Rae Wilde 🏳️‍🌈 @_rae_wilde Twitter profile

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Rae Wilde 🏳️‍🌈

4 months

HERE IT IS, FOLKS!! I've been dying to announce this project for a long time and can't wait to share ARCs at Stoker 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

CLASH Books

@CLASHBooks

4 months

Been sitting on this for a little bit and so excited to share we'll be publishing a banger of a novella I CAN FIX HER by @_rae_wilde ! We will also have physical arcs at StokerCon!

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Rae Wilde 🏳️‍🌈

@_rae_wilde

1 year

One time a guy approached me on the street with a bible Him: do you have a minute to talk about our lord and savior, Jesus Christ? I just so happened to have a ✨larger bible✨ *pulled it out, made gaping, Tom Cruise eyes* Me: ABSOLUTELY I DO. He left.

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Rae Wilde 🏳️‍🌈

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9 months

I've wracked my brain for a way to make this funnier than it already is, but I got nothin 💀

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Rae Wilde 🏳️‍🌈

@_rae_wilde

1 year

@jessmondywrites 🤣🤣 WHY DO THEY HATE IT? 💀

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Rae Wilde 🏳️‍🌈

@_rae_wilde

11 months

Camille… I’d be good to you.

Alice Nebularis

@AliceNebularis

11 months

Camille Monfort, The 1896 Legendary Tale of "The Amazonian Vampire” a French opera singer that to this day say her tomb is empty, & her death and burial were nothing more than an act to cover up her case of vampirism, and that Camille still lives in Europe, now at the age of 154.

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Rae Wilde 🏳️‍🌈

@_rae_wilde

8 months

I resisted the urge to go to B&N and instead got an unread book off my self. Please clap.

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Rae Wilde 🏳️‍🌈

@_rae_wilde

4 months

Romance 🤝 Horror

Donyae Coles 🕯️🔮🕯️

@okokno

4 months

They are sisters. Wear your crown of flower and bone, revel in both the carnal and the carnage. What is romance but desire? What is desire but to consume? The only difference between a kiss and a bite is how deep the teeth go and both can kill.

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Rae Wilde 🏳️‍🌈

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1 year

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Rae Wilde 🏳️‍🌈

@_rae_wilde

1 year

Others have tweeted. I'm naming him. We need to talk about the Curator of Horror, Chance Forshee. 🧵

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Rae Wilde 🏳️‍🌈

@_rae_wilde

2 years

I GOT THE JOB 🔥🥹😭

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Rae Wilde 🏳️‍🌈

@_rae_wilde

3 years

Just entered my first submission to a magazine! Wish me luck 😊💕🤞

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Rae Wilde 🏳️‍🌈

@_rae_wilde

4 months

a super under-explored horror niche is the horror of forced, corporate fun.

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Rae Wilde 🏳️‍🌈

@_rae_wilde

2 years

I made it. CLEAN FOR 10 MOTHERFUCKIN YEARSSSSSS! 🖤 12-10-12 🖤

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Rae Wilde 🏳️‍🌈

@_rae_wilde

1 year

Milo is gone. We will never find him again.

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Rae Wilde 🏳️‍🌈

@_rae_wilde

2 years

I wrote Taco Bell erotica. 🌮 Everything is chaos anyway.

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Rae Wilde 🏳️‍🌈

@_rae_wilde

1 year

I’m not a woman of culture? Then explain how I’m eating cheese curds in Wisconsin right now. With ranch.

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Rae Wilde 🏳️‍🌈

@_rae_wilde

7 months

For all the men who hate the look of women’s bodies, I have excellent news: There is another option! Have you considered Other Men™️?

✞𝙻𝚒𝚕𝚐𝚎𝚗𝚍⋆✰𝙸𝚜 𝙽𝚘𝚠 ᗯᗩ𝘠ᗯᗩᖇᗪ✞💣💨

@lilgendszn

7 months

On behalf of all men, we haté this😡

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Rae Wilde 🏳️‍🌈

@_rae_wilde

1 year

I couldn’t be more thrilled to announce that I’m now represented by @laurabirdland of @GreeneandHeaton 🎉🎉🎉 So looking forward to this journey with her and stepping into the next phase of my writing career 🥹

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Rae Wilde 🏳️‍🌈

@_rae_wilde

2 years

EXCUSE ME BUT ACCEPTANCE OF A LIFETIME🔥👀👀 @TBQuarterly "This story is incredible. You pulled it off. You did what you had to do and took it where it needed to go. You nailed it... We love it and we want to include it in TBQ6." 🥹😭🌮

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Rae Wilde 🏳️‍🌈

@_rae_wilde

1 year

My debut novel has released into the world! 🥹🖤 Happy birthday to The Stradivarius, my queer retelling of Gaslight 🎻 and a #1 New Release!!!

