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Woke up to some amazing news. So happy to announce that I’m a RTM mentee and will be working with @camiscribbles.bsky.social! 🥹

Natalia's story is fun, vibrant, and I could sense its potential from the very first page! I can't wait to work with her and get this heartwarming, rompy story out to query <33

wish I could go out and conduct research for my book, but that would require a level of kissing girls and gratuitous violence that would get me exiled from institutions

at the airport yesterday and let someone's oppo headphones connect to my phone. played them yang jeongin's HALLUCINATION for a good few seconds before they cut our connection </3

yes

also fyi that i'm talking about fulls now but we're still deep in the process of selection and even just initial scanning so please don't worry if you haven't received a request yet!

just wanted to let roundtable mentees know that mentors are just as excited to receive your fulls as you are to receive a request...like tell me why i'm refreshing my google drive like this

reading roundtable mentor submissions and i'm literally frothing at the mouth...everyone's so talented

Mentee applications close tomorrow, 12pm EST. roundtablementor.com/apply

Round Table Mentor matches unpublished authors seeking trad or indie routes with experienced writers who provide editorial and career guidance. It's 100% free!

Just 24 hours left to get your application in! Mentee applications close at 12 noon EST on December 15th. Go to our website to apply now!

Apply — Round Table Mentor

and if you're reading this, fortunately we do have a mentorship currently accepting submissions!! i'll be a mentor in this one accepting YA/NA/Adult scripts across multiple genres, and i'm so excited to be a support to you as a querier, writer and person! www.roundtablementor.com/apply

as a writer who was backed by community both from twitter and my mentor, i feel horrible knowing that new/young querying writers dont have the same resources. with that said PLEASE apply to Roundtable Mentor! not getting in doesn't mean anything, but getting in could do you a world of good <3

all my mentee friends are still friends with their mentors, and your mentor is both a career and emotional support through the horrible experience of querying. of course, thousands of authors succeed without a mentorship. but i'm saying please give it a shot !!

it's not even about the book editing - you'll grow as a writer to edit your own book. you can have friends to beta read. but a mentorship is extremely useful for industry information, for knowing how to act with agents, learning query etiquette and avoiding red flags that could hurt your career.

want that for our new generation of writers. i feel so bad that this is the community you get. this is why mentorships are SO important. it links you up to a writer with experience, who's been screened and who has actual experience. it gives you information that the old grapevine could've given you.

simply put, the careful grapevine of information for publishing and querying broke. it took two years, and it eroded slowly enough that we didn't quite realise it was gone until it was.
but i've seen the horrible querying advice and practices boosted by engagement farming on twitter. i DON'T-

blue-check click baiters and people who paid for verification and 'expertise', not people who've earned it. the broken twitter algorithm favours those who've paid, and misinformation runs rampant - about publishing, about querying. the community, overrun by bots, no longer connects organically.

THE IMPORTANCE OF MENTORSHIPS (for querying writers):
let me paint a picture - circa 2022-2024. the biggest mentorships have just died. the biggest vessel of community for publishing and writers, AKA twitter, has sunk. writing info threads are dominated by-

WHY YOU SHOULD APPLY TO A WRITING MENTORSHIP (ft the old guard of mentorships, my experience as a mentee, and Roundtable Mentor)

in 2022, I was a mentee hopeful with a manuscript that would later become my debut novel. Why did i choose to do a mentorship?

as a young author...both these interviews had me frothing at the mouth like people do not get me like this artist trajectory does...it is part of my foundation

screenshot of a man saying 'but i can't get out of work because i'm anxious. people like me can't take a break because they feel empty'

young man in a black shirt saying 'i became much healthier. i let go of many negative things. back then, not being able to sleep felt different from having trouble sleeping now'

han jisung 2019 to 2024...im bringing my obsession to bsky bc yall don't get him like i do...young artist overcompensating for his inexperience in a horrible industry and pushing his creative boundaries vs finding himself and overcoming the glaring imposter syndrome oh im SICK

4 more days to apply to the excellent mentors at RTM...as a former mentee of a writing mentorship, i can't emphasize enough the support that a mentorship offers. you have peers, a mentor, querying resources and a community through the thick of it all. this is a great opportunity for all writers!!

hit a new level of comfort in my house (going to the toilet without turning any lights on)

I've been using goodreads less but I got an email from them announcing the winners of the awards and I was like...whew

when the same white authors are allowed to dominate the charts over and over again in categories like fantasy or romance, it pushes bipoc/marginalised stories out of the limelight and gives those stories so little chance to get popular

i know goodreads has stopped becoming our touchstone of quality, but it's still a pretty big marketing feature for many authors and still one of the biggest reader databases. many bipoc/marginalised stories rely on being in popular genre markets for publishers to take a chance on them, and-

going to say something really controversial,, but the goodreads awards allowing the same white woman/women to dominate several gigantic categories that many debuts/poc writers are in honestly really piss me off

every night my flatmate comes home at 3am telling me she feels bad for me because she always sees me working at 3am and im like "no dont worry" the reality is i am writing fanfic. i cherry-picked my poison and i enjoy its burn all the way down.

adhd screening test with my school today and guess who passed with flying colours and now has to go to the gp,,,,

They were not friends—they were worse. They were two corrupted halves of a fucked-up whole. They were soulmates tied by a hangman’s noose. And as much as [REDACTED] hated [REDACTED], he might’ve gotten too used to having a friend at the gallows.

meanwhile, the fanfic:

He learnt from a young age that no one likes clairvoyance. The human curiosity for the future fails to outweigh the human comfort for homogeneity, and people shun the things they’re afraid of. (what the fuck is this line)

writing doesn't get any easier as an author with a deal btw. wrote this in my wip and despaired so deeply that i immediately had to write 1k words of fanfic to heal myself