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Deputy NBA editor for ESPN 🏀 Independent figure skating blogger ⛸️ Author of a sapphic figure skating romance novel 📖 #amquerying

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Adam Reisinger @adamreisinger.com · 23d

YURI ON ICE x SPINNING OUT x THE L WORD

Looking for more figure skating after devouring THE FAVORITES? Look no further.

An updated #agentsguide to THE ICE BETWEEN US, a sapphic sports romance novel written by a 20-year sports journalism veteran.

#amquerying #writesky #WritingCommunity

Chloé LaFleur is an elite figure skater from Canada -- or she was until a devastating injury at the 2023 world championships ended her competitive career. Two years later, her childhood best friend convinces her to join the cast of Seasons on Ice, where she meets Freja Lindholm, an experienced show skater from Sweden with an ice queen reputation. There's friction between the two of them, especially when Chloé is forced to ask Freja for help in pairs.

Once the tour hits the road, their situation becomes even more tenuous when they're unexpectedly assigned to be roommates. They squabble and get in each other's way, but it's not long before they find themselves bonding. And soon, their friendship becomes something far more. But just when things start to heat up, Chloé finds herself thrust back into the spotlight of the figure skating world. Is her future on the Olympic track, or with Freja? Or is there a way for Chloé to have the best of both worlds?

Meet the stars

Chloé LaFleur
Age: 25 | Height: 5-4 | Hometown: Montreal
Role: Sun Queen
2022 Olympic Bronze Medalist
2022 & 2023 Canadian National Champion
Recently dumped by girlfriend of three years

Freja Lindholm

Age: 28 | Height: 5-10 | Hometown: Stockholm
Role: Snow Queen
Seventh year with “Seasons On Ice”
Skated pairs in Sweden
Has a rule: She doesn’t date skaters

THE first thing you learn as a figure skater is how to fall.
It seems counterintuitive. If you're standing on a slippery surface like ice wearing blades that are three millimetres thick, you're going to fall. Whether you learn or not. What you're learning is the proper technique to fall. This way, you help avoid serious injury, and you put yourself in the right position to get up quickly.
What Learn To Skate classes don't teach you, however, is how to recover when you've fallen so far you can't even begin to figure out how to get back up.
Exactly how far have I fallen, you ask?
Two thousand, four hundred and forty four kilometres from home, according to the Maps app on my phone. Sitting on the couch of my best friend's apartment in Florida, waiting to hear back about my audition for the skating show she's been begging me to join for the past year.

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Adam Reisinger @adamreisinger.com · 20m

The #WIPSnips word for October 15th is “care”

Chloé and Freja are fighting, and Freja starts saying things she’s probably gonna regret…

"You once told me that your father didn't care about the medals or the trophies, he just wanted you to be happy." My eyes get wide, because she is going down a road that will not lead her to good places. "Do you think he'd be happy with you? With your obsession with competing? With winning? It's all you care about. All you've ever cared about."

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AnythingGOEs - Figure Skating @anythinggoe.com · 38m

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Adam Reisinger @adamreisinger.com · 13h

Also, if the government is anti-antifa, does that mean the official stance of the US government is pro-fascism? (Sadly, I know the answer to this, but I’d love a White House reporter to ask it on the record)

Adam Reisinger @adamreisinger.com · 13h

The crystal Cinderella Castle at Arribas Bros at Walt Disney World.

Adam Reisinger @adamreisinger.com · 13h

Oh, I’m very specific about Chloé reading smutty romantasy (though she does occasionally detour into spicy CR)

Adam Reisinger @adamreisinger.com · 15h

Manifesting success for you!

Adam Reisinger @adamreisinger.com · 15h

I was at least able to come up with a compelling reason why Chloé likes to read

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Adam Reisinger @adamreisinger.com · 15h

#AwesomeCharacters

Chloé loves to read (because apparently it’s a rule now that a main character in a romance novel must be a reader or a writer).

Freja loves listening to true crime murder mystery podcasts (preferably in her native Swedish). #writingcommunity #writesky

Charlie Delta (has been a ghost this whole time! 👻) @charliedeltawrites.bsky.social · 17h

Tell me more about your #AwesomeCharacters

Ok about to have a long drive. Might post this and dip for a bit (but I will be back!)

So, tell me how your characters keep themselves occupied during a long horse/car/ship trip!

Games? Stories? Podcasts?

