Leigh {she/they} 🌈

It’s been a while since I’ve shared anything about my writing. Finally took the plunge & created an instagram page, so if you’re a writer - or a reader who enjoys sapphic sports romance novels - I’d love it if you could drop me a follow 🩷 #queerauthor #amwriting #writingcommunity

Omg heyyy👋 Thank you! I was at work so I missed the game, but thrilled we managed to turn it around!
I check here occasionally when I remember… I wondered where you’d gone when I stopped seeing you tweet - missed our football chats! 🩷

Book mood board The Normal Monster Club featuring Polaroids giving romantic spooky mystery vibes

To save a missing child, two exes must reunite in their cryptid-obsessed hometown to investigate an unsolved mystery from their childhood.

❤️‍🔥Sapphic yearning
✨Genre-bending fun
👻Spooky small town mystery vibes

👽X-Files if Mulder and Scully were the monsters all along…

#cupit #Q #A #LGBT #HOR #RM

Moodboard

Comp titles: Lynn Painter’s Better Than The Movies; Ann Liang’s This Time It’s Real; Tashy Bhuiyan’s Counting Down With You; Laura Taylor Namey’s A Cuban Girl’s Guide to Tea and Tomorrow; Jenny Han’s To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before

Maggie Wang lives by her tiger mom’s rules—even her crush ticks all the right boxes. But when she finally works up the courage to confess to the perfect guy, he’s too oblivious to look beyond their friendship. Desperate to turn his head, Maggie hatches a plan: snag a fake date to his hockey team’s skate party and make him jealous, as long as she can survive her clumsy self on the ice. Enter Nathan Myers—the team grump. Once he agrees to be her stand-in, everything seems simple enough: he’ll teach her how to skate, and she’ll put up with his attitude. Only the more time they spend together, the more Maggie discovers a gentle teddy bear hidden beneath Nathan’s gruff exterior. For the first time, she wonders if it’s okay to let go of certain expectations—being herself might actually be enough. But Nathan’s a wild card with no college plans. He doesn’t fit in the future Maggie’s mom has mapped out for her. Trapped between the family expectations and her growing feelings, she must decide whether breaking the rules is worth it with the boy who’s becoming more than just a fake date.

#tropes and elements #FakeDating #GrumpySunshine #YAHockeyRomance #HeFallsFirst #ComingOfAge #FamilyDynamic #SiblingDynamic #FriendshipBreakUp #POCOwnVoice #OppositeAttracts

📖It’s Only Me
❤️YA contemporary romance
⌨️ 70k words
Raised by her strict Tiger Mom, Maggie Wang fake-dates the hockey team grump to make her crush jealous, only to fall for the wrong guy and risk breaking all her mom’s rules.
#Cupit #CR #RC #poc #YA #FBW #Q #writingcommunity #amquerying

GWEN DALE ~Natural Ingredients~ Aged 134 Years An all natural product guide to Gwen Dale, main character #1 of ‘Forever is a Very Long Time’ a sapphic dark fantasy/horror reimagining of Peter & Wendy. When Gwen was a girl called Wendy Darling, she met someone who promised her freedom and love, and all it cost her was her humanity and everyone she ever loved. A century later, she’s trying to claw some of it back thanks to a 15yo named Mona, who’s awakened a long lost sense of family. Locations: London to Neverland to London to Vancouver to Neveland to ??? How She Got Like This: 1. Was born Wendy Darling, older sister to John & Michael. At 12, met a magical being called Peter Pan. 2. Was made a blooddrinking immortal at 19 by Pan to keep her from growing up. Her first victim? Her fiancé Archie. 3. Fled Neverland and spent more than 100 years watching over the descendents of her brother John, always remaining apart. 4. Unexpectedly became the sole guardian of her great niece, Mona, reminding her of family. Then Pan returned and took her. Ingredients: Grey Morality, Generational Trauma, Bloodlust, Neurodivergent, Patchwork Heart, Regret, Unexpected Maternal Streak, Bisexual Disaster, Does She Want to Kill or Kiss the Infuriatingly Beautiful Pirate Captain?

CAPT. HOOK ~Natural Ingredients~ Aged 33 Years An all natural product guide to Capt Hook, main character #2 of ‘Forever is a Very Long Time’ a sapphic dark fantasy/horror reimagining of Peter & Wendy. When Capt Hook was a girl called Rosie, she met someone who promised her adventure, and all it cost her was her family and sense of security. After twenty years of fighting monsters shaped like children, this pirate captain is running out of steam, until her long-time nemesis gives her an ultimatum she can’t refuse. Location: Neverland. Around and around and around again...will it ever stop...? How She Got Like This: 1. Was born the youngest of 3 in Canada to Haitian immigrants. Was known as a tomboy and troublemaker. 2. Taken to Neverland as a teen by Pan & nearly turned until she was rescued by the crew of the Jolly Roger. Became a pirate. 3. Worked her way up to Captain through guile, swagger & determination. She became Pan’s fave nemesis/playmate. 4. At 33 she’s feeling burnt out, wondering how long she can do this. Then she’s reminded of family, lost 20 years earlier... Ingredients: Swagger & Smugness, ‘Doesn’t Do Feelings’, Different Girl Every Night, Complex PTSD, Isolated by Command, Burnout, Will Shoot a MF, Should Kill The Monster She Just Met...So Why Does She Want To Kiss Her?

