Judah Mahay
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✨Literary SFF Author. Explorer of this human enigma.✨ English Professor by day. Hockey player by night. Happily married. Alaskan | Vegan | Querying 💫
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Per advice, I've compiled the books
#amquerying
into a page on my website.
For any agents or acquisition editors out there, may my near-future Frankenstein retelling or character-driven, literary fantasy pique your interest:
#WritingCommunity
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I did it! I broke 200 rejections! Blasted through it!
210 total!
Feel like I deserve a pin, definitely a pin, and maybe some ice cream. Ice cream for sure.
Status:
130 Rejections
80 CNRs
69 Outstanding Queries
2 Pending Fulls
#amquerying
#querying
#WritingCommunity
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I got my first request for a full!!!! And this is after 153 rejections. I'm beyond elated.
#amquerying
#querying
#writingcommunity
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Just signed my first professional-paying short story contract!
Thank you again to
@pinkythnkrpress
for believing in my story of an irate AI demanding his soul!
#writingcommunity
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Please wish me luck.
20 years of writing and this week just feels…right.
3 full requests in the ether and this
#querying
journey seems…well, eminent at this point.
Maybe I’m over optimistic.
Other agents appear on the cusp of requesting and those fulls might respond any
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Just got a FULL REQUEST!!!!
I'm beyond excited!
One step closer.
350 rejections tallied in the search for a new agent.
Don't lose hope. Discarded or unseen authors still have worth. Perseverance pays.
When in doubt, I recall my thesis advisor's words about my novel.🧵
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Update:
20 years writing
8 years applying to grad school
2 books written
3 years MFA obtained
7 years querying
6 Queries - agent acquired
2 years no pub, dropped by agent
2 books (written post MFA)
231 queries
108 rejections
63 CNR
66 outstanding
3 Full Requests!!!
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✨2 years of querying 2 novels in search of a new agent, and I couldn’t be any closer.✨
For 20 years I’ve been writing, and this feels like it may indeed be that moment.
Please wish me luck.
#amquerying
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I just got another full request!!!
Updates for project "Find a New Agent."
3 Pending Fulls
1 Full Rejection
220 Rejections (139 Form + 82 CNR)
6 Rejections Indie Pubs
6 Pending Indie Pubs
*1 year querying 2 novels post agent. 20 years of writing.
#WritingCommunity
#querying
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Got another almost yes rejection.
It must say something that I’m getting a lot of personalized passes.
“Great query. Great concept. You can clearly write. Send more!”
Close but not yet. This makes me want to fight harder, get better, write more.
#WritingCommunity
#querying
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It’s my balloon day!
I’m hitting 44 yrs old! Feel like I’m still in my 30s though.
One request, let's do a 📌 for 📌 respond with a gif, and build this
#writingcommunity
all the more.
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What inspired your novel?
I stumbled across this image on Instagram and couldn’t help but ask what their relationship was.
So, I wrote a story about a remorse-filled mother and her soul-eating dragon godchild.
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♥️ 2 agent pitch likes! In the past 24 hrs! 1 for each novel!♥️
✨The querying gods have somehow been in my favor!✨
I thought my journey ended.
Is this a dream? Not sure how this is possible.
#amquerying
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Drop the most iconic photo of you
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First rejection on a full. Check. It was super nice, personalized, encouraging, and totally devastating.
Picking up the fragments of me to stand with that extra weight on the shoulders.
Still two fulls out and many more pending queries. Onward!
#querying
#amquerying
#writing
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Got another indie publisher rejection. Loved my pitch but my book wasn’t edge of your seat enough for them. I have to be honest this one hurt extra. I don’t want to write a thriller or bated-breath romance. Edge of your seat is not my style, at least not at beginning. 🧵
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Another almost-yes rejection. They’re piling up:
“Your premise sounds intriguing and you are clearly talented, but this isn’t the right project for me.”
Can’t figure this out. Who then is right for a literary noir SFF author that loves the art of writing as I do?
#amquerying
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The querying blades cut ever so deep…
“We really enjoyed this and can see the potential in your writing. The premise is fantastic.
