give up. Tell those stories. #5amwritersclub #amwriting #booksky #writersky #authorsky #WIP #poetry #writingcommunity #writerscommunity

Thought I was done #querying this year but just sent a few more out.🫠 Call me a glutton for punishment! 😄 Am #manifesting all the same that I and my #amquerying friends get good news in our inboxes to kick off a 2026 full of great things. ✨️🕯✨️

🎶 I'm dreaming...🎶 Yes, I am. ✨️🕯✨️ 𝑹𝑬𝑩𝑬𝑪𝑪𝑨 𝒙 𝑵𝒆𝒕𝒇𝒍𝒊𝒙'𝒔 𝑻𝑯𝑬 𝑷𝑬𝑹𝑭𝑬𝑪𝑻 𝑪𝑶𝑼𝑷𝑳𝑬 When murder is suspected, a PR exec must decide how far she'll go to protect the people she loves. They all have a motive. Esp. the dead woman's husband. The man she's in love with. #amquerying #litagent #litagents #Booksky

Plus one... 😁 '97 Berlin. Shaking off its Cold War slumber to the beat of techno. Clocks on street corners and lakeside beaches. And her larger-than-life yet adrift host… whose touch makes her wish this summer would last. But it can't. ❤️ BEFORE SUNRISE x 🌶️ HEARTLESS

"Snowflakes in the air Carols everywhere Olden times and ancient rhymes of love and dreams to share." ― Charlie Brown's Christmas song #5amwritersclub #amwriting #booksky #writersky #authorsky #WIP #poetry #writingcommunity #writerscommunity

Came across my very first full req. from yrs ago! 🥳 I'd only sent a few queries out. Before that I'd sent my MS to an editorial agency where the editor unexpectedly offered to submit it for me. It's the book I #amquerying which I've TOTALLY rewritten. Nice to know I can write.🥹 #writersky #Booksky

Netflix adapting books for the screen? 𝘾𝘼𝙎𝙏𝙄𝙉𝙂 𝘾𝘼𝙇𝙇!!🎬🍿 for actors I'd like to play the characters in CARELESS WHISPERS my romantic suspense with 𝒅𝒖 𝑴𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒓'𝒔 𝑹𝑬𝑩𝑬𝑪𝑪𝑨 vibes✨ The woman knew secrets; now she's dead. Everyone has a motive... #litagents #AgentGuide📍'd #amquerying #Writesky #Booksky

Oooh!! 👀👀

Great gifts for a #writer 🤩 #writersky #authorsky

Update!!! 😃 She liked my pitch for the mistaken identity #wip 🥳🥳🥳 #amwriting #amquerying

Rejection on my full 😔 But this is a senior agent. She owns the agency & she didn't have to say this about my writing, did she? AND she wants to know what else I'm working on! So I pitched her my wip🤞🏼 I best finish it now! 😄 Any #litagents interested in the book I #amquerying? See my📍post #amwriting

I was his editor for LIBRA, the greatest experience of my working life and an honor unsurpassed in my lifetime. Don is not just a genius, he is a gentleman.

I've been away for my birthday and didn't want rejections putting a dampener on things so avoided my querying email inbox. Just plucked up the courage and....FULL REQUEST!! 😃 Full request on my #GhostPit submission just a day after I sent it over a week ago!! 🥳 #amquerying

Updated #agentsguide following #questpit 'A sister always has your back, until she sticks a knife in it.' 🔪 #litagents #amquerying

Stairs. 59 Rivoli, Paris #PhotographersOfBluesky #EastCoastKin #SatARTday #SaturdayStairs

"Show up, show up, show up, and after a while the muse shows up, too." — Isabel Allende #5amwritersclub #amwriting #booksky #writersky #authorsky #WIP #poetry #writingcommunity #writerscommunity

A small sample of reading and listening material! #writersky #booksky

Slipping through a door, she chases light, reprieve from the shadowscape within. The air beyond is still, neither warm nor cold, sighing in moonlight not meant for her She traces “sorry” on a hidden #measure of skin, returning to her starless sleep. There, among her shadows, she is home. #vss365

Perfect for Christmas, 'A Bloody Merry Murder' by #theanonymums Emile Castera and Eve Goodfellow. I'm gifting this copy to The Arcade Bookshop in Littlehampton, who are holding a #giftforbookforchristmas event on Christmas Eve. #bookpost