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Rae Wilde 🏳️‍🌈

@_rae_wilde

1 year

I'm in shock but I guess I get to finally do the thing VAGUE. PUBLISHING. TWEET. 👀

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Rae Wilde 🏳️‍🌈

@_rae_wilde

1 year

Truly begging you not to name your characters after the editor(s) you're submitting a story to. I am very uncomfortable.

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Rae Wilde 🏳️‍🌈

@_rae_wilde

2 years

Queer horror today. Queer horror tomorrow. Queer horror forever.

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Rae Wilde 🏳️‍🌈

@_rae_wilde

1 year

@benji_smith @ZachRoseWriter Hey Benji. I know Zach well. We've had lunch outside the courthouse. The courthouse where he practices law. Because he is a lawyer. Take down your site.

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Rae Wilde 🏳️‍🌈

@_rae_wilde

3 years

I will partner with an agent in 2022. I claim this. Because I am worthy, talented, and I will work tirelessly to realize this dream of mine. I can do hard things.

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Rae Wilde 🏳️‍🌈

@_rae_wilde

2 years

I've waited a long time to post this 🥹🖤🎻

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Rae Wilde 🏳️‍🌈

@_rae_wilde

1 year

@WeirdArchives Just like awkwardly shuffled off 🤣

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Rae Wilde 🏳️‍🌈

@_rae_wilde

1 year

I HAVE A THING!!! OmgOmgOmgOmg

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Rae Wilde 🏳️‍🌈

@_rae_wilde

1 year

Respectfully, no.

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Rae Wilde 🏳️‍🌈

@_rae_wilde

1 year

Guess who just had a FULL REQUEST in their junk folder!?!? IT ME 🎉

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Rae Wilde 🏳️‍🌈

@_rae_wilde

1 year

Surprisingly, this tweet is doing a thing. Want a book that's very much NOT a bible?

Merciless Waters

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Rae Wilde 🏳️‍🌈

@_rae_wilde

1 year

@last_writes BASICALLY 🤣

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Rae Wilde 🏳️‍🌈

@_rae_wilde

2 years

Just spitballin' here, but do we want a genderbent, sapphic retelling of Jekyll & Hyde?

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Rae Wilde 🏳️‍🌈

@_rae_wilde

2 years

🚨 THIS IS NOT A DRILL 🚨 Taco Bell erotica is here. It's real. You're gonna hate it. RT to spread the FILTH 🙏🔥🌮

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Rae Wilde 🏳️‍🌈

@_rae_wilde

2 years

I feel seen.

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Rae Wilde 🏳️‍🌈

@_rae_wilde

1 year

It's only AI if it tries to defeat Arnold Schwarzenegger. Otherwise it's just sparkly plagiarism.

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Rae Wilde 🏳️‍🌈

@_rae_wilde

10 months

I don’t always take selfies in front of my library ladder. But when I do… library ladder.

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Rae Wilde 🏳️‍🌈

@_rae_wilde

1 year

Babe, wake up. I got the PM announcement.

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Rae Wilde 🏳️‍🌈

@_rae_wilde

2 years

Seeing a lot of tweets about upcoming queer/sapphic books, which I love. BUT they all look happy, lovey, romantic, YA… Where are my dark, queer stories? I want sapphics with blood under their nails and hate in their hearts.

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Rae Wilde 🏳️‍🌈

@_rae_wilde

1 year

TWO FULL REQUESTS TODAY !?!? IT'S NOT EVEN 10:30AM WHAT IS HAPPENING?

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Rae Wilde 🏳️‍🌈

@_rae_wilde

1 year

I’m a little bit squinty here but the point is, my wife is the best ❤️

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Rae Wilde 🏳️‍🌈

@_rae_wilde

2 years

Maybe pause a moment and tell River she’s a good girl?