Unfortunately, however, despite all that we liked, we didn't quite fall in love with this as we had hoped…”
#amquerying
#writinglife
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Hey, you all. My mother-in-law entered the
#querying
trenches for the first time in her 70s.
Please give her some love! She's written 9 books over 40 years, and she's finally agreed to try and show them to the world.
Let's welcome this amazing woman to the
#writingcommunity
!
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*Testing, testing, one two three, testing. I can't seem to post.*
Anyone else have this issue before?
Is the dystopian xphere down?
Do you see this?
#x
#twitterx
#xrip
#writingcommunity
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📌 4 📌
#Authors
&
#Creatives
I would love to share support and meet new people during this holiday season. 🎄
Retweet, like, and let’s follow each other. ✨
#WritingCommunity
#writerslift
#writers
#WritingLife
#writerslife
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New Querying Pin💫
📌 for 📌?
Fellow
#writers
,
#artists
,
#musicians
, and
#creatives
, I want to support your
#art
. Please comment below after you’re done.✨
Like, repost, and let’s support each other!❤️
#WritingCommunity
#writerslift
#amquerying
#querying
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25 minute rejection. New record for me. The trenches just seem to get harder, tougher the longer I dwell here.
#amquerying
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Success? What does it mean to me?
Getting published traditionally and recognized for my literary talents cultivated over these last twenty years. Yup, that’s it.
What about you?
#writingcommunity
#Alaska
#vegan
#artists
#writers
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#WritingCommunity
let's do a
#writerslift
! I'm an
#Alaska
born author who takes science to plausible extremes and reality to the magical.
Let's support each other. Drop links below, novels, RT, comment, and/or tell me what you write. Spread the love.
#writerslife
#writerlift
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One of the nicest rejections yet:
"...You have very strong writing and this is a very interesting premise, I strongly encourage you to keep querying as I am sure you will find the perfect agent match!"
#amquerying
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Just got the acceptance letter to teach at Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth this summer!
I get to create a 1-week intensive (5hrs/day) writing course exploring “On Being Human” to genius middle school and high school kids. Stoked! And a bit terrified. Wish me luck.
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#amquerying
#querying
#writingcommunity
Query update on my journey to find a new agent:
94 Rejections Form Letter
6 Rejections Personalized
64 Rejected via No Response (+4 months)
66 Pending (two different novels)
3 Maybe Pile
2 Full Requests!!!
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Update: The Cost of Undying
2 years querying
182 rejections
0 full requests
1 maybe pile
In a maybe pile! First time for my dark literary fantasy.
✨Feel like this is a moment. Praying I at least get a personalized rejection. 🙏
#amquerying
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Just got my first paying short story acceptance!!!!
“Soul Requisition,” where an AI sends an irate email demanding his soul, has found a home with
@pinkythnkrpress
!
Thank you so much to the publisher for believing in my work and for all of the
#writingcommunity
's support!
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✨ Got a full request!!! ✨
Nearing three years since my previous agent and I parted ways. Never give up!
#amquerying
Frankenstein x Blade Runner x Mad Max: Fury Road
Rose is secretly crafted by Dr. Vox in the labs of Viacorp from her twin’s biopod—a composite of body parts, all too common. Imprisoned and experimented on, she must escape to survive and claim her humanity.
#amquerying
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Nearing 300 rejections.
I got another personalized one though, and these mean the world to me: “…while the premise is interesting and your writing is certainly polished, I'm afraid this project leans more hard-sci-fi than I'm looking for on my list…”
#querying
#amquerying
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My son got into the AI graphic machine and created another dystopian nightmare.
Lesson? Keep the children away from the higher tech or we might witness society’s downfall.
Bonus Q: If this was a story, what would be the title?
#writingcommunity
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This might be my 250th rejection since I started seeking a new agent a year ago.
The query cascade is daunting is it not?
What do you all think I should do to celebrate this figurative battle scar?
#amquerying
#querying
#WritingCommunity
#authorlife
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Something is wrong with me.
Sent out two more queries.
I’m probably at 300 rejections.
I’m must like punishment.
Need to move on to the next book but I can’t seem to give up on the previous two.
They will find their day. Patience, Judah. Patience.
#amquerying
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What is the greatest movie fight?
What is the greatest movie fight?
