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writersarahp.bsky.social @writersarahp.bsky.social · 2d

🪞Legend has it 🪞
if this showed up on your page,
you’re looking for more sad & weird girl lit

I present these excerpts!! 🩻

#writing

writersarahp.bsky.social @writersarahp.bsky.social · 11d

Hi Jordan! How would you feel about a query for space-themed poetry for YA and up? I noticed poetry in your Query Manager 🪐😀

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writersarahp.bsky.social @writersarahp.bsky.social · 15d

I would love to discuss this opportunity as an author and poet!! I’m not quite finding the option to DM on here though?

This sounds like a great book series :)

writersarahp.bsky.social @writersarahp.bsky.social · Aug 16

SAD GIRL JOB BOARD: seeking an author for a slice of life romance novel

📍Nor Cal

🫧PERSUASION retelling 🫧

PROMISE ME SUNSHINE X SUBURBAN LEGENDS 🌻

Includes:
💎secret engagement
🩷romance of the mundane
🛋️ magazine journalism

#PosterPit #Q #R

Movie poster with flowers and telephone and swans

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writersarahp.bsky.social @writersarahp.bsky.social · Jul 6

Posting this because my poem is almost at 1,000 views on TikTok 😱

#poetry #writingcommunity

writersarahp.bsky.social @writersarahp.bsky.social · Jun 27

Writing notes and…

I’m writing a MAGICAL REALISM PERSUASION retelling!!!! 🫧🌊🫧

(Actually, it’s been on my mind for a while)

a dog is sitting on the beach looking out to the ocean

ALT: a dog is sitting on the beach looking out to the ocean

media.tenor.com

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writersarahp.bsky.social @writersarahp.bsky.social · Jun 13

“And so it goes,
you two are dancing in a snow globe round and round…”

🩷 YOU ARE IN LOVE X Nora Ephron-coded

🩷 experimental & literary writing

🩷 London and Ben in a heart’s archery of logic versus emotion

#swiftiepitch #SwiftiePitch #agentguide #agentsguide

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writersarahp.bsky.social @writersarahp.bsky.social · Jun 6

NEXT CHAPTER is a comfort-filled romance set at a London bookshop, Cup of Moon, following the push and pull of forbidden love

🌗 experimental writing with narrators and stage directions!
💜 intense yearning
🍁 cozy feels of autumn
🥹 “you’re my best friend”

#JoyPit #romance #cozy #agentsguide

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writersarahp.bsky.social @writersarahp.bsky.social · May 23

Great to know! 👀

writersarahp.bsky.social @writersarahp.bsky.social · May 19

How would you feel about hybrid nonfiction/memoir plus with detailed analogies to the sea and deep sea to focus on cultural critique and conversation?
🪼🌊 🪸😃

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writersarahp.bsky.social @writersarahp.bsky.social · May 7

“In the Underbelly of things like this, you must learn to love fables: the fables told to you, the fables you find, and fables otherwise murkier”

if you are able to decipher certain codes, my brain book is for you—a lab entry into the beginnings of time

#QuestPit #amquerying #nonfiction

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writersarahp.bsky.social @writersarahp.bsky.social · May 7

Thank you!! :)

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writersarahp.bsky.social @writersarahp.bsky.social · May 7

Thank you so much!! I appreciate the compliment :)

writersarahp.bsky.social @writersarahp.bsky.social · May 7

Thank you!!! I had fun making it and shout out to Canva…I’m glad it caught your attention! :)

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writersarahp.bsky.social @writersarahp.bsky.social · May 7

welcome to the descent into madness
choose your player
your player is essential to discerning what is real…and what is imagined in this world 💜💜💜

THE CENTER CANNOT HOLD X GRIEF IS FOR PEOPLE

these are the stakes of this creative nonfiction, reader

#questpit #QuestPit #amquerying #nonfiction

Canva pitch image including chapter titles, trees, and clouds for a creative nonfiction project

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writersarahp.bsky.social @writersarahp.bsky.social · Apr 19

#PosterPit for my book club nonfiction about brains 🧠

sad girl lit…nonfiction

💙MAYBE YOU SHOULD TALK TO SOMEONE X GRIEF IS FOR PEOPLE

featuring:
🐚 prose written by a poet
🪼”I Know The End” X “epiphany”
🪸vivid imagery
🪼own voices writing

#PosterPit #PosterPitQ #NF #P #amquerying

Movie poster showing info about a nonfiction book about brains, book club nonfiction

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writersarahp.bsky.social @writersarahp.bsky.social · Apr 5

“In the Underbelly, you need to learn to love fables, to survive. Amid the Underbelly, I began visiting Dr. H, 9 years ago.”

🪄make sad girl lit nonfiction

💕The Center Cannot Hold x The Night Parade x Frances Ha 💕

#1stLinePit #amquerying #litagents #nonfiction #creativenonfiction #mentalhealth

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writersarahp.bsky.social @writersarahp.bsky.social · Apr 5

Thank you!! 🥹🩷😊

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writersarahp.bsky.social @writersarahp.bsky.social · Apr 5

“The sinewy mountains of Northern California are unlike the hillsides of Yorkshire, except when they both whisper.”

🫀a love letter to
WUTHERING HEIGHTS a la The Favorites, my take on sad girl lit like Sorrow and Bliss, and a sturdy love story 🫀

#1stLinePit #lovestory #litfic #litagents #CMe

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writersarahp.bsky.social @writersarahp.bsky.social · Mar 28

So like?? Have you heard someone’s working on another Wuthering Heights film adaptation ‼️

This time…it features a magazine’s film coverage, the sad girl behind it, the mundane, and a modern love story 🌓🥀🦢

#unhingedpit #UnhingedPit #litagents #litfic #upmarket #womensfiction #lovestory

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writersarahp.bsky.social @writersarahp.bsky.social · Mar 17

THE CENTER CANNOT HOLD + MAYBE YOU SHOULD TALK TO SOMEONE = 💜GIRLS, UNPRETTY 💜

Four years of madness for a Psychology degree. Two brain surgeries in eight weeks. A chronicle of mother daughter bonds, mental illness, brains, and lighthouses of the mundane 🧸🩻💐🧠🛋️

#PopUpPit #LuckyPit #amquerying

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writersarahp.bsky.social @writersarahp.bsky.social · Mar 17

SAD GIRL LIT but make it nonfiction = 💜GIRLS, UNPRETTY 💜

💡creative nonfiction featuring:

🫧celebration of mundane
🧠mental health & illness & brain surgery
‼️voice + prose driven
🧸reads upmarket
🩷mother daughter bonds
🫧unexpected lighthouses

#PopUpPit #LuckyPit #amquerying

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writersarahp.bsky.social @writersarahp.bsky.social · Mar 10

#agentsguide for newly titled creative nonfiction “GIRLS, UNPRETTY”

Reflections, Aches, and a Time Machine wrapped into one.

Dear Reader, this tale is true.

💗🫧🧃🧠💭💗

Agents and Editors, like or comment if interested 🩷

#writing #writingcommunity #litagents #amquerying #agentsguide

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writersarahp.bsky.social @writersarahp.bsky.social · Mar 9

Great #mswl, Nicole! How I love to write literary fiction with romantic elements…currently working on “She’s Failing but She’s Thriving” with an engaging voice and prose, about a failed magazine writer, her sadness, connection to a sincere man, and Wuthering Heights, and then my essay collection :)

writersarahp.bsky.social @writersarahp.bsky.social · Feb 20

Sounds like a great event…looking forward to it as a writer!!

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