E.B. Gula (Emmy)
@ebgula.bsky.social
Writer of YA & adult contemporary
PhD candidate in French
Querying veteran
Words in The Crow's Quill, Theme of Absence, and elsewhere
PhD candidate in French
Querying veteran
Words in The Crow's Quill, Theme of Absence, and elsewhere
In case anyone needs to hear it (aka me), you cannot control anything in this industry except your own writing (and maybe regulating your feelings about it?). At a certain point your craft plateaus and it's up to market alignment and a bit of luck
December 3, 2025 at 11:41 PM
In case anyone needs to hear it (aka me), you cannot control anything in this industry except your own writing (and maybe regulating your feelings about it?). At a certain point your craft plateaus and it's up to market alignment and a bit of luck
Anyway, I will not be engaging with any "yearly goals/accomplishments" content bc every single December/January, I end up in a funk specifically because my goals are never achieved
December 3, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Anyway, I will not be engaging with any "yearly goals/accomplishments" content bc every single December/January, I end up in a funk specifically because my goals are never achieved
The nice thing about ruling out success prematurely is that you feel less disappointed when the failure ultimately comes to pass! And I mean, it'd be a pleasant surprise to get some good news, though unfortunately that doesn't apply to my case
December 3, 2025 at 11:35 PM
The nice thing about ruling out success prematurely is that you feel less disappointed when the failure ultimately comes to pass! And I mean, it'd be a pleasant surprise to get some good news, though unfortunately that doesn't apply to my case
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A lot of people are being like 'yeah well XXX million amount of people are using ChatGPT so whether we like it AI is here to stay' and not taking into account that if the underlying companies don't prove profitable the venture capitalists will stop bankrolling them and those services will go down.
November 27, 2025 at 12:59 PM
A lot of people are being like 'yeah well XXX million amount of people are using ChatGPT so whether we like it AI is here to stay' and not taking into account that if the underlying companies don't prove profitable the venture capitalists will stop bankrolling them and those services will go down.
On that note, I should probably stay off the socials until the calendar passes my birthday. I find this period so disheartening re: my publishing journey and it has been this way for too many years 😞
November 27, 2025 at 2:47 AM
On that note, I should probably stay off the socials until the calendar passes my birthday. I find this period so disheartening re: my publishing journey and it has been this way for too many years 😞
Welp it seems 2025 won't be the year of securing rep either... My only goal for now is to survive the semester and write as much as possible over the next 5 weeks 🥴
November 27, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Welp it seems 2025 won't be the year of securing rep either... My only goal for now is to survive the semester and write as much as possible over the next 5 weeks 🥴
As I read through 50 handwritten paragraphs, I suddenly realize this is the generation that never learned to cursive write??? Every single one of them prints!
November 18, 2025 at 2:55 AM
As I read through 50 handwritten paragraphs, I suddenly realize this is the generation that never learned to cursive write??? Every single one of them prints!
I have no idea if my committee is aware of the editorial concept of 'stet' but my dissertation is the only place I can regularly use it and it feels great 😅
November 13, 2025 at 3:19 PM
I have no idea if my committee is aware of the editorial concept of 'stet' but my dissertation is the only place I can regularly use it and it feels great 😅
I have a story in this anthology! 👻 🇨🇦
It's October 21... HAPPY RELEASE DAY!
Ghost to Ghost to Ghost - an anthology of 19 Haunting Tales from Canada.
Happy publication day to the authors of these wonderful short stories and flash fiction.
The paperback has been available for a while and today the eBook is here.
books2read.com/u/3GkdOL
Ghost to Ghost to Ghost - an anthology of 19 Haunting Tales from Canada.
Happy publication day to the authors of these wonderful short stories and flash fiction.
The paperback has been available for a while and today the eBook is here.
books2read.com/u/3GkdOL
October 27, 2025 at 4:02 PM
I have a story in this anthology! 👻 🇨🇦
Received what I strongly suspect is an AI-generated document for an OPTIONAL assignment I gave so students could receive feedback on /their/ writing 🥲
October 18, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Received what I strongly suspect is an AI-generated document for an OPTIONAL assignment I gave so students could receive feedback on /their/ writing 🥲
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In about three years the entire university pivot to AI curricula and schools and programs is going to be so deeply embarrassing. We will all pretend it never happened and I will be standing there, looking at people with a mirror in my eyes. This is all so embarrassing.
