isabela e. alvarez is plotting! 🩷💜💙

+ they/them, 🇩🇴🇵🇷🇮🇪, lgbtq+, aspiring author, lover of speculative fiction and werewolves, chronic wip jumper, free 🇵🇸, icon by @/cbrfufu

[Helena @helena_author]

Hear me out, drafting in bed with your eyes closed and hands on the keyboard to go full daydreaming mode.

[seiya @systole_]

it’s the perfect time of year to focus on my indoor hobbies like lying down in a dark room and feeling insane

[isabela e. alvarez is plotting! 🩷💜💙 @isabelawrites]

thinking about a princess and her lady knight and their friends today

[em @sanhiraethsan]

Audrey Benjaminsen thank you for your sapphic covers service

[kate is drafting 🗡️ @akatepockett]

one apocalyptic event and all these people who can’t function without chatgpt telling them what to do are dead lmao

[isabela e. alvarez is plotting! 🩷💜💙 @isabelawrites]

it’s so cool and fine. defying the laws of nature, getting a second job has actually boosted my productivity exponentially so if the universe loves me maybe lady knights will be a Thing again by the time I’m querying 😭

[isabela e. alvarez is plotting! 🩷💜💙 @isabelawrites]

everyone’s lady knight books are releasing this year meanwhile mine has been stuck in the planning phase for the past several months

[ChillyWeirdoInACoffin💀 🖤🗡 @ChillyWeirdo]

Happy release day to these three sapphic books!! 🏳️‍🌈💜

[Sara Duran is ✨writing!✨ @saraduranauthor]

whenever I see someone announce they’ve found their agent

#amquerying

[Francesca Leader @mooninabucket]

High-ranking literary journals that don't charge submission fees - A Thread 🧵

This list went viral when first tweeted in ‘22. Here it is again, with a few updates. Note that the list is based on the Erika Krouse 500, starting from Tier 2 and proceeding to upper Tier 4. (1/9)

[bug girl @buggirl]

no girl ur right ur so much better than me for being devastated by the loss of a pro-gun, pro-genocide, anti-abortion, anti-lgbt+, anti-immigrant, anti-empathy, violently racist transphobic, and misogynistic white supremacist whose whole job was reviving the hitler youth. my bad

[m @skitzocat]

(flirting) ill haunt u after i die

[empress sissi @historicalfits]

everyone’s obsessed with the 2000s well what about the 1400s. you’re wearing low rise jeans I’m plucking my eyelashes off and tweezing my hairline back to get that fashionable egg shape under my hennin

[Mylee J. Miller | 💀🖤🪦 @myleejmiller]

If anyone is looking for trustworthy a*rtists to c*mmission for their MS, I'd highly recommend checking out my list below!

I have commissioned most of them (though some art is secret), and talked with the others, so I know they're superb! If you want pieces like this:🔗below.

[isabela e. alvarez is plotting! 🩷💜💙 @isabelawrites]

back to ‘princess and knight book’ it is 💔

[isabela e. alvarez is plotting! 🩷💜💙 @isabelawrites]

I don’t know why a working title is so important to me but if I don’t like it I have trouble focusing on my wip. It’s like once I have a working title it makes the project Real, but now that I’m unhappy with it, my project is back to being a nebulous thing referred to by idea 😭

[Madelyn Knecht @MadelynKnecht]

Reasons comps are necessary: a thread 🧵
#amquerying #amwriting
Seeing lots of doubts and confusion surrounding comp titles and whether they're necessary, so here's why agents (and editors!) need them:

[Danai Christopoulou | VILE LADY VILLAINS out NOW @Danaiwrites]

“Sapphic books don’t sell,” I keep hearing lately. “Bet!” I say. But I need your help to prove them wrong. So please, preorder VILE LADY VILLAINS if you can.

And if you can’t, please share this post and yell about all the sapphic books you’re excited about. Here’s some of mine:

[ems 🫧 @atotalposer]

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