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 🥲

Just 1 week until my Valentine's Day webinar QUERY UNREQUITED: Why I Didn't Fall in Love With Your Submission. I'll talk about these stats and more! Register here: next.waveapps.com/checkouts/42... #WritingCommunity #Writers #Illustrators

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.

The Publishing for Minnesota Auction goes live at midnight on Wednesday. The number of items for auction has doubled since I first heard about it this evening and they're still adding more: www.32auctions.com/publishingfo...

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).

snuggles w my cat this morning felt so healing and beautiful

queries update: what's left as of this moment is the fulls i requested and a pile of maybes i need to look at again when i am not tired

Congrats from the 𝑙𝑜𝑛𝑔 𝑐𝑜𝑛 team to CNF editor, art history maestro, and 13-time Best Dressed at an Editorial Meeting recipient Ellen Chang-Richardson on the recent publication of their poetry chapbook 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑀𝑜𝑙𝑒𝑠𝑘𝑖𝑛 𝐶𝑜𝑎𝑡 (above/ground press)! Link to order 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑀𝑜𝑙𝑒𝑠𝑘𝑖𝑛 𝐶𝑜𝑎𝑡 at linktr.ee/longconmag

disturbing how many white canadians crawl out the woodwork saying we should have ICE here too.

i will take this feeling and run as long as i can with it

this is peak humour on multiple levels as a ffx fan and agent im dyingggg 😂😂🤣🤣🤣

I haven't been posting a whole lot recently and tbh it's just hard to when there's such a dissonance between what's happening in the world and what's happening in my life it feels insane to carry on like tragedy isn't happening on a daily basis all over the world i hope everyone is staying well 💜

my cat woke me up cuz she knocked smth (harmless and fine) from my desk tsuki? plz. 😭

ᴊᴀɴᴜᴀʀʏ ᴜᴘᴅᴀᴛᴇs 𖹭 ⭒ client "catch up" meetings ⭒ sending responses to full requests ⭒ editor nudges and more submissions ⭒ client reading and editorial ⭒ general queries are staying closed ⭒ bipoc queries forever open 𖹭

started sending out responses to the full requests i have in my query inbox last night! some of those will be feedback-filled rejections. you're welcome to take it or leave it! if there's no feedback, it's because i don't have a vision for it, and am probably just not the right agent for it.

well ACKTSHUALLY I'm 33, which means it circled back to being adorable dammit!!

just heard on the news "all are now doing cyberbullying awareness classes" about... politicians??

/cracks knuckles alright y'all, the publishing industry is BACK TO WORK!! about to schedule some meetings, write some emails, and do some check-ins!

Authors: as a reminder if an agent requests a synopsis (not a query but a synopsis) that they expect spoilers. Not giving all the details doesn’t help you. It makes us question how the pieces come together and if they can even come together. Spoilers are expected!

born to read books, forced to read emails

Love this from Guillermo del Toro

Zzzzzz 🦈 #art #sharks

i just wanted to show off the snake ring tbh

tsuki knocked over my pinboard a couple weeks ago, so im finally redecorating it today!!

spent most of today chilling, tidying, and playing palia. i now have an outdoor pavilion that i am almost done decorating AND a windmill on my lot!!