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Tess Sharpe
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It’s a very silly, very sapphic, very murderous release day! 🦚🦚🦚 And you can buy it or get it in KU right now!
A photo of NO BODY NO CRIME.
July 15, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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It's a ⭐ Review for Chloe and Mel from Publishers Weekly! I’m so grateful and happy for this lovely review & I’m delighted that people are liking my rather silly, very murderous (but romantic!) book! www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-374-61...
A copy of the book NO BODY NO CRIME with the quoted review: “Dynamic plot twists, shrewd pacing, and well-placed timeline jumps provide sturdy narrative scaffolding, but it’s Sharpe’s depiction of Chloe and Mel’s complicated relationship...that makes the novel shine.” – Publishers Weekly Starred Review A copy of the book NO BODY NO CRIME with the quoted review:“Readers who love rooting for antiheroes, or are hungry for queer stories that don’t put queerness at the very center, will adore this.” – Publishers Weekly Starred Review
May 7, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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Content Notes here for anyone who needs them!
Content Notes for NO BODY NO CRIME No Body No Crime is a Romantic Thriller for adults. The content notes are below for anyone who needs them. Abuse: mentions of off page parental abuse (physical) Assault: beating, murder, being shot, throat-slicing, accidental stabbing, on-purpose stabbing. Death: murder (self defense and pre-meditated), being the witness to a hit and run involving a child (death happens off page, immediate aftermath on page), death by cancer, death by falling. Misc: references to small town homophobia, references to police rousting a transient camp and the homeless (off-page), drugs, drug dealers, cancer.
March 14, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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If you have a NetGalley account, you can grab the ARC of NO BODY NO CRIME without requesting for the next 12 hours or so! www.netgalley.com/catalog/book...
A illustrated book cover in the vein of 50’s lesbian pulp meets 80’s action movie poster, two women run through the flames of a crashing plane. The title reads NO BODY NO CRIME.
March 14, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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Cover Reveal of my gals! Drawn by the incredible Zoë van Dijk @creepcaptain.bsky.social who gave me my dream cover. Out with MCD/FSG in July!
A illustrated book cover in the vein of 50’s lesbian pulp meets 80’s action movie poster, two women run through the flames of a crashing plane. The title reads NO BODY NO CRIME.
March 13, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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Y'all are so fast. You can now add HOW SHE FELL to your TBR list on GoodReads! www.goodreads.com/book/show/22...
A PM Announcement that reads: Lisa Yoskowitz at Little, Brown Books for Young Readers bought World rights to New York Times bestseller Tess Sharpe’s HOW SHE FELL, a YA thriller about a teen filmmaker who sends her last moments to her best friend, revealing she did not fall off the bluffs like everyone thinks—she was pushed. Narrated both in prose and story boards, illustrations and film treatments, set in a small town addicted to covering up men's misdeeds, Dot Reeves keeps the truth of Liberty’s murder secret as she searches for her killer and plots to take revenge—and justice—into her own hands. Jim McCarthy at Dystel, Goderich & Bourret negotiated the deal.
March 10, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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Back for more morally gray bisexual YA drama, this time with illustrations and narration from the living and the dead.
