idk guys when i see a lot of similar headlines insisting that editors & authors are all already embracing AI, i don't assume these things are true. i assume there are a lot of very rich people with an unpopular product pushing a particular narrative in my industry!

It’s not even April and yet we’re having our 3rd layoffs and restructuring from a Big 5. Six colleagues including editors who acquired books by BIPOC and queer creators have been let go. When is it going to stop? And how can publishers be so short-sighted?

current qm stats: - 30 undecided queries - 12 full requests everything is either a "maybe" or a full i have yet to read, so i think i'm definitely on track for an inbox 0 in april YAY

ngl as a person who already didn't love meetings pre-pandemic, i especially don't like remote meetings on video/voice chat post-pandemic. if we must talk, i shall do it, but i had a series of months early on as an agent where i was accepting TOO MANY MEETINGS and i was beyond drained

only a handful of days left til the end of march so let's take a quick stock of where i wanted to be and where i'm at: i wanted to have responses to all full reqs by the 31st currently: - 54 undecided queries - 14 full requests - many meetings in calendar for april - 3 clients waiting for edits

so far today i have... 1) gotten back on track with querymanager 2) sent a handful of rejections (sorry TT__TT) 3) sent 3 (THREE!) meeting requests 4) am already tired of meetings gg

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once again: if you're pulling your query from an agent's inbox bc it's been longer than 2-3 months, you won't survive actual submissions. be patient.

post-ramadan spring update 𖹭 ⭒ 66 undecided queries ⭒ 17 undecided full requests ⭒ more client submissions! (rolling basis) ⭒ reading and editorial for 3 clients ⭒ general query form still closed ⭒ bipoc query form always open hoping to have inbox 0 for everything by the first week of april! 𖹭

gonna run the sims in the bg while i research and respond to stuff today. just need some passive entertainment while i work

I am pro Iranian people. I stand with them against their own government’s repression AND against the imperial violence in the form of bombs dropped from the sky from Israel & the US who have already killed hundreds. I support neither imperialism or dictatorship. Sahar Delijani said it best:

kept think about that stupid "millennials are spending extra $$ on nice grocries/eating out" article while our government shells out billions of dollars to bomb ppl & seeing red

despite everything it’s still you

photo study

🕯️🕯️🕯️ manifesting a Final Fantasy VII remake part 3 reveal at state of play tonight 🕯️🕯️🕯️

couldnt sleep after suhoor which is the only reason im up at 8am like a normal adult on a monday morning LOL

who updates their mswl site page regularly? i do a solid update at the start of every year, and usually add a "last updated" month/year at the very bottom so people know it's recent.

every time i login lately, i come back to 20+ notifications and its jarring tbh hello everyone!! welcome new followers!!

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some days feel better than others. yesterday sucked. today is decent. tomorrow? who knows. growth is not a straight line and one bad day doesn't have to mean a bad life.

Ramadan Mubarak!! 💜🌙✨

so who works in publishing and wants to start a ttrpg group with me...?

guess what finally came in uwu

hot take but chinese dramas are better than korean dramas (at least within the pool of asian dramas i have watched). rn i'm watching glass heart which is japanese and it is a TIME. but what i'm really looking forward to rn is part 2 of bridgerton s4 and the next season of xo, kitty.

every day i feel slightly better, but damn i hate being sick. the brain fog when agenting is pretty much entirely a cerebral job is not great.

fuck this shit im out MM-MMMM fuck this shit im out NO THANKS don't mind me, imma just grab my stuff and leave, 'scuse me plz, fuck this shit im OUT

ahem

im literally begging y'all, why am i getting queries sent directly to my work email?? why am i getting queries thru freakin LINKEDIN DMS?? stop. querymanager only. my queries are also FREAKIN CLOSED LIKE DAMN

tsuki vs the humidifier mist where's it coming from? where does it go? why can't i grab it, cotton eyed joe?

I'm going to win.

i am probably sick, with a cold maybe. drinking lemsip and hoping I'll be better in the morning 🥲

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february updates 𖹭 ⭒ contracts to look over (!!) ⭒ reading/responding to full requests (10 more to go!) ⭒ reading/responding to undecided queries (39 to go!) ⭒ more client submissions! ⭒ client reading and editorial ⭒ updating editor info ⭒ general query form closed ⭒ bipoc query form open 𖹭

as for agenting: more reading today! i am almost caught up on all full requests and only have 10 to go. current plan is to finish by mid-feb and then get thru my stack of 39 undecided queries from my bipoc query form.

the cloud nine shade from the holo taco valentine bundle is the only one im interested in, but i already have a midsummers dream from mooncat that has the addition of a blue sheen...

a thread of interest checks: the one w the most likes will be the one i will consider putting together and hosting! it'll be a paid online event, and I'm thinking $25 for an hour-long seminar + 15 minutes for Q&A, maybe? let's go!

Macaulay Culkin posted a tribute to Catherine O’Hara….I’m not crying, you’re crying 🥺🙏

This is live, friends! You can also bid on a critique from me in here.

stickers !!!! so excited to figure out where to use these YAY @jaceandjudy.bsky.social

about a third of the way thru a full and leaning very yes... 👀

also, a personal gripe with all the messaging going around: books have always been political and stories have always mattered there's nothing "now more than ever" about it. it will always be political and always matter. oppression never stopped. people just looked away bc it didn't affect them.

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i dont have anything deeply meaningful and impactful to say about what's happening in the world (in Minnesota, Palestine, this snowstorm on the East coast, or otherwise). but still: rest when you need to. fight where you can. take care of each other 💜 community is everything

At the end of the day, the Black Lives Matter era was about whether people should be killed in the street, and lots of people decided yeah and put those little blue flags on their cars. It spread to everyone because it stopped for no one.

came across a job description that said "we are disruptors"

spent a lot of yesterday designing fake book covers on canva. i miss when i had access to adobe cc, but it's literally so expensive!! it was fun working w the assets and limitations of canva tho! here's what i came up with (based on song titles/the artists who sing them)

was nauseous all last night and this morning and had to reschedule a client meeting TT__TT gonna just chill today and maybe read (fulls). and if i can't do that then i'll read (manga).