Alyse likes to ✨️Query✨️
@itinerantginger.bsky.social
I teach and write queer romance.
That's it, that's the bio
After The Lich Queen's Demise is in the Query Trenches now!
That's it, that's the bio
After The Lich Queen's Demise is in the Query Trenches now!
Pinned
Fourth Wing
Nicholas Sparks books
ACOTAR
Outlander
Nicholas Sparks books
ACOTAR
Outlander
#Novmemeber 16
Share some ANTI-comps (things that are totally OPPOSITE from your WIP)!
You could also try reframing your WIP as a totally different genre. What would it look like if your romance was now horror?
Share some ANTI-comps (things that are totally OPPOSITE from your WIP)!
You could also try reframing your WIP as a totally different genre. What would it look like if your romance was now horror?
November 17, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Fourth Wing
Nicholas Sparks books
ACOTAR
Outlander
Nicholas Sparks books
ACOTAR
Outlander
I'm just going to say it since we're all thinking it
Zohran Mamdani looks like Bob's Burgers character
Zohran Mamdani looks like Bob's Burgers character
November 7, 2025 at 10:59 AM
I'm just going to say it since we're all thinking it
Zohran Mamdani looks like Bob's Burgers character
Zohran Mamdani looks like Bob's Burgers character
SWORDCROSSED X THIS WILL BE FUN
Standalone Spicy Cozy Fantasy
Demisexual Rep
Fat Main Character
MM Second Chance Romance
After the Lich Queen's Demise is the perfect book to heal your inner gifted child suffering from burn out. Please take a gander at my Agent's Guide!
#QuestPit #Q #A #F
Standalone Spicy Cozy Fantasy
Demisexual Rep
Fat Main Character
MM Second Chance Romance
After the Lich Queen's Demise is the perfect book to heal your inner gifted child suffering from burn out. Please take a gander at my Agent's Guide!
#QuestPit #Q #A #F
November 5, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Reposted by Alyse likes to ✨️Query✨️
If Andy Weir and Ali Hazelwood co-wrote a book, it would be CHEMPORTAL. This scifi romcom with real chemistry features:
💥Explosions (real and figurative)
📻Science (mis)communication
🥰Enemies to lovers
👨👩👧👧Complex family dynamics
⚛️ #Steminist history
💪ND and LGBTQ rep
#QuestPit #A #Q #SF #R
💥Explosions (real and figurative)
📻Science (mis)communication
🥰Enemies to lovers
👨👩👧👧Complex family dynamics
⚛️ #Steminist history
💪ND and LGBTQ rep
#QuestPit #A #Q #SF #R
November 5, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Reposted by Alyse likes to ✨️Query✨️
Meet the tortured poet from DON'T FORGET ME. A second chance, forced proximity, dark academia, set in autumnal Edinburgh, romance novel. Complete at 70k words. With themes of Hispanic rep, women's fiction, and trauma. 🕰️🖤☕️📖
#questpit #R #Q #NA #amquerying
#questpit #R #Q #NA #amquerying
November 5, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Meet the tortured poet from DON'T FORGET ME. A second chance, forced proximity, dark academia, set in autumnal Edinburgh, romance novel. Complete at 70k words. With themes of Hispanic rep, women's fiction, and trauma. 🕰️🖤☕️📖
#questpit #R #Q #NA #amquerying
#questpit #R #Q #NA #amquerying
Sylvester Biskup: Hero, Mage, Greatest Wizard of His Age & Chronically Single
But who needs dates when you are on the edge of becoming the next Chancellor of Corvid’s Inlet University.
If he can secure a huge donation from the wealthiest man in town... who's also his ex...
#Q #A #F #RF
But who needs dates when you are on the edge of becoming the next Chancellor of Corvid’s Inlet University.
If he can secure a huge donation from the wealthiest man in town... who's also his ex...
#Q #A #F #RF
November 5, 2025 at 4:08 PM
I hate when people compare AI to calculators. Like your TI-83 didn't use 5000 gallons of water every time you wanted to play Blockdude in trig class.
November 2, 2025 at 1:59 PM
I hate when people compare AI to calculators. Like your TI-83 didn't use 5000 gallons of water every time you wanted to play Blockdude in trig class.
