Rachel Kolman

got my #RevPit feedback and yep, I had a hunch that prologue had to go. Cutting ASAP. Thank you @madelynknecht.bsky.social and your time on my pitch!

"sorry hope its not bade" .....

reading back some old fanfic from like 15 years ago, it's funny how I see shades of my voice now as a romance writer tucked in there.

contemporary romance!

The good news: my beta readers and I all agree on what edits need to be done to raise the stakes of my novel. The bad news: now I actually have to, you know, *write* it.

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Charlie Kirk died doing what he loved: encouraging people to do more gun violence.

What in the fresh blue prince parlor hell is this bathroom

I cannot understand how my upstairs neighbor has had a fire alarm battery beeping for the last two days without doing anything about it. I've heard her walking around up there, too... perhaps she has a penchant for punishment?

life could be sitting in various breweries during the summer, laptop open and tweaking at my manuscripts, and that would be ok.

this is peak summer.

finally on final proofs for the novel I cranked out last summer... makes it all feel real 🥹 agent queries, here I come!

Another one.

Self-care is just paying the five dollars for the massage chair at the airport

Some mornings you run out of time so you gotta do your hair + makeup on the bus and it… turns out ok actually

neverhaveIever turned in final grades while sitting in the back row of an #AWP25 panel... but that's that hustle life for you

Five more minutes, mom!

In my 20s, my post teaching come down would be a whiskey shot and a beer. Now in my late 30s it’s going to the gym to sit in the hot tub and sauna.

I've been on Upwork as a freelancer for a decade now, and it was quite surprising to see that ten years of odd jobs for clients has steadily added a few thousand dollars each year to my income. Upwork is certainly problematic, but it's still the best place to collect tangible experience.

look at this lil guy perched on my vanity.

I’m like 5k words away from finishing this draft of my third novel in two years… y’all writing romance is a fun distraction

Now you can see how many people just play Balatro on their commute.

A student just wrote in a discussion post: "You could be a writer, not as a career, but as a hobby. Doesn’t really get you anywhere." Insightful! 🙄

seven thousand miles from home.

Flying across the globe is weird. It happens quicker than you realize, and conceptualizing the distance you've travelled is a losing task. You just need to accept that you're far, far away from home, now on a distant island floating in the Pacific Ocean that weirdly…

anyone care what I read last year? Ah, well, here it is anyway. Just your average blend of memoir and smut.

Successful new jersey wedding weekend

Hi bluesky. Here's a photo of my husband and one of our cats.