#DVParty Day 5 for my adult Romantasy. A mixture of genre for the battle scenes and songs for when the FMC is falling for the MMC but she doesn’t know it yet. #A #RT

#DVParty Day 4: We have: 🥀Gods and Monsters 🥀Gorgeous/Twisted magic 🥀She’s the star and He’s the sun 🥀Fight scenes that feels out of a movie/show/anime/manga

#DVParty Day 3: Because I missed day 1 & 2 🫶🏽🥀

#DVparty Hi everyone. Welcome to day 1 of the DVParty. Sharing my mood board:

An #agentsguide to my querying novel 🥀 Think Sailor Moon but darker 🥀 Adult Fantasy Romance/Romantasy 🥀 Celestial lore 🥀 Blade and Shield dynamic 🥀 Gods and Monsters 🥀 Warrior Saints 🥀 Planetary magic system Snippet will be posted below 🫶🏽

#GhostPit will be happening October 30, 2025!

Hello #writerscommunity There is a new pitch event, #CastPit, happening Nov. 13, 2025. #amwriting #writerslife #writesky #bskywriters #writinganovel #pitching #querying #amquerying #onsub

And just like that we are at the end of the season for my first querying novel, on to the next 💖 ugh it’s bittersweet to see her shelved

In honor of Juneteenth, it's our pleasure to announce pitch dates! #Pitblk will take place Sept 21st- Sept 24th on our pitchsite. Agents and Editors will review pitches Sept 29th-Oct 2nd. For more info about the event, visit www.pitchpitblk.com #writersky #booksy #writingcommunity #amquerying

Got longlisted for a short story but didn’t get the acceptance but yay me ⭐️

Kind of feel like my mood-board for this year is not mood-boarding.

Happy Juneteenth! Here’s some art of one of the stylists in an upcoming anthology about a magical black hair salon. Her name is Lavender, she’s a fairy w/ albinism, and she just had her name stolen by petty ass vampire. Art by @littleevil0ne.bsky.social and character/story by @nialu.bsky.social

A full rejection before a concert is so 😭…anyways I’m gonna go sing my heart out and cry

I’m grateful for the fulls and partials, and I recognize my blessings, but for a while the messages sent to me always have “intriguing” or “interesting” in it, and I can’t tell if it’s said with actual interest/enthusiam. I see others inboxes will have exclamation points and excitement…I think a lot

I hate to share this but help me get access to medical care!! My insurance doesn’t cover the meds needed to help me with weight loss, and now it’s affecting my quality of life where I experience daily chronic back pain. 🔗🔗🔗 gofund.me/84fc2d9c

Another day, another month I have to make another mood board for a pitch event (for the same darn book. I’m tired, so very tired.)

I had a nightmare about the query trenches 😭 I’m cooked, I’ll be fighting for my life with this forever because what do you mean this crap gave me ptsd dreams

Sometimes it’s hard to accept I know publishing is treating books like “fast fashion”, yes we are seeing the same tricks, and there are stories more deserving of our time while recognizing I too also like some of the “fast fashion” books that are presented bc some are simply fun.

I love series where each one follows sisters, and each book is dedicated to one of them, but I hate when I can tell the author has a bias like putting so much emphasis on the eldest and what they have endured. While I empathize, I’ve never not met a middle or youngest child with severe trauma too

Oh dear, people are posting about anxiety thinking it’s a choice and not an entity that likes to latch on to you everyday, whispering in your ear, and cutting away at your nerves and organs. They have officially made it a trend and don’t treat as an actual disorder. Omg I’m in hell.

Writers always talk about giving up on querying due to rejections but no one talks about giving up because of how slowly it moves. Even when I think I’m close, the wait makes me want to give up a bit but I know it’s passing thoughts and feelings.

I want to belong in publishing. I want to be in that space and be an author.

I want to ask an agent about the topic of editing + querying so badly but I’m afraid of how it will come off because I think I have a stream of questions and statements and it will look like I’m putting someone on the stand when in reality I love being informed and I nerd out

I never related to the horror stories from people about their experience with the 988 number, and of course I believed them, but my god do I relate now. They do not care on that line.

I’m kind of glad I didn’t write a dark academia/fantasy novel because I didn’t get to put the love and attention into the academia part and I don’t think I would have served the genre well as it should be.

Some changes since querying: 1) if I get a full, I don’t race to get it in as if I’ll die if they don’t notice me in five seconds. 2) I don’t closely watch my Gmail everyday. 3) I don’t query unless necessary (pitch events, referrals, a specific/sure match)

I know no one’s gonna agree with me but Amy burning Jo’s manuscript doesn’t really make me upset as a writer. “I would never forgive my sister if she did that.” Have you met a group of sisters? Matter of fact most chaotic writers as they get older would smoke & say good riddance to that manuscript😭

I mean, my eye would twitch a little if a reader said “this is a palate cleanser” about my books unless it was meant to be that way, but it’s totally fine I promise. But my eye would twitch a smidge, but I’d still be happy.

