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📎There's a lot of beauty in ordinary things.
#amquerying #amwriting
📚LR: Maeve Fly
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🩸 in my FINAL GIRL era🔪🩸
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The new Agent's Guide to
MURDER NIGHT AT HOTEL ADAIR, my The Haunting of Hill House x The Shining #A #H project.

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At Hotel Adair, the rooms are luxurious, the deaths are creative, and the check-out time is non-negotiable.
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Every reader deserves to see themselves reflected in the pages of a book. Join us this Giving Tuesday in our work to recruit and keep underrepresented literary agents in publishing. Read more and help us change the industry for good at the link in our bio ❤️

#givingtuesday #literaryagentsofchange
November 14, 2025 at 5:03 PM
I’ve realized that I am not made for mountains. I need more air and humidity in my life.

But the hot chocolate is helping.
November 14, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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I am so thrilled to announce that I am now represented by Katie Shea Boutillier at Donald Maass Literary Agency! I am looking forward to working together on IVORY TOWER, a psychological horror and dark academia novel.
November 13, 2025 at 9:57 PM
It’s not hard to feel so grateful when you have this view for morning sprints.
November 13, 2025 at 1:51 PM
IT'S WRITERS' RETREAT WEEK!!

I cannot wait to hang out with my CPs and immerse myself in the words this week!
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November 10, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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Don't forget to send us your questions for our Editor Q&A Video Panel, which will take place at the end of #FiFRevPit. You can comment here, send a DM, or send us an email.

#RevPitFiF #writingcommunity
November 5, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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Spread the word!
October 29, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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NO but honestly. Pitching and querying really are a vastly different creature. (Not to get too cheesy, but that's the focus of my query intensive haha because this is so real)
Thanks! Writing is hard but this pitching business is like a whole other skill set. It will click....any time now.
November 7, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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Here's a moodboard for GUMIHO:

🇰🇷 Inspired by Korean folklore & mythology
🖤Told from the eyes of an anti-hero gumiho
🌧Set in modern-day PNW
🥀Dark, intimate atmosphere
🌀Psychological unraveling & physical transformation
❤️Slow-burn romance

✨️Currently revising w/ SmoochPit✨️

#QuestPit #A #F #H #R
November 5, 2025 at 5:16 AM
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ONE DARK WINDOW X KATABASIS

Alyss attends Nocturne Collegiate for one reason—revenge. With the (reluctant) help of her ex, her ex bff, & a devious half-vampire, she'll use memory magic to uncover the truth behind the murder that destroyed her life.🌙🦇⚔️

#QuestPit #OS #AG #F #R
November 5, 2025 at 5:00 AM
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🤓Nerdy rock collector
🌎A society deep in the earth
✨Dream fueled magic
👾Ancient life-sucking monsters closing in
🤫All tangled around a terrible secret
#QuestPit #YA #Fantasy #Q
November 5, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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#AgentsGuide to my upmarket #gothic #horror novel, THE BANSHEE OF CLAN MURTAGH 🖤

🇮🇪 Medieval Ireland
🥀 Doomed romance
☠️ The black plague
💌 2025 #SmoochPit Mentee

#questpit #W #A #H #HF
November 5, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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Pirates of the Caribbean but if Elizabeth was a bisexual mage, Will and Jack were combined into a lesbian octopus monster/pirate, and James Norrington was an age-appropriate hottie that didn’t suck. Then add more angst and a cult that wants to drown the world
#QuestPit #AG #W #A #F #R #FR #OV #LGBT
November 5, 2025 at 7:10 AM
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In the century Tilaani has been alive and the 85 years she‘s been dead, she’s escorted the soul of nearly everyone she knew into the afterlife. And as always she is left in the space between:
🌱 Life and death 💀
🔥 Fire and ice ❄️
❤️ Surrounded and alone 🔪
#A #F #R #FR #C #Agented #GhostPit
October 30, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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Please share 🙏✨ATTENTION QUERYING AND INDIE AUTHORS✨ @writehive.bsky.social #HiveMentor is opening soon! This mentorship is unique in that they accept all publishing paths so if you are querying to get an agent or looking to self-publish, this mentorship is for you!
November 5, 2025 at 3:05 AM
So proud of my state. 💙
November 5, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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An #editorsguide to 🌲THE LAND OF UNDYING SUMMER🌲
This romantic fantasy has:
🐻‍❄️ A setting inspired by the Canadian subarctic
🌋Roots in animistic religion
⚡️A physics based magic system
👵🏽 Crotchety immortals
🏠 Complex family dynamics
🗺️ Neurodivergent MMC

#QuestPit #AG #A #F #R #FR
November 5, 2025 at 5:10 AM
I swear my querying manuscript has had more milestones than I was ready for. Another interesting thing today.

Did I still get my words in on my new folk horror? Yes. 🩸
Did I still send a chapter to my accountability group? Yes. 🩸
Did I maintain my focus through all of it? 🩸 Now even a little.
November 4, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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Today’s the day!

Have a question about the program, application process, or our mentors? Ask it below!

#writingmentorship #roundtablementor #writingcommunity
November 3, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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November 2, 2025 at 1:36 AM
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Epic Grimdark meets Romantasy in The Land of Undying Summer
Forced to work together, a half-dead priestess and a wandering mage develop a reluctant camaraderie. That is, until he triggers an uprising that leaves her to choose between saving either the living or the dead
#F #R #FR #GhostPit #Agented
October 30, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Yall. I was lucky enough to beta test this class and when I tell you JENI HAS ANSWERS, she does. And for ✨today’s✨ querying climate, not older strategies that no longer work.

Let me know if you sign up!!
My 4-wk querying intensive, OUT OF THE TRENCHES, is here!

The next novel you query CAN be different. There’s no magic wand, just experience, successful traditionally published clients, and a nearly compulsive need to teach people what I know.

Book by Nov 1 and save!

www.jenichappelleeditorial.com
October 30, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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My 4-wk querying intensive, OUT OF THE TRENCHES, is here!

The next novel you query CAN be different. There’s no magic wand, just experience, successful traditionally published clients, and a nearly compulsive need to teach people what I know.

Book by Nov 1 and save!

www.jenichappelleeditorial.com
October 29, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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querying a book means starting the next one
October 29, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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Thrilled to share I’m officially repped by @emilykaitlin.bsky.social @ @bookendsliterary.bsky.social! I’m so grateful to her & @laylafallah.bsky.social for their support and guidance as I begin this next ch. Excited to celebrate with the #writingcommunity in this 🧵! #writesky #agented
October 29, 2025 at 2:30 PM