Joanne Almonte Mason is ✨querying ✨
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Adult fiction writer ✍️ Sharing my lived experiences through my stories. Querying: ON SHADOW’S LEDGE @smoochpit mentee ‘24
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Unhinged, spiraling, and sabotaged by my own mind. Hi, I’m Espi and this is the story of my unraveling—ON SHADOW’S LEDGE.
#YouDeservepIt
#querying
#A
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It turned into a full request! It turned into a full request! It turned into a full request! It turned into a full request!
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What is happening to my feed!?! Where did all my
#WritingCommunity
friends go? If you can see this, can you interact so that my feed can curate back to its writer/book/author factory settings!?!
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I’m in the “my manuscript sucks!” phase of writing and I’m struggling to convince myself otherwise.
#WritingCommunity
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So last week I queried 2 publishers just see see if I'd have any luck. Today I got a full request from one of them! Let's see how this goes.
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Apparently I should whine more.
Full request! I repeat: request to read my full MS!
#amquerying
#WritingCommunity
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So earlier this week, I manifested something and it happened in a matter of hours. My next request, dear universe, is that that full turns into an offer of rep…maybe in the coming days?
Let’s see if this works again 🤞🏽🕯️✨
#WritingCommunity
#amquerying
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Unfortunately this is not the vague post we all assumed. The agent of one of my comp titles that I queried got back to me with a partial request. I’m kinda freaking out!
#WritingCommunity
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Aside from my full request from a few weeks ago (and 1 or 2 rejections), my inbox has been crickets. The not knowing is excruciating 😣
#WritingCommunity
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Query rejection in my inbox this morning. But that’s okay. I have my ms out to a few agents and publishers I’m excited about. I’m also manifesting more full requests 🤞🏽🕯️✨
#amquerying
#WritingCommunity
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Excited to share that I’m checking off one of my manifestations for the month: I’ve been selected as a
#smoochpit
mentee! Excited to work with
@ceethewriter
for the next few months to refine my romance ms!
@smoochpit
With October being my favorite month of the year, I’d love for ALL THE THINGS to go down this month, including but not limited to:
✨Me getting the job
✨My husband getting the job
✨Getting selected as a
#smoochpit
mentee
🕯️ Landing an agent
#positivevibes
#manifesting
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I keep seeing
#litagents
announce that they are either open to query submissions or about to close. Unfortunately, many of the agencies are ones I’ve already reached out to and awaiting a response 😭 The struggle is SO real!?!
#amquerying
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One thing I wish I had included in my query tracker excel sheet: a column that states the iteration of my query letter (ex: v1, v2, v3, etc.). This would make it helpful to see what’s working and what’s not.
#amquerying
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I’ve seen 4 rep announcements. Is that a sign that I’ll happen to me soon? I think so 🤞🏽
#WritingCommunity
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It’s a whole new week of…opportunity or rejection. I wish I could be more optimistic about it but I just don’t really have it in me right now.
#WritingCommunity
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Woke up today with the feeling that good news is on the way. Is it just in my head? I guess we’ll find out 🤔🫣
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For
#AllYouCanWriteAugust
I’ll be working on my RomanceWIP and hoping to complete the first draft by 9/1.
🌶️ forced proximity
🌶️ fake dating
🌶️ workplace romance
🌶️ interracial love
And probably more but I don’t plot so I don’t even know where this novel is going…
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I haven’t been as obsessed about getting responses to my queries as of late. Maybe because my inbox has been crickets or maybe because self-publishing is becoming more alluring.
#amquerying
#WritingCommunity
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This is my weekly manifestation tweet for full requests ✨🕯️✨🕯️
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First off, thanks to those that supported my posts yesterday during
#Smallpitch
♥️ Unfortunately no pub likes (yet🤞🏽). But my OTF coach did say today will be a great day so I’m going to take that as a sign that I will get a full request today!
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I love a good trope!
🤍 He falls first
♥️ Fake dating
🤍 Office romance
♥️ Mental health rep
🤍 Slow burn
#SPPromptparty
@smoochpit
💌THREE IS A MAGIC NUMBER💌
Today for the
#SPPromptParty
, we wanna hear all about your tropes!
