Award winning editor of DEVOUT. Author of TELL ME HOW IT ENDS & CHRYSALIS AND REQUIEM ✦ They/them ✦ An angel in another life, probably ➴ pfp by heavenlyystar
In prep of
#SapphicSeptember
, I take a knee and present to you, Chrysalis and Requiem
A NA dark academia fantasy thriller about toxic lesbians and angels.
🦋 bipoc author
💫 <1k ratings on goodreads
🦋 indie author
💫disaster sapphics
🦋2024 release
cover by
@sethpuertoluna
Grabbed publishing by the neck and...
I'm thrilled to announce that I will be indie-publishing my novel TELL ME HOW IT ENDS in April 2023 🎉
My queer, witchy Tangled reimagining found a home where it's always belonged & I'm excited to share this journey with you. Let's do this!
My main character is a tarot reader, as reading tarot is a practice I enjoy in my spare time.
To share this little joy of mine with you guys, comment below and I will pull a tarot card for you with an interpretation! 🃏🎴
Everyone!!
#WritingCommunity
! I DID IT. I've written my first novel! I am so excited right now, I can feel it in my chest. I got to type "the end" 😳
Thank you for all the support on this account as I've been writing <3 I can't wait for what is yet to come
#amwriting
#amediting
it's 2024, the year that this queer book with unsettling romance comes out. it comps an education in malice and these violent delights from this list! 🦋
A thread of queer books with unsettling romances, complex or unnerving themes, dead dove content, etc. Stories meant to challenge readers, stories for lovers of dark queer stories and problematic themes. 🧵
COVER REVEAL for CHRYSALIS AND REQUIEM 🦋
Thank you for your beautiful work Caleb
@sethpuertoluna
🔪 Neurodivergent murder lesbians
👼 Trans & queer allegories
💼 Dark academia tragedy
📖 The Secret History x A Lesson in Vengeance
MAR 16 2024
Preorder:
I can confidently say: I'm a published author!
I'm so grateful for everyone's support and everything that has happened so far. Thank you thank you thank you
If you ever have questions about publishing or deciding trad vs indie, my dms are open for you
I got accepted in a library program to run a paid writing workshop and I'm super excited to do it! It won't be until July but I've always wanted to host one irl
HAPPY PRIDE MONTH! GET YOUR FREE EBOOK COPY OF TELL ME HOW IT ENDS!
Iris Galacia is a lesbian tarot reader with anxiety and autism who is called to adventure by Marin Boudreau, an aroace ADHD enby thief on a rescue mission
🃏✨TMHIE IS PUBLISHED✨🃏
Iris' journey of friendship, discovery & healing is out in the world!
Tell Me How It Ends is a YA coming-of-age fantasy in which a sheltered lesbian tarot reader is called to adventure by an aroace nonbinary thief
ATTENTION QUERYING WRITERS
Due to the glitches recently on QM and QT, please check your individual QM links for outstanding queries!
I checked mine today to find I had a full request from 3 days ago that I didn’t receive an email for (not even in spam)
Good luck!
#amquerying
✨COVER REVEAL✨
My cozy coming-of-age fantasy with a queer, nd and diverse cast, witches & tarot finally has a front cover!
Thank you
@swordvampyr
for your beautiful work. I couldn't ask for a better piece
TMHIE releases April 9th 2023
Preorder:
📣 We are so excited to share that Tell Me How It Ends by
@itsquinnli
is our second book inclusion for our November “Divine Destiny” crate!
We loved this book so much and you’ll also fall in love with it if you’re into queer cozy fantasy, witches, tarot, and adventure! 🔮✨
I've decided to drop the penname I created for thinking my last name was too short, or that it was "too Asian"
It's been years since then, and after seeing so many other authors published with Chinese names, I realised that I don't need to change it
Quinn Andaver ➡️ Quinn Li
The final, polished draft of Tell Me How It Ends, my Rapunzel inspired fantasy coming-of-age adventure, comes to an end at 88,073 words. This is after line edits, developmental edits and beta reader feedback.
It's time to update my display name.
#amquerying
(also, love you all!)
Fanfic writers got it right because they go home and whip out their ao3 or wattpad etc and go for it. I need to take a page from their book and just write because I will love it and probably others. Just because I've written a novel, doesn't mean I need to restrict my writing
💫 COVER REVEAL 👼
Devout: An Anthology of Angels is available for ebook and paperback preorder and releases August 29th
Alex Patrascu
@swordvampyr
has done an incredible job with this cover and I have to show you the full spread soon!
#DevoutAnthology
You always remember your first!!
