As we finalize line-edits and prepare for submission, I wanted to give a shoutout to my critique partners to celebrate this milestone. Scroll for “favorite scenes” and excerpts from TCJ. 1/3

Attn authors who've trad pubbed dystopian fiction!! I'm doing short, fun interviews with authors for my book with Bloomsbury, A DOZEN DYSTOPIAS AND HOW TO DODGE THEM, on the real science behind fictional dystopian scenarios. Comment or msg me if you're up for answering a few Qs!

Prepare to be amazed! Our latest one-shot DEEPSEEKER by @antoinettev.bsky.social is brimming with wonders. Don’t miss out on this incredible read! www.viz.com/vizmanga/cha...

Everyone, please check out DEEPSEEKER. It’s an afrocosmic fantasy one-shot, written and illustrated by @antoinettev.bsky.social , and free to read on @viz.com . Antoinette is an incredible artist and storyteller. I would love to see this story continued.

In just TWO WEEKS, #RevPit will be announcing the names of this year's contest editors! How many editors do you think are participating this year? Give us your best guess below, and check in here on February 20th to meet them all and see if you're correct!

RevPit is excited to introduce our new BIPOC Editor Mentorship! ✨ This mentorship is open only to BIPOC editors and provides one-on-one guidance throughout the #RevPit annual contest. Applications open February 1. Visit reviseresub.com to learn more. #booksky #writersky #amediting #amquerying

New artwork alert! Ikki has struck again, this time with a sweet illustration of Dev. So, how about another teaser? 😎🔥 To any lurking editors, please like/comment or contact @laurenbieker.bsky.social at FinePrint, if you’re interested in being added to our sub list. #writingcommunity

Greetings! This week I wanted to participate in the “About the Author” trend. I’ve been writing for 15+ years (5+ books), with new beat sheets in progress. I currently have one story on submission, THESE WILTED BONES, while my newest book is being revised, THE CROOKED JACKAL. 1/2

Welcome back to my “Fav Character” Series! Each week I’ll feature one of my CPs/betas (+ my agent), and their favorite character from THE CROOKED JACKAL, my NA Science Fantasy. This manuscript is currently in the revision stage (prior to sub), so please be aware excerpts are subject to change. 1/3

Welcome back to my “Fav Character” Series! Each week I’ll feature one of my CPs/betas, and their favorite character from THE CROOKED JACKAL, my NA Science Fantasy. This manuscript is currently in the revision stage (prior to sub), so please be aware excerpts are subject to change. 1/3

2025 has been a whirlwind! Here are a few highlights. Also, I intended to post this two days ago, so you’re in for double the uploads today! 👀🙃🤣 Thank you to everyone who has supported me on my writing journey this past year. I appreciate you! 🖤 #WritingCommunity

Welcome back to my “Fav Character” Series! Each week I’ll feature one of my CPs/betas, and their favorite character from THE CROOKED JACKAL, my NA Science Fantasy. This manuscript is currently in the revision stage (prior to sub), so please be aware excerpts are subject to change. 1/3

If you risked everything to become more than you were...to be a cybernetically enhanced healer so you could help people...only to have it all taken away, how hard would you fight to be able to heal? #APalmEdgeLikeAKnife is coming to editor inboxes in January 🔥👀

Our dreams should never have an expiration date. In December’s Marie Claire Greece, I wrote about my debut novel VILE LADY VILLAINS getting published in 3 countries next year, and about the importance of never giving up. www.marieclaire.gr/art-lifestyl...

‘Tis the season of giving, so how about a teaser? 👀🤓 Shoutout to my agent-sib @fitzthestory.bsky.social for all the fun book-related trends! 🖤 To any lurking #editors, please like/comment or contact @laurenbieker.bsky.social at FinePrint, if you’re interested in being added to our sub list. #sff

Welcome to my “Fav Character” Series! Each week I’ll feature one of my CPs/betas, and their favorite character from THE CROOKED JACKAL, my NA Science Fantasy. This manuscript is currently in the revision stage (prior to sub), so please be aware excerpts are subject to change. 1/3

If you’re curious how I came up with the title, THE CROOKED JACKAL, for my newest MS, then look no further. Excerpts included! 👀✨ To any lurking #editors , please 🖤 or contact @laurenbieker.bsky.social at FinePrint, if you’re interested in seeing more once we’re on sub. #writingcommunity #agented

Guess who completed Round 1 of agent revisions? To celebrate, I wanted to reveal the title and #editorsguide for my new MS. To any lurking #editors, please 🖤 or contact @laurenbieker.bsky.social at FinePrint, if you’re interested in seeing more once it’s on sub. 👀🔥 #WritingCommunity #editorguide

Ah, yes! My favorite spooky-themed trailer mashup. Fun fact: It’s the only Halloween project I’ve ever edited. 👀🎃👻 #amvs #spooky

Here it is! The #RevPit2025 Showcase is LIVE!!! Congratulations to all of our authors and editors! reviseresub.com/showcase

if #editors are lurking 👻 every friendship break up has ghosts in the closet… but Regan’s came with a haunted mansion, a cutthroat scholarship competition & the ex–bestie she’s trying not to fall for reach out to @laurenbieker.bsky.social + @ariannasidd.bsky.social for more🎃 #writingcommunity

Here is my updated #editorsguide to THESE WILTED BONES, a new adult romantasy (anti-colonial Fourth Wing x Jade City). To any lurking #editors , please 🖤 or contact @laurenbieker.bsky.social at FinePrint, if you’re interested in seeing more. 👀🔥 #WritingCommunity #agented #editorguide

