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🫀⚔️An editor’s guide to rotWIP aka THE CURSES WE KEEP 🫀⚔️
if you like fantasy murder mysteries, sentient magic, yearning lesbians and secret cities, you’ll want to read this book!!
ty to my agent sib
@thevalrobles
for the amazing graphic ❤️
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🫀✨PUBLISHING NEWS✨⚔️
I am so excited to announce that I am now represented by Alex Brown (
@gravity_fail09
) at MWLA!!
Alex’s enthusiasm for my rotting, sapphic political intrigue fantasy truly blew me away! I can’t wait to start this next step on my publishing journey!
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celebrated my first full day of being 25 by writing THE END on my third manuscript 🥲 🎉
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✨ART GIVEAWAY✨
after the questpit love + new followers I wanted to give away a few free portraits! they will be headshots in the style below.
RULES:
✨RT to enter
✨must be following me
That’s all! There will be 3 winners.
Deadline is 5pm EST, April 5.
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GIDEON THE NINTH X THE FOXGLOVE KING
an adult sapphic fantasy that features:
🫀a twisty murder mystery
🫀childhood friends-to-enemies-to-???
🫀sentient, decaying magic
🫀political intrigue, betrayal, and corrupt women
#questpit
#F
#amquerying
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post-questpit introductions! 🫶🏼
i’m sammy, i’m 27 years old and i’m an author and artist. i write adult and YA SFF and am currently revising my sapphic political intrigue fantasy to get ready for sub!! i also have a cat named ollie who likes to sit on my laptop while i write.
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🌟ART GIVEAWAY🌟
Thank you for 500 followers! To celebrate I’ll be giving away a few colored portraits (example below).
RULES:
🌟RT to enter
🌟Must be following me
That’s it! There will be 3 winners.
Giveaway ends at 11am EST tomorrow, May 25.
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TBOSAS X HOTD
an adult sapphic fantasy about feuding houses and the two women caught in between, featuring:
🗡️academic rivals to lovers
🗡️women’s wrongs/i could make her worse
🗡️buried magical history
🗡️dark academia
🗡️poisonous magic and the consequences of power
#pitlight
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thanks to
#FinishUrBookFall
i've officially made my first aesthetic post for
#eyewip
, my YA fantasy featuring:
-enemies to lovers, but make it lesbian
-rogue girls with tough skin and sharp knives
-feuding kingdoms and royal drama
-magic that is given and taken away through eyes
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ok I’m laughing bc truly for the past two weeks I thought I was being all ✨vague✨ and sending out little cryptic tweets but apparently nobody noticed so this agent announcement was accidentally a surprise hhhfhfhdhsjsjjd
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Query stats for my now-agented adult fantasy:
Queries sent: 60
Rejections/CNRs: 50
Fulls: 10 (one of which was my offer)
I think it’s also important for me to share that at the time of my offer, I had 4 fulls out, and the rest came after I nudged!
My stats so far:
Queries sent: 100+
Rejections: 60
Fulls: 22
Stats are great, but they mean nothing. Only offers do! 🕯️🕯️🕯️
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#MeetMyMCs
, Arleth from my sapphic fantasy murder mystery:
🥀 host to a sentient rotting magic
🥀political aide and not-so-secret spymaster
🥀framed(??) for murder, unless she actually did do it
🥀 totally NOT hung up on the past or her ex, thank you very much
(art by me!)
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Ok I said I’d post more art here and this isn’t my own character but!! It’s art!! So. (This is Marian and she is
@TamarinFrog
’s character) (also I highly recommend turning up the brightness to look at this one!)
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For
#AllYouCanWriteAugust
I’ll be finishing up my revisions of
#rotWIP
to send to my agent!!
🫀fantasy murder mystery
🫀sentient, rotten magic
🫀hidden history and a lost city
🫀twists, betrayal, and women’s wrongs
🫀lots of sapphic yearning
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My QueryTracker interview is up!! 🫀⚔️
After almost 6 years(!!!) of querying three different projects, I’m super excited to share a bit more about my writing and querying journey, and ultimately signing with my wonderful agent:
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title: the curses we keep
genre: high fantasy/political intrigue
setting: a secondary fantasy world inspired by renaissance florence
theme song: i am not a woman, i'm a god - halsey
age range: adult
comp: the foxglove king x gideon the ninth
Title: There Used To Be People
Genre: thriller/speculative
Setting: small town, 70’s Mississippi
Theme song: mr. sandman by the chordettes (on repeat by MC)
Age range: adult
Comps: lovecraft country x all the sinners bleed
Status: vague 👀✨
an excuse to make a new moodboard :)
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for
#unhingedpit
I am bringing back my fav memes for my adult fantasy w/rotten magic and murder mystery vibes, where everyone is a mess and also gay and yearning (going on sub soon!!)
