Fay Irwin (pen name)

You wouldn't believe (or maybe you would) the number of titles i tried out that played on fertilizer.

"Steaming Pile of Love" was sadly one of the better ones.

If you’re on the fence about #RevPit, I’m always tempted to say you have nothing to lose + everything to gain. Which is true.

But I also want to acknowledge that there are genuine reasons not to enter. So, I present you:

Reasons Not to Enter the RevPit Annual Contest 🧵

Moodboard. Centre image is a pressure cooker with "CHEMPORTAL" written across it. Outer images clockwise from top left: - fancy drinks and food on a table set for 2 - typed text on a page of a book. "Chemistry" is highly visible - a white woman with brown hair working on a car engine - the Toronto skyline - a colourful stack of books - a bright light shining through a partially open door, obscuring the world beyond - a bat hanging from a branch - a stack of latkes

In 1909, Fritz Haber invented the process used to create fertilizer to this day. In the world of CHEMPORTAL, he never existed.

Andy Weir and Ali Hazelwood are channelled in this tale of two awkward scientists who must overcome their mutual dislike to save the world.

#UnhingedPit #Q #R #SF

Well, it is a romance, so there's a happily ever after...

This is terrifying and amazing.

Do you really really promise? Because you have me nervous...

picture of two girls doing their hair in frame by frame.

when ur soulmateless but the gov't makes a show to help u find one then starts killing u and ur friends off instead

#A #SF #H #R #CS #unhingedpit

Glass stein of Pilsner Urquell beer: The Best Kisser in Prague; It's a love story. Promise.

The Best Kisser in Prague

Pretty sure y'all know the pitch.

#UnhingedPit #A #R #HF #W

Girlhood is a spectrum Everyone goes through breakups here’s why mine is the saddest and the worst. Self care queen! This woman treated herself to being a bitch today

What if your SISTER invited your EX to her WEDDING.
#unhingedpit #a #r

Yaaaaaay!!!!! So excited for you. Release the banshee!!!!

OMG Buggy, should we kiss? The Unfortunate Garden Witch's Guide to Kissing Girls, somehow Oh Ace! Thought you'd never ask!

#unhingedpit #ya #rf #w

Would you believe half this story is about a potty-mouthed, sentient flower from Boston?

The more you know.

Hand holding a teaspoon with a burning sugarcube over a glass of absinthe. Text: Totally a good idea.

The Best Kisser in Prague

#UnhingedPit #A #R #HF #W

THIS IS My Taste In Men 4.2 Mental illness 4.3 Existential issues 4.4 Feminism 4.5 Bisexuality

Jonathan Heart Are they lovers? secret brittany • Creator Worse

Starter Packs 101 The Performative Male How to nail the look Oversized t-shirt Wired earphones Tote bag Ceremonial-grade matcha with oat milk Indie viny! Baggy trousers "Vintage" footwear Feminist literature Film camera

If you liked the setting of Shane hollander’s cottage from heating rivalry but the narrator is a girlfail and the love interest looks like the performative male starter pack meme this one’s for you

#unhingedpit #r #a

Image of a pink and silver pressure cooker against a black background. Top says “ChemPortal: a Romantic Sci-fi.” Bottom says: “Two awkward scientists just want to be left alone to build a lawnmower. Instead, they find themselves battling time, powerful corporations, and doomsday cults to save the world from starvation.”

No one knows whether the Chiropteran cult worships bats or just feels bad they're all dying. Doesn't matter, though, since the world's about to end.

CHEMPORTAL: a grounded sci-fi romcom with real chemistry

#Q #UnhingedPit #SF #R

a man holding a shredded cheese grater in front of a pile of french fries Alt: A man who looks like an 80s rock star holds a cheese grate like a guitar as he shreds cheese onto a pile on the floor.

I only get one image.

#Revpit for when you get so blind to your own #WIP that you can't see rabbits anymore.

Hahaha it's so much fun! I gave up after a sweater I worked for months on proved to be bizarrely proportioned, but I should ease back in with some amigurumi.

Unintended consequence of #RevPit - after reading all the editor profiles, i suddenly want to crochet again.

Just started a spreadsheet for notes. That's how I know my WIP is serious business. #Writing #Pantser #SpreadsheetsAreIntegralPartsOfTheWritingProcess

Squeeee!!! So excited for #RevPit! I feel like a kid in a candy shop reading about all the editors.

Awww thanks! And hooray for common nerdery!

It's a sad story. The bats mostly die (there's a pandemic). But they do get a cult dedicated to them...

Thank you!