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I stand at the precipice of fire and tempest, salvation or defeat, with a nameless brethren at my side.
Wish us perseverance and yes please, all the luck that can avail ye’.
#amquerying
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What film that is 30+ years old do you think still holds up to this day?
What film that is 30+ years old do you think still holds up to this day?
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#Querying
authors waiting on fulls, what has been your wait times?
I have 3 fulls out at 7 days, 25 days, and 32 days. When I got my first agent back in 2020, they got back to me in under a week, but I don’t think that’s anywhere near the norm.
#WritingCommunity
#amquerying
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✨Wish me luck✨
So, I did the unthinkable. I sent a revised draft of my novel to the agents who already have the full.
I know this is taboo, but I got a few full rejections that mentioned not being able to connect to the MC. So, I edited, and it’s better.
#amquerying
#querying
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My
#QuestPit
adventurers, let’s support each other on this intrepid quest!
Let me know when done with an equally epic gif below (extra points if it reflects your book).
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Diving into a
#writerslift
. I'm an
#Alaska
born writer who loves to take science to plausible extremes or reality to the magical.
Drop links below, RT or comment! Tell me what drives you to write.
Follow you back. Peace.
#writerslife
#writers
#WritingCommunity
#writerscommunity
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So close!
"It's clear that you've devoted a lot of hard work to this project, and your passion comes through in your writing. However, while there is a lot to be commended, I worry that this project is too similar to one already on my list..."
#amquerying
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Form rejection…on a full! This is a first for me and it cuts.
My soul seeps from the cracks in my revenant, bleeding, sapping. Inward all too vacant. Sure, there’s a lingering shadow of pain, but inside that void I call self, I sense the kindling of anger. I will be better. My
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I just realized I was ghosted on a writing competition and one that had a submission fee. I'm kind of ticked off. Where is the simple decency to send a polite form rejection? I will never send anything to them again.
Anyone else experience this?
#WritingCommunity
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#AmQuerying
:
A literary fantasy plagued by dragon gods that collides the mythic grit of The Witcher into the thought-provoking magic of His Dark Materials.
&
A near-future Frankenstein epic that blends the intrigue of Blade Runner with the grit of Mad Max: Fury Road.
🧵
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Pin 📌for pin 📌anyone?
Please RT my pinned post, then comment and I will happily return. ✨
Let’s bring a little cheer and help each other out.
#writingcommunity
#anquerying
#authors
#writers
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Pin for pin?
I’m trying to support a fellow author who just entered the trenches.
#WritingCommunity
#querying
#amquerying
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Just got an uplifting rejection:
✨
“I can see you have talent, you have incredible blurbs lined up, and your concept is fantastic.”
✨
It’s words like these that keep me going, feeling ever closer.
#amquerying
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Just wanted to say thank you to everyone in the
#WritingCommunity
for the support.
I truly appreciate how this actually feels like a community.
That is all.
Thanks.
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Blade Runner x Frankenstein
ROSE is the world’s darkest secret not thought possible—the first assembled human. This threatens our utopia, where most live in their 100s by harvesting grown organs. Captive and ailing, Rose must escape to survive and reveal her truth.
#AmQuerying
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#AmQuerying
Update:
7 Years Post MFA
2 Books
319 Queries
1 Agent Repped & Dropped
271 Query Rejections Total
- 159 Rejections
- 112 CNR (Closed No Response)
45 Queries Pending
5 Full Requests Total
2 Full Requests Pending
13 Indie Subs
8 Indie Rejections
5 Indie Subs Pending
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My novel Embers of Rebirth just got a full request from a publisher! Things are looking up.✨
#amquerying
His Dark Materials x The Witcher
To save her little brother, Lunith bound his soul to his dying body—cursed to an unlife. Then, after years of searching, she finally finds a forbidden cure in a dragon god’s fiery rebirth, yet with dire consequences for all.
#querying
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After two years in the trenches, my book Embers of Rebirth is in the maybe pile for the first time.
I guess revising my query a trillion times is actually paying off. Count the victories, even the tiny ones.