Say hello to the first proof copy of Tell Me How It Ends, with its little imperfections (maybe not as little), temporary cover, and all the glory of being a novel 💜
GR:
SG:
🃏🌟TMHIE PAPERBACK GIVEAWAY🌟🃏
I'll be choosing two lucky winners to be sent a paperback of TELL ME HOW IT ENDS, my upcoming cozy fantasy debut
Open internationally & winners will be drawn April 5th
You can enter on Insta for an extra entry!
WE HAVE A FULL COVER PEOPLE!
Thank you to
@swordvampyr
for this incredible illustration design. I genuinely don't know what more I could ask for. It has everything I want
Preorder ebook or signed paperback here:
🦋 TITLE REVEAL 🦋
Chrysalis and Requiem is...
✨ new adult
💕 queer dark academia
🔪 psychological thriller
👼 speculative elements
Release date and synopsis reveal coming soon
With pitch events behind me as I embrace indie, what better way to end off than a no-agent event?
Imagine if Rapunzel was a lesbian tarot reader & Flynn Rider was an aroace chaotic good thief. And they're off to rescue a witch in another city
TELL ME HOW IT ENDS 4.23
#pitlight
First orange banner 🥺
#1
New Release in Teen & Young Adult LGBTQ+ Fiction! What an awesome category!
Thank you to everyone who's pre-ordered so far💘
If you like tarot, fantasy adventures and found family, you can preorder ebook or signed paperback at
TANGLED x SIX OF CROWS
Iris is a tarot reader who needs cash fast.
Marin is a stranger with a proposition.
☀️ Plantonic Grumpy x Sunshine
🏡 Queer found family
🌟 Exploring the inner child
“I’m just a tarot reader. My cards don’t exactly rescue people."
#wiplift
💌CAMP NANO ACCOUNTABILITY THREAD💌
✦ A CROWN SO FAUX ✦
STATUS: Rewriting
GOAL: 50k words
Dark academia with sapphic devotion. A thief who loves a mystery + needs something to call hers & a princess who murdered her best friend + will do anything to cover it up
[
#CampPitch
]
Thank you everyone for an amazing first week of being a debut published author!🃏🌟
Almost 300 copies have been purchased and I am entirely grateful for anyone who's supported me so far
I'm glad to share my writing with you and my next publication will be announced very soon💓
I'm going to go to sleep tonight and wake up a published author!
Also sometimes I open my files or physical copy and get surprised about the formatting. It's really cool to see this story go from that usual manuscript a4 format to formatted for paperback
(and done in Word...)
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👼SHE'S HERE!! DEVOUT: An Anthology of Angels
Thank you so much for the support everyone. It's so cool to see how many people are interested in angels and to see the works of the contributors appreciated
I've been lucky to lead this project & I'm excited for what's to come
12 yrs ago, Tangled was released.
I grew up with that movie. It was a story of overcoming familial challenges, learning about the world, taking risks, & standing up for yourself
Last year I wrote Tell Me How It Ends, a Tangled reimagining with tarot
Stay tuned for some news 🤔
Just sent queries for 4
#WMpitch
agent likes, feeling positive :D I got 5, but that other one was for an agent I already submitted to!! So exciting 💗
Thanks for the support during yesterday's event everyone
For anyone compiling some 2024 release lists right now, Chrysalis and Requiem is a new adult queer dark academia spec thriller ✨
There's murder, angels, flowers and butterflies 🦋
Coming March 16th 2024
🌟 Chrysalis and Requiem is coming March 2024!
A sapphic dark academia speculative thriller 🔪
A cautionary tale and a tragedy about obsession, grief and expectations 🦋
You can add it to your virtual shelves now :)
👼 Full Cover Reveal!!
Very happy to share the full cover of DEVOUT: An Anthology of Angels as we are less than a week away from release!!
Thank you to Alex Patrascu
@swordvampyr
for the amazing design work
TELL ME HOW IT ENDS
With the flip of her fingers, Iris Galacia can read the future & a person's secrets
At first, she only uses this ability for her mother's gambling business
Then Marin crashes into her life, and she has a chance to use her talent for much more...
#Pitlight
QUERY STATS - 1 month in
#amquerying
💌 39 queries sent
- 6 of those were
#WMpitch
reqs
- 10 of those were
#APIpit
reqs
- 1 of those were an agent ref
📝 3 full reqs
- 2 pending
- 1 rejection
🍃 6 query rejections
⏱ 30 pending queries
May is a month of patience and waiting💖
Devout Anthology Top 100 !! Top 10 !! 🎉
Thank you for all the preorders so far 🌟 Your support of our angel filled collection is so heartwarming
We're working hard to get paperback preorders set up too
For now...
🌳 3.99
☕ .99+
A CROWN SO FAUX – dark academia & magical realism
🍒 a scholarship thief & a fallen princess
🍓 cliques run by nobility titles
🍄 student council as a front to corruption
🥀 protective sibling relations
❤️ father & daughter relations
🍷 a mystery to solve that can save them all
Today is the last day I can say that I'm a 20 yo queer + trans indie author who has published a fantasy book + an anthology about angels. I did my first in-person book event four days ago + my novel is in a book box for Nov. Next week brings more news + tomorrow I am 21 years old
A sneaky peek inside the paperback...
