going to finish the two books i started earlier this week! & then look for my next reads/put any necessary holds @ my library on books from my #tbr list 🙂‍↕️ #booksky #books ✍🏾 🖤✏️ #writingcommunity #amreading

happy halloween everyone 🩸🍁🎃🧚🏾‍♀️🧛🏾‍♀️👹🍂🔪🧙🏾‍♀️🫣

Read in public. Read in private. Read e-books, genre books, comics, fanfiction. Read literature. Read nonfiction. Read books you’ve already read. Listen to audiobooks. Read what you want. There’s no such thing as “doing reading the wrong way.”

took a mini break after I finished my last two books, but now I'm diving into both A Short Stay in Hell and Crafting for Sinners :) #booksky #books #amreading #ashortstayinhell #craftingforsinners @jennykiefer.com

#amquerying update, i’ve now sent out 7 queries to fast responders (only one rejection so far) trying to hit 10 before october ends. WIP update: i’ve done 0 outlining 🤪 i think im gonna just do whateva & not set a strict Nov 30th deadline ✍🏾 🖤✏️ #writingcommunity #writersky #writesky #nanowrimo

happy Halloween is this friday week 🎃

got my first query rejection ! it was super fast too, like under an hour lol, but all in all, i appreciate agents who reply super fast 🙂‍↕️ planning to query 6 more agents in this first batch, have sent out 5 in total #amquerying #querying ✍🏾 🖤✏️ #writingcommunity #writersky #writesky

the supernatural council oversees individual councils like the witch & vampire councils & The Dark Lord over sees the vampires & other supernatural beings that share his beliefs ✍🏾 🖤✏️ #writingcommunity #writersky #writesky #writingq #qotd

COFFIN MOON x THE WITCHES OF BONE HILL as the sole witch/vamp hybrid, Maeve, must funnel her grief & rage into revenge if she wants to defeat a homicidal witch & end their killing spree ✨ found family fam secrets complicated sisterhood 2nd chance luv FEMALE RAGE #DVpit #CF #f #a #poc #BVM #WOC

COFFIN MOON 🤝🏾 NETTLE & BONE when Maeve’s bandmates are murdered, she realizes that embracing the one thing she loathes—her erratic witch/vampire hybridity—might be the only way to seek revenge on the deranged witch that killed her loved ones. Or she’ll be next 🩸 #DVpit #CF #f #a #poc #BVM #WOC

Maeve’s a hybrid—diminishing witch trapped in a vamp body. To save her magic, she seeks a cure. but she’s not the only one on the hunt! someone’s after her—if she fights back, she’ll lose her cure/magic, & if she loses, she & her loved ones will be diminished. #DVpit #CF #f #a #own #poc #BVM #WOC

What Maeve, a witch-turned-vampire planned: 🎸 play gigs w/ vamp bandmates 🧛🏾‍♀️ cure her vampirism to save her magic 🧙🏾‍♀️ reclaim the witch she was born to be ✨ Unplanned: learning her sister never died & that a nefarious witch is hunting her, her loved ones dying #DVpit #CF #f #a #own #poc #BVM #WOC

AITA for not telling my (128F) vamp bandmates that my hybridity’s erratic & letting my vampirism suppress my witch side? (turn full vamp? no thx) & WIBTA if i keep seeking a vamp cure after learning i'm being stalked? TIA THE WITCHES OF BONE HILL X NETTLE & BONE #DVpit #CF #f #a #poc #BVM #WOC

goals today are to write my 6 pitches for DVPit & to do the final look over of my query & first 50 pages & then get back to organizing & compiling my agents-to-query list 🙂‍↕️ #amquerying ✍🏾 🖤✏️ #writingcommunity #writersky #writesky

finally rounding up the agents i’ve saved across here & twitter into my query notion doc. not sure how many i plan to query, not all are open at the moment also. I’ve seen some people have a range from 15-100+ but seems like the avg is ~40-50. #amquerying ✍🏾 🖤✏️ #writingcommunity #writersky #writesky

the fact that bluesky still doesn’t have an option to save drafts or a native post scheduling system set up, is annoying 😠

taking a break from submitting to lit mags & now shifting my focus to querying my novel & prepping for #nanowrimo next month! it’s about time, i get this lil idea out of my head ! i’m also debating on writing it as a short story first ✍🏾 🖤✏️ #writingcommunity #writersky #writesky #amquerying

happy october to my fellow spooky season lovers #spookyseason #october ✍🏾 🖤✏️ #writingcommunity #writersky #writesky 📚

this book, Count My Lies, is absolutely wild , i’m at 92% and another plot twist was just thrown at me ?????!!!!!! #countmylies #booksky #books #sophiestava

book update 📚 count my lies i’m 30% done with - reading this as an ebook btw i also checked out the audiobooks for coffin moon by keith rosson & play nice by rachel harrison 🙂‍↕️ #countmylies #coffinmoon #playnice #amreading #books #bookssky #booksky

book update 📚 so on top of listening to normal people, i finally got my hands on Count My Lies by Sophie Stava #amreading #booksky #books #normalpeople #countmylies #sophiestava #sallyrooney

being a writer means you suddenly find yourself listening to the sound of the earth’s magnetic field for your WIP speculative poem #amwriting ✍🏾 🖤✏️ #writingcommunity #writersky #writesky #poem #speclit #earth

