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author, artist, musician. MAYBE TOMORROW I’LL KNOW, 2026 | 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ 🇨🇦 🇵🇸 they/he | rep: @jennaschmenna

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@a_ritany

alex ritany

5 days

cat’s out of the bag! i get to share two more books with the world! 1. incredible things happen when the right person believes in you 2. stories about trans joy ARE valued. enough to go to auction, even 3. my parents are REALLY going to hate this one

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@a_ritany

alex ritany

4 months

@bycjellison maybe the WHO who WHAT??

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22 days

have been unanimously informed that my current writing strategy of combing through the book getting every chapter to 100 words then again to 200 then to 500 then to 1000 etc etc is unhinged so why did i think everyone wrote like this to some degree

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4 months

oh my god dream agent full request someone pinch me

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3 months

WELL THEN. y’all will be hearing more from me VERY soon because i am officially ✨vague✨ (i need to be sedated???)

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4 months

oh my god dream agent full request someone pinch me

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@a_ritany

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3 months

sold all but 4 copies at my book launch today :’) ☀️

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3 months

ANNOUNCEMENT TIME! i'm so thrilled to share that i am now represented by @JennaSchmenna at @StormLiterary ! y'all, jenna GETS it. i'm so honoured that my little trans joy amnesia timeloop book has found a home with such an enthusiastic champion. onward and upward!

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@a_ritany

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4 months

hello writing community i am looking for authors who write autistic and queer characters 👀 (bonus points if you're pursuing publishing of some kind but not a requirement!) if this sounds like you say hi let's be pals! asking for a friend and the friend is me

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3 months

where are my authors writing disabled characters? come say hi, let’s be friends! lord knows we need to band together😅

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@a_ritany

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3 years

You know those childhood daydreams that just stick with you until you have no choice but to do your best to make them real? This is one of those. Thank you to @HerringAli for championing the book of my heart and to Dana for believing in Nora’s story. I’m so thrilled😭

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@a_ritany

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22 days

adding the context since it seems more people are seeing this (hello!)

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@a_ritany

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2 months

this was the opening to my email to @JennaSchmenna accepting her offer of representation and alllll i’m gonna say is that i’m not seeing any proof against this statement based on today👀🫣✨

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3 months

when i started transitioning i definitely anticipated a shift in the way strangers interact with me at work but WOW the bible belt has gone above and beyond to transcend my wildest expectations 🤩 anyway. if you like trans people interact with this i wanna build some positivity!

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@a_ritany

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2 months

I GOT IT

@a_ritany

alex ritany

2 months

interviewing today for a contract position at my day job that i REALLY want wish me luck🫣

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publishing is so wild because you wait for things to happen and then you can’t even say when they do

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11 months

@NBCNews i'm really glad @StorySorcery got quoted in this. the racist backlash she's received over the last few days is abhorrent

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3 months

truly in publishing you gotta find someone who matches your freak. like say what u will about experience but at the end of the day. is the person in your corner matching your freak. ARE THEY. it’s essential

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@a_ritany

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4 years

SUPER excited to partner with @HerringAli and join #TeamSpencerHill for my debut YA con novel! It’s about loss, grief, first love, best friendship gone wrong, and I hope it breaks your heart someday.

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4 months

watch how hard. i can cry😭✨

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oh my god dream agent full request someone pinch me

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3 months

tell me about your disabled and/or chronically ill characters!

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alex ritany

3 months

where are my authors writing disabled characters? come say hi, let’s be friends! lord knows we need to band together😅

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3 months

about to read through my book top to bottom for literally the first time ever thoughts and prayers appreciated

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4 months

first partial request😎 this book is so weird. querying it at all feels like a huge gamble, but in such a fun way. fingers crossed!

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4 months

i thought getting back into the query trenches would be mentally challenging especially with the project i chose (weird and v queer) but it turns out that since last time i did this i've been divorced and disowned and actually i'm invincible in the brain now

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@a_ritany

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2 years

Exciting news: This book has a new title! Super excited to debut DEAD GIRLS DON'T SAY SORRY🎉 (And I have a new name! I love being Alex.)

