During our after party chat w/ @manuscriptacademy.bsky.social our group was talking about unlikeable MC’s I’m always rooting for the villain… what do you think? 😈 or 😇 or somewhere inbetween?? #writtingcommunity 💙📚✍️

Such a great night with @manuscriptacademy.bsky.social Jessica, @juliekingsley.bsky.social & @livivanov.bsky.social THANK YOU!! Off to the #afterparty 🥳

Who’s joining the live panel tonight with @manuscriptacademy.bsky.social?! I can’t wait!! #writingcommunity #amquerying 💙📚✍️

Unsolicited writing advice, no. #16140: Don't assume that your desk is where all your writing happens. 90% of the process of creation happens elsewhere. Use whatever time you have. Thinking time; dreaming time; observing time; analyzing time. All this time can be part of your work. Don't waste it.

If you are #querying do you stick with submitting to agents only or do you query direct to publishers? I never realized you could query publishers 🤯 Pros & Cons… go! #writingcommunity #amquerying 📚💙✍️

Evening reading in one of my fave places 🥵 #amreading 📚💙

Rejection is hard. The 1st wasn’t too bad. Or the 2nd or 3rd. Now on the 16th & I can tell you it’s getting harder. Is 16 a lot? Nope. Does it feel like the mountain is getting too steep? A bit, yeah. But I move forward b/c I believe it my story. Keep going, friends #writingcommunity #amquerying

Everyone knows what they want when it comes to their DREAM AGENT, right?! What do YOU look for when picking who to query? I want someone who is open to ideas & collaborating, believes in honest feedback, and has as much excitement about my story as I do. #writingcommunity #amquerying 💙📚 ✍️

- You get a partial request (wooo!) - They say if they want more they’ll let you know … Do you still nudge after a few weeks?? 🤔 #writingcommunity #amquerying 💙📚✍️

I was driving home from work today and developed the plot for my next book!! It all came together perfectly. Where do you come up with your best ideas? Mine are driving and showering 🤷‍♀️ #writingcommunity 💙📚✍️

BookSky Feeds! 🔁 for visibility booksky.club/main 📚💙 booksky.club/romance 📚🌶️ booksky.club/SFF 📚🪐 booksky.club/horror 📚🩸 booksky.club/nonfiction 📚💡 booksky.club/litfic 📚🖋️ booksky.club/histfic 📚⏳ booksky.club/mystery 📚⚡️ 🆕 booksky.club/booktok 📚⏰ 🆕 booksky.club/audio 📚🎧 vids 🔥👉🏻 booksky.club/vids

Happy Monday #bluesky friends! I’ve been in a little slump lately but started @alicefeeney.com Beautiful Ugly and am really enjoying it so far! What’s everyone reading rn? Gimme your suggestions for my next read! #reading #writingcommunity 💙📚

How’s everyone in the #query process doing these days? I have some queries and a partial out right now & sending all the good vibes I can find into the universe #writingcommunity #writers 💙📚✍️

After my #StarterPack of writers seeking an #agent I made a waiting list. It got huge. So instead I've done Pack 2, adding other people #querying Please repost to help them out. If you want one of the few places left, please follow the instructions at the end of the thread #booksky #writingcommunity

Writers! Yes, today is #MSWL day. We hope you have great success in finding your perfect match. Please don't clog the thread with pitches. Simply query directly. You've got this!

It’s #MSWL day!! If you are looking to query, get on board! So many incredible agents are posting their wish lists today. Thanks @manuscriptacademy.bsky.social for putting this together 💙✍️ #writingcommunity #amquerying

We can't wait! We have new features lined up for #MSWL day Wednesday. We're hoping to make the ManuscriptWishlist.com profiles more useful for both your left (facts, genres, tags) and right (creative, visual, emotional) brain. About to do a final meeting with our tech team--wish us luck!

I am strongly disliking the updated goodreads. How am I supposed to compare myself to others without seeing my friend’s challenges?! Bring back the old! #readers

Q4: Share your stories! Tell us about what you’re working on OR something you’ve had published recently & share links if you have them! #WeeknightWriters

Turns out I am in fact NOT being followed by the real @yaagyasi.bsky.social Is everything a lie?! 😩 #bluesky I demand retribution for not only myself, but the whole #writingcommunity

This. Every day, this.

If you want to support your local library and can't donate: - Get a library card - Use your library card (including on the Libby & Hoopla apps if available) - Check out events at your library (I just found out my local has a Silent Book Club!) - Volunteer at your library 💙📚

I start #querying again this weekend after some exciting revisions… send me all your luck 🤞🏻💙🤞🏻💙 #writingcommunity ✍️💙

Read diverse books every month. Read diverse books every month. Read diverse books every month. Read diverse books every month. Read diverse books every month. Read diverse books every month. Read diverse books every month. #BookSky #BlackBookSky

Ummmm @yaagyasi.bsky.social is following me!!!! 🤯 what a great day 💙 #writingcommunity 📚💙✍️

Poll time: If you could only choose ONE for the rest of your life… Physical Book = 📖 Audio Book = 🎧 E-Book = 📱 👇🏼👇🏼 Vote in the comments 👇🏼👇🏼 #amreading #writingcommunity 📚💙✍️ #booksky #readersunite

Halfway through #2025pit… how’s everyone doing? Finding it helpful? Any promising likes? #writingcommunity

