Athena M. Bliss~buy The Sons of Echidna now
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Fantasy author. ND~🏳🌈~Slavic /Ainu living in New Zealand.
Gisborne Region, New Zealand
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You know what publishing needs to normalise? Illustrations inside adult books. I want my pretty fantasy pictures! Even if it’s one every few chapters.
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All I wanted from publishing is to share my story and giving up on trad and going indie, my biggest fear was my book dying in obscurity. Well. That fear is officially gone. Over 8500 readers got my book in the past three days.
Thank you everyone 😭
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Ok since I’m getting too many pms, I’ll explain exactly what happened. Take it as a lesson or a warning. My self and 9 other authors were picked up by
@JDLitAgency
last year.
Our agent was lovely and all was great. We had one group meeting and nothing one on one for three 1/6
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I have ice cream, a glass of rum and a manuscript to polish. 😌
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Oh f…is that a full request from a big executive agent? What’s going on? It’s been 120 rejections in a row. Am I gonna sleep tonight? Probably not.
#amquerying
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Dear agents, it’s now my birthday, I’m closed to rejections for 24 hours! But if anyone wants to…oh I dunno. Request a full? I’m down for that.
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Sent out three queries. It’s all my heart could handle today.😩 thank you for the support I got today, you guys are amazing
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Ok querying folk. I can tell you for sure that the rejections mean absolutely nothing. After my offer I’m getting manuscript requests from agents who rejected me but now that they read it, they want a full. It’s the same book.
#amquerying
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Do you ever read stuff you’ve written months ago and can’t believe you wrote that? Like…it’s really good and prose is on point. Surely it was someone else. 🤔
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I got an offer!
I’m freaking excited but I have to wrap up my current queries first.
I’ve got no idea what I’m doing.🥸
According to the querying manual I now need to message agents I’ve queried and tell them.
Then…
Oh gosh I need an adult.
#amquerying
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Anyone else writes their book in perfect filming scenes so Netflix can’t possibly screw up the adaptation? proofreading? I have to proowatch it 😩
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But alas I think we feel what our value was.
So if anyone wants to see my query for an awesome upper ya/adult fantasy. Im here at the author pound. Getting ready to be adopted again 😩 6/6
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Tonight I’m printing out all my rejection letters and having a bonfire! It takes only one yes! If my non native English speaking ass can do it, so can you! Rewrite that book again and again. Accept critique. Trust the process. Use chaos magic.
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It’s official. I’m starting self pub journey. 👌 I gave traditional a shot but no one got that much time to waste
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Manuscript request!!! Fhhcgjvfdss yay! I had nothing but historic rejections for like two weeks. Spirits lifted 🤩
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Sent out a query I’m really excited about and although the agent said it will take around four weeks, I’ve refreshed my email 600 times in 12 hours.
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VAGUE PUBLISHING TWEET. 😃
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I have a zoom meeting with an agent who read my full and I’d like to confess that during this entire pandemic I’ve successfully avoided using Zoom. Now I have to figure it out. >>
#amquerying
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I woke up on my birthday morning to the best possible blurb for my book. 🤣 Omg thank you so much
@XiranJayZhao
It’s going on the front cover!
The sons of Echidna is out 22nd of august. And available for pre order 🫶
#books
#booktw
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Agent: please include any writing credentials.
Me: Oh boy. I wrote a letter once? Honestly this book is my first writing attempt. I’ve learned English by taping episodes of Shinzo from TV. I’ve dropped out of high school. This baby is written out of pure spite.
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Within next two month I will have received an offer from a perfect agent!
She is so amazing and efficient that we went on sub within six months and sold by end of the year with announcement coming before next March.
It shall be so.
#amquerying
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I have to get published because I’m sick of that patronising smile I get when I say that I’ve written a book.
Did I expect support from my family? Yeah maybe a little. I do know better now. Not a single question about it. I got way more support from strangers.