I've got two big projects right now
1. Finish the first draft of my sapphic triad contemporary Christmas romance
2. Get my Achillean cozy fantasy query ready
Let me know if you are interested in Positive poly representation and wizards with social anxiety
1. Finish the first draft of my sapphic triad contemporary Christmas romance
2. Get my Achillean cozy fantasy query ready
Let me know if you are interested in Positive poly representation and wizards with social anxiety
Good morning #WeeknightWriters! Welcome to #FirstDraftFall. What kind of project will you be working on?
These questions are from our First Draft Fall worksheets! For the full worksheets, join our membership program at ko-fi.com/weeknightw...
These questions are from our First Draft Fall worksheets! For the full worksheets, join our membership program at ko-fi.com/weeknightw...
October 2, 2025 at 7:28 PM
I've got two big projects right now
1. Finish the first draft of my sapphic triad contemporary Christmas romance
2. Get my Achillean cozy fantasy query ready
Let me know if you are interested in Positive poly representation and wizards with social anxiety
1. Finish the first draft of my sapphic triad contemporary Christmas romance
2. Get my Achillean cozy fantasy query ready
Let me know if you are interested in Positive poly representation and wizards with social anxiety
Two houses alike in dignity in fair Barnes and Noble where we lay our scene
August 24, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Two houses alike in dignity in fair Barnes and Noble where we lay our scene
Reposted by Alyse likes to ✨️Query✨️
The biggest mood ever.
July 4, 2025 at 11:48 PM
The biggest mood ever.
Hey #writingcommunity, drop line 8 from page 187 of your MS & tag 3 friends! Here's mine:
The door to the balcony opened, instinctively Sylvester broke away from Elsinor. The cold night air whipped at his throat, claiming the warmth they had briefly shared.
Tags in comments!
The door to the balcony opened, instinctively Sylvester broke away from Elsinor. The cold night air whipped at his throat, claiming the warmth they had briefly shared.
Tags in comments!
Hey #writingcommunity, drop line 8 from page 187 of your MS & tag 3 friends! Here's mine:
#revspirations #writer #darkfantasy
Tagging: @nessamoulay.bsky.social @airjoshb.bsky.social @prahajess.bsky.social
#revspirations #writer #darkfantasy
Tagging: @nessamoulay.bsky.social @airjoshb.bsky.social @prahajess.bsky.social
July 3, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Hey #writingcommunity, drop line 8 from page 187 of your MS & tag 3 friends! Here's mine:
The door to the balcony opened, instinctively Sylvester broke away from Elsinor. The cold night air whipped at his throat, claiming the warmth they had briefly shared.
Tags in comments!
The door to the balcony opened, instinctively Sylvester broke away from Elsinor. The cold night air whipped at his throat, claiming the warmth they had briefly shared.
Tags in comments!
From my current WIP
"Elsinor took a deep swig of his wine glass, “Thank you, I don’t know if I could have this conversation without alcohol.”
“That’s a promising start to the evening,” Sylvester muttered under his breath."
#cozyfantasy #workinprogress
"Elsinor took a deep swig of his wine glass, “Thank you, I don’t know if I could have this conversation without alcohol.”
“That’s a promising start to the evening,” Sylvester muttered under his breath."
#cozyfantasy #workinprogress
July 3, 2025 at 4:22 PM
From my current WIP
"Elsinor took a deep swig of his wine glass, “Thank you, I don’t know if I could have this conversation without alcohol.”
“That’s a promising start to the evening,” Sylvester muttered under his breath."
#cozyfantasy #workinprogress
"Elsinor took a deep swig of his wine glass, “Thank you, I don’t know if I could have this conversation without alcohol.”
“That’s a promising start to the evening,” Sylvester muttered under his breath."
#cozyfantasy #workinprogress
Reposted by Alyse likes to ✨️Query✨️
I think I speak for all Virginians when I say, UVA had DEI initiatives? Was it to find a new type of white dude?
Jim Ryan resigns as UVA president under pressure from Trump administration
The Justice Department has been investigating UVA over its diversity practices.
www.vpm.org
June 27, 2025 at 6:02 PM
I think I speak for all Virginians when I say, UVA had DEI initiatives? Was it to find a new type of white dude?
I think we are where we are because not enough people studied underwater basket weaving at middling private liberal arts colleges
June 25, 2025 at 9:32 PM
I think we are where we are because not enough people studied underwater basket weaving at middling private liberal arts colleges
I'm not a poet but this is really cool news!!!
Poets! 2026 is the first chance you have to win a Nebula for poetry. 2025 poems can be added to the SFWA Nebula Reading List: www.sfwa.org/forum/reading/
Nebula Reading List - SFWA Discussion Forums
www.sfwa.org
June 24, 2025 at 8:53 PM
I'm not a poet but this is really cool news!!!
