Emilee

Conversations that gave me a bit of hope Because I had lost a little recently, especially with regards to 1:1 conversations...

Conversations that have me a bit of hope.. Practicing these kinds of direct & compassionate conversations is a muscle I need to flex more, & I’m so grateful to Ivan & Christa for giving me the grace & space to talk through this with them.

A Theory in Dreaming 😍 hoping that I get approved for the arc

This is on my TBR cart 😍

If you are an Indigenous author who has written a book, I want to read it and maybe publish it! Open call for unagented authors is happening now!

P2Ppit stands for Path to Publication Pitch, and is a Twitter/Bluesky pitch event for writers to post pitches of their books either for industry participation or simply to test, promote, and celebrate their ideas. Pitch events are one of the joys of the online writing community. As Path2pub has always been community-oriented, this idea that celebrates writing and builds camaraderie was one we couldn’t shake off when it came up! Pitching Guide • #P2Ppit begins at 9am EST and ends at 9pm, on the 17th of January, 2025. • It will take place on both X and Blue Sky. • Add the hashtag #P2Ppit to your post to partake. • Writers can post 3 pitches in total. • Unagented, agented, and published writers can all partake. However please use the below hashtags for clarity: Unagented Writers #UW Agented Writers #AW Published Writers #PW • Moodboards are allowed, encouraged, but not compulsory. Adding ALT Text to images is highly encouraged. • Agents and editors can like tweets (♥️) to indicate interests. Participating professionals often leave guidelines on how to submit on their pages so check for instructions! • Keep your pitch to 240 words. The shorter it is the more likely people are to read it!

🔊 The #writingcommunity voted & we’re Announcing Path2pub’s 2025 Pitch Event: #P2Ppit

2025’s first pitch event!!

#P2Ppit stands for Path to Publication Pitch. It’s a Twitter/Bluesky pitch event for writers to post pitches of their books either for industry participation or 🧵

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1k members, buying Native books, promoting Native authors! I am so excited for the authors who are selected to work with us. My goal for 2025 is to have 10,000 free members and 1,000 paid members. It’s a big goal but I think we can do it. Join the reader community: www.boozhoo.binderybooks.com

Yall from now until Nov 22, @librofm.bsky.social has the audiobooks let this radicalize you, parable of the sower, and mutual aid: building solidarity through crisis FOR FREEEE with the code COMMUNITY ❤️ #booksky

Winter 2025: *Dean Spade, Love in a F*cked-Up World: How to Build Relationships, Hook Up, and Raise Hell, Together, Jan 2025 *Edgar Gomez, Alligator Tears (memoir in essays), Feb 11 Emily St. James, Woodworking (novel), March 4 *Torrey Peters, Stag Dance (a novel + 3 novellas), March 11 Spring 2025: Jamie Hood, Trauma Plot (nonfiction), March 25 Vivian Blaxell, Worthy of the Event (essay), April Anton Solomonik, Realistic Fiction (short stories), April Jeanne Thornton, A/S/L (novel), April 1 Aurora Mattia, Unsex Me Here (fiction), April 1 Andrea Long Chu, Authority (essays), April 8 *Denne Michele Norris, When the Harvest Comes (debut novel), April 15 Issac Fellman, Notes from a Regicide (novel), April 15 *Niko Stratis, The Dad Rock that Made Me a Woman (memoir in essays), May 6 Mac Crane, A Sharp Endless Need (novel), May 13 Harron Walker, Aggregated Discontent: Confessions of the Last Normal Woman (essays), May 20

Not that you asked, but here's a big roundup of upcoming books by trans authors that you can preorder now! :)

Links to individual books below. (Asterisks indicate that this author has been interviewed on the cool podcast Gender Reveal.)

The shelves on top of the shelves is such a unique touch!!

I also have dysautonomia 🫶

A #SundaySnippet from my YA fantasy romance, about a princess who must find a way to take back her wish before it comes true and destroys her.

This is beautiful and I’m jealous

I’m hate reading a book with a friend and I think this will be what pulls me out of my relentless reading slump 🥲

I still get Twilight stuff from some family members 🙃

I can see you doing a picture book or a graphic novel for young readers 😌

I’m actively searching for submissions from Black authors for Mareas! If you're writing literary sci-fi, fantasy, magical realism, or anything that blends genres with bold, resonant themes, I want to read it. Your work deserves a champion, and I can be that person! #booksky #authorsky

I’m scared to start watching this because I know I’ll be mad it got canceled 😩😓

Attn: #indigenousauthors Pitchfest is coming! (For Unagented authors, agents can submit anytime) I am seeking genre fiction (YA or Adult) #indigenouswriters #authorsky

If you could give any book its moment on Bluesky…

I’d pick Strega by Johanne Lykke Holm. It’s gothic perfection 🤌 I love this book because it explores coming of age and violence against women so well, without being gratuitous. This was truly written for the girls.

Hi! I’m Emilee, I’m writing a YA sapphic fantasy romance and I’m happy to be here 🩷🩷🩷

Mostly YA but I started drafting a middle grade sapphic contemporary romance as well!!

✨Official neurodivergent writer starter pack ✨

Where are my neurodivergent writers & authors at? Lmk if you'd like to be included as I update 🌱

go.bsky.app/5YyxvYL

Add me please 🥹

A gold graphic with text from a word document: The sun was just out of bed and stretching, but Aurea already bustled around her, a soft collage of glow and shadow. Nolly tried to mostly see the light: men throwing arms around stumbling friends to guide them home; a woman defending her husband’s breakfast from a persistent street hound; someone’s old-world flag hanging proudly. So much of Aurea really was golden, even if it could use the occasional polish. But Nolly still noticed the dark. It had an unmistakable skulk, an easy grin. She saw it in the guards leering openly down breezy blouses, the king’s unapologetic regulations, the shameless fences between the Crown and Middle Sektor—as though the common people’s cracked cobblestone and callused hands would bruise the silky skin on the other side. “When Erebus created Aurea,” her father had said, “everyone who thought as backward as him was free to crawl out of their swamp and shout until you couldn’t hear the rest of us.” Aurea was honest, but sometimes, honesty was hatred without its armor on.

I posted this over on the Bad Place™️, but I wrote Aurea in 2020 partially as a reflection of the 2016 US election cycle, as in, "let's NEVER do that again," and remain so, so tired of realizing how few people care about other people. I will never stop writing about those who do. ⚔️ #writingcommunity

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Trying to find my fellow people who write queer YA and/or MG 👀 #writingcommunity

For the newskies #writingcommunity:

Unlike other SM, BlueSky has threads that are great to get your posts to people who might interested. Certain emojis and keywords will put your post in the threads. This is a non-exhaustive list:

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- freelance books, ents, digital culture & disability focused journo and copywriter
- editing & sensitivity reads for manuscripts & magazines
- author of messy, queer & disabled women, querying a romantasy w/ ♿ rep
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I'm teaching a Queries 101 workshop this Sunday, free to all BIPOC, queer, disabled, and marginalized folks.

Everyone else can attend with a small fee!

1 hour workshop on queries for novels + 30 minute Q&A. Please share

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I think it’s time for this reading slump to end so that I actually have something to say here 😅