Spencer’s Green is overflowing with narcissists who would go to extreme lengths to keep their secrets and Reed Blake would know since he’s been lurking around their windows for weeks. He doesn’t care about the residents though, his sites are set on one man …Asher Stewart. #2025pit #A #S

THE TERROR x DARK MATTER Three Scottish teachers visit a Norwegian island. As their host regales them with folktales and plies them with homebrew, a storm builds outside. Trapped, lies unravel and hidden identities come to light. In the snow, a monster waits… #A #H #2025Pit

Just a reminder not to like the pitches in today's #2025Pit. Unless you're an agent or an editor, of course. In which case

#2025Pit The son of death itself has run into a young witch trying to escape the powerful cult that raised her. He agrees to help her if she can restore the mind of his undead girlfriend. And matters only get more complicated as other supernatural weirdos get drawn into their orbit. #F #SF

When expectations don’t match reality, Nellie must face harsh truths about starting over—while figuring out how to pay next month’s rent. #2025pit #wf #bookclub 🌟 Trying/ Failing 🔥 Slow-burn romance 💬 Witty banter ❤️ Vulnerability 🗣️ Reclaiming story BEACH READ X REP ALBUM X THE WEDDING PEOPLE

Downside: she sees dead people. Upside: it's the safest thing she sees. A down-on-her-luck actress takes a last resort job on a cheesy witch drama but realizes there's a real and dangerous supernatural world out there when she and her co-star become haunted. #2025Pit #A #UF #SPF

REMINGTON STEELE x ORPHAN BLACK. An experiment goes wrong, a little girl is kidnapped and a lonely ex-cop finds herself dragged back into her own past...and into a desperate race to control our genetic future. A SEA IN THE BLOOD: a thriller about love, death and gene therapy. #2025Pit #A #T #R

When Elle, a sarcastic coder with trust issues, reunites with the woman who broke her heart, she thinks she can fake forgiveness long enough to break her ex like she’d been broken, but the line between fake and real is harder to navigate than she expected. #2025Pit #A #R #LGBT

ADDIE LARUE x DIVINE RIVALS x DAWSON'S CREEK When Birdie & Lennon accidentally summon a trickster god, they unknowingly tangle the invisible threads of all three. 🌿multi-POV 🌿magical take on the string theory 🌿petty gods + their politics 🌿villain-turned-softie #2025pit #a #f #r

When Asher Stewart is found murdered in his hotel room, his wife Ellie is torn. While a (small) part of her is consumed with heartache, the rest is full of frustration, he wasn’t supposed to be killed in his hotel room—that wasn’t the plan. KILLING ASHER STEWART #2025pit #A #S

Only 2 communities—the Last People—remain. When sexual assault shatters Neru’s life, she finds refuge w/ her home’s matriarchal counterpart. But as a tyrant seizes power, she must choose b/w extinction & survival at any cost. Comp: Things Fall Apart+Black Swan Green+Fifth Season #2025Pit #A #SPF #LF

Aspiring writer Margot makes a deal with a devil, anticipating the usual Faustian shenanigans. Instead she gets all she desires, & more. But when that devil becomes obsessed with her, the price turns out to be more than she expected—her heart. Cackle x Interview w/ the Vampire #2025Pit #A #H + #R

The face that launched a thousand ships once belonged to a woman with a childhood, marriage and daughter. She deserves to speak her name, not have it echoed down from the mouths of her detractors. Helen of Sparta—in her own words—and as you haven't heard her since Homer. #2025Pit #A #Q #HF

👼 A child finds a malevolent angel in his family’s cellar. 🏡 A students meets an old man slowly being eaten by his house. 🥩 A tv chef airs a final episode with a forbidden ingredient on the menu. This an 11 more stories of weird horror my short story collection, Be Not Afraid. #2025pit #H #SHRT

Friends, don’t forget to 📌 your #2025pit on your page! Good luck to all you incredible #writers

Twenty-one-year-old Elizabeth’s whole existence has been based on a lie. The search for truth begins once her grandparents die, leaving her two valuable portraits. Paranormal forces infiltrate her life and help reveal a deadly secret from her family’s past. #2025pit #A #PNH

KINSHIP, 84k, #A #H #T w/ #LGBTQ rep. Megan's already trying to avoid the heat for what happened to her gf's husband back in the city, and now she has to help her incompetent new brother clean up a murder, because that's what family's for—probably. Dexter but feminist + queer. #2025Pit

NIGHT CIRCUS X SEPTEMBER HOUSE Sarah discovers a journal in THE MYSTIC hotel that opens a gateway between the living and the dead, she must find out what tragedy befell the abandoned island years ago and close the gateway before she becomes the next victim of the island. #2025pit #A #H #F

Taken captive after a botched raid, Revni needs to get north before she’s declared dead. Eavus needs to get her south to prove he’s not a deserter.To survive, they’ll have to decide who to trust–because they are both slaves & conquerors in enemy land, & everyone else wants them dead. #2025Pit #F #YA

Sarah sank her life savings into restoring the abandoned Mystic Hotel. Inside she discovers a journal & opens a gateway between the living and the dead, she must find out what tragedy ocurred here years ago & close the connection before the island takes everyone she cares about. #2025pit #A #H #F

A group of estranged university friends are summoned to the memorial of their old friend Rachel. Secrets and lies are revealed as the vengeful motive bringing them together is uncovered. They are left wondering who will leave the manor house alive? Comps The Hunting Party - Lucy Foley #T #2025pit #A