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Rachel Burton Is Querying 📚

@rachelburtonwriter.bsky.social

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I write smart, sexy, subversive fiction about women reinventing themselves in midlife. Seeking a traditional publishing deal. Come along for the ride. https://www.rachelburtonwriter.com/

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Rachel Burton Is Querying 📚 @rachelburtonwriter.bsky.social · 23h

I definitely will once I’ve gone! 😊

Rachel Burton Is Querying 📚 @rachelburtonwriter.bsky.social · 1d

Hello :) I can't see what you're replying to - I'm a bit new/clunky on Blue Sky - I can't find the link to see what you're commenting on - can you refresh me?

Rachel Burton Is Querying 📚 @rachelburtonwriter.bsky.social · 1d

I'm interested in your thoughts: does #bohemia have a dark side and if so what is it, especially for women?
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#bohemian #hedonism #polyamory #infidelity #midlife #midlifecrisis #ethicalpolyamory #freelove #art #muse #artists #creativity #creatives

Rachel Burton Is Querying 📚 @rachelburtonwriter.bsky.social · 3d

I wish you all the best with it!

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Rachel Burton Is Querying 📚 @rachelburtonwriter.bsky.social · 3d

I’m curious about your novel about art, love and gender! Sounds great!

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Rachel Burton Is Querying 📚 @rachelburtonwriter.bsky.social · 3d

Lovely to connect with you 🤩🙏😊

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Rachel Burton Is Querying 📚 @rachelburtonwriter.bsky.social · 3d

#writers - have you gone into a #jail #gaol to research and understand with all your senses what it's like for someone to be incarcerated and what it's like for visitors? I'm about to organise my research visit. I'd love to hear about your experience.

#writingresearch #writingcommunity

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Rachel Burton Is Querying 📚 @rachelburtonwriter.bsky.social · 3d

I don't know the answer to that except ... here we are. Hello from Australia 👋

Rachel Burton Is Querying 📚 @rachelburtonwriter.bsky.social · 3d

It makes us better writers

Rachel Burton Is Querying 📚 @rachelburtonwriter.bsky.social · 3d

Any #childless #midlife #fiction #writers here? I'd love to #connect!
Writing is a lonely business - imagine doing it at 58, #single, childless, on a tiny #island! Yep, oodles of time to write... yep, #loneliness is a thing.
You too?
No shame in admitting it.
Let's connect🥰🏝️📚

#writingcommunity

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Rachel Burton Is Querying 📚 @rachelburtonwriter.bsky.social · 3d

Writers, how much time do you give yourselves to decompress and transition after finishing one manuscript and starting the next? I gave myself two weeks and it kind of feels like enough... kind of...

#trilogy #writers #writingcommunity #debutauthor #amquerying #contemporaryfiction #midlife

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Rachel Burton Is Querying 📚 @rachelburtonwriter.bsky.social · 3d

Have a writing deadline but I live on a subtropical island and it's high tide - to swim or to write - my always dilemma!

#quandry #distraction #procrastination #sealover #waterbaby #amediting #writers #writingcommunity

Legs poking out of the sea, one ankle wearing a shark-repellent anklet - I'm doing a handstand near a ship wreck in deep water, Moreton Bay, Queensland, Australia.

Rachel Burton Is Querying 📚 @rachelburtonwriter.bsky.social · 3d

If you’ve never read poet Hilda Doolittle and you love the sea you are seriously missing out - I was looking for a quote for Act 3 of my contemporary fiction manuscript and found Hilda. So grateful!

#poetry #poet #womenwriters #hildadoolittle

Rachel Burton Is Querying 📚 @rachelburtonwriter.bsky.social · 3d

I haven't read this yet - until I got to BlueSky I didn't know a new Deborah Levy book existed! Thanks writers and readers for the heads up!

Caroline Collett Writer @collettwriter.bsky.social · Sep 14

Book 21 / 2025
Deborah Levy - The Position of Spoons
A beautiful and hugely enjoyable collection of essays, musings and ruminations on women and creativity - particularly women writers. I now have a brand new book shopping list of new discoveries. Aargh!

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Rachel Burton Is Querying 📚 @rachelburtonwriter.bsky.social · 3d

When I read the cost of living I wondered if she'd been sitting on my shoulder as she wrote it. So powerful. I felt so seen.

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Rachel Burton Is Querying 📚 @rachelburtonwriter.bsky.social · 3d

Congratulations! That's my dream!!!

Rachel Burton Is Querying 📚 @rachelburtonwriter.bsky.social · 3d

My first ever polished contemporary fiction manuscript has been submitted to an agent!
48 chapters
357 pages
94,084 words

Now readying Book 2 for full sub in February by request.

#writing #writer #fullsubmission #querying #publishing #debutnovel #amwriting #writingcommunity #Booksky