Drowning my sorrow from the Patriots' loss, and immersing myself in editing today. 😩🏈 Chocolate or caffeine, anyone?? ☕ #writingcommunity #amquerying #amwriting

Good morning #writingcommunity! (Go Pats!) 🏈 Loved this "Acts of Kindness" bingo card from yesterday's community events in Maine. 🌲 It reminded me of the importance of reflecting kindness, even when things spin out of control. So, I'm sending kindness your way today! 😀 #amquerying #amwriting

If you are querying, make sure to check your spam folders. I sent a request for a synopsis of Book2 and haven't heard back yet. I just have two unread fulls left.

Hello Writing Community! We are delighted to announce our Second Official Bluesky *** #MSWL Day *** February 26, 2026. 🎉🎉🎉 Agents + editors can post what they ✨wish✨ they had in their inboxes; writers can find their next best fit for querying. Learn more: manuscriptwishlist.com/2025/01/the-...

"...the hardest part of any artistic pursuit: there is no path, no sure way to get from one place to another, no directions or map. It’s not the road less taken. It’s: there is no road." 🍃 --Leslie Cohen 🖊️ #writingcommunity #amquerying #writesky #amwriting

Deadline extended to 2/15! 📆 This prose/poetry anthology will feature writers living in Maine who are from immigrant and/or mixed culture/race communities. Definitely a timely focus! 🌍 Good luck #writingcommunity! 🤞 #amquerying #amwriting #writesky

It's Monday! (Where's my caffeine??) ☕🤪 Sending out gratitude this morning for my amazing writing & critique partners. 🙏 I've received such insightful input on my ms--I know it'll make it so much better! A huge shout out to all #writingcommunity groups! 🖊️💙 #amwriting #amquerying #writesky

Good morning #writingcommunity! ☕ Bravo to everyone posting for yesterday's #QuestPit! 🖊️ Sharing my #agentsguide for RESISTING THE RABBIT HOLE today; internet went down yesterday... 📚Book Banning 🚫Resisting ICE 🏫Educational Advocacy 👭Unintended Allies #amquerying #A #WF #amwriting #writesky

Scrolling through the #questpit posts and daaang I really want to read all these books. Good luck everyone!! I hope all of us get some agent interest!! 🩷

I'm loving the creative posters for today's #QuestPit! Sharing my #agentsguide for THE FRAGILITY OF SEASHELLS, an adult upmarket novel w/ elements of suspense. 🌲Maine Setting 👨‍👧Found Family 🏫Academic Couple 🔏Generational Secrets 😦Family Obsessions #amquerying #writingcommunity #amwriting #writesky

It's #QuestPit Day! 🖊️ Ready to query.. SEA CURSER (Adult Speculative) What ancient evil waits off Maine's iconic coastline... 🌊 ⏺️Closed-Setting 🌲Remote Island 🤬Ancient Curses 🧜‍♀️Folklore & Coastal Mythology 🙏Loss & Reconciliation #A #S #Q #agentsguide #amquerying #writesky #writingcommunity

Good morning #writingcommunity. 🖊️ On this national Blackout day, I hope you are able to surround yourself with those you love. 🙏 #amquerying #writesky #amwriting

A quick PSA on the Anthropic settlement; some due dates have changed: *2/9/26: Opt out of the Settlement or file an objection *3/9/26: Request re-inclusion (if you previously opted out) *3/30/26: Submit a claim for payment #writingcommunity #writesky #amwriting #amquerying

Charity auction for Minnesota charities includes manuscript feedback and literary agent meetings, check out this list - you bid and then provide proof of your donation to a charity that is helping in these hard times: #WritingCommunity #WritersSupportingWriters www.32auctions.com/organization...

Hello fellow #writers attending the wonderful Submission Strategy Workshop with the #ManuscriptAcademy! Today's topic... rejection. 🙃 Ouch! But there's so much to learn when reading "between the lines" (or interpreting the silence). Hope to see you this afternoon! 👩‍💻 #amquerying #amwriting

Happy SnoMonday from southern Maine! ❄️☃️ (Go Pats! 🏈) Can't wait for the start of tomorrow's Submission Strategy Workshop with the #ManuscriptAcademy! Looking forward to brushing up my querying skills, and connecting with others in our #writingcommunity. 🖊️💻 #amquerying #writesky #amwriting

