Five star review just dropped 😍❤️The Mothers of SW19: Two women battle to be the Queen of their social circle amidst the drama of the school gate in this modern Vanity Fair tale of class, motherhood and friendship. by Catherine Yardley

#Giveaway Time to prepare for #DVpit! Enter from July 13-18, 2026 to win query and/or first pages critiques from agents! TO ENTER: • repost this post • AND reply with your category & genre! (e.g. YA Fantasy) • Entries must be for completed, unpublished work. Full rules: dvpit.carrd.co#giveaway

❤️‍🔥 Only One Summer in Berlin 🇩🇪 1997. A French college student with a perfectly planned future. A single dad whose life already fell apart once. One summer they were never meant to share. And a love that can’t survive autumn. ✨ ARCs are open ✨ 🔗 in my bio Happy #BluePit📖 #CS #A #R ! 📌 for later

Stay tuned for a fun announcement next week, Monday, July 13, 2026! Hint: Make sure to shine up your queries! #dvpit

Something's a-coming up later this month in #Harrogate 👀👀 #TheakstonCrime #HarrogateCrime

I have a website! sophie-paul.com But don’t go there. I needed it for admin reasons. It’s bare bones. It has nothing you haven’t seen before. Unless…

Aaand we’re on! ✨ eARC requests are now live ✨ Only One Summer in Berlin is my debut, and I’d love to take you along on Camille & Kosta’s journey. See 🧵⬇️ for more information. All the 🔗 are in my bio. 💖 Thank you so much in advance! 📚💕 #booksky #romance #summerread

Check out @soph-pl.bsky.social's debut Only One Summer in Berlin, a glorious, beautifully written romance full of heart, heat 🔥, and humour. Out 26th September!! 🥳🥳🥳 #bluesky #books #reading

Don't let my UnhingedPit joke fool you... I'm very, very happy that you can now add Only One Summer in Berlin to your TBR. And if you’re an ARC reader, September might just come before July this year 👀 I thought it was appropriate for a summer romance 🌞⛱️ 🧵 1/2

Here are 2 pictures. I posted one 9 months ago for #UnhingedPit . The other I prepared today. How about a game of "spot the difference" for my heartfelt & high-heat Berlin romance? There's even a prize! 👀😉 See comments. I'll go first ⬇️ #A #R #CS 🧵1/3

The sky this evening. #Harrogate #Yorkshire

So, I guess it’s time I told you something...

“Reading is discovering one's own riches and one's own possibilities through the words of others.” (Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz) Art: Edward Hopper 1882-1967 American realism painter. “Reader on the Train,” 1965.

𝑮𝑳𝑨𝑺𝑺 𝑶𝑵𝑰𝑶𝑵 𝒙 𝑴𝑰𝑺𝑺 𝑪𝑶𝑵𝑮𝑬𝑵𝑰𝑨𝑳𝑰𝑻𝒀 Mistaken for her fashion model friend, a reporter plays along. But the story - a killer hiding their past - is perilous enough without her falling for the infuriating man she's fake-dating. He has reason to hate reporters. Especially her. #WIPPIT #A #BOOKCLUB #MM #R

A taste of what is coming to the trenches this summer: “To receive life, you must sacrifice a life. Whose life would you steal?” That question made Sere a goddess. It also damned her lover. The gods remember. #WIPPIT #A #F #H #WritingCommunity #amquerying

YOU’VE GOT MAIL x THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT Annie thinks no one cares about her Instagram poetry until a new follower reads every word. Could he be the one? Or he is the same man threatening her beloved library? 📚 #WIPPIT #WIP #R #Con #A #poetry #WritingCommunity

DARK MATTER x REIGN OF FIRE Skirra—like dragons sans cosplay makeup—open gates between worlds with a breath. One man falls through a gate into our world to be rescued by an earlier refugee and her adopted sister. On the run from the military, they race to reopen skirra's gate to home. #WIPPIT #A #SF

💫 Guide to my MISS CONGENIALITY x GLASS ONION wip 💫 When she's mistaken for her fashion model friend, a reporter plays along sensing a scoop. The story is perilous enough without her falling for the infuriating man she's fake-dating. He has reason to hate reporters. Esp. her. #WIPPIT #A #MM #R