Tell us about your grumpiest grumps, and your sunshine’s that can summon the sun with their smiles. Your villains who turn good and the good that turn evil
We wanna hear it ALL! 🥳✨
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October is a good month for good things to happen! So…✨🕯️✨🕯️✨
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Struggling with the stigma of mental illness, Espi is caught in a whirlwind of emotions and goes down a path of self-destruction risking her relationships with family and friends.
Will she find her sanity in the midst of madness?
ON SHADOW’S LEDGE
#YouDeservepIt
#A
#querying
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Is Sunday the beginning of the week or the end of the week?
Either way: I want this week to beginning/end with full requests (especially to my partial) 🕯️✨🕯️✨
#WritingCommunity
#amquerying
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I know I’ve got a lot of friends that are in the querying trenches with me. BUT anyone out there currently in the process of self-publishing? Where are you in the process? Why’d you choose to self-pub?
#WritingCommunity
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It’s Friday. I’m manifesting for me. I’m manifesting for you. I’m manifesting for the
#WritingCommunity
🕯️✨🕯️✨
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Yesterday on IG I announced that my novel will be published in the first quarter of 2025. Doable? Yes, especially if I self-publish. However, impossible if I go traditional, which is still the goal. I’m just tired of the waiting game.
#WritingCommunity
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@RobinDothAuthor
THIS! My exact feelings. I've given myself a deadline as to when I'm going to switch up. This week I'm actually going to be doing more in-depth research on self-pub to see what it entails, the costs associated, etc. to see if it's a viable option for me.
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I haven’t written in weeks. Today I’m going to work backwards and create an outline for RomanceWIP in hope that it’ll get my creative juices going. Also, inbox still crickets 🦗
#WritingCommunity
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Full request Friday. Full request Friday. Full request Friday. Full request Friday. Full request Friday. ✨✨✨✨✨✨
(2AM tweet…manic much?)
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IN GOOD COMPANY
The Hating Game x Beach Read
#SPPromptParty
@smoochpit
ITS DAY FOUR, WHAT 💌
Round here at SmoochPit, we’re very… visual people🧐
WOW US WITH YOUR MOODBOARDS for todays
#SPPromptParty
💗
Ooh I’m already excited!!!
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What’s the saying, a watched pot doesn’t boil? Well, pot, I promise I won’t look if you can just get to cookin’. Could really go for good news right now.
#WritingCommunity
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Ok, I’m just going to say it. Twitter (I refuse to call it X) is the only social platform I feel Iike dumps on taking the self-publishing route. I get it, we all want to be traditionally publish, but if that doesn’t work out, there are other options.
#WritingCommunity
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With October being my favorite month of the year, I’d love for ALL THE THINGS to go down this month, including but not limited to:
✨Me getting the job
✨My husband getting the job
✨Getting selected as a
#smoochpit
mentee
🕯️ Landing an agent
#positivevibes
#manifesting
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My goal for the next two weeks is to clock 25-30k more words in my RomanceWIP!
#AllYouCanWriteAugust
#AllYouCanWriteAugust
starts today!!! I'm so excited to spend the next two weeks with everyone as we all hunker down to write as much as we can.
The prompt for today is to share your goal for the event. What do you want to accomplish in the next two weeks? Let's get to writing!
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There are so many in the
#WritingCommunity
participating in
#SmallPitch
and that makes me so excited!! LFG!
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Four hours later, a total of 6689 words logged, and I just typed out THE END!!
Now, I put this on the back burner for the next week to focus in the manuscript I’m actually querying. Gah, I can’t wait to edit this baby!!
#WritingCommunity
First off, in the first hour it was a total of 2366 not 23666 🤦🏽♀️
Captain’s log - hour 2: 1597 words logged
#WritingCommunity
#amwriting
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ON SHADOW’S LEDGE - The raw and emotional narrative of Girl in Pieces and the grit of Girl, Interrupted.
⭐️ BIPOC Characters
⭐️ Mental Health rep
⭐️ Sexual awakening
⭐️ Adult Coming of Age
⭐️ Sapphic Tryst
#UnhingedPit
#A
#Q
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Seriously tho, is my email broken? Or QT? The silence is deafening!
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I lied. Put your clothes back on. We’re going to talk about how the FMC of my novel, ON SHADOW’S LEDGE, leaves a trail of bad decisions sinking deeper into her own chaos. It’s like watching someone pour gasoline on their life and lighting a match.
