🍉 Sandra ✨💖

WRITER — INACTIVE HERE You can find me on T H R E A D S 🇨🇦 🇲🇽 🍉

[🍉 Sandra ✨💖 @SNegreteWrites]

@CJC_CCM

We, the peoples of Canada, all in one voice ask the Canadian Judicial Council to start prompt investigation of Justice Maria V. Carroccia upon the use of ‘credibility’ as fact to reach a conclusion during trial.

If you agree, like below.

[🍉 Sandra ✨💖 @SNegreteWrites]

@TheLeighShulman Hi! What is the name of the sub?

[🍉 Sandra ✨💖 @SNegreteWrites]

Here’s the silver lining from the Butker commencement speech:

Ladies,
If your SO praises it, now you know. And you’ll be sure about what to do next.

This event set a gross limit.

[🍉 Sandra ✨💖 @SNegreteWrites]

@pipercjbooks Goodness. I want to read this yesterday.

[🍉 Sandra ✨💖 @SNegreteWrites]

@carolinaesant1 @AlyssaMatesic Just here to say I agree with this. It’s a cultural thing and part of our natural speech.

[🍉 Sandra ✨💖 @SNegreteWrites]

I also feel like compared to querying, fighting for a VP position in the transnational company I work for, is nothing.

[Mariana V. Coelho @marviecoelho]

The query trenches are crazy. I feel like I've connected more deeply with people in the writing community over the past few weeks than I have with 99% of my coworkers over the last 5 years.
#amquerying

[Moniza Hossain @moniza_hossain]

They were writing their targets into a book and planning horrible deaths for them?? Writing Twitter drama is frequently horrifying, but this is the first time I’m actually really scared

[Aiden Thomas 🇵🇸 @aidenschmaiden]

confirmed — i took this pic of taylor barton / freydis moon

[🍉 Sandra ✨💖 @SNegreteWrites]

@ZephonSacriel @akatepockett It was probably me 😭 lolol

[🍉 Sandra ✨💖 @SNegreteWrites]

@s_t_gibson I suspect you’re going to like the album Riceboy Sleeps (Jonsi & Alex)

[🍉 Sandra ✨💖 @SNegreteWrites]

Lol but so true

[Eva (is practising anarchist calisthenics) @ParanormalJunk2]

We are just writers, standing in front of agents, asking them to pick us instead of the 8 dysfunctional raccoons in a trench coat that seems to have managed to get FOUR AGENTS WITH THEIR DIFFERENT PERSONALITIES I MEAN WHAT THE HELL???

[🍉 Sandra ✨💖 @SNegreteWrites]

My frustration over the latest bookish drama

[Evaline *UPDATES ONLY* @TheEvaline]

Being a BIPOC author is no walk in the park. It’s a constant struggle to prove your worth, only to have your worth summed up in terms of marketability. It’s a constant reminder that I, being born as I am (not white), am not marketable. True BIPOC authors know what this feels like

[🍉 Sandra ✨💖 @SNegreteWrites]

@ElenaBerrino @roslyn__reed @porterotica Enhorabuena on your new rom-com Elena!

[Fringe Book Reviews @FringeBookHan]

Okay 🧵 incoming!

So I haven’t read a book that fits ~every one of these, but I do have several recs coming to mind for a lot to them…

Credit: https://t.co/qwefcDn6jT

[B.B. Alston @bbalston]

Explaining trad publishing to someone outside the industry:

Them: So hold up, you spend years working on a book and you just gotta hope somebody eventually pays you?

Me: Oh no, my friend. You first gotta convince someone else to even send it to the folks you hope will pay you.

[Daniel Aleman @Dan_Aleman]

The cover reveal for I MIGHT BE IN TROUBLE is now live on @EW!!!

This is a novel about a struggling writer who wakes up to find his date from the night before dead—and must then decide how far he’s willing to go to spin the event into his next big book.

https://t.co/FvlXwDnSYv

[🍉 Sandra ✨💖 @SNegreteWrites]

I told my husband exactly this—I will be impressed by AI the day we have something that cleans the house.

[Joanna Maciejewska @AuthorJMac]

You know what the biggest problem with pushing all-things-AI is? Wrong direction.
I want AI to do my laundry and dishes so that I can do art and writing, not for AI to do my art and writing so that I can do my laundry and dishes.

[🍉 Sandra ✨💖 @SNegreteWrites]

I think the best month for writing is January.

The holiday season is done, there’s not much money to spend, in a lot of places it’s cold outside and one rather stay indoors with a hot beverage.

[S.Z. Estavillo @szestavillo]

Is A Call For Diversity In Publishing Real?

As a BIPOC author, I am biracial. That means I don't fit in one box. Being half-Puerto Rican & half-Korean, I've written both cultures in my books. What I find most discouraging about this industry is their call for BIPOC stories. However, no matter how well written, how good it is, or how interesting the premise might be - I still see the mega book deals given to non-BIPOC authors. There are still fewer ethnic stories getting acquired.

There is a call for BIPOC stories. I've written a Korean-themed thriller, and I can't tell you how many people thought the premise was "fantastic" and the writing was well done, but they're still passing. Regardless of who writes a story, yes, it still has to be executed well. However, when we give them diverse stories, BIPOC writers will often hear: "Sorry, we didn't connect with it."

So, as a biracial author, I must ask an honest question: Is it really the writing you don't connect with or the culture that isn't yours?

Here are the facts: institutional racism and subconscious racism still exist. This is evident in that 75-80% of big contracts are still given to non-BIPOC authors and their non-BIPOC stories. True diversity should go beyond exploitative marketing language.

#WritingCommunity #BIPOC #WOC #OWNVOICES