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Rae Wilde 🏳️‍🌈

@_rae_wilde

1 year

Left a note on my WIP that just says "make it make sense"

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Rae Wilde 🏳️‍🌈

@_rae_wilde

2 years

Friends, when you release a book, it's OUR release. WE are promoting it. I'M PART OF THIS. YOU CAN'T STOP ME.

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Rae Wilde 🏳️‍🌈

@_rae_wilde

1 year

Need a boost today. Pls convince me you're human in the comments, but do a bad job. This is for regular, skin-wearing humans only. No cosmic terrors, extra-terrestrials, or dark entities. Thnx!

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Rae Wilde 🏳️‍🌈

@_rae_wilde

2 years

*Me talking to beta readers*: Take your time! No rush, no pressure, whenever you get to it. (In my mind) But if you could read it all now in one sitting, while I stare at the same Google doc, that would be ✨IDEAL✨

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Rae Wilde 🏳️‍🌈

@_rae_wilde

1 year

Straight white men: FINALLY! A hero has emerged to defend you 😂

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Rae Wilde 🏳️‍🌈

@_rae_wilde

1 year

An excellent time to order one of my books! 😊🖤

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Rae Wilde 🏳️‍🌈

@_rae_wilde

2 years

THIS IS IT! 🥹 SCREAM! ✨A N N O U N C E M E N T✨ I truly couldn't be more ECSTATIC to be working with Brigids Gate Press to bring The Stradivarius into the world 🎻

Brigids Gate Press

@BrigidsGate

2 years

We're excited to announce a book deal for a psychological thriller by Rae Knowles titled "The Stradivarius." Coming May 2023. @_Rae_Knowles

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Rae Wilde 🏳️‍🌈

@_rae_wilde

3 years

Got my first *slightly* personalized rejection today. A win? 😂 #amquerying

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Rae Wilde 🏳️‍🌈

@_rae_wilde

9 months

Losing it over Victorian Christmas cards 🌲 🐸 🦞

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Rae Wilde 🏳️‍🌈

@_rae_wilde

5 months

TLDR: I support @evelyn_freeling unequivocally.

Evelyn Freeling

@evelyn_freeling

5 months

For the past two years I’ve suffered harassment from Zach Rosenberg. I never wanted to make this public, but his ongoing bullying has made this impossible. I considered my conflict with him to be personal, it seemed inappropriate to drag it out into the public, inviting a dogpile

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Rae Wilde 🏳️‍🌈

@_rae_wilde

2 years

Y’ALL I JUST GOT A REALLY EXCITING EMAIL PLS EXCUSE ME WHILE I DIE 🔥🔥🔥🔥

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Rae Wilde 🏳️‍🌈

@_rae_wilde

1 year

Cover real for Merciless Waters! A rusalka will do anything to win back her fickle lover, even if it means risking their shared immortality in a quest for revenge. Preorder link coming soon 👀🎉

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Rae Wilde 🏳️‍🌈

@_rae_wilde

9 months

11 years: 4,015 days including holidays, nights, and weekends Birth, death, surgeries Marriages and divorce Jobs gained and lost Since 12/10/2012 I’ve not yet found a reason to use.

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Rae Wilde 🏳️‍🌈

@_rae_wilde

9 months

11 years ago today I was on my last day of detox, shivering in a cold sweat. Couldn't eat, couldn't sleep, and everything hurt. If you're struggling with your relationship with drugs or alcohol, you're not alone. We do recover.

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Rae Wilde 🏳️‍🌈

@_rae_wilde

2 years

CW: SA ref All this discourse about authors endorsing the behavior of their characters... Well, my most recent FMC eats her rapist. And, TO BE CLEAR: Yes. I support this.

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Rae Wilde 🏳️‍🌈

@_rae_wilde

2 years

I started subbing short stories at the end of Feb '22. Thought I'd share my overall stats: Pending: 18 Rejected: 20 Withdrawn: 9 Accepted: 9 And some tips 1/🧵

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Rae Wilde 🏳️‍🌈

@_rae_wilde

1 year

To anyone else who has been made to feel uncomfortable by him: I see you, I love you, I'm sorry it happened. You should not feel pressured to share your experience unless you want to. 🖤 7/7

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Rae Wilde 🏳️‍🌈

@_rae_wilde

7 months

Big name male horror authors, Come get your boy JD Barker. He’s being a fuckin creep.

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Rae Wilde 🏳️‍🌈

@_rae_wilde

1 year

People querying for like a year or more… Are y’all okay? It’s been less than a month and I’m straight up not having a good time.

