Amber Chen 🏹
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UK #1 bestselling YA author | OF JADE AND DRAGONS (Out Now @penguinteen ) | PitchWars alum | Rep: @LECrockett | 🇸🇬
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Of Jade and Dragons is a
#1
bestseller in children's and YA fiction on The Bookseller's chart in the UK!! 😭😭 This is beyond my wildest dreams!
Thank you to everyone who has made this dream come true!! 🫶🏻🫶🏻
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Nobody asked but here's OJAD as a red carpet look 🤭🤭
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*Book News!*
Thrilled to announce that my debut YA silkpunk fantasy, OF JADE AND DRAGONS, will be published by
@VikingChildrens
@PenguinTeen
in 2024! Can’t wait to share my Qing dynasty-inspired world of towering pagodas, monstrous airships and cut-throat politics with everyone!
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✨️COVER REVEAL✨️
So excited to share the Stunning cover for my YA silkpunk fantasy debut
#OfJadeAndDragons
, releasing June 18 2024 by
@PenguinTeen
! With gorgeous artwork by
@CklBlossom
and cover design by Lily Kim Qian and Ellice Lee ❤️❤️❤️
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Can confirm that this happened and the clerk in question literally had this face 🤨 when saying that lmao 🤣 🤣🤣 welcome to Singapore!
Found my books in Singapore and asked if I could sign them and the clerk said "after purchase, yeah" 💀💀
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Little✨update✨to the profile! Happy to report that I am now repped by
@LECrockett
at
@triadaus
!! Super excited to be working with Laura to (hopefully) bring more new books to everyone! 😁
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Of Jade and Dragons is officially available for request on Netgalley US!! Run - don't walk! 😁
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Hi
#WritersofTwitter
!! I'm Amber and my debut YA silkpunk fantasy Of Jade and Dragons releases this June! 😆 I am currently warring with Book 2 while also drafting a new adult fantasy (👻🎭🔪) that may or may not ever see the light of day lol
can we bring back
#WritersOfTwitter
again? i would love to meet some new writer friends (& hype up the ones i’m lucky to know already) so go ahead and (re)introduce yourself! 👀💕
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It's almost time for announcing the next Pitchwars class and the 1 year anni of being on that list. I'm SO EXCITED to say I'm now repped by the amazing Anne Perry
@thefingersofgod
! Fingers crossed at what the future holds for Of Jade & Dragons and the rest of my writing chaos!😸
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Hi
#writersoftwitter
! I'm Amber, and I write YA/NA SFF and contemporary 😸 I'm currently editing my YA esports novel while on sub with my silkpunk fantasy. Outside of writing I'm all about kpop, TV dramas, karaoke, boba and Good Food 🍜🍣🍡🍨🍵 Nice to meet y'all! 👋🏻
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✨️ARC GIVEAWAY✨️
Hosting a new year's giveaway of 5 physical ARCs for Of Jade and Dragons! If you want an ARC and an exclusive keyring of my MCs (that will also be part of the preorder pack!) then head over to my IG/TT for instructions on how enter 😁
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Throwing this out into the void: I'm looking for an artist to commission some book-related artwork! Specifically a Chinese historical-ish type of style (like the two RedMatcha pieces below 👇) Keen on working with someone from SEAsia 😁
#artistsoftwitter
#ArtCommission
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Got an interview request from an 11-year-old 🥹 I have made it as an author
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It's been a while since I've posted a new aesthetic! For
#campnano
the goal is to get 10k on the sequel to my silkpunk fantasy 🐉 ft.
🏹 an all-girl pirate crew
🏹 monstrous airships and mechanical beasts
🏹 villain origins and villain redemptions
🏹 tears??? 😭
#CampPitch
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Happy to report that I have survived the Goodreads author battle and you can now add OF JADE AND DRAGONS on GR! Link in the next tweet✌️🏻
If you are not convinced, witness the gorgeous art of my MC Ying (by the talented
@micabuns
) and then add the book on GR😝
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@wonwoncity
I need to show everyone this - where I'm manifesting getting Lusi to play my main character in a drama 🥹🙏🏻
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Struck gold with my book cover 🥹🥹🥹
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Documenting my first orange banner 🥹 thank you to everyone who has preordered my book!! 😘😘
Preorder links here:
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New year new intro! Hi
#writersoftwitter
I'm Amber and I write YA/NA SFF & contemporary. I'm currently wrapping up a longform wuxia webnovel and about to start drafting Book 2 of my silkpunk fantasy (starring a girl engineer taking on girl pirates⚓️! and angst 💔)
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I swear MG books have the Best covers 🥺😻 Like how can you not want to pick this up?!
