super 🕺jazzed🕺 to announce i am now represented by
@EmilyKaitlinnn
at bookends!! emily is obsessed with carter and aspen in a way only i am and i’m so ecstatic to have her at my side !! THE DEVIL YOU KNOW is all about friendship, love, revenge, and antics (i swear it’s cool!)
dream agent rejected me but had so many good things to say about how she loved my book and could see a future massive fandom and art and how much she loved the characters but the individual lines weren’t developed enough
friendly reminder that i’ve had an agent read the first ten pages of my book and then respond in a rejection that the representation of my culture isn’t “significant” enough. so that’s what we’re dealing with.
i’ve been waiting for this one… HOW I GOT MY AGENT aka how i harassed
@EmilyKaitlinnn
for like, four years. you can read it now! (i also post book reviews on there. you’re stuck here.)
i’m going to say something kind of controversial but it’s very obvious that the publishing industry cares a lot more about queer rep than it does racial minorities. not saying that queer rep isn’t insanely important tho
@Iousbianism
there is absolutely nothing wrong w what lucas did imo. he’s on a team. it’s a commitment and when shit got crazy he left and helped his friends
hello!! my name is roxana, i’m a sophomore at uc berkeley! i’m currently on sub with my childhood bffs-rivals-lovers ya romcom! i’m editing ⬇️ abt a summer on a rich new england island, accepting the things we can’t change, and changing the things we can! go bears
can we bring back
#WritersOfTwitter
again? i would love to meet some new writer friends (& hype up the ones i’m lucky to know already) so go ahead and (re)introduce yourself! 👀💕
as unagented writers, i hate the stigma (idk if that’s the right word maybe that’s why i’m unagented) that we aren’t allowed to talk about what agents are racist/homophobic/etc in query replies because we’re scared of being blacklisted or labeled “hard to work with”
when her best friend—and perhaps something more—sends a terrifying message from the front lines, aurora discovers the war she’s been training for since birth isn’t what her elemental military school has been teaching her.
#2kAesDay
every single person who can should query emily. she is the best agent in the world and is just so incredibly passionate about everything she takes on. a month ago i would’ve been screaming that she opened to queries again!!
Okay so the world is a mess. Publishing is wild. Nothing makes sense.
🤍📖So I reopened to queries because books are still important and I want to support as many as I can📖🤍
Here’s my
#mswl
for books I’d love to help celebrate and champion
witches, gossip girl, and debut novels: an interview with debut author kay smith (aka
@kaylsmoon
)
wondering about their debut novel? wanting querying advice? check out this interview i did on teapot press with lovely kay!
so the guy who played a racist republican marine in purple hearts (and took the role, so he obviously didn’t care that much) is playing henry in red white and royal blue… yeah i’ll be boycotting
now that the news is out i wanna talk a little about THE DEVIL YOU KNOW. it’s all about revenge and antics and forgiveness but it’s also about PCOS. i was diagnosed with PCOS last year and it turned my world upside down. it’s truly one of, if not the, hardest thing (1/?)
in honor of finishing nano in 16 days, meet my childhood best friends to academic rivals to lovers wip, full of stubborn persian girls, cute hockey boys, academic sabotage, pranks, sap, betrayal, and angst
#amwriting
#writingcommunity
yall i’m so close to crying!!!! i am so so so excited to work with jenna. aurora and hestia belong so closely to my heart and i’m so happy to find a mentor that sees them as i do<33333 these freezing fires!!!!!!
I just came across an agent who asks that if they have ever rejected one of your manuscripts, not to ever query them again.
That's a first.
#amquerying
anyway almost instantly after i got signed i was added to an agent sibling group chat and i just want to say how thankful i am for them:)) i heart emily’s children
my whole writing career would be nothing without this woman right here!! mrs. sally gordin was my english teacher in both eighth grade and junior year. i always remember that she would always say “when you get published” not “if” so much love for her
looking for beta readers for the first draft of the devil you know, a ya romcom about ex-bffs who are top of their class teaming up to sabotage the new kid vying for valedictorian!!!! persian mc, hockey, academic sabotage, angst, hijinks, and a healthy dose of man hating🕺
people of color in this industry will never catch a break. maybe i’m only seventeen, but in an industry full of fae and witches and monsters, i thought my ethnicity was the most normal thing of all. (4/4)
mind you this was a form query so it was perhaps 10 pages. this agent was not persian or middle eastern. the fact that she could do that is atrocious. that she could police MY representation of MY people. i feel sick. 3/?)
hit the 8k mark so everyone say hello to bryce and mila!
featuring
🎾 college sports romance
🎾forbidden love
🎾man haters
🎾i-hit-you-in-the-face-let-me-take-you-to-urgent-care
🎾family drama
🎾slow burn
🎾angst
🎾lots of tennis puns
🎾my team hates yours
THE DEVIL YOU KNOW
Ex-best friends and academic nemeses fighting for valedictorian team up to sabotage the new kid in town vying for the class’s number one spot.
