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✨Meagan Thompson-Mann is back in the querying trenches🫠
@thecrumpet.bsky.social
Legally non-blonde / writer of minor repute (I'm in the Congressional record!) / querying 1st novel THIS ENDS NOW / noodlings at meagantheauthor.com / co-host of podcast BAD LIT FRIENDS (@badlitfriends.bsky.social‬) / recovering English major
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Listen to the third and final part of our award-winning* podcast series which is stuffed with really** useful*** advice! You'll hear that @kirkrafferty.com does not write THE END when he completes his manuscripts which... what a heathen.

*I may have awarded us this award
**debatable
***debunkable
November 30 #WIPsnips – “number”

Just for fun. Only dress up. Nothing serious about a trip to Bergdorf Goodman for Jenny. Nothing ominous at all about price tags with all those zeroes and a man with a platinum Amex. Just for laughs. Just a “what if?” Right? A snip from my #WIP “Surface Tension.”
November 30, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Taking comfort that while we're going down immediately in our first crack at the postseason, we're not getting as humiliated as The Other Place.
November 29, 2025 at 7:38 PM
November 29 #WIPsnips – “dedicate”

Without so much as a by-your-leave, Gregory’s called Jenny his girlfriend to a bookstore clerk with ridiculous facial hair. She’s got… thoughts. So does he, but they’re more about beer than Richard II. A snip from my #WIP “Surface Tension.”
November 29, 2025 at 3:29 PM
In the immortal words of Orson Welles, we will sell no w(h)ine before its time. Get well soon, @kirkrafferty.com !
November 28, 2025 at 6:47 PM
November 28 #WIPsnips – “zigzag”

Holy hell, I had this! After a far-too-intimate dinner on the 4th of July, Jenny and her former seminar leader—“not my professor!”—walk back to her East Village sublet. Should she invite him up? Probably not. Definitely not. A snip from my #WIP “Surface Tension.”
November 28, 2025 at 5:08 PM
November 27 #WIPsnips – “disorganize”

Vibes! As a self-absorbed man of immense privilege, Gregory is blind to his blessings. Wealth? Check. Brains? Check. Looks? Hella check. But for all Jenny’s youth, she sees every facet of his unchecked entitlement. A snip from my #WIP “Surface Tension.”
November 27, 2025 at 5:33 PM
November 25 #WIPsnips – “system”

"Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all / Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know." Sure, okay Keats, whatever you say. But why have truth when its simulacrum is so shiny and fun? A snip from my #WIP “Surface Tension.”
November 25, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Yes, I am capable of caring about dumbass shit like this. #TheGame
November 22, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Listen to the third and final part of our award-winning* podcast series which is stuffed with really** useful*** advice! You'll hear that @kirkrafferty.com does not write THE END when he completes his manuscripts which... what a heathen.

*I may have awarded us this award
**debatable
***debunkable
November 21, 2025 at 5:31 PM
November 20 #WIPsnips – “special”

Ah, mud season. A glorious time of the year in northern New England. Lainey’s stuck in more than just physical gloop, though, and there’s no better place for her to seek clarity than Carter’s Woods. A snip from “This Ends Now” which is with my betas right now!
November 20, 2025 at 5:26 PM
November 19 #WIPsnips – “third”

Waiting for a breakfast sandwich, Jenny wonders: is she more than just a convenient body for Gregory this summer? She must be, if his texts are to be believed. By summer’s end, she’s going to wish she’d just been convenient. A snip from my #WIP “Surface Tension.”
November 19, 2025 at 5:40 PM
November 16 #WIPsnips – “run”

