Ivy Lin | Querying Author

IT CAME!! Thank you so much VERVE Books for the opportunity to contribute to this moving and important anthology!! 🥹

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Amen!

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QuestPit was fun!

Thank you!! 🥰

谢谢!

Thank you!! YOUR guides are stunning too!!

Ah you found my old pitches!

Warm golden collage of images including a woman at a desk, bookshelves, the front of a school, a silhouetted couple kissing, rumpled bedsheets, a karaoke microphone, and an adorably chubby dachshund

YOU BETWEEN THE LINES x KATHERINE CENTER

Looming budget cuts mean Jules’s dream job is in jeopardy before it's even begun. With each department set to lose one new teacher, she must compete with her annoyingly handsome rival to win her place—if she can avoid losing her heart.

#QuestPit #W #A #R

I love this premise and the moodboard!!!

Thank you 🥰

Omg it's ANIMATED!! So beautiful!!!

A picture of Lena and Alistair walking underneath an umbrella together, wearing blue and grey school uniforms. Romance tropes: Friends to Lovers, Forbidden Romance Character tropes for Alistair: Rich, Mentor, Infodumper, Sunshine/Golden Retriever, Fake Confidence, Speaks more than ten languages Character tropes for Lena: Poor, Mentee, Selectively mute, Grumpy/Black cat, No confidence, Barely speaks one language

SOMETHING MORE x KOMI CANT COMMUNICATE

When 16yo Lena Mei befriends an autistic polyglot to learn Mandarin, she doesn’t expect to fall in love or learn that she, too, is on the spectrum.
#YA #R #QuestPit #W

That art is just SO cool!

The pitch 😦

It reminds me so much of libraries I've visited in the past. I swear those books would have flown out at me.

Hahaha you are SO right!!

THIS WILL KILL IT ON SUB!

Thank you Melanie! ❤️❤️

What a BEAUTIFUL moodboard!

Quote from The Love In Your Words: “If this year has taught me anything besides how deeply one can feel heartache and pain, it’s that time spent nurturing love can heal sorrow.” Top row, left to right: the Liverpool Chinatown arch, floating red Chinese lanterns, the Royal Liver Building lit up in red in front of the night sky Middle row, left to right: The Royal Albert Dock, the quote from The Love In Your Words, cranes on a shipping dock lit up at night Bottom row, left to right: candles and flowers on gravestones at night, a couple standing underneath an umbrella on a rainy night, fairy lights shaped like stars and moons hanging from trees

With her aging grandma visiting from China—maybe for the last time—16yo Lena Mei enlists an autistic polyglot for help learning Mandarin so she can speak to her. As their bond deepens, she overcomes speech problems and questions whether she is autistic too.
#YA #R #QuestPit #W

Title: The Love In Your Words Genre: YA Romance Word count: 66,000 words Comps: “Something More” by Jackie Khalilieh (Autism & Neurodivergence) “Never Thought I’d End Up Here” by Ann Liang (Language, Heritage & Chinese Diaspora) “Komi Can’t Communicate” (Overcoming Anxiety & Communication Difficulties)

Selectively mute 16yo Lena Mei wants to read a Chinese poem to honour her late mother, but she can’t read it. A charming autistic polyglot offers to help—not only with her speech but also in discovering love and her own autism.
#YA #R #QuestPit #W

I'm participating in #QuestPit tomorrow! So excited to see everyone's pitches!! 😁

And the essays are even better!! 🔥🔥🔥

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Thank you! 😁🤞

I'm on iOS so I think it might be a site-wide issue 😞 (also, hi!)

I just submitted a bug report to their support team!

Ack! I didn't know this 😳

When I doubt my writing, I remind myself:
A year ago, I went from writing PHP 🤮 to writing 3 novels
I was struggling with making friends in a new country, and found a community through writing
I’m being published in an anthology! Still pinching myself
What an incredible journey

Thank you! I can't wait for you to read it!! 😍 Let me know what you think!