I’m delighted to share that my agent team at FinePrint has expanded to include @laurenbieker.bsky.social for all age categories and genres I write. I couldn’t ask for a better co-agent team than Lauren and @ariannasidd.bsky.social. #Editors, please reach out if my projects interest you. (1/2)

Soumi is truly such a caring and irreplaceable gem of the writing community and a true friend with a heart of gold—if there’s anyway you can help a writer in need please check out this fundraiser 🙏

✨HELLO! I have news!✨ I am so happy to announce I’m officially repped by @ariannasidd.bsky.social at Fineprint Literary! Her love for not only my little bone collector & her friends, but my future projects as well, blew me away. I’m so excited for our next steps with this novel!

so so thrilled to announce my newest client @arfrederiksen.bsky.social ! I am so pumped for AR’s Danish coastal gothic horror you have no idea (plus all of AR’s other AMAZING projects) studying abroad in Denmark has prepared me for this moment!! 🇩🇰🌊

THE SLUSH PILE / Dropping March 7

Contract signed! Excited to share that my new afrosurreal short story ‘The Astral Dream of Passage’ about a oarswoman, astral lutanist, and nobleman together on a desert boat will be published in the 6th issue of @innerworlds.bsky.social ☁️ 🛶 ✨

Jennifer's Body x Together We Rot It's going to be a killer summer. 😍 Sapphic Pining ❤️ Friends to Lovers 👀 Cannibalism as metaphor for love 💖 Monstrous romance 🎀 Bubblegum horror vibes 🌽 Cult town in Canadian Prairies 🎡 Ferris wheel confessions 💋 Querying after SmoochPit #Cupit #YA #HOR #INR #LGBT

📖It’s Only Me ❤️YA contemporary romance ⌨️ 70k words Raised by her strict Tiger Mom, Maggie Wang fake-dates the hockey team grump to make her crush jealous, only to fall for the wrong guy and risk breaking all her mom’s rules. #Cupit #CR #RC #poc #YA #FBW #Q #writingcommunity #amquerying

Cunning prankster vs resourceful lord = a marriage of chaos. Threaten them and force them to unite against their common enemies, and all hell breaks loose in this low-fantasy romcom version of A SONG TO DROWN RIVERS X HOW TO LOSE A GUY IN 10 DAYS. #cupit #RF #RC #POC #A

Set against the backdrop of a ruthless war academy and brimming with anti-colonial themes, (+ magical mobsters ;) this book is not to be missed! #Editors feel free to reach out.

Happy #MSWL day! I’m an associate agent at FinePrint. Authors I’d love to find: 🧟 horror of all kinds ✨ a South Asian romcom 😈 something so darkly funny I’ll feel bad for laughing

Rediscover history’s young, forgotten female heroes in this educational and empowering standalone with series potential. 📜 Diverse histories 📜 Forgotten figures 📜 Inspiring women #NF #Q #YA #QuestPit

Jennifer's Body x This Delicious Death Boys start to disappear in Lyric’s backwards backwoods hometown and her best friend/crush Eleanor was the last person they were seen with, leaving Lyric to investigate if something is monstrously wrong with her friend. #questpit #YA #Q #H #R

Guess who completed the next round of line edits? 👀🎉 Just sent them off to my agent! #WritingCommmunity #amrevising

Story acceptance announcement! My flash fiction about meteorite hunter clans who scavenge beneath a cosmic desert has found its home with LAWLESS, Myriad 🪨 🪐 ⚔️ Keep your eyes open for We The Deep next week! @hexagonmagazine.bsky.social @rhinobeetl.bsky.social

✨ I AM OFFICIALLY ON SUBMISSION ✨ TYRANT SPELL marries my love of fantasy with my passion for whodunnits, mixing in some dark academia & queer romance for good measure. #editors, if you're interested, please 🖤 or contact my agent @vickyweberbooks.bsky.social #WritingCommunity #OnSub

✨️WRITING RETREAT IN CHARLESTON✨️ @ariannasidd.bsky.social and I are co-hosting a writing retreat in the beautiful, literary city of Charleston, SC! We'd love for you to join us and our agents in residence! Register 🔗: forms.gle/TFMWkW7TB7sT... ✨️ RTs + boosts appreciated! ✨️

I’ve read the opening chapters and I’m desperate for more!!

#editors, Watch out for this one 😉

Here is my editor’s guide to THESE WILTED BONES, my new adult romantasy (anti-colonial Fourth Wing x Jade City). To any lurking editors, please like/comment or contact my agent, @ariannasidd.bsky.social at FinePrint Literary, if you’re interested in seeing more. 👀😆 #WritingCommunity #amagented

First round of edits are complete and off to my agent! 😍🎉 #WritingCommmunity #amrevising

As promised, here’s my query letter breakdown. Best of all? My agent, @ariannasidd.bsky.social , contributed her thoughts too. I always found it helpful to view queries during my decade in the trenches, so I hope others find this valuable. #WritingCommunity tashalivingstone.com/query-letter...

After querying a decade and receiving two incredible offers of representation, I’m delighted to share I’ve signed with FinePrint Literary Management and have the absolute pleasure of calling @ariannasidd.bsky.social my agent. As you can imagine, fifteen years of writing means I’ve had significant

Happy New Year, #writingcommunity! Instead of coming up with a unique pen name, I’ve decided to write under my middle/original surname. This update will now match my author website. Once my vague era has passed, I would be happy to share my query letter, if that would be helpful.

I had a second offer call today. I wanted to take a moment to appreciate how transformative this year has been for my writing journey, and how INCREDIBLE these agents are. Seriously. I have no idea how writers w/ multiple offers do this… because I’m STRESSED (+ EXCITED). 🤯🤣🫣