C. M. Murray

Get your questions answered about the Anthropic settlement on Oct. 16 | Jane Friedman The Authors Guild is holding a free webinar for all authors (you don’t have to be a member) on Thursday, October 16, at 6 p.m. ET.

Hello #writingcommunity!

Passing along this info from #janefriedman for a free seminar on 10/16 regarding the Anthropic settlement.

Hope you're having a productive #writing day today! 📝

#amwriting #amquerying

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I just entered #RevPit #10Queries. Enter now for a chance to win free feedback on your query and 1st 5 pages

What do I need ready for RevPit #10Queries? Don't forget to sign up for substack and follow on bluesky

THIS FRIDAY!!! Are you excited, #RevPit?! If you're gearing up to enter RevPit #10Queries, here's everything you need:

⭐Complete query letter
⭐First 5 pages of manuscript

The query and first 5 pages will need to be uploaded to the form in one document and should be a standard manuscript format

Definitely an underrated gem!!

I mean, I also love The Broken Earth trilogy, but I just get so excited whenever someone mentions The Darkness Outside US :)

I LOVE The Darkness Outside Us (and pretty much everything Eliot Schrefer has written) so much!! This sounds exciting! I look forward to reading it! 😁

When Trina is forced into the Empress’s academy, she must join a group of unlikely allies and master the magic of her cards if she wants to avoid being sacrificed to a dragon. #DVpit #YA #F #LGBT

💪Loner -> BAMF
💝Found family
🌈Queernormative
🤐Hidden secrets
⚖️Have vs. have-nots / anti-oppression

17y/o Trina despises the immortal Empress and her cruel magicians. Trina grows up suppressing her magic rather than join them, but when she’s captured and enrolled in a school for magicians, she begins to question her family’s hatred for her new peers. Tarot-inspired magic #DVpit #YA #F #LGBT

Love the TWO chosen ones twist!

What a wild ride!!

Trina grew up on tales of the Empress and her evil magicians. When she’s forced to enroll in the magicians’ academy, Trina must learn to embrace her magic and trust the people she’s always feared if she wants to graduate; if she fails, she will be sacrificed to a dragon. #DVpit #YA #F #LGBT

Ohhh, this sounds fun!!

FIREBORNE x THE TEMPTATION OF MAGIC
When 17y/o Trina is forced into the Empress’s academy, she must master the magic of her cards or be sacrificed to the magicians’ dragon-god. The only way she’ll succeed is with some help from unlikely allies. Tarot-inspired magic #YA #F #DVpit #LGBT

love this!

Ohhh, this sounds exciting!!

Ohhh - "armed with blood and ink" I'm excited to hear how that turns out!

This sounds like a wild ride!

This sounds exciting!! I love your comps :)

The Empire of Luxairn is divided into those who have both magic and wealth and those who have neither. Trina’s family is unique: they hide their magic and live in destitution rather than join the cruel Empress’s wars – until Trina is captured. Tarot-inspired magic, queernormative #DVpit #YA #F #LGBT

Big scary monster - no problem! Talking to a boy - now, that’s terrifying 🤣

A loner makes friends and embraces her identity, going from underdog outcast to BAMF with a dash of romance. Tarot-inspired magic system, second world #YA #F, found family, coming of age, hidden secrets, morally gray antag, heroine’s journey, magical boarding school, queernormative. #DVpit #LGBT

A teenaged recluse who has suppressed her magic rather than accept the cruel Empress’s patronage is captured and forced into The Academy where she will need to embrace her magic and trust her enemies-turned-peers or she will be sacrificed to their dragon-god. Tarot-inspired magic #DVpit #YA #F #LGBT

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Are you readying your manuscript to query agents? Preparing for this year’s RevPit event?

What better way to know if your query and first 5 pages have what it takes to stand out in the slush pile than to get an editor’s eye on it?

We are hosting a #10Queries event, October 10th - October 24th!

a sign that reads “NO LOITERING VIOLATORS WILL BE PROSECUTED”

me, to the judge: “Well if THAT’s what they meant, they should have used punctuation.”

Come for the locked boat dark academia murder mystery, stay for a strange and drowning Oracle?

We're entering 'please pre order my book so I get to publish more' season... so pls click here? 🖤 geni.us/saltorac

Cuddle time! How sweet ☺️

#DVPit, a pitch event for diverse voices, is coming up, and their pre-events are starting in September!

Follow @dvpit.bsky.social for more information!

I’m still not over this duology. What I love most about @eliotschrefer.bsky.social’s writing is the emotional punch he brings to every story. I don’t think I’ve ever finished one of his books without crying (in the best way possible) at least once. If you haven’t already, be sure to check them out!

I participated in @ericsmithrocks.bsky.social’s summer query and first pages webinar and it was fantastic! Eric was so helpful and supportive. If you’re working on a nonfiction book proposal, I 💯% recommend!

Apparently Guillermo Del Toro has ruined Frankenstein by… being relatively faithful to the source material.

Oh my.