I can still hardly believe it’s real, but… 2026 is the year I officially become a published author. 🦋🦋🦋 I feel so fortunate and beyond excited to see what the future holds. And if you feel so inclined, the preorder link is here: l1nq.com/tXSO1 #booksbooksbooks #writingcommunity

PENROSE As a child, Nico watched his mother climb a staircase in the woods and vanish. Reading her journal 30 years later, he discovers a link between her disappearance & the Gilded Age mansion which burned down in those woods 100 years ago. SEA OF TRANQUILITY x PIRANESI #2025pit #A #LF #SPF

You don't know anyone but natural born American citizens, full stop. And if you're white and border patrol or ICE starts asking questions, you ask to see their warrant. Don't you do nazi shit.

PENROSE As a child, Nico watched his mother climb a staircase in the woods and vanish. Thirty years later, he stumbles upon her journals & learns her disappearance has something to do with the razed Gilded Age mansion which once stood on the very spot where he lost her. #bluepit #a #q #m #sf #lf

We all have an emotional support dead celebrity. Who they are says a lot about you. So it goes. #writingCommunity #writersOfBlueSky

#WritingCommunity don't forget that agents want to find you to use #amquerying hashtag, not the mswl. Let the mswl be for agents. The best way is to either participate in pitch events or actually sit down and query your thing and get those rejections under your belt.

POV: It’s the holidays and the dawn of American fascism and you’re an #amQuerying writer trying to keep it together and someone says “How are you?” And you say, “Oh, hanging in there…” #writersOfBlueSky #writingCommunity

Another day finished. To my brothers and sisters of BlueSky, I leave you with this reminder. Let's continue to be misfits and #StayWoke.💙 #Goodnight🌝✨ #BlueCrew #BlueSky #WriterSky #QueerWriters #ReaderSky #BookSky💙📚 #WritingCommunity #HorrorSky #FilmSky #ChristianCommunity #Resisters #Everybody

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to all my anxious writers out there. #writingcommunity #amQuerying #writersofbluesky

That feeling when the entirety of your next novel materializes in your brain fully formed and demanding to be written 💡💡💡 #writingCommunity #amwriting #amQuerying #writersofbluesky

Looking for recommendations on where to submit short stories of the literary speculative fiction genre. Anywhere that might swoon over stories with tone and subject matter similar to Story Of Your Life by Ted Chiang. #WritingCommunity #amquerying #writersofbluesky

The shape of my novel, Penrose, is in the name — an impossible three-sided object. Great summation by Neil deGrasse Tyson. #writingCommunity #writersofbouesky #amquerying

Every time someone asks me to do something

Really good advice I recently heard: sometimes the best thing you can do for your novel is to tell the story in chronological order. #writingCommunity #writersofbluesky #writers #writing

Baby’s first Christmas tree.

Two rejections and another full request in the last day and a half. Feels like agents are clearing their inboxes in preparation for the holidays. Bracing for a barrage, keeping hope alive for an offer… 🤞🤞🤞 #writersofbluesky

Yes, yes, yes. Libraries are where I fell in love with the grand escape only literature can offer.

I saw where somebody wrote a letter asking Santa for an agent, and yeah … you know what? I’m in. Let me get that North Pole address. #writingCommunity #booksky #writersofbluesky

Just got my tenth full request!!! And now I’m on Cloud 9. #writingCommunity #amQuerying #writersOfBluesky

Hi #writersofbluesky! Time for re-introductions? I’m Sean, & I write speculative literary fiction. ATM, I’m querying a book called Penrose which revolves around a spiral staircase in the woods, the missing person who climbed it, and the son she left behind. Say hi! #writingCommunity #amQuerying

Want to know a little more about Pub Crawl, our month-long publishing intensive coming in February 2025? Here's today's StoryStudio newsletter with some FAQs about the event. mailchi.mp/storystudioc... #writersofbluesky

Do not feed the trolls. Block lists are the best. 🙂

Here’s your friendly reminder to plow through the labyrinth of menus in Microsoft Word to turn off all “connected experiences”. That’s their euphemism for scraping every letter you write to train their AI. Here’s how you do it. 🧵

This is how you become a writer: just pick one of the things that is deeply wrong with you. Make it a character. Now send it on a self-help journey or try to kill it. Now call it a book.

