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Deputy NBA editor for ESPN 🏀 Independent figure skating blogger ⛸️ Author of a sapphic figure skating romance novel 📖 #amquerying

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Adam Reisinger @adamreisinger.com · 19d

YURI ON ICE x SPINNING OUT x THE L WORD

Looking for more figure skating after devouring THE FAVORITES? Look no further.

An updated #agentsguide to THE ICE BETWEEN US, a sapphic sports romance novel written by a 20-year sports journalism veteran.

#amquerying #writesky #WritingCommunity

Chloé LaFleur is an elite figure skater from Canada -- or she was until a devastating injury at the 2023 world championships ended her competitive career. Two years later, her childhood best friend convinces her to join the cast of Seasons on Ice, where she meets Freja Lindholm, an experienced show skater from Sweden with an ice queen reputation. There's friction between the two of them, especially when Chloé is forced to ask Freja for help in pairs.

Once the tour hits the road, their situation becomes even more tenuous when they're unexpectedly assigned to be roommates. They squabble and get in each other's way, but it's not long before they find themselves bonding. And soon, their friendship becomes something far more. But just when things start to heat up, Chloé finds herself thrust back into the spotlight of the figure skating world. Is her future on the Olympic track, or with Freja? Or is there a way for Chloé to have the best of both worlds?

Meet the stars

Chloé LaFleur
Age: 25 | Height: 5-4 | Hometown: Montreal
Role: Sun Queen
2022 Olympic Bronze Medalist
2022 & 2023 Canadian National Champion
Recently dumped by girlfriend of three years

Freja Lindholm

Age: 28 | Height: 5-10 | Hometown: Stockholm
Role: Snow Queen
Seventh year with “Seasons On Ice”
Skated pairs in Sweden
Has a rule: She doesn’t date skaters

THE first thing you learn as a figure skater is how to fall.
It seems counterintuitive. If you're standing on a slippery surface like ice wearing blades that are three millimetres thick, you're going to fall. Whether you learn or not. What you're learning is the proper technique to fall. This way, you help avoid serious injury, and you put yourself in the right position to get up quickly.
What Learn To Skate classes don't teach you, however, is how to recover when you've fallen so far you can't even begin to figure out how to get back up.
Exactly how far have I fallen, you ask?
Two thousand, four hundred and forty four kilometres from home, according to the Maps app on my phone. Sitting on the couch of my best friend's apartment in Florida, waiting to hear back about my audition for the skating show she's been begging me to join for the past year.

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Adam Reisinger @adamreisinger.com · 1h

Prepping materials for @swiftiepitch.bsky.social on Monday and I’m excited for what I have to share with THE ICE BETWEEN US. My showgirls are ready to take a skate on the ice inside your veins.

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Milo (he/xe) 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇨🇦 @milosometimes.bsky.social · 1h

I think it would be super sexy and awesome if every writer on here got the recognition they deserve

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Adam Reisinger @adamreisinger.com · 4h

Freja has a brother, Erik, who plays in the NHL, and we do get to meet him after a game. And we find out from him that the family’s nickname for the 5-foot-10 Freja is “Shorty.” #WritingPrompt #WriteSky #WritingCommunity

"Wait, what the hell is that?!"
Freja holds up the jersey so I can get a better look. A minute ago, she was giving me shit for having what she thought was my own custom Canadiens jersey, and she has a custom jersey of her own. And it's a fucking Flyers jersey?
"It's not my name," Freja says with exasperation. "Well, yes, it is my name, but in this case it's my brother's name. He plays for the team."

Adam Reisinger @adamreisinger.com · 4h

The #WIPSnips word for October 11th is “welcome”

Second consecutive day I’ve pulled a snippet from this same chapter

"The cast has been great. They've welcomed me with open arms, and, well, basically we're like a family now."
"They do seem quite nice.” She has a knowing smirk on her face. "Especially that Freja girl."
I immediately start blushing, because it's obvious she knows. I didn't tell her. And Freja didn't tell her. So that leaves one possible culprit.

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U.S. Figure Skating @usfigureskating.bsky.social · 6h

Two events, two golds! 🥇 🥇

Hana Maria Aboian and Daniil Veselukhin danced their way to the top, sweeping the Junior Grand Prix Series as the leading ice dance team!

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Adam Reisinger @adamreisinger.com · 1d

A little of both. An ending of one chapter of Chloé’s career and the beginning of the next

Adam Reisinger @adamreisinger.com · 1d

Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier doing their rhythm dance to “Supermodel” by RuPaul is the exact level of camp I needed from this season.

