Sara Read, Author
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Author of JOHANNA PORTER IS NOT SORRY and PRINCIPLES OF (E)MOTION. Compassionate misanthrope. GenX-level unfiltered.
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In March 2021, after six years of dedicated learning to write and about 4 years of querying, I signed with Laura Bradford. In March 2023 I'm signing copies of my debut novel! And this is just the beginning.
The arc of publishing is loooooong. Have patience and persevere ❤️
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I did what a writer should never do last night. Had an idea and thought, I’ll remember that. 😩
#momswritersclub
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44: started writing seriously (after long hiatus)
51: signed with agent
53: debut novel on big 5 pub and working on book three 54: book two will release (2024)
And it’s fucking great. Life is long.
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Four Hard Truths About Writing Your First Novel 🧵
First of all: FUCK YEAH! for getting to that page where you write “The End.” Lots of people say, “I’ve always wanted to write a novel." You actually DID it! That's huge.
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#amwriting
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How to survive querying in five very difficult steps. 🧵🪡
1. Understand: it’s going to take a long time. Lots of hours researching who to query, crafting your query letter, polishing your first pages. It. Will. Take. A. Long. Time.
#amquerying
#writingcommunity
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I feel so much better on a day that I write than on a day that I don’t.
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I am convinced what I am writing is total shit.
I am writing it anyway.
Being creative is so glamorous 🙄
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In ten years, which do you want to be able to say?
-I wrote a book
OR
-My house was really clean
(Because sometimes you just can’t have both!)
#momswritersclub
#amwriting
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For anyone who is sad because they are shelving a manuscript... a 🧵
My 2nd book, PRINCIPLES OF (E)MOTION comes out 1/9/23. It got a glowing review in Kirkus and a ✨review in Booklist.
It started as a seed in 2016. I shelved it TWICE.
#amwriting
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Dude where are all the
#womensfiction
authors on my feed?
If you write book-club, women's, contemporary realism, or literary fiction, please raise your hand and I'll follow back!❤️
#amwriting
#writingcommunity
#bookclub
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Writing a first draft is like driving too fast down a rutted gravel road in a truck which was built in the 70s.
#WritingCommunity
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It’s getting real—March 2023 I will be a published author!!!
New title: Johanna Porter is Not Sorry.
Can’t wait to share this story with the world ❤️❤️❤️
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#momswritersclub
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WRITE THE SYNOPSIS BEFORE YOU WRITE THE BOOK.
It's not etched in stone, but so many issues get worked out in the synopsis before you write 40K to figure them out.
#momswritersclub
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#dreadedsynopsis
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I am beyond happy to announce I am now represented by Laura Bradford
@bradfordlit
!
I am so lucky she loved JOHANNA THE THIRD, & I can’t wait to share it with everyone!
(❤️to all who already commented. I had to do an edit & repost!)
#MomsWritersClub
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OMG look what came in the mail!!!!!
I can’t believe I get to do this again❤️❤️❤️❤️
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Writing a novel takes as long as it takes.
Which is usually a long time.
It takes all the false starts and restarts.
It takes all the cuts and changes and rewrites.
Take the time. Do what needs done.
This is just how the thing works.
#amwriting
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Every day I think, today is the day I will not medicate my anxiety and stress with food and booze. And every day I am wrong.
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I. Finished. My. Manuscript. 83.2K
Sort of disoriented with all this space in my head.
I can think about other things now.
Also kind of feel like I just gave birth. (Which I have done for real. Twice.)
#amwriting
#writingcommunity
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What annoys the fuck out of you as a reader?
I mean, in the book you’re reading. (I think we can all agree on things like lack of coffee and people trying to, you know, *talk* to you.)
#WritingCommunity
#BookTwitter
#bookish
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What do you dream of being as a writer?
Not doing (e.g. publishing, making money, having a movie made of your book) but BEING? Where do you want your work to fall in the grand scheme of creation?
(Forgive me. Prosecco makes me philosophical.)
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OMG OMG OMG 😱
Principles of (E)motion got a STARRED REVIEW on Booklist!!!!!
(Break out the fainting couch 🫨)
#momswritersclub
#amwriting
#bookclub
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OMG OMG OMG I just sent the finished manuscript of my second book to my editor!!!!
Let the pacing and wringing of hands begin.
(Actually, I am very excited about this one... but also nervous... but also excited!!!)
#momswritersclub
#amwriting
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What do you find most mentally and/or emotionally challenging about writing and the writing life?
For me it's impostor syndrome and self-criticism.
#amwriting
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That feeling that there is some BIG EMBARRASSING flaw in your manuscript that you somehow haven't spotted despite scouring it 100 times before you send it off?
That feeling never goes away. Just so you know.
#momswritersclub
#amwriting
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It’s a dream come true.
I am thrilled to get to work with
@CatClyne
. And I can’t wait for everyone to meet my soulmate Johanna & go on this wild ride with her.