Pagans x Strike When a celebrity author builds a Stonehenge replica in his garden, he unleashes cultish Roman paganism into an uptight, middle class English town. Two reporters must discover the cause, before the Winter Solstice raises up old gods and ancient sacrifice. #WipPit #A #Q #PN #H

Here is my list for #WIPPIT 1. In the Sun, Rising from the Mist #A #CF #LF 2. Rutello: Arealia and the Last Flame #A #F 3. Rutello: New World #A #RF 4. Book Nook #A #MM #Hr #F 5. 90 Seconds to Midnight #A #Dys #T 6. Pull #YA #CF #LF 7. The Bird & The Stone #A #C #FBW

TREASURE PLANET × FIREFLY × COWBOY BEBOP After finding an old wrist computer on a desiccated corpse, a bookish scavenger teams up with a prodigal engineer to discover its contents while going toe to toe with a ruthless pirate captain on a lawless space station colony. #WIPPIT #A #SF

CORPSE BRIDE × 50 FIRST DATES × THE DEAD ROMANTICS A bored immortal mortician resurrects the woman of his dreams—again and again. But love becomes obsession, and she's decaying faster than he can let go. #WIPPIT #A #H #R

#WIPPIT Mass effect x Treasure Planet "People of Humanity, we have been observing your Earth..." These are the word that came down from the stars when Humanity stood on the Brink. The words that offered them a Second Chance at life. 6 years later, our story begins. #Q #SF #SFF

In a kingdom where magic steals body parts, emotions, and even memories, Elowen creates a soulless girl wearing her face to bargain with the Prince of the Underworld before the curse takes what remains of her family. Frankenstein X The Hunger Games #WIPPIT #NA #DF #F #G

MENDING GLASS ☀️💾🌼 When a blight strikes, an optimistic archivist must track down the legendary garden of her hero with the help of an old world engineer—but discoveries about her idol make her question everything. ☀️ Solarpunk 🌷 Floriography 💚 Enby love interest #WIPPit #A #SF Currently drafting!

⭐️ WIP ALERT ⭐️ I’m so excited to finally share THE DESERT KEEPS HER DEAD, my weird western fantasy heist WIP featuring: ☀️ a death-obsessed paleontologist ☀️ her bounty hunting ex best friend ☀️ a fossil worth stealing ☀️ a desert worth saving #WIPPit #A #F #LGBT

HEARTLESS HUNTER x THE WITCHER 🖤 one haughty dragon prince 🖤 one servant masquerading as royalty (secretly sent to execute him) 🖤 forbidden gothic romance 🖤 a gritty world steeped in Slavic folklore 🖤 the ruinous passion destined to undo them both #WIPPit #NA #R #F #G

YESTERYEAR x MEXICAN GOTHIC She loved her dark romance book boyfriends, until they came to claim her. 📖 Dark Romance BookTok-er 🏰 Mansion Turned Lab Day-Job ⚗️ Accidental Portal ⚔️ Seven Unleashed Dark MMC’s 🩸 A bloody obsession 🥮 Cinnamon Roll Coworker #WipPit #A #Spec #SF #F #SFF #H #G #Up

UNDERWORLD x WEST SIDE STORY x TAYLOR SWIFT'S GUILTY AS SIN? Hunted for her heart that could destroy the magical Veil dividing their lands, a ferromancer teams up with a shifter she hates to stay alive. #WIPPit #NA #RF

𝑮𝑳𝑨𝑺𝑺 𝑶𝑵𝑰𝑶𝑵 𝒙 𝑴𝑰𝑺𝑺 𝑪𝑶𝑵𝑮𝑬𝑵𝑰𝑨𝑳𝑰𝑻𝒀 Mistaken for her fashion model friend, a reporter plays along. But the story - a killer hiding their past - is perilous enough without her falling for the infuriating man she's fake-dating. He has reason to hate reporters. Especially her. #WIPPIT #A #BOOKCLUB #MM #R

A little #wip Sinclair Girls, Gilmore Girls meets The Housemaid. Don’t mess with a Momma Bear!