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OF JADE AND DRAGONS is up on the
#PitchWars
YA showcase!
Featuring:
🐉 A feisty engineer
🐉 Her tsundere prince
🐉 Airships and cannons
🐉 All your C/K-drama feels!!
Big thank you to
@KatAliceDunn
and
@daphlt
for helping me get here!! x
#PWYA
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@wonwoncity
Omg hello!! I am a Lusi fan too!! And I can't believe you've heard of my webnovel 😆 it would be a dream if a Chinese production company picked up my book and Lusi can play Ying hehehe 😁😁
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AMERICAN GODS X SPIN THE DAWN
🐉 A dragon princess cursed with the touch of ice
🧒🏻 A mysterious boy without memories
💍 A glitzy competition of diamonds & pearls
🌊 A battle for the eastern seas
📜 A 21st century retelling of the Snow Queen x Midas
#pitlight
(friends welcome!)
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Guess whose blurb is appearing on OJAD's cover? 🥰🥰
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✨Pub News!✨
Thrilled to announce that my very first short story publication is going to appear in Wilted Pages, along with a fab list of fellow authors! 🥳 Big thanks to
@AiJiang_
@ChristiNogle
and
@ShortwaveBooks
for giving this lil Song Dynasty imperial exam piece a home!
After over 500 open submissions, we have our final author list for Wilted Pages: An Anthology of Dark Academia!
We will tweet a teaser for each story leading up to release, but for today, you can view the entire final TOC here:
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The book || The author
Add on Goodreads:
Art by @/micabuns
hi writers! please QRT and show me
the book || the author behind the book
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TLDR: PSA to say that while genocide is going on and thousands of Palestinian civilians are being killed, SCAMMERS are out there trying to profit off this humanitarian crisis. Be vigilant. 🧵👇
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Won my first Watty! ✌️🥳
And lastly, your
#Wattys
winners for Wild Card are… Carpe Noctem by MarCafeWrites, The Palmer Pool by AnnaWestley, Heretic of the Nile by
@amberwrites88
, Good Witch Bad Alpha (A Not So Cozy Mystery) by
@shehopes101
, and The Elemental by theanastasiaellis!
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Hi everyone! This is Amber, hailing from sunny (and sometimes thunderstormy) Singapore. My PW book is a YA silkpunk fantasy about a girl who infiltrates the prestigious Engineers Guild in a bid to uncover the truth behind her father's murder. Plus 1 tsundere prince 👩🏻🔧🤴🏻
#PWParty20
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BUT WAIT! You haven't seen anything until you've seen the masterpiece that is the FULL COVER SPREAD 😍😍
Preorders for OJAD are open! Please consider preordering my book because that would mean a lot to this lil debut author 🥹 Preorder links at
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WHO RULES THE WORLD X THE RED PALACE
When an infamous assassin meets a poisonous rogue, they get thrown into a war that forces them to navigate political schemes and fight insidious enemies. To win, they may have to sacrifice everything, including their hearts.
#pitlight
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#pitlight
For April's Nano I posted this aesthetic for a WIP ft.
⚔️Girl pirates
⚔️Villain origins and redemptions
⚔️Monstrous airships and mechanical beasts
⚔️Tears?? (Will it be a BadEnding??)
Well it's the sequel for Of Jade and Dragons 😝
Add on GR:
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Chinese novels are packaged quite differently from English novels! Here's a reel to show the ins and outs of what you get when you buy a regular Chinese novel off the shelf 😁
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Hoping this place is still here when cover reveal time comes 😥 but I am otherwise on IG and TT at the same handle (@/amberwrites88) and you can add Of Jade and Dragons to GR here:
Art of my MMC by Perci Chen!
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Let me go sit in a corner in shock while I let it sink in that the amazing
@KatAliceDunn
and
@daphlt
picked little me as a mentee for
#PitchWars
😭😭
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#AMMParty
Revisiting my silkpunk MS for line edits and realised I STILL LOVE IT SO MUCH 💕 Hello from the capital isle of Fei, where networks of canals sit beneath towering bridges and emerald roofs, under the watchful eye of majestic airships from the Cobra's Order 🐍
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If you like
🐉 silkpunk tech and weaponry
🐉 girls in STEM that blow things up
🐉 Chinese historical retellings
🐉 political intrigue
🐉 tsundere LIs
🐉 cute little brothers
🐉 Yearning!