Comps & Tropes: The cover of the first edition of Peter and Wendy by J.M. Barrie x the cover for S.T. Gibson's An Education in Malice. Underneath is written: *Wendy Darling (but not how you remember her) *Captain Hook (but she's a masc lesbian) *Non-binary Peter Pan *What happened after... *Pirate Disaster Gays *Dark Reimagining *Spicy Sapphics *Dual POV *Enemies to Lovers *Vampires (Pan-pires?) *Hurt & Comfort *Generational Trauma *Found Family Artwork from Peter & Wendy (1911 ed.) by J.M. Barrie, illustrated by F.D. Bedford

FOREVER IS A VERY LONG TIME Excerpt ‘All children, except one, grow up.’ That is how the classic line goes. When I was nineteen-years-old, however, I learned the tragic lesson that that wasn’t always the case. Disease ruthlessly ravages innocent lives, while famine mercilessly snatches away their dreams. Violence lurks within the depths of strangers' hearts or, more tragically, a family member’s. And let us not forget the sheer cruelty of random happenstance, which has regularly inflicted its unspeakable horrors upon them. Throughout the annals of time, no demographic has endured more anguish and torment than those innocents who never had the chance to experience the complexities of growing up. And amidst this unfathomable sorrow, for longer than our history can even dare to measure, there has existed the enigma of Pan, the taker of children…my tormentor… Artwork from Peter & Wendy (1911 ed.) by J.M. Barrie, illustrated by F.D. Bedford

FOREVER IS A VERY LONG TIME
⚔️Enemies to Lovers
🏳️‍🌈Butch/Femme Pairing
🏳️‍⚧️Non-binary & Trans Rep
😡Vengeance Era Women
💀Flirting Thru Decapitation
🏴‍☠️So Many Gay Pirates
🩸Blood Drinking As Eating Your Feelings
💔Broken (Stabbed) Heart
🧜‍♀️Mer-folk Will Eat You
👭Hurt & Comfort
#CuPit #A #HOR #LGBT #WIP

💜FOURTH WING X PRIORY OF THE ORANGE TREE💜

After a dragon bonds with a healer, the only way she’ll survive military training is with help from the dragon prodigy, a man she absolutely hates…

…until she finds out what’s beneath his tough-as-scales exterior 🐉

#Cupit #RF #NA #Agented #OS (soon!)

Love the sound of this! 😍

BRIDGERTON X HANDMAID’S TALE
Welcome to Rhoada, where you court for a season, then buy your first wife at auction.

FOOL’S GOLD is querying soon.

✉️ Blackmail
⛪️ Theocracy
🔄 Reverse Harem
🔪 Revenge
❤️ 🔥 And a love willing to bring the world to its knees

#cupit #a #dtr #fbw

Aah thank you so much🥰 I’m so excited for it to be out in the world someday!

ALL THAT GLITTERS

⚽️ CLEAT CUTE meets TED LASSO with RED era Taylor Swift vibes

✨ sapphic soccer romance
✨ the journey to the LA 2028 olympics
✨ teammates/rivals to lovers slow-burn
✨ grumpy x sunshine
✨ forced proximity
✨ dual pov

#CuPit #LGBT #CR #A

Just spent the last two hours writing & rewriting the same 150 words. Someone tell my brain we don’t have time for this todayyyy 😭😅 Really need to stop second-guessing this submission and just press send already! #amwriting

Merry Christmas everyone! I hope you all enjoy your celebrations or that you have a peaceful few days if you don’t. Sending love & light to you all ❤️

That was nearly very bad for Khiara Keating! 😅 #BARMCI #UWCL

WE’VE GOT LESSI RUSSO!! 🎶 #COYG

The discourse surrounding the #RainbowLaces campaign has honestly become so frustrating & exhausting. I’m sick of the ignorance & I literally don’t know how to explain the importance of being tolerant, when it’s something grown ass adults should already have learned 😮‍💨😭

Spent today revisiting my ‘All that Glitters’ outline, as I wasn’t happy with the pacing & want to fix it before I submit my final round piece. Brain is fried but I’m so much happier with it. #amwriting

It’s exciting seeing the youngsters playing. Park and Clinton are looking so SO sharp! #Lionesses

You also probably shouldn’t be comfortable playing in the Premier League, since they actively advocate for LGBTQ+ inclusion in sport. Surely this also contravenes your religious beliefs, or is that the case only when it’s convenient? 🙄

As a captain you’re representing your club and if your beliefs don’t align with their commitment to diversity & inclusion, you absolutely shouldn’t be allowed that privilege & responsibility.

Happy December to you too! :)

This match is why she’s still my pick for big games. Her confidence & command over the back line honestly make all the difference imo. #ENGUSA

Mary Queen of Stops!! 👏👏 #Lionesses #ENGUSA

A black & white tuxedo cat laying on some papers on a desk.

Black and white tuxedo cat (Jelibean) rubbing her face on everything on a desk.

Thought I’d take advantage of today’s late shift by getting some work done this morning. Clearly, Bean has other ideas! 🙃😂 #amwriting #ortryingto

Thank you🩷

A crotchet potato, held by a magnet to a magnet board, holding a sign that reads "POSITIVE POTATO: I may be a tiny potato, but I believe in you. Go do your thing!"

After spending this week constantly refreshing my email, I’m delighted (and still a little stunned) that ‘All That Glitters’ has made the shortlist for the Penguin Michael Joseph Prize😭🥳

This really is the book of my heart & I’m so happy knowing that people have seen its potential! 🥰

It’s honestly so stressful! When I got that email on Friday, I couldn’t look😂 Good luck 🤞

Ooh I’m waiting for this to arrive! Very excited to read it 🤩

Already checked my email 47382 times this morning.. it’s gonna be a LONG week!

✨🕯️ manifesting good news this week 🕯️✨