I understand boundaries for those in the industry, and people should protect their peace and mental health always and anti-MSWL. However, I think there should be more stories on suicide ideation. I think the stories need to have the character with their community, in therapy, still exploring love.

Need to get paid for my writing so my chinchilla and I can live it up

I don’t know if moving in silence has been beneficial for me but it’s like kind of cool but also weird because you want to tell someone slightly cool news but not great news 😂

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Writers who got an agent with a 0.9% reply rate and request rate…like that’s gods ultimate favorite. I’m sure they sleep on silk and eat gold nuggets I don’t know something about that screams you got it like that

This is like my 10th draft of writing my sailor moon retelling but it’s not good enough and has to be perfect. I’m gnawing at my keyboard at this point

Reading novels within the genre your write is really great advice but also terrible advice as well unless you’re really good at not comparing your work and yourself and seeing why you can’t get far, but at least you’re reading more! So I’m guessing that’s a silver lining. Haha…

Holyyyy…I’ve been wondering why I’ve been doing well (mentally) in the query trenches and it’s for sure because I got off of Twitter. And since I’m no longer constantly scrolling and comparing myself to other peoples successes, I’m pretty much okay with myself. Still happy for others though!

On my knees begging fantasy writers to write 300 page fantasy books please. 600 pages has me passing out now

Sometimes when I read, I’ll stop mid way to check out reviews and then I’ll resume the story. I have no idea why because there will be spoilers but I love it because I’ll continue the book and be surprised anyway like I didn’t just read a complete breakdown of the plot🌚🌝

Querying is hard because you’ll accept a rejection and there are days you don’t because of how many great emails you get and you’re like, “there’s no way this bad boy is this bad” or you’re like “It might be trash, but it’s my trash.”

Personalized rejection today, but they mentioned they had no doubt I have a bright future ahead and that my talent is undeniable amongst other beautiful things 🥹 so sweeet. A year ago, my feedback didn’t look like this. I’m guessing hard word and revising really did something. #amquerying

Usually I listen to all feedback I get and rearrange my story. Unfortunately the feedback I received for my manuscript, I can’t change like what they said was factual because I intended it that way and I’m glad they noticed, I understand why it seems like it doesn’t work but it’s purposeful. 🫶🏽

THE SEVEN YEAR SLIP X WITCHFUL THINKING X PRACTICAL MAGIC A nail artist, skeptical of love and magic, performs a ancient tea ritual to gain what she once lost, her dreams. But when she wakes she has magic at her fingertips, and soulmate when she sleeps. #PosterPit #R #A #SPEC

An eclipse triggers an ancient ritual & lots of problems for Lyla. Brokering a deal with the enemy in hope of answers, will she give into forbidden chemistry with Axel or risk finding out just how closely her fate is tied to the end of the world?⚡️ #PosterPitq #RF #NA #posterpit #writersky

🎸 daisy jones x knives out 🗡 the songstress, the high-flyer, the gambler, the sweetheart, the watcher, the matriarch and the rogue. seven suspects. one the killer of renowned rockstar sam corvi. but who? only they can tell you #posterpit #a #lf #m #posterpitq

A poster for “Mark of a Magpie”! 📖🐦‍⬛ When a small-town thief crosses paths with the kingdom’s big-shot assassin, an unlikely partnership is born; but can their goals align before their egos and secrets land them both a spot on the gallows? #Q #YA #NA #F #R #Dis #PosterPitQ #PosterPit #amquerying

Addie LaRue x Before I Fall Armed with three obscure clues, zero memories, and a reluctant ally that knows more than he's letting on, seventeen-year-old Safa Rizwan has one month to reverse her death. #PosterPit #YA #SPEC #F #M #R #PosterPitQ

THE SEVEN YEAR SLIP X WITCHFUL THINKING X PRACTICAL MAGIC A nail artist, skeptical of love and magic, performs a ancient tea ritual to gain what she once lost, her dreams. But when she wakes she has magic at her fingertips, and soulmate when she sleeps. #PosterPit #R #A #SPEC

An agent wanted me to revise my work, so I took some to revise, edit, let readers look at it and started querying again, and got great news from my revised pages. Today I received a rejection with a doc on how to edit my project but that is the revise & edited version 🥲 I redid it already

I never posted that I did put in an application for #Revpit because of ✨anxiety✨ but since it’s over I want y’all to know I did the hard part 🫡