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@meganwritesya.bsky.social
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Writer. Teacher. In love with books, food, and everyday beauty. 🏳️‍🌈 (She/her). Published in Flame Tree Press's Medusa anthology, Spaceports and Spidersilk, and Working Classicists.

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megan.m (mostly updates) @meganwritesya.bsky.social · Apr 19
Everyone is haunted by something. For Jessa, that something is Ivy—her ex-best friend and first love. And she’ll do anything to get Ivy back in her life, even when very real ghosts have other plans for them #PosterPitQ #YA #H
In the center, two hands with matching friendship bracelets do a pinky promise. The photo is ripped down the center and retaped back together, and the hand on the left has been scribbled over in pen. Above the photo, there's a purple border. Black letters read: Readers said and bigger white letters below that read: "Such a novel spin on haunting and toxic obsessive relationships, on queerness and rage and loneliness". Below the photo, black letters read: One way or another, she's going to get her back" underlined with a pen scribble. In big letters, it says "Daggers in Their Smiles" and below that, in smaller letters, Young Adult Found Footage Paranormal Horror
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howzit 🤙 I'm Makana, and I'm a hapa haole māhū lesbian who writes books about AAPI lesbians getting into situations in space. my next novel is THE OBAKE CODE, which is a standalone sequel set 3 years after HAMMAJANG LUCK

there's heists! there's hacking! there's lesbians! what more could you want!!!
trope graphic for the obake code. the cover shows Malia, a brown skinned woman with long locs dip-dyed green and dressed in a white top, black baggy pants, and black boots, stands with her arm raised looking overhead. above her are futuristic cityscape style towers, with pink and purple lighted windows and glowing neon signs. a futuristic flying car zooms by overhead. there is a white Hawaiian-style tattoo badge to the left, depicting scythes, a bow, geometric shapes, and axes. the text reads THE OBAKE CODE, with "code" in glowing neon. the cover is set on a background of a green vaporous nebula. the tropes read "2 heists 2 lesbians!" "-hacker voice, I'm in" "cyborg prize fights" "evil butch mafiosos!" "questionable physics!" "set three years after Hammajang Luck" "a standalone sequel in the heist lesbians universe" "street racing!" "starring Malia, our favorite cringe hacker." the release date is February 17th, 2026 and preorders are open now
July 11, 2025 at 5:07 PM
meganwritesya.bsky.social
Everyone is haunted by something. For Jessa, that something is Ivy—her ex-best friend and first love. And she’ll do anything to get Ivy back in her life, even when very real ghosts have other plans for them #PosterPitQ #YA #H
In the center, two hands with matching friendship bracelets do a pinky promise. The photo is ripped down the center and retaped back together, and the hand on the left has been scribbled over in pen. Above the photo, there's a purple border. Black letters read: Readers said and bigger white letters below that read: "Such a novel spin on haunting and toxic obsessive relationships, on queerness and rage and loneliness". Below the photo, black letters read: One way or another, she's going to get her back" underlined with a pen scribble. In big letters, it says "Daggers in Their Smiles" and below that, in smaller letters, Young Adult Found Footage Paranormal Horror
April 19, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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When ex-best-friends Jessa and Ivy take a summer job at a haunted hotel, they’re at each other’s throats, with mutual friend Teddy stuck in the middle. But if they can’t escape their complicated history, the ghost will claim one of them forever #BluePit 📖 #YA #P #H #Q #LGBT #ND
A mood board with alternating purple and black/white photos. 1. Purple jellyfish on a black background 2. An Afro-latino teen boy in a black turtleneck leaning against a wall. 3. Stalks of lavender 4. A white girl with goth style looking to the lower right hand corner. 5. A neon purple sign that reads find what you love and let it kill you 6. A white girl wearing makeup and a preppy style, smiling at camera 7. The shadow of two hands forming a heart in purple light 8. A black and white hotel hallway 9. Purple candles melting wax
January 13, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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GUIDE TO THE DARK x RULES FOR VANISHING