#A
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ok i wanna play, here are some relevant memes for my recently-agented adult fantasy aka rotWIP/CWK/women’s wrongs convention
#unhingedpit
#A
#F
#AG
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ok I’ve never done an accountability thread before but i wanna do one for my messy dark academia sapphic book, aka
#poisonwip
currently at: 17k
goal: 90k
TBOSAS X HOTD with women’s wrongs, buried magical history, and a secret love affair that ends badly for everyone 🥀
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turned in my revision to my agent, now it’s aperol spritz time
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How can so many white people tweet "it's just too hard :(" to speak out against police brutality & racism but then figure out how to tweet whole threads centering the conversation around themselves? no one needs your self pity. Boost Black voices & donate where you can.
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ex-childhood best friends must team up to solve the murder they’ve both been accused of, while unraveling the mystery of the decaying magic that connects them both and trying to ignore old feelings.
🫀sentient, rotting magic
🗡️politics and betrayal
🥀sapphic yearning
#questpit
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reposting my absolute fav
#rotWIP
moodboard for shoot your shot sunday
if any agents are looking for a renaissance-inspired sapphic fantasy with a murder mystery, weird rotten magic, and women’s wrongs…..
#amquerying
🫶🏼
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#MeetMyMCs
, Cassia, the LI of my sapphic fantasy murder mystery:
🗡️strangely unaffected by magic
🗡️reluctant soldier with a soft heart
🗡️would do anything for her family and her village
🗡️also being framed(??) for murder… unless she’s her ex’s accomplice?
(art by me!)
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ahhh that’s my art!!! thank you sooo much
@mixbecca
for commissioning me and i can’t wait to read THE ONES WE BURN!!
meet Ranka, the axe-wielding himbo lesbian MC of THE ONES WE BURN, out in fall of 2022 from
@simonteen
, drawn by the incredible
@holden_creates
!
interested in seeing how ranka has literally one (1) job & is too gay to do it?? add the book here:
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✨ THE GIVEAWAY WINNERS ARE:
@itsliana_iguess
@AmaraJLynn
@Kyatic
congratulations!!! i'll DM you shortly, please have your messages open!
and thank you to everyone who participated, i'll be sure to do more in the future so stay tuned :)
✨ART GIVEAWAY✨
after the questpit love + new followers I wanted to give away a few free portraits! they will be headshots in the style below.
RULES:
✨RT to enter
✨must be following me
That’s all! There will be 3 winners.
Deadline is 5pm EST, April 5.
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What it feels like trying to plan a first draft of a new novel when all you’ve got so far is a genre and half of a main character
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the final giveaway prize for
@itsliana_iguess
!!
ty everyone who entered the giveaway, stay tuned for more in the future 🫶🏼
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🫀A GUIDE TO THE CURSES WE KEEP⚔️
Currently revising this sapphic political intrigue fantasy for sub! If you like weird sentient magic, women’s wrongs, and lots of gay yearning, this book is for you ✨
Ty to the amazing
@thevalrobles
for the graphics!!! 🫶🏼
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wanted to try something similar to
@warickaart
’s amazing style so I drew bella from bottled up (by
@TamarinFrog
)! i feel like bella’s lightning translates well to the glowy colors⚡️✨
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So excited for
#PitDark
to pitch my sapphic romantic fantasy w/murder mystery vibes!! Since we can’t do moodboards then, here is one now for my MC Arleth, a chaotic and (literal) rotten mess who is being charged with murder but is also kind of a softie inside
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ty all for the support on my questpit pitches today!!!! 🥹 just for funsies here is some more art I’ve done of the main couple from my sapphic rot-magic fantasy 🫀⚔️
(I am also open for c0mms if anyone wants me to draw their characters too…just saying hehe)
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So so excited to be working with Alex and MWLA!!!!! And look at this moodboard she made for me 🥹🥹🥳🥳🥳 literally so gorgeous I cannot
Time for my ✨third client✨ to be revealed!
I'm so stoked to work with
@holden_creates
, who's written an Adult Fantasy with two disaster lesbians who are too stubborn to kiss! If you like (fantasy) cold war tension/intrigue, a murder mystery, and rotting magic, this is for you!
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are you kidding me
the pics my catsitter has been sending me of Ollie while I’m on vacation
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opening line of your current WIP 🫀
currently in revisions but this first line (and following scene) has stayed the same for quite some time!!
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I was so happy I was able to cut over 8k from rotWIP and now I’ve somehow managed to include 9k NEW words in my edit so I’m at a higher word count than when I started my revisions
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the writer / the writing
working on my rotWIP edits 🫀⚔️
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omg what the heck lol this is gonna turn into a 400 follower giveaway... ty guys 😭😭😭
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Giving this painting of Arleth and Cassia its own post bc I stayed up inadvisably late to finish it before my announcement but I am so glad I did 🫀⚔️
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she wrote this
they hate me because i'm gay :/ also i have been murdering the locals but mostly because of the gay thing
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aaaaa ty for 300!! 🫶🏼 would anyone be interested in an art raffle/giveaway…. like in this sort of style?