Let’s be friends! What’s Written in the Sand in the #querytrenches now! #writing #fantasyromance #prophecy #themummy #writersky #amquerying

11/11 Portal Energy. Magic is in the air. Release your potential #magic #angelnumbers #november11/11

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The more I dive into What’s Written in the Sand the more I fall in love with it. I hope you do as well. Thanks for sticking around ✨🧡 #writing #romantasy #amquerying #fantasyromance #timetravel #adventure #booksky #writersky

When the binge watching pays off and you outline, write a blurb and the first two chapters of a Gilmore Girls meets The Housemaid thriller. Don’t let anyone tell you you’re wasting your time when you’re lounging. You’re cultivating your creativity!

#litagents take a 👀 at this. I loved Rebecca and can't wait to read this. 💥

𝒅⃨𝒖⃨ 𝑴⃨𝒂⃨𝒖⃨𝒓⃨𝒊⃨𝒆⃨𝒓⃨'⃨𝒔⃨ 𝑹⃨𝑬⃨𝑩⃨𝑬⃨𝑪⃨𝑪⃨𝑨⃨ 𝒙⃨ 𝑺⃨𝒌⃨𝒚⃨ 𝑨⃨𝒕⃨𝒍⃨𝒂⃨𝒏⃨𝒕⃨𝒊⃨𝒄⃨'⃨𝒔⃨ 𝑹⃨𝑰⃨𝑽⃨𝑰⃨𝑬⃨𝑹⃨𝑨⃨ 𝒙⃨ 𝑵⃨𝒆⃨𝒕⃨𝒇⃨𝒍⃨𝒊⃨𝒙⃨'⃨𝒔⃨ 𝑻⃨𝑯⃨𝑬⃨ 𝑷⃨𝑬⃨𝑹⃨𝑭⃨𝑬⃨𝑪⃨𝑻⃨ 𝑪⃨𝑶⃨𝑼⃨𝑷⃨𝑳⃨𝑬⃨ When a death is suspected a murder, a PR exec must decide how far she'll go to protect the people she loves. They all have a motive. Esp. the dead woman's husband. The man she's always loved. #Questpit #Q #A #RF #MY

ONE DARK WINDOW X KATABASIS Alyss attends Nocturne Collegiate for one reason—revenge. With the (reluctant) help of her ex, her ex bff, & a devious half-vampire, she'll use memory magic to uncover the truth behind the murder that destroyed her life.🌙🦇⚔️ #QuestPit #OS #AG #F #R

SINNERS X HANNIBAL X I FEED HER TO THE BEAST When Virginia Bulle kills her ex-boyfriend, she decides to open a restaurant to serve his remains. This leads her to Calypso Raines' doorstep, which opens up a new recipe of the prices we pay to protect family. #Questpit #Q #A #H

Adore everything about this!! 😍😍😍

YOU’VE GOT MAIL x THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT Annie thinks no one cares about her poetry on Instagram. Until she gains a follower who reads every word. But is he the same man threatening her beloved library? 📚 #questpit #QuestPit #W #RF #R #PT #A #WritingCommunity #writers

OF WEAVING 🪡 The Gods Were Greek II 🏛️ CIRCE x EARTHSEA ‘You will have temples dedicated to you. Great statues and hills many will climb to pray to your name. For aeons to come, you will wield power, Athena…’ #questpit #HF #WIP #F #A

An elderly woman holds a grudge for forty years. On the outside, she goes to church, knits baby blankets and babysits, but her husband's betrayal has unleashed a psychotic anger that knows no bounds: a racy, multi-POV thrill ride with killer twists. #QuestPit #Q #S #T #M #R

A boy falls through a hole while ice fishing and is saved by his fourteen-year-old Granddad in 1963; a stranger from the present confronts him at a county fair, but he wants to stay to have adventures with his healthy granddad, because the one at home is sick. #QuestPit #MG #ADV #F

Ooh, love this!! 😍

KNOW YOU BETTER is like YOUNG & HUNGRY—but instead of his private chef, she’s his dog sitter—with the wit & banter of WELL, ACTUALLY, & the embodiment of EVERYTHING HAS CHANGED by Taylor Swift 🌿confident plus-sized fmc 🐾he falls first & harder 🌿facetimes & texts 🐾found family #QuestPit #Q #A #R