A PM Announcement that reads: Lisa Yoskowitz at Little, Brown Books for Young Readers bought World rights to New York Times bestseller Tess Sharpe’s HOW SHE FELL, a YA thriller about a teen filmmaker who sends her last moments to her best friend, revealing she did not fall off the bluffs like everyone thinks—she was pushed. Narrated both in prose and story boards, illustrations and film treatments, set in a small town addicted to covering up men's misdeeds, Dot Reeves keeps the truth of Liberty’s murder secret as she searches for her killer and plots to take revenge—and justice—into her own hands. Jim McCarthy at Dystel, Goderich & Bourret negotiated the deal. A white block of text with a greenbackground. The text reads: THE PITCH: Liberty Scott is that girl: creative, beautiful, adored…and dead. Her plummet off the Bluffs above their town throws a small rural community into grief over such a terrible accident. Liberty was a bright light—her artistic spirit and on-going, years-long art project where she filmed 30 seconds of her day and compiled the snippets by seasons and years is beloved—not just in their community, but worldwide. Now she’s gone and a whole town is in mourning. Everyone but Dot Reeves. Dot Reeves is that girl: white-trash, rough-talking, a little too promiscuous for the adult’s comfort. But she’s been Liberty’s best friend since second grade—a whole opposites attract situation—and now she’s got a secret. Liberty didn’t fall off those Bluffs like the Sheriff said. She was pushed. By whom, Dot doesn’t know…not yet. What Dot knows is this: the night Liberty died, Dot was given access to Liberty’s art project, along with the last video Liberty uploaded…as she ran for her life along the Bluffs. Her final message to Dot? The proof is in the project. Don’t trust our friends. Dot Reeves doesn’t have time to mourn. She has a killer to find. And when she does, she’s gonna make them pay. A white block of text with a greenbackground. The text reads: AN EXCERPT: Liberty’s sent me on a murderer scavenger hunt with not enough clues and I hate that I’m mad at her. But I am. I’m furious at all of this. I’m angry she didn’t call me. I’m pissed she either went up to the Bluffs on her own or she got tricked into going up there and didn’t tell anyone. I’m raging that I don’t know what proof I’m looking for in eight years worth of disorganized video footage. I am so fucking mad she’s gone. I can’t even breathe around it and I have to. I have to push it down or move through it or something. I have to keep going. Because she chose me. She chose me to know this truth. To hold it. To be burdened by it. To do something about it. Not her mom. Not her dad. Not her other friends. When it came down to it, running for her life, for some reason, her first thought was: Dot. And that… That kills me. It’s the ultimate confirmation of best friend-ship, isn’t it? Because the truth is? If I had been running for my life, my first thought would’ve been her, too.
March 6, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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A Valentine's Day Newsletter! I break down how I prep to announce a book and reveal a cover at the same time + there is a Valentine in the form of a 6 TIMES short story, free to download for my subscribers. bit.ly/writecookrepeat
A line drawing of three pine trees with the words WRITE COOK REPEAT next to it and the words: announcing a book + cover reveal in 10 steps below.
February 14, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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Surprise! I got to write another book for Marvel, this time about my beloved White Widow, Yelena Belova! This gorgeous cover was created by artist Matt Taylor and designer Kurt Hartman and I am so obsessed with it! Book is out in September and you can pre-order it now! bit.ly/whitewidowsecretsisters
An image of a book cover done in black and white, featuring dozens of gray-tinged robots with Yelena Belova, the White Widow, in color. The title reads: WHITE WIDOW: SECRET SISTERS by Tess Sharpe and the tag-line reads "Finding yourself just got a whole lot more complicated."
February 11, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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Oh look, they’ve even included their content label on their launch announcement so we can see how fucked up their attitude in this moment is! This won’t prevent librarians from buying or endanger librarians and educators in our hostile book banning environment at all!
The logo for Mayhem Book, an Entangled imprint that has unwisely and ignorantly decided to add ‘mature YA ages 16+’ labels to each of their books.
February 10, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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Just for today, The Girl in Question is on sale! Grab it and remember: if you want to survive, never borrow Nora O'Malley's flannel. www.amazon.com/Girl-Questio...
The image of a phone with the cover of THE GIRL IN QUESTION on it, next to a photo of a girl whose eyes have been burnt out, burnt matches strewn over it. The text reads: who is the girl in question? On sale $1.99.
December 29, 2024 at 8:27 PM
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Me, forever trying to capture the weirdness of where I grew up. It did take me awhile as a kid to realize not everyone had people riding horses down their neighborhood streets.
A screenshot of text that reads: "Harper’s Bluff has always been that town where you drive through a regular suburban neighborhood, but then you take a right and suddenly you’re in the forest again. The kind of place where there’s fields of cows grazing across from gas stations because one family owns that field and they never sold it and they never will. A town carved out of the wilderness only to find that the wilderness won’t fully be encroached upon. "
December 20, 2024 at 12:02 AM
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So I was asked how I handle this kind of writing schedule and deadlines with, you know, getting sick or missing a few days because: life.

So I'm gonna talk about balance, creating a buffer and prioritization.
A shot of a color coded pacemaker calendar with 6 projects over the span of January and February.
December 19, 2024 at 6:48 PM
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Pacemaker is where I nail down the REAL schedule. Where I decide: is this book a weekend book or a weekday book?

I can shift between projects in a day, but I prefer having designated days for each project, it makes me brain happy. And Pacemaker is Queen of Doing That and More.