#ya
#rom
#pitlight
oh no not a new wip while i should be editing…
anyway meet coin wip ft.
— orphans surviving on the street together since childhood
— servant of death x servant of luck
— forbidden childhood lovers :(
arc of a scythe x little thieves ft the alcott by taylor + the national
MAPLE HAWTHORNE&THE HARVEST MOON
When the enchanted forest that provides for her village begins to die, Maple needs the witches’ help. But the humans and witches have long been at odds, and Maple’s only home is disguising herself as the prince’s fiancée.
#ya
#f
#pitlight
between getting racist feedback saying my representation isnt "significant" enough (and that's a quote) to seeing all professionals ignore our voices...
#amquerying
sucks the life out of brown writers
so in my query letter i talk about how it’s own voices and persian rep matters so much to me. i send that query to SO MANY AGENTS. i get a response from this one saying that my characters heritage wasnt mentioned enough “to matter” (2/?)
@AlaaBarkawi
i feel like agents are always saying they want our stories, we query them, they reject, and then they tweet “where are my bipoc stories” and it’s so disheartening
@HetalWrites
not the same AT ALL but she ghosted me on a full, reached out when my story of agent racism went lowk viral on writer twitter and asked for another one, then ghosted me again after like 12 nudges
i’ve ever had to grapple with. there are certain parts of it no one walks to talk about, like the uncontrollable weight gain. THE DEVIL YOU KNOW doesn’t shy away from ANY aspect of PCOS. i’ve always wanted to write for iranian girls and i did (2/?)
@la_guettler
she then went to her persian doctors office and started playing persian music, hosting a mehmooni in the operating room because she is persian
DRAG ME TO THE SHORE
🕊️debutantes
🍰martha’s vineyard esque island
🦋 a series of dares
🫖 what is the point of life when you lose the one thing you never thought you would?
💌 post-college summer
🫐 found family
“there is a little box labeled sound of joy.”
#pitlight
but i also wrote for everyone struggling with a uterine disease. aspen is everything i struggled with and after is everything i wish someone had told me.
first week of college, i was calling my mom begging to come home, lost the one constant in my life and my passion. today is my last day and i’ve discovered what i want to do with my life, made so many new friends, and learned how to be independent. idk i’m just very proud.
i love how authors of color are coming out with our experiences querying and white authors just assume all our writing is just bad and we’re delusional or lying
This is Twitter not the Daily Bugle and I am so tired of y'all acting like not naming someone is a denial of your rights. People vague tweet shit because naming names can lead to harassment and loss of opportunities. I say this as someone WHO NAMES NAMES.
cw: violence
What’s it like being a content creator?
Today, I woke up to a hateful and violent message because someone didn’t like one of my book reviews.
A few hours later, I received an out of the blue email from a viewer just to say they appreciated my content.
🙃🫠
OFF CAMPUS X THE SUMMER OF BROKEN RULES
division 1 tennis player mila and her team live by one rule: loathe thy neighbor, aka the boys team. but when mila meets sweetheart bryce after he drives her to the ER, mila must choose between her best friends and her heart
#wiplift
oh pssstttt!!! i also want to thank
@QuillersSWANA
for bringing this opportunity about. SWANA writers ard SO underrepresented to thank you to quillers and all the mentors for taking a chance on us!!!!<3
THE DEVIL YOU KNOW
—academic rivals
—ex bffs to rivals to lovers
—small town drama
—academic rivals teaming up to sabotage the new kid’s grades
—angst!!! pining!!! yearning!!!
—flashbacks
—hockey!
—senior year nostalgia
#wipfeast
#amquerying
so two kids in the theatre program at my school performed a script i wrote and directed last night and all day teachers and admin have been complimenting me? saying they went out to dinner and talked about it??? saying they cried????? AHHHHH