Me: [Queries his book] My Brain: Hey, I know your querying you book and all. But I know how book 3 ends. Me:... Dude, what the— Brain: Here Me out! Me: I AM STILL QUERYING BOOK 1! Brain: So? Don't you think it would be cool if book 3 ended like xyz. Me:...😐 Brain: 🫠 Me: Damni it. That's a good idea.

Jance had been defending Sammy for about half a book at this point. He's proven right but can't make this meeting, so he sends a friendly greeting card to voice his frustration. It got cut off, but the PS on the back of the card says "Sit on a tack" He's nothing if not professional. #wipsnips

picture book progress for the night.

Basically the same theme song every day when your dealing with a threenager. share.google/0e7S509qkrzZ...

Heeeeeeyyyy Brother... Got a few of these, as Sammy's brother by adoption comes up a lot. The one I went with is the secondary antagonist has been going after so hard for half a book. #wipsnips

<tech mumbo jumbo>For the record, I got it fixed. If anyone else out there ever finds their pens not working with a windows touch screen. Try reinitializing the driver's.</tech mumbo jumbo>

Me: OK, I'm actually gonna work on some picture book drawings tonight. My Computer: Wouldn't you rather spend an hour trying to debug you surface pen? Me: Not really... My Computer: Well, have I got a surprise for you! Me: I know what the surprise is, I don't want it. My Computer: It'll be fun!

Oooh. I got two threes right next to each other. #wipsnips #writingcommunity

So, before having our first kid, made a bunch of carving blanks with the intention of working on them on my down time durring my paternaty leave (oh, past Andrew, so nieve, so stupid)... 4...years...later... Finally got the body of this wood duck shaped out.

🗡️ Jance: snarky half-alien. Didn’t ask for this. 👊 Sammy: alien soldier. Absolutely done with him. ☢️ Someone’s stealing nukes to rewrite history. ✅ Prime suspect: dead for 25 years. ❌ Small problem: he’s still alive. #AgentsGuide #AmQuerying #YA #SF #WritingCommunity

Jance lives at home... so. Not far. Sammy is little farther, about 50 light years.

So, caffeine doesn't actually show up in my MS. But coffee does. The secondary antagonist (he's not bad, just misguided) is explaining his actions. That he couldn't afford to be wrong. #wipSnips #WritingCommunity

The squad just got back from being scrambled for a hostage rescue. The general would like to speak to them about it. #booksky #writesky

Working on my agent guide for ACE SQUAD: CHRONOGEIST — this will be posted as four panels from one larger image. Still a WIP, and yes, Jance keeps making unauthorized edits. Feedback welcome. #WritingCommunity #YASciFi #QueryTrenches

Oooh, I like this part. #wipsnips

I'm now realizing that Jance, the MC who write most of these noted is left handed, so he should probably have some ink smudges from dragging his hand over fresh ink... #details #WritingCommunity #agentguide

my agent guide is coming along. hopefully it'll be ready for the next pitch event, whenever that is... #writingCommunity

Decided to do an agent guide, we'll, I decided to make my characters make me an ahem guide (which is just me making an agent guide pretending to be different people.) Anyway, I had to draw my antagonist as if I were one of my characters, then deface that drawing as another. Fun ##WritingCommunity

#wipsnips Haven't been able to do these all week as the words haven't been showing up in my ms. But smack does. This was one of my favorite smacks.

Wanna know if someone has a kid under 4 or 5? Ask them "what's in the box." If their answer is "what could it be?" Then the answer is yes. Yes, they do.

#Mememay 3 Share a meme that summarizes your Main Character. Their personality, their journey—you decide! (Remember to use alt text)

#sundaySnips This may, or may not, but totally was based on a real life event from my high school jazz band. In real life it was the baton, not a drumstick. And it hit me (saxophone line), not the trombone line. We ended up mounting the broken baton and giving it to our band teacher.

Reset only shows up once. But it's an important reset. #wipsnips

He's a bilby, and his name is Bob!

I used to have a saltwater tank, and I was terrorfied that I might end up with one of these things as a hitchhiker. That or giant bristleworms.

Mostly English. One of the characters is bilingual (English/German) There is also an alien language called Majiun that is guttural and kind of a mix of Irish and Icelandic. Example: The main character who is Majiun has a book called the Læbhein Tagis Páklomur, which means "the book of happenings."

In Chapter 4, Sammy notices a mounted fish on the wall of a Canadian farmhouse. She feels inexplicably drawn to it for a reason. His name is Mr. Cod. If I'm lucky enough to write Books 2 and 3, Mr. Cod will become very, very important. That's all I'm saying. #CampRevPit #ScavengerHunt #AmQuerying

Jance and Dandin: yes, mundane swears that most high school kids would use. Crap, damn, shit. Sammy, who is an alien with alien customs swears a lot more but with culturally relevant ones to her. She says things like damn, four hells, destruction take you, or my favorite: go find a rusted spike.

