Jenn Lee Frances
@JennLeeWriting
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Writing swoony, sad, sometimes scary stories with social commentary. Intersectional Feminist. She/Her 💖💛💙 #AmQuerying The Truth of Fear
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Simone is haunted by her cousin’s malevolent spirit.
But doesn’t want her to find peace.
She’d rather Nina become a vengeful ghost than lose her again.
Now, Simone must keep Nina from taking out her rage on the wrong boy.
The one boy Simone has never feared.
#KidLitPit
#YA
#P
#H
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Today, Violet led a student walkout from her high school to protest the inaction of lawmakers at every level of government on gun control legislation and school safety. We are asking all students in the US who agree to post photos of themselves with
#menext
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I've reported countless racist comments & threats. Twitter doesn't suspend them. But god forbid a woman speak her truth.
#RoseMcGowan
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Me nerding out with the niece, and
@tylerhoechlin
#weloveteenwolf
#teenwolf
#superman
#halehouse
#nycc2022
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I received a big five editor interest in my manuscript.
Finished revisions. (Again)
I’m querying.
I’m getting requests!
Got likes on pitch events & made new writer pals. Woot.
Now, I have to decide which WIP to focus on next. Not a bad problem to have.
✨ WRITERS! ✨
We're at the half year mark! Tell me all that you've accomplished. It's time to BRAG about YOU! 🙌
Let's goooooo 💥
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A full request during the full eclipse! Thank you sun magic 🌘🌑🌒
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✨Haunted & Cursed✨
17 yo pansexual Simone is desperate to hold on to the bi boy she's damned to be the death of
& refuses to let go of her cousin's spirit—who is becoming malevolent.
The Truth of Fear
A Fabulist Feminist Horror lite
#YA
#GoodForHer
era
#AmQuerying
#questpit
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#pitdark
peeps - lemme know if you want to swap support !
(Which wants to autocorrect to *supper* so if you also are down for a meal, lemme know.)
👻
Want to swap support for PitDark?
We can comment & gif our hearts out &/or RT to boost.
Reminder: likes are for agents & editors.
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@saramegan
I met an actor through a friend of mine, hung out over Winter break, day before NYE, on his way out for the evening, he asked me what my resolution was: I said “to get fiercely kissed before the end of the year.” He took two steps at a time to come back up my stoop and kiss me...
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It’s my balloon day. Here’s to wishes coming true 🕯
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✍️Current WIP ✍️
She died saving me
We’ve been inseparable since
👻
Now
I have 3 problems
(Aside from owing my life to a ghost)
She isn’t attached to a place, she’s attached to me—everywhere I go
*everrrrywhere*
And I’m (secretly) in love with her
But she hates me
#questpit
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I’m not pitching today
(I have my ms w an agent there)
But I’m trying to boost my writer moots! Let me know if you’re participating.
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Cursed Simone:
Don’t kiss Jadriel
It could kill him.
Haunted Simone:
Help your murdered cousin’s spirit find peace
Or she’s gonna go totally malevolent
#UnHingedPit
#YA
#H
lite
#Q
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#AudrieandDaisy
and all the girls who spoke publicly, including
#iamjada
I am in awe of. So proud of you ladies. Inspired and so so brave.
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Don't touch the cursed objects you find—we left them for HIM
Is it the end of the world that he lied to gain her trust—when it's literally the end of the world?
When she tries to change the outcome of his future she’s thrown back into hers—where he no longer exists
#questpit
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One Day x You've Reached Sam
She's reliving the days they’ve had together
The Strawberry Festival on the Hudson River
Sitting on the rock wall sharing their fears...
But when she tries to change his future—she's thrown back into hers—where he no longer exists.
WIP
#pitlight
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Want to swap support for PitDark?
We can comment & gif our hearts out &/or RT to boost.
Reminder: likes are for agents & editors.
The next
#PitDark
, a pitch party for "darker" literature, is May 23, 8 am - 8 pm ET. Please RT! Rules:
#amwriting
#WritingCommunity
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#shootyourshotsunday
Gilmore Girls w ghosts x House of Hollow
My pansexual, reluctant clairvoyant MC is haunted & hexed
Cursed to be the death of the bi boy she loves
If her cousin’s trapped ghost w trust issues doesn’t end him first
#amquerying
#YA
#horror
lite
#goodforher
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Just read some posts on a "men's rights" page and my eyes are bleeding.