@a_ritany

alex ritany

3 years

You know those childhood daydreams that just stick with you until you have no choice but to do your best to make them real? This is one of those. Thank you to @HerringAli for championing the book of my heart and to Dana for believing in Nora’s story. I’m so thrilled😭

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11 days

well well well… watch this space next week ish or whatever

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publishing is so wild because you wait for things to happen and then you can’t even say when they do

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4 years

@lexnuIla when i was a kid and would read nothing but harry potter over and over my parents took them away and had me read 10 other books between every hp book

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3 months

@badinfinity2 it is, from personal experience, also apparently grounds for divorce (said with much amusement. personality means nothing. a great rack is the ONLY criteria for meaningful lifelong partnership)

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4 months

the only downside to The dream agent requesting a full within 24 hours is that if they end up passing i will simply have to lie facedown in a ditch

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@a_ritany

alex ritany

9 months

it’s OUT! happy release day! i cannot wait for the world to meet nora and julia and dillan, and i hope this story finds the people who need it. DEAD GIRLS DON’T SAY SORRY is yours to keep!🩷💛

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@a_ritany

alex ritany

3 months

2 weeks post release, i was encouraged to publish under a pen name because my debut numbers weren’t good. i’ve heard that my 🏳️‍🌈 characters are hard to connect to/are a hard sell. i really thought it was over for me. querying this book was a last shot. i am beyond words🫣😭

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alex ritany

3 months

sometimes your world tilts on its axis overnight and you realize that there Is room for you in tradpub and that people Do want your work and then you just have to go to your day job like normal

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@a_ritany

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4 years

I need a little kazoo or something. Hurray! #nanowrimo2020

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2 months

opening my wip document and then immediately switching to a different tab... very demure... very mindful

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3 months

sometimes your world tilts on its axis overnight and you realize that there Is room for you in tradpub and that people Do want your work and then you just have to go to your day job like normal

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@a_ritany

alex ritany

3 months

i’m a bookseller and my favourite hobby is going “oh that’s my friend!” to my coworkers at 5 am when we’re unboxing books ‘friend’ is anything from ‘lifelong buddies’ to ‘yeah we’ve interacted once online’

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Allie is ✨agented✨

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3 months

I know some of you will get published and I’ll get to tell my friends whenever I go into a bookshop with them that I’m mutuals with the author on Twitter 🤭

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@a_ritany

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19 days

@ThisToxicX @Wifesucker people are being really unhinged in these replies as if you followed up with “which means you shouldn’t have to do dishes” when it’s like. yes it sounds silly. yes there’s a reasonable explanation. yes we still gotta do dishes.

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1 month

you guys :( writing is hard. can you believe

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@a_ritany

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25 days

the brilliant @JennaSchmenna is opening to queries today!! this woman is a POWERHOUSE. when i say you MUST query her... (🔪)

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@a_ritany

alex ritany

3 years

today i found out i don’t have cancer. i didn’t even know how much of an anxiety cloud that was over my whole brain til it left. this means the root cause of all of this yuck is still unknown but i’ll take good news happily and with a BIG sigh of relief😊

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@a_ritany

alex ritany

1 year

COVER REVEAL! so thrilled to finally be able to show you the stunning cover for DEAD GIRLS! the team at knopf is brilliant🩷💛

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@a_ritany

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4 years

Today was a good day for landscape painting😊

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3 months

i love…. accepting things……..

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3 months

GOOD day. that is all🎉 (🫣)

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4 years

@incipient_dream @lexnuIla i genuinely just cannot understand banning books in what world is that a good punishment?!

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3 months

in honour of my sundrenched road trip book coming out this week: new ink!☀️

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3 months

remember when i said those books wouldn’t arrive on time for release? my distributor came through, and here they are 😭☀️🩵

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@a_ritany

alex ritany

9 months

MY AUTHOR COPIES CAME!

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4 years

I just want to write a YA novel that Seems straightforward at first glance but makes some high school English teacher absolutely lose it. That’s it that’s the dream

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4 months

STARLING HOUSE x WRONG PLACE WRONG TIME an anxious control freak, an enigmatic warlock, a soulless pariah and a himbo edgelord walk into a bathroom. the anxious control freak says, "hey, is that my dead body in the bathtub?" #questpit #W

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@a_ritany

alex ritany

4 years

I had 2 writing goals at the beginning of 2020: write more, and start querying. 6 novels, a half a million words, and one dream of an agent later (you rock, @HerringAli ), I'm quite pleased and hopeful for 2021. This year was wild and hard, but there was good too.

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@a_ritany

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3 months

opening line of your current WIP🔪 "The trouble starts long before Liv finds her own dead body in the bathtub."

