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20 deals closed in under 2 years of agenting yahooooooo (but mostly thank you to my clients who trusted me with their work…and those who doubted me, I am very spite motivated)

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I am on the cusp of a big agent milestone

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Do y’all allow outside clothes on the bed? Also, do you know what this means?

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So many books by Black authors releasing Jan. 5, 2021 and there is literally something for everyone!! Here's a thread!

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Use your PTO. Use your PTO. Use your PTO. Use your PTO. Use your PTO. Use your PTO. Use your PTO. Use your PTO. Use your PTO. Use your PTO. Use your PTO. Use your PTO. Use your PTO. Use your PTO. Use your PTO. Use your PTO. Use your PTO. Use your PTO. Use your PTO. Use your PTO.

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I could write a whole thesis about Lilo & Stitch and child welfare programs. The way Bubbles expects perfection from Nani, when no parent is perfect and Lilo is clearly better off remaining with family than being displaced and a lot of parents don’t try half as hard and....

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Natasha My Bedingfield manuscript 🤝 Unwritten

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Mr. Darcy created cancel culture when he said “My good opinion once lost is lost forever” and we don’t give him his credit for that enough

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Who started the lie that gift cards as gifts were lazy???? Do you know how thoughtful it is to 1) pick a store you know someone loves and 2) let them get whatever they want there?! Amazing. Iconic. Legendary.

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The Cullens had lots of money and immortality and they CHOSE to keep going back to high school, just absolutely unhinged behavior

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For a kid with one remaining family member who has always been Overly Attached to my dogs, this film was absolutely formative for me and remains top tier but I have Thoughts

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@RdotSpoon This is really how I wish more people approached covers! Don’t just make it pretty, make it totally fresh!

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2 years

Don’t neglect your local libraries! Request the books you want them to carry! Libraries are how so many discover new authors and library orders go towards earning out! More requests = more demand = the more copies they carry! You don’t need to spend money to support authors :)

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Not commenting on the event itself bc I’ve said my piece, but why do institutions always struggle with figuring out consequences until Black folks are involved and then it’s *ding* resolution. It’s always crickets until it’s us and then they move quick, fast, and in a hurry.

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Academy Bans Will Smith from Oscars for 10 Years

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@blai_starker Ok thank youuuu because I too change for naps and then put my house inside clothes on when I wake up

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I don’t know what writer needs to hear this, but you are literally creating whole worlds and people and events from scratch and that’s highkey impressive as shit.

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I told my big law friends, working in NY, with roommates still, that publishing people are expected to live in NY on roughly 40k pre-tax and the silence was so loud you could hear a pen click from 6 rooms away. Only people who don’t think it’s absurd seem to be publishing execs

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4 years

Me as a reader: We are on page 1, paragraph 3 and they have not kissed yet. I hate it here. Me as a writer: We are on page 302. They can have a little hand grazing. As a treat.

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@abbygoeswriting I’m not as strict on this one but I do cringe when I see a backpack on the bed 😭 or like packages that were brought in

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Zeus and Poseidon were both for the streets. You wanna talk about a real man, let’s get into Hades, who rode extremely hard for one woman only.

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3 years

My trust issues stem from Taylor Lautner, all that time, being a white man

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@g0dlessbi NINETEEN. And all the government does is make her feel awful for trying to keep what’s left of her family together 😡

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Never think that audiobooks are not superior because though I read 100 physical books a year and my partner listens to them instead, only he knows how the names are pronounced and I think that’s very powerful

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@AshVanOtterloo The former!! The laundry at the end does not count because we do not see it

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4 years

Bella Swan wanted to become a vampire for love and I would like to become a vampire just because immortality is the only way to read my entire TBR pile. We are not the same.

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Idk who needs to hear this, but Elle Woods got a 179 on her LSAT and had a perfect GPA. She didn’t actually stumble into Harvard Law. If you think that was the point of the movie, you should, uh, watch it again.

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3 years

Now see, all the Dune fans coming out like “well if you had read the book you’d know her character isn’t....” I DON’T WANT TO READ THE BOOK I WANT TO SEE ZENDAYA WHAT’S NOT CLICKING STEVEN

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@HannahLeeKidder This is really what I strive for. Strip at the door please and thank you

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4 years

Seeing The Poppy War called boring just reminds me that we can him and haw about writers not having the range, but to be very honest, a lot of readers don’t have the range either. Step outside white western culture. I’m begging you.

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3 years

Stand-alone books all connected to each other in the same universe is very much IT

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2 years

B&N won’t stock your book until it has the numbers to show it’ll sell well (preorders). Publishers won’t throw marketing dollars behind your book until it has the numbers to show it’ll sell well. Hitting that preorder mark relies on unpaid labor by authors and bloggers. Sigh...

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You start writing a book thinking it has nothing to do with you personally, hitting the fiction thing hard, and *knock knock* you end up tapping the glass of your own deeply buried trauma. Now it’s half memoir. Pls.