Much love to Laura
@bradfordlit
for being the quintessential badass.
#momswritersclub
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#amwriting
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OMGOMGOMG!!!
COVER REVEAL!!!!!!!!!!
So many thanks to Erin Craig &
@suzyspellbound
for the design &
@CatClyne
for shepherding it all through. I absolutely LOVE it!
I'm going to go pass out from happiness now 🤪
#amwriting
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#authorsoftwitter
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@carolineframke
Endurance (the true story of Ernest Shackleton ‘s Antarctic journey). Literally picked it up and read for twelve hours.
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Today's unsolicited writing advice:
DO. NOT. SETTLE.
If it can be better, make it better.
Brought to you by a major structural revision to a WIP I thought was done.
#momswritersclub
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Goodbye solo writing retreat. I spent two days, three nights & a morning:
-not going anywhere
-not seeing anyone
-totally uninterrupted
-writing (7K!)
-doing whatever the hell else I felt like
My introvert batteries are recharged. 💯recommend.
#momswritersclub
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Writers:
NEVER. THROW. ANYTHING. AWAY.
I was just struggling over a problem spot, and realized I had already solved it months ago!
#momswritersclub
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Me:Omg I’m exhausted. Finally time for lights out.
Brain: remember that one thing that always makes you cry?
Me: oh for fuck’s sake—
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She’s HERE!!! Johanna Porter is Not Sorry—my debut novel. I can’t believe I can actually hold this BOOK in my hands!!! (Release date is 3/7/23, link in bio) So grateful to
@CatClyne
@bradfordlit
and
@htp_books
for bringing this into the world!
#WritingCommunity
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Bye bye port scar. It delivered life saving chemotherapy in 2017 but I don’t want to look at it anymore.
#cancersurvivor
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I am on a fucking solo writing retreat at this Airbnb from heaven. Ahhhhhh….
#momswritersclub
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#solowritingretreat
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Am I the only one who doesn’t use up a notebook in order (front to back?) I just flip to a blank page and start there. Sometimes at the back. It’s a jumble but I guess it keeps the mind loose.
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Leaving in an hour for a solo Airbnb writing retreat. Not only is it gorgeous, but it’s in the neighborhood where my WIP is set!
#momswritersclub
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Today’s the day. The book of my heart, Johanna Porter is Not Sorry is available NOW!
Thank you
@CatClyne
and
@bradfordlit
and everyone who helped make this a reality. I am beyond words ❤️❤️❤️
Order anywhere!
#pubday
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You know what?
If you have a creative life, fuck keeping your house clean.
#amwriting
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Author milestone—signing preorders …from people I don’t even know! 😁❤️ Thanks to everyone who ordered. You made my day.
Johanna Porter is Not Sorry comes out Tuesday!!! Order link in my bio.
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Writers, Do you give your chapters titles? Why or why not?
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Just Googled “breakfast for people who hate breakfast.” And what did I get? Breakfast recipes! I don’t want food. I never want to eat in the early morning. I want a food pellet that will get me through nutrition-wise to lunch.
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You know that feeling when you kind of get your first real footing in a new WIP?
I love that feeling.
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#writingcommunity
#firstdrafting
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Also found Johanna Porter Is Not Sorry facing OUT at B&N!
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Years: 6
Submissions: 225
Novels: 3
Cancer diagnoses: 1
Acceptances:
1 writer's residency
@wildacresNC
4 short stories
@Missouri_Review
@BFictionJournal
@zone3press
@newreadermag
1 AGENT!!!
@bradfordlit
Do. Not. Give. Up.
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I was kind of sad not to see my book on the shelves. Then I had the brilliant idea to…check the catalog. Three copies. Two checked out and one being held 🥰🥰🥰
That feeling when you see your book at the public library. 🥰
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I have a final TITLE!!!!!
(this is not the cover… that’s under construction)
So excited!!!!
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OMGOMGOMG.... I think I wrote another *decent* book 😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍
I didn't think I could. I felt like such an impostor after the first one, & I thought, that's it. I had one good book in me & now I'm done, but...I THINK I DID IT AGAIN!
#momswritersclub
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Does anyone out there NOT bother about chapters when they're drafting? I just write scenes and figure I'll work out the chapter breaks later.
#momswritersclub
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OMG don’t you love it when you procrastinate something long enough and it actually goes away????😍😍😍😍😍😍
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As a woman who started a career in my 20s (music), then another in my 30s (nursing), & another in my 40s (writing) with lots of overlap between them & two kids along the way, I am here to tell you, WRITING IS THE LEAST AGEIST of almost any career.
#WritingCommunity
#amwriting
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Four years, three books, and hundreds of queries elapsed before I signed with my agent (who promptly sold my book to a stellar editor!)
You may beat those odds, but you may not.
#amquerying
is a long game. So WRITE THE NEXT BOOK. (And best of luck! ❤️)
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Author copies of Principles of (E)motion are here!!!
They’re so pretty!
