I haven't looked at my WIP since July 2025 👀😲 and I'm happy to say that this novel might be the first one I won't need a zillion drafts for. 😆 I'm not going to return to it until I'm completely finished revising my MG fantasy, but it's such a relief. #writingcommunity

I haven't looked at my WIP since July 2025 👀😲 and I'm happy to say that this novel might be the first one I won't need a zillion drafts for. 😆 I'm not going to return to it until I'm completely finished revising my MG fantasy, but it's such a relief. #writingcommunity

Even though I'm sad I missed the deadline for Revpit with my MG fantasy, I'm extremely happy with the edits I made.📚 #writingcommunity

Even though I'm sad I missed the deadline for Revpit with my MG fantasy, I'm extremely happy with the edits I made.📚 #writingcommunity

Lesson learned/tip: Play with your synopsis in a document where you have to include 3 chapters. This will force you to shorten it/rewrite sections to keep it on 1 page with this format, and it might become a lot better. 😬 #writingcommunity

Lesson learned/tip: Play with your synopsis in a document where you have to include 3 chapters. This will force you to shorten it/rewrite sections to keep it on 1 page with this format, and it might become a lot better. 😬 #writingcommunity

While surrounded by snow, a honey bee landed on my arm. 📚 Please and thank you to this meaning: 🤞 A honey bee landing on your arm is considered a very positive omen, often signaling that good news, prosperity, or luck (a little sweetness) is coming your way.🐝❤️ #writingcommunity

While surrounded by snow, a honey bee landed on my arm. 📚 Please and thank you to this meaning: 🤞 A honey bee landing on your arm is considered a very positive omen, often signaling that good news, prosperity, or luck (a little sweetness) is coming your way.🐝❤️ #writingcommunity

I am honored and delighted to report that I've just learned RIALTO is a Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection! I am so excited to finally, finally be able to share this book with you in April!

Hey Bluesky! Could you help me spread the word about my Patreon? Signing up will allow me create more fabric art monsters and creatures. As a patron, you'll receive positive affirmations from Felmer, etiquette advice from Mothman, and other fun, bizarre posts. www.patreon.com/jeremycreature

It think carrd do a simple, one page, completely free option. If I'm not mistaken I think that's what @mdashow.bsky.social uses for his kidlit portfolio and it looks great: mdashow-kidlitart.carrd.co

Meet these great SF indie authors at the Science Fiction Genre Indie Authors Starter Pack! If you wish to be included in the starter pack, reply here. #writingcommunity #sciencefiction #authorsky bsky.app/starter-pack/inventi...

Cover reveal day for my gothic middle grade novel! Can't wait for you all to meet Tilly and venture into the DARK WOOD.

We have ghosts!! The Unfinished Business is now in shops, libraries, or wherever else you get your books today! Happy reading, friends! www.amazon.com/dp/1646036751 bookshop.org/a/975/978164...

I can take a no, that's no issue. But when did acceptable ranges go UP for MG? If anything, they went down some, right? This agent declined me based on length. The literary agent I did the R&R for told me to add 10K & I did I know everything is subjective, didn't think word counts was #AmQuerying

🎬📚 Writing can feel like acting. 📚🎬 Your best lines often come from actual emotion. 😭😄 #writingcommunity

📚Love hearing that a desire for MG is coming back.📚 👀👀👀 I saw a wave of positivity on Threads too. 🌊 #writingcommunity

📚Love hearing that a desire for MG is coming back.📚 👀👀👀 I saw a wave of positivity on Threads too. 🌊 #writingcommunity

Please & thank you. 📚 I've got 3 MG horror/fantasy or fantasy/horror + a WIP. Although I need to dust one off. #writingcommunity

Please & thank you. 📚 I've got 3 MG horror/fantasy or fantasy/horror + a WIP. Although I need to dust one off. #writingcommunity

A beta sent me a link for a writing fellowship contest, and although I haven't decided if I'll enter or not, I'm so incredibly honored that she thought of me. 🥰📚 #writingcommunity

A beta sent me a link for a writing fellowship contest, and although I haven't decided if I'll enter or not, I'm so incredibly honored that she thought of me. 🥰📚 #writingcommunity

I'm so incredibly fatigued with this stupid head cold. 🤧 Send help. I've got things to do and novels to write. #writingcommunity 📚

Morning, all! With #RevPit editor announcements coming out in a few minutes, let’s take a moment to talk about RevPit, the annual contest, and the editors. I’m a co-founding editor and board member, and it’s really exciting to be celebrating our TENTH annual contest. Like…WHAT? How?

I am one of 17 editors participating in this year's #RevPit! Having trouble choosing who you'll submit to? We're having #MeetTheEditor sessions the week after next. Mine is the afternoon of March 2! Come by and ask me questions about my MSWL or my editing style.

There are a lot of #MSWL posts going around and I love that! I just want authors to remember NOT to self reject. Your book doesn’t have to be a perfect match to a MSWL If the agent takes fantasy and you have fantasy take your shot! ❤️ Don’t stress it!