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My thoughts turn to MN on this frigid January morning. 🙏 "I went to Boston fully expecting to be arrested — arrested by a polizia created by a government that my ancestors rebelled to establish." --Edna St. Vincent Millay 🖊️🌲 #writesky #booksky #amquerying #amwriting #writingcommunity

daily rejection inspiration: "You have to learn to take rejection not as an indication of personal failing but as a wrong address" — Ray Bradbury #writingcommunity #querytrenches #amquerying

The #SmallPitch submission window is now OPEN for 48 hours! Reminders: - Underrep writers only - Finished manuscripts only - One pitch per manuscript - Up to 3 manuscripts per writer - No hashtags in your pitch - Comps & emojis are ok Once submitted, check your pitch here: database.smallpitch.org

It's Monday #writingcommunity... ☕ (And still snowing here in Maine.) ❄️ Here're some great titles to entice us away from our writing today (and to help us find inspiration)-- check out these "Top 10" reviews! 📚 #writesky #booksky #amquerying #amwriting

Happy SnowSunday #writingcommunity! ❄️ Loved the reflection from author #SteveAlmond that, in these challenging times, to "remember that writing is a form of resistance, a way of understanding that your one and only life belongs to you, not the doom scroll." 🖊️💻 #amwriting #amquerying #writesky

Get those queries ready! Visit smallpitch.com on Monday & Tuesday and share your work with 20+ small/indie presses, like @nicolefrailbooks.bsky.social! #smallpitch #writersofbluesky #amquerying

TGIF #WeeknightWriters 🖊️ This prompt is easy... my Writing Critique Group brings me joy (and a lot of inspiration)! I am so fortunate to have a circle of amazing fellow writers to encourage me to become a better version of myself. Raising a (virtual) toast to #writingcommunities! 🥂 #amquerying

#QueryTip Agents will pass on your work, but they're passing on your project, not you personally. Don't worry if you sent something out too soon. Keep #writing. Keep #revising. Keep #querying. Don't give up. You'll get there. I'm rooting for you!

So impressed with all the amazing talent from fellow authors during #BluePit📖! 📚 My Editorial Assistant says, "Well done!" (or... "I need a snack," it's hard to tell). 🐱 Happy Writing! 🖊️ #amquerying #writingcommunity #writesky #amwriting

So impressed by today's #BluePit📖! My #agentsguide to FRAGILITY OF SEASHELLS 🐚 🌊 An unexpected inheritance, tacky shell art, dueling in-laws, & Mark Twain’s unconventional wisdom lead Esidora to the shocking truth of her aunt’s death on a remote Maine island 🌲 #A #Q #M #amquerying #writesky

Loving the #BluePit📖 posts! ✨Preparing to query✨... SEA CURSER Seeking solace at a retreat on a solitary Maine island, Nan instead must save her friends from ancient forces or be lost to the sea. 🌊Maine sea mythology 🌲Closed setting 🫂Loss & Redemption #A #SP #W #amquerying #writesky #agentsguide

So excited for #BluePit📖! My #agentsguide for RESISTING THE RABBIT HOLE. Joplin finds she must choose between protecting her teaching colleagues or the career she’s grown to love. 👭Unexpected Alliances 🏫Educational Advocacy 📚Overcoming Book Bans 👩‍❤️‍👨Friends to Soulmates #WF #A #Q #Amquerying

Editors have been reluctant to take on queer stories, report literary agents, the chilling effect - and real consequences - of the current political climate. Reported in The Hill.

Good morning #writingcommunity! Happy Day #5 of #BluePitHype! 😀 Can't wait to see your amazing pitches tomorrow for #BluePiit! This is an incredibly talented community of authors & artists--with such important stories to share (especially now!). 📚👩‍💻 Write On! 🖊️ #amquerying #writesky #amwriting

Excited for #BluePit! 🖊️ My advice for today's #BluePitHype is not to let self-doubt win. You have written a book/screen play-- how many people can actually say that? Celebrate this amazing feat, and share your talents! 😀 (A bit of preparation helps, too.) 📝 #writesky #amquerying #writingcommunity

Warning about writing scams seems kind of beside the point right now...but a scam is still a scam. Scammer posing as a literary agent on MSWL & falsely claiming association w/ the Ampersand Agency. Her website is full of lies & a "team" of AI people patchenlucillen.wixsite.com/patche-n/about