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@a_ritany

alex ritany

29 days

I remember pain. I think it because I’ve just broken my ribs. Or—something else broke my ribs. I know it because I want to breathe, but my mouth is full of dirt, and the effort strains and burns as the same sharp edge slams into me a second time. #1stLinePit #WIP #YA #SPEC

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4 years

What’s your Achilles heel as a writer?

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2 months

no further context will be given thank you and good day #unhingedpit #H #F #SPEC #LGBT #WIP #AG

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alex ritany

4 years

Might have gone a little overboard with the outlining. (Camp Nano I am READY for you)

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4 months

got such an excellent email i accidentally broke my glasses

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4 months

ok so i didn't think i'd Actually be able to write a million words in a year when i set out but end of june has me at 528k............. buckling in. let's go girls

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@a_ritany

alex ritany

22 days

someone on the hellsite asked me Wtf Are You Talking About so here’s a bit more on how this works 🫣

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alex ritany

22 days

have been unanimously informed that my current writing strategy of combing through the book getting every chapter to 100 words then again to 200 then to 500 then to 1000 etc etc is unhinged so why did i think everyone wrote like this to some degree

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and another thing: this is meant positively! i love my creative process and it’s fun and i also greatly admire people who do things differently. so much room in this goulash. different folks, different strokes. etc etc

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@a_ritany

alex ritany

3 years

People will tell you that coming out is hard but they don’t often talk about how exhausting the process can be. Anyway. Hi. I’m nonbinary and I use they/them pronouns. 💛🤍🖤💜

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alex ritany

3 months

never would have anticipated being in the position to make DECISIONS at this stage of the game but like oh my god how do people do this. i'm nonbinary and bisexual my whole deal is that i DON'T choose. is there a guide book

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4 months

@bycjellison

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3 months

neither of these are ✨The One✨ but 1) dark red was absolutely the move and 2) look how tatted i look these days

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3 months

one of my bolder choices: dying my hair a new colour the day i’m going to try taking headshots

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1 month

tbh this is why i don’t think i could ever write a “how-to” on querying having successfully done it twice. like, yeah, look for agents that fit. put together a solid pitch package. but there were no “hacks” either time. luck, timing, persistence, & a damn good book. that’s it.

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🍉🌻Nia P.

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I want y’all to know if I ever get an agent, I don’t know if I’ll write a blog post on how I did so, I wouldn’t know how to critique a query or the first few pages. Like I’ll be surprised as everyone else. Think of me as a pigeon, I just go here.

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@a_ritany

alex ritany

4 years

Hit 10k on The Novel today!!

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alex ritany

4 months

body “swap” time loop novel that imagines the horror of uncovering your own gender identity through the eyes of a stranger while you try not to fall in love with the guy who keeps forgetting you. what it was like to write it told thru memes: #unhingedpit #YA #SPEC #LGBT 🏳️‍⚧️

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alex ritany

4 years

Sometimes you just gotta hand draw a fictional town a la google maps to get yourself oriented.

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@a_ritany

alex ritany

4 months

my debut released! i wrote the best book i’ve ever written & jumped back into the query trenches even after hearing my career was in trouble unless my debut went viral (it hasn’t), i have an indie book out next month, & i’ve written 500k of of my 1,000,000 word goal for the year!

@melisfluous

Melissa Ren

4 months

✨ WRITERS! ✨ We're at the half year mark! Tell me all that you've accomplished. It's time to BRAG about YOU! 🙌 Let's goooooo 💥

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@a_ritany

alex ritany

4 months

p.s. my queer & autistic book road trip comes out soon if you're into found family units and enemies-to-lovers where one of them is just minding his business and the other is full of rage about it & you can pre-order the ebook👀

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@a_ritany

alex ritany

4 months

hello writing community i am looking for authors who write autistic and queer characters 👀 (bonus points if you're pursuing publishing of some kind but not a requirement!) if this sounds like you say hi let's be pals! asking for a friend and the friend is me

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10 days

okay so where are y’all at OTHER than here? let me find more of you in the abyss of the internet pls🤲🏻

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alex ritany

3 months

i always get giggly whenever i see “author aesthetic” type posts of the dark academia vibe as if writing a novel doesn’t feel like trying to hold your too-big pants up without a belt while running through an airport terminal

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alex ritany

3 months

i love wedging my way into the corner of the internet where all of the strange brained & queer & disabled people get to be unapologetic and honest. it makes me really happy☀️

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alex ritany

3 months

GOOD day. that is all🎉 (🫣)

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alex ritany

3 months

i made bookmarks all by myself everyone clap

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@a_ritany

alex ritany

10 months

“what does it mean when your best friend dies and your instinct is relief?” find out on feb 6th—my debut novel releases, getting into the nitty gritty of grief, survivor’s guilt, and falling in love when you’re not supposed to. pre-order wherever you buy books!

