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John Berkowitz is querying 🪤
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Husband, father, designer, #MG author of WISH UPON A CURSE and EDISON SKROOLUSE AND THE JUNKYARD BODYGUARD. Three-time RevPit runner-up. “Sodomy non sapiens” #kidlit #historicfantasy #amquerying
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Well, there’s the human Anti-Fae League that hates all refugees from the Faerie Realm and demands they go back where they came from. Then there’s the army of mercenary issalfar (ice elves) tasked with capturing criminal fae and sending them back to the war-ravaged Realm. Take your pick.
November 10, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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What do y’all think about using this as my author photo when my MG novel (currently querying) gets published?
#FiFRevPit #writingcommunity
November 10, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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10yo Edison is just a kid with no magic, a broken robot, and a workshop full of failed inventions. But when the Anti-Fae League targets his fae friends with hate and lies, Edison must fix the one thing he doesn’t believe in to save them: Himself.
#MG #STEM #F #SkyWrite #amquerying #KidLit #MSWL
Edison Skrooluse and the Junkyard Bodyguard book cover
November 5, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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#TimeTravelAuthors Day 3: Time Travel on purpose or accidentally?

Clio O'Neill most definitely went back in time by accident, when she angrily wished her family's curse never existed while holding a coin of leprechaun gold. She was also holding her best friend's hand...

#amquerying #writeSky #MG
December 9, 2024 at 5:40 PM
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The cover mockup I made to inspire my #WIP.

10yo Edison wishes just ONE of his inventions would work so he can defend his orphanage. When his robot comes to life, they resist the Anti-Fae League who demands all his fae friends go back where they came from and leave Earth to the humans.
#amwriting
December 7, 2024 at 11:16 PM
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My writerly quote for the day. #amwriting #amquerying #writingcommunity #writesky
There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured. The only solution known to science is to provide the patient with an isolation room, where he can endure the acute stages in private and where food can be poked in to him with a stick. -- Robert Heinlein
December 6, 2024 at 6:26 PM
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Does it count if you just finished a chapter ABOUT gremlins? #amwriting #writesky #writingcommunity
December 6, 2024 at 5:32 PM
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#WIPSnips #amwriting #writingcommunity #MGBookChat #writingprompts #authors #WriteSky
#WIPSnips: "Accent" “The children are all here, Headmistress.” “Thank ye, Darcy.” Headmistress Cleverly turned toward the class, the green jewel at her neck gleaming and her auburn hair pulled into a perfect bun. The already-tall woman stood even taller as she lifted her chin. “Lads and lasses,” she said in her heavy Irish accent, “I think it best ye all stay here where it’s safe for the time bein’. It would seem our home is under a wee bit of an attack.”
November 22, 2024 at 7:57 PM
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10yo Edison Skrooluse wishes just ONE of his inventions would work so he can defend his orphanage. When his 7-foot robot comes to life, they resist the Anti-Fae League who demands all fae-born go back where they came from and leave Earth to the humans. BIG HERO SIX + BUMBLEBEE #MG #STEM #Fantasy
Edison Skrooluse and the Junkyard Bodyguard by John Berkowitz
November 15, 2024 at 1:18 AM
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13yo Clio learns too late magic and curses are real when a wish whisks her and her BFF to 1508 Ireland where Clio must prevent the curse that kills every first-born in her family. Clio races to save her ancestor’s life but must give up her BFF to go home. #MG #Historic #Fantasy #amquerying
Wish Upon a Curse by John Berkowitz
November 15, 2024 at 1:14 AM