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a.j. parker ✨ is writing ✨
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An #AgentsGuide to WAYS TO FOOL ME:

⚔️ total-opposite twins
⚔️ arranged marriages
⚔️ blood magic
⚔️ grumpy x sunshine
⚔️ lovers to enemies

#Q #YA #F #RF #Questpit
text: This 74,000-word YA fantasy novel with romantic elements subverts the classic princess-stuck-in-a-tower trope. It will appeal to those who enjoyed the complicated relationships in Gwen & Art are Not in Love by Lex Croucher and the sinister magic in One Dark Window by Rachel Gillig, as well as the class dynamics in The Gilded Age. text: On the verge of their respective engagements, 17-year-old royal twins Lark and Clarión Blaivetramis both have their reservations against their fathers' political ploys. When their father unexpectedly switches Lark’s betrothal, she must embark to a foreign country with a mysterious prince, leaving Clar to contend with his inability to love his wife-to-be. Befriending a curious servant boy is a welcome relief, but a risk Clar isn’t sure he can take. Meanwhile, as Lark’s brazen charm and her betrothed’s hesitancy clash, Lark struggles to know if she’s falling in love with the prince or just pretending to fall in love. The farther she gets from Kaiselle, the more she unlocks about her deceased mother’s history, and the darkness Lark has inherited in her blood, a truth her father meant to keep hidden. Lark and Clar must reconcile their personal desires with their required duties before they lose their freedom, or their lives, to forces beyond their control forever.
November 5, 2025 at 7:20 PM
authorajparker.bsky.social
WAYS TO FOOL ME is a gender-bent take on the classic princess-stuck-in-a-tower story, following a pair of twins in a fantasy kingdom as they navigate their respective love interests–and the political repercussions that result.

#Q #YA #F #RF #Questpit
images: greek columns, white dress, red roses, beam of light in a temple, silver dagger, candlelit dinner
November 5, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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When Lark’s father unexpectedly switches her arranged marriage, the princess must embark to a foreign country with a mysterious prince, leaving her twin brother to contend with his inability to love his wife-to-be.

#DVPit #YA #F #MH #LGBT
images: blue dress, gold crown, sunlit castle, silver sword, golden ballroom, candles on a dining table, marble statues embracing, man in royal regalia. text: "you want battle? i'll give you war"
October 8, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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Ways to Fool Me is ONE DARK WINDOW meets GWEN & ART ARE NOT IN LOVE meets THE GILDED AGE, including:

💥 total-opposite twins
💍 arranged marriages
❤️‍🩹 blood magic
🌥️ grumpy x sunshine
⚔️ lovers to enemies

#DVPit #YA #F #R #MH #LGBT
images: marble columns, red roses, white dress, beam of sunlight, dagger, candle-lit table
October 8, 2025 at 5:23 PM
authorajparker.bsky.social
okay, and of course after i posted this i found another one i had bookmarked
image: two friends with handcuffs on text: new friendship bracelets
October 5, 2025 at 11:58 PM
authorajparker.bsky.social
hello #dvparty friends, i am late to the party (haha) as usual BUT have this one (1) meme as my first contribution

#DVPit #YA #F #R
text: down with found family. UP with FOUND DIVORCE!!!!!!!!!!!! getting many questions about FOUND DIVORCE. FOUND DIVORCE is when TWO PEOPLE who were NOT EVEN MARRIED are already DIVORCED. thank you.
October 5, 2025 at 11:31 PM
authorajparker.bsky.social
my latest poem, “fine dining,” for the quarter press 🤍
October 2, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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My interview with @afterdinnerconversation.com is out! 😄

Read here: afterdinnerconversation.substack.com/p/q-and-a-wi...
Image: After Dinner Conversation March 2025 Cover
August 17, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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ONE DARK WINDOW x GWEN & ART ARE NOT IN LOVE x THE GILDED AGE

💥 total-opposite twins
💍 arranged marriages
👑 a curse from the gods
🌥️ grumpy x sunshine
⚔️ lovers to enemies

#questpit #ya #f #rf #wip
text: This 70,000-word YA fantasy novel with romantic elements subverts the classic princess-stuck-in-a-tower trope. It will appeal to those who enjoyed the complicated relationships in Gwen & Art are Not in Love by Lex Croucher and the sinister magic in One Dark Window by Rachel Gillig, as well as the class dynamics in The Gilded Age. text: On the verge of their respective betrothals, 17-year-old royal twins Lark and Clarión Blaivetramis both have their reservations against their fathers' political ploys. When their father unexpectedly switches Lark's betrothal, she must embark to a foreign country with a mysterious prince, leaving Clar to contend with his inability to love his wife-to-be. Befriending a curious servant boy is a welcome relief, but a risk Clar isn't sure he can take. Meanwhile, as Lark's brazen charm and her betrothed's hesitancy clash, Lark struggles to know if she's falling in love with the prince or just pretending to fall in love. The further she gets from Kaiselle, the more she unlocks about her deceased mother's history, and the darkness Lark has inherited in her blood, a truth her father meant to keep hidden. Lark and Clar must reconcile their personal desires with their required duties before they lose their freedom, or their lives, to forces beyond their control forever.
August 6, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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A princess who wants to fight. A prince who loves a boy.

Death threats and a dark omen follow the Blaivetramis twins as they fight to forge their own paths, threatened by a curse from the gods, inescapable family charades, and political malefactors.
#questpit #wip #YA #F #RF
images: blue dress, gold crown, sunlit castle, silver sword, golden ballroom, candles on a dining table, marble statues embracing, man in royal regalia. text: "you want battle? i'll give you war"
August 6, 2025 at 6:11 PM
authorajparker.bsky.social
first draft vs. last draft:

“I paid a dollar for a vial of love off a woman on seventh street.”

“Finn paid a pound for a vial of love off a woman on Seventh Street.”
Image: journal entry Image: published print literary magazine
March 17, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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so honored to be featured in the march issue of @afterdinnerconversation.com for my short story “The Apath”

(what WOULD you do if you could buy your emotions?)
Text: After Dinner Conversation
March 3, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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one of my poems featured in issue 7 of pulp lit mag—
Text: AFTER THE EFFECTS A.J. PARKER hand stretched, so dark, it's blue. cold toes. oh, it's you. the places where bruises should be. gas station coffee. 4 a.m. aches. I wake up drowning. how many times over? Styrofoam, crunch. is this what it feels like to be forgotten? shredded rubber. the fast-food lights are the only things on.
February 18, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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oh. i wrote this two years ago
Text: REPORTING TO YOU LIVE by A.J. Parker I had a dream the city was on fire The news was on and the buildings across the Potomac crumbled to ashes I thought the bridge would protect me— the bridge I drove every day— but the flames kept coming I watched out the window, stories high, as the indestructible city of rules and war crimes burned down The flames kept coming and they kept coming and suddenly, I knew what it was like to die I saw the city on my face before the fire consumed it. I took a deep breath, like I was going underwater, and felt myself burn But then I jolted awake and realized it wasn’t real No one had set the city on fire yet
January 26, 2025 at 11:28 PM