This novel is for tarot readers, fans, newbies or even those coming across tarot for the first time
Being able to depict the cards dedicated to each chapter like this means so much to me and I'm so glad to be sharing this with you
Hi
#TransRightsReadathon
! ❣🏳️⚧️
My novel releases in April, but since the readathon starts March 20th, so I'd love to offer any participants a free eARC
Tell Me How It Ends features a non-binary main character, and I'm non-binary myself!
DM me for your readathon copy ✨
TELL ME HOW IT ENDS NUMBER 1!! 🌟
This is really cool! I haven't seen my novel this high in the rankings before o.o
I'm still running my free ebook promo for Pride Month!! Get it quick
BREAKING NEWS!!
Tell Me How It Ends is book
#1
in the CHAOS IN THE CARDS series!
This series will follow the adventures of Iris, Marin, Myst and Kalaya as they navigate trauma, healing, relationships (including platonic ones!), the world and MAGIC!
For those who haven't seen on Insta,
@FaeCrate
and Fox & Wit are teaming up to host a fundraiser to help orgs provide relief to those in Gaza
If you're an author or creator who can help support the donation pool for this fundraiser, you can submit here:
🪷 WEIGHED WITH FLOWERS 🪷
• Literary Fantasy •
Aerowa is the Creator & she can grant humankind divinity.
But then her own creations start to turn & make themselves Gods Above Her.
So she takes their powers away & then their lives.
What comes of a God who kills?
#pitlight
HEATHERS x A LESSON IN VENGEANCE
Veaer loves mysteries but wants one of her own
Elise is the princess of Adraredon Academy & murdered her best friend
Veaer watched her do it.
But she's not telling anyone until she can call Elise hers
#PitLight
#NA
#LF
#M
#LGBT
#ND
#POC
📚 24 HOUR NOVEL CHALLENGE 📚
@24hr_novel
/
#24hrNovel
Continuing my rewrite of my NA dark academia about neurodivergent murder lesbians
A fantastic reason to share this comm
@ha__gege
did of Elise and Veaer!! LOOK AT THEM 🥹
Start: 49,965 words
Aim: 10k+ words
My cat needs dental surgery next week — so I've opened up a Kofi goal and also mini editing commissions!
Pay what you can!
• Query package edits (from $5)
• Indie book blurb edits (from $5)
• Short story edits (from $15)
RTs appreciated 🐱
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What makes your story special? :)
Tell Me How It Ends is a nominee in ELEVEN categories for the Indie Ink Awards?!
I expected maybe two or three so when I read the email this morning... I had to decipher all the words
Thank you so much to everyone who nominated on behalf of TMHIE. It really means a lot 👼🩷
You could totally read TELL ME HOW IT ENDS for Pride if you like...
🌟 Lesbian tarot readers
🃏 Aroace enby thieves
🌟 Queer fantasy adventure
🃏 Platonic focused fantasy
🌟 Found family and healing
Ebook is FREE right now on the zon, and is on KU too!
#PMRE2023
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4 weeks of creators, WIP highlights and
#Pride2022
for our fellow writers. Can’t wait to show you guys!
#PrideWriterShowcase
💚 Queer, poc, disabled and mental health rep
💚 Special interest encouraged and used in creative ways
💚 Platonic love focused narrative
💚 Pronouns talked about and respected
💚 Aro-ace character with labels on page who still loves to flirt
💚 Tarot cards!
👼ARC APPLICATIONS FOR DEVOUT ANTHOLOGY
Angels & angel lovers, get an early read of our collection!
A look into genres... Dark Fantasy, Horror, Historical Romance, Mythological, Gothic Fiction, Science Fiction (& more) - for mature audiences
Apply 👁
Hey
#PridePit
! 🌈🌟
I wrote a YA fantasy ft. queer characters on a magical rescue mission
🃏 Lesbian tarot reader with autism and anxiety
💫 Aroace enby thief with ADHD
🃏 Tarot magic and elemental spirits
💫 Themes of friendship, belonging, and healing
Check it below🧵✨
You can add my Tangled reimagining with a queer cast and witches, Tell Me How It Ends, on Goodreads!
By adding it to your shelves or hitting "want to read" it truly supports me, and also connects me to other readers who may be interested in my novel 🌟
With an invitation to revise and resubmit on a query, I am learning more about scene setting and worldbuilding even after I’ve written a whole novel and have had querying wins with this book.
It goes to show that it’s okay that we’re always learning, and we should enjoy learning
👼 DEVOUT CONTRIBUTOR 👼
Rafael Nicolás (
@nicosraf
) is joining the DEVOUT ANTHOLOGY with a poem and a short story!