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@mfa_russia
@mod_russia
@UN
@RussiaUN
@mission_russian
@RF_OSCE
@RussianEmbassy
@RusEmbIndia
@EmbassyofRussia
@RussianEmbassyC
@georgegalloway
Source: trust us bro
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Then yesterday we just get a group email saying that Jennifer, the president, stood our agent down for three months and dumped her entire client list. No official email, no talking. Just the most unprofessional kick up the ass. So yes, months wasted. 4/6
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I’m in a last stage of grief today. Anger and deni—-disbelief. Ten authors just dropped like hot garbage without even an official email from the agency. No transfer, not even a referral. All because a few wanted to communicate about three months wait on editing.
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We got no referrals, nothing. A possibility to re-query in three months was an option?
I’ve approached other agents days prior to mediations for an opinion and most were horrified by the wait. Still, we were willing to wait again to avoid querying process 5/6
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First full manuscript request since jumping back into the trenches ☺️
I pray this is just a layover.
Thank you so much for a flood of love and support! The tears are dry and anger is gone. Just looking ahead now! Big dreams and bigger goals
#amquerying
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#amquerying
folk. I just watched a video from agents posted today and they said they only look at sample pages 5% of the time! What?? So it’s that paragraph of query letter doing all the heavy lifting??
Guys, good luck. It’s hell out there!
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Months. Some of us haven’t even gotten the countersigned contract till few days ago. Understandably our agent had issues at home but few of the authors understandably yet once again expected a more professional experience.
Tempers were flaring so I’ve suggested a mediation. 2/6
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It was a friendly, “hey…see you running workshops but our emails are going unanswered? Can we sort something out? Another author went directly to the agency and ask if there is a possibility of a transfer. Not a huge ask. 3-6
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Happy to announce that I am represented by
@BreLStephens
at
@JDLitAgency
It’s a pleasure and an honour to be working with someone so passionate! I’m so excited for all the good things to come!!
🤩🎉🍷🎂🥂
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I’m gonna need therapy after I’m done querying. I open the query tracker and my body initiates a panic attack response. Self pub is looking more tempting with every passing day… I’ve been bought a damn cover already.
give me a sign not to give up?
#amquerying
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@XiranJayZhao
Right? Are we back in the right timeline? Are guillotines coming to the main squares?
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Sent out three queries today and did not cry once! Now to reward my self with chocolate.
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17 year old chosen ones? No thank you. I’ll have a 25 year old barista as my hero.
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I’m having way too much fun writing ya horror 😩 no no no I’m an adult fantasy author. This is just a phase.
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Me: submits full manuscript. Then checks the mail four minutes after. Then every five minutes after that.
Agents can read 85k words in a few minutes, right?
Just…walk away and go paint the kitchen…deep breaths.
#amquerying
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Did I just send my book to be blurbed by my favourite author and one of the biggest names in fantasy? Yes. Am I ok? No. No. I’m just rocking in a corner.
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Um…so I didn’t wake up to an another agent rep yet, the day is still young. But!
I’ve woke up to something awesome. The local writers trust I’ve sent my pages to, granted me $4000 because they believed in my project and thought it had big promise.
#amquerying
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As of today my agent had to stand down due to unfortunate family circumstances. I wish her the best of luck and health but for me…it’s
#amquerying
again. Fml
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Outs of trenches! Details soon! Prophesy came true. I’m a mess. BRB crying.
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@InoshWrites
@ZinniaZed
Yes! My main character killed it on her adventure because she worked ten years in customer service. She’d seen scarier things than Krakens during Black Friday sales.
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@mynameismarines
@KeirAlekseii
I mean they always do but are they the worst if they are selling millions? Not a fan of them but damn I’m impressed how tight they hold their fans by short and curlies. It takes skill to write cocaine in a book form 😂
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Let’s face it. You are not a publisher. You are lying to hopeful authors. A cheap cover and Amazon upload is just a scam.