“Just for fun,” Gregory says when he takes Jenny to Bergdorf Goodman. “Only dress-up,” she insists. But when a sales assistant spins a fairytale about a dress, Jenny’s tempted to accept his offer of making fantasy a reality. A snip from my #WIP “Surface Tension.”
November 16, 2025 at 5:57 PM
This week (on our new drop day of Friday... for now) Kirk and I get into it on The Importance of Being Total Garbage as you get moving on your first draft. It doesn't matter if you're total pants. Nobody's grading you and you haven't failed. (Yet.)
November 14, 2025 at 5:35 PM
November 14 #WIPsnips – “week”

It’s not that she’d rather hang with Gregory than her roommate Hallie—because Jenny definitely doesn’t. But she’s in NYC to burst from her chrysalis, and figures the soundtrack to metamorphosis is more likely Haydn than hipster. A snip from my #WIP “Surface Tension.”
November 14, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Just listened to the rough and it is definitely bringing this energy, so please indulge us. We're not producers. We're barely podcasters!
November 14, 2025 at 2:13 AM
November 11 #WIPsnips – “burger”

In this snip from “This Ends Now,” Lainey reflects on the hellscape that was dating in her late 30s in Los Angeles, before future husband Scott barged into her life. NOT THAT THE AUTHOR KNOWS ANYTHING ABOUT THIS HELLSCAPE AND IS THANKFUL FOR ESCAPING IT. (Ahem.)
November 11, 2025 at 5:31 PM
November 9 #WIPsnips – “picture”

On one of those blistering summer Sundays in NYC when you feel like your toenails are sweating, cooling off at the Met is good idea. It would be a better idea if Gregory could stop being a condescending prick for an hour. A snip from my #WIP “Surface Tension.”
November 9, 2025 at 6:06 PM
UMM THIS JUST HAPPENED
November 8, 2025 at 6:32 PM
November 8 #WIPsnips – “little”

Sometimes it’s size, and sometimes it’s perspective. Jenny and Gregory are discussing Shelley’s “Mont Blanc,” but is that really all they’re talking about? As he likes to tell his students, “There’s no text without subtext.” A snip from my #WIP “Surface Tension.”
November 8, 2025 at 3:43 PM
For we so care about our listeners, we put out TWO episodes this week. Don't ever say we don't love you. I mean, you could. We don't know where you live. Yet.

Also we've entered our podcast series era, which can only mean the HelloFresh and Quince money is coming soon, right? RIGHT?????? #writesky
November 7, 2025 at 7:34 PM
November 6 #WIPsnips – “penultimate”

Hoo boy, reaching into the vaults for this synonym. Somewhere out there on the interwebs lurks the 500k fake blog of a character I created with my writing buddy @kirkrafferty.com for the purposes of forum mischief-making. This was part of her entry for 1/10/20.
November 6, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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CABIN IN THE WOODS × JOHN DIES AT THE END

When their detective friend is murdered during their annual gaming retreat, 5 dads must rely on years of #TTRPG experience—and puns—to solve the crime before they're all killed off like NPCs in a badly written supernatural campaign.

#QuestPit #A #H #M
November 5, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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Them: Omg I wish there was a Dancing with the Stars romcom.
Me: Hold my beer

THE WINNER TAKES IT ALL ✨

💜Showmance
🪩Sunshine female competitor x Grumpy male pro
💜Nanny x Single dad
🪩Ballroom, studio, and country dancing
💜Mutual Pining
🪩Dual POV

#QuestPit #A #R #AG #W
November 5, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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Editors, The Bitch Pack was a group of brilliant dancers helmed by the charismatic patron Lovey. After the company collapsed, and her final muse's disappearance, Frankie is assigned to tell Lovey's story. But not all stories are as simple as tragedy.
#QuestPit #A #HF #OS
November 5, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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My Sister The Serial Killer X Such A Fun Age X Yellowface

💷Sterile wealth
💭Inner cynical monologues
🇬🇧UK vibes
🤰🏾Post maternity
🪞Identity and race

Murdering your ex-boss is hard. Murdering him in his Chelsea mansion? 75% harder🔪

#questpit #W #A #T
November 5, 2025 at 9:44 PM