abby

querying 🌊 SHOREBREAK - YA light scifi, merfolk, monsters, hella surfing🏄🏼‍♀️🔬🧜🏾‍♂️🦈 she/her. ADHD. witchy queer.

[abby @abbywrites8]

Mel is so screwed.

Her dad’s shipwreck? 🔍still lost
Her college apps? 😵‍💫blank
Her anxiety? 📈sky-high
Her crush? 🧜🏾‍♂️not human
Her workplace? 🧪possibly kidnapping merfolk???

Her plan? Uh… she’s working on it.

SHOREBREAK
#YA ‘magic in a lab coat’ #SF #F #IWSGPit #LGBT #PN

[Spencer @Spencer_Nit]

My weird flash fiction about a dead whale that washes ashore, sending the children of a small beach town feral, and one father’s attempt to understand his kids is live and free to read today @flashfictionmag

Really excited about this one!

https://t.co/8eLsROZJ6n

[abby @abbywrites8]

Just received my copy of a beautiful book perfect for the cozy autumn nights ahead 💙 I got to read a few chapters of this while @cwrose813 was still querying, so I get to say I’m one of the OG fans - pick up your copy & join me in the fanclub! #OceanSong

[abby @abbywrites8]

always 🩷💙💜

[🌊C.W. Rose🧜🏼‍♀️ Updates Only @cwrose813]

✨Cover Reveal for OCEANSONG✨

~6 yrs in the query trenches.
250+ rejections.
I never thought it would happen for me.
But today, I get to share my debut’s beautiful cover 🥹
Never. Give. Up.

Release: Aug 27, 2024
Publisher: Hey Hey Books
Cover: J20 Graphics
Art: @artsiidaisy

[abby @abbywrites8]

Happy Summer Solstice!

Today I’m going to forgive myself for not writing since April 🩷 we’ve all been there, right? (please say yes 😭)

[Make up a bi ☽☾ @safeforbi]

Here are the bisexual yeahs we have 🩷💜💙

[abby @abbywrites8]

@GusRyer Congrats Gus!!! Also - holy heck, yum! This looks amazing!!

[abby @abbywrites8]

@cwrose813 Omg GORGEOUS!!!!

[abby @abbywrites8]

@MJHuntsgood Congrats MJ!! So so proud of you ❤️❤️❤️

[Nostos @NostosLit]

when albert camus said "the sea; i didn't lose myself in it. i found myself in it" and when sylvia plath said "if i lived by the sea i would never be really sad" and when van gogh said "the heart of man is very much like the sea" and when homer said "I'd rather die at sea"

[abby @abbywrites8]

@EileenJHLee Heck yeah! The main character is an inventor as well 😄

[abby @abbywrites8]

SHOREBREAK
When the daughter of a marine biologist discovers a conspiracy at the lab, she’ll be forced to choose: her species or her humanity?

💕cryptid romance
🧜🏾‍♂️merfolk
🏄🏼‍♀️jock FMC
🤬grouchy girl X sunshine boy
🌊sea horror
🔥arson
💜💙🩷bi4bi
#IWSGPit #YA #LGBT #PN #SF #F

[abby @abbywrites8]

@kitkatzehn the hero shorebreak needs 🫡

[abby @abbywrites8]

@adropofmagick Thank you!!

[abby @abbywrites8]

Mel is so screwed.

Her dad’s shipwreck? 🔍still lost
Her college apps? 😵‍💫blank
Her anxiety? 📈sky-high
Her crush? 🧜🏾‍♂️not human
Her workplace? 🧪possibly kidnapping merfolk???

Her plan? Uh… she’s working on it.

SHOREBREAK
#YA ‘magic in a lab coat’ #SF #F #IWSGPit #LGBT #PN

[abby @abbywrites8]

@skylarantwrites Thank you!!!

[abby @abbywrites8]

@Nik_Nakk26 Things are very messy for her right now - but she’s resourceful & a tough cookie!

[abby @abbywrites8]

@Desirae_Writes Omg, this feels like fantasy parent trap!!

[abby @abbywrites8]

@Desirae_Writes Aw thank you!!

[Gus Ryer @GusRyer]

HORIZON 0 DAWN/NOTES...BURNING AGE

Two rogue engineer priests
Two warriors hell-bent on revenge

When a machine god cuts the world’s tie to nanotech, four unlikely friends must hunt it down before society crumbles.

But what do you do when you catch an angry god?
#IWSGPit #A #SF

[abby @abbywrites8]

@Bakingscripts Me too!!! It was fun to write merfolk in a more spooky/scifi/cryptid way 🩷