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I teach and write queer romance. That's it, that's the bio After The Lich Queen's Demise is in the Query Trenches now!

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Alyse likes to ✨️Query✨️ @itinerantginger.bsky.social · 2d

SWORDCROSSED X THIS WILL BE FUN

After The Lich Queen's Demise

Complete at 79k

✨️Spicy Cozy Fantasy
✨️MM Romance
✨️Neurodivergent Rep
✨️Second Chance Romance
✨️Demisexual Rep
✨️One Bed Trope!
✨️Grumpy/ Sunshine but the grumps learn the life lesson!

#QuestPit #Q #A #F #RF

A collage for After the Lich Queen's Demise! In query trenches now! Purple celestial background with icons from the book including wizard staff, black cat, Sun and Moon tarot card, and spell books. Where one hero's journey ends, his life will begin. The book's one sentence pitch is written in script in the middle of the collage.

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Alyse likes to ✨️Query✨️ @itinerantginger.bsky.social · 21h

I'm just going to say it since we're all thinking it

Zohran Mamdani looks like Bob's Burgers character

Alyse likes to ✨️Query✨️ @itinerantginger.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you!!

Alyse likes to ✨️Query✨️ @itinerantginger.bsky.social · 2d

SWORDCROSSED X THIS WILL BE FUN

Standalone Spicy Cozy Fantasy
Demisexual Rep
Fat Main Character
MM Second Chance Romance

After the Lich Queen's Demise is the perfect book to heal your inner gifted child suffering from burn out. Please take a gander at my Agent's Guide!

#QuestPit #Q #A #F

The is the first picture of my Agent's Guide to After The Lich Queen's Demise. It's pretty simple two Tarot cards one for the Sun and for the Moon on a purple background.

A list of the comps for After the Lich Queen's Demise these include: Swordcrossed, This Will Be Fun, Bookshops and Bonedust, The Spellshop, and The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches.

The Pitch!
When Sylvester Biskup’s former flame and adventuring companion Elsinor Laederiel unexpectedly appears back in his life, his world is turned upside down. At first Sylvester does all he can to avoid his flashy former lover: bury himself in work, plan a succubus’ wedding, and even give dating advice from a delusional bard a try. Then the university chancellor offers Sylvester a deal he can’t refuse: secure a donation to the university from Elsinor and earn the promotion he’s been coveting. One problem: he can barely say Elsinor’s name without panicking.
The Log Line: Where one hero's journey ends, his life will begin.

The Snippet
Another suffocating silence engulfed the space between them. Sylvester’s breath slowed down, his pulse calmed. But his heart still clenched when he thought of the last words that Elsinor had spoken to him the morning after their last tryst.

Darling, it was just one night.

Over the years, the words morphed and churned into a mocking mantra. It was just one more example of how his stupid pig headed brain rushed him into decisions that he couldn’t take back. Now instead of meeting on equal footing, Elsinor loomed over him, smelling sweet and vomit free while Sylvester clung to the tile wall.

“Well, I would love to see you there,” Elsinor stopped himself and Sylvester waited with bated breath to hear how he was going to end his sentence. “Sylvester.”

Sylvester listened for the tell tale sounds of footsteps clacking away. He closed his eyes and huffed out a deep sigh.

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Alyse likes to ✨️Query✨️ @itinerantginger.bsky.social · 2d

I'm also working on an queer Christmas RomCom which I'm just really excited about!

It's a poly forward romance between two women and a non-binary person! Hopefully, I'll be sharing it in the trenches soon!

#W #A #R

A mock cover for my Untitled Chrsitmas RomCom! The lead is a blonde woman with glasses looking off to the side with her hand over her chin. She is flanked by her two love interests: a non binary goth and their loveable cinnamon roll wife!
The backgrojnd is of the capital building at Christmas because of course this novel is set in Washington DC!

Alyse likes to ✨️Query✨️ @itinerantginger.bsky.social · 2d

Yup!

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Alyse likes to ✨️Query✨️ @itinerantginger.bsky.social · 2d

And a third thing that he gets in chapter 25

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Fay Irwin (pen name) @fantasyscience.bsky.social · 2d

If Andy Weir and Ali Hazelwood co-wrote a book, it would be CHEMPORTAL. This scifi romcom with real chemistry features:
💥Explosions (real and figurative)
📻Science (mis)communication
🥰Enemies to lovers
👨‍👩‍👧‍👧Complex family dynamics
⚛️ #Steminist history
💪ND and LGBTQ rep

#QuestPit #A #Q #SF #R

Dark blue poster background with a cartoon of a pink and silver pressure cooker. Text:
ChemPortal
A romantic sci-fi

Two awkward scientists just want to be left alone to build a lawnmower. Instead, thy find themselves battling time, powerful corporations, and doomsday cults to save the world from starvation.

Fay Irwin

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sherlyn is seeking rep 🖤 @sherlynsvault.bsky.social · 2d

Meet the tortured poet from DON'T FORGET ME. A second chance, forced proximity, dark academia, set in autumnal Edinburgh, romance novel. Complete at 70k words. With themes of Hispanic rep, women's fiction, and trauma. 🕰️🖤☕️📖
#questpit #R #Q #NA #amquerying

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Alyse likes to ✨️Query✨️ @itinerantginger.bsky.social · 2d

Sylvester Biskup: Hero, Mage, Greatest Wizard of His Age & Chronically Single

But who needs dates when you are on the edge of becoming the next Chancellor of Corvid’s Inlet University.

If he can secure a huge donation from the wealthiest man in town... who's also his ex...

