Katie Carlson is seeking new rep!

I can’t afford therapy so I commissioned the cutest character art for my upcoming romance novel from indie artist #babydragonart 🥹
#supportindieauthors #supportindieartists

I was lucky enough to read this early and it quickly became one of my top reads of the year! Preorder it!

closeup of a woman's closed eye surrounded by freckled skin and red hair, a latte with a heart on it sitting next to an open laptop, the words Dirty Drafting, the torso of a male barista frothing milk

To hit Number 1, Victoria's willing to play dirty

💔 a romance writer who needs inspiration
☕ the gruff owner of her favorite coffee shop
6️⃣ six dates
📖 a book secretly based on their relationship
❌ but he'll never find out
💥 ... unless he happens to be her anonymous beta reader

#QuestPit #A #R #Q

a mood board with pictures of a woman's freckled skin and red hair, the wall of a bar/coffee shop, hands making latte art, a pile of pennies, a man with his arm around a woman as they look out over a lake, a man looking at a lake, a microphone, a collection of different mugs, and an open laptop sitting next to a latte

HOW TO LOSE A GUY IN TEN DAYS x YOU'VE GOT MAIL

💔 a romance writer who needs inspiration
☕ the gruff owner of her favorite coffee shop
6️⃣ six dates
📖 a book secretly based on their relationship
❌ but he'll never find out
💥 ... unless he happens to be her anonymous beta reader

#ghostpit #A #R #Q

Closeup of a closed eye surrounded by freckles and red hair, an open laptop sitting next to a latte with a heart on it, the words "Dirty Drafting," a man frothing milk in a coffee shop

A romance writer agrees to a series of dates with the gruff owner of her favorite coffee shop, secretly planning to use the experience as fodder for a new book—but neither is aware he’s the anonymous beta reader who’s been ripping apart her pen name’s work for years.

#ghostpit #A #R #Q

"I asked ChatGPT" "I asked Grok" ok well I asked Gandalf and he said he has not passed through fire and death to bandy crooked words with a witless worm

I want more people to care that SNAP benefits are being cut off on November 1. 40% of SNAP beneficiaries are children. This is callous and vile.

Writing a book is just like reading a book except the book hates you

True story

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

Drake meme--top: Victoria and Quinn have a deal: six dates, no sex* bottom: *does not include: touching *redacted*, tasting *redacted*, *redacted* while watching in the mirror

Victoria and Quinn attempt to keep it casual in DIRTY DRAFTING, now querying! Will they succeed? Absolutely not!

#unhingedpit #A #R #Q

a mood board with pictures of a woman's freckled skin and red hair, the wall of a bar/coffee shop, hands making latte art, a pile of pennies, a man with his arm around a woman as they look out over a lake, a man looking at a lake with his hair up, a microphone, a collection of different mugs, and an open laptop sitting next to a latte

Seeking new rep for DIRTY DRAFTING, an adult contemporary romance featuring:

💔 a romance writer who needs inspiration
☕ the gruff owner of her favorite coffee shop
6️⃣ a deal: six dates, no sex
💥 "Does this count as sex?"
📖 a book secretly based on their relationship
♾️ that might steal their own HEA

Your email finds me deeply burned out and disassociating.

"Go to an old cemetery. See all the baby graves from before the 1950s & 60s? After that, hardly any. That's when people started vaccinating their children. If you're unsure what to do to protect your kids, the answer is literally written in stone." — Michael Okuda

How quick we forget.

Minnesota Nice has left the chat.

I am calling on Hachette to take the comma from Little, Brown and donate it to Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Is it just me, or is there nothing less sexy than revising a spicy scene?

None of This Was Real 10 years ago,she ruined everything. Now, they’re reunited at her sister’s wedding and maybe he’s the one who shouldn’t be trusted. chance second of age coming

A summer to remember, a summer to forget, a week in winter to give it one last shot.

🗻 lake house setting in summer and winter
🥂 soapy family drama
💍 will the wedding be ruined?
💔 healing or reopening old wounds?
📸 yearning for nostalgia

#posterpit #q #r #a #amquerying

FUNNY STORY x SUMMER ROMANCE + WHEN HARRY MET SALLY X THE WEDDING SINGER Two Broken Hearts. One Pact. A Year to Rewrite Their Story. 🎵 Trailer "Colorful" Jukebox The Ghost | End Credits "Heaven" Niall Horan #posterpit #wf w/ #r #a #w

FUNNY STORY x SUMMER ROMANCE + WHEN HARRY MET SALLY X THE WEDDING SINGER

Two Broken Hearts. One Pact. A Year to Rewrite Their Story.