Find more on DEVOUT: An anthology of angels -
Representation is really important to me as a writer, which is why TELL ME HOW IT ENDS takes place in a queernorm fantasy world where a range of characters and identities live
I'd love to share my series main characters, and my side characters
Starting with Iris! (👇thread)
📌 Hey there, I'm Quinton Li — neurodivergent enby Timorese author!🌟
I love writing stories, editing books & chatting about publishing
Diversifying publishing is important to me, and so is supporting diverse writers
links:
site:
Hello
#writersoftwitter
🌟 I'm Quinton (they/them) & I write young + new adult stories about queer, poc, neurodivergent & disabled characters who learn about their place in the world while healing & becoming stronger together. My debut TELL ME HOW IT ENDS releases 9 April 23 🏳️⚧️♥️
TELL ME HOW IT ENDS Pre-orders!
A cozy fantasy with a diverse cast, tarot cards and witches.
Iris Galacia, a lesbian tarot reader is called to adventure by Marin Boudreau, an aroace nonbinary thief on a rescue mission.
📖:
📱:
Hello
#TransBooks365
. I'm Quinton, a queer non-binary author 💛🤍💜🖤
My cozy fantasy TELL ME HOW IT ENDS releases April 9th. The 2nd MC is Marin, an aroace non-binary thief
I very much intend to write more trans & enby MCs in my career
preorder TMHIE:
One of the greatest perks of publishing your own novel... you get to decide the formatting
Tarot fans, enthusiasts and even beginners may be thrilled to find a few cards in the pages of Tell Me How It Ends 😏😏
Happy world autism acceptance day/week/month!
Many people know of autism's existence or know someone with autism, yet don't aim to accept it - as if it makes someone lesser to have autism
I think not, so I'm glad to share my
#ownvoices
mc with autism
#WorldAutismAcceptanceDay
What a better day than ace day to share this diagram of flags aka lgbtqia+ identities features in TMHIE?
And a couple bonus flags for identities I'd love to further explore in the series!
Is your flag here? :D
🌟ARC & Street Team for TELL ME HOW IT ENDS
Get an early read & support a debut indie author!
You get:
⛥ Digital ARC
⛥ Priority for future ARCs
⛥ Priority for beta-reading
⛥ Early access to the cover reveal
(more if you join street team!)
Apply!👇
Devout: An Anthology of Angels was the first anthology I edited/curated
Inside you will find the passion of a million angels - all brought to these pages through words and art
It takes a lot to put yourself out there, so I will forever cherish the contributions in Devout 👼
Resource for Indie Authors 🌟
Advance Information Sheets are a professional and concise way to communicate information about your book when pitching to booksellers, librarians and reviewers
Example provided from C&R
Access template on my website:
The council of angels approved of this ao3 tag graphic for Devout if you wanted to know more about this anthology!
Get your preorder in now if you love angels 👼
UPDATE!!
My catto had her surgery and she's all good now!!
Thank you so much everyone for the support. Even if just sharing my tweet
I will be keeping the Kofi up for small editing comms !! In addition to my novel packages at 💓💓
My cat needs dental surgery next week — so I've opened up a Kofi goal and also mini editing commissions!
Pay what you can!
• Query package edits (from $5)
• Indie book blurb edits (from $5)
• Short story edits (from $15)
RTs appreciated 🐱
DEVOUT ANTHOLOGY coming August 29th 2023!
Featuring emerging and established authors who love angels just as much as me and you
Add DEVOUT on Goodreads and Storygraph today
Preorders coming soon 👁
My new adult dark academia is looking for beta readers!
- 84k, about 8.5 hrs reading
- Sapphic tragedy, thriller, occult fantasy
- Themes of gender, queer women & mental health
- Not demon deals but angel deals
1-3 month turnaround 💗
express interest!
DEVOUT: AN ANTHOLOGY OF ANGELS
Holy, holy, holy angels are coming your way
They've taken the form of poetry, stories, flash fiction, visual art and non-fiction pieces
Meet them in August 2023
And meet the Wranglers this month
#Pitlight
👼 DEVOUT CONTRIBUTOR 👼
Freydís Moon (
@freydis_moon
) is joining the DEVOUT ANTHOLOGY with a poem and short story!
Find more on DEVOUT: An anthology of angels -
I'm excited, ARE YOU EXCITED? Mark your calendars!! We have a bit under 24 HOURS until the cover drops
I mean look at that sneak peek...
This beauty was designed and illustrated by Alex Patrascu
@swordvampyr
Remember this: don't let numbers fool you. Such as how you shouldn't be afraid to query an agent you think will match because of their low response rate
Its not about numbers, it's about finding the right match! Always remember!!
#amquerying