Best friends to enemies to ??? sapphic relationship
Found footage-style narration
Haunted hotel in Flagstaff, AZ
Secret society (out to harm or help?)
A ghost out for blood
#BluePit 📖 #YA #P #H #Q #LGBT #ND
A mood board with alternating purple and black/white photos. 1. Purple jellyfish on a black background 2. An Afro-latino teen boy in a black turtleneck leaning against a wall. 3. Stalks of lavender 4. A white girl with goth style looking to the lower right hand corner. 5. A neon purple sign that reads find what you love and let it kill you 6. A white girl wearing makeup and a preppy style, smiling at camera 7. The shadow of two hands forming a heart in purple light 8. A black and white hotel hallway 9. Purple candles melting wax
January 13, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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Three teens. Two weeks in a haunted hotel. One ghost out for blood. And more secrets than they can count buried in their past—ones coming back to haunt them. If they can’t unravel their twisted relationships, they won’t make it out alive #BluePit 📖 #YA #P #H #Q #LGBT #ND
A mood board with alternating purple and black/white photos. 1. Purple jellyfish on a black background 2. An Afro-latino teen boy in a black turtleneck leaning against a wall. 3. Stalks of lavender 4. A white girl with goth style looking to the lower right hand corner. 5. A neon purple sign that reads find what you love and let it kill you 6. A white girl wearing makeup and a preppy style, smiling at camera 7. The shadow of two hands forming a heart in purple light 8. A black and white hotel hallway 9. Purple candles melting wax
January 13, 2025 at 5:00 AM
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I'm planning to participate in #Bluepit on Monday! Looking forward to it, and good luck to everyone participating 💜
January 11, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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🥳 Surprise! 🥳

I'm super excited to be one of the contributors to this amazing anthology! I really appreciate the work this organization does to make Classics more accessible to all 🥰
workingclassicists.bsky.social Working Classicists @workingclassicists.bsky.social · Jan 2
ANNOUNCING...

A Periodic Table of Greek Mythology - our first book! 🎉

📅Available 5th Feb 2025 (but you can preorder now)
🤝 In collaboration with @contubernales.bsky.social
✍️ 117 different writers
🖼️ Periodic Table Poster by @corabeth.bsky.social
👇 Read more...
A book cover for A Periodic Table of Greek Mythology showing a classical painting with a superimposed periodic tabel element styled square with athena's head and name on it.
January 2, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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Daggers in Their Smiles, coming to an agent inbox near you!
Black background with three lit red candles on the left side. White gothic text reads "An Agent's Guide to" and red text that looks like it's dripping reads "Daggers in Their Smiles." Beneath, smaller white lettering in gothic font reads "YA Found Footage-Style Horror" Black background bracketed by images of stacked skulls in red lighting. White text reads "Pitch" in large letters, and in smaller letters, "Jessa and Ivy used to be best friends---and now they hate each other. But when they, along with their friend Teddy, take summer jobs at a haunted hotel, they can't keep themselves from falling back into old habits that could prove just as deadly as the ghost out for their blood." Black background bracketed by images of stacked skulls in red lighting. White text reads in large letters "Comps" and below in smaller text reads "Rules for Vanishing by Kate Alice Marshall" and "A Guide to the Dark" by Meriam Metoui. Larger text reads "Audience" and smaller text reads "Queer teens, fans of Wendy Heard and Kate Alice Marshall, autistic and ADHD teens, teen girls, people struggling with codependency Black background. On the right, there's a vertical hotel sign in neon red. Larger white text reads "First Lines" and below in smaller text reads, "Everyone's haunted by something--their mistakes, their parents' mistakes, that one time they played Sardines at Casey Cook's birthday party (don't ask), the specter of communism--but very few people are haunted by actual, real live ghosts. Well, not live ghosts. That defeats the point of a ghost, doesn't it?"
December 1, 2024 at 8:24 PM
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My Medusa copies came!!! 🐍
Medusa Anthology!
It's finally here!
open.substack.com
November 19, 2024 at 3:07 AM
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Updated newsletter just went out! You can read it or subscribe if you follow the linktree in my bio 💜
September 21, 2024 at 4:29 PM
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📢 CALL FOR BETA READERS 📢

I'm looking for betas for my YA found footage horror! It'll be 45-55k and I'll send it out in early August. It's got