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@VillageVarga
@jkirk___
Oh, I had the kid saying: “What’s wrong with your eyes??” Because I put on mascara 🤣
Me: “Is it good or bad?”
Him: “kinda bad.”
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Thanks for all the hype during
#PitDark
for THE TRUTH OF FEAR.
👻 My haunted apartment & haunted + cursed girl
#spec
#YA
👻
Fellow
#amquerying
writers really showed up to support each other!
🖤
& I received a couple of agent likes & interest from an editor at an Indy publisher.
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The old gods were most pleased by personal sacrifice.
Only the kind that hurt would do.
So, I gave them my heart
& swore to keep my hands off Jadriel
But now Simone has more to fear than his doomed fate *if* she kisses him again
As Nina's ghost might end him first
#questpit
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I deleted my tweet because it was hard enough to write publicly. And every time it was shared I had to see it pop up again in my mentions. It was giving me too much anxiety.
#whyIdidntreport
#itnevergoesaway
#KavanaughWithdrawNow
#BelieveSurvivors
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The writer lift & support today was awesome.
Met so many creative, cool new peeps & oooh got inspo to dig in & work on my new WIPs.
Yay for creative spark.
Thanks
#questpit
& everyone who liked, commented & reposted. ✍🏼
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The rollercoaster emotions of
#amquerying
:
A no on a full, no agent feedback.
🫠
(oh no, did I make a mistake in my last big edit? Play the guessing game all night.)
Followed by Another agent request ! 🎉
(Comes out of the rabbit hole of worry.)
Then another no: same day.
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#MeetMyMCs
Grief-stricken Simone is haunted and cursed. But she’s finally back home in NYC, with long missed cousin Amaya, who’s helping summon Cousin Nina’s spirit.
My girls 🖤💜🖤
Art by
@kaelidem
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You all got me ordering letter beads & waxed cord to make manifesting bracelets📿 for
🕯
🕯The call 🕯
&
(while I’m at at)
🕯more full requests🕯
🕯
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Coming of Age & Rage
This dangerous world is scarier than a ghost
But Simone’s murdered cousin is furious
She fears this is Nina’s Villain Origin story
But it might be her own.
Embrace your inner monster & fight back
#GoodForHer
era
Feminist
#H
w/ social commentary
#PitDark
#YA
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Psychic Gilmore Girls w Ghosts
The Truth about Fear
Is a fabulist feminist horror lite YA
W a complicated family of seers
Simone is cursed & haunted
—damned to kill the bi boy she loves if she kisses him
—unless her overprotective cousin’s spirit ends him first
#questpit
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Yessss.
Another full request!
Apparently, saying it to your inbox before opening your email Does work!
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Clairvoyant Gilmore Girls with Ghosts
Simone comes from a line of seers
She has unreliable prophetic dreams
*Anxiety & second-sight don't mix
Gran & Cousin Nina think they're protecting her
By Cursing & Haunting her
So she must save Jadriel
From them & herself
#KidLitPit
#YA
#H
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the writer | the dialogue
I don’t care if all of the stars fall out of the sky—as I fall in closer to him
✨Star-crossed cursed loves from The Truth of Fear
#amquerying
the writer || the dialogue
From KARMA’S HITLIST, my ultra-deranged YA thriller on sub🥰🔪
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July birthday month magic coming through with another full request. 🎉🎉
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My aunt was diagnosed with
#ALS
in June & it has progressed fast, she cannot walk or move her limbs, talk or eat. This disease is horrific.
Please go to & contact your local representatives & tell them you support FDA approval for NurOwn, a new medication
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I have a few WIPs floating around & *just* decided what I’m officially working on next.
My cursed objects story.
The Craft x Promising Young Woman.
#amwriting
while
#amquerying
No more staring at my in box.
Let’s go ✍🏼
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They praised my lyrical writing as “extremely gorgeous and enchanting” & “I don’t want to tame your beautiful prose.” Said they weren’t right for me, but, “I have no doubt that you will find an agent very soon and that I will be seeing this novel on shelves in the future.” 🥹
Writers. I knew it's rare to get rejection with feedback. What was the best rejection feedback you've gotten? One that was useful, or one that left you feeling good? I want to highlight the positives.
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I just sent my manuscript to my booknerd, genius 17 yo niece.
Biting nails over here.
😬🫣
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@LibyaLiberty
@jennygadget
@NomikiKonst
I saw a comment earlier that stated: we are humans, we touch people, we don’t need consent. And it made me ragey.
