Writing a college-based story meant including Halloween was a must. 🎃 Here's some snippets from my new adult WIP featuring 🧹 last minute costume shopping 👽 a costume inspired by my sister 🍬 flirting over candy

Anne with an E Season 3 Episode 3 still hits if anyone was wondering. (I wasn’t. I knew I’d cry for 45 minutes.)

Ren Faire, my beloved

My life’s been taken over by Interview with the Vampire, which means my daily recaps with my husband now include tidbits like “and they turned a five year old into a vampire to save their failing marriage.”

Without a doubt, the 2D Restaurant in Chicago is one of the coolest places in the city ✏️ @stalbergwrites.bsky.social

The best I have is field from the very first page of The Axis of You and Me 🎥 💙 🏳️‍🌈 #WIPSnips #queerying

Not a single "Thanks. It has pockets" scene in this whole manuscript. #WIPSnips

Hi I forgot my personal social medias existed for a month, so it's time for a little reintroduction! libra ☀️, virgo 🌙, taurus ⬆️ 🌈 queer 🖋️ querying my first romance novel 📓 drafting two other novels 🐈‍⬛ cat mom 📽️ movies obsessed ✨ Swiftie 🏀 new WNBA fan 💻 social media editor at Knee Brace Press

post four characters you identify with 👀

Spike that ball like a volleyball 😍😍😍

#WIPSnips of my cute characters on their first date 💚

Bookish checkpoint 🕯️ 🔸 last book you read: Wicked Beauty by Katee Robert 🔸 your current read: drafts from @stalbergwrites.bsky.social and @nicolezelniker.bsky.social 🔸 last book added to your TBR: The God and the Gumiho by Sophie Kim 🔸 next read: Deep Wizardy by Diane Duane

disgraced actor formerly known as America's Boyfriend VS. serial reality TV villain. three weeks, three fan conventions, and a whole lot of antics. ❤️romcom (com heavy) 📺celebrity hijinks 😈characters behaving badly 🌈mlm enemies to lovers #questpit #W #R #LGBT

HEIDI'S HOUSE OF RESCUED FAMILIARS 🐊Louisiana setting 🏳️‍🌈Trans and ace rep 👁️‍🗨️Multiple POVs 👨‍👧‍👧Found family 🐈a n i m a l s 🚜Redneck wizards 🌷Healing is the hardest part 📚Community politics 🐅Tiger King inspired villain 🪄 m a g i c 🐸Toad hoarders 🦎Reptile conventions #Q #A #F #S #Questpit

I'm currently querying my first novel, THE AXIS OF YOU AND ME, a dual POV, queer romance. 🏳️‍🌈💕📚 (Shout out to everyone with their gorgeous pitches that inspired me to make one of my own) #Q #A #R #questpit

If you want 🏳️‍🌈 Queer romance 💟 Polyamory rep 👀 Complicated people making bad decisions 💚 Characters in their 30s 📸 Celebrity and fandom ‼️ Dual POV 📚 Alternating timelines ✨ A winding road to a HEA You’ll love THE AXIS OF YOU AND ME #Q #A #R #questpit

Characters being cute 💚 #WIP

(Whoops missed a day) From my #WIP, tentatively titled Paper Bags and Plastic Hearts

“I’ll put on more coffee,” she says. “I love you.” From the project I’m currently querying ✨

Bones but not gross #WIP

Can you hear the people sing?

I like drawing from my college experience writing this story, but I did leave out the part of the real experience in which we had to talk a guy we knew out of drunk driving home in a Jimmy Johns.

My latest reads 📚

The protagonist and I actually have different voices!

And the roster page on the website is down… I need to know if the rookies are okay.

11/10 social media work by the Durham Bulls

It’s a big day in small town North Carolina. We’re getting a traffic circle and I’m hosting this panel today!

In Paper Bags and Plastic Hearts, I've got Watchmen, Omnitopia Dawn, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, The Illiad, The Beautiful and Damned, and The Book Thief so far. It's about English majors, so there should be more eventually.

Actually surprised I have a #WIPSnips for this one

Convenient that I started writing a basketball romance

Pride flag inspired moodboards for my MCs Avi and Aidan 🏳️‍🌈 I'm currently querying The Axis of You and Me about these two actors who fall in love and make a real mess of it

June 21 at 2 p.m. I'm moderating a talk with Lillie Lainoff, Jonny Garza Villa and Robbie Couch! We're going to talk about grief in young adult fiction. It'd be awesome if you came! docs.google.com/forms/d/10li...

Outside accountability yes pls I’m a serious plotter, so I’d like to plot my new WIP at least a little.

Late to join butttttt, this week I hit 34K words on my main WIP (!!) while every few days the narrator of a sapphic basketball story gives me a few ideas that I immediately write down.

I thought I wasn’t that emotional about it, but the mix of original Taylor and newer Taylor that I get now on Spotify has me a special kind of nostalgic actually

Eeeeee so excited to share my baby coming out to her moms. My sweet demisexual girl from my WIP 💟

Happy Pride! 🖤🤍💜🩶

From the project I'm querying, The Axis of You and Me 🏳️‍🌈

Book mail ✨ Thank you, @nicolezelniker.bsky.social, for letting me be Avery’s first reader literal years ago 💜

We traveled over the weekend, and I am my most productive on planes. 🖋️ Two snippets from different WIPs with very different voices.

That’s me! We’re gonna have a great time!

I’m just a girl asking the Wings to put Zaza in a game. #WNBA

As a State fan, it’s so comforting to see Connecticut taking care of Niya. ❤️🧡

@nicolezelniker.bsky.social is talking to @aidenschmaiden.bsky.social on TikTok now everyone go watch it!!!

HAPPY ALL I KNOW SO FAR DAY🔥🌈🥳 I’m SO excited to have this book out in the world. I hope y’all love Avery and co. as much as I do❤️

Book fair at Botanist and Barrel 📚 Ft. my favorite local author @nicolezelniker.bsky.social

I’m a WNBA fan now, but this is what I talk about when I watch a game.

And they scared me!

I’m at Flyleaf for the launch event for An American Girl Anthology and there is pink cake and people brought their dolls. I’m declaring American Girl Doll summer.

What if I just post a little bit every day for accountability that I am writing?