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Becki Jayne Crossley
@beckiwrites.bsky.social
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writer of things, lover of puns 🏳️‍🌈
debut YA romance TART 🍓 (Bloomsbury, Aug ‘25) available to pre-order now!
rep’d by ASH Literary ✨
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Proofs of Tart arrived today and to say I’m excited is a major understatement 🥹😭🍓
Selfie of a woman with chin length blonde hair holding a pink book called ‘Tart’. Her expression is one of screaming excitement. A photo of a hand holding a pink book called ‘Tart’ featuring an oozing strawberry tart on the cover. The tagline reads: ‘When the world is telling you who you are, how do you speak your truth?’
April 10, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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It’s 200 days until my debut novel comes out! If you’re into queer YA romances about coming out and coming of age you can preorder it now 🍓✨ www.amazon.co.uk/Tart-Becki-J...
Graphic with a pink textured background and a strawberry pattern. Red bubble text reads: 200 days ‘til TART. Underneath is an image of a book cover featuring a strawberry tart and the title TART by Becki Jayne Crossley.
January 26, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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Writing wrap up 2024 - it’s been a good’un 🥹✨ #amwriting
Graphic with a pink textured background with a strawberry pattern. Text reads: words written, 82k. 16k added to TART, over several rounds of editing across the year. 66k written of WIP, fully plotted and ready to finish and revise in early 2025 Graphic with a pink textured background with a strawberry pattern. Text reads: most words written in a day: 10k. I’m not saying they were good words but by god they were words Graphic with a pink textured background with a strawberry pattern. Text reads: achievements - hit the best seller and hot new releases charts for my genres with preorders (what?!). Includes screenshots of Amazon book charts for Best Sellers in Young Adult Fiction on Bullying (TART by Becki Jayne Crossley featured as no 2 behind Roald Dahl’s ‘Matilda’), and Hot New Releases on LGBTQ+ issues (TART by Becki Jayne Crossley featured as no 1) Graphic with a pink textured background with a strawberry pattern. Text reads: other stuff - 80 TART samplers signed at YALC (out of around 400 given out). 5-8 entire tarts eaten in celebration of TART’s book deal (in truth I lost count a bit). 3 strawberry themed outfits bought for announcement week
December 30, 2024 at 12:20 PM
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When u r the prize in the claw machine 🥰🙌
Selfie of a smiling white woman with shoulder length blonde hair wearing a black top with a cocktail umbrella tucked behind one ear. The backdrop is of a variety of colourful stuffed animals. Photo of a white woman with shoulder length blonde hair wearing a black top and red sequin skirt, standing against a backdrop of a variety of colourful stuffed animals. She’s looking up and smiling with her arms raised towards a giant claw machine claw.
December 28, 2024 at 12:12 PM
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Please enjoy my favourite festive reaction image memes 🎄✨
Screengrab of Jeremy from Peep Show looking annoyed, with the caption: “That wasn’t very Christmassy” Text reads: “My work email auto reply after Dec 1st is gonna be just this image.” Image is of an annoyed woman in a Christmas jumper with the captions “Sounds like a 2024 problem” Screenshot of a tweet that reads “You’re really gunna act like that when Santa Claus is literally on his way to town” Text reads: “Do you have any plans this week? Me:” Image is a photo of a sticker with a crude drawing of a rat, hunched over and smiling mischievously, next to a little cheese. Caption is “Eat cheese and sin”
December 19, 2024 at 11:03 AM
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A moment for ✨the dress✨
Photo of a white blonde woman stood posing on one leg with her arms out, in front of the entrance to Wembley Stadium. She’s wearing a pale blue dress with tulle sleeves and skirt, with bird silhouettes all over it.
December 8, 2024 at 9:52 PM
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In my feelings about the Eras Tour ending tonight, and feeling unbelievably lucky that I got to see it twice 🥹🩷✨
Photo of the Eras Tour stage and big screen, with confetti and fireworks going off. Photo of the Eras Tour stage from a high angle in Wembley stadium, with fireworks going off.
December 8, 2024 at 9:50 PM
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IT’S TIIIIIME
Spotify wrapped screenshot of top artists: Taylor Swift, Marianas Trench, Fall Out Boy, Sabrina Carpenter, McFly Spotify wrapped screenshot of top songs: Taste by Sabrina Carpenter, Message in a Bottle by Taylor Swift, The Chain by Ingrid Michaelson, Fallout by Marianas Trench, Red Flavor by Red Velvet Spotify wrapped screenshot reading “June was your pumpkin spice strut pop moment. You were big on artists like Taylor Swift, Sabrina Carpenter and Chappell Roan.” Spotify wrapped screenshot reading: “You listened to 30,070 minutes this year. That puts you in the top 12% of listeners worldwide.”
