Kourtney Howell
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On the road to becoming a traditionally published spicy writer 🔥📖 (She/Her)
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HE HAUNTS ME NOT DEAD ROMANTICS x WEDNESDAY 🖤Forced Proximity 🤍Human x Ghost Lovers 🖤Seances 🤍Witty Banter 🖤Gothic Elements 🤍Found Family
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about 1 month ago
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Rebeccah Sheridan (is querying)
about 1 month ago
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 👀
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HE HAUNTS ME NOT Xander makes Alice question the ways she’s always viewed herself. Alice makes him feel *alive.* DEAD ROMANTICS x WEDNESDAY 🖤Forced Proximity 🤍Human x Ghost Lovers 🖤Seances 🤍Witty Banter 🖤Gothic Elements 🤍Found Family
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Jennestorauthor
about 1 month ago
UNSTOPPABLE AUDREY A MG CONTEMPORARY NOVEL 🥎🎀
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O F Cieri
about 1 month ago
DEATH CLERIC 💀 toxic m/m/m/f 💀 fwb to enemies 💀 priestkink 💀 necrophilia mention 💀 lovers to enemies 💀 everybody wants to kill this loser lol
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Hallie Christensen | Author
about 1 month ago
She’s an English professor whose hopeless romantic heart left her broken. He’s a late bloomer HS band director who’s ready for love, full of dad jokes & a heart of gold 💛 - Grumpy vs Sunshine - Shakespeare - Pop Culture - Autumn Vibes - Band Nerd - Theatre Geek
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Crystal Lorons says let's #NaNoMyWay this month 🎉Let's Write! 😘
about 2 months ago
AMARI x LOKI Kori, 12, finds herself stuck in a cryfest & painful menty b's after her mom dies When a meteor opens a portal, doppelgängers chase her. Kori learns their fates are bound & her grief transcends the multiverse Now, Kori must save herself — from herself!
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HE HAUNTS ME NOT DEAD ROMANTICS x WEDNESDAY 🖤Forced Proximity 🤍Human x Ghost Lovers 🖤Seances 🤍Witty Banter 🖤Gothic Elements 🤍Found Family
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HE HAUNTS ME NOT 👻 Alice Poe’s one goal was to communicate with her parents beyond the grave, but when she unintentionally calls a ghost with boundary issues and an irresistible smile, Alice is stuck between a past she can’t heal from and a presence she can’t escape.
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He Haunts Me Not 🖤 -Paranormal Romance 👻 -Forced Proximity 🏠 -Forbidden Love 💔 -Seances 🔮 -Ghost x human tension 🥀 -She’s the only one that makes him feel human 💕 -They shouldn’t want each other. So why do they? 🔥
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5 months ago
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He Haunts Me Not 🖤 My adult paranormal romance!
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5 months ago
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5 months ago
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Kate Halena
5 months ago
To all the writers: Yes—doubt will follow you. But so will courage, if you let it. So write. Even when it’s hard. Especially when it’s hard. Because the world is waiting for the story only you can tell.
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My paranormal romance 🖤 Alice Poe didn’t plan to summon a flirtatious ghost with boundary issues—and she definitely didn’t mean to fall for him. -He Haunts Me Not
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5 months ago
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Kate Halena
8 months ago
Your worth as a writer doesn’t hinge on an agent’s reply. Your value was never up for debate.
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You know that amazing feeling of hitting the perfectly cold sheets after the longest day and an everything shower? You get to read for as long as you want and don’t have to set an alarm? Multiply that by 10, and that’s what it feels like to finish a book. And I’m soaking up every second rn.
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8 months ago
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This
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has the biggest plot twist I’ve ever planned, and I just wrote it. HOW DO I KEEP IT TO MYSELF
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8 months ago
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Why does my best writing only come out at night 😭
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8 months ago
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Jeni Chappelle
8 months ago
Not every piece of feedback you receive is applicable, especially because reading is subjective. Read your feedback thoroughly and analytically: look for patterns, make notes of your own, and write down any questions. If you need to, step away again and come back later.
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my mom told me she needed to start reading my book during the day. i call that a WIN
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10 months ago
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My horror romcom mood board 👀👀 y’all, when I say I’m LOVING this WIP, I mean it. 20k words in, and I can’t wait to share pieces with you
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10 months ago
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I just plotted a horror romance, and I seriously think this will be the best thing I’ve ever written. I am PUMPED. Let the long days and thousands of words begin!!!!!
10 months ago
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LIFT ME UP ❄️
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"I wasn’t running away from home but running to it." -Lift Me Up
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11 months ago
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Things are going to work out this time. I just know it.
11 months ago
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I went to a pitching event today and survived 🙌🏼
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11 months ago
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My TBR is long, of course, but I CANNOT wait for this puppy. I want to be like Emily Henry when I grow up.
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11 months ago
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My favorite spot in the whole house! 📚🩷
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12 months ago
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This was seriously so fun. I’ve never made a meme, and now I’m afraid I can’t stop.
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12 months ago
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A little piece from my book 📚🩷
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12 months ago
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The Road to Writing
My story of becoming an author.
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12 months ago
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Currently plotting an urban fantasy meets sports romance! Werewolves in a college setting, playing a sport that’s a mix between Quidditch and Rugby!
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12 months ago
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This is my boy, Hamlet! He’s a spicy Siamese that loves to talk, scream, attack, and sometimes cuddle. I wouldn’t trade him for the world!
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12 months ago
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Revise & Resub
about 1 year ago
LIVE NOW! 🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳
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After 7 query rejections and waiting for a few more responses from the first batch, this helps keep my confidence 🥹
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about 1 year ago
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Querying for manuscript #3 has me like 👀👀👀
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Pierre Polyester
about 1 year ago
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Will Tatum allow another person she loves to choose someone else over her? Or will she finally be brave enough to fight for what she desires most? “I went. I saw. It conquered me.”
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When Tatum uproots her life to evade a broken heart, she doesn’t expect to fall for her boss, especially when their fake dating arrangement triggers Tatum to confront her past, sending her on foreign chase for love. 👩🏻❤️👨🏻 Fake Dating 🔥 Slowburn 😤 Enemies-to-lovers ❄️ Winter Vibes 🌶️🌶️
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