🐉 and maybe making yourself suffer 😆
You'll love THE FALL OF THE DRAGON!
let's do a little shameless (I mean it) promo this sunday
pitch your wip/book as "if you like these [tropes, comps, vibes...], you'll love [wip]"
my self-deprecation sensor is ON, you're all advised
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Ah OF JADE AND DRAGONS is officially launched! 🥹 Seems like a good time for a little book trailer then!
Add OJAD on Goodreads:
We are back from lunch and VERY awake thanks
@amberwrites88
's silkpunk fantasy duology, OF JADE AND DRAGONS! Ying must disguise herself as her brother to solve her father's assassination and infiltrate the Engineer's Guild ⚙️
🔗 Add it on Goodreads:
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I don't think any Chinese person formally changes their last name upon marriage here (in SEA), but if you go by Mrs X it's assumed the X is your husband's surname, and some people choose to go by Mdm Y instead where Y is your own surname
is it not common knowledge that chinese people don't change our last names when we get married? because i have seen TOO MANY works of fiction where an immigrant mom from mainland china is "mrs" something. no she fucking isn't!!
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You'll 💖 this book if you like:
😭 ANGST AND YEARNING
👩🏻🔧 Girls in STEM blowing stuff up
🛩️ Airships and cannons
🏆 All the tests and trials
👩❤️💋👨 All the C-drama/K-drama feels (like Yanxi Palace, Love in the Moonlight, The Moon that Embraces the Sun)
#PWparty20
#PWClassof2020
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I used to hate revising but actually diving back into an old MS and seeing new possibilities and potential is 💯😄
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Day 8. Next Project!
Already 75% of the way for this hist-fantasy!
🏹 Assassins with hidden identities
🧞♀️ Insidious prophecies
⚔️ A war brewing between kingdoms
💖 Slow burn romance
🐦 A snarky sentient canary (my favourite bit!)
#PWparty20
#PWClassof2020
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Day 3.
Aesthetic made by the most wonderful
@jennnnnc
, the first person to ever read this book 😘
And the angsty theme song that sums up the romance arc (Translated Title: Time Has Tears 😭)
#PWparty20
#PWClassof2020
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#wiplift
with my Snow Queen x Midas contemporary fantasy! I've said enough about it before so here's the opening lines in the current zero draft❄️
Here to make moreeeee friends!
WELCOME TO
#wiplift
!
🦆qrt or tweet your pitch (only one per wip)
🦆any writer, unagented/agented/published
🦆any pitch is valid, including only snippets
🦆don't forget the hashtag
🦆remember to gush! and praise!
🦆make friends, be supportive, and have fun
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One day I will own a publishing house, based in Asia, publishing only all the good stuff from BIPOC authors all around the world, sweeping across bookshelves the way BTS is sweeping the airwaves. Called Technicolour Riot. It'll be the Big 1.
Pls check in on me 20 years later.
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Hello this is Amber, wanting an excuse to procrastinate on writing by making aesthetics instead 🤭 Introducing my new WIP! A Snow Queen x Midas contemporary fantasy that has:
❄️ Cruel gods and dragons
❄️ A glitzy world of fashion and jewellery
❄️ Strangers to lovers to ???
🍸Anyways, if you’re looking for new writing people to follow, and perhaps friends, let me be your wing-enby ✨QRT or comment this tweet w/ what you’re writing & an aesthetic. You can browse the responses and commence the proper screeching ritual 😉
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METAL dragon lol.
(actually the new year is the year of the wood dragon but nvm🙃)
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Y'all the kid sent me a powerpoint video recording of his final presentation to say thank you and I'm just 🥲🥹
Got an interview request from an 11-year-old 🥹 I have made it as an author
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Here is a short synopsis for OJAD, which in a nutshell is about:
🐉a feisty girl engineer
🐉 a mysterious prince
🐉a murder mystery
🐉 airships, pagodas and mechanical beasts
🐉MaYbE sOmE AnGsT aNd YeArNinG 😏
More here >
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Day 6. What have I learnt from PW?