December 4, 2024 at 2:34 PM
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How it started vs how it’s going 🥹
Screenshot of a Facebook memory from 10 years ago today. Status reads: “The last couple of months have been rough. But for the past 28 days I’ve had something positive to focus on and tonight I achieved something I was beginning to think would never happen. One month, 50,000 words. Nailed it.” There is an image of a completed NaNoWriMo graph. Photo of a pink booklet with the title ‘TART’ by Becki Jayne Crossley, featuring an oozing strawberry tart on the cover. In the blurred background sits a blonde woman in a pink dress behind a table full of books, signing copies of the booklet.
November 28, 2024 at 11:40 AM
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Day two of YALC and the Bloomsbury stall completely shifted all 400-odd TART samplers. Here’s a photo of the last one 😳🍓
Photo of a red carpet and skyline backdrop with large prop letters spelling YALC. Stood behind is a woman with short blonde hair wearing a pink strawberry print shirt and a red pinafore dress, smiling with her arms outstretched over the letters. Photo of a single copy of a pink booklet with the title ‘TART - chapter sampler’ featuring a slice of oozing strawberry tart on the cover, on a green faux grass table cover.
November 18, 2024 at 5:07 PM
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Day one of YALC was surreal. Not only was I absolutely surrounded by fellow YA enthusiasts but I got to sign copies of my debut novel’s chapter sampler 😳🥹 gearing up for day two! 💕🍓
Photo of a woman with short blonde hair wearing a pink strawberry print dress, smiling and holding up a booklet with the front cover reading ‘TART’ that has a slice of oozing strawberry tart on the cover. Pinned to the wall behind her is a tote bag with ‘Bloomsbury’ on it. Photo of a woman with short blonde hair wearing a pink strawberry print dress, sitting behind a table full of books. She’s smiling and talking to someone next to her while signing a booklet in front of her.
November 17, 2024 at 7:52 AM
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When I tell you I’ve been waiting so long to be able to reply to your Friday good news post with this…!! 💕
Promo image for a book announcement: ‘TART’ by Becki Jayne Crossley. Cover is pink with an oozing strawberry tart. Text on image reads ‘Grab your exclusive chapter sampler at YALC 2024, publishes 14th August 2025, pre-order now’
November 15, 2024 at 11:02 AM
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Good morning I’m fine ✌🏻😳
Screenshot of Amazon search results for ‘Hot New Releases’ under ‘Young Adult Fiction - LGBTQ+ Issues’ with the number one result ‘Tart’ by Becki Jayne Crossley
November 15, 2024 at 9:01 AM
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Having a really normal day 😳
Screenshot of the top two ‘Best Sellers in Young Adult Fiction on Bullying’ on Amazon. Number one is Matilda by Roald Dahl, number two is Tart by Becki Jayne Crossley
November 14, 2024 at 10:45 PM
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Absolutely over the moon to announce that my debut YA novel TART is publishing with Bloomsbury next summer - and is available to pre-order now! 🥰🍓💕 beckiwrites.co.uk#tart
Promo image of a pink book titled ‘TART’ by Becki Jayne Crossley. The cover features a slice of strawberry tart oozing sauce, and the tagline ‘Love bites when everyone says you’re a tart’. There is a banner across the top reading ‘Grab your exclusive chapter sampler at YALC 2024’, and a circular sticker style overlay saying ‘Pre-order now’. Underneath the book it says ‘Publishes 14th August 2025, Bloomsbury, illustrations copyright Sarah Long 2025’
November 13, 2024 at 7:40 PM
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Really need to start cross-posting over here as the other place crashes and burns in slow motion.

Hello! I’m Becki and I’m a queer YA author working on a couple of things 👀 let’s be pals
October 18, 2024 at 8:17 AM
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No longer querying… I’m now officially represented by Saffron Dodd at ASH Literary! ✨
October 25, 2023 at 10:11 AM
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Now officially querying TART, a contemporary queer YA novel about coming out and coming of age against a backdrop of slut shaming, teenage savagery and the confinement of religion in a tiny British village 🍂🔥✨ full synopsis: beckicrossley.carrd.co
September 3, 2023 at 8:09 PM