when your agent nudges editors who've had your book for like 6 months and you still don't hear anything back

when you send a new book out on sub while tenderly cradling the fallen corpses of its predecessors

"you wrote a book? that's so cool! where can i read it?"

sure AI can write a book now, but can it languish on sub and begin to doubt itself more and more every single day until eventually it spends a full 24 hours in the fetal position crying?? cause if not, it’s not a REAL AUTHOR 😤

good suggestions but ALSO you could make an anon meme account to share the pain 👀👀

When editors ghost on our submissions

Not querying or published, but a secret much worse third thing (on submission)

This account is for the jokes but pls excuse 1 earnest moment of true grief for all of the projects that have died on sub. All of the books we pulled out of the deepest, most honest parts ourselves that rotted in someone’s inbox. That pain is real and the grief is hard to bury.

what we wish our agents would say when we send them a new manuscript

Sub fam, hit us with a gif or pic about how sub is going rn I’ll start

died on sub 2.5 times 🥴🥴🫥

Remember, nothing is impossible. Except getting a book deal.

Trying to draft a book that will appeal to the market in 3-7 years time

will I ever get off sub for the good reason?

today’s being-on-submission mood

yeah I wrote this book with GPT (Gallons of Person Tears)

When you get some potentially good news but you try not to acknowledge it directly in case it poofs out of existence

we have to be…what now?? I thought we were SAD. sad authors. authors who are D E P R E S S E D.

when anxiously refreshing your inbox isn’t making the email you’re waiting for come faster

“Average author sells first or second book on sub” factoid is actually just statistical error. TikTok Georg, an influencer who makes videos rubbing candles on their dog’s eyebrows and sold a book in 9 seconds due to their following, is an outlier adn should not have been counted