My 2025 Writing Wrapped #writingcommunity

sat down to really write for the first time this maternity leave and wrote 783 words! it feels good to get back into it!

I know it's a bit cringe to admit that you wrote a "heart story" but... like... ONCE UPON A WAITLIST is 100% heart. Here's the story:

authors who are also parents! I need to know... did you ever use your child's name in a manuscript? I realize both of my kiddos names I used in books I wrote (like 10 years ago)... they've been my favorites for a long time :)

Sometimes you just need to print out your manuscript and gaze at it in wonder. No matter what happens, I am so proud of this novel!

Leah’s class trip to London is all castles and stage kisses– till she’s deferred by her dream college again. Stuck between the boy she’s fake dating & a chance at the future she’s meticulously planned, she has to embrace her waitlist curse to break it. #questpit #ya #r #q

My first query for my rewritten manuscript is out in the trenches! Here we go!

An Agent's Guide to my YA Romance ONCE UPON A WAITLIST with 💋 fake dating 🎟️ theater kids 🇬🇧 school trip to London 💌 written for the girls who never feel like they are enough #amquerying #ya #agentsguide

safe to say i am so thrilled by every fellow @roundtablementor.bsky.social 2025 mentee's pitch and am excited to read every single book! what a fantastic bunch that i am truly honored to be part of!! #roundtablementor

Leah’s class trip to London is all castles and stage kisses– till she’s deferred by her dream college again. Stuck between the boy she’s fake dating & a chance at the future she’s meticulously planned, she has to embrace her waitlist curse to break it. #roundtablementor #ya #r

AND WE’RE LIVE! Welcome to our #roundtablementor mentee pitch party! From 8am EST until 8pm EST, you can browse the #roundtablementor hashtag across Twitter and Bluesky to see what our mentees have been up to. (Spoiler: They’ve been writing amazing stories 💅)

To break her waitlist curse, Leah sets off on a quest to address everyone who has made her a second choice. But a school trip to London and a cute British boy lead her to question if her happily ever after lies in her old dreams or new love #roundtablementor #ya #r

TWO DAYS! Can't wait to celebrate all the amazing RTM authors!

after a year away from the query trenches, this seems like a good time to reintroduce myself

In anticipation of the Round Table Mentee showcase next week, I made a writing instagram account. I'd love for you to follow along!

Nothing like listening to a new TS album and projecting all the lyrics onto the characters in my MS 🧡✨💚

With the Round Table Mentor showcase coming up this month, I'm doing some CPR to this account and bringing it back to life! Let's see if I can remember to post on it every day!

Reasons My YA Romance Book Will Get Cancelled by Conservative Parents: - The main couple is straight, but the rest of the friend group is queer and non-binary - Fuck is said 36 times - MC is Catholic but talks about supporting their gay friends and wanting to have sex #chaospit #ya #r

There are so many pitches on my feed that sound intriguing but are missing CONFLICT and STAKES. I definitely recommend thinking about "what does your characters want?" and "what happens if they don't get it?" when setting up a one or two sentence pitch

I'm supposed to be grading AP Lit essays right now but I can't help but I keep getting pulled into my WIP instead!

No pitches today because I'm taking a break from querying! But here is what's in the works!

Here's what I'm working at the moment:

since I'm officially doing Round Table Mentorship, I'll be unpinning my agent's guide and putting up a "what I'm writing" pinned post instead! I'm excited to put querying on hold for a bit and dig back into my writing!

SO excited to announce I’ve been selected for RTM! Can’t wait to get started @sofiaaves.bsky.social 💖

so excited and nervous to hear back from @roundtablementor.bsky.social tomorrow! Even if I don't get it, I've LOVED getting to know other authors in the Discord and forming strong author friendships already!

the writer // the main character I'm Megan, a high school English teacher and mom! This is Leah, a high school student and dreamer! You can meet her the YA romcom I'm querying, THANKS FOR WAITING #WritingCommunity

On a theater class trip to London, Leah fake dates a cute British boy while despairing over being waitlisted by her dream college. When her scheme leads to feelings, she has to decide if she should fight for a spot off the waitlist or follow her heart to the UK. #BluePit #YA #R #Q

Here one of my favorite mood boards for my YA romcom THANKS FOR WAITING

I'm Megan. I'm a high school English teacher and mom. I write YA contemporary. I'm inspired by my own teen days and my students, especially the girls that never feel like they are enough. By books are for them :)

Last year at this time, I was revising a completely different manuscript, feeling miles away from actually finishing something worth querying. I keep having to remind myself-- I came SO far last year! Let's see what this one holds!

after a holiday socials break, I am back and ready to write! I have ideas for revisions AND a WIP to keep working on. the hardest question is-- what to tackle first?

last night, i got personalized feedback on a partial with an offer to resubmit and I almost cried from relief! Having some idea of what I can do to move forward and find success is so reassuring :) I know not agents have the time to do this, but wow it goes such a long way!

Join #RosebudAuthors & @thetobiasagency.bsky.social w/ our annual #SpreadTheJoy campaign. To win a 1 of 3 Query Critiques w/ notes on the 1st 10 pages of your MS by @chelseamargomoyer.bsky.social Follow go.bsky.app/Kvshpxt, comment below, and repost. Winners chosen at random. (Day 17)

form reject on a full today and I'm really trying not to cry. i had such high hopes for this one

I was fully planning on doing #holipit yesterday, but I ended up grading 45 Great Gatsby papers yesterday instead

On the verge of losing her family’s Mackinac Island inn, 17-year-old Mara will do anything to save it, including taking a starring role in a Bridgerton-esque tv show filming on the island opposite an arrogant teen heartthrob #WIPPIT #YA #R

I'm going to officially start talking about my WIP on Saturday for #WIPPit

I wasn't going to apply to Roundtable but this just convinced me!

My novel is about a girl waiting for someone else to make the decision about if her deepest dream is going to come true... and now querying I am a girl waiting for someone else to decide if my dream is going to come true #amquerying #WritingCommunity

Such a whirlwind of writer emotions in the last 24 hours-- such highs and lows! Querying is tough stuff 😓

DUNGEONS AND DRAMA x TODAY TONIGHT TOMORROW 💋 fake dating 📷 school trip to London 💌written for the girls who never feel like they are enough 🎄references to the holiday (2006) #CheerPit #Q #YA #R #WritingCommunity

Yesterday, I did a lesson on the publishing process for my high school Creative Writing class. I showed them everything from QueryTracker to my form rejects and let them ask allll the questions! Here is a link to the presentation: shorturl.at/NuVpj

I'm not totally ready to talk about my WIP yet, but here is a little emoji teaser: 🐚☕🚲🍫🌉🎥🤍

Decided to hold off on sending any more queries till after the new year! I want to let the ones I have out simmer and hopefully bring some good news for 2025

Do you ever listen to an album and feel like every song on it is about your WIP? That's how I feel about The Secret of Us by Gracie Abrams

I hit 25k on my WIP yesterday 💃💃💃

Grateful for the #writingcommunity and everyone who has believed in my writing so far!! There is so much still to go on this journey and I’m glad you all are with me!!

I gave my husband my QM login so he can anticipate when I’m gonna mopey about rejections 😅😩 #amquerying

Sometimes I think about the fanfics I was obsessed with ten years ago and I wonder if the authors have published anything. There are some I truly think I would autobuy from- they were SUCH good writers 🥲

An Agent's Guide to my YA Rom Com THANKS FOR WAITING with 💋 fake dating 🇬🇧 school trip to London 🎭 theater kids 💌 written for the girls who never feel like they are enough #amquerying #ya #agentsguide