Excited to have my dark little story, Hell is a Bathroom in Berlin, featured in this upcoming anthology. Check out the Kickstarter link to support/ pre-order. 🔥🖤

Can't wait to see #ProjectHailMary tonight because 1) I loved the book and 2) I get to go on a date with my husband, who alas, is not Ryan Gosling but is still a ten to me. #amwatching #amreading

I'm submitting to this @writingdaywksp.bsky.social contest for first pages in thriller/suspense for the chance to have the beginning of my cult-focused thriller reviewed. Check out the contest here- tinyurl.com/wdwcon11 They have other openings for different genres as well. Good luck!

I've been a @ricksteves.bsky.social fan since my college backpacking trip through Eastern Europe with one of his guides in hand. Just finished his latest travelogue of his 1978 trip on the "hippie trail" from Istanbul to Kathmandu-a great read, full of rich anecdotes and lovely photos. #amreading

I don't have writers block I have publishing block. #amwriting #amquerying

Oh cool, it's 3 AM. Let me count my worries. (Me, every night)

Best book I've read recently, a tumultuous, poignant picture of 90s conflict in Colombia that challenged a lot of my presuppositions. Highly recommend. #indiepick #amreading

"we were born for each other—to find one another, play with one another, make new things together, sit here together." Read this by @annasplat.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/neonlite...

The East Coast snow storm feels like tears from Minneapolis.

Truly enjoyed this near-future sci fi tome by @nealstephenson.bsky.social on the possibilities and complications of #geoengineering our planet cooler. Radically disparate narrative threads all came together in a certified banger of an ending. 🌎 🔥 #amreading #scifi

Just saw that this is today! Will be participating later

Genuinely obsessed with the design of Arundhati Roy's new memoir, featuring her present self gazing upon her younger self. 🪞 #amreading #bookcover

Just got an acceptance for a piece I've been trying to place all year! So thrilled. Small victories! #litmags #writersky

IMHO you should not hit up writers for money after you've denied them for residencies... #hottake #writertok

That time I got to meet the amazing @vanessawalters.bsky.social! Honored to be featured in this post by @awpwriter.org repping @penparentis.bsky.social. The Pen Parentis weekly accountability groups help keep me on track and build valued relationships with other writer-parents.

Two of my library books in conversation with each other. #amreading 💙 @byzantienne.bsky.social @audreyleeauthor.bsky.social

FANTASTICLAND X FIERCE JUNGLE Disaffected Gen Z heroine goes from fighting boredom to fighting to survive when active shooters take over the derelict amusement park where she works. #wippit #a #na #t

Man this album was a work of ART. Still hits so hard! #creativeinspiration

I know my writer-friends in the trenches feel me. www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8DTouF7/

🌟 THE LAST SESSION X HOLLYWOOD PARK 🌟 A cult survivor turned social worker inherits a surprise parcel of land. Only problem? It's still occupied by the abusive fundamentalist group that raised her...and they're not giving up without a fight. 🌲🔪🩸♀️CULT DAUGHTER #questpit #a #t #q

The title made me choose it, could NOT resist. A fun read, especially 🖤 the Cannibal King novella included in this #horror collection by @haileypiperfights.bsky.social

Just got a rejection from an agent I queried THREE years (and two manuscripts) ago lol #amquerying #laughsoyoudontcry

I submitted to the @Uncharted_Mag_ Novel Excerpt Prize! Publication + $3k! Details here: www.unchartedmag.com

Lots of agents I've been tracking are opening their query boxes in September.

Three agent 🚩from a second-time querier's perspective #querying #amquerying #writersky www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8S1mbyx/

For anyone #querying a thriller or suspense novel rn, this list is a goldmine- thrillerfest.com/pitchfest/pa...

Having a pretty good day so thought I'd take it down a notch or five with some #querying

I am now officially querying two books 🤹🏻 Not sure if I need a high-five or a hug

Guys did you know if you check your email a million times a day it does NOT get agents to write back any faster? My continued experiments bear this finding out.

Received a 'no' from a prestigious #litmag saying my piece "interested them more than most," which is so so funny. Like, this was better than most of the crap we get but still no. 🤭🪭

Usually I listen to audiobooks in the car only but this beauty of a mystery by @amyjordanbooks.bsky.social had me listening at all hours, the audio equivalent of an absolute page turner. #amreading #thrillers

Musk is censoring the following information: The US Social Security commissioner is consulting with the Justice Department about shutting down the agency. “This move would immediately begin halting benefits payments for millions of Americans.” archive.ph/1SiaC

#authorlife #writerslife #writeitdown #amwriting #writingcommunity

Holy guacamole 🥑 I won a MD State Arts Council Grants for Artists! I'm so used to getting "no's" from grants/ fellowships that I had to read the email 5 times before it sunk in. It's $2500 to support living expenses for artists and I won it for my fiction writing. Every little bit counts!