Ooooh. Had so many good ones to choose from for some strange reason for this. Went with the explanation of my books subtitle. Exactly what is a chronogeist: #WIPSnips #WritingCommunity

~ AN SOLAS ~ 💫 YA Time Slip 🌩️ Magical Realism 🏴16th Century Scotland 👩‍🎓 Coming-Of-Age 💞 First Love Feels ✅ Anxiety Rep 🗡️ Reluctant Hero ⚓️ Horses; Galleon Ships; Biology Homework 🏆 Shortlisted 2025 Cheshire Novel Prize Kids #QuestPit #Q #YA #C #HFic

CORPSE BRIDE × 50 FIRST DATES × WARM BODIES 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. #QuestPit #A #H #R #W

MY SISTER THE SERIAL KILLER X SUCH A FUN AGE 🔪👄 Can Milly Washington, new mommy and all around good girl, kill her duplicitous ex-boss in his Chelsea mansion on a Sunday afternoon? With rage, determination and resilience fueling her, she’s certain she can do it. #questpit #A #T #Q

THE UNRAVELING Thank you again, @leonahwrites.bsky.social and @minaareis.bsky.social, for this opportunity! 🔁 YA SPECULATIVE FICTION 🧩 PUZZLE DRIVEN DARK FANTASY ⚡ TIME LOOPS 🌊 DUAL PROTAGONIST Image sources: Pexels / Personal photograph / Canva #QuestPit #Q #YA #F #S #DF #MY #amquerying

Skyward x Back to the Future Jance didn't ask for alien powers, or to join Sammy — a wind-wielding alien with PTSD and a death glare. But nukes are vanishing. Time's breaking. If she takes the fall — he gets erased. Too bad the real culprit "died" 25 years ago… 🤔 #QuestPit #Q #YA #SF

Wouldn’t be #questpit without an updated #agentsguide ✨ ❤️‍🔥 TANGLED X AVATAR: THE LAST AIRBENDER ⚔️ Fate will bring them together. Duty will keep them apart. And the truth will threaten everything they hold dear… #NA #F #A #amquerying

Agent's Guide for MOLDED BY MALICE Druids go through the Inflection, where an element will bless them with power 🍃💨💧 Industrialists are subjected to the Test of Attunement, where crystals can enhance their speed, strength, or senses 🔮💪🏼😈 But what if you aren't chosen? #questpit #A #F #Q

PENELOPE GRAY'S GUIDE TO SURVIVING LOVE AND THE UNDERWORLD, a cozy young adult fantasy that's PRINCESS DIARIES X DISNEY'S THE OWL HOUSE. This is for you if you love: ✨ Whimsical fantasy 💜 Sapphic romance 👑 Secret royalty 💀 Ancient rituals that just might cost your soul #QuestPit #YA #F #Q

Okay, #Agents. Here's a #QuestPit #agentsguide for the 61K historical ghost story with the audacity to follow Charles Dickens. 💀 A CHRISTMAS CHEER explores the final years of Ebenezer Scrooge and the fate of the former miser's immortal soul. #A #HF #Q #amquerying #agentguide

Gravity Falls x King of Scars 👻 ☀️ 🤓 haunted x sunshine x nerdy girl trio 🤐 🪄 Secret society x Cursed 🔮 📖 Folklore x Southern magic ⛵️ ❓ Bermuda Triangle x Riddles 🦑 ⚔️ Cryptids x Knights Alice misses when she didn’t know magic existed… and it didn’t know she existed either… #questpit #q #f

BLOOD ON OUR NAMES - A fey courtly murder plot with: 🧌 unlikely found family 💀 betraying secrets ❤️‍🔥 Terrible father figures 🐦‍⬛ The cost paid in being gifted magic 🍂 Finding courage 🧚 Second chances 🪓 an escape from fate only to end up in the arms of destiny #QuestPit #W #F #A #Dis #LGBT

THE THINGS WE RUN FOR #Editors Shameless x Riverdale (s1) x AGGGTM ☕️ Drama-Mystery with Romance 📓 Runaway x Boy Next Door ☕️ 90s Small-Town Mystery 📓 Found Family ☕️ Genderfluid and Pan Rep 📓 Mental Health Rep ☕️ Fake Identity Turned Real Identity #QuestPit #YA #C #MY #R #AG #OS #LGBTQ #OV

#questpit #A #Q #F DAWN OF THE CICADA adult fantasy 105,000 words After a restless hibernation spent cursing the darkness, the darkness in others is now hers to wield. Enchanted x Pan's Labyrinth

Forgot the bloody pitch earlier, didn't I? 🙄😫 The Cold War X Time Travel When an intelligence agent is framed for the UK’s role in a temporal disaster, he must clear his name and seal a lethal time rift - before a Russian spy from the future gets everyone killed. #QuestPit #A #Q #SF #T

The Lives We Might've Lived What if you slipped from the life you live now into one you didn't recognize, and what if you didn't want to leave? Unreliable narrator Motherhood Complicated women Stories about how trauma changes lives #questpit #q #weirdgirlfiction #speculative #magicalrealism

An #agentsguide for AMITY COVE ✨Haunted, Abandoned Wharf ✨Century-Old Massacre ✨Missing Sister ✨Enemies to Lovers YA Romantic Mystery Thriller

🏕️ 🥾 Alright campers, let’s talk pitch events! 🥾 🏕️ We got lucky with #Questpit today, didn't we?? #CampRevPit #CRPBootcamp

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