#amqueying
I lied. Put your clothes back on. We’re going to talk about how, in my book, witch trials are an allegory for women being gaslighted about medical issues, and how a chronically ill witch & the cursed girl she loves single-handedly abolish the corrupt religion responsible.
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Just got a query rejection 👎🏽 I haven’t queries in a few weeks. Just want to wait it out and hopefully get responses from the ones I have out there in the wild. Here’s to a full request next in my inbox.
#WritingCommunity
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It’s Monday. Let’s manifest full requests and offers of representation 🕯️🕯️🕯️✨✨✨
#WritingCommunity
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This
#WritingCommunity
is the best! Everyone is always cheering others on, showing support through the querying trenches, and manifesting along side each other - I love it! Thank you so much for the words of encouragement 🫶🏽
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Followed you!
Since X is apparently going to feed our posts into AI…let’s be friends on IG 🤎
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I think manifestation has caused me to self-sabotage without even knowing it. I’m about to cry if I just lost an opportunity bc I tried too hard!?!?
#WritingCommunity
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Checks email [5 minutes pass]
Checks email [13 minutes pass]
Checks email [4 minutes pass]
Checks email [7 minutes pass]
Checks email [16 minutes pass]
Checks email…
#WritingCommunity
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Started off at 46079 words this morning for my RomanceWIP. As of right now, I’m at 50717!
#WritingCommunity
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I cleared thing up and we’re back on track!
I think manifestation has caused me to self-sabotage without even knowing it. I’m about to cry if I just lost an opportunity bc I tried too hard!?!?
#WritingCommunity
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I’m terrified of all my dreams coming true. Of the agent offer, the six-figure book deal, the book tour, signing the movie rights, the talk show interviews…
THE HORROR!?!
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It’s Friday and the
#WritingCommunity
knows what that means: FULL REQUEST FRIDAY! Sending all the delulu juju out in the world for anyone that needs it today (me included)! ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨
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Song comps:
Whispers (Halsey) x Manic (Coleman Hell)
Book comps
All The Bright Places x Girl In Pieces x Girl, Interrupted
Show comp:
Euphoria
ON SHADOW’S LEDGE:
🤍 Mental Health rep
🤍 BIPOC rep
🤍 Adult Coming of Age
🤍 Sexual Awakening
#YouDeservepIt
#A
#querying
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I’m trying to read through my RomanceWIP and I keep getting destructed. I need to FOCUS so that I can create an outline to implement the feedback my
#smoochpit
mentor provided me.
Oh look, a squirrel 🐿️
#amediting
#WritingCommunity
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Ok, update: I did hear from something I was waiting for but it was not necessarily the answer I wanted. BUT I’m still in the game which is great. Now I wait…
However, I’m not opposed to getting some good news ✨🕯️✨
Woke up today with the feeling that good news is on the way. Is it just in my head? I guess we’ll find out 🤔🫣
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GIRL, INTERRUPTED x ALL THE BRIGHT PLACES
Voices—they were enticing, their allure like a passionate caress. Espi Lopez dives deep to fill the void. In a world where reality blurs with delusion, she did it all for the plot.
#PicantePit
#PitQ
#A
#LIT
#MH
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Seriously, I’ve gotta unsubscribe to all these random emails! I’m waiting for good news not that your store is running sale!?!
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I have bipolar disorder. I’m not demure nor mindful.
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Got a rejection this morning. Not from yesterday’s full request (thank goodness) but from a different query submission 😞
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Do you think
#litagents
do an inbox search when a book receives great reviews/is successful to see if they ever got queried the book and rejected the author?
#writingcommunity
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I’m going to be out of town this weekend away from my laptop. I would LOVE to get an exciting email and spend all weekend contemplating driving home to send my reply. YES I know we have cell phones with email, but I hate the “responded by iPhone” message at the closing.
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When I realize the
@smoochpit
mentee selection/announcement happens this coming Monday and not next Friday like I had originally written down 😬🤞🏽
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My fave part about the writing process is definitely rereading my work and being moved by the story I’m writing! It’s like, “did I write those words? Was that me?” It’s such a great feeling!
#SPPromptParty
DAY SIX. TWO MORE DAYS💌:
Somehow as writers, we spend a lot of time… doing anything but.