October 17, 2025 at 12:16 PM
In about three years the entire university pivot to AI curricula and schools and programs is going to be so deeply embarrassing. We will all pretend it never happened and I will be standing there, looking at people with a mirror in my eyes. This is all so embarrassing.
Hmm I might attempt finish your book fall after all 🤔 I'm writing a thesis chapter but I only need to add ~30k to my villains YA sooooo
October 1, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Hmm I might attempt finish your book fall after all 🤔 I'm writing a thesis chapter but I only need to add ~30k to my villains YA sooooo
Gosh there's just something about cover reveals 🥹 obviously I can't speak from experience (yet 🤞) but it always feels like the moment where your beloved manuscript starts to take on its
true form as a ~BOOK~
true form as a ~BOOK~
September 25, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Gosh there's just something about cover reveals 🥹 obviously I can't speak from experience (yet 🤞) but it always feels like the moment where your beloved manuscript starts to take on its
true form as a ~BOOK~
true form as a ~BOOK~
It's kind of poetic that the professor who inspired me to do my PhD will be retiring around the same time I finish
September 24, 2025 at 1:49 AM
It's kind of poetic that the professor who inspired me to do my PhD will be retiring around the same time I finish
I'm also in a weird spot between projects right now. I waffle between YA and adult, always contemporary but often different genres, and it's hard to know which one to focus on for A) market reasons and B) branding reasons
September 20, 2025 at 3:49 PM
I'm also in a weird spot between projects right now. I waffle between YA and adult, always contemporary but often different genres, and it's hard to know which one to focus on for A) market reasons and B) branding reasons
I admit it is a bit harder to find the time to write fiction these days... but I keep reminding myself the PhD obligations are temporary.
September 20, 2025 at 3:47 PM
I admit it is a bit harder to find the time to write fiction these days... but I keep reminding myself the PhD obligations are temporary.
I'm back to writing my dissertation and I'm pleasantly surprised that it has been fairly easy to pick up where I left off (even after a year!)
September 20, 2025 at 3:46 PM
I'm back to writing my dissertation and I'm pleasantly surprised that it has been fairly easy to pick up where I left off (even after a year!)
Work on your dissertation while the baby works on her dissertation 🤪
September 13, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Work on your dissertation while the baby works on her dissertation 🤪
I've got the pre-back-to-school jitters eek
August 29, 2025 at 2:51 PM
I've got the pre-back-to-school jitters eek
Happy 9 years of querying to me! ✨🫠 Persist, persist, persist, because it's truly not over until it's over.
August 29, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Happy 9 years of querying to me! ✨🫠 Persist, persist, persist, because it's truly not over until it's over.
Haha my first novel started with "It was a dark and stormy night", which I think is the actual first line of a wrinkle in time? 🤣
thinking for no reason at all about how I started writing ~seriously~ when I was twelve and just wrote and wrote and wrote all the goddamn time and revised stories and shelved stories and started new stories and how for most of that time I wasn't a very good writer but I was HAVING FUN and LEARNING
August 18, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Haha my first novel started with "It was a dark and stormy night", which I think is the actual first line of a wrinkle in time? 🤣
I have to believe one of my books will find its way to shelves eventually. I've shed far too many tears and polished far too many words to face any other, bleaker reality
August 5, 2025 at 8:25 PM
I have to believe one of my books will find its way to shelves eventually. I've shed far too many tears and polished far too many words to face any other, bleaker reality
Lol overheard the tour guide saying that LM Montgomery got a whole FIVE rejections "but she never gave up" 🤡
August 1, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Lol overheard the tour guide saying that LM Montgomery got a whole FIVE rejections "but she never gave up" 🤡
Hugh Panaro in the phantom revival??? 😱😱😱
June 28, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Hugh Panaro in the phantom revival??? 😱😱😱
updating my CV for reasons and the 'phd expected 2025' made me laugh 😆
June 23, 2025 at 2:54 AM
updating my CV for reasons and the 'phd expected 2025' made me laugh 😆