🔊 Finally, some 2025 BREAKING NEWS that doesn't give me anxiety! 🔊 I'm absolutely THRILLED to share that I am now represented by the amazing Alex Brown (@alexbrownwrites.bsky.social) at Mad Woman Literary! I'm beyond excited to work with Alex, and I truly couldn't have asked for a fiercer champion.

Instead of all the reboots and spin offs I am BEGGING studios to adapt from the overflowing well of stunning MG, YA & adult BIPOC fiction out there

Being in the query trenches is fun because any time you hear an email notification ping your heart stops…and it’s just another Amazon email

Sorry for scaring you with my reply .3 seconds after getting your text. I haven’t released the death grip on my phone since 2016.

the TikTok algorithm is so good that it even served up the perfect video to act as the background for its ban announcement

What I look like slacking coworkers “Happy Friday!”

Having to log into work and send our silly little emails and project updates feels so dystopian knowing other Angelenos have lost everything, our city is suffering, and we’re all breathing in toxic air. …BUT THE EMAILS AND SLACK MESSAGES!!

Me to my manuscript each evening after finishing drafting through the murky middle

just a reminder that your local library has more than just books! many also have dvds, cds, video games, internet hot spots, grindr hookup spots, chupacabras, streaming services, ebooks, audio books, skibidi toilets, gateways to the shadow realm, and so much more! maybe it's time for a visit! ❤️📚❤️📚❤️📚

When a YA book gets a bad review solely because it “reads like a YA”

As I added yet another 5 books to my B&N cart, I couldn’t help but wonder: is my love language gift giving…to myself?

When you just want to make a silly lil aesthetic and this is all that stares back at you on Pinterest these days

Oh? It’s a grumpy x sunshine story where he falls first?

*sigh* Anyway, just create. Write shit, draw shit, build whatever you want, that's the important part. There's no be-all end-all formula for the Perfect Work. Just be YOU. No one can ever create what YOU create b/c it's you making it, and you are the only you.

Who would buy a hardcover, paperback, special editions, AND a Kindle version of the same book??? Me. That would be me.

💜😈🤷🏻‍♀️🦄♒️☔️🪻👿

Show me a picture on your phone that has your energy that isn't a selfie

It’s not a true editing session until I add a line, only to find nearly the exact same line three paragraphs down.

Good morning to the Etsy witch and the Etsy witch only who cast that spell on El*n

this was the first weird medieval guy to ever go viral 🥰🥰

When I say “I’m going to bed,” I mean I’m about to get under the covers, rub my feet together like a cricket, and scroll on my phone for hours.

Me, anytime someone asks to hear the elevator pitch of my latest WIP:

✨Bookish Checkpoint✨ ✨ Last book you read: Phantasma by Kaylie Smith ✨ Your current read: Stranger Skies by Pascale Lacelle ✨ Last book added to tbr: Heir by Sabaa Tahir ✨ Next anticipated read: The Songbird and the Heart of Stone by Carissa Broadbent

It’s not a proper writing session until you steep tea and then forget about it until two hours later.

What is the hardest part of writing a book and why is it the synopsis? 100K word-ms? EASY. A one-page synopsis? *bangs head against wall*

I was trying to explain to a family member what being on sub for a book is like and this is all I got:

What do you mean “what are my goals for 2024?” I can’t even tell you a single thing that happened this year.

Me, any time someone slacks me at work expecting me to do my job:

Is there a word or phrase for when you get your book’s edit letter from your agent and you’re hit with simultaneous excitement and impending doom about your revision plan?

I’m finally reading DIVINE RIVALS and I’m so annoyed at myself for waiting this long. The prose is so luscious I just—

✨Writers, which book made you want to be an author?✨ For me, it happened in the fourth grade after reading A WRINKLE IN TIME.

Now that it’s officially Spooky Szn, I’ll just be—

Adult math: starting a movie after 7pm equals starting at midnight

Now that I’m waiting for notes from my agents re my latest manuscript, my writerly lizard brain thought it would be a fantastic idea to start two new WIPs simultaneously

It has come to my attention that it’s only Tuesday

How every “Happy Friday!” note at work finds me:

Loving the opening chapter I’m writing in my new YA WIP. A first draft chapter one feeling right?? So naturally, I don’t trust it now

Apparently my buddy couple go to is demon (named Crowley) and angel only

No one: Being a writer on sub:

Now that it’s September let me just:

Excited to help out with #DVpit this year by donating a few query critiques! It’s such a special event and one that always felt safe and exciting when I was querying. Sending all the ✨good luck vibes✨ to the writers getting their pitches ready.

Them: What’s your book about? Me: *giving a simple elevator pitch*

How am I supposed to go to work when my TBR pile is taunting me

Okay but why is being alive so expensive?? 🥲

Books I’d sell my soul to read again for the first time: - THE GILDED WOLVES - THE GRAVEYARD BOOK - AN ENCHANTMENT OF RAVENS - A CROWN OF WISHES - THE COLDEST GIRL IN COLDTOWN - DAUGHTER OF SMOKE AND BONE - PERCY JACKSON series - THE MORTAL INSTRUMENTS series - THE SONG OF ACHILLES - SIX OF CROWS

OMW to make yet another ✨aesthetic board✨ for my YA fantasy WIP

Was I kind today? Did I make a difference? Is someone’s day better because of me? Did I open a portal into another dimension releasing a nameless, ageless evil? Did I speak truth? Did I stay positive?

Free therapy:

It’s not a true writing session until you steep tea but then completely forget about it until hours later

Writing fact about me: it’s physically impossible for me to include “chuckle” in any of my manuscripts after being emotionally scarred from reading that word over and over again in the Twilight series