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E. O'Mara

@eomara.bsky.social

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Academic by day, fiction writer by night (and on the weekends, and lunch, and in any spare moment). Writing under a pen name. She/Her

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E. O'Mara @eomara.bsky.social · 2d

Realized identity is a big theme of all three of my novels so far although diff genres:

OUR ELSEWHERE, speculative women's fiction
FOUR PLAYS, cozy contemporary romance
FAMILY SCIENCE, book-club fiction

Guess I have kept things close to home as a psychologist who studies motivation/identity!

E. O'Mara @eomara.bsky.social · 2d

Realized identity is a big theme of all three of my novels so far although diff genres:

OUR ELSEWHERE, speculative women's fiction
FOUR PLAYS, cozy contemporary romance
FAMILY SCIENCE, book-club fiction

Guess I have kept things close to home as a psychologist who studies motivation/identity!

E. O'Mara @eomara.bsky.social · 7d

In FAMILY SCIENCE, developmental psychology meets family drama, as Hannah navigates being a widow, parent, & PhD student, while balancing her deceased husband’s formerly-estranged famous family, her own disappointed parents, and a potential romance whose kid and hers are at war.

E. O'Mara @eomara.bsky.social · 8d

I just entered #RevPit #10Queries. Enter now for a chance to win free feedback on your query and 1st 5 pages

Excited to see the posts!

Revise & Resub @reviseresub.bsky.social · Sep 12

🎉We're baaacckk!!!🎉

RevPit's #10Queries October event opens for submissions October 10!

#amwriting #writersky #writersofbluesky

RevPit #10Queries Returns Enter on October 10. Don't forget to Sign Up for Substack

E. O'Mara @eomara.bsky.social · 9d

no pancakes, but lots of Wendy's Frosties

E. O'Mara @eomara.bsky.social · 9d

From Peter Pan to Scrooge, it takes FOUR PLAYS for Nicole to build her confidence, convince her ex that community theater is good for their daughter, and land the leading man.
FOUR PLAYS is for lovers of cozy slow-burn romance and musical theater.
#DVPit #A #CR #WF

E. O'Mara @eomara.bsky.social · 9d

pacifist vampires are the best! 😍

E. O'Mara @eomara.bsky.social · 9d

A fling till fall with a gruff hunk? 😍

E. O'Mara @eomara.bsky.social · 9d

This book is lyrical and beautiful and I love what I've read so far.

E. O'Mara @eomara.bsky.social · 9d

In FAMILY SCIENCE, developmental psychology meets family drama, as Hannah navigates being a widow, parent, & PhD student, while balancing her deceased husband’s formerly-estranged famous family, her own disappointed parents, and a potential romance whose kid and hers are at war.
#DVPit #A #CR #WF

E. O'Mara @eomara.bsky.social · 9d

😍thank you!

E. O'Mara @eomara.bsky.social · 9d

I'm so here for a sentient flower!

E. O'Mara @eomara.bsky.social · 9d

perfume magic!? 👀😍

E. O'Mara @eomara.bsky.social · 9d

a dentist zombie is terrifying!

E. O'Mara @eomara.bsky.social · 9d

Love the rhythm of this pitch description and would enjoy reading a novel with the same!

E. O'Mara @eomara.bsky.social · 9d

What if DARK MATTER was told from a woman’s perspective? And involved collaborative (self) body snatching?

OUR ELSEWHERE follows as widow Mara chases her husband through death, merging with multiple versions of herself in worlds increasingly different from her own.

#DVPit #A #F #WF #SpecFiction

E. O'Mara @eomara.bsky.social · 9d

Love this idea of healing rifts between worlds to heal herself

E. O'Mara @eomara.bsky.social · 9d

Always looking for things with Murderbot comps 😍

E. O'Mara @eomara.bsky.social · 9d

That title is 😍

E. O'Mara @eomara.bsky.social · 9d

Don't know whether to laugh or to cry (in the best way)

E. O'Mara @eomara.bsky.social · 9d

Fabulous comps! I'm in.

E. O'Mara @eomara.bsky.social · 9d

wow, this premise!!

E. O'Mara @eomara.bsky.social · 9d

oooh! 👀

E. O'Mara @eomara.bsky.social · 9d

❤️emotion magic

E. O'Mara @eomara.bsky.social · 9d

adore this!

E. O'Mara @eomara.bsky.social · 9d

When a single mother brings her kid to audition for the local theater, she finds herself pulled into the theater’s community to act, to shape her own identity, and to find love with the leading man.
FOUR PLAYS: Hallmark levels of cozy. For fans of Katherine Center or Emily Henry
#DVPit #A #CR #WF