Roe wants to drown. Vanish. Plans change when she lands on a boat of ageless outcasts. All plan to face their demons in time, but for today, they run. When pasts sneak up, Roe & her captain risk it all for the crew. In the end, is the answer life or love? #questpit #Q #A #S #R

PEAKY BLINDERS x A MARVELLOUS LIGHT It's Minnesota, 1924. A gangster witch, trapped by a forbidden blood oath, must choose between loyalty to her family’s legacy, and freedom to practice the magic she loves, while falling for her mortal enemy—a sultry, elemental witch. #QuestPit #Q #A #HF #RF

ARTHURIAN x 🇮🇩 MYTHOLOGY A non-verbal chosen one finds the world she’s destined to protect falling to soul-eating monsters. They outmatch her, especially *their* chosen one. She & her vigilante knights must defeat them. That’s if she could resist the soul of her evil counterpart #questpit #YA #F #W

PINEAPPLE STREET x SANDWICH THIS ENDS NOW: A serial marriage-jilter hits a swanky wellness retreat to learn why she keeps fleeing perfect husbands. But healing means facing her nastiest ghost: the manipulative, brilliant first love whose poison still runs in her veins. #A #UP #Q #QuestPit

A teen outcast from a secret line of Irish plant magicians must harness newfound powers, with the help of an oak tree portal, to protect herself from a poison-wielding ancestor who hunts her family across time. #questpit #amquerying #ya #f 🌿 Plant magic 🍄 Elixirs + poisons 🎂 Magical baking

WAKE was inspired by HOWL'S MOVING CASTLE w/: ~A self-sacrificing girl cursed w/ unwanted magic ~Who ends up living w/ a defective group ~Where she's teased w/ a feathery secret ~They develop a found family ~& she falls for 1 of them Coming Spring 27 #QuestPit #P #YA #F #MY #R

When best friend Adair's podcast partner flakes at the last minute, Kit agrees to take her place. They're supposed to be figuring out what they're doing wrong in dating—so why does everything suddenly feel so right? Stay tuned. Nobody Wants This x You, Again #QuestPit #W #A #R

First time we've had a chance to see snippets from @soph-pl.bsky.social's book. I'm there in Berlin, techno music reverberating through my body. What fabulous writing!! 👌🏽😍

𝒅⃨𝒖⃨ 𝑴⃨𝒂⃨𝒖⃨𝒓⃨𝒊⃨𝒆⃨𝒓⃨'⃨𝒔⃨ 𝑹⃨𝑬⃨𝑩⃨𝑬⃨𝑪⃨𝑪⃨𝑨⃨ 𝒙⃨ 𝑺⃨𝒌⃨𝒚⃨ 𝑨⃨𝒕⃨𝒍⃨𝒂⃨𝒏⃨𝒕⃨𝒊⃨𝒄⃨'⃨𝒔⃨ 𝑹⃨𝑰⃨𝑽⃨𝑰⃨𝑬⃨𝑹⃨𝑨⃨ 𝒙⃨ 𝑵⃨𝒆⃨𝒕⃨𝒇⃨𝒍⃨𝒊⃨𝒙⃨'⃨𝒔⃨ 𝑻⃨𝑯⃨𝑬⃨ 𝑷⃨𝑬⃨𝑹⃨𝑭⃨𝑬⃨𝑪⃨𝑻⃨ 𝑪⃨𝑶⃨𝑼⃨𝑷⃨𝑳⃨𝑬⃨ When a death is suspected a murder, a PR exec must decide how far she'll go to protect the people she loves. They all have a motive. Esp. the dead woman's husband. The man she's always loved. #Questpit #Q #A #RF #MY

An agent’s guide to THE SLOW BURN 🚒🎄 She’s an event planner with her promotion on the line. He’s a firefighter, and her dad is his chief. Together, they have to pull off the fire department’s holiday gala 👀 #questpit #r #q #amquerying

She’s all big-city glamour and crème brûlée. He’s more meatloaf and Midwestern stubborn. When a culinary queen clashes with a grumpy college professor, sparks—and spatulas—fly. #questpit #Q #A #R