A shot of Tess's writing schedule in pacemaker. Each colored box is a different project.
December 17, 2024 at 10:21 PM
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I am also using @kateerobert.com's airtable template to run my entire production schedule this year, which I can organize by quarter or by year. I LOVE gantt charts but am bad at making them on my tablet, so this is my favorite thing ever and where I keep all my deadlines.
A gantt chart showing Q1 of 2025 production schedule.
December 17, 2024 at 10:16 PM
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So first things first, I just make your basic kanban board for the quarter in Trello and detail the quarterly goals. I need to revise a proposal, finish drafting book 1 + 2 in a series, write 3 installments of another, finish a book Jim's putting on sub, and draft my next adult thriller.
A kanban board breaking down the goals described in the post.
December 17, 2024 at 10:11 PM
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My 2025 already looks unhinged word count wise and this is just the contracted books, the books to go on sub and the indie, IP/WFH gets added as I book the work.
An image of a spreadsheet detailing Tess's planned 2025 projects with word counts equaling 1.3 million words planned.
December 16, 2024 at 9:01 PM
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The cover of the Spanish translation of 6 Times We Almost Kissed (And One Time We Did) by Tess Sharpe. It features two girls, one redhead, one brunette sitting on the roof of a car overlooking rivers and mountains against a purple-pink sky.
December 14, 2024 at 9:10 PM
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Continuing my fine tradition of atheist girls clashing and then reluctantly teaming up with devoted christian girls with these two:
An excerpt from a book. The text reads: “You and Liberty,” Jessalyn continues. “You two were like sisters. That’s why…” she trails off and then gains steam again. “That’s why everyone always tolerated you,” she finishes, like it’s gonna hurt. It doesn’t. I am something beyond hurt, now. Beyond law, beyond reason. A trapped animal, gnawing her paws, bloody and self-butchered, determined to get fully through the bone to freedom.
December 14, 2024 at 8:09 PM
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Finishing up pass pages tonight.
A screenshot of a page in an upcoming book.
December 10, 2024 at 2:36 AM
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Back on my bisexual drama train, Romantic Thriller style:
Author of THE GIRLS I'VE BEEN and BARBED WIRE HEART Tess Sharpe's NO BODY NO CRIME, a queer romantic thriller pitched as The Lost City meets a modern Thelma & Louise, in which a rural PI finds herself on the trail of the one who got away. . . with her heart, and with murder; years after a horror-show sweet sixteen party that ended with the girls in love and that good-for-nothing boy in the ground, the two women find that they didn't bury him—or their feelings for each other—deep enough, to Sean McDonald at MCD/FSG, with Brianna Fairman editing, in a good deal, by Jim McCarthy at Dystel, Goderich & Bourret (world).
March 29, 2024 at 10:39 PM
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Pre-Order sale time over at Barnes and Noble, y'all! You can get 25% off THE GIRL IN QUESTION right now. www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-girl-i...
A picture of the red US version of the novel, THE GIRL IN QUESTION, whose book cover has a red background with an outline of a girl, her shadow stretching into a question mark. The text reads: B&N Pre Order Sale. 25% off Pre-Orders. Code: Preorder25
September 6, 2023 at 2:41 PM
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I lay out my month. Every project is color coded because I find it helpful. I do weekly and daily spreads as well, but I like having a color coded break down with the daily word counts at a glance so I can remember: it's just 2-3K at a time.
A calendar shot of September with to do lists, word count stickers, and the personal stickers covered up with dinosaur stickers.
August 27, 2023 at 4:34 PM
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So I double up on the rest of the weekdays. As you can see, on Wednesdays I've set it so that I'm revising more chapters on TGIQ and drafting less on ITP. And then on Thurs/Fri I'm doing a regular pace on both, which is 3200 words on ITP and 5 chapters of TGIQ revised.
A pacemaker calendar detailing three projects.
August 27, 2023 at 4:32 PM
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I start to fiddle with my word count with Pacemaker. I have the premium account you pay for. I love Pacemaker because it allows me to lessen the work load on certain days, go hard on others, etc. My YM deadline is the furthest away, so I set a steady pace 2x a week.
A color-coded pacemaker app calendar detailing three different projects.
August 27, 2023 at 4:29 PM