But when we do, it’s magic! ✨
So for today’s
#SPPromptParty
, TELL US, what is your favourite part of the writing process 🫶
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I just wrote a bonus chapter for my novel to release exclusively to newsletter subscribers and y’all, it’s too good! It’s in the POV of one of the love interests! Not planning to released until November/December but eekk, I’m excited!
#writingcommunity
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🕯️✨offers of rep, submission success (with a six-figure book deal), and personal stuff I don’t want to put on the internet 😂
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Trying to make headway on my RomanceWIP and instead of picking up where I left off (chapter 22), I’m doing a big no-no and editing from the beginning because I want it to be dual POV. So…
#WritingCommunity
#amdrafting
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Follow turbulent mind of Espi, a reckless college senior teetering between sanity and madness. Haunted by undiagnosed bipolar disorder, she chases euphoria and battles her inner demons, navigating a raw journey of self-discovery & mental wellness.
#PicantePit
#PitQ
#MH
#LIT
#A
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The raw and emotional narrative of GIRL IN PIECES, the unfiltered and genuine portrayal of mental illness of ALL THE BRIGHT PLACES, and the grit of GIRL, INTERRUPTED.
⭐️ BIPOC Characters
⭐️ Mental Health rep
⭐️ Sexual awakening
#PicantePit
#A
#PitQ
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Reverse engineering my launch date (if I decide to self-publish) and gah, there’s so much to do!?! Mind you, I have plenty of time BUT I don’t want to miss a step, which I’m prone to do.
#WritingCommunity
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Determined to finish RomanceWIP tonight.
Captain’s log - hour 1: 23666 words logged
#WritingCommunity
#amwriting
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@RobinDothAuthor
@AuthorKOrtiz
Currently
#amquerying
a realistic portrayal of bipolar disorder. Not in a fantasy (that would be epic) but agree, I don’t see it represented nearly enough.
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Starting the day with a word count of 61247 for the RomanceWIP. Let’s see how much I can add to that!
#WritingCommunity
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Working with a SmoochPit mentor would provide me with experienced guidance to help me elevate my MS and query materials. A fresh perspective would totally be beneficial.
#SPPromptParty
JUST IN💌:
APPLICATIONS ARE NOW LIVE! 🎉🎉
Go through the mentee expectations page first before submitting your application:
AND TO KICK OFF APPLICATION WEEK, we have a
#SPPromptParty
😛
Tell us what you hope to learn from a mentor! 💗💗
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Sitting at the edge of my seat for my partial to turn into a full.
#amquerying
#WritingCommunity
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If you’re not a
#litagent
asking for my full MS, don’t email me. I don’t want to see emails from Starbucks, Nordstrom, or my CCs asking me to pay my balance. I just want to see full requests!!
That is all.
#WritingCommunity
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Trying to set up my website (in a platform that I know and understand), but I’m having so much trouble!?! Why is it being so difficult! I need the site up and running by Tuesday! Please no website developers come out the woodwork BUT I may need your *free* assistance?
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Query rejection today. Whomp whomp.
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I slept from 8:30pm to 6:30am. I skipped the gym. Now I have one full uninterrupted hour to focus on my RomanceWIP! LFG!
#WritingCommunity
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Today I wrote 9140 words 🎉 Only about 2 or 3 more chapter to go!!!
So I decided to move the goal post and write 10k less words. HEAR ME OUT: I looked up how many words a romance novel typically has and I’ll be right at the cusp. AND I still have to go back and add back story to one of the MCs storylines.
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Taking myself thrifting instead of writing today. Gotta diversify the self-care sometimes, you know.
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Querying writers - this is a great thread to read through. No two experiences are the same.
#WritingCommunity
Agented authors - I’m curious whether this is a universal experience. Did your agent contact you within a week of you sending the query?
#WritingCommunity
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A special shout out and thank up to
@veronicabane
for giving my query letter a review and proving excellent and helpful feedback!
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Is it weird I want Monday to get here so that I can ✨hopefully✨ get asked for a full request (or more 🤞🏽) sometime next week??
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Not gonna lie, feeling a little discouraged and defeated. I know I have to be patient and that *my* agent is out there, but there hasn’t been any traction. Is that telling me something?
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