Monique Turner

📘ISLAND OF INFLUENCERS 📕SWEET AND SOUR with @chickenhsebooks Rep’d by @litagentclare

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🌈Cover Reveal☂️
Here it is! The cover of our brand-new WONDER issue. Illustrated by the super-talented @kimwnolan 🩵

There are so many bookish goodies in this issue, and we can’t wait to share it with you very VERY soon.
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@kimwnolan Huge thanks as always to all the writers, illustrators, authors, reviewers and publishers who have helped bring this issue together:
@66blackman @authormturner @jennycarney @EmilyH71
@WalkerBooksUK @chickenhsebooks @scholasticuk ... 2/3

[e 𖤐🪽 @emptyarteries]

sleep token lyrics be like:

[Rachel Christine @RachelXReads]

Maybe one of the problems with our increasingly non-reading culture is the fact that reading classic literature is now treated as proof of intelligence instead of a source of enjoyment. We need to correct that.

[alexia 🥕 JW Madrid @bonn_cy]

Go forth in freedom, happy 1 year🌱
#sleeptoken

[Steven is writing @StevenTBoers63]

Valid

[cherry ♡ ᛑᛗᛛ @saythatuwilll]

vessel when he forgets the mic during the summoning

[Katlyn Z @kitkatzehn]

Seeing a HP fanfic go for 7 figures while you’re in the query trenches with original queer work really is demoralizing.

I love fanfic, I’ve read and written it since I was 13. But this…

#writingcommunity #querying

[Gabino Iglesias @Gabino_Iglesias]

You know what will get this novel across the finish line AND published? Spite.

[Emerson Green @waldenpod]

And you can pry my em dash from my cold, dead hands, bitch. I will never stop using it. You're all telling on yourselves when you say you've never encountered it prior to AI. It's all over the place.

[Emerson Green @waldenpod]

You have no idea how much I resent AI for completely ruining a perfectly good sentence structure: "It's not just x – it's y." You cannot write that anymore. Everyone will assume it's AI or get derailed wondering if it's AI. We've been robbed of an entire sentence form.

[Keshya Valerie @snoopiette]

making art can feel embarrassing sometimes because it’s so similar to falling in love. art that resonates is art that’s earnest, art that bleeds, art that shows and doesn’t tell. art that resonates is art that comes from love

[wi wi 🌼 #WAFCON 🇲🇦🇲🇦 @ladybirdml]

suzanne collins was 46 when she wrote the hunger games. philip pullman was 49 when he wrote northern lights. diana wynne jones was 53 when she wrote howl's moving castle. you'll be fine if you dont get a nyt bestseller by 20 chill out babe life doesn't end in your 30s

[Emma Bradley @EmmaEBradley]

Last call for ARC review copies (UK only)
Got a couple of copies left so if you want to find out the latest from Faerie (or dive in for the first time), let me know in the comments!

[𝑨𝒔𝒊𝒂 𝑵𝒊𝒄𝒐𝒍𝒆 @DearAsiaNicole]

Creating for yourself makes you a better artist. Because honest work connects deeper than work made to please everyone.

[🔮✨ @TheOracleReadsU]

You're allowed to do creative stuff even if you don't think you're good at them. Do it because it moves something stuck inside you. Because creativity isn’t about being impressive, it’s about being expressive. Create badly. Create awkwardly. That’s not failure, that’s freedom.

[aish @aishaishious]

What's with you and your parasocial relationships with artists.... why do you even stan? For what exactly? They are not yours to begin with and never be. Enjoy the music and artistry and appreciate them as a human wtf are you guys on

[Emma Finlayson-Palmer 🏳️‍🌈 She/Her @FinlaysonPalmer]

2, Was there anything in particular that inspired you to write about internet fame, AI and creativity? @authormturner #ukteenchat

[Emma Finlayson-Palmer 🏳️‍🌈 She/Her @FinlaysonPalmer]

3, Did you need to research anything for Sweet and Sour? @authormturner #ukteenchat