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✨ books, writing, & all things cozy! 🩷 @smoochpitig Mentor (and former Mentee!) 📝 Rep: Brent Taylor at @triadausliteraryagency https://linktr.ee/haylswrites

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Hayley @haylswrites.bsky.social · Aug 6

Adding benefits with her hot, magical engineer rival seems risk averse, but when Cecilia realizes he’s no longer the man he once was, it’s too late to use their research into protective magic to ward her heart...

#QuestPit #OS #AG #A #F #R

A purple background with a blazing pastel comet. Text reads: An Editor's Guide to Enchantments & Adversaries, A cozy romantasy complete at 95k combining the plus-sized lead and cozy setting of A Witch's Guide to Fake Dating a Demon with the banter and STEM-inist bent of Love on the Brain. Rep: Brent Taylor at Triada US.

A purple background with a blazing pastel comet. Text reads: the blurb: When Cecilia’s latest prototype—an amulet to protect non-magic persons—fails, her former college rival, Caspian Wolfe, offers resources from his magical engineering firm in exchange for co-credit. Despite her reservations he’s still the man who deals in hostile jabs and animosity, she relents, putting her research first. After weeks of blazing chemistry in the lab and between the sheets, Cecilia finds herself falling for a man she’s terrified to trust—if only her research into protection charms would ward her traitorous heart. Rep: Brent Taylor at Triada US.

A purple background with a blazing pastel comet. A dark haired woman and blond man are center. Text reads: the vibes:
- plus-sized lead finding her power
- complicated, messy family dynamics
- strong, female friendship
- cozy, modern fantasy setting
- STEM based magic
- "It was always you"
- book covers for 'Do Your Worst' by Rosie Danan, 'Love on the Brain' by Ali Hazelwood, 'The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches' by Sangu Mandanna, 'A Witch's Guide to Fake Dating a Demon' by Sarah Hawley.
Rep: Brent Taylor at Triada US.

A purple background with a blazing pastel comet. Text reads: chapter one -
My magic rushes through the front door and finds nothing but static from the cottage’s inhabitant. It’s a glaring reminder I don’t belong here. I hesitate on the front porch, frowning at the doormat. Home, sweet home.
I hadn’t considered my parents’ house my home in over a decade, after how they’d reacted when my long dormant magic stretched to life. I still remember the looks on their faces. My mother paled with unease; my father reddened with rage.
For most, magic found its way to the surface before puberty. As early as seven or eight, but not past twelve. Tense breaths and watchful eyes filled my first twelve years, coupled with near constant reminders I wouldn’t have magic. As the daughter of two magicless, it was statistically improbable I’d break the mold...
Rep: Brent Taylor at Triada US.

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Hayley @haylswrites.bsky.social · 2d

Writers need community, and I’ve been craving a space that focuses on the craft—on helping writers (at all stages, with all goals) grow into the best writer they can be… so I made one.

Introducing booked! 🔗 in my 🔗🎄

#writesky

Welcome to booked a writing community for writers to grow into their craft

Another discord server for writing? Yep! But here’s how we’re different:
Booked has a focus on writers building community with an emphasis on growing in their craft
We have a forum operating like classifieds to help match with feedback partners
In our reading spot, you can host buddy reads
Booked will offer workshops on writing, the industry, and happy hours, and writing exhibitions—and it’s all free!
This community is open to all writers, whether you write for fun or want to make it a career, at any stage in their journey who want to grow and connect with other writers

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Hayley @haylswrites.bsky.social · Sep 22

She definitely takes things dark sometimes! 😆

Hayley @haylswrites.bsky.social · Sep 21

My six year old niece is practicing her jokes. Here’s an example:

What happens when raccoons die?
People bury them!

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Hayley @haylswrites.bsky.social · Sep 19

We are road trippin’ today and our car conversation so far has exclusively been creating a breakfast menu for Zaxby’s. 😅🤣

Hayley @haylswrites.bsky.social · Sep 9

MS Word Pro: the onedrive connectivity means I can use it across four different devices without having extra steps.
MS Word Con: sometimes if the last version doesn't finish uploading I have to go through four devices to figure out which one has the draft.
#amwriting #writerprobs

Hayley @haylswrites.bsky.social · Sep 4

Here for a sassy house. ✨

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Hayley @haylswrites.bsky.social · Sep 4

It’s rainy and chilly, and the weather is supposed to carry into the weekend. Plus, my husband will be out of town. You know what that means? 👀✨

a woman in a baseball uniform is saying it 's time

Alt: a woman in a baseball uniform is saying it 's time

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Hayley @haylswrites.bsky.social · Sep 3

I hope the words are finding you more easily!

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Hayley @haylswrites.bsky.social · Sep 3

It seems fitting that B&N is doing a preorder sale while I’m currently watching the consequences of my own actions from April taking charge. But hey, I’m getting six new books in the next two weeks!