📑 How to improve pacing and weaving of subplots
🖊️ That editing is actually a thing
🏃🏻♀️ Sprints are where the fun's at
🙆🏻♀️ It's all about the community
💖 SPARKLE EDITS will make everything better
#PWparty20
#PWClassof2020
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Sequel planning chaos 🔥🔥 (It will all come together eventually. Eventually.)
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Hello
#authorpd
! I'm Amber and I write YA/NA SFF and contemp 👋🏻 Here are my current projects:
❄️ Silkpunk fantasy based on Qing dynasty history (Hailanzhu 海兰珠 x Huangtaiji 皇太极)
❄️ Wuxia fantasy ft. 2 assassins with hidden identities (Who rules the world x The red palace)
The Question & Answer part is LIVE! 💛
Post your author intro w/ the hashtag
#authorpd
, then wander around others & ask them questions! The more the merrier, as long as questions are respectful of boundaries
Giveaway info in the comments below 👀
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@CklBlossom
is so iconic she needs no introduction 🫶 here's my gorgeous book cover wishing everyone a very happy Year of the Dragon! 🐲
Authors! Please come flaunt your human-drawn covers. Quote this naming the artist of your cover and what you like about it!
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Look at this amazing review for OJAD 😭😭
I am delighted to write a review of OF JADE AND DRAGONS by the brilliant
@amberwrites88
. Seriously, pre-order this amazing book!
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This is taking forever to set up but I'm so pleased with how my 2022 bujo is turning out! 😎
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Me: Not being able to sleep for the next few nights until all our pitches go live
#PWClassof2020
#PWParty20
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Day 5. This book is perfect paired with...
❄️A snowy day
🍵Osmanthus oolong tea
♟️A game of weiqi (Go)
🤴🏻All the handsome bois
#PWparty20
#PWClassof2020
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Hi everyone! Currently working on my half-baked historical fantasy that features:
⚔️ Assassins that fight with silks and poisons
👑 The burden of the crown
🐦 A sentient red canary
💔 Heartache
Happy to make more writing friends!!!
🗒WRITER’S BOARD🗒
Looking for fellow writers to swap chapters w/, become critique partners, find new beta, or simply befriend?
Look no further than this! In the comments or QRT, “post” your notice w/ your WIP and what you’re looking for, then interact!
definitions below 👇🏻
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Day 7. I definitely lucked out because I have TWO - shoutout to my awesome mentors
@KatAliceDunn
and
@daphlt
! For taking a chance on my book and for all the generosity in giving such useful advice and helping to create SPARKLES 💖 Coffee in London soon xx
#PWparty20
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Hello! I'm Amber and I write a range of Asian YA fantasy/rom. I'm working on revising my
#PitchWars
MS which is a Chinese silkpunk fantasy based on Qing dynasty history, and concurrently writing my nano project (flunked out at 36k lmao) 😁
#APIFri
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Petition for people to stop using "you've lost/gained weight" as an opener when talking to someone you haven't seen in a long while 🙃 I do not need to know how powerful your eyes are as weighing scales and surely you can come up with something better to say
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#chtakeover
time! I'm Yuehwa 月华, better known as the Phoenix, the most notorious assassin in the five kingdoms. Will kill whoever you like in exchange for gold. I love good food and I have an annoying sentient pet canary called Ember✌️🏻
CHARACTER TAKEOVER is here!
Post your character introductions (w/ aesthetic or art as you like) and get ready to answer and to ASK questions!
Remember the
#chtakeover
hashtag so we may find you, and specify if you'd like to enter a first ch giveaway by yours truly!
CHAOS, NOW!
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When you realise there's exactly 14 days before the
#PitchWars
deadline arrives.
Like WHERE DID ALL THAT TIME GO
#PWclassof2020
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Commemorating the one year anniversary of making my
#Pitchwars
sub with some art of my PW book character! (and here's me in better times when travelling was taken for granted 😢)
The author // The character
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Witness my Thai beef boat noodles and green milk tea and please be at peace booktwt 🍜💕
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Milestone check: Red String has officially become my first WP paid story! This is quite special because RS was also my first award-winning screenwriting pitch🥺 Here's a🧵of the original TV pitch before it became a novel - 1/10
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Next WIP in a single picture 😎
(now to actually write something)
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@writingwaimee
It took me almost a year of querying and close to 40 rejections after PW before I got an offer of rep for my PW book. I'd even started querying a new book by then 🙄 The wait is agonising but it's totally still possible!