@codyjohnston.bsky.social "Oh but it's just more dangerous at Ronald Reagan airport!"
But that's *MY* airport Cody!!!! What am I supposed to do??? Go to BWI?! Dulles??? It's on the silver line Cody! The Silver Line!
But that's *MY* airport Cody!!!! What am I supposed to do??? Go to BWI?! Dulles??? It's on the silver line Cody! The Silver Line!
June 13, 2025 at 12:30 AM
@codyjohnston.bsky.social "Oh but it's just more dangerous at Ronald Reagan airport!"
But that's *MY* airport Cody!!!! What am I supposed to do??? Go to BWI?! Dulles??? It's on the silver line Cody! The Silver Line!
But that's *MY* airport Cody!!!! What am I supposed to do??? Go to BWI?! Dulles??? It's on the silver line Cody! The Silver Line!
Once upon a time in 2019 Trump came to my hometown. I went to where he was speaking to protest. The local democratic party officials were there leading the charge. We tried to get an Abolish Ice chant going and we're shut down by the dems there.
I have thought about that day every day of this year.
I have thought about that day every day of this year.
June 11, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Once upon a time in 2019 Trump came to my hometown. I went to where he was speaking to protest. The local democratic party officials were there leading the charge. We tried to get an Abolish Ice chant going and we're shut down by the dems there.
I have thought about that day every day of this year.
I have thought about that day every day of this year.
Wraps Fall Apart: the cookbook from critically acclaimed novelist Chinua Achebe
(Shut up this is a top tier joke for people who got a 3 on the AP lit exam)
(Shut up this is a top tier joke for people who got a 3 on the AP lit exam)
June 3, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Wraps Fall Apart: the cookbook from critically acclaimed novelist Chinua Achebe
(Shut up this is a top tier joke for people who got a 3 on the AP lit exam)
(Shut up this is a top tier joke for people who got a 3 on the AP lit exam)
Unhinged harbingers of a major recession:
Rise of site specific theatre
I can't fully explain it but I saw that the Folger was doing a new play series that takes place in restaurants and I was like "I'm in danger"
Rise of site specific theatre
I can't fully explain it but I saw that the Folger was doing a new play series that takes place in restaurants and I was like "I'm in danger"
May 28, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Unhinged harbingers of a major recession:
Rise of site specific theatre
I can't fully explain it but I saw that the Folger was doing a new play series that takes place in restaurants and I was like "I'm in danger"
Rise of site specific theatre
I can't fully explain it but I saw that the Folger was doing a new play series that takes place in restaurants and I was like "I'm in danger"
My husband and I were able to fly home from Key West, take the metro to the VRE, and then walk home from the VRE
I felt *accomplished*
I felt *accomplished*
there is no greater feeling for me than learning there is accessible public transit to an airport 💖
May 26, 2025 at 6:13 PM
My husband and I were able to fly home from Key West, take the metro to the VRE, and then walk home from the VRE
I felt *accomplished*
I felt *accomplished*
My favorite people in the world are brilliant people with #ADHD
But so often their self-esteem is so worn down from YEARS of trauma that they act like anyone can do what they do
You'll be talking to one of them and they'll just drop "Oh yeah I'm also a classically trained pianist isn't everyone?"
But so often their self-esteem is so worn down from YEARS of trauma that they act like anyone can do what they do
You'll be talking to one of them and they'll just drop "Oh yeah I'm also a classically trained pianist isn't everyone?"
May 24, 2025 at 2:23 PM
My favorite people in the world are brilliant people with #ADHD
But so often their self-esteem is so worn down from YEARS of trauma that they act like anyone can do what they do
You'll be talking to one of them and they'll just drop "Oh yeah I'm also a classically trained pianist isn't everyone?"
But so often their self-esteem is so worn down from YEARS of trauma that they act like anyone can do what they do
You'll be talking to one of them and they'll just drop "Oh yeah I'm also a classically trained pianist isn't everyone?"
Scene: My husband whimpering softly while looking at his phone
Me: is a cat being cute on the internet?
Him: its two cats being cute on the internet
Me: is a cat being cute on the internet?
Him: its two cats being cute on the internet
May 20, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Scene: My husband whimpering softly while looking at his phone
Me: is a cat being cute on the internet?
Him: its two cats being cute on the internet
Me: is a cat being cute on the internet?
Him: its two cats being cute on the internet