Someone put together a list of the new Bluesky US gov accounts in case folks want to block them. These are essentially pumping out state-run propaganda at this point: bsky.app/profile/eva....

When Lizzie reads her great-great-grandmother's journal, she learns what life was like before The Council took over. Opposing The Council and her evil Uncle Abraham may cost Lizzie her freedom or her life but she'll risk it all to protect her friends, family, and chance for true love. #DVpit #YA #R

ELDEST DAUGHTER x MINE 🥋 Jordyn is a competitive martial artist with her sights set on 🏅 🏈 Connor is an ex Varsity football player looking for a new start. 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Both have complicated families. If they can get out of their own way, this 😡 and ☀️ just might get everything they want. ##DVPIT #YA #R

ELDEST DAUGHTER x MINE 🥋 Jordyn is a competitive martial artist with her sights set on 🏅 🏈 Connor is an ex Varsity football player looking for a new start. 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Both have complicated families. If they can get out of their own way, this 😡 and ☀️ just might get everything they want. ##DVPIT #YA #R

THE GRACE YEAR x M Hendrix's THE CHAPERONE Fifty years in the future, 16-year-old Lizzie risks banishment and death to oppose the theocratic regime that controls Glory, wondering how many of her friends and family she'll have to sacrifice along the way. #DVpit #YA #Dystopian

"Cobra Kai" x "Rules for Being a Girl" Nothing can stop taekwondo badass Jordyn as she chases gold at Nationals until ex-Varsity football player Connor walks into her dojang. Will winning in love cause her to lose on the mat? #DVpit #YA #R

Fifty years in the future, 16-year-old Lizzie risks banishment and death to oppose the theocratic regime that controls Glory, wondering how many of her friends and family she'll have to sacrifice along the way. #DVpit #YA #dystopian

#DVParty the short version of the Playlist for my #YA #Dystopian A Girl of Glory, full of Burn the Patriarchy anthems!

Did I really just outline 90% of a MG adventure today while staring at my phone, hoping for good querying news? Why yes, yes I did. 🥰

Stories from my Query Journey, Part 2: Having already sent out 10-ish queries, today I found two paragraphs at the end of my 'first 10 pages' that didn't belong there. Sigh. 🤦‍♀️

Stories from my Query Journey: A query form yesterday asked me for my favorite writer. That's like asking me to choose between my dogs! I can't do that! So I gave them a short list instead. 🤷‍♀️

Did I have a lightbulb moment while I was editing my MS today? Yes. Am I excited by it? Yes. Will it require me to tear some things apart and stitch them back together? Yes. Am I doing it because the story needs it, or because I'm scared to call it finished and start querying? I honestly don't know.

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Merciful Zeus! Did I just finish my synopsis?! I think I did!

I hate writing the synopsis!

Day three of trying to cut down my chunky word baby. For those keeping track, I'm down to 105,982 from 109,000. Mostly accomplished by rewriting sections to make them flow better. If any #kidlitagents want to chime in with their word count preferences for YA dystopian, I'd love to hear from you!

Back to the grind of editing and attempting to cut words from my chunky word baby. 2k down, 7k more to go.

-Round three of edits. -Page 308 of 400-something. -Taylor on the speaker. -3 cups of coffee in. I think I need a 4th cup. ☕️

Page 150 of 400-something pages on round 3 of editing. My coffee ☕️ ☕️ is not strong enough for this.

Dictator alert

Some people have a problem overusing the word "just" in their MS. I, apparently, have a problem overusing the word "so". Guess what my task is today?

Lizzie doesn't quite live up to everyone's expectations, always falling short of the goal. Still, she's determined to live up to her family's legacy, even if it ☠️ her. #PitchDis

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Join us tonight for productivity (maybe), chaos (probably), and comradery (definitely)

I'm KerryAnn and I write primarily YA. I deal with chronic pain but the need to write supersedes the pain. 💙💙

Trust me when I say Kayleigh is amazing to work with and I cant thank her enough for her valuable feedback!!

Now that my latest revision is with my dev editor, I'm trying to figure out what to do next. I have the start of a query list, I have a synopsis that needs updating (it changed from the very basic one I wrote after the first revision), I could work on an actual query letter. Ok. Bookstore it is!

My cousin takes these beautiful photos and every time he sends them to me, I want to write a new story. What kind of story would you write about this one?

Final word count for this revision: 109,746. The wonderful @editsinthemargins.com starts reading on Monday. I'm so excited! And terrified.

You know you're an underwriter when your revision comes out a full 30% longer than your first draft! Hello 103,857 words! You're beautiful! ✍️ 📖

This is a great way to check your female characters for authenticity.

Some days there is good news!!!

My favorite swag from Lovestruck Books @ Fan Expo this weekend. They ran a great panel in the morning w/ some lovely indie authors talking about their journeys. I wanted to get back up to their room for more pins but I ran out of time. I hope they make this a regular event in the future! 🩷📖

13 days ago my amazing dog collapsed in the yard. He was diagnosed w/ a spinal cord injury. Neuro said we would know in two weeks if he would walk again, but that it could take months for him to recover, if he did. Y'all, 15 minutes ago, Magnus walked out in the yard w/o us having to carry him! 💙🐾

I wrote half of a chapter today. And I kind of hate it. No, I really do. It's nowhere neat my best writing. But! It's there and can be fixed later. Also, I've had a really shitty week so I'm going to take that half chapter as a serious win.

Done! Follow the instructions in the 🧵

Between the reality of the country I live in, and being neck-deep in this dystopian I'm writing, I'm so grateful that, after a marathon writing session, I can open IG to find out that my adult daughter has sent over a dozen reels starring baby highland cows, baby goats, ducks, bunnies, puppies...

“Alligator Alcatraz” will begin operations on Wednesday. This is your reminder that a prison without due process is a concentration camp.

Checking out an agent's MSWL and saw something I've never seen before: "Manuscripts should be in past tense (I ran, he said, not I walk, he thinks)". This is odd to me that an agent would only accept a past-tense manuscript. Am I crazy?

This dog is very proud of himself. He caught & munched on a critter in the yard (we're honestly not sure what it was). But now he (literally) smells like death. Omg 🤢 Wth do I do with him now????

Got two chapters edited/rewritten today and I'm calling that a win. Plus I got a good start on a new chapter. I think I deserve a treat!

Oh how accurate this is!

Edits and rewrites for another chapter... done! Slowly but surely, this is becoming a better story. I'm hoping to be done by the second week of July. At least, that's the deadline I'm giving to myself. Fingers crossed! 🤞

I'm so tired. I was feeling good with our protest on Saturday and the in-person hecklers leaving w/ their tails between their legs. But now it's Monday & every news report online has so many people spewing such hate. Trolls, bots, cult members, call them what you want but the hate is so tiring.

Thank you to Terry Moran for telling the truth since his station wouldn't. Shame on ABC for bending the knee and firing a thoroughly good journalist who is fighting for the American people.

My teenage niece, C, texted me yesterday to ask if I would read the short story she wrote. Of course I said yes! Someone read my early work and now it's time for me to do the same for C. And if her prose is anywhere near as good as the poetry she let me read, I won't have to avoid family functions!

We have reached that time in New England where, after a shower, I need to towel off 17 times between putting on each article of clothing. The heat, the humidity, gross.

"We're all going to die" is the new "Let them eat cake".

I had a wonderful video chat with my writing group, which has been together since 2020 when we met through a SCBWI conference (held on Zoom that year). I'm grateful to have found wonderful people who help me brainstorm my way through writing obstacles and plot holes. 💜💜