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You know it’s going to be a wine fuelled few months when an agent reads your R&R and this is the gif they choose to respond with
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You guys got email after agency dumped you? We were told in a group chat and the agency refused to comment or respond. Side eye at Jenifer De Chiara agency. It sucks and if anyone needs to talk I’m here
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Sometimes all you need is to complain>> second full request lol.
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Like…I’m pretending to be an author here but it turns out I don’t even know the basic English. I pray for my editors.
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@lillielainoff
So many things to joke about and comedians still think that poking at stranger’s illness is acceptable. He deserved that punch and then some
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Anyone else see the word UNFORTUNATELY and want to scream? XD like I open the email, just look for that word and close the email.
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Is that? Another full request? I’m not fully awake yet but there is no “unfortunately” in that email and it’s followed by an upload link. Cutting it close to my prophesy deadline but I’m open to “misinterpretation of the dream” trope.
#amquerying
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@PJMcIlvaine
@ElizabethH_WI
Like…how am I supposed to write about dragons? Or people of different races? Damn most of us authors are screwed. Shit better take all men out from my manuscript too…and anyone with drivers license and an appendix.
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Actual photo of me, waiting for an agent to reply so I can be a real author.
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#Halloween
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Yes 🙌 I can now confidently say I love my cover 😭 I’m so glad I’m doing it myself. I only had to endure my husband glaring daggers at me. Imagine asking a publisher to change everything last minute lol
#BookTwitter
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My baby is home!! Oh my god it’s my book. Printed! Real.
Screaming, crying, throwing up. 🙌
Everyone look at my precious child!!
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@Paper_Fleurs
@JDLitAgency
Apparently for our benefit so our careers don’t stay on hold. As if going back to trenches isn’t a like being kicked off a mountain.
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I have a book idea that won’t leave me alone 😩I want to write a fantasy equivalent of 2000s parody movies.
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@XiranJayZhao
Thank you so much for being absolutely transparent. I’m horrified by how little it paid off so far.
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I need everyone to stop what they are doing and look at my cover WIP.
That is all. Thank you 🤩
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@stepville
@Public_Emily
@ambernoelle
Ask her why she is cool with Nazi romance. Then try and retain any drop of respect.
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Lessons learned from cyclone+earthquakes combo.
Your phone is just a torch with candy crush.
You NEED an old fashioned radio.
Cash. Cash. Cash
Fill your bathtub.
2 weeks of food for you and pets.
Solar, gas, starlink.
Pirate movies. A lot of them.
Chocolate and weed.
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😌
I just discovered The Fall by Alan Stephen Foster and oh my god...extreme Danny and Colton vibes 😭
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2 years of traditional publishing drained my serotonin to critically low. 2 months of self pub restored it to perfect levels. But it also kicked ass of my imposter syndrome. I now know my book is good. No more doubt👌 I’m so excited for the release 🥰🥰🥰.
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Portrait special! $40 per character. If you order 5+ then it’s $30
Retweet and like for a chance to win one of 3 free portraits ^^
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#amdrawing
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“You can self publishing cheap or free!”
Not well! Self publishing is hella expensive if you want to do it right. $150 website and domain, $50 per months book funnel. $20 for site that does your arc sign us. $150 for postcards and bookmarks. This was just last three days.
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Can’t wait to share my story full of weird magic and bisexual disasters <3
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@yesuraju1986
Well put. It was just a horror movie with marvel cameos that lasted all of 2 minutes. Lower your expectations way way way down.
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I wish we could submit the query but then ask agents not to read the synopsis. Please just read the book. Synopsis makes me sound like a mad woman. I cringe each time I paste it in. This is a literal excerpt from my synopsis. Who in their right mind would request this?
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Once I’ve heard the news first thing in the morning, hubby grabbed his cards and this was the spread. Honestly made me smile. Gotta trust the universe. Communication, sudden departure, grief and then bigger and better things.