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How would publishing take it if I chose a pen name that channelled Chinese pen name energy?? Like Six Fishballs (六粒鱼丸) or Straw Hut Piggie (草屋猪猪) or Black Pepper Crab (胡椒螃蟹).
[Book] by Six Fishballs🤔
#amwriting
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OJAD is loosely based on events from the founding years of the Qing dynasty, and the lives of one of the most well-known consorts in Qing history, Primary Consort Minhui, Hai Lan Zhu (海兰珠), and the first Qing emperor Huang Taiji (皇太极). Lots of historical Easter eggs inside!
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🧨FLASH Giveaway!! 🧨
Are you preparing your Pitchwars sub?? 16
#PitchWars
2020 alums are giving away query critiques! Enter any of them—or all of them!
To enter each giveaway:
🌻 RT + F!
🌿 Ends Sat 9/25, 11:59pm EST
I should be able to do 2 or 3! 💕
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Climbing out of querying abyss to create aesthetics for current WIP. And make myself a new matching bird app header😏
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18: Started writing kpop fanfics
18: 21 fanfics later, 33k subscribers, self-declared slightly legendary
18: Moved to Wattpad (4 novels)
18: Became a WP Star, signed WP Studios TV deal
18: Got into PW
18: Signed with agent for PW novel
18: Going on sub?
Yes, I'm forever 18 😎
What a wild ride
14: 1st novel (0 requests)
15: 2nd novel (0 requests)
16: 3rd novel (1 partial request)
18: Odyssey writing workshop, followed by burnout
19-22: switched to short stories/ essays
23-25: gave up 💀
26: 4th novel
27: got into Pitch Wars and signed with agent 😻
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Being an author and adulting at the same time is like playing a game on hard mode. I need to write, I want to sleep, my boss is hounding my ass 🥲
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Every now and then I get a comment like that from readers and it makes me feel a lot better about my writing 🤭
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Can't go on holiday without booktwt exploding with discourse. Sad that I missed pitlight this time but all the pitches I managed to catch LOOK SO GOOD, so anyway here's some good food xx
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Ready, get set,
#nanowrimo2021
!
Throwback to 2500BC with
👑 a reluctant prince & a brilliant scientist
👑 justice for a murdered priest
👑 a bloody battle for the crown
👑 the mystery behind the Great Pyramid of Giza
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Day 9. Advice to
#PitchWars
hopefuls
🌴 If you're thinking of it, just do it.
🌴 Be prepared that your MS *will* change.
🌴 It isn't a competition. Make friends, learn whatever you can, and that's already a win!
🌴 It's okay even if you're halfway around the globe 😝
#PWparty20
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Look twitter have some food. (If you just followed me, this is what I'm really about lmao 😂)
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Bringing back my beautiful cast for YA contemp Nano project that I'll be resuming soon! 💖
#APIFri
Welcome to another
#APIFri
chat with
@sarahrana769
! Today's prompt is a fun one, use graphics, art, or any pictures you'd like. I can't wait to qrt your answers but remember to use the hashtag!
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Watching RF Kuang's Tolkien lecture and wondering if I sound as wise lecturing about mitochondrial structure and x-ray crystallography 😂 where all my fellow book-writing scientists at???
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#PWPoePrompts
Day 2: Oct Goals!
🎃 Launch new Wattpad spec-hist YA on the origin of the Great Pyramid of Giza
🎃 Finish YA horror
🎃 DVpit!
🎃 Read Iron Widow and She Who Became The Sun
🎃 Eat lots of chocolate
Hello this is Amber, wanting an excuse to procrastinate on writing by making aesthetics instead 🤭 Introducing my new WIP! A Snow Queen x Midas contemporary fantasy that has:
❄️ Cruel gods and dragons
❄️ A glitzy world of fashion and jewellery
❄️ Strangers to lovers to ???
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Only on ep 18 but I already know 长月烬明 (Till The End of the Moon) is going to be my first 10/10 watch of the year. It totally puts Love Btw Fairy and Devil to shame 🫠
🌟 story within story within story AND ALL DETAILS LINE UP
🌟 💯 villain origin arcs
🌟 💯 casting
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Looking for a few beta readers for my YA contemporary MS who can give some big picture feedback in 2-3 weeks! 🥺
Book as a random collection of vibes:
🖱️League of Legends/DOTA
🖱️King of Avatars/Go Go Squid/LoveO2O
🖱️CN/KR/TW idol drama tropes
🖱️Girl power
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