👻 toxic codependent girlies
👻 queer and ND rep
👻 a haunted hotel in the Southwest

If you're interested, lmk in the comments!
July 5, 2024 at 2:27 PM
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🥳 FIRST DRAFT DONE!!! 🥳

Keep an eye out for my found footage paranormal YA thriller with:

👻 Ex-best friends in forced proximity
👻 ND and queer rep
👻 A gay ghost desperate for another shot at life
👻 toxic codependent girlies
June 18, 2024 at 3:45 PM
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I might be finishing the first draft of my new project this week 👀
White text on a black background. Next to the text is a neon red hotel sign. The text reads: Everyone's haunted by something- their mistakes, their parents' mistakes, that one time they played Sardines at Casey Cook's birthday party (don't ask), the specter of communism- but very few people are haunted by actual, real live ghosts. Well, not live ghosts, that defeats the point of a ghost, doesn't it?
June 16, 2024 at 3:30 PM
meganwritesya.bsky.social
Absolutely thrilled to announce that I'm going to published in Flame Tree Publishing's Medusa anthology!!! My short story is titled "The Haunting of Athena" and you can read a little about it and the anthology in my newsletter (link in bio)
June 7, 2024 at 8:11 PM
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If you want to be the first to hear exciting news dropping later this week, my newsletter link is in my bio 👀
June 4, 2024 at 6:50 PM
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Spring break productivity posts

Day Five (Final Day)

🌸 sent a query
🌸 wrote 2k in GhostWIP

Overall, this week I drafted over 5k in GhostWIP and was able to get 3 minor projects to their next stage of completion! 🥳
March 16, 2024 at 8:10 PM
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Spring break productivity posts Day Four

🌸 brainstorming for GhostWIP
🌸 drafted 681 words in GhostWIP
🌸 revised a set of poems and submitted them to lit mags
March 15, 2024 at 5:26 PM
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Spring break productivity posts Day Three:

🌸 revised poems for a contest and submitted!
🌸 revised poems to submit for critique
March 14, 2024 at 4:13 PM
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Spring break productivity posts Day Two:

🌸 researched queer lit mags (open to recs)
🌸 sent poems to a friend for feedback
🌸 drafted 1550 words of #GhostWIP
March 13, 2024 at 6:09 PM
meganwritesya.bsky.social
Spring break writing productivity posts! 🌸 Day One (Yesterday)

🌸 finished drafting a short story (1448 words)
🌸 posted short story announcement on newsletter and socials
🌸 wrote a prose poem
🌸 drafted 1805 words in Ghost WIP
🌸 sent a query for TWDS
March 12, 2024 at 5:47 PM
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My newest short story, "A Little Lavender Magic," has been published in Spaceports and Spidersilk's Feb 2024 issue!

If you're a fan of botanical magic, queer middle school emotional angst, and froggy familiars, my newsletter has a teaser snippet and links to the website 💜
Four images, each using a purple color scheme. Image one is a purple candle, lit, on a wooden table with a bowl of purple salts beside it and some sprigs of lavender. Image two is purple crystals inside a corked bottle on moss. Image three is a book with dyed purple pages on grass. The last image is an illustrated apothecary with lots of plants, flowers and natural light. Over these is a scrap of paper that reads: How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard--- A.A. Milne
March 11, 2024 at 11:14 PM
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🗣 New newsletter post is up! 🗣

It's a special edition with some of the highlights from a writing conference I recently attended. Check out the link in my bio for more info!
October 26, 2023 at 2:03 AM
meganwritesya.bsky.social
For GhostWIP:

Ivy would go as a traditional monster like a vampire

Teddy would dress up as a character from a musical

Jessa would go as a Sherlock Holmes character or some spin off variation
ingloriousgigi.bsky.social Georgina Kiersten @ingloriousgigi.bsky.social · Oct 7
I have a question for you authors! What are your characters dressing up as for Halloween? What are they Halloween plans?
October 7, 2023 at 7:08 PM
meganwritesya.bsky.social
I'm in the mood for a romance novel (adult preferred over YA). Anybody got recommendations? Bonus points if it's queer 🌈📚
September 24, 2023 at 1:09 AM