Adam Reisinger @adamreisinger.com · 1d

The #WIPSnips word for October 10th is “prize”

No prize in THE ICE BETWEEN US but a lot of medals, thanks to Chloé

"'Golden Girl?'" my mom asks with a smirk, and I just bury my head in my hands.
"Don't ask," I mumble through clenched teeth. "It's just..." I continue with my voice getting louder, talking more to my castmates than my mother, "it's a stupid nickname that I hate and isn't even accurate."
"Well," Maman points out, "you do have quite a few gold medals."

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Adam Reisinger @adamreisinger.com · 1d

#lesficfri Chloé popped a jump during her audition and has been in her head about it ever since.

And here I am, five days later, still thinking about it. I can't do anything about it. Not about popping that jump, and not about what happened in Japan two years ago. But as I sit on my best friend Beth's couch -- which has also been my bed ever since my ex-girlfriend kicked me out of our shared apartment a couple months ago -- and listen to the patter of the raindrops as they hit the living room window, all I can do is think about it.

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Adam Reisinger @adamreisinger.com · 1d

Maybe it was Mathew Carter. With his love interest Laney Ingram.

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Adam Reisinger @adamreisinger.com · 1d

Why doesn’t Beth see herself as the beautiful woman deserving of love that she is? Well, gee, maybe it’s because of that unresolved childhood trauma I gave her that we might even get to see in a flashback chapter…

Adam Reisinger @adamreisinger.com · 1d

#WeeknightWriters

A5: Simply put, Beth wants her happy ending. She’s always been the best friend archetype, and is LITERALLY the best friend in the first book of the series. She doesn’t even see herself as the main character in her own life. But, to her surprise, Luc sees her that way.

Weeknight Writers @weeknightwriters.bsky.social · 1d

Q5: Tell us about your main character. Who are they? What do they want? #WeeknightWriters

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Adam Reisinger @adamreisinger.com · 1d

Which is why I of course set my novel series in a skating show with dozens of people! 🤦‍♀️

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Adam Reisinger @adamreisinger.com · 1d

#WeeknightWriters

A4: Developing the characters around them. Which is probably why most of my characters end up with one really close best friend, and sometimes a parent (and often a dead parent in their past, thanks to the Disney influence). Occasionally a sibling.

Weeknight Writers @weeknightwriters.bsky.social · 1d

Q4: What aspects of character development do you find most frustrating? #WeeknightWriters

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Adam Reisinger @adamreisinger.com · 1d

a man talking to another man with the words did we just become best friends below him

Alt: a man talking to another man with the words did we just become best friends below him

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Adam Reisinger @adamreisinger.com · 1d

“She had no name, for it had been taken from her, like so many of those in the nameless city.” Problem solved!

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Adam Reisinger @adamreisinger.com · 1d

Toxic lesbians? Sign me up!

Adam Reisinger @adamreisinger.com · 1d

#WeeknightWriters

A3: I love helping my characters find their healed self, almost always by finding the love of someone else. When they’re loved, it gives them permission to forgive themselves.

Weeknight Writers @weeknightwriters.bsky.social · 1d

Q3: What aspects of character development do you enjoy most? What goes into making a character? #WeeknightWriters

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Adam Reisinger @adamreisinger.com · 1d

Me writing a new story: “how was this character hurt in the past, and how am I going to make them relive that hurt?” 😂😂😈😈

Adam Reisinger @adamreisinger.com · 1d

Thank you!

Adam Reisinger @adamreisinger.com · 1d

#WeeknightWriters

A2: I think the most important thing I need to figure out with my characters is the source of their trauma. That’s going to be the thing that drives them in the story.

Weeknight Writers @weeknightwriters.bsky.social · 1d

Q2: What aspects of character development do you consider most important to your story planning process? #WeeknightWriters

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Adam Reisinger @adamreisinger.com · 1d

#WeeknightWriters

A1: I typically start with a main character and a primary setting, and figure out how the two work together. So for THE ICE BETWEEN US, I had a good idea of who Chloé was, and that she was a figure skater. I just had to find the right world for her.

Weeknight Writers @weeknightwriters.bsky.social · 1d

Q1: Do you typically create characters to match the story you want to tell or build your stories based on character(s) already living in your head? #WeeknightWriters

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Adam Reisinger @adamreisinger.com · 1d

Hi #WeeknightWriters, I’m Adam. I’m currently querying my debut, THE ICE BETWEEN US, a sapphic figure skating romance novel, and I’m drafting the second book in the series.

Weeknight Writers @weeknightwriters.bsky.social · 1d

Hello #WeeknightWriters! Come on in, introduce yourself and your WIP, and let us know how your #FirstDraftFall planning is going!

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Adam Reisinger @adamreisinger.com · 1d

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Adam Reisinger @adamreisinger.com · 1d

Yeah, that was one of the things that was tripping me up with Beth’s book. I felt like the chapter I was working on was coming too early in the first act, and couldn’t get past it. But I had a breakthrough this afternoon.