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I’m abandoning
#NaNoWriMo
for *reasons* but I’m proud of the 20K+ words I wrote this month.
Life is twisty.
#writingcommunity
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Damn. My first draft WIP has a Flesch-Kincaid reading level of 3rd grade. The last one was 5th grade--and I thought I was getting better at this! (FYI, I write adult fiction 😂)
#momswritersclub
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30 and up Twitter, drop a pic with your age…
cancer tried and failed…53
30 and up Twitter drop a pic with your age
45 and still alive (fuck you cancer)
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Any advice on how to support a teenager through an awful heartbreak without losing my mind?
#momswritersclub
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COMING 1/9/2024! *Pre-Orders open now*
Mathematical genius Dr. Meg Brightwood solves a famously difficult—and famously valuable—problem known as “the Impossible Theorem” but confronts her anxiety and the prejudices of her field when challenged to prove that the proof is her own.
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Have you ever noticed that there are a lot more synonyms for laughing hard, than for laughing a little. I want a word for that little laugh you do when you're feeling kind of sarcastic about something.
#writingcommunity
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This is my cat. Drinking out of the toilet. A million memes waiting to be made.
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I am utterly ignoring timeline in this first draft. There are dozens of brackets that say [date], [day], [time], [amount of time] that I'll fill in later. That stuff just bogs me down.
What do you skip over in a first draft & fill in later?
#writingcommunity
#momswritersclub
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I’m at the point in my WIP that I really need to pin down the timeline.
Anyone have a favorite tip or tool for dealing with timeline?
#WritingCommunity
#momswritersclub
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I just wrote a three page synopsis. Will someone please give me a medal 😩
#momswritersclub
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Sometimes you’ve got to write the first 25K of a book to figure out what it’s really about.
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Even though I am agented & my debut comes out 3/23, I’m still looking for things to get rejected from. I got rejected by three residencies this year. & I’m looking for more rejections! Bigger & better ones! Because each one is an opportunity.
#MomsWritersClub
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Wrote 5K that will never make it into the book (wrong POV). But it was worth it. Once I know what the story behind the story is, everything gets easier.
#momswritersclub
#amwriting
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Reposting as I begin a new project… I tend to cycle through this process multiple times a day in the beginning stages.
#WritingCommunity
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You know that trope:
"I love you, but I can't be with you bc I am such a fuckup and I will ruin your life--so I am leaving forever!"
Do people really do that in real life? When they KNOW the other person loves them back?
(WIP r/t. Help!)
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Power is on. Kids are healthy. House is warm. Happy birthday to me :)
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And write the next book! It's the absolute best way to distract yourself while waiting.
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4. Do not get hung up on any one agent. AKA Do not have a “dream agent.”
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Well, I missed
#momswritersclub
tonight :(
But I had a teen in crisis. We went from being very sad to ranting about social justice, to walking down the block to see the big tree that fell down, to her making a tiktok about how I made her feel better.
Mom win.
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You are superior to circumstance. You are bigger and badder than what life/art/publishing throws at you.
In the immortal words of Edna Mode, “Go. Confront the problem. Fight! WIN! ...And call me when you get back, darling. I've enjoyed our visit.” ❤️
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Tea drinkers, is it a thing to pour some of you hot tea in the saucer to cool then sip from the saucer. It’s something I think I remember my mother doing.
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2. It’s part skill (your book) and part luck. The only way to influence the “luck” part is to query a lot of agents. Keep about 20 “live” queries out there. If a rejection comes in, send out another one.
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Not sure how much longer I can live in this fucking country.
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My mood tanks every day around 4:00 (anxiety, irritability, fatigue) and doesn’t improve until 8 or 9. I really don’t understand why.
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60K!!!!!!
2,007 for the day.
13, 791 for
#NaNoWriMo
60,090 for the project
And stuff is HAPPENING!!!
#amwriting
#WritingCommmunity
#MomsWritersClub
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I’m into the long, slow, final edit of this MS. I love this part. The refining and polishing, but it takes a LOT of focus.
Are there parts of your process you could do all day, and other parts where you need breaks?
#MomsWritersClub
#WritingCommunity
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Dear Friends,
I’ve been on Twitter since 2015 but I’m afraid I’m done. I’ll post announcements but my social activity will be elsewhere. I’m sad & I’ll miss you all who are still here 😢 but I hope we’ll find one another🧵
#momswritersclub
#WritingCommunity
#amwriting
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I want to be writing. I need to be writing. But today kind of beat me up so I’m making brownies. Then maybe writing.
#momswritersclub
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The words I write might suck today…doodah doodah
I’m gonna write them anyway…oh d’doodahday.
#momswritersclub
#amwriting
#firstdraft
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6. Bonus: you can DM me if you have legit questions and no one to ask.
Good luck!!!
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@authorjesspayne
and I have been CPs and friends since before we were agented or published, and this just makes me really happy ❤️
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Contemplating a new book. Really excited about this one…
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