E.B. Gula (Emmy)

I have a story in this anthology! 👻 🇨🇦

Received what I strongly suspect is an AI-generated document for an OPTIONAL assignment I gave so students could receive feedback on /their/ writing 🥲

In about three years the entire university pivot to AI curricula and schools and programs is going to be so deeply embarrassing. We will all pretend it never happened and I will be standing there, looking at people with a mirror in my eyes. This is all so embarrassing.

Hmm I might attempt finish your book fall after all 🤔 I'm writing a thesis chapter but I only need to add ~30k to my villains YA sooooo

Gosh there's just something about cover reveals 🥹 obviously I can't speak from experience (yet 🤞) but it always feels like the moment where your beloved manuscript starts to take on its
true form as a ~BOOK~

It's kind of poetic that the professor who inspired me to do my PhD will be retiring around the same time I finish

I'm also in a weird spot between projects right now. I waffle between YA and adult, always contemporary but often different genres, and it's hard to know which one to focus on for A) market reasons and B) branding reasons

I admit it is a bit harder to find the time to write fiction these days... but I keep reminding myself the PhD obligations are temporary.

I'm back to writing my dissertation and I'm pleasantly surprised that it has been fairly easy to pick up where I left off (even after a year!)

Work on your dissertation while the baby works on her dissertation 🤪

I was about to guess and then realized the title was buried somewhere in the back of my brain and that I already knew it haha

I've got the pre-back-to-school jitters eek

Happy 9 years of querying to me! ✨🫠 Persist, persist, persist, because it's truly not over until it's over.

Haha my first novel started with "It was a dark and stormy night", which I think is the actual first line of a wrinkle in time? 🤣

I have to believe one of my books will find its way to shelves eventually. I've shed far too many tears and polished far too many words to face any other, bleaker reality

As I sit here licking my wounds after FIVE HUNDRED 😓 (ok maybe only 200-300 but certainly more than five)

Lol overheard the tour guide saying that LM Montgomery got a whole FIVE rejections "but she never gave up" 🤡

Hugh Panaro in the phantom revival??? 😱😱😱

will be done in 2027 hopefully 🤞

updating my CV for reasons and the 'phd expected 2025' made me laugh 😆

While You Were Sleeping (1995)
Never Been Kissed (1999)
Phantom of the Opera (2004)

why non-pub people assume you're not published: you are a bad writer

why you actually aren't published: can't sell this, have something just like it/too unique, agent/editor has quit, no space on list, trend has moved on 😔

I'm so tired of the temperamental weather, especially when trying to dress comfortably. 7 degrees and raining one day, then 20 degrees and stuffy the next
(in Celsius, btw)

Happy book birthday! Just got my preorder in the mail! 💜

Prof: You've published a book, right?
Me: No, no, trying to get a literary agent.
Prof: Oh, that's right. You're still trying.
Me: 💀 Yep, still.

I might be rambling, and I might be caught in a doom cycle, but here is the important part: If you're in publishing and you feel like you can't catch up and you don't know how to break out, you are not alone. This game is rigged. All we can do is love the work and try to maintain our sanity. 12/

🍃Natural Harmonia 🍃 #pokemon

Honestly though I wish I knew which of these concepts is most likely to hit the market at the right time

My brain isn't working at full capacity these days and I'm stalling on my next manuscript(s). Probably thanks to all the broken sleep 😴

Seeing a lot of ✨ magical unicorn-brand 🦄 success stories lately and---🫠 I'm sure it's survivorship bias but whewwww