So excited for #BluePit! 🖊️ My answer for #BluePitHype day 3 character question 2: The main character in my speculative WIP is definitely afraid of the ancient evil that exists within the frigid waters off Maine's unforgiving coast... 🌊 #writesky #amquerying #writingcommunity #amwriting

Day 2 of #BluePitHype! 😀🖊️ My novels (suspense/speculative) are set along the isolated islands and coastal inlets of Maine. Here are some pics to set the mood... 🌲🌊 #writesky #writingcommunity #BluePit #amquerying #amwriting

Looking forward to #BluePitHype & #BluePit! A bit about me: 😸Cat-owned ☕Caffeine (& chocolate) obsessed 🎷Musically challenged (but I play, anyway!) 🌲Maine native (also my novels' setting) 📚Inspiration? The critical role books play in our humanity, especially now #amquerying #writingcommunity

Minneapolis is in my heart today. 🙏💔 "I feel now that the time is come when even a woman or a child who can speak a word for freedom and humanity is bound to speak... I hope every woman who can write will not be silent." --Harriet Beecher Stowe #writesky #writingcommunity #amquerying #booksky

I would highly recommend this workshop from the #ManuscriptAcademy. I attended last year and not only did I learn a lot (kind of like water from a hose), but also connected with an incredible #writingcommunity. 👭🖊️ Still so much to learn... maybe I'll see you there? #amquerying #writesky #amwriting

The Portland (Maine) Museum of Art is focused this month on Mindfulness in order to "welcome 2026 with calm, reflection, gratitude, and creativity." 🎨🧘‍♀️ (And check out the workshop on Mindful Writing!) 🖊️ Exactly what we need right now! #writingcommunity #mindfulness #amquerying #amwriting

Hey y'all! #writingcommunity #amquerying Do not use "services" who claim they can get you a referral with a literary agent. IT'S A SCAM. The latest scam named me as a possibility. That's a lie. I auto-reject those unless I actually KNOW the person giving the referral. Please QUERY ME DIRECTLY.

Wishing everyone in our amazing #writingcommunity a fantastic New Year! My wishes for each of us this year: 📲A statistically higher proportion of requests to rejections 😀Ability to laugh at misteaks 🍪Time to breathe (& for chocolate) ☮️Kindness & Peace #amquerying #writesky #amwriting

Love this quote from LA Rams coach Sean McVay: "Our scars will be our strength." 🏈 So much can be said for this-- in life, at work, in the querying process... Hang in there, #writingcommunity! 🙂✍️ #amquerying #amwriting

Hello #writingcommunity! The Chronicle recently printed its best illustrations for 2025. Kathleen Fu's "What it's Like to Work in Higher Ed" is one of my favorites. There are so many alternate titles are possible, including... "What it's like in the querying trenches." 😀🖊️ #amquerying #amwriting

#BluePit is ready to kick off 2026! Creators in the #WritingCommunity, #GameDev & #IndieDev, #TTRPG, and #Comic communities get ready to pitch or promote your projects! #BluePit will be taking place on Jan 13th, 2026! And #BluePitHype starts January 8th! #WriteSky #Writers #AmAgenting #LitAgents

Happy Holidays #writingcommunity! ❄️ It's an official Snow Day in southern Maine, and my Editorial Assistant would very much like to come outside and play. ⛄ Perhaps at least one of us should try to get some work done, however... 🖊️ Merriest of wishes #writesky! 🥂 #amquerying #amwriting

Hello #writingcommunity! This is a fun 2025 wrap-up... the best book covers of the year. While you can't necessarily judge a book by its cover, they sure do draw your attention! 👀 I see more than one (dozen) here that I need to add to my holiday wish list... 📝🎄 #amquerying #writesky #amwriting

in its rigid calm the winter tree stands stiff forgetting the sap that once moved through still underground it keeps boiling outlasting time there’s no drama only a raw stubborn #gratitude for the pressure below #vss365 #poetry #WritingCommunity #blueskypoets 📸 Greg & Chrystal Mimbs

Good morning from balmy Maine #writingcommunity! 🌲😎 It's happened again... the characters from my next project are taking over my brain, even before I've finished the edits on my current WIP! 🤪 More caffeine is needed in order to focus... ☕🖊️ #writesky #amquerying #amwriting

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Happy Monday #writingcommunity! Passing along this great article by Teri Case (on the #janefriedman website) about some of the recent scams targeting authors. Great info here on how to spot the scammers. 👀🔎 Hope your week is productive and scam-free! 😀🖊️ #amquerying #amwriting