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3 years

Absolutely sick to my stomach that it’s impossible to live long enough to read every book

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3 years

Taylor Swift in 2014: Are we out of the woods yet? Taylor Swift in August 2020: We are in the woods. Taylor Swift in December 2020: We are still in the woods.

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If I’ve said it once I’ve said it 1000 times, write the books YOU want. The ones YOU love. You will always be chasing success in this industry and the goal posts will move everyday. Especially if you’re a writer of color. As an author, as an agent, I’m gonna keep fighting.

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I am begging for more books set in college and graduate school. And not just academia or dark academia. I want twenty-somethings keekeeing on the quad trying to coordinate costumes for a Halloweekend bar hop.

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Hate-reading, hate-watching, DO YOU KNOW HOW RELATIVELY SHORT YOUR LIFE IS?! Please do things you ENJOY

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I love The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe because in a world where every book and movie is “save your family or save the world,” Edmund’s choice was “save the world or Turkish delight” and he said dessert over everything iktr

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MY SHORT STORY GOT SELECTED FOR PUBLICATION I AM WHEEZING

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3 years

Person: But some small businesses can’t survive paying their employees $15/hour. Um okay, we stan small businesses, but if your business is only profitable because you’re not paying a fair wage, then I don’t know what to tell ya, but pack it up my guy.

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More quiet protagonists. Your main character does not need to save the world. Sometimes just saving themselves is enough, even if they end up in the exact same place they started because that’s real life.

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I really do encourage folks to read more indie and self-pubbed books. There is some truly unique, genre-smashing, groundbreaking work happening over there.

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Whether this merger happens or not, if this trial hasn’t wholly convinced you that publishing needs to clean house from the top and promote and pay the people who actually know how anything works I really don’t know what will

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When will my ability to read a book return from war?

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HAPPILY EVER AFTERS by @elisembryant (YA contemporary)

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The Sims player to novelist pipeline is strong

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You know what time it is! Kicking off Black History Month, books by Black authors releasing February 2, 2021:

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Normalize not explaining Black culture in your books. The people you’re writing for will get it. The people you aren’t will either learn on their own, adjust, or not like your book because of their own discomfort, but that’s not your problem.

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What’s y’all’s favorite book covers with Black characters actually written by Black authors? These are mine:

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Shoutout to writers with full-time jobs using their day off to do their writing work. I see you. Try and find some time for you today.

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Just a debut author with her debut book and her debut balloons on debut day!! Thank y’all for celebrating with me 💕 (you can order here: )

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Officially a homeowner. The first in my family. *passes out*

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THE PROPHETS by @SonofBaldwin (Adult Historical Fiction)

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Stop visiting Hawaii. Stop visiting Is**al. Stop visiting apartheid states. How loud do people have to scream “we are suffering by those inviting you here with open arms” before y’all listen oh my good god damn.

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Say what you want about romance books (actually don’t) but nothing gets me out of a reading slump like romance. So much joy. The meet cutes. The happy ending. Got me staying up all night smiling at the book like

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It’s so funny how your perception of films change as you get older. The Breakfast Club, age 16: you can get along with anyone from any clique bc cliques are meaningless The Breakfast Club, age 29: here is how different parenting styles negatively impact children

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When I see debut authors not release their next book until 2-3 years later, it feels like nature is healing. Take your time babes. This publish or perish machine is not it!!

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I just learned Pirates weren’t wearing the eye patch bc they were missing eyes but so their eyes were adjusted to the dark when they went below deck?! SOMEONE CONFIRM I—

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Woke up blessed, highly favored, and a wife 😭😭❤️

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Me as a writer: Where is the plot? Where is it? Me as a reader: I don’t care about any of this plot stuff. Just kiss.

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One note to my querying writers: please think long and hard about internal biases you may have when it comes to race. If the cruelest characters, or the only ones dying, are characters of color, that’s an issue. I don’t think it’s intentional, but it requires self-investigation

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The racial structure of Brandy’s Cinderella didn’t add up at all and you know what? It SLAPS! Stop acting like you need to “justify” POC in your stories. POC exist everywhere in the world and all times in history, to exclude them is what doesn’t make sense.

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WHEN YOU LOOK LIKE US by Pamela N. Harris (YA contemporary)

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“Just self-pub” is not helpful advice for a few reasons. If you want to write for kids and have your book widely distributed, trad pub is your best shot esp. for MG. And people shouldn’t have to leave an industry to be treated fairly within it. Giving very much separate but equal

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New books by Black authors releasing January 12, 2021 and there’s something for everyone! THREAD!!

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ONE OF THE GOOD ONES by @maikamoulite and @MaritzaMoulite (YA contemporary)

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I think what publishing fails to understand is that authors (esp. authors of color) talk. We have A LOT of info on what happens across publishers. We know what each other are being told. There’s accidents, coincidences, and clear patterns. And the patterns look real bad.

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Are you extremely level-headed or were you gaslit out of every emotion as a child and now you express very little?

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B*tches be like “I’m over it” and then write a whole book about it 10 years later. It’s me, I’m b*tches.