#amquerying
#querying
More on the book here:
Here’s my last
#moodpitch
that I’m releasing into the
#amquerying
ether✨
————————————-
His Dark Materials x The Witcher
To save her little brother, Lunith bound his soul to his dying body—cursed to an unlife. Then, after years of searching, she finally finds a forbidden cure in
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So, I did it. I submitted my edgy, near-future, Frankenstein epic (my MFA thesis) to
@CamCatBooks
.
I’ve held off sending this to publishers for 3 years after I parted with my agent. This was a big step for me.
Please send luck, blessings, all of the above.✨
#writingcommunity
Frankenstein x Blade Runner x Mad Max: Fury Road
Rose is secretly crafted by Dr. Vox in the labs of Viacorp from her twin’s biopod—a composite of body parts, all too common. Imprisoned and experimented on, she must escape to survive and claim her humanity.
#amquerying
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Still in the
#querying
trenches! Waiting on three fulls! I could barely sleep last night. Keep strong, fellow writers. We got this!
#amquerying
#writingcommunity
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First foray into
#writerslift
. I'm an
#AlaskanBorn
writer who loves to take science to plausible extremes or reality to the magical.
Drop links below, RT, or comment! Tell me what you love about
#writing
.
Follow you back. Peace.
#writerslife
#WritingCommunity
#writerscommunity
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OK, this is silly. I’m 12 followers short of 4k!
I’m a literary SFF author and English Professor from Alaska.
I would love to meet more writers.
#WritingCommunity
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I have to admit, I’m enjoying
#ChaosPit
. I’m trying to be as absurd, unhinged, and ridiculous as possible. Anyone want to swap support?
If yes, respond with in equally unhinged gif that reflects your book.
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Almost 300 rejections!
My
#amquering
journey to find a new agent continues. Here's an update. I hope you find it useful.
----------------------------------------
2 Books Over 2 Years
281 Rejections Total
- 165 Rejection Responses (12 Personalized)
- 116 CNRs (Closed No
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✨Thank you, everyone!✨
That’s the end of
#pitdark
for me with no industry traction yet.
Most likely, I’ll be shelving these two books. Short of a miracle. About 8 yrs of work.
Final request? Please ❤️ my pitches to give these books a proper send off!
Pitches nested 👇
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@LRJAllenAuthor
Vanity press. Run, run, run. They are scam artists. You should never, ever, pay for publication.
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Frankenstein x Blade Runner x Mad Max: Fury Road
Rose is secretly crafted by Dr. Vox in the labs of Viacorp from her twin’s biopod—a composite of body parts, all too common. Imprisoned and experimented on, she must escape to survive and claim her humanity.
#amquerying
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Feeling a breakthrough near. ✨
My submission, “Soul Requisition” where an AI sends an irate email demanding his soul, to
@augurmag
is getting close to a decision.
This would be my first paying pub.
Wish me 🍀
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So close! Piling up the almost yes rejections.
“…you have an exciting premise…however, we don't feel that Embers of Rebirth is quite right for our list. Our fiction is very commercial, and you have a rather more literary style…”
#amquerying
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Why do you read?
Sharing your reasons will hopefully help others see the merits of a good story.
#WritingCommunity
#readingcommunity
#booklovers
#read
#readers
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What did you look like in 2013?
Wife and I returned with our son to visit the pier where we got married.
What did you look like in 2013?
Unknown years ago to be honest. Hmm, maybe that's why people call me a vampire...
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So, I haven’t received my daily obligatory form rejection from either agents or publishers. Something feels caterwonky about the world. I’ll take this as a shift in the winds of luck. Maybe something is positive on the horizon.
#amquerying
#querying
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#querying
authors, when sending a full, make sure you get a confirmation of receipt. I followed up and just heard from an agent that my full ended up in spam!
They have it now but my worst nightmare almost came true. Confirm receipt on fulls!
#amquerying
#writingcommunity
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A few rejections in and a few new queries sent out. I’m must be a glutton for punishment.
I’m pushing 350 query rejections on 2 MS over 2 years.
At least it appears I’m in a maybe pile.
#amquerying
#WritingCommunity
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🔥 Broke 300 rejections! 🔥
My final
#querying
update:
(Context: 2019 on sub, book didn’t sell to few pubs, agent drops me.)
