Kara Allen

Adult fiction and humor writer 📚 They/them 🏳️‍🌈 #PitchWars '20 alum

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@halliepritts Thank you! And honestly same haha

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My first ever piece in @mcsweeneys came out yesterday! Up to you to decide if it's satire or just reality lol

[McSweeney's @mcsweeneys]

"You may want to take some over-the-counter medications beforehand to help with the pain." = "If you were a man, we would absolutely give you morphine for this procedure."
https://t.co/L8Ir6LvkLe

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@JulesArbeaux @molluskey @madsphyllis Congrats Jules, this is amazing news!!!

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“Hey, do you want to borrow my mallet?”

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@slhawthorn I've borrowed almost all my books from the library for years! I couldn't afford to read so many without it

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Also this exercise made me realize that the LIs first kiss (which happens later in this scene) is only 600 words away from being the exact middle of the book... so close and yet so far!

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"I retract my hand like I’ve burned it in a fire, before I can start noticing other things that I shouldn’t."

[Thea Landen, Smutty Author of Romance @TheaLanden]

Go to the exact middle of your book or WIP (I don't care how you calculate it, just do the math) and share that sentence with us.

Unfinished WIPs are allowed, go to the middle of whatever you have. 😄

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@JulesArbeaux Same here, it's a good strategy lol

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@ARobertsWrites Thank you Amber!

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When an aspiring photographer becomes the assistant to a prominent travel influencer, she learns the high price of getting internet famous 📸

(I'm editing this rn so it doesn't need betas but I'd still love to connect w/ other adult contemporary authors!)

#pitlight

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@ARobertsWrites Yay! And good luck with your revisions too!

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@mallory_marlowe Yesss love the idea of an influencer MC!

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@WritesJenn This premise sounds amazing!

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@AvaNolanWrites Absolutely love this collage style moodboard!!

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@itsliana_iguess We need more lesbian pirates in the world!!

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@Colbywilkens Love the sound of this, we need more outdoorsy sapphic romances!!

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@slhawthorn The aesthetic captures the atmosphere so perfectly!

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@melisszakhavas "Want to kiss/Want to kill sapphics" is my favorite relationship dynamic tbh

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@birdienotabird Love the ex-best friends angle! And the art is 💯

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@lifebreakingin Can't wait for this to be out in the world!!