Alright, sharing what a first chapter should include for the #amquerying crowd. This is a bit longer & will be done 🧵style! #writingcommunity So...where do you start the story? You start in the place that offers the most dynamic scene to teach readers about the MC. - What critical... 1/24 💙📚

There’s keeping it real, then there’s keeping it “locally real.” Apparently, the universe does neither. What a strange world we inhabit. www.popularmechanics.com/science/a626...

From my #amQuerying novel, Penrose: “Sleep will not come, so I find myself scribbling into this journal by the light of the dwindling fire … Even as a little girl, I never had much use for diaries. Like gossiping with a ghost.” - Journal entry of Julia Calloway, missing since ‘97 #wipSnips

Please enjoy this unhinged, no-context moodboard that describes the events of the final chapter of my archeology-noir mystery about a private-eye who has to work with her best frenemy. THE GERZEAN BLADE #Unhingedpit #Q #A #M

When your controlling mother dies and literally possesses you and forces you to die on repeat during your senior year of high school. #unhingedpit #WIP #H #F

Big Lebowski + Good Omens = Too Much Heaven #UnhingedPit #Q #A #SPEC #Upmarket #HAHA #TooMuchHeaven

POV: you’re texting Julissa, the MC of my YA rom-com #UnhingedPit #YA #R #Q

#UnhingedPit thread of pitches.

I know authors need to have tough skin, but was it really necessary for my characters to leave these one star reviews on goodreads?! #UnhingedPit #YA #F #R #LGBT #W

A Greek God Got Me Pregnant is PERCY JACKSON x TWILIGHT, but for adults because immortals dating teens is kinda weird if you think about it… #UnhingedPit #Q #F #R #FR #A #Own #LBGT #Acespec

PENROSE is: SEA OF TRANQUILITY + Netflix’s DARK + THE PRESTIGE + THE GILDED AGE (if it were a mournful ghost story with fun puzzles) Also, partially inspired by that one Reddit thread about cursed staircases in the woods. #unhingedPit #spec #q #a

Alright, #writingCommunity, let’s get unhinged! #unhingedPit is tomorrow, so let’s swap support! Drop a comment and I’ll add you to my list.

I think as a novelist, social media and I will always be fundamentally incompatible. It takes me two years and 80,000 words to say what I mean, to say something with meaning. What good is one toothpick to a carpenter? #writingCommunity

So much anger, so much grief, yet so much beauty remains in this world.

In the spirit of sharing this journey, here are my querying stats so far: Queries sent: 66 Rejections: 29 Pending: 28 Full Requests: 9 (2 passes, 7 pending) My oldest full is 111 days old, the youngest, 5 days. This is a game of patience and perseverance. All it takes is one yes. 🤞

My turn! Introduce yourself with One book 📚 One movie 🎥 One album 💿 One TV show 📺

I hear we’re making this a thing now. Let’s be writer friends. #writingCommunity

“A horse whinnied, its mad cry like a banshee’s in the reverberant hall. Nico froze, his own heavy breathing sounding animalistic in the dark. He found an unattended carriage, placed a delicate hand on the latch. As he did, a hand clamped down on his shoulder. So much for stealth.” #wipsnips

“Every flutter flashed their brilliant orange, and stepping into their domain shuffled them into a firework of activity. The monarchs would alight from one branch, heave themselves onto another. A few floated to the ground to sip away their thirst at a muddy puddle.” #wipsnips #writingCommunity

“No one knew why they’d nested here, Mother told him. If they didn’t leave for Mexico soon, they’d freeze. Nico opened his hands to let his tiny friend flutter off, and asked if that meant the butterflies might die. She hugged him tight and said nothing.” #wipsnips #writingCommunity #authors

My #wipsnips contribution for the word “danger” from my #amQuerying novel, Penrose: “I took a large swig of wine and set out again to discover the source of the music. It was jazz I’d been hearing after all, not gunfire. How much danger could there be?” #writingCommunity

My mentor/editor just returned the first 100 pages of my current manuscript with minimal line notes. She called the writing “masterful.” I seriously might die from happiness right now. Is that a thing? Can one die from happiness? #WritingCommmunity

I’ve got nothing good to say that’s writerly today. So here’s a cat photo instead.

Hi, fellow writers! First post weirdness, but here goes nothing. I’m a playwright and author looking to connect with other creatives, here to (hopefully) participate in the rebuilding of the once-great social media writing community and celebrate the art & craft of storytelling. Also cat memes.