Good morning. I am stressed. #Writer #Author #WritingCommunity

Saw a job post for a #writer/#author position where you review Al fiction & improve the system's storytelling. Oh & make sure they're original stories. Ya know, original AI stories made from millions of stolen works. I'm so MAD. Screaming into the void. #WritingCommunity

Ever leave something sealed in the fridge for too long & you know it's going to be absolutely foul once you open it? That's what going on social media is like after taking a break. Yikes. #WritingCommunity #Author #Writer

Told a man I was an author and received a 45min monologue about "who can really create art if they haven't suffered" and "I hope I haven't dissuaded you" Ok buddy, sorry I told you I write cute, happy tales. Didn't know you needed my traumatic backstory #WritingCommunity #Writer #Author #BookSky

I thought I took a long time browsing bookstores on my own. Then I took my dog & discovered that a shelf isn't completely perused until it has been sniffed for at least 15 minutes. So far his favorite genre is unknown but there is a patch of carpet that he's partial to. #BookSky #WritingCommunity

Was writing with friends in a cafe when 2 influencers sat down to film content at the table across from me. Mid snort-laugh, I realized my lil face was completely in the shot and may have accidentally ruined some riveting croissant videos. #WritingCommunity #Writer #Author

centuries of fairy tales & folklore about not trusting glittering, deceptive entities that flatter our vanity and look at us. eating the fae food, mesmerized by the mirror, etc. clown behavior.

(Leaving out the very present reality of living through a dystopian horror-show)

Growing up I thought my nemesis would be something cool like an evil warlock or like a handsome yet infuriating classmate. But no. It's fricken Workday and the fact that they make you create a new account for every job you apply to 😠 #Writer #Author #WritingCommunity #IHateJobApps

This book immediately caught my eye because 1. Look at this cover?! 2. It's about Pipers 3. I am a Piper 5 ⭐ this was so so so cute and beautiful #Writer #Author #WritingCommunity #BookSky

I just found a page with "exasperated" used not 3, not 4, but 5!!! times. In one page!!! Print your work out people! You'll catch all the silly mistakes. #Writer #Author #WritingCommunity #AmQuerying

ELLA ENCHANTED X HALF A SOUL Lucy thought her biggest source of headache was getting the elves to follow a schedule. But when a prince proclaims his love for her & half the kingdom gets turned to stone, she realizes life can always get worse. Especially in a fairytale. #QuestPit #A #F #RF #Q

Burnt out Marcy’s 21st b-day gets worse when she’s chased by the Headless Horseman through NYC, then finds her father has been kidnapped by the Fairy King. To save him before Midsummer, she must team up Alec and the Fae Guardians, but the truth may force her to save herself. #questpit #f #sff #rf #w

HALF A SOUL X ELLA ENCHANTED When a prince declares Lucy is his one true love (based on the foolproof logic of an enchanted shoe), she finds herself at the center of a story she never wanted & with no way out of unless she wants to chop off her foot. #QuestPit #A #F #RF #Q #AmQuerying Featuring

A hopeless single gets stuck on a couples camping trip with the guy from high school who sabotaged her love life, and she's determined to finally find out why, even if it means making her favorite week of the year miserable for them both. ✨ 19 requests ✨ #QuestPit #Q #A #R #OwnVoices #AANHPI

UPROOTED x STAR DAUGHTER The night sky trapped as a mortal is on a mission to rescue their brother and sisters, the forgotten sun, moon, and stars. Their only hope? A curmudgeonly grad student who just wants to finish her thesis. 🌳 Ancient Botany 💗 Slow Burn HEA 🏳️‍🌈 LGBTQ+ #QuestPit #Q #A #F

WISTERIA SOCIETY OF LADY SCOUNDRELS X ELLA ENCHANTED #agentguide A Cobbler's Guide to Surviving a Fairytale! A cobbler & prince must pair up to save their kingdom from petrification. ✨ Reluctant heroine x Prince "Charming" ⚔️ Banter 💍 Engagement of convenience 🧚‍♀️ Cozy fantasy #QuestPit #A #F #RF #Q

POTIONS UNINCORPORATED Think HOWL'S MOVING CASTLE x THE SPELLSHOP 💜 Chronic Illness Rep 🌱 Plant Magic 💚 Bisexual Witches 🐈‍⬛ A Snarky Familiar 😈 Evil Pharmaceutical Potion Company ☀️ Grumpy X Sunshine Romance ☕ Cozy Vibes #QuestPit #Q #A #R #F #chronicillnessrep #ownvoices #LGBTQ #cozyfantasy

I’m excited to share this #pitchcard for THE PIRATE, THE PRINCESS, and JOHN, the YA fantasy novel I #amquerying, feat: 🏴‍☠️ LGBTQIA+ rep 👑 non-western setting 🌸 anti-colonial lens 🏴‍☠️ girls w/ swords 👑 besties-to-lovers 🌸 friendship > everything #QuestPit #YA #F #LGBT #Q

Someone at my old job once sent me a story they "wrote" using AI and couldn't understand why I wasn't impressed with them. "You're a writer! You should love this!" Bleh. 🤢 #Writer #Author #WritingCommunity #BookSky #AmQuerying

I'm in a querying (ha) mood. #AmQuerying crew (and agents if any see) - if an agent asks for the first few chapters (or few pages) in the query package, do you start with your prologue or skip it and start from the first chapter instead? #Writer #Author #WritingCommunity #BookSky

Hey #AmQuerying friends - when you do online pitch events, do you make new pitches for each one or do you reuse the images + pitches from previous events? Or intersperse new with old? #writer #author #booksky #writingcommunity

Is anyone else so pale their skin reflects the sun?