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If an agent says they don’t know how to sell/market your book, that is a them problem. That is not a you or your book problem. Don’t bang your head against a wall trying to make it more “marketable,” more “sellable,” more whatever. Write your book.

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“What is grief, if not love persevering?” is a mf bar. They were wri-TING.

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More boys who cry and are sensitive and emotional in YA.

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Reading books, buying books, and collecting books are three different hobbies

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Diana still ruining the Royal family’s mf day, you love to see it

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Going to write a show where the writer sells their book in season 1 and then it finally publishes in the season 7 finale

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ROOT MAGIC by @EdenRoyce (MG contemporary fantasy)

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Um so apropos of nothing, you are entitled to see contracts before you sign them. You are entitled to ask questions and, when possible, fine-tune language. Anyone withholding a contract from you is trying to get away with something and is super sketchy

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All jokes aside, I have a lot of questions when someone says they didn’t consider race at all when building a list. Because you should. You should ACTIVELY be on the hunt for a diverse group. If you have 4 spots and 3 are taken by white authors, you SHOULD consider it

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Fun fact: I grew up wanting to be an agent but I could never afford to pursue it. I literally dreamed of finding the next Vampire Academy. in the slush. I went to law school hoping one day I would find my way back. I did—as an author. Now I get to pursue the agent dream too AHHHH

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This was absolutely the hardest part of debut week. Going to the store and not seeing it. Looking online and seeing it wasn’t in stock within 100 miles of my home at any B&N. Being told there wasn’t anything anyone could do. I hustled my ass off and it felt like it didn’t matter.

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I don’t know if I’ve cried more. This directly effects me. It will/has impacted sales. Because my book isn’t “the” book of the season, it means u won’t find it in *that* store and grab it off the shelf. My Black voice isn’t worthy enough. I’ve waited 10yrs for a slap in the face.

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If you are a Black teen in the US (or know one) who for whatever reason cannot afford a copy of Love Times Infinity and would like one, it ain’t nothing but a word. I will send you one. Just let me know on my website’s contact form and we will get it on and poppin

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BLACK BUCK by @AskMateo (Adult Fiction)

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Y’all not gonna act like Dylan O’Brien just got hot, I know that’s not what we’re gonna do on Void Stiles’ internet

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Just a quick note, if you receive an offer of publication and do not have an agent, you can and should alert agents you’ve queried, and any publisher worth their salt will give you time to do so! If they seem unexcited about the prospect of you getting an agent, run far away.

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ROMAN AND JEWEL by @DanaLDavis (YA Contemporary - Romeo and Juliet retelling)

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Agents posting screenshots of queries makes me deeply, deeply, deeply uncomfortable.

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First drafts be having 13 different tenses all in the same sentence

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This is my quarterly reminder to marginalized creators: please protect your ideas. People mine this site everyday and I love you and want you to be paid for the groundbreaking work you bring to the table, not becky who will turn it into a emma retelling with a magical slave class

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If white people were half as concerned about racism as they are about being called racist........

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So nice she got a cover twice ☺️ LOVE TIMES INFINITY paperback coming atcha in June!

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Please stop asking for genocidal oppressor/oppressed romances please and thank youuuuuuuu

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2 years

I’m only responding to this bc some people think it was a dear friend. The agent who liked a ton of stuff was me! I took the day off, spent 16 hours on the tag, read all 10,000. I’m not dipping into an event that prioritizes marginalized writers. I’m giving it my full attention.

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The Cullens didn’t even need sleep and not a single one of them wrote a book. Wow. You know what I could do with immortality?!

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So you’re telling me if I want people to read my books, I have to come up with characters, a setting, and several plots, and then I have to.....write it as well?

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Authors do know that if publishing people aren’t paid, they will continue to leave or stay and be overworked and no one will there to read your submissions, market your book, etc? I’m begging for some bigger picture thinking here. And if you can’t be supportive, silencio!

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The wait is OVER ✨cover reveal✨ Choose your own family. Live fearlessly. Never skip dessert. And LOVE TIMES INFINITY. 🏀 a cinnamon-roll athlete 🍦 a sweets-loving bookworm 💖 love in all its forms July ‘22! @TheNovl Artist @mrdavila_paints GR

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No but forreal how do publishing people live in New York??? I’ve done the math and it is not mathing.

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3 years

Y’all: publishing needs more AOC My brain: publishing needs more Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s

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Just realized I’m not home to intercept the six preorders I have coming to the house today so marking this as the day my partner learned book buying bans are merely a concept, like science fiction

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@cicelybelle_xo The way I’m about to find this

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@lanewriteswords

2 years

Probably the wildest thing I’ve ever tweeted, but I got to write for TIME in the wake of Roe being overturned about the kids, like me, tired of being used as chess pieces. I hope you read it. I hope you listen.

My Life Story Isn't an Anti-Abortion Talking Point

My mom gave birth to me after she was assaulted. While I'm grateful for my life, I don't think it's worth more than hers

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