It’s feeling like a good time to update my #mswl with what I’m interested in this year! As always I’m acquiring PB, MG, and YA, and can only accept agented submissions. 👇

I can't stress this enough. Being a great writer requires you being an enthusiastic reader. Read in your genre and out of it. (Yeah, even those kinds of books you swear aren't for you occassionally. You might be surprised.) Devour as much as you can.

For MG: poignant novels in verse à la Thanhhà Lại, Jacqueline Brown; fantasy/speculative exploring profound themes à la The Last Cuentista or The Girl Who Drank the Moon; survival stories like Hatchet or Alone; silly & humorous illustrated like The Last Kids on Earth or Dav Pilkey; mysteries 2/3

Hi agents, I’m on the hunt for high-concept layered YA & MG novels! #MSWL For YA: romantic fantasy; dark academia; mystery/thrillers like We Were Liars or Firekeeper’s Daughter; thought-provoking horror or gothic; romantic coming of age like Aristotle & Dante & Last Night at the Telegraph Club 1/3

In middle grade, I'm also on the hunt for anything that comps to early 2000s-2010s Saturday morning cartoons (from Yugioh and Pokémon to Winx Club and W.I.T.C.H). Consider also...Ben 10, Bakugan, American Dragon: Jake Long, and Danny Phantom🙏 #MSWL

Hooray hooray, it's #MSWL day! So excited. :D Quick background about me: I'm an associate editor at Penguin Workshop, editing primarily licensed titles for major brands and media partners. However, I am also open to (and eager for!) MG and YA submissions. I am only looking for agented submissions.

I'm acquiring middle grade and young adult fiction for Peachtree and Peachtree Teen! Especially looking for horror, mystery/thrillers, grounded speculative fiction, contemporary, and romance. Authors and agents, check out my #mswl 📖

I'm going through my MG fantasy edits again and so far I'm like: Wait, what's going on? This doesn't need anything so far. Did I actually learn how to write? That's not possible. I almost always have something I need to fix. 😆 We'll see what my betas say later. #writingcommunity

I'm going through my MG fantasy edits again and so far I'm like: Wait, what's going on? This doesn't need anything so far. Did I actually learn how to write? That's not possible. I almost always have something I need to fix. 😆 We'll see what my betas say later. #writingcommunity

I finished my 50th draft! 😆 Not really, but who knows? The next read through will focus on the frosting 🧁and then I'll send it off for beta feedback. I'm glad I waited to revise this novel because my new beginning + ending is SO much better.

Social media can be a cool place. You can talk to favorite authors. Sometimes they follow back. Same with actors from your favorite childhood movies. You might get a real DM. 🏴‍☠️🦜 #writingcommunity

I keep getting jump scares from other people’s rejections because for a moment I forget I’m still yellow. 🤞 Keep swimming, little friend. 📚🐟 Keep swimming. #writingcommunity

I keep getting jump scares from other people’s rejections because for a moment I forget I’m still yellow. 🤞 Keep swimming, little friend. 📚🐟 Keep swimming. #writingcommunity

#kidlitchat For those who haven't heard, there will be an official #MSWL day on Thursday this week. If you're currently in the query trenches or will be soon, it's a great resource and may put some wonderful agents on your radar based on what they're looking for.

I finished my 50th draft! 😆 Not really, but who knows? The next read through will focus on the frosting 🧁and then I'll send it off for beta feedback. I'm glad I waited to revise this novel because my new beginning + ending is SO much better.

Well, that was not bad at all. You trounced Monday and have entered Tuesday already! You are geared for this. You know it. Stay set on goal. Stay on path. You know your course. You know what you want. Go get it. Let’s go! Be careful. Be safe. Be sparkle. Be glimmer. Be shiny. Be you. Take no shit.

Social media can be a cool place. You can talk to favorite authors. Sometimes they follow back. Same with actors from your favorite childhood movies. You might get a real DM. 🏴‍☠️🦜 #writingcommunity

I've only got 20 pages left to edit for a particular novel (or at least this draft/round before beta feedback), but it's the slowest revise ever because I've got a head cold. 🤧🤒 #writingcommunity

My review of Camp Twisted Pine, a middle grade horror #booksky womenofcolorreadtoo.substack.com/p/camp-twist...

Because I just saw a couple of posts complaining that it's hard to find books for older middle grade kids... Look! Books for those kids! I wrote these *specifically* targeting the grey area between MG and YA!!! They are action-packed! And fun! And there's magic! And snark! And CROWS! #BookSky

Your words matter✨ Keep going, writers!💪💛

Synopsis tip… The makers of South Park had a video years ago about how they create stories and the basics of it were that if you can use the words “and then” between your plot points you are forked. This means there is nothing connecting these moments, you have a series of events. …. Cont….

Hot Tip for Writers who are querying: Have someone who is unfamiliar with your story read over your query and synopsis. If they don’t understand what the book is about or how the story unfolds neither will an agent.

I'm madly in love with this cover. #writingcommunity