thinking of also adding the audiobook of normal people to my current reading list, choosing this format because i really liked the audiobook sample and listening to the story narrated by an Irish person #booksky #amreading #normalpeople

book update: i finished lime juice money / the night lagoon ; and now i’m on to Tantrum by Rachel Eve Moulton #amreading #booksky #books #horrorlit #nowreading #tantrum

started Lime Juice Money (The Night Lagoon) — waited for this one ever since i found the cheshire novel prize in early 2024 & read the snippet!! #amreading #books #booksky #limejuicemoney #thenightlagoon @saranaidinecox.bsky.social @jomoreywriter.bsky.social

i think we finally have a break in the heat, it’s been so hard trying to use my brain to write this week; i am not made for the heat 🧎🏾‍♀️ ✍🏾 🖤✏️ #writingcommunity #writersky #writesky

morning peeps up early to get werk done before the heat arrives (derogatory) — been munching on 3 plot ideas, & I need to decide if i wanna make 2 into short stories or 1 into a poem . i know 1 idea will def expand into a novel ✍🏾 🖤✏️ #writingcommunity #writersky #writesky

book update, halfway through Mayra, + picked back up where i left off on For whom the belle tolls, + checked out Black Flame & asked for libby to deliver Tantrum a little later in the month, so i can finish these 3 lol #booksky #forwhomthebelletolls #mayra #blackflame #tantrum #books #amreading

this heat has affected my ability to write or be motivated 🥵 and it doesn’t look like it’s letting up anytime soon 😵‍💫 gonna have to push through to hit these early aug deadlines for lit mags and query work 😭 ✍🏾 🖤✏️ #writingcommunity #writersky #writesky #amquerying #amwriting

happy saturday, attending a writing class this afternoon 😊

finalllly finished the haunting of hill house (cut it close too, i was down to single digit numbers for book loan) ; moving on to Mayra by Nicky Gonzalez now ! #booksky #books #amreading #mayra #nickygonzalez #shirleyjackson #horrorlit #horror

the audiobook for haunting of hill house reminds me so much of the same eerie vibes i got from Mary’s #horrorlit #horror #mary #thehauntingofhillhouse #shirleyjackson #natcassidy

ugh all this drama with google docs & their T&S might make me finally jump over to something else — maybe the push i need to finally get scrivener? i’ve seen some other alternatives too but what’s everyone else using outside of google docs and word ? ✍🏾 🖤✏️ #writingcommunity #writersky #writingq

morning, happy saturday 🌞

happy friday folks! on the to-do list today 👇🏾 finish applying to this grant i found , see what mags are opening or are still open , work on query again have a great day 🌊 ✍🏾 🖤✏️ #writingcommunity #writersky #writesky

submitted all my poems & one short story to lit mags w/ mid-july deadlines — found a grant too, so gonna submit to that & chill, unless i find more mags with a due date in july (im sure i will lol) will prep for august’s submissions & dive back into query stuff ✍🏾 🖤✏️ #writingcommunity #writersky

got my next book on deck, after i finish the haunting of hill house — gonna be reading Mayra by Nicky Gonzalez #boosky #books #amreading #horror #horrorlit #mayra

needa finish this week #booksky

werking on this lil seaside gothic poem - looking forward to submitting it tonight 🌊 🖤 ✍🏾 🖤✏️ #writingcommunity #writersky #writesky #poems #poetsky

about halfway through reading the haunting of hill house ! submitted to two lit mags yesterday & today & 2 more to submit to this week & a handful for the rest of this month ! hope everyone is having a great week so far ✍🏾 🖤✏️ #writingcommunity #writersky #writesky #amreading #booksky #amquerying

after i finish im thinking of ending things, i’ll be jumping into the haunting of hill house by shirley jackson— mike flanagan is one of my favorite directors, and i loved the show - so looking forward to reading the book 😊 #horror #horrorlit #thehauntingofhillhouse #books #booksky

halfway through I’m thinking of ending things, and it feels like a brand new story, because i do not remember the film at all 😹 #booksky #books #filmsky

watched the film all those years ago and now listening to the audiobook for I’m thinking of ending things #booksky #books #amreading #horror #horrorlit #imthinkingofendingthings #iainreid

switched all my novel query and lit mag tracking from google sheets to notion !!! idk why i didn’t use notion in the first place, it’s unmatched #amquerying ✍🏾 🖤✏️ #writingcommunity #writersky #writesky

good morn 👋🏾 today’s agenda 🌞 -keep working on new short story (eco-science speculative fic) -work on some portfolio stuff ( 🤢 ) -realllly get 3-5 poems from my vault to submit around to the lit mags i complied ! have a great day all 👋🏾 ✍🏾🖤✏️ #writingcommunity #writersky #writesky

june books 🙂‍↕️ #booksky #books #amreading #horror

challenges i’ve hit so far via goodreads #booksky #amreading #books

didn’t get selected, but keeping my fingers crossed for the other comps i entered ✍️ 🖤✏️ #writingcommunity #writersky #writesky

finding out today if my story made it to the next round (longlist) for one of the novel contests i entered 🤞🏾 ✍️ 🖤✏️ #writingcommunity #writersky #writesky