Amanda Boyle

What are your typical starter words? mine are audio and spare.

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Toughy

I legit owned Wordle 2 days in a row.

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I used beta readers and have also had two agent critiques!

I'm afraid to send out more queries. I'm quadruple guessing myself on everything. Anyone want to read my query (and/or first pages) and give feedback? #amquerying #writingcommunity

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Do you know why I hate query critiques? Because you get a half dozen critiques that completely contradict each other. #writingcommunity

But how do you know they are actually free to use?

How are authors finding free and NOT AI generated images for their agent's guides/social media posts? #writingcommunity

Three rejections in 24 hours...it's been rough. #amquerying #writingcommunity

Identical strangers 👯
Parallel worlds 🌎
Magic 🪄
Evil brothers 🦹‍♂️
The possible destruction of the Grand Design 💥
Anxiety/Panic Disorder 😰
#PreDV #CF

After stumbling across a legacy of family magic, Jessa is inadvertently drawn into a parallel world with familiar faces in new forms, where she learns the dark force responsible for her family’s death also threatens all of reality, and that she alone is the key to its success or failure. #PreDV #CF

I'm SO excited for this event!!! Thank you @agentkellyvansant.bsky.social!

ALWAYS!

Thank you <3

Received a pass from my one #pitchdis request. Not a great Monday. 😞

This is what makes me nervous about my MS. Adult contemporary fantasy without spice or supernatural creatures isn't really in right now. It seems to be either smutty contemporary shifters, contemporary witches or high fantasy in a secondary old euro-type world.

While a dream would be to just be a writer, I know as a single mom in a high cost of living area I will always probably have my 9-5 job also. But that's okay!

I don't think people are terrified enough after what happened to Jimmy Kimmel. Do you remember that monologue from the Handmaid's Tale?

Let’s be clear about what happened to Jimmy Kimmel Trump’s most brazen attack on free speech yet.

After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.

Yeah, but also I don't want to not query them because they didn't like a 300 character
pitch. It's got to be difficult to judge a book by a debut author on 300 characters.

P.S. you have my favorite name in the universe but I knew I could never use it to name my American daughters because no one in this country would ever come close to pronouncing it right.

This is so accurate.

Yeah, I can tell myself that over and over again but it doesn't make me feel any better ha.

Cool. You can go chat with the bullies in middle school who used to make fun of my name.

Y'all I have ALWAYS been a pantser when it comes to writing, but you know that book series I just mentioned like an hour ago? Guess who has plotted out THE ENTIRE FIRST BOOK?? It was like lightning. WHAT?!

MC= Main Character. FMC = Female Main Character, MMC = Male Main Character.

Because I need to busy myself during the querying process I've decided to start planning an interconnected romance series where all of the MCs are 38 or older (first book takes place at a 20th HS reunion). Because you CAN have romance over the age of 30. GASP. #writingcommunity #amwriting

Social media can be so great while being so unhealthy. I was SO excited to get a #PitchDis request yesterday, but now today I'm seeing folks who got 3, 4, even 5 requests and while I should still be just as stoked as I was yesterday, you can't help but compare and feel bummed. #writingcommunity

I'm so confused, what are people emailing you about now that its in the hands of the agents and editors?

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I got my first #PitchDis request and it was an agent on my list! #writingcommunity