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Tales of an aspiring author ✍️ YA Fantasy 🌲 Forest bather 📚 Bookworm 🍷 Wine nerd 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 🐶Toddler & Cocker Spaniel mum

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@LindseyKOtabil 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

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@realgmorrow This is such a lovely idea

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@JudithLWebster 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻 so exciting

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@JudithLWebster 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻

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@JudithLWebster There is hope for us all 🙌🏻

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Who’s with me?!
New FREE contest for writers of Young Adult Fiction — https://t.co/lsJ4NsPPRl — Judged by agent Eric Smith, via @writingdayworkshops. Winners get an agent critique of their work.

[Writing Day Workshops (Writers Conferences) @writingdaywksp]

The rumors are true - we're running not one, not two, but THREE competitions to get your first pages read by top agents @ericsmithrocks (YA), @BrandyVallance (Romance, Historical and Women's Fiction), and @keslupo (SFF). And it's FREE! Instructions below... 🧵

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@MaraCobbWrites What a generous offer! Thank you

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@amandalitagent Hi, can’t DM you as I’m not certified. I’m yet to receive a response to my YA query sent 09/19

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@andiesmithbooks Hello brother 😅

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@amandalitagent Further to this, you also specified no fairies. Does this include dark fairytale retellings with a single fae side character?

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@JudithLWebster Coney Island + Love Triangle? GIMME!

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@JudithLWebster Need this now!

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@rachelgreenlaw_ @BNBuzz @QuillTreeBooks @EpicReads @HarperCollins @harperteen Congrats! Amazing news 🤩

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@LECrockett @triadaus Congratulations 🍾

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@annmrose Congrats! And thanks for the opportunity

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@sophiamreads DO IT!!

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In the spirit of #stalkerpit, I’m delighted to introduce my very dark YA Peter Pan retelling where the victim, villain and hero roles are all mashed up.

Perfect for lovers of:
🖤Eerie mountain lake settings
🖤Enemies to lovers
🖤 Love triangles
🖤Fae Magic

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@SirenaAuthor Me too! Congrats 🍾 so exciting

[Skylark Literary @SkylarkLit]

Calling all aspiring authors! The Skylark competition is open for entries, with fab judges @FictionFanatic1 @SarahLStewart_ & @emmavrjones helping us pick the winners! We can’t wait to see your stories so please take the plunge! 🤗 Details & entry rules at https://t.co/C8ZxVDVALW

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@JudithLWebster 🥺🙏🏼🥺🙏🏼

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ARCANE X DRY
💧Water-scarce dystopian setting
👯‍♀️Orphaned twins see each other for the first time across enemy lines
⚔️Challenged Allegiances
🏡 Found Family vs. Newfound Family
🧐Mistaken Identity
👨‍👩‍👧‍👧A girl's quest to find her family becomes a quest to save them