New word count! In Chicago 1992, two dancers, a teacher and his brilliant male protégé, fall in love but scarcely act on their feelings before circumstances separate them. A tragic accident reunites them in this story about life after loss and the bittersweet resiliency of love. #querying #writer

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I cut 25,000 words from the novel! In Chicago, ‘92, a ballet teacher and his male protégé, fall in love but scarcely act on it before circumstances separate them. It will take a tragic accident to bring them back together in this story of life after trauma, and the bittersweet resilience of love.

In my quest to edit 50k out of my 150k novel, I’ve managed 7k over 13 chapters so far. Not nearly enough, but I’ve decided this is just the first of at least two big revision passes. Bonus: have fallen in love with Thomas and Ramón all over again. 🥹❤️

Time to cut 50k from this bad boy!

Thank you, Joel! Knowing I was on your shortlist has given me the boost I’ve needed, for sure! I’m ready to dive back into The Fire Years and get Thomas and Ramón an agent! 🫶🏻

I’m truly so thrilled to get such valuable feedback on my chonky chonker! 😂💖

Thank you so much @joelbrigham.bsky.social for the encouraging and helpful feedback and for letting me know I was one of your #10queries for #revpit! You’ve given me plenty to consider, including the possibility of hiring you for editing help! I’m so grateful!

I've seen a few subposts today that tell me this needs saying: #RevPit isn’t a contest that rewards the “best” book. It’s one opportunity, shaped by timing, taste, and editorial capacity. Not a judgment on your future in publishing.

Me. Keeping myself busy until #revpit winner reveals.

Y’ALL WE WROTE BOOKS!!! 📚 I think it’s something we can take for granted but like????? You created a whole new story or world from nothing?? Absolutely magic ✨ No matter what happens tomorrow, take some time to celebrate how amazing you are!!! #RevPit #RevPitWaiting

I wouldn’t have even known about #revpit without @ehkell.bsky.social who incidentally was one of the very first people to read and help me with my novel. Also thank you to everyone I’ve met through this and all the hardworking editors! What an amazing experience this has been because of you all.

Still figuring out bsky, so I only belatedly paired my log line with the collage I made for my novel. Let’s see yours! ❤️

Many, many thanks to all the editors for sharing such valuable feedback. 🙏 This is my first #RevPit, and I’ve been amazed by the level of support and encouragement from editors and authors alike! It’s been a great experience! #10Queries #RevPitTeasers

This could very well be me and in my defense: I’M OOOOLLLLDDDD. 😂🤦🏻

A #revpit #10queries will have 2-3 elements that sound EXACTLY like my novel—and then 1 that absolutely does not. This is the intended torture of the whole business, I think.

Gigantic crowd in NYC for the #HandsOff march against Trump, Musk, and MAGA. So many people that the participants can barely move along. Signs decrying Trump and Co. on many fronts: immigration, science, Social Security, reproductive rights, tariffs, autocracy, kleptocracy & the price of eggs.

Huge crowd of protesters in Portland, Maine at the Hands Off! protest! Thank you, Maine!!!!

Protesters are showing up in Cincinnati, Ohio for the Hands Off! protest!

Hands Off Protest in the Boston Common

Set in Chicago in 1992, two dancers, a teacher and his brilliant male protégé, fall in love but scarcely act on their feelings before circumstances separate them. It will take a tragic accident to bring them back together in this story about life after loss and the bittersweet resiliency of love.

Author math is deducing all #10queries correlate to your one manuscript. 👌 #RevPitWaiting

Something to remind you It's a world worth saving Still a bit smushed but standing strong on fields of flowers and the great plains

The first book that made me want to become a writer was Jeanette Winterson’s Written on the Body. Talk about both a queer and writerly wake up call! It was both Aciman’s Call Me by Your Name and Yanagihara’s A Little Life that prompted me to write The Fire Years. I had to heal my heart somehow!

Trump is conducting an authoritarian witch hunt against foreign students here legally, simply because they’ve engaged in free speech that his regime doesn’t like. This is modern-day McCarthyism and an attack on the First Amendment. We must all stand up against it.

I present to you… Benjamin. 😍

Favorites of all time. 📚❤️

Don’t Go Looking by Beacon It’s All So Incredibly Loud by Glass Animals You Look So Fine by Garbage Today by Smashing Pumpkins Just the Two of Us by Grover Washington Jr. Under the Bridge by Red Hot Chili Peppers and Coming Up for Air by Signals in Smoke open.spotify.com/playlist/1kA...

mRNA is at the forefront of cancer research, as well as vaccines National Institutes of Health officials have now told scientists to remove all references to mRNA vaccines from their grant applications. This means that all research in the field will be stopped and abandoned.

#revpit crew! I made a thing!

Any other #revpit #writers wish the first pages could have just been a couple more? My hook happens on page 7! 😭👍

We'll have more to share in the coming days. But what can you do right now? Call Congress. Call your state and local officials. Tell them exactly what's at stake if the President's order stands: the future of America's libraries. It's time to Show Up #ForOurLibraries: bit.ly/ALA-LibraryStoryIMLS

Thomas (MC) in The Fire Years. #revpit #amquerying

Set in Chicago in 1992, two dancers, a teacher and his brilliant male protégé, fall in love but scarcely act on their feelings before circumstances separate them. It will take a tragic accident to bring them back together in this story about life after loss and the bittersweet resiliency of love.

That press conference was the most disgraceful act of betrayal I’ve ever seen.

Special election April 1st in FL, that can possibly give us a fighting chance to stop Orange Turd from totally destroying what's left of America if flipped FL - 01 (Gay Valimont - D) Matt Gaetz old seat And FL - 06 (Josua Weil- D) Please spread awareness, donate, or volunteer 💙

All that talk about transparency was bullshit.

I sincerely don’t know why people aren’t physically stopping those dorks. Move shit. Lock doors. Lose the keys. Everyone switch seats. Turn off all the lights. Switch the signs on the elevator lobby. Make the settings all silly. Use a different language. Wear costumes. Fill rooms with balloons

If your spouse needs a safe word with her friends to protect herself from you, you should be in therapy. Or in prison. Not the Secretary of Defense.

What the actual fuck?!?!? Fuck tRump!!!! HHS issues memo halting communications for health agencies : Shots - Health News www.npr.org/sections/sho...

Will the EU fight for the truth on Facebook and Instagram?

"California paid in a lot more [to the federal government] than it got back — $83 billion in total. So did Washington state and much of the Northeast. Most red states were in the reverse position, getting much more from DC than they paid in return."

This is gonna be fun…