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Penguin editorial assistant 28k. Moved to marketing same $. At HarperCollins ad/promo associate at 45k. Left at 60k as a manager. Note: My boss never “forgave” me & a coworker for disclosing what we made & learning of pay disparities.
#publishingpaidme
I am white, cis-female.
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I finished a ms. & shelved it. But I finished it. And now, over a year later I am reading through it. I need a total rewrite. Again. But there are some parts I like. Ish. Maybe I will go back to it.
#amwriting
#ontheporch
or maybe I should finish my current ms! Hmmmm.
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For years my pals and I went out fancy for a dinner & drinks
#Galentines
. This year I am spending the day with my dog. Watching
@OneDayAtATime
and thinking about book plotting. ❤️
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Hi
#writersoftwitter
I'm querying a Fabulist YA with a grieving, clairvoyant pan girl, who wants a 2nd chance with her 1st love--the bi boy she's banned from, after nearly killing him, then wishing him back to life. But Aunt Nina's trapped spirit is dead set on keeping them apart
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We lost a member of our family last night to covid-19.
Darrin Santos was a father of three wonderful teenagers and a husband to the indomitable Melissa, who has been battling cancer for a long while. We are heartbroken.
Please, stay home.
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🕯Birthday month magic 🕯
Coming through for requests!
🎉🎉🎉🎉
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💫Haunted & Cursed💫
Simone & Jadriel
Oh & overprotective cousin Nina’s meddling manifestation
The Truth of Fear
New character art by
@kaelidem
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Me: it’s so effing hot in here. My overhead fan suddenly turns on. High. Me: Huh. The ghosts are finally being helpful. ...Me: oh. I’m lying on the remote.
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Needed a pic of my Bedside books.
@caitlinmoran
@rgay
@NicolaYoon
@novaren
@beckyalbertalli
@jandynelson
@Chimamandabook
@LeoraTanenbaum
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@adriamgoetz
Oh also, from what I can tell, we can’t see when or if an agent opens our query. We can see how many queries they have or what they’ve requested or passed on or signed - with smiley faces of different colors. There’s also an X I don’t understand! withdraw? Thx for this thread.
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Star-Crossed Love
Pan Girl + Bi Boy
If she touches him—it burns
Simone must keep her hands off Jadriel
Or it’ll kill him.
To keep him safe from the curse
& her cousin's ghost
She makes a vow with his blood on her hands
Cross my heart & hope he doesn’t die
#KidLitPit
#YA
#H
light
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I have to leave my girl for the weekend. And trust someone else to give her meds. I’m not doing okay!
Family wedding—or I swear I’d stay home. I mean look at that face.
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URGENT: If you are or know of a foster youth that is staying at a college dorm room that is going to be closed due to the coronavirus, please email info
@togetherwerise
.org and they will provide or help you find housing during this transition.
#fosterlovefoster
#collegestudents
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I loosely based Gran in my book on mine—but *my Gran never cursed me🔮 She spoke of her spirits 👻 who never left & made me play Ouija & do Tarot. Book Gran is bad but mine was the best. She was born on Halloween 🧙🏼♀️ & Today is the anniversary of her death, Frances Nunez Rucker 💜
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Tightening up prose & word count—While adding in grounding details. (Thanks to agent feedback)! And Um rewrote 2 + chapters and oh they’re so drama and unhinged now. And I love it. (But word count woes continue.)
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Finally getting to eat at the Butcher's Daughter
#vegan
& I see a gal here from Grownish & a fella from 13 Reasons Why. I am all about the teen shows. But grown enough not to call it out IRL.
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@Katiew552
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Last date I’ve went on:
He blamed his ex for making him need to hire a lawyer—after a 2nd restraining order. Oh, but he did break her ribs “by accident.”
“Her fault,” he said…. I stood up before we ordered dinner & left.
He still texted me after.
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New UPS guy brings packages up even though I'm outside. Nice? He tries to pet my people loving dog twice. She acts scared, cringing, runs. Then he says to me "so your husband isn't home?" Me "yah he's inside." I hate having to use fictitious husband. But Trust my dog's instinct.
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Advice from your MC
"Being realistic is for people with no imagination."
For my writer pals, from my fictional gal.
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Went into my local B&N with the nephew, masks on obvi, first time in a store in a long time, for all the book lovelies.
He says “didn’t you used to be a writer?”
Oof.
