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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 · 17d

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 · 26m

I have this weird mental block where I can’t even move on to the next chapter until I feel like the current one is exactly what I want. And writing out of order? Impossible

Adam Reisinger @adamreisinger.com · 1h

One of the hardest things for me about writing a first draft is letting it be bad. I constantly want to fix things, to make them perfect. I have to force myself to just get words on the page, then I’ll fix the prose, the story, etc. in edits and future drafts. #WriteSky #WritingCommunity

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Adam Reisinger @adamreisinger.com · 2h

Nothing lasts forever, even cold October rain

Adam Reisinger @adamreisinger.com · 3h

Same. They gave us an AI tool to generate headlines. I’ll write my own damn clickbait headlines, thank you very much

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Nush @nushdeco.bsky.social · 6h

Commission for an amazing vgener 💜

[ #art #oc #artsky #illustration ]

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Adam Reisinger @adamreisinger.com · 6h

Also, absolutely reusing this for SwiftiePit

Adam Reisinger @adamreisinger.com · 6h

Marlon (Wayans) Hall appears to no longer be in living color

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Adam Reisinger @adamreisinger.com · 7h

Skater Stories: Eileen O’Brien. Loved talking to Eileen about their skating journey, creating content, and dealing with the haters. #figureskating adamreisinger.substack.com/p/skater-sto...

Skater Stories: Eileen O'Brien

Eileen is a skater and coach who has been in the sport for 11 years, and is unapologetic about their identity, even when the comments fill up with haters.

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Adam Reisinger @adamreisinger.com · 7h

This is exactly the right level of creepy that will keep me reading with one hand over my eyes

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Adam Reisinger @adamreisinger.com · 16h

a cartoon drawing of a person with hearts around them and the words awww on the bottom

ALT: a cartoon drawing of a person with hearts around them and the words awww on the bottom

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LuUuUuUuke Knox 👻 @lukeknox.me · 20h

done and done

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Adam Reisinger @adamreisinger.com · 20h

Chloé is technically the ELDEST DAUGHTER, but only because she’s the only daughter. Freja has an older brother who plays hockey, where he uses a stick made partially of WOOD

Adam Reisinger @adamreisinger.com · 21h

After her injury, Chloé LaFleur’s competitive career is CANCELLED! But skating is still on her WI$H LI$T, so she signs up for THE LIFE OF A SHOWGIRL. Seasons On Ice’s star Freja Lindholm dislikes her at first, but it’s ACTUALLY ROMANTIC.

THE ICE BETWEEN US (Adam’s Version)

#DVpit #A #CR #LGBT #Q

Freja Lindholm and Chloé LaFleur skating in their show costumes.

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Adam Reisinger @adamreisinger.com · 21h

No, I got what you meant

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Adam Reisinger @adamreisinger.com · 21h

She’s not a sore loser in the traditional sense. She’s surprisingly satisfied with having won bronze in Beijing, not gold, because she knows she skated her best. It’s when she feels like she hasn’t, or she can’t, that her frustration boils over.

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Adam Reisinger @adamreisinger.com · 21h

#AwesomeCharacters

I think the most compelling trait of Chloé’s is also her most frustrating: her competitive drive. It led her to win an Olympic medal, but it also leads to some emotional outbursts when things don’t go her way.

Charlie Delta (has been a ghost this whole time! 👻) @charliedeltawrites.bsky.social · 23h

Tell me more about your #AwesomeCharacters

What is your character's most endearing/compelling trait?

What is something about them that you think will make a reader invested in them and their story?

Is it also the thing you like best about them?

#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

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Adam Reisinger @adamreisinger.com · 22h

I know where the real wildfire is…

a man in a suit and tie is saying i would like to extend to you an invitation to the pants party .

ALT: a man in a suit and tie is saying i would like to extend to you an invitation to the pants party .

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Adam Reisinger @adamreisinger.com · 22h

Art credits: @myrthena.bsky.social, @argovelaart.bsky.social, @cometkins.bsky.social, @megwyn.bsky.social

Adam Reisinger @adamreisinger.com · 22h

Since it’s #InternationalLesbianDay, here’s some more character art of my favourite lesbians, Chloé LaFleur and Freja Lindholm #WritingCommunity #amquerying

Chloé and Freja skating on an outdoor pond after a date

Chloé and Freja rehearsing for their exhibition performance

Chloé and Freja skating in their Seasons On Ice costumes

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Adam Reisinger @adamreisinger.com · 22h

I can hear this pitch in my head!

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Adam Reisinger @adamreisinger.com · 22h

Thank you!

Adam Reisinger @adamreisinger.com · 23h

YURI ON ICE x THE L WORD

THE ICE BETWEEN US is the sapphic figure skating romance of your dreams

⛸️ Forced Proximity
❤️ Workplace Romance
⛸️ Dislike-to-Lovers
❤️ Trauma Recovery
⛸️ Miscommunication
❤️ Only One Bed
⛸️ Spicy Banter
❤️ She Carries Her
⛸️ Non-American MCs!

#DVPit #A #CR #LGBT

Moodboard for THE ICE BETWEEN US, a sapphic figure skating romance novel. All photos on the Moodboard taken by me personally. Character art by Emily Anderson.

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bev (indie author) 👩🏻‍💻 @beverlyannemichel.bsky.social · 1d

It’s lesbian day!!

Why not celebrate with a sapphic rivals to lovers romance featuring a lesbian fmc?

b2r: books2read.com/hia
itch: beverlyannemichel.itch.io/have-it-all
etsy: spilledinkcoffeebook.etsy.com

#booksky #sapphic #lesfic #romancelandia 💙📚 🌈📚 🌶️📚

have it all trope map.
Lesbian x bisexual.
Single parent.
Rivals to lovers.
Found family.
Ballet dancers.
Grumpy x grumpier.
Futch fmc.
Ace himbo.

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Adam Reisinger @adamreisinger.com · 1d

I’ve read this one and it’s incredible. Also, Sage, stop texting your ex. He doesn’t want you like that b

maggie @maggiesbooks.bsky.social · 1d

Two heartbroken camp staff make a pact to keep it casual and not text their exes until summer's over. When one of them breaks the deal, not only is their budding relationship at risk, but lifelong friendships are threatened and Sage's final summer might just be her worst one yet.

#dvpit #na #cr

Adam Reisinger @adamreisinger.com · 1d

“The Last Book About Stuff”