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Meghan Spelbrink is QUERYING 📚❤️🤞
@mspelbrinkwrites.bsky.social
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Romantasy Writer
❤️President, Bay Area Romance Writers: https://www.bayarearomancewriters.com/
🎓SHU Writing Popular Fiction '24
🥇The Emily 2024
👩‍💻Developmental Editor: https://www.spelbrinkeditorial.com/
✍️WIP: HEIR OF NIGHT
#amquerying #romantasy
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So what are y’all reading right now? #booksky #writersky
Currently reading: Love and Other Words by Christina Lauren and Beautiful Nightmare by Katee Robert
October 11, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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A princess disguised as a man competes for her stolen throne to defeat a demon possessing the dynasty of kings, while fighting against monsters, societal conventions, and her own growing feelings for a competitor.

DAMSEL’s feminine rage x A SONG OF WRAITHS AND RUIN x 🌶️🌶️

#Q #R #F #NA #QuestPit
August 6, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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#writinglifemonthly Below is a condensed version of my meet cute for HEIR OF NIGHT. 🥰 It’s one of my favorite scenes.

#WritingCommunity #romancewriters #romantasy #romanceauthors #writersofbsky #meetcute #writersky
August 2, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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A princess disguised as a man competes for her stolen throne to defeat a demon possessing the dynasty of kings, while fighting against monsters, societal conventions, and her own growing feelings for a competitor.

DAMSEL’s feminine rage x A SONG OF WRAITHS AND RUIN x 🌶️🌶️
#R #F #BluePit 📖 #amquerying
July 13, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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July is for adventure and mythology and suspense and murder. What are you currently reading? #booksky #currentread #writersky #books
Covers for Fire and Bones by Kathy Reichs and A Vow of Embers by Sariah Wilson
July 12, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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@gailcarriger.bsky.social has one of her one star reviews on a banner that she takes to author events. Honestly, this might work for that someday!
July 10, 2025 at 5:33 AM
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Any #writers want to play Bingo? Mark off what your manuscript includes. If you’re playing with more than one MS, limit is 2 MS per post. Share a snippet from one of the boxes you check off. Playing with 2 books? That means 2 snippets! #writingcommunity #writerslift #writesky #authorsky
July 6, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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Y’all, my hubby is a PhD microbiologist who also happens to love all things outdoorsy. He’s currently splitting giant redwood rounds for next winter at the cabin. 🥵🔥 Anyone feel like writing a sexy STEM Lumberjack Romance? Because I’m here for it! Working Title: Dr. Hardwood, PhD. 😜 #writersky
Redwood trees and a black and white dog on a porch
May 24, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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When Sapina tries to take her place as her kingdom's first ruling queen, she is betrayed in favor of a competition to choose a new king. So she enters as a man to prove she deserves the crown they stole from her.
DAMSEL’s feminine rage x A SONG OF WRAITHS AND RUIN world x 🌶️🌶️
#RF #NA #WIPPIT #FBW #Q
May 23, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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#WIPPITStickyNoteQuestions Who do you think is the MC? The love interest? The bestie? The antagonist? 😉
Zendaya Man with glasses and dreads Man with curly hair in man bun Idris Elba as Heimdall
May 22, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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#WIPPITStickyNoteQuestions Karop is a desert populated by a nocturnal people with a nomadic royal court. The story moves with the caravan, so we get to see a lot of their stops, including a city carved into a cliff with an elaborate tunnel system.
Petra, desert cave, starry night over a desert, cliff over a desert
May 21, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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#WIPPITStickyNoteQuestions Oh I have way too many to pick a favorite! 🫣 But here’s one of them 😉 (reposted from AuthorApril on my Instagram).
May 14, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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Two of my favorite dudes being cuddly. 🥰🐶
A man laying his head on a black and white dog
May 12, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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This is 35! 🥳 Am I getting ready to host the Bay Area Romance Writers meeting in a birthday crown? Why yes I am. 🥰👸🏻 So if any agents out there want to make my day with the best birthday present ever, I’m a size “full request.” #amquerying #writersky #birthdayvibes
Woman with pink hair wearing a crown
May 10, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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When Sapina tries to take her place as her kingdom's first ruling queen, she is betrayed in favor of a competition to choose a new king. So she enters as a man to prove she deserves the crown they stole from her.
DAMSEL’s feminine rage x A SONG OF WRAITHS AND RUIN type of world x 🌶️🌶️
#Q #RF #QuestPit
A princess disguised as a man competes for her stolen throne to defeat a demon possessing the dynasty of kings, while fighting against monsters, societal conventions, and her own growing feelings for a competitor. When the brutal assassination of the king leaves Karop without a male heir to the throne, his daughter (Sapina) steps up to take her place as the nocturnal desert kingdom’s first ruling queen. But she is betrayed by the very person she hoped would support her when he proposes a contest to choose a new king, leaving her to marry the winner and continue the bloodline: Powerless. Tame. A good little consort. Filled with righteous indignation, Sapina disguises herself as a man to compete. Her ruse works until she meets Howen, a fellow contestant whose disarming banter and charm pit her desire to win against her longing for true connection. Too bad she isn’t the only one in this competition who isn’t what they seem. As the trials begin, a long-forgotten magic manifests, plunging the contestants into a different battle than they anticipated, one that threatens Sapina’s kingdom even more than rampant misogyny. Can she overcome prejudice, rivalry, and her own desires to rally enough support to save her homeland, or is it better to accept a deeply powerful magic and trust her enemies? A Song of Wraiths and Ruin series (Roseanne A. Brown) We Hunt the Flame series (Hafsah Faizal) Dance of Thieves series (Mary E. Pearson) A Tribute of Fire (Sariah Wilson) Damsel (Netflix 2024) Tropes: Rivals to lovers, A deadly competition, demon antagonist, Woman in a man’s world, male disguise, hidden identity, rewritten history, lies, Feminine rage, cross purposes, gods at work, trope flipping
May 7, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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#crplunamoths #camprevpit Definitely my kiddo. Love him to death, but he makes writing time almost nonexistent these days. 🤪
Woman and son with a hot wheels car Boy watching monster jam on one screen while I write on the other
April 29, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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Well, pastel was fun for Easter, but hot pink is where it’s at! 🥰💁‍♀️
Woman with hot pink hair
April 24, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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#camprevpit #crplunamoths 😅 My MMC accidentally knocks my FMC off a cliff and has to save her… 🤪🥴 Only in Romantasy, am I right? Here’s a condensed version for fun. 🥰
April 22, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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#camprevpit #campmap #crplunamoths Well, I thought I was close, but now I have to go back to the beginning and revise some more. 🥴 Time for a little experimentation on my opening sequence to see if starting in a different spot works better.
GIF explosion. Howard stark sitting up in lab coat. “Write that down”
April 22, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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#camprevpit #crplunamoths #campkickoff Here’s my pre-RevPit pitch. I’m planning to update it this week after editor feedback!
April 21, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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Well, I did a thing… Happy Easter weekend, y’all.
Woman with newly dyed pink hair
April 18, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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#revpitwaiting Okay, my top three craft books (and the blogs/youtube channels for all three). Check them out. They are gold! @gailcarriger.bsky.social @hellofutureme.bsky.social
The Heroine’s Journey by Gail Carriger On Writing and Worldbuilding by Timothy Hickson Creating Character Arcs by KM Weiland
April 10, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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#revpitwaiting Annnndddd... None of these books came out in 2025. 🫣 But I did READ them in 2025, and I also love them so... who cares? 🤷‍♀️ (I have WAY too many anticipated books for 2025 to list them all.) #booksky #writersky #bookrecs
My 4 and 5 star reads for 2025 so far: Most of All You, Ruthless Vows, Fangirl Down, Married by Morning, Poison Study, Tangled Up in You, The Dratsie Dilemma, The Wall of Winnipeg and Me
April 8, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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When you’re #revpitwaiting and try for a cute visual of your comp titles… but it looks more like a crazy person board… 🤪😂 #amquerying #booksky #writersky
Pictures of book covers with a list and many arrows. A cluttered mess. Crazy person conspiracy meme
April 5, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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"Sapina was done acting like a lady."