🎵 Trailer "Colorful" Jukebox The Ghost | End Credits "Heaven" Niall Horan
#posterpit #wf w/ #r #a #w

Nellie’s hiding more than a layoff. Struggling to pay rent and crushed by grief and expectations, she reconnects with her ex-work rival who helps her find what she truly wants beyond the role she’s been playing. #posterpit #q #wf w/ #r #amquerying #filipinorep

Nellie’s hiding more than a layoff. Struggling to pay rent and crushed by grief and expectations, she reconnects with her ex-work rival who helps her find what she truly wants beyond the role she’s been playing.

#posterpit #q #wf w/ #r #amquerying #filipinorep

Things aren’t going according to plan for Nellie: 🤐 Laid off, hiding it 🇵🇭 Afraid to disappoint her Filipino dad 💸 Can’t afford BFF’s wedding 🏠 Rent’s rising 💕 Keeps running into ex–work rival (groom’s brother) Maybe falling apart is exactly what she needs. #posterpit #q #wf w/ #r

Things aren’t going according to plan for Nellie:

🤐 Laid off, hiding it
🇵🇭 Afraid to disappoint her Filipino dad
💸 Can’t afford BFF’s wedding
🏠 Rent’s rising
💕 Keeps running into ex–work rival (groom’s brother)

Maybe falling apart is exactly what she needs. #posterpit #q #wf w/ #r

an agent’s guide to None of This Was Real adult contemporary romance/ women’s fiction 87,000 words

The pitch Jasper and her ex reunite at the lake 10 years after a painful breakup. When feelings become too hard to ignore, Jasper must decide if she'll heal her old wounds or reopen them and risk ruining not only their repaired friendship, but her sister's wedding too. Maybe they were just yearning for nostalgia this whole time.

Comps happy place: What if your happy place stopped being happy? every summer after: Two timelines, lake house setting adelaide: A story that will break your heart and sew it up again

His presence made me feel like I was seventeen again and happily suffocating in my family’s lake house. Back then, I was enamored by the smell of pine trees, lake water, and cigarettes in a dive bar parking lot. Summers were like a warm pitcher of beer, a crisp can of Pepsi, and tobacco-tainted kisses. Now I was twenty-eight, killing time waiting for the delayed 1 train after telling the lawyer we shouldn’t see each other anymore and it was frigid outside. Excerpt

New #agentsguide for the novel I #amquerying.

If you loved "Every Summer After" then this is for you!

🗻 lake house setting in summer and winter
🥂 soapy family drama
💔 healing or reopening old wounds?
📸 yearning for nostalgia

A teenage kitsune boy and young East Asian woman hold one another's hands and lean against the other. Text: A VAGBOND SHAPESHIFTING FOX TRAMP RAISED IN A THEATER A FORMER FERAL CHILD TURNED WARRIOR-NUN MECH PILOT FANGS OF THE WOLF THEY'LL FACE THE COUNTRY'S MOST POWERFUL WARLORD, TOGETHER Iron Widow x Shadow of the Fox #OwnVoices 97k YA Fantasy Historically-inspired setting based off Japan Japanese mythology, ki-powered mechs Art by Sebiiroo https://sebiiroocarrd.co/

“You don’t need to stick around, fox."

“You swore you'd kill the mightiest warlord in the country, Miss Nun. You’re too interesting for me to leave." #PosterPit #Q #F #YA

A couple kisses in the snow in a movie poster for If We're Still Single, an adult contemporary romance novel, querying soon

People We Meet on Vacation x Taylor Swift's Right Where You Left Me 💔

#PosterPit #W #R #C #A

i'd rather ask ursula from the little mermaid for a favour and life advice than ask chatgpt anything

a grid of photos including a beach at sunset, a man doing indoor rock climbing, a couple kissing in the snow, a girl running down a snowy street, a couple playing in the waves, a waterfall, a guy with messy hair

💔RIGHT WHERE YOU LEFT ME💔

👫Childhood best friends
⏳A year since they've spoken
💍A marriage pact
📄A list of ways to reclaim their former closeness
🛫Before she leaves their small town again
🔍Can they figure out they were made for each other in time?

IF WE'RE STILL SINGLE

#SwiftiePitch #A #R #WIP

Mood board with pictures of a beach, a man on a climbing wall, a couple kissing in the show, a woman running down a snowy street, a man carrying a woman in the waves, a waterfall, and a guy with messy hair

👫Two childhood best friends
💍One marriage pact

When Fiona drunkenly reminds Henry of the marriage pact they made at 17, he insists they fulfill it. Has he also been hiding feelings for her, or is he just keeping a promise? And can their friendship survive becoming something more?

#WIPpit #Con #R

On top of the regular horrors, I dreamed last night that I was dating Hozier, so my introduction to consciousness this morning was realizing I was not, in fact, dating Hozier