Ashley Russ - Protect 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

The time has come. I’m really, truly, querying my #novel THESE WILD HORSES. I’m so excited for this book. No matter what happens in this round, I’ve done myself proud. #A #SF #SPF #WF #querying & #writing baby. ❤️

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Thank you, McSweeney’s and writers BEN PARKER, STEPHANIE STEINBRECHER, KELSEY RONAN, JOHN McMURTRIE, SOPHIA DuROSE, RACHEL VILLA,and AMY SUMERTON mcsweeneys.net/articles/the-c…

@addiebrook That was some next level talent to be sure

@samantharahmani Yup

The two worst things I've learned while editing is that 1) retyping the entire manuscript IS, regretfully, an effective technique, and 2) i have atrocious handwriting and cannot be trusted with writing revision notes to my future self

@AiJiang_ I’ve got your book coming in the mail and I’m so excited 🤩

gearing up to start work on the next book (returning to the land of horror, weird, and the folkloric huhu 👀) and I have concluded that writing is only possibly with the chaotic energy of a 12AM-6AM sprint time 💀😶‍🌫️

@ashley1espinoza Could they be combined somehow……………… 😎😎😎😎

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@AiJiang_ @thedarkmagazine @angrygablepress What an excellent title for that story!

two smol things out! A reprint in @thedarkmagazine about a garden of growing ancestors—“Garden of Guiding Eyes and Grabbing Bones” (first pubbed in What Draws Us Near) & a poem about stage fright in Extrasensory Overload anthology (@angrygablepress)—“Speech Arts” 🫣🤍

@noraraywrites Excel because some of the agents I’ve queried don’t use Tracker. And I like color coding things. 😊

i'm in my pre-querying era, so another question. how do you keep track of the queries you sent? do you use QT only or have an excel file as well? how does it look?

Please take a read of my friend’s brilliant work. ❤️ themanifeststation.net/2024/07/20/a-t…

@bartos_annie @interview @antiochmfa The legend legending. ❤️ Thank you for sharing.

@ahsanb_ Oooo Harrow

Excited to get to these...

@addiebrook 😭😭

@SarahMNeilson @ellomelissa Love that scene where they’re all at the restaurant and Miranda and Charlotte are like, Of course we read it! And Samantha looks away like, 🙂‍↔️💅 I'm sorry, Sweetie, I don’t always have time for your ✨articles✨ Too real.

what is so realistic about sex and the city is her friends never read her little articles

@ashley1espinoza HMU this next week! I’m at a writing res and will be ✍️ 🤩

☀️ Writing residency begins tomorrow and I don’t know which of the four books to revise and edit 😅

a preorder sale you say? 👀🤍

@LivvieHarts In California we can claim up to $500 on our taxes. My school supplies what I’ve requested, & gives me what I need throughout the year. This is not the case everywhere. Or, if you need 100 boxes of tissues cause it’s Nov, maybe you don’t want to wait a month for a purchase order.

🎉👏🏻🎉👏🏻 Long hand transfers complete. On to the end. ❤️

Cruising along… 📑🗡️