NEEDLEHEART Between Two Fires X INDIKA X Educated An acolyte on a suicide mission that would usher in the end times loses her faith as she experiences the outside world. 🌘Dark Celestial Fantasy 🌠Medieval Horror ☀️Religious Guilt #Sludgepit #WIP #H #DF

When Keira's sister is taken, her fate intertwines with the God of Light as she faces the last remaining gods, vicious monsters of land & sea, & her own dark powers to find a shapeshifter who could be anyone & whose price for her sister will have her choose b/w love & duty ✨️ #Questpit #RF #F #Q #A 🌗

FOURTH WING + ACOTAR In a realm of monsters, humans are food. A human princess on the hunt 4 the last dragon eggs must fight 4 survival and save her people while trying not to lose her heart to the vampire prince who craves not only her blood but her soul. #questpit #NA #RF #W

THESE VIOLENT DELIGHTS x THE BALLAD OF SONGBIRDS AND SNAKES for any #LitAgents who have the following on their MSWL: 🥀 Forbidden Love 🥀 Family Feuding/Messy Family Dynamics 🥀 Mental Health Rep 🥀 Queer-Norm World 🥀 He Falls First 🥀 Dystopian NA Fantasy 🥀 Strong FMC / Soft MMC #QuestPit #Q #NA #F #R

A golem made of spent bullets and shrapnel has a question, but can anyone on earth answer it? If she leaps to the stars, will she receive the solace of a reply there? Poignant Christian #PB for older children and adults who also wonder, “Why?” #CF #A #Q #QuestPit #Faith

ALL FOR THE GAME × THE FALL OF ICARUS × MY HERO 🪶 trans men's wrongs 🪶 destroying the fascist corpocracy 🪶 explicitly autistic characters 🪶 what the horseshoe crabs doin? 🪶 tattoos as therapy 🪶 toxic gays 🪶 we were here before your laws and we will be here after them #P #A #DF #QuestPit

It's 1996 and 18 yo Roxy just tragically lost the love of her life. All she wants is to escape her small midwest town, but in a twist of fate, starts working at an antique store where she meets Betsy, a mannequin who will change her life, and the town, forever. #questpit #H #A #F #Q

ADDIE LARUE x TVD - vampires hiding their fangs - a lost god searching for identity - power-hungry gangs and dubious detectives - morally grey protagonist - regretting (?) what you wished for - realising what you truly are - in the speculative underbelly of Taipei #QuestPit #Q #A #F #UF

THE FIFTH ELEMENT x HOT FUZZ w Eleanor Shellstrop After a job gone wrong, data thief Enmity and space cop Mirek end up handcuffed together, at the center of a political coup, and on the run from space thugs, disco-dancing assassins...and catching feelings for one another. #QuestPit #Q #A #SF #R

lesbian psychological horror with 🥩queer obsession&psych dynamic of hannibal 🫀girlhood&female desire of the lamb 🥀cannibalism as family trauma of bones and all 🔪unreliable narrator of eileen 🪦mommy issues&eating disorder exploration of milk fed (ft meta board w inspo) #QuestPit #W #A #H

Barely making ends meet through bartending, singing, and a bit of swindling, Lennie longs to explore. But you need money to do that. When plans for a heist fall into her lap, she thinks she sees her chance. I mean, how hard could a heist really be? Boys do it. #QuestPit #A #F

Lonely Jane has mood-affecting weather abilities, Corwin’s an anxious new kid and both could use a friend. When Jane’s shady landlord threatens eviction because of her, she has to control her emotions, but how can she when she’s majorly crushing on Corwin?! #QuestPit #MG #Con #RomCom #Spec #Q

Welcome to Havetsavain Academy of Arcane! A mysterious school that has sprung up in the Bermuda Triangle, welcoming new students while facing controversy from all around it! Here is the front page of the school's newspaper, stay tuned for the next three pages! #Booksky 💙📚 #MG #F #Q #Questpit

Why did Cletus Berger’s mama throw herself off the water tower, + why’s the whole town so tight-lipped about it? + could country icon Law Leylow’s illicit affair w/a teen really be THAT bad (it can)? Small towns’ long memories+ loose lips can only hold these secrets so long. #questpit #q #litfic

METOO X DOWNTON The horrors of the Great War come crashing into the comfortable Upper-Class lives of sisters, Kate, Evie and Susannah. Homefront WW1 novel on the ways women find of building new worlds when everything they know falls apart. #A #Q #QuestPit #HF 126k #upmarket #WF #poetry #roses