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Rae Wilde 🏳️‍🌈

@_rae_wilde

1 year

Starting new discourse: All fight scenes should be replaced by sex scenes. Unless the fight scene ends as a sex scene, in which case, it can stay 😏

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Rae Wilde 🏳️‍🌈

@_rae_wilde

1 year

I saw a psychic once who said I'd have "small" success as an author but would never make it "big". In this essay, I'll explain why, that day, I dedicated my life to a campaign of spite--

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Rae Wilde 🏳️‍🌈

@_rae_wilde

2 years

I regret to inform you that this is what newborn horse hooves look like. But delighted to let you know it’s called “fairy fingers”

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Rae Wilde 🏳️‍🌈

@_rae_wilde

1 year

A while back, Chance sent a DM that made me uncomfortable. It had a sexual connotation but was ambiguous enough that it left me feeling unsure what to do. I'd already committed to being on his podcast and he was blurbing my book. 2/

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Rae Wilde 🏳️‍🌈

@_rae_wilde

1 year

I am both overwhelmed by the outpouring of support and sad for the many people whose trauma was activated by my tweet and/or lost something yesterday. To the few who demanded more/less/otherwise from me and others who speak out--

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Rae Wilde 🏳️‍🌈

@_rae_wilde

2 months

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Rae Wilde 🏳️‍🌈

@_rae_wilde

1 year

I'm overjoyed to announce the full TOC for Scissor Sisters, an Anthology of Sapphic Villains edited by @April_Yates_ and myself, coming from @BrigidsGate Please join me in congratulating the authors 🎉

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Rae Wilde 🏳️‍🌈

@_rae_wilde

1 year

I'm fortunate enough to not *need* income from my writing to survive. This is a privilege I want to use to inform others and potentially protect them from being made to feel how I felt. This is not a specific call to action. 5/

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Rae Wilde 🏳️‍🌈

@_rae_wilde

1 year

The advice continues, the men 'splaining back and forth to one another into oblivion. The universe cannot hold the weight of their wisdom. The center cracks. A black hole swallows us all. Finally, there is peace.

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Rae Wilde 🏳️‍🌈

@_rae_wilde

6 months

🚨I AM OFFICIALLY ON SUB🚨 Nesting Birds is an Edwardian period literary horror novel with the sapphic longing of BLY MANOR x the dreary coastal setting of MIDNIGHT MASS, presenting a fictional history of Fire Island.

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Rae Wilde 🏳️‍🌈

@_rae_wilde

1 year

The first draft of my Edwardian grief horror novel is done 🥹

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Rae Wilde 🏳️‍🌈

@_rae_wilde

1 year

I set a boundary and tried to write it off. Recently I've learned I'm not the only person he's made to feel this way, even hearing phrasing almost identical to what was said to me. This changed my stance. 3/

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Rae Wilde 🏳️‍🌈

@_rae_wilde

1 year

Coming soon to a bio near you 👀

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Rae Wilde 🏳️‍🌈

@_rae_wilde

7 months

✨Transparency in small press publishing✨ a 🧵 Info about small/indie presses relies on word of mouth, an author sharing their experience 1:1 or publicly. This disadvantages new members of the writing community and those who don't have established networks. /5

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Rae Wilde 🏳️‍🌈

@_rae_wilde

1 year

I am sharing this because I feel strongly it's important people know so they can make informed decisions around working/interacting with him. Sharing this only amongst friends disadvantages ppl outside those small circles 6/

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Rae Wilde 🏳️‍🌈

@_rae_wilde

1 year

Rather than potentially a bad joke or a misunderstanding, this is a pattern of behavior. Chance has a platform, albeit relatively small, and an ability to get books in his B&N. This creates a power dynamic. 4/

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Rae Wilde 🏳️‍🌈

@_rae_wilde

2 years

After shelving my first MS, just trying to wrap my head around how my 1st query on THE STRADIVARIUS has... RESULTED IN A FULL REQUEST? wtf is going on?!?🥹🖤 Shock. Shock is the word.

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Rae Wilde 🏳️‍🌈

@_rae_wilde

1 year

I've signed a THING 👀 The most exciting THING I've signed yet 🎉🔥

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Rae Wilde 🏳️‍🌈

@_rae_wilde

9 months

@CarsonWinter3 I heard he shot a man in Reno, just to watch him die.

