Natasha De Silva

What’s your take on creating a fictional town for a contemporary novel?

As this round of revisions draws to a close, I’ve begun listening to my own novel draft with earbuds using the Read Aloud feature on the Microsoft 365 app. 📖🗣️

What a great way to catch awkward, wordy, or repetitive language while immersing yourself in the novel through a different sense!

Character inspo for the art I’m commissioning!!!

I’m deep in revisions for my travel romance (set largely in Sri Lanka), and Sandali and Cliff feel so alive to me…what better way to bring them to life for everyone else than with some character art (until you can read my book, that is 😉).

#Editors prepare to have your bones chilled and your heart warmed! THE SHIVER’s got thrills, chills and feels!!! 👻🕯️🖤

AHHHHH CONGRATS to @christiecurry25.bsky.social on this book deal 🥳🎉🥂!!! I LOVED reading this hilarious, swoony, important story (and your others that I’m sure will quickly follow in getting published!). SO WELL DESERVED.

I CANNOT WAIT for everyone to read LOVE BETWEEN THE LECTURES!!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

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I have some exciting news to share 👀👀👀

This author is officially in her ✨VAGUE✨ era!!!!!!!!!!!

Moodboard An editor's guide to LOVE BETWEEN THE LECTURES Sexy male professor with messenger bag Timid female professor with briefcase University Sex written with chalk Road trip Condoms Class of students Sex toys Gummy worms Woman in robe with arms crossed looking at guy in work shirt Intijster sex with fingers laced together Health & Human Services building LOVE BETWEEN THE LECTURES The Pitch On the brink of tenure, a human sexuality professor is blindsided when she's paired up with her former childhood crush, now a hotshot PhD candidate, to organize a sexual health event on campus, only to face fierce opposition from the university's wealthiest donors: her conservative parents. LOVE BETWEEN THE LECTURES Comps NOBODY WANTS THIS: SEX POSITIVITY COMMUNICATION LA BACKDROP VIBES The PARADISE PROBLEM: BANTER LAUGHS CHEMISTRY VOICE MY FAVORITE HALF-NIGHT STAND: BOTH FACULTY COLLEGE SETTING LOVE BETWEEN THE LECTURES Tropes & Vibes Second Chance Romance Brother's Best Friend Forced Proximity Road Trip Only One Bed Female Friend Group (aka The Bang Gang) Sex Positive + Healthy Communication

A human sexuality professor is blindsided when she's paired up with her childhood crush, now a PhD candidate, to organize a SEXTIVAL, only to face fierce opposition from the university's biggest donors: her conservative parents.

Editor's Guide, on sub soon!
#PopUpPitE #PopUpPit #LuckyPit #A #romcom

Haha just realized I did that in my manuscript too 😂 Devika turned into Diviya at some point lol

Hope things are coming up roses for you ✨💐

Look what was finally delivered! 📖🤗I was so excited to read Christine Letizia’s ( @letiziawrites.bsky.social ) engrossing short story, An Enchantment of Twelve. The voice! The slow burn! The spell! I devoured this magical morsel 💛✨🕯️ Congrats on being selected for this delightful anthology! 🎉

✂️✂️🚨CUT ALERT 🚨 ✂️✂️

Since completing the first (bloated) draft of my travel romance, I’ve cut 36,000 words! 🎉🎉🎉 Also, I got a cute haircut 💇🏽‍♀️.

My manuscript is tighter now and so much closer to ready! 💪🏽

Congrats @jenanyong.bsky.social and @kalyquarles.bsky.social !!!
🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

Can’t wait to buy and read your Who Saved the Holidays picture books with my kiddo! We LOVE it when hijinks ensue 👻🦃😍

#picturebooks #kidlit #author #debut #illustrator #writingcommunity #publishersweekly

YESSS Congrats!!! 🍾🎉🎈👏🏽🥳

Congrats to Jennifer Anyong on signing with her agent, Morgan Hughes at FinePrint! Why does Jen love being a member of #12x12PB?

Read our blog post to learn more about how her membership has helped her: https://buff.ly/3Q5hHO9

#amwriting #amquerying

I’d much rather rewrite/add scenes, which at least involve some imagination and creative flow.

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Hot take: The worst revisions are Tedious Revisions.

These are pesky little things like ensuring consistent/logical timelines, fact-checking, adding details to support later statements, filling minor plot holes, and mixing up repetitive pet phrases.

Reading this now and LOVING it!!

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Do travel romances get a higher wordcount than the romance genre in general?

I know historical romance warrants a higher wordcount given all the historical context needed, but what about descriptions/worldbuilding of foreign locations and cultural context needed for travel romance?

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Love the vibes and premise!! Also your baking puns are

Yay, thanks and likewise! 😊

Here it is, folks—my Revision Notebook! 📓🌺

After 3 weeks away from the 1st draft of my travel romance, I’ve returned to it with fresh eyes, taking notes as I read. I’m pleasantly surprised to find that despite its issues, I still love my story. Once I clean this baby up, I hope you will, too! 🥰📖✨

The best! Like, it’s all out there cleanly on the page now instead of scrambled together in my head and heart 😂

First draft of my Sri Lanka travel romance WIP is finally complete! 🎉🎉🎉 After a break to let things simmer, I’m excited to dive into revisions!

Goose drinking tea in a garden, thinking “what if I’m not silly enough?”

Whichever one you’ll feel more excited about/invested in! Likely to be more productive

Hi! Writing a book that includes Sri Lanka 😊

Sure, thanks! 😊

I’m listening to Taylor Swift’s All Too Well (which to me is a Christmas song), and my holiday hope for all writers everywhere is that all of us will get to someday write the books of our hearts, our ten-minute-songs that we had to whittle down to fit the industry standard