#1stLinePit #RF #NA #A #C #Q #amquerying #romantasy #writingcommunity #agentsguide #writersky #booksky
Heir of Night Pitch: A princess disguised as a man competes for her stolen throne to defeat a demon possessing the dynasty of kings, while fighting against monsters, societal conventions, and her own growing feelings for a competitor. Heir of Night Blurb: When the brutal assassination of the king leaves Karop without a male heir to the throne, his daughter steps up to take her place as the nocturnal desert nation’s first ruling queen. But Sapina’s fiancé and his ambitious father betray her and propose a contest to choose a new king, leaving her to marry the winner and continue the bloodline: Powerless. Tame. A good little consort. Filled with righteous indignation, she disguises herself as a man to compete. Her ruse works until she meets Howen, a fellow contestant whose disarming banter and charm pit her desire to win against her longing for true connection. Too bad she isn’t the only one in this competition who isn’t what they seem. As the trials begin, a long-forgotten magic manifests, plunging the contestants into a mystery they never anticipated. Sapina uncovers a suppressed history, a possessed dynasty, and an immortal war that threatens her kingdom even more than human prejudice. Can Sapina lean on her small band of allies to save it, or is it better to trust her enemies? HEIR OF NIGHT Comp Titles: A Song of Wraiths and Ruin series (Roseanne A. Brown) We Hunt the Flame series (Hafsah Faizal) Dance of Thieves series (Mary E. Pearson) A Tribute of Fire series (Sariah Wilson) Damsel (Netflix 2024) "The Man" by Taylor Swift "Sit Still, Look Pretty" by Daya "Speechless" by Naomi Scott Heir of Night mood board: ancient writing on wall, glowing feathers, starlight magic, BIPOC woman closeup, almost kiss, phoenix, demon closeup, tropes (rivals to lovers, found family, forced proximity, one bed, hidden history, feminine rage, secret identity, enduring hope)
April 5, 2025 at 4:55 PM