Also, back on dog stuff, anyone ever get a dog hair stuck in their foot before and it feels like a fricken splinter but it's a hair?!?! In your foot?!?

Happy Thursday! I just spent two hours making pancakes because I am a silly goose who doesn't have a large pan/griddle.

When I read near my dog, I must remember to present the book for him to sniff, and only once he has approved it can I then proceed #writer #writingcommunity #booksky

Remind me to never draw a bookcase ever ever again. This is only half the cartoon 😫 #amquerying #writingcommunity #illustrator #cartoon #author #writer

Accidentally fell down one of those "How to Get Published" YouTube channel rabbit holes and... they're all so intensely negative. "7 Things Agents HATE" "Your Writing SUCKS - Here's How to Fix It" "You Thought You Could Make It? HA Jokes On You" #amquerying #writer #author #writingcommunity

look i don't even like you but SOMEONE should accompany you on this dangerous hare-brained scheme. i suppose i am--no, shh--literally the only person for the job

My lavender plant just decided to keel over and die with NO warning. Rude.

#amquerying friends, is this the time of year where all the agents sort of hibernate? Wondering if I should just pause research/outreach until the fall. I've noticed a lot of closed inboxes and don't know if it's cause they are absolutely swamped with submissions or it's the summer.

I know that all these new special edition books are just money-grabbing gimmicks but damn do they work. I mean, gilded edges?? That's the stuff of dreams. #amquerying #writer #author #writingcommunity

Copenhagen created some amazing cloudburst-resiliency projects that turn urban spaces (like small parks and playgrounds) into water containment basins. It's super helpful in protecting from flooding.

The only reason I know what day it is is because A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping comes out tomorrow and I NEED cozy, magical, huggable stories cause this timeline we're living through is DRAINING.

Lucy would grab her sunhat (the last thing her parents ever gave her) and her cobbling mentor (and only family figure), Ms. Pinkel, then hightail it to find the fairy responsible for ending the world and yell at them until they change their mind. #WritingCommunity #Writers #AmQuerying #BluePitHype

When you're a cobbler and the only way to get people to listen to you is to threaten their orthopedic well being. Featuring reactions from my beta readers. #UnhingedPit #F #Q #A #WritingCommunity

I'm a lil late! Hi, I'm Piper! I write cozy, romantic fantasy and am currently querying a A Cobbler's Guide to Surviving a Fairytale (phew a mouthful I know). It's chock full of magic, bureaucracy, reluctant heroes - and slowly simmering with 💜 #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #AmQuerying #BluePitHype

I'm not good at dealing with the heat. I'm especially not good at dealing with the heat when I want to reward myself with a lil sweet treat and it's 100º outside. Currently eating handfuls of chocolate chips and imagining they are cookies. #writer #author #amquerying #writingcommunity

Shoutout to my friend for live-texting me her reactions to my fairytale. I started my voice lesson at 0 messages and left with 100. #writer #author #amquerying #writingcommunity

That feeling when you should be writing but instead you spend far too long trying to thing of something amusing to post on Bluesky... and don't succeed. #author #writer #writingcommunity

Hakeem Jeffries is buying time for us to make more calls. If you haven't called your Congressmen yet, particularly if they're a Republican, now is the time to do so. 5calls.org/issue/hr1-on...

A moment of silence for this insane typo that has made it into two full MS requests. abewfoiawhfiawoeugnaljrkgnarlignklagj #author #writer #amquerying #writingcommunity

These are the weak points. You know what to do. First thing tomorrow, use 5calls.org and raise hell.

Schumer only getting the name of the bill changed gives the same vibe.

Diving into edits on a YA Fantasy I'd shelved for a couple years... and have discovered that I like my side characters so much more than my main characters. #author #writer #writingcommunity

Sometimes when I'm blocked I like to sketch the setting of the story. And sometimes when I sketch I sketch too many building frames and try unsuccessfully to turn them into a forest. Looks like 1/4 of the building is on fire 😅 #author #writer #writingcommunity #illustrator

Okay vibe book is just gonna sit for a while cause I have truly no idea what the plot is. Oops 😅 Can I blame the heatwave for my lack of brainpower? #writer #author #writingcommunity

Have you ever written 40,000 words purely based on vibes and then have no idea where to go from there? #author #writer #writingcommunity

Nothing like jumping at every leaf on the street for fear of it being a giant cockroach. Yay summer.

insane how the party is like "we have to stick to kitchen table issues, like the economy" and then a guy is like "so how about affordable transportation, housing, and childcare" and they're like no not like that