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Posts by Steph Alta
With the new year coming, are you looking to rediscover your spark for writing? Are you searching for accountability? Join us for a 12-week winter writing challenge to motivate yourself and meet other writers! #AmWriting #Writing #Writer #Author #BookSky #AuthorSky #amquerying #amediting #amagented #WritingCommunity #WriteSky
With the new year coming, are you looking to rediscover your spark for writing? Are you searching for accountability?
We start January 5th!
#AmWriting #Writing #Writer #Author #BookSky #AuthorSky #amquerying #amediting #amagented #WritingCommunity #WriteSky
Thank you for doing this!! can you add me, please?
Here's a thread of the top issues I saw will doing #10Queries. These are opportunities for improvement that I noticed in multiple subs, so consider whether your query letter could use revisions in these areas, too! #RevPit
If America hasn't broken your heart, you haven't loved her enough.
In true #unhingedpit fashion, I'm like 3 days late. Have you ever wondered what would happen if Dr. Kevorkian was a super-cute 20-something-year-old woman who had to choose between her professional and personal loyalties?
Nope? I'm the only one spending hours and hours puzzling out that question?
Here's a list of upcoming pitch events in April!
#UnhingedPit was a day or so ago.
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-Mariana Zapata because she got me through post-partum
-Ali Hazelwood and Emily Henry because they get me through today
-Tamora Pierece because she got me through some verrrry awk pre-teen years
-Sarah J. Maas because she gets ME
-Barbara Kingsolver because she gets me in a writing flow-state
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Manifesting!!!
writing is like
yay I wrote 3,000 words
and
editing is like
yay I deleted 3,000 words
#amwriting #amediting #writingcommunity #booksky
I've eaten avocado toast for six meals this week...and it's only Thursday. π₯π₯π₯π₯
I canβt help but laugh/cry when I see marketing plans from publishers still touting how they will βpost on X accountsβ β like can you do me a favor and NOT?
I know it is hard to pivot but you NEED TO PIVOT. Please I am BEGGING you to leave that god-forsaken platform and move here P L E A S E
My 3 yo has started calling me "little old mama"... help?
This is so fun! I'm Steph. I am currently working on a romance novel. Outside of work, writing, and reading, my time is pretty much 100% toddler-chasing (think spider-man trivia, Lego building, and a lot of snack fetching)
These are super helpful, thank you! I particularly like your post on first chapter mistakes!
Thank youuuu! :)
Congrats!!!
Thank you :)
Congratulations!!
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Thank you!
Hey! First, thank you so much for volunteering your time :) I noted you don't like books with heavy references to cancer; would another terminal illness be okay for you as a sub plot?