#Q #A #F #RF

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Alyse likes to ✨️Query✨️ @itinerantginger.bsky.social · 2d

I love this!!!

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Alyse likes to ✨️Query✨️ @itinerantginger.bsky.social · 5d

I hate when people compare AI to calculators. Like your TI-83 didn't use 5000 gallons of water every time you wanted to play Blockdude in trig class.

Alyse likes to ✨️Query✨️ @itinerantginger.bsky.social · Oct 4

Tweets from the 18th century

Alyse likes to ✨️Query✨️ @itinerantginger.bsky.social · Oct 4

Why we keep spending money trying to reinvent being an annoying liberal arts student?

Alyse likes to ✨️Query✨️ @itinerantginger.bsky.social · Oct 2

Oh good! That motivates me to actually finish these lol 😆

Alyse likes to ✨️Query✨️ @itinerantginger.bsky.social · Oct 2

I've got two big projects right now
1. Finish the first draft of my sapphic triad contemporary Christmas romance
2. Get my Achillean cozy fantasy query ready

Let me know if you are interested in Positive poly representation and wizards with social anxiety

Weeknight Writers @weeknightwriters.bsky.social · Oct 1

Good morning #WeeknightWriters! Welcome to #FirstDraftFall. What kind of project will you be working on?

These questions are from our First Draft Fall worksheets! For the full worksheets, join our membership program at ko-fi.com/weeknightw...

Fall forest scene overlaid with the words “#FirstDraftFall - October - Planning
What kind of project are you working on for #FirstDraftFall? A short story? A novella? A novel? A script? Something else altogether?

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Alyse likes to ✨️Query✨️ @itinerantginger.bsky.social · Sep 2

This is ridiculous since everyone knows all dogs have ADHD bookshop.org/p/books/all-...

All Dogs Have ADHD: An Affirming Introduction to ADHD

An Affirming Introduction to ADHD

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Alyse likes to ✨️Query✨️ @itinerantginger.bsky.social · Aug 24

Two houses alike in dignity in fair Barnes and Noble where we lay our scene

Alyse likes to ✨️Query✨️ @itinerantginger.bsky.social · Jul 11

That's crazy! I love Fiddler!

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Steph @tokenweirdgirl.bsky.social · Jul 4

The biggest mood ever.

a man reaching toward a butterfly with the word "writer" over the man "Perfectly normal first draft" over the butterfly, with the caption "Is this the worth thing ever?" below

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Alyse likes to ✨️Query✨️ @itinerantginger.bsky.social · Jul 3

@jundlife.bsky.social @jaxwolffwrites.bsky.social

Alyse likes to ✨️Query✨️ @itinerantginger.bsky.social · Jul 3

Hey #writingcommunity, drop line 8 from page 187 of your MS & tag 3 friends! Here's mine:

The door to the balcony opened, instinctively Sylvester broke away from Elsinor. The cold night air whipped at his throat, claiming the warmth they had briefly shared.

Tags in comments!

Alda J. Maris @aldajm.bsky.social · Jul 3

Hey #writingcommunity, drop line 8 from page 187 of your MS & tag 3 friends! Here's mine:

#revspirations #writer #darkfantasy

Tagging: @nessamoulay.bsky.social @airjoshb.bsky.social @prahajess.bsky.social

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Alyse likes to ✨️Query✨️ @itinerantginger.bsky.social · Jul 3

From my current WIP

"Elsinor took a deep swig of his wine glass, “Thank you, I don’t know if I could have this conversation without alcohol.”

“That’s a promising start to the evening,” Sylvester muttered under his breath."

#cozyfantasy #workinprogress

✨#WIPSnips✨ A Daily Writing Share Tag @wipsnips.bsky.social · Jul 3

The #WIPSnips word for July 3 is "deep"

#WritingCommunity #WriteSky #WritingPrompts

#WIPSnips a bluesky writing community tag
July 3 - deep
Share a line from your WIP with the daily word for inspiration
Use #WIPSnips. Don't forget Alt Text for graphics
Synonyms, variation and vibes are fine.
Support others on the #WIPSnips tag!
Hosted by rosie-j-potter.bsky.social

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zilla @zillawrites.bsky.social · Jul 1

Introducing an agent's guide to
MURDER NIGHT AT HOTEL ADAIR, my The Shining meets Scream #A #H project.

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At Hotel Adair, the rooms are luxurious, the deaths are creative, and the check-out time is non-negotiable.
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ALT: reddish textured background with a vintage key in the center. The following white text overlaid: THIS MURDER NIGHT AT HOTEL ADAIR. By RJ Hawthorne

ALT: reddish textured background with a vintage marquee scroll at the top, framing the word PITCH. White text underneath.

ALT: reddish textured background with a vintage marquee scroll at the top, framing the word COMPS. There are pictures of The Handyman Method by Nick Cutter and Andrew Sullivan, Scream 2, At Dead of Night, and My Heart is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones. Midway down is another vintage marquee scroll at the top, framing the word TROPES. In a bulleted list: Horror Movie Rules & Final Girl References; Platonic Heartbreak; Psychological Horror (or is it?); OCD, Chronic Pain, and Asexual representation; Sentient & Hungry Hotel; Let the bodies hit the floor

ALT: reddish textured background with a vintage marquee scroll at the top, framing the word FIRST PAGE. There’s a picture of old paper with black text on it.

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Alyse likes to ✨️Query✨️ @itinerantginger.bsky.social · Jun 27

Okay talk to a friend of mine who is an alumni and still keyed into UVA politics. Apparently they have been doing a lot of good work over the last few years. My bad