Then, I say: “I’m still a writer, my books just aren’t on the shelf—Yet.”
That’s the energy I’m bringing now.
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He rises to hug me.
And Christ, it’s really hard to let go of him.
So, I don’t.
We stand here together, people pass by, the same guy with the small dog who sniffs my shoe, waiting for me to pet him again.
#1linewed
Animals!
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I watch his eyes dip at my unwavering silence. Oh, but he has my undivided attention. God, I still feel like that infatuated 14-year-old, who clearly can’t stop staring at him—like he’s an eclipse that’ll be worth going blind for.🌖🌘🌒🌑
Solar eclipse snippet
#WritingCommmunity
Hey
#WritingCommunity
today’s
#WritingQ
Do you have any interesting celestial goings on in your story?
We're driving out to hopefully see the Solar Eclipse today
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@baronchrisbaron
Yes to: The thing about Jellyfish! (MG)
YA:
All the Jenny Han.
Everything, everything & the Sun is also a Star by Nicola Yoon.
My niece is obsessed with these all & Elizabeth Acevedo! Nic Stone…
All contemporary and all so good.
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My little nephew has been talking about Black Panther forever. So we went (amazing!) and his commentary-also amazing. First fight "Nooo! Black Panther please be okay." Later: "is Wakanda a real place?" Him cheering on Okoye, the best. He used to just be about the boy superheroes.
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You've made this one chapter tighter. Then add back in that part because you like it! Maybe it serves a purpose. Oh, so you might as well add back in this huge dialogue scene too. Sure. Yes. Why did I edit this?
#amwriting
#ontheporch
I have issues.
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On the way into the Black Panther movie my niece sees a
@lovesimonmovie
display "Jenny look! It says the line forms here--and it doesn't have to be straight." She loved it. I do too. She's 11. We're going to see it together.
@beckyalbertalli
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I finished writing my manuscript!
It only took years and $%^& versions.
I'm done. ish. Till edits come back on a critique.
(I just need to cut 2k words first, which is like, really low for me, I overwrite! I do.)
I Finished! And I don't hate it.
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I can’t stop writing my Rom Dram
Over my spooky sad stories
She’s the head writer on a TV show where she’s written the perfect love interest & she’s starting to fall for the actor who plays him
She doesn’t believe in love, she only writes about it
& He’s heartbroken
#questpit
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@erinentrada
Yesss. I was supposed to be Zoe, but mom went with the original and uncommon name: Jennifer. There were five of us in every class every year.
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“You could actually be pretty if you learned to be nicer.”
Who cares about pretty?
I want to be terrifying.
...I’d settle for vaguely intimidating.
The Truth of Fear
#amquerying
#writersoftwitter
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@AmandaQuirky
@saramegan
Haha... now I’m imagining it was Dan Stevens.
Narrator: it was not Dan Stevens.
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I live in my head.
& Sometimes so does my mc, Simone, inside of her insular world.
But I’m trying to add more grounded details to my pages.
RN Looks like this 😶🌫️☁️
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I love the book I just read & love all the clothes I ordered online that just arrived. It’s like the stars aligned today.
Maybe I should go write ?
And the words will flow?
🙃
Did I just jinx myself?
Possibly.
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Thanks to
@PubforPR
&
@novaren
for organizing!
@AcevedoWrites
&
@emerylord
@LaAnnaMarie
@aishacs
for the ms critiques!
#PuertoRico
#donate
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My aunt was diagnosed this June with
#ALS
she may not make it through tonight. She’s in the hospital, unable to breathe on her own. She is scared & in agony. Hospice tomorrow. There is no reason not to approve new drugs like NurOwn—people are dying & need new treatments.
@US_FDA
My aunt was diagnosed with
#ALS
in June & it has progressed fast, she cannot walk or move her limbs, talk or eat. This disease is horrific.
Please go to & contact your local representatives & tell them you support FDA approval for NurOwn, a new medication
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My writing partner. She doesn't care much for plot.
#ontheporch
literally
#amwriting
Sadie doesn't like to be alone for one second. Not one.
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Keeping my 10 yo niece up with Important convos! Feminism. Dress codes. Stereotypes. Racism. Sexism. Homophobia... Hope in the next gen.
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Reading out loud a chapter of my ms., with a friend and former publishing gal. She was immersed & said she was so proud of me. The best compliment maybe ever. That, and she wants to read the entire novel ASAP.
#amediting
#ontheporch
Literally, I read it to her on the porch.
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