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🫀finished rotWIP (my third manuscript!)
🫀 started querying, realized something wasn’t working, revised/cut 11k from the book and kept going
🫀got a wonderful agent for rotWIP 🥹 and left the query trenches after 6 years and 3 books!!!
🫀started my agented revisions hehehe
✨ 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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Day two of
#AllYouCanWriteAugust
: meet Arleth and Cassia!
Estranged exes (well, it’s complicated), Arleth and Cassia are reunited after ten years when they’re framed for a magical murder they (probably) didn’t commit.. and are each other’s only hope at proving their innocence.
It's day two of
#AllYouCanWriteAugust
, which means it's time to talk about your MC(s)! Feel free to introduce them to us any way you'd like! Simple introductions, snippets, moodboards, etc. are all welcome.
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omg.... manifesting rotWIP here one day
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soon(ish) I will be querying my adult fantasy
#rotwip
which has:
🫀sentient, decaying magic
🫀sapphic friends-to-enemies-to-it’s complicated???
🫀morally gray, messy female protags
🫀fantasy murder-mystery vibes
🫀political intrigue (did I mention it’s messy. so messy)
do u think agents stalk unagented authors’ profiles if they like their work
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this giveaway is now CLOSED! i will announce the winners shortly!
🌟ART GIVEAWAY🌟
Thank you for 500 followers! To celebrate I’ll be giving away a few colored portraits (example below).
RULES:
🌟RT to enter
🌟Must be following me
That’s it! There will be 3 winners.
Giveaway ends at 11am EST tomorrow, May 25.
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just revised this
#rotWIP
snippet of arleth being sentimental and gay 😌
#AllYouCanWriteAugust
#AllYouCanWriteAugust
day nine! It's time to share a snippet that showcases your book's romance 💕
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Oooh, I’m glad people are liking this rotWIP moodboard!! Speaking of, I have an exciting ✨announcement✨about this manuscript coming up…. 👀 let’s say…. this time next week?? 👀👀👀
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@Claribel_Ortega
this sort of author cameo is a now a new dream of mine after watching the trailer lmfao
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if you like:
🫀forbidden magic
🫀sapphic friends-to-enemies-to-it’s complicated???
🫀morally gray, messy female protags
🫀fantasy murder-mystery vibes
🫀political intrigue
🫀shadows that don’t behave
you’ll love
#cursewip
!! (plus bonus aesthetic)
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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I’ve been working on character cards for my manuscript as a break from writing and I’m loving this one so far, even tho I spent a million years on the armor already lmfao
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cut my hair, got glasses, and apparently developed a p strong resting bitch face lmao
#LGBTQglowup
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veeeeery belated christmas present for
@PeterxLopez
of one of my fav characters from his amazing
#magicherobook
!! thanks for being so patient w me ahahah ❤️❤️❤️
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i'm writing today for the first time in weeks, and then after that i am going to go for a swim outside and sit in the sun and eat a bagel sandwich
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while im at it let me post the art individually lol, here’s a character portrait i did of my MC Blake in the YA sci-fi wip im currently revising!
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this november is my first time doing nano in a few years and so far all its been is *writes for 5 minutes* *checks my word count* *writes for 5 minutes* *checks my word count* *writes for 5 minutes* *gets annoyed when my word count only goes up by 30* *writes for 5 minutes* *ch
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@Claribel_Ortega
i... really needed to hear this, especially these past few weeks. put a lot of things into perspective for me that i definitely needed
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why did I think I could revise this book without making an outline first omg
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working on a new fantasy WIP for the first time in two years(!!!) so here are some sketches of my absolute mess of a main character, she’s horrible and i love her a lot already
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Here are the poll results!! 3 headshots won, so that will be the prize again! I’ll post the actual giveaway this Friday after Pitdark so keep your eyes peeled 👁️👁️
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I reallyyyyy wanna make one of those “guide to my book” tweets going around lol time for me to get better at canva
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gonna try to draw more while i take a break from writing…. so here’s my dnd character! who i originally based off one of my book characters. lol
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here is something fun: share some of your favorite quotes from your stories/WIPs
these are all from
#rotWIP
, my current sapphic fantasy book out in the trenches! arleth is having a bad time and cassia is awkward, what else is new 🥀⚔️
Here is something fun:
Share some of your favorite quotes from your stories/WIPs 🖤
🌿 these are all from my dystopian and of course my favorite quotes are the most unserious ones 🌿
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almost 10k behind on nano but!!! here are some words. time to go write some more lol
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