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FANTASTIC BEASTS X THE NANNY
Arriving at her new nanny job Lucy expected to look after kids and animals, not beasts and man–children.
Now a hostage she must earn their trust to escape.
Little do they know of her dark past. Who is trapped with whom?
#moodpitch
#a
#f
#lgbt
#sf
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Oh my gosh you guys flooded my page with support since my jump from trad to self pub. I’m so overwhelmed! Thank you! I’ll keep you all updated. I’m gonna redo this old piece for my cover I think. Need fixing and redrawing but I like the concept
#WritingCommunity
#selfpublished
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Opinion time. I’m illustrating my manuscript for fun. I kinda like how non invasive the first image looks but second is just cool. Would you prefer simple illustrations as you are reading or full art pieces? Publisher will probably toss em anyway 😆
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It’s only a mock up but look how beautiful my baby is. Still waiting on blurbs and final changes but it’s almost real 😍
#BookTwitter
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Ok I’m gonna start my witchy revenge novel. I wrote this poem and It’s going to be the vibe for it.
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Blast that agent, this is ridiculous. My book is all shades of queer but I’m married to a man.
A man I used to have a lesbian relationship with because we met as women. Stop 👏forcing 👏authors 👏to 👏come out! Eat that diversity and compliment the chef.
I don't typically tweet about agents' rejections (as I also don't tweet about requests). But I received a rejection on a full today, for my "queer roller derby YA," because, the agent told me, he'd discovered I am married to a man. Ouch. 1/3
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Midnight trip to ER with long Covid lungs. Wooo….😩 My doctor is awesome. I joked that if I die, I die. And he went: “WHAT DO WE SAY TO DEATH??”
And all the nurses went “not today!”
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Omg I’m sobbing. Look what I just bought. It’s 1659 edition of Seneca Opera printed on velum in Latin . I’ve been in contact with the seller from Facebook marketplace since 1 am, panicking that it’s a scam and too good to be true but She delivered it in person. I’m a mess.
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@theelvenqueen
@XiranJayZhao
Yet I still see people with “Ravenclaw uwu” in their profiles. Like…let that awful series die. It let you down like everyone else in your childhood.
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I think I’ve finally got an okay portrait of Aris. He is so hard to draw 😩
#drawing
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Should we write men the same way? Make sure to describe their ballsack in every scene? How it tightens with tension sensing the upcoming altercation?
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This is just a mock up but how the hell do I decide on a color when they all look good!! SCREAMING
Do I remove flowers? Do I make font metallic? Is the frame too much??
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@XiranJayZhao
@USPSHelp
If there was something besides paper the automatic machine often just rips it out. It’s a brutal beast.
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I think we can officially start the countdown. Reviews are coming in overwhelmingly positive. Pr boxes getting assembled, over 30 illustrations completed, final files uploaded.
2 weeks to release. 🥰
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#book
#recommendations
#bookstoread
#review
#cozy
#fantasy
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Gonna participation in a short story contest! Never written a short story before so it should be fun. This is one of my fosters and my writing buddy. He doesn’t know it yet but he is staying 🥰
#amwriting
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Submitted to
#pitchwars
with zero expectations. I’m like a dandelion spreading my seed on the wind and hoping it will either grow or blind someone. I dunno.
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Didn’t think my day would end with extra seven cats yet here we are.
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Oh wow thank you for the honourable mention! It was my first short story and first contest. I had fun writing it! If anyone wants to read it, please follow the link ^^
Looking for the winners of our Christmas
#fiction
contest? You can find them published on our blog. Come and see who won!
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#readers
#readingcommunity
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@torresdelise
@kylazingaround
It’s a really good read. I am absolutely micromanaging my cover tho. If my future publisher puts a real or 3d stock person on my cover aka 99 cent Amazon fantasy. I’ll burn my sequels, the contract, disown the book and never write again. 😌
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