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Rae Wilde 🏳️‍🌈

@_rae_wilde

3 years

I JUST GOT MY FIRST FULL REQUEST!!!!!

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Rae Wilde 🏳️‍🌈

@_rae_wilde

2 years

But WAIT... an anthology theme of The Last Unicorn inspired stories but MAKE IT HORROR!?!? 🔥🔥🔥 Who will enable me to bring such a thing to life?? Horror community, do you want this? I WANT THIS.

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Rae Wilde 🏳️‍🌈

@_rae_wilde

1 year

My parents must be stopped (or multiplied). This was their souvenir for us from vacation.

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Rae Wilde 🏳️‍🌈

@_rae_wilde

2 years

“What if the AI stories were good—“ MA’AM, I’m gonna need you to pause and tell me which images contain traffic lights.

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Rae Wilde 🏳️‍🌈

@_rae_wilde

10 months

Um. We've been microwaving it the whole time, right?

My Mixtapez

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Cup Noodles will be microwavable for the first time in 50 years thanks to new cup design 🍜 📸: Chris McGrath/ Getty Images

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Rae Wilde 🏳️‍🌈

@_rae_wilde

1 year

Just my face for no reason 🖤

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Rae Wilde 🏳️‍🌈

@_rae_wilde

2 years

Often when I tell someone I'm a recovering heroin addict, it's clear they feel bad for me. Like, no bb. I'm bragging. 😘

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Rae Wilde 🏳️‍🌈

@_rae_wilde

2 years

Contract signed... Thrilled to announce that my story of feminine rage, Of Ash and Soot, will appear in @EerieRiver 's Fire anthology! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 Super proud of this one and can't wait to share it🖤

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Rae Wilde 🏳️‍🌈

@_rae_wilde

2 years

All I want to write is the finest blend of queer sex and body horror. It's not illegal, and you can't stop me.

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Rae Wilde 🏳️‍🌈

@_rae_wilde

10 months

My shirt? What about it?

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Rae Wilde 🏳️‍🌈

@_rae_wilde

2 years

A few months ago I wrote something totally outside my comfort zone, tinkered with it for weeks, and almost didn’t submit bc I felt so insecure. Today it was accepted for an incredibly competitive ✨thing✨ Try. Be fearless. Keep trying. 🖤

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Rae Wilde 🏳️‍🌈

@_rae_wilde

1 year

Querying tip: Keep your spirits up by pretending all the agents you haven’t heard from yet are nervously pacing back and forth trying to figure out how to offer rep while seeming kinda cool and cavalier about it.

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Rae Wilde 🏳️‍🌈

@_rae_wilde

5 months

Five years married to the love of my life! 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

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Rae Wilde 🏳️‍🌈

@_rae_wilde

2 years

COVER REVEAL FOR MY DEBUT CHILD 🫣🔥🖤

Brigids Gate Press

@BrigidsGate

2 years

The Stradivarius by @_Rae_Knowles is coming May 2023. Cover by the talented @Max_Stark8 .

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Rae Wilde 🏳️‍🌈

@_rae_wilde

1 year

Real writers sit down once a year and pen four books in a single sitting. They leave their loved ones for a life in the bog. They learn to croak and frolic with dragonflies. They eat flies with their long, sticky tongues.

Nicky Shearsby

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1 year

How important is writing to you? The answer lies in your commitment to write, every day. Do you write daily, and if not, why?

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Rae Wilde 🏳️‍🌈

@_rae_wilde

1 year

Guess who's now an active member of the HWA?! 🎉

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Rae Wilde 🏳️‍🌈

@_rae_wilde

2 years

Just signed a thing with the most monies yet for my little words 🥹 The serotonin has arrived 🖤

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Rae Wilde 🏳️‍🌈

@_rae_wilde

10 months

Happy Birthday to the book @rachfacelogic called "a vengeful fever dream drowned in saltwater." 🥹🖤 Bookshop: B&N: Amazon:

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Rae Wilde 🏳️‍🌈

@_rae_wilde

2 years

This is surreal, but I am utterly floored to announce that my short, SHINY™️ PEOPLE, will be included in @dark_matter_ink 's Monstrous Futures anthology. 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 Can you hear me screaming!? 🖤🥹

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Rae Wilde 🏳️‍🌈

@_rae_wilde

7 months

HEY MY BEST FRIEND JUST SIGNED A BOOK DEAL !!!!!!

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