2 Books
2 Years
331 Agent Queries Total
- 174 Rejections
- 140 CNR (Closed No Response)
- 17 Pending
18 Indie Subs Total
- 12 Rejections
- 6 Pending
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For my birthday, just putting it out there, ✨ manifesting ✨ so to speak, I would totally love an offer of rep today.
#amquerying
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I’m done. Trying not to think my first agent was a fluke. Focusing completely on the new WIP.
❌QueryTracker Premium Cancelled
❌Publishers Marketplace Cancelled
❌Pending Queries Closed
❌2 Years Querying 2 Books
All that remains:
🍥7 Indie Subs Still Pending
Per advice, I've compiled the books
#amquerying
into a page on my website.
For any agents or acquisition editors out there, may my near-future Frankenstein retelling or character-driven, literary fantasy pique your interest:
#WritingCommunity
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@authoranima
It just means ‘they’ don’t know how to sell it as a debut. Might be totally fine as a second book. Don’t let it worry you. Maybe think about tweaking the pitch to me more edgy and engaging if possible. Otherwise, keep going. Good luck.
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Goodnight, my writing friends. May your dreams be full of grandeur and gravitas.
And I must ask, has a dream ever been the catalyst to a story? What was it like? What was it about? How did you remember it?
#WritingCommunity
#writinglife
#writing
#writingprompt
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I need a graphic artist to save Christmas.
I don't have much of a budget ($15). Not sure if this is even reasonable, but my son wants a pillow with the image of a potato wearing sunglasses driving a
@Bugatti
. I know this is crazy. Can anyone help?
#illustrators
#graphicartists
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Well, I’ve been restricted by X again. I’m a bit more than frustrated. I’ve been told my posts are being suppressed. Sorry if I disappear on here. It’s not my intention.
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His Dark Materials x The Witcher
To save her little brother, Lunith bound his soul to his dying body—cursed to an unlife. Then, after years of searching, she finally finds a forbidden cure in a dragon god’s fiery rebirth, yet with dire consequences for all.
#amquerying
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Novelette final edits finished!
This awkwardly length (14.5k) steampunk, far future, dystopian idiotic-blind-love literary epic set in a world of floating islands now needs a home.
Here we go publishing world. Get ready for “The Sky Gilded Gray.”
#writingcommunity
#amquerying
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Okay, type your main character’s name into the GIF bar and see what comes up…
I don't know who this is, but I like it all the same. Character name: Marik
Okay, type your main character’s name into the GIF bar and see what comes up…
Oh dear...
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Fellow writers and artists, I want to follow you and your journey.
Please respond with what motivates you to create, the why of all this.
Share, like, repost, and follow each other.
#WritingCommunity
#authorslife
#querying
#artist
#writerslift
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#QuestPit
complete!
It was fun. Met new writers. As always, I follow back those who follow me. I enjoy helping and lifting other artists, so there is merit in that.
No industry likes. Maybe in a few day.
Thank you all for your support.
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@AmitaMurray
D. Romance is great but it neither makes me want to read or not. The story itself must be compelling first and foremost.
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In the spirit of Christmas 🎄let’s start a
#writerslift
where we only post, like, follow, and retweet our friend’s books.📚
#WritingCommunity
#BookBoost
#booklovers
#books
#BookTwitter
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#PitDark
this or not?
2 yrs
#AmQuerying
has emotionally flayed me.
💪Badass Female MC
🐉Evil Dragon God Overlords
🚫Forbidden Power, History, & Lore
📕Dark Literary Fantasy
✨Killing a dragon god? Not in the plans. Neither was adopting its soul-eating dragon baby.
#F
#A
#NA
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Making traditional Chinese hot pot at home tonight from scratch. A favorite family meal.
Does anyone else love making traditional foods, and if so, what’s your favorite?
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#KidLitPit
pitches nested here for The Undying, a character-driven, literary fantasy that weaves the introspection of Earthsea into the thought-provoking magic of His Dark Materials.
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Can’t wait till the world reads the 9 books
@pamelareese
has been hiding away!
#WritingCommunity
and those in the
#querying
trenches, let’s support this amazing woman!
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Using only a gif, what's your favorite pastime other than writing?
Using only a gif, what's your favorite pastime other than writing?
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