Being put in the position to have to kill a c*ckroach (if I don’t sensor it the emoji pops up) (and I am so phobic I cannot see the emoji without intense discomfort) while the Covid and flu vaccines make me feel like shit is just adding insult to injury. Trusty chancla & Albuterol to the rescue.

Brandy and Caleb were your typical angsty teen and werewolf couple. But now they're all grown up, and local residents are going missing. Is Caleb's bloodlust out of control, or is something more sinister happening in their tiny town? #A #MY #T #QuestPit

HOT FUZZ x FIFTH ELEMENT w Eleanor Shellstrop (GOOD PLACE) 💖 disaster bi MC 👽 hot alien LI 🔗 forced proximity 🛏️ there’s only one (sofa) bed 🕺 disco-dancing assassins 🚀 space shenanigans 👑 secret royalty? 🎉 saving the galaxy, probably #Q #A #SF #R #BluePit 📖 #LGBT

One Dark Window X A Dance of Lies To save her sick sister, a visually-impaired thief agrees to a lucrative treasure-hunting con. If only her smooth-talking former fling wasn't in attendance—and totally able to blow her cover at any moment. #Q #A #F #questpit

Gt9 x THE UNBROKEN To earn her freedom, Calliope — a bodyguard with shadow magic — agrees to find out who is trying to kill her childhood nemesis, Prince Valentina Aurelia. Now the two have to rebuild their trust after the tragedy that drove them apart or lose their lives. #QuestPit #W #F #A #LGBT

One Dark Window X Locke Lamora To earn money for her sister's medical treatment, vision-impaired thief Nefeli agrees to a dangerous con. She must outwit powerful magic, dragons, and—worst of all—politicians, with the help of her former fling who could blow her cover at any moment. #Q #A #F #questpit

One Dark Window X Locke Lamora Con everyone. Dodge dragons. Save her sister at any cost. 💥 Disaster-Bi Visually Impaired FMC 👀 Betrayal & Thievery 🐉 Dragons (who might eat you) 🕯️ Broken Magic 🔥 Burned Desert Palace 🤫 Everyone Has A Secret 🔮 Magic w/ Consequences 🥰 Found Family #Q #A #F #questpit

Literary agents, I beg you: don’t advise writers that they need to pay $$$$ to make it in traditional publishing. A dev edit is valuable for self pub, but should not be a barrier of entry for a querying writer who may not have the means. CP/beta feedback (which is free) can go a long way!

Hi friends, I still need your help getting this to reach who it needs to ❤️ we aren’t asking for money, just resources.

Please everyone read this entire thread, it's important. We need to reach as many people as possible.

Please help🙏: 1. If you care about a teen who's been in the US since she was a baby & is now under ICE custody, all for complaining about domestic abuse 2. If you're in Arizona & can contact your senators for her 3. If you are or know immigration lawyers to help pro bono Please help 🙏 Details in🧵👇

Lovely friends, I need your help. If you can, please like and share this so it may reach the people it needs to. Last night my dear friend's loved one, Lupe, called 911 after being hit by her drunk boyfriend. This is not the first time this has happened. What followed landed her in ICE custody. 1/?

I am so burned out it’s not even funny. I can’t focus on anything, have zero interest in anything that requires my brain, and feel incredibly brain-fog-y. The dopamine is *so* low.

Fake agency alert: Dan Baror International Literary Agency, obviously trying to trick writers into believing they're being contacted by Baror International Inc. (a real agency). The About Us page has been "borrowed", in re-worded form, from the real Baror website danbaror-intliteraryagency.com

Not me at midnight overthinking every SINGLE thing that came out of my mouth during a live pitch 🫠🫠🫠

In which Esther realizes she is the reason god stays in heaven 👻🍆 #unhingedpit #A #R

THE CITY OF DRAGON GLASS is... 4 parts bisexual panic 2 parts dragons 1 part desperate con 2 parts treasure hunt 3 parts mystery #unhingedpit #F #Q

Oh my god I forgot how stressful moving is

Over the course of my writing I've come to realize that when I get stuck it's almost always one of two reasons: 1) the plot is happening to my character and they lost their sense of agency or 2) I am missing a (sub?)plot layer that is integral to moving forward #writersofbluesky

Dear #literaryagents and #editors, For your consideration: Nefeli's gift of sensing magical relics has made her a world-class thief, but tapping into her power comes with a cost: her vision. With every use of her magic, her degenerative eye disorder worsens. (1/7)

Why, hello there! Ah, lemme pitch you my book? In order to earn the money to save her sick sister, a visually-impaired thief must hunt down a lost relic at a political summit while she cons scheming politicians, conniving magic-users, dragons...and a former fling who knows exactly who she is.