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4 months

oooh the “wait that was real?” is Hitting this morning

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3 months

@shardai_smithh what a wild reach to assume that was your intent?! hello please touch grass

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2 months

i love tuesdays on writing twitter!! overwhelming joy!! yes show me the culmination of years of dreaming!!! i want to celebrate with you!!!!!

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alex ritany

4 years

Nanowrimo culture is doing a full month’s worth of cleaning on October 31st

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22 days

@AshleySkolrud see i feel similar bewilderment about linear writers like what do you MEAN you can just write what happens and stay in one place???

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3 months

it feels illegal to see this well

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3 months

tomorrow i get to pick out new glasses for the first time in YEARS what’s cool these days what shapes are in

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2 months

interview went really well! now we wait…

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alex ritany

2 months

interviewing today for a contract position at my day job that i REALLY want wish me luck🫣

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3 months

sooooo… editors…….. 👉🏻👈🏻

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4 years

Do any of us really WANT to write a novel for Nanowrimo or do we just want to disguise the crushing anxiety of November with an insane goal that we can blame for our stress levels

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@a_ritany

alex ritany

3 years

hey! this is your sign from the universe to watch young royals! have a colour study of simon and wilhelm. #youngroyals #youngroyalsnetflix

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3 months

out august 7th!👀🩵☀️

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@deadpoetseraph

astraea 𓆩♡𓆪 (ia bc school)

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3 months

i wish authors would bring back chapter names they are so fun

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3 years

i am finishing a novel tonight. it is the coolest story i have ever written. send tweet

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2 months

guys. any strategies for getting over the mid-point “this might be the worst thing anyone’s ever written” hump?

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2 months

what a day got a really cool email AND just applied for a promotion at my day job that i really really want send good vibes y'all🤞🏻

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18 days

if scrivener could sync to my phone i think i would be genuinely unstoppable

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4 years

I don't think I've ever shared my writing on Twitter before, but today I was gripped by the impulse. This is from my most indulgent project, a sprawling and messy series of 10 sapphic magical detective novellas.

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4 years

My project today. My fingers hurt but it was SO worth it!

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3 months

some art of the love interest from MAYBE TOMORROW I’LL KNOW because i am soooo normal about this guy

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3 months

let’s go lesbians ‼️ (friends to lovers to idiot exes to lovers again what more could you want)

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4 years

I’d pitch the novel I’m working on right now as How To Get Away With Murder meets Stranger Things, and I think this graphic I put together really captures the vibe👀

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4 months

i'm having too much fun with these #unhingedpit #YA #LGBT 🏳️‍⚧️

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alex ritany

4 years

About once a week I think about the time I met a girl who was also an aspiring novelist and she stole my notebook to read what I was working on without asking and then gave it back with notes on how it could be improved

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3 years

happy saturday i took some photos today and these are my favourites

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3 months

is there any trope pairing better than BOTH parties going "what a marvelous creature. i am Obsessed and would do any amount of grovelling for a scrap of their attention. unfortunately *i* am but a freak and surely they only pity me"

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@a_ritany

alex ritany

4 months

hi #writingcommunity i have no recent photos of myself but pls have the proof for my next book + some art! i’m alex! 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️i’m a hybrid author writing YA contemporary and all kinds of nasty speculative fiction. if a WASP mom would hate your books, let’s be friends!

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@a_ritany

alex ritany

3 years

Got the job! Thanks for the support! 🎉

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alex ritany

3 years

Interviewing today for a position that would make my life feel like a big ol balloon of coolness & would let me do all of the things I love every day. (Writing in my spare time and working with my hands for money?? Unreal) Any spare pocket luck you have is appreciated!

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4 years

3k from the full 50! Tomorrow is the day😅 #nanowrimo2020

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alex ritany

4 years

Painted Thomas Brodie-Sangster from #TheQueensGambitNetflix ! Can’t recommend this show enough.

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