A movie poster for "CARGO", depicting a sunset with two crescent moons in the sky. In the foreground are silohettes of two people, only their arms visible, their pinky fingers grasping each other tightly. The arm on the left is thinner and has four fingers. The arm on the right is of average proportions and has five fingers. The top of the poster reads "A match made in space. While stealing things." Below the name "CARGO", there is smaller writing in an alien language, presumably the title translated. At the bottom of the poster, the credits section is as follows: CATHERINE WINTERS AND COREWARD BAKER PRODUCTIONS LTD PRESENT A CATHERINE WINTERS NOVEL ‘CARGO’ STARRING TAI OF MICAPA THYLLIS CHAUMEDEROT TALATAGARI QUIRIN TALATAGARI ANENTO FRANK THE CAT JEREL BESKROS CHOST MOL RAZIK FEATURING COOL MOSS ABOVE STILL WATER AND INTRODUCING CLARKE SHIPS BY SETEBO-URANQ AND CONSTANT VERIDITY INTERSTELLAR COSTUMES BY UPPER CORE ATELIER “HUMAN” CREATURE EFFECTS BY 3.8 BILLION YEARS OF EVOLUTION CASTING BY THE TRADE AUTHORITY EXECUTIVE PRODUCER CATHERINE WINTERS DIRECTED BY CATHERINE WINTERS WRITTEN BY CATHERINE WINTERS

WAYFARERS x MURDERBOT x SOMEONE YOU CAN BUILD A NEST IN

Tai can get through this. Things'll go back to normal. Steal the cargo, stop thinking about the human, wipe the security feed, stop thinking about the human, get out of the vault, stop thinking about the human. Easy. #CuPit #SFR #LGBT #SF #A

I will always read #CuPit as "copper pit." (In case anyone needed proof I'm a chemist.)

Copper is, in fact, mentioned in ChemPortal. Electrochemistry AND romantic chemistry in one book! The combo you never knew you were missing...

#Q #R #SF #A

Moodboard. Centre image is a pressure cooker with "CHEMPORTAL" written across it. Outer images clockwise from top left: - fancy drinks and food on a table set for 2 - typed text on a page of a book. "Chemistry" is highly visible - a white woman with brown hair working on a car engine - the Toronto skyline - a colourful stack of books - a bright light shining through a partially open door, obscuring the world beyond - a bat hanging from a branch - a stack of latkes

What happens when a chemistry professor writes a romance?

If that prof is me, you get CHEMPORTAL, in which two awkward scientists battle cults, corporations, and unwanted feelings as they try to invent fertilizer.

Plus, feminist takes on science history. And maybe aliens.

#CuPit #Q #A #SF #R

Mood board for Anti-Charter Campaign agent's guide. Pictures of an elementary school, money, butterscotch, cheersing beers, ants, a map of PA, D&D dice and character sheets, kids in a school, a magic book, an apple for the teacher, and a man with a nametag that says "Evil Corp"

Speculative Fiction ANTI-CHARTER CAMPAIGN is Jumanji X Abbott Elementary. Librarian Britt and her teacher colleagues must make the right rolls in a magical RPG to save their school from a charter takeover. 92K Words, Querying Now

Comps: Roll for Romance, The Grimoire Grammar School PTA, A Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches, The Lost Bookshop, Minor Dramas & Other Catastrophes, The Faculty Lounge, Up the Down Staircase

Excerpt: “Yes, it is. Would you like to hold it?” “Why would you do that, Angelo?” Suze shook her head. “Classic NPC inciting move. He’s going to run away with it now.” Britt picked up the thread as soon as Suze quieted, making her voice high like a child’s. “‘Yes, I would.’ The boy snatches the emblem from your hand and runs toward the back of the tavern.” “Oh well,” Angelo declared in his Martin affectation, tossing his head as if he had fluffy curls instead of a close-cropped buzz. “Maybe now all the exiled princes and damsels in distress will stop asking me for help and I can just sit back and enjoy a tankard of ale.” “Since when have damsels of any kind approached you, Martin?” Suze retorted, at least seeming to be in character. Though Catherine wasn’t certain if a paladin would make such a snide comment. The party had been together for eight or nine adventures. She supposed that bred a certain familiarity they could play into.  “But you need that, Martin. You know they’ve been asking people for their badges lately.” Catherine scanned over her character sheet. She’d prepared spells for what she thought Sprintze would be doing in the off season.

My speculative fiction ANTI-CHARTER CAMPAIGN is complete, and I made my first ever agent's guide.

#AmQuerying

Pink cassette tape labeled "Mix for Mika"; title: The Best Kisser in Prague

The Best Kisser in Prague

🇨🇿 A crossroads in history
🇨🇿 Expats in Prague
🇨🇿 Early-90s nostalgia
🇨🇿 Gritty slow-burn ♥️

#Cupit #W #A #NA #R
#WriteSky #WritingCommunity

Please finish writing this book. The chapters I've read are AMAZING.

(And that mix tape photo is perfect.)

Thank you!!!