Editor's Guide to: 'Beauty is a Brittle Glass'. BLUE SISTERS X THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY X THE SUBSTANCE A sister always has your back until she sticks a knife in it. 🔪 On sub soon! #Editors #Publishers please reach out to my agent @virtuallyleslie.bsky.social @prentisliterary.bsky.social

Use the backstory gap to create intrigue and fuel emotional draw. #writingcommunity

My latest on Substack open.substack.com/pub/catherin...

Lark is at rock bottom. Betrayed, career in ruins, lying to everyone she loves… and the holiday market she’s working keeps running her into a man who smiles like he’s never met a problem. 🔥 slow burn romance 🤫 secrets 😒🤠 grumpy/sunshine 🏘 small town 🌶🌶 reluctant chemistry #QuestPit #w #a #r

#Dewdrop on my eyelid, moonbeam on my heartbeat, and you, waxing poetic with your fingertips. #vss365 #poem #poetry #blueskypoets 📷 Pixabay

So I finally did it... I'm on Instagram too! I'm trying to find as many of you as I can, but just in case: sophie_paul_en And I have a feeling I'm going to be quite... loquacious about Only One Summer in Berlin over there 📷 Just saying 😉

Yay!! Great to see you there @soph-pl.bsky.social !! 🙌🏽

I’m in today’s @theipaper writing about marriage and relationships. Is it time for a TV divorce? inews.co.uk/opinion/quic... #freelancewriter #freelancejournalist #writer #writingcommunity

A belated thank you for the likes & shares of my #Questpit pitches! 🥰 I'm packing to move house & jumped on here late in the day to be gobsmacked - as usual! - by the awesome creativity of the #writingcommunity Also, I just noticed I got an agent ❤️ on my wip at the 🐦 place! 🥳 Best finish it ASAP! 😅

I was lucky enough to beta-read this book. The writing is sublime! And the story kept me hooked. I finished it in no time at all. Love it!! ❤️❤️❤️

Forgive yourself if: you hate your writing today, you skipped getting up early to write, you missed your self-imposed deadline, you wonder why someone else is published and you aren't. You only fail if you give up. Keep going! #5amwritersclub #writingcommunity #booksky #WIP #writerscommunity

I’m looking for travel recommendations in the UK for parents with four children. Easily accessible from London, and without a car. Niche, but let me know. #journorequest #journorequests

𝑮𝑳𝑨𝑺𝑺 𝑶𝑵𝑰𝑶𝑵 𝒙 𝑴𝑰𝑺𝑺 𝑪𝑶𝑵𝑮𝑬𝑵𝑰𝑨𝑳𝑰𝑻𝒀 Mistaken for her fashion model friend, a reporter plays along. But the story - a killer hiding their past - is dangerous enough without her falling for the annoying man she's fake-dating. He has reason to hate reporters. Esp. her. #Questpit #W #A #MY #R #Bookclub

#agentguide to CARELESS WHISPERS set in Paxos, Greece 𝑑𝑢 𝑀𝑎𝑢𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑟'𝑠 𝑅𝐸𝐵𝐸𝐶𝐶𝐴 x 𝑁𝑒𝑡𝑓𝑙𝑖𝑥'𝑠 𝑇𝐻𝐸 𝑃𝐸𝑅𝐹𝐸𝐶𝑇 𝐶𝑂𝑈𝑃𝐿𝐸 A PR exec risks her moral compass to help the people she loves when murder is suspected and they all have motive. Esp. the dead woman's husband. The man she's in love with. #Questpit #Q #A #MY

TRULY DEVIOUS/HAZELTHORN When sentient plants take over the world and an eminent botanists winds up dead, a hungry reporter persuades a rival plant hunter to seek the truth. But as they become entangled, & the victims pile up, they’ll need sharp secateurs to avoid being next. #QuestPit #W #YA #NA #F

Still reeling from their heartbreaking pasts, Mukti and Jamie are blocking the world out, not letting anyone in—the only people they can’t keep out is each other Can they move forward together—or do some ghosts haunt us forever? 🎨artist FMC 🎸musician MMC 🖤Wuthering Heights vibes #QuestPit #R #P