#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

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Adam Reisinger @adamreisinger.com · 16h

Wait, I love this

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Nush @nushdeco.bsky.social · 1d

Hello #PortfolioDay !

I'm Nush, I love doing character art and illustration!

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Adam Reisinger @adamreisinger.com · 18h

It’s been an obsession of mine for a couple years now, and I was inspired to write the story by a day I spent at Disney On Ice

Adam Reisinger @adamreisinger.com · 1d

Almost every moment of every day TBH

Adam Reisinger @adamreisinger.com · 1d

Book Two of the Seasons On Ice series has one in the first chapter!

Dani Finn 🏳️‍⚧️ 📚 @danifinnwrites.bsky.social · 1d

More books should include masturbation scenes as a way to show character development and romantic tension

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

Adam Reisinger @adamreisinger.com · 1d

Kimmy was a massive influence on THE ICE BETWEEN US. Not only was she my body type reference for Freja, but Freja is a fashionista because Kimmy is. I even snuck a reference to Kimmy into the chapter where they watch the Olympics.

The Olympics theme plays and NBC's intro starts. To no one's surprise -- well, at least not to my surprise -- the entire intro focuses on the three American women skating, looking to end that medal drought. I have to admit, all three of them are great, and any one of them could end up on the podium (or even take gold). But there are great skaters from other countries too. Japan, South Korea, the "independent" skaters from Russia, the tall blonde from Switzerland who Freja does not like me watching (can I help it if she's really good?).

Adam Reisinger @adamreisinger.com · 1d

I’m heartbroken about Kimmy Repond’s GP withdrawals. I truly hope she’s okay for Milan. Probably my favourite non-American skater.

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Adam Reisinger @adamreisinger.com · 1d

On the bright side, my skates arrived.

Adam Reisinger @adamreisinger.com · 1d

Today’s been a real banner day.
- SmoochPit form rejection
- Multiple QT form rejections
- Two hour planning meeting at the day job in which my department’s existence wasn’t acknowledged once.

I’d go home and drink, but I have my annual physical this week (I’m sure I’ll fail that too)

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Adam Reisinger @adamreisinger.com · 1d

Yeah, I’m thinking just a scene where Beth asks Luc what he’s doing for Thanksgiving and he points out it was last month, which makes Beth realize how Americanized she’s become (it’s going to be a running joke between her and her roommate)

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Adam Reisinger @adamreisinger.com · 1d

This is such a tiny thing, but I was reminded that today is Thanksgiving in Canada. Since both my main characters are Canadian, I want to work in some reference to the difference from the American date (since Beth has lived in the US for the past seven years). #WeeknightWriters #FirstDraftFall

Weeknight Writers @weeknightwriters.bsky.social · 1d

#WeeknightWriters #FirstDraftFall Check-in! How's your progress? Let us know what you're working on tonight or what you've worked on so far today!

Fall forest scene overlaid with the words “#FirstDraftFall Nightly Check-In: What aspects of your story are you working on tonight? If you’ve already worked on it, how did it go?”

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Adam Reisinger @adamreisinger.com · 1d

Beta reading a story that references Carmen and immediately ended up down a rabbit hole of Carmen programs on YouTube. Can’t decide if I’m more obsessed with Virtue/Moir or Katarina Witt.

Adam Reisinger @adamreisinger.com · 1d

a woman with long nails is saying i 'm so scared oh my gosh .

Alt: a woman with long nails is saying i 'm so scared oh my gosh .

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Adam Reisinger @adamreisinger.com · 1d

Hopefully your picks will snatch victory from the JAWS of defeat

Adam Reisinger @adamreisinger.com · 1d

This ain’t for the best. After tearing her knee, former Olympic bronze medalist Chloé LaFleur’s reputation has never been worse. But when she joins a touring skating show, she might just find that Freja Lindholm likes her for her.

#amquerying #sapphicromance #figureskating #swiftie #writesky

Artwork of Chloé and Freja, the stars of the sapphic figure skating romance novel THE ICE BETWEEN US

Adam Reisinger @adamreisinger.com · 2d

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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 2d

name an italian more worthy of an american holiday than columbus

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Adam Reisinger @adamreisinger.com · 2d

With a name like “Winter Noel” this former nationals competitor turned Disney On Ice performer was born to be on the ice #figureskating adamreisinger.substack.com/p/skater-sto...

Skater Stories: Winter Deardorff

The former U.S. nationals pairs competitor with the perfect name for the sport spent last season with Disney On Ice.

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