✨Gemma is ✨on Submission✨

📚 Fantasy 🌙 Romance ✨
🏴 Rep'd by @GreeneandHeaton
💌 ND | LGBTQ | Chronically ill but make it ✨iconic✨

[✨Gemma is ✨on Submission✨ @GemLPreston]

I am THRILLED to announce that I have an agent! I instantly clicked with @mia_dakin; her excitement and love for my manuscript made me feel so safe and seen, making it the easiest yes! Can't wait for this journey! #WritingCommunity

[✨Gemma is ✨on Submission✨ @GemLPreston]

Have read. Can confirm this tale is incredible 🫶🏼

[The Bookseller @thebookseller]

.@MichaelJBooks has acquired the Dragon Rush series by Olivia Hayward, a debut sports fantasy trilogy that “brings together the full-throttle pace of Formula One with a fiery fantasy setting” 👇 https://t.co/8CwiUTyVOk

[The Bookseller @thebookseller]

.@GreeneandHeaton relaunches Greene Door scheme for under-represented writers 👇 https://t.co/rLnHEZDN6g

[✨Gemma is ✨on Submission✨ @GemLPreston]

Gen Z are the first generation refusing to martyr themselves for workplaces that replace you in a week.
If anything, they’re the first ones getting it right.
Taking sick days isn’t weakness, it’s boundaries.
It’s a refusal to continue a cycle of burnout. 4/4

[✨Gemma is ✨on Submission✨ @GemLPreston]

Not one for morning TV, but I'm home with a poorly little girl and watching @thismorning, where they're talking about Gen Z taking “too many sick days” and how people should just get on with it. Honestly, that mindset is half the reason so many millennials and Gen Z are... 1/2

[✨Gemma is ✨on Submission✨ @GemLPreston]

the idea that suffering in silence is somehow virtuous.
It’s not.
You shouldn’t have to nearly pass out at work to be taken seriously.
You shouldn’t have to drag yourself in with a fever to prove loyalty.
You shouldn’t be applauded for destroying your body just to keep a job. 3/4

[G. F. Allen @AuthorGFAllen]

Plot twist: after writing a book, you also have to market it.

[Amanda is drafting 🌳🌿 @pennpaperplanes]

Please, please, PLEASE do not set your self worth on publishing. Publishing is so subjective. Do not make your measure on the whims of another. Write for you first and foremost.

[✨Gemma is ✨on Submission✨ @GemLPreston]

@runealin Blood over Bright Haven is absolutely incredible

[✨Gemma is ✨on Submission✨ @GemLPreston]

Be honest: how many rounds of edits do you usually go through before you finally stop tinkering? 👀 #WritingCommunity

[✨Gemma is ✨on Submission✨ @GemLPreston]

Finished my first round of edits! The manuscript lives. I, however, do not💀💪🏼 #amediting

[✨Gemma is ✨on Submission✨ @GemLPreston]

@sddonovan Jujutsu Kaisen and Solo Levelling if you love action. Berserk is awesome. Kaiju no8, Sword Art Online, Demon Slayer and MHA.

[Diane Nichols @DNicholsAuthor]

Dear agent,
Thank you so much for your rejection letter. Although it had merit, it isn't what I am looking for at this time. Please feel free to try me again in the future with a different submission that would better fit my needs.

Sincerely,
Determined author

#WritingCommunity

[✨Gemma is ✨on Submission✨ @GemLPreston]

@Lukesblog1 Too many to admit to 🙈

[✨Gemma is ✨on Submission✨ @GemLPreston]

@artvenske It makes me cringe seeing some of the typos 🤣 Editing will always be my least favourite part.

[✨Gemma is ✨on Submission✨ @GemLPreston]

First round of edits: deleting, rewriting, and asking myself “what was I even trying to say?” every five minutes✍️🤡 #WritingCommunity

[✨Gemma is ✨on Submission✨ @GemLPreston]

@AJButlerWriting

[✨Gemma is ✨on Submission✨ @GemLPreston]

@BWheelerBooks B, just leave the bottle 🤣

[✨Gemma is ✨on Submission✨ @GemLPreston]

Good morning. It’s birthday-party-weekend. I’ve accepted that by tonight, I will be buried alive under wrapping paper, cake crumbs, and the sound of 20 children screaming🎉🙏

[✨Gemma is ✨on Submission✨ @GemLPreston]

I survived a children’s birthday party this weekend and now I’m tackling first-round edits. One battle after another. 💪🏼🎂⚔️

[✨Gemma is ✨on Submission✨ @GemLPreston]

@BWheelerBooks I am home and I need alcohol not a cup of tea ☕