What happens when your mom wants to promote you and your sister hates it? You take a job involving burglarizing your dead ex's office...only she's alive, pissed & armed with deadly secrets. Pro tip: Don't be too good at your job. 6 OF CROWS x ARCANE but messier. #DVPit #A #SF #LGBT

FURY ROAD x STATION 11 Out-of-context EAT OUR DUST: 💊”Romanticizing the end of the world is great only if you don’t regularly need a 24-hour pharmacy.” 🚘 “If the world’s going to end, that means I lost the race. End of story.” 🛣️ “I’m not afraid of death. Just of going back.” #DVPit #A #SF #CI

Clara thought her biggest problems were her impending promotion and her younger sister. Then she burglarized her dead ex-girlfriend's office & discovered Amaya's very much alive—and hunting her. Now Clara must choose: unravel a conspiracy or lose her twice. VIOLENT DELIGHTS x ARCANE. #DVPit #A #SF

After learning how to stop the end of the world, Jess races to expose the govt researchers who buried the truth – before the climate apocalypse takes out her friends and prevents her from carrying on her mentor’s legacy. BEGINNING AT THE END x STATION 11 #DVPit #A #SF #CI #LGBT

A BEGINNING AT THE END x STATION 11 Surviving the apocalypse while chronically ill? Hard. Surviving the apocalypse while driving cross-country to expose govt researchers who knew how to stop it and chose not to? …Yeah, Jess has her work cut out for her. #DVPit #A #SF #CI #LGBT

Gang heir vs tech syndicate Dead girlfriend who isn't dead Biometric implants that rewrite identities Clara's heist was supposed to secure power. Instead, it tore open a conspiracy that could destroy the city's underclass for good. ...Oops. SIX OF CROWS meets ARCANE. #DVPit #A #SF #LGBT

FURY ROAD x STATION 11 After learning the apocalypse is reversible, Jess races to expose what govt scientists tried to hide. As people who’d rather keep the truth quiet close in, she has to choose: remain silent & complicit, or carry on a legacy she’s not sure she wants. #DVPit #A #SF #CI #LGBT

After learning it's possible to stop a climate disaster that will end the world as we know it, Jess races (literally) to expose the government researchers who buried the truth – before she or her mentor dies in the process. Get in, losers. We're canceling the apocalypse. #DVPit #A #SF #CI #LGBT

Got on my walking pad, started writing...and then looked down two hours later to realize I walked about 4 miles and cannot feel my toes. I feel like this is probably a metaphor for something...

After being awoken from a cursed sleep and cut free from her silken chains, Lora must work with the half-mad swordswoman who set her free to save the swordswoman’s kingdom from a mysterious infection — before the madness claims them as its final two victims. #WeeknightWriters

I’m going to aim for word count — it’s the easiest metric for me to track (and also work into my project planning system)! #WeeknightWriters

ADHD stresses me out in so many ways, but one benefit is that I can drink an entire (not decaf) latte at 8 pm and know I'll still be able to sleep in 3 hours. It's the little things...

Fantasy with speculative + horror elements! I'm really drawn to fantasy stories with a taste of the uncanny + also inspired by Scottish mythology (shoutout to my great-aunt Elaine for that one). #WeeknightWriters

I've historically been a fairly solitary writer, but it's always fun to dip into a broader community and be a hype person for other folks. Storytelling doesn't exist without community + being part of that tradition through hype and being a listening ear is really important to me! #WeeknightWriters

I'm Amanda 👋 Still getting used to Bsky, so forgive my foibles in advance! I'm currently querying EAT OUR DUST (adult SF), editing an upper YA gaslamp fantasy MS and drafting an untitled adult fantasy with horror elements (THIS GUILDED ABYSS x Silksong). Clearly, this writing week has been busy!

I have absolutely NO business planning a new story...but I am anyway lol I always start with writing the query letter, as well as a one-sentence pitch. This material always changes as the story takes shape, but if I can't TL;DR my idea in these short of formats, I know I'll run into problems later!

Wanted to bring my EAT OUR DUST #AgentsGuide over from the 🐦 site! Agents, this 96k-word MS is for you if you want: ⚡Queer, non-binary & (ownvoices) chronic illness rep ⚡FAFO-style mentorship ⚡Car chases as a metaphor for power struggles w/the govt ⚡Big 5 editor interest #agentguide #amquerying

Nothing but respect for Eoin Colfer writing an unapologetically environmentalist children's series in the early aughts. And the environmental themes in Artemis Fowl aren't symbolic or incidental; I was twelve being radicalized about polluted oceans and oil drilling and deforestation. King behavior.

Waiting for query responses AND an email about a job I interviewed for means I'm basically banned from opening my email app but twice a day bc otherwise I'm just going to keep refreshing multiple accounts over and over and over...

Happy book birthday to @voidcricket.bsky.social! THE LEGEND LIMINAL, a surreal found-family road trip novella, is now available. Order from your favorite bookseller or find purchasing links at: www.starsandsabers.com/books/the-le... #books #NewBooks #NewRelease#ScienceFiction #Scifi #Surreal #Family

What I should be doing: Editing What I am doing: Reading the 14-page queer fantasy novel outline I wrote in a fugue state Anyway, if you've ever wished someone would write a book that could be comped to THIS GILDED ABYSS and also Silksong...weeeeeeellllll.....

if you see this picture post a random image from your device ....I have no explanation tbh

so we partner with our local library on an all-queer, all-kidlit little free library... and for the second weekend in a row, somebody has stolen all the brand new books. we are working on a plan, but if you are a queer kidlit author with some books or swag you'd like to donate, can you message me? 🌈

Perks of being a marketer + project manager: you can build free trackers for your editing and drafting workflows. Motivation is stored in the completion progress bar!

The thing about being neurodivergent is that I Like It. What I don’t like is that the world imposes numerous taxes on me for being like this. I don’t view it as a Me problem.

I really appreciate when agents share the marketing / selling side of things in a rejection – as a career content marketer, getting those little insights into what may make something challenging to sell is fascinating and helpful, especially as I continue to draft more books!

Just found a Query Tracker request for a full from TWO YEARS AGO in my spam 🙀😢 I am so sorry to this agent, who I would've loved to submit to...

I mentioned this in a recent query's author bio section, but I got to give a TEDx talk last year so now I'm foisting it on y'all: www.youtube.com/watch?v=px0o...

Also, for my first non-promotional BlueSky post, I’m here to say that my new goal in life is to write something where the MCs have the same energy as Jujutsu Kaisen’s Gojo and Geto. Thank you for coming to my TED Talk

I’m still trying to find my place within the writing community, but figured that at the very least, I could put up a new blog post! Trying to “build in public,” or whatever they say in non-tech-bro spaces. www.alienwrites.com/post/publish...