Hayley @haylswrites.bsky.social · Sep 1

Currently in the part of writing where I stare at my screen and am surprised when an hour passes with only a hundred new words. 😅

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Hayley @haylswrites.bsky.social · Aug 6

Meddling gods? 👀

Hayley @haylswrites.bsky.social · Aug 6

a man in a trench coat and tie is standing next to another man in a white shirt and tie

Alt: a man in a trench coat and tie is standing next to another man in a white shirt and tie

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Hayley @haylswrites.bsky.social · Aug 6

When her prototype fails, Cecilia partners with her college rival to fix her protection charms, but after weeks of blazing chemistry in the lab and the bedroom, she's falling for him—if only her research would ward her traitorous heart.

#QuestPit #OS #AG #A #F #R

A blue book, surrounded by text:
- plus sized rep
- a sweater wearing dog you'd die for
- STEM based magic
- magical met gala
- "it was always you"
- rivals to lovers
- messy, complicated family dynamics
- low fantasy
- hot magical engineer

artwork of a dark haired woman scowling at a smirking blond man

enchantments & adversaries: the playlist
- feels like - gracie abrams
- ceilings - lizzy mcalpine
- the alchemy - taylor swift
- 26 - paramore
- sunlight - hozier

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Hayley @haylswrites.bsky.social · Aug 4

Starting wordcount today: 22182
Ending wordcount today: 28740

I may have done 20% of the cleaning I wanted to today, but draft 2 of museum WIP is well on its way. ✨

#amwriting #writingcommunity

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Hayley @haylswrites.bsky.social · Aug 4

Why is “be uncomfortable” so much a part of it though? 😅

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Hayley @haylswrites.bsky.social · Aug 3

Thank you!!! 🩷

Hayley @haylswrites.bsky.social · Aug 3

“This, and” for ENCHANTMENTS & ADVERSARIES, a cozy Romantasy feat.:
💜 a plus sized lead
✨ engineering + alchemy = magical engineering
🏡 complicated, messy family dynamics and real-world problems
📱 low fantasy with Rom-com vibes

#writesky #cozyromantasy #obsub

Colored orbs with the text “this (a sky full of miniature auroras) and a cozy romantasy”

Multicolored test tubes with the text “this and stem-based magic”

A mammoth library with the text “this and agreeing to a research partnership with your college rival, only to realize he’s a much better man than you thought he was”

A snowy night & street lamp with the text “this and ambling walks where holding his hand feels like the most natural thing in the world (and chocolate marshmallow pies)”

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Hayley @haylswrites.bsky.social · Jul 24

Your honor, I love them. 🩷🩷🩷

Hayley @haylswrites.bsky.social · Jul 24

I think one of the weirdest parts about being on sub with no book sold is that I feel like I’m in a vortex where nothing and everything is happening and I don’t know what to talk about on social media. 😅

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Hayley @haylswrites.bsky.social · Jul 24

It’s been a while since I’ve done a #WIPSnips, so here’s a peek at Museum WIP, my cozy Romantasy in which a magical artifact causes a lot of love-based calamity. 😅

#amwriting #amediting #cozyromantasy

Text: My cheeks flame. I try to look anywhere in the room that’s not at him, but he’s so transfixed on the book. There’s a dreamy sort of expression on his face as he idly traces patterns over the cover, his finger skimming the part I patched. It’s a sort of reverence most people don’t hold for books. A sort of reverence I’d like to spend all of my hours inside of.
Phineas looks up, catching me staring. I need to dunk my entire face into an ice bucket just to recover.

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Hayley @haylswrites.bsky.social · Jul 16

Ugh, I hope you start feeling like yourself again soon! 🩷🩷🩷

Hayley @haylswrites.bsky.social · Jul 14

I’ve always joked I could live off potatoes and though I still think that’s true if I see mashed potatoes again before thanksgiving, it’ll be too soon.

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Hayley @haylswrites.bsky.social · Jul 11

Got all 4 wisdom teeth taken out yesterday under general anesthesia (they were worried because one is all tangled up in a nerve, but it was okay!) so today calls for Aussie cuddles & an LOTR marathon. 🩷

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Hayley @haylswrites.bsky.social · Jul 7

Drop line 8 from page 187 of your MS and tag 3 friends

“I’m drenched.”

(Yes, the context is exactly what you think it is 😅)

I’m not going to tag, but if you think this sounds rad and no one has tagged you, pls feel free to reshare! 🫶

Stephanie Binx @stephwrites.bsky.social · Jul 5

Drop line 8 from page 187 of your MS and tag 3 friends

Marian dug out her phone with her uninjured arm. “I need sleep before I even *think* about what just happened back there.”

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Della the Angry Goose @derlakernlins.bsky.social · Jul 4

Drop line 8 from page 187 of your MS and tag 3 friends

"Oh," Thomas said when he could breathe again. "Oh, oh shit, Dad. You have no idea."

@stephwrites.bsky.social @gnipahellir.bsky.social @echocian.bsky.social

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