I don't even have words, friends. I'm just really fucking sad for the Palestinians, Iranians, immigrants, and the multitudes of other people failed and/or targeted by this administration.

Please don't break your sobriety over this. Please don't harm yourself over this. We're all scared as fuck, but please, PLEASE don't undo all of your hard work. No matter what happens, you HAVE to protect yourself. You HAVE to hold on. Please hold on.

The last 4 days have included a canine medical emergency resulting in driving him 3 hours away for surgery, a full request, my horse colicking for an entire day in 113° weather, and a partial request. My central nervous system is absolutely shot.

Removing caulk sounds like it should be so satisfying. Instead, it's a solid litmus test for if you'd ever seriously contemplate homicide. (For your awareness, I didn't. But I sure wanted to kick the people who applied the stuff in the shins)

Y'all I am burning the candle at both ends in a house that's on fire. I am so beyond exhausted. I don't even have the energy to be excited about the writing conference I'm attending on Friday/Saturday that I've been looking forward to for months 😭

DVpit is officially coming back on October 8th, 2025 and we have over 50 agents and editors excited to participate. Follow this account for all announcements and check out dvpit.carrd.co for more details and information! #dvpit #writersky #booksky #weneeddiversebooks

Hello Brooklyn! I found this guy on the street yelling to come inside just before midnight tonight. Black cat, blue patterned collar. Does anyone know who he might belong to? He’s so friendly, he’s clearly very loved! (Or maybe she, I’m not sure.)

In times this dark it can be hard to feel hope and excitement. I struggle with wanting to post about my writing because it feels so frivolous compared to the atrocities of today’s world. I know levity is needed, that we deserve to still LIVE, but man is it hard to find the balance.

Look, there are a lot of valid criticisms to make of the Ivies, but “fuck this administration, we’re making our civics courses free so you can understand WHY fuck this administration” is a baller move. 3 cheers for prosocial spite.

Authors, agents should give you a *minimum* of two weeks to get back to them about accepting or declining an offer of rep. If you need more time, ask for it! No agent should be pressuring you to sign immediately. Take the time you need and DESERVE.

When I lost my childhood pup I went to a local cupcake shop to try & feel better. The person at the counter asked how I was & I burst into tears & apologetically explained. They asked if they could give me a hug. I said yes. I often wonder if they realize how much I think of them & their kindness.

The answer was very little 😂 but I've been waking up early (the bane of my existence) to try and write before work

I have two layovers today over 2 hours long. Let’s see how much writing I can get done.

Give yourself permission to rest. Doing nothing is okay sometimes.

I could never write a memoir because I have so many intense gaps in my memory I can’t tell you the vast majority of my life 🫠🫠🫠

Having read this manuscript over the last week I can say with CERTAINTY that #litagents are going to be all over this. Metal From Heaven X SYCBANI? Trans allegory? Achingly beautiful prose with a witty, voicey protagonist? Yearning sapphic love? A corpse that doesn't want to be found? Incredible.

Oh don't mind me, I'm just over here preparing for my writing workshop pitches like they're fucking House of Leaves.

unfollowing everyone on linkedin except this guy

We've been asked this a few times & now have an answer! If you're in publishing, but not author you can join Publishing Professionals Against Book Bans! The group is still in development but you can sign up here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Look. Even if the account that's blowing up is a parody account, why would I ever be derisive over agents trying to protect authors from unethical behavior, even if they fell for trolling?

Pre-orders are your most powerful tool as a consumer to tell publishers what you want to see more of on shelves. If you can do that, we’d appreciate it. And we’ll see you this weekend at Indie Bookstore Day 🫶

that aren’t as invested in their communities as we are. But, what I do like about B&N’s sale is it is for pre-orders. Pre-orders can make all the difference for which titles get support. So please … Use your pre-orders to support debuts and diverse authors and books you haven’t seen on BookTok.

So, B&N is having a preorder sale at the same time as Amazon is having a sale, and both are targeting Independent Bookstore Day, which is one of the biggest in-store shopping days of the year. It feels shitty as an indie bookstore to be targeted by billionaire and venture-backed corporations

Worked on my query letter for Dragon Glass and y'all...I think I've got one kickass pitch.

Fave writing/publishing newsletters: - Author Susan Dennard's Misfits & Daydreamers Substack for writing craft chats - Agent & Author @jennaschmenna.bsky.social's Jenna's Substack for insight into the life of authors/agents - Agent Danielle Bukowski's Just Reading All Day Substack for agent insights