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Celebrating #amquerying today. Have sent some out and each time I’m tweaking my query letter, realising a little more about what to do. No matter what happens next, having got to this stage at all as a newbie author is worth celebrating I think. #WritingCommunity

And that, as they say, is that! The #iamwriting competitions are closed for 2024. Thanks to our platform for facilitating entries. And huge thanks to the judges who are now preparing to shortlist. A massive good luck to all of you that entered. 🙌

So quiet today. We need to sell about 30 books a day to break even and more to make any profit... We've sold 8 So we need to sell another 22 books before midnight. Yikes! Anyone want a book? FoxLaneBooks.co.uk

We are thrilled to announce that the Le Guin family has donated their family home to Literary Arts to turn into a writers residency. This generous gift will fulfill Ursula K. Le Guin’s lifelong mission to elevate historically underrepresented voices in literature.

Opening line of your WIP… share it. Don’t be scared. From MAX & THE INBETWEENERS The little stone dragon was incredibly itchy. #middlegradefiction #writingcommunity #amquerying

Dealing with the querying waiting game by getting a fresh notebook out and plotting my next book. Also, drinking coffee. Lots of coffee. ☕️ #amquerying #WritingCommunity #writinglife

Calling all emerging YA and children’s writers. 1st prize: £1000 - novel opening, £500 - picture book. 2nd prize: editorial feedback. Shortlisted entries: featured in our coveted agent/publisher pitch book. Judged by literary agents Lorna Hemingway and Rachel Petty. #Kidlit

Biting my nails waiting to hear back from full requests out at the moment and initial queries that I don’t even dare think about. It’s hard not to overthink and just trust the process. This is the bit you don’t think about when you’re writing. Calm blue ocean. #amquerying

Isn't this amazing? All those tickets have been paid for by gorgeous, generous people in just one day! They are going to do so much good. Please keep sharing and talking about this. It's so important that books are made available for all children. Thank you so so much to everyone

Looking over the pace of my manuscript following some useful feedback. Thanks to the agent who, despite passing on a full request, gave me such positive constructive comments. Classy and very helpful. Hopefully this edit will tighten the pace up and get me a yes from someone 🤞🥺

Is there a resource for seeing the word count of various books? Am interested in looking at word counts of MG books as I look at cutting mine down for a rewrite. #amquerying #writerscommunity #middlegradefiction #authorscommunity

Step 1 of tackling my Reducing Word Count challenge today is going through my manuscript for unnecessary filler words. Turns out I sprinkle the word ‘that’ over everything at all opportunities. Don’t even get me started on ‘very’! #writerscommunity #middlegrade #writerslife

Step 1 may also be partly about procrastinating about the big plot rearranging. It’s all useful though, right? #writerslife #middlegrade #WritingCommmunity #amquerying

Today’s Line Edit revelation: I am apparently obsessed with the word ‘carefully’ 🙄 #debutauthor #writersoftwitter #WritingCommunity

It’s that sort of a Saturday night. #rewrite #writerslife #WritingCommunity

I worked really hard on these… not a single order. This is getting tough #BookTwitter Please support #indie wherever you can folks

did no one read things before chatGPT? Because every writer I know loooooves the em dash