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Writer, book advocate, cat lady, Mainer, amateur saxophonist, recovering university administrator 📚🐈🎷
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bettebergeron.bsky.social
I don't pretend to be an expert... but from the webinars I've attended, it's my understanding that it's fine to reference the tool in your personalization of the letter. Something like... "In your Manuscript Wishlist post, you note your interest in XXX."
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TGIF #writingcommunity!

As Banned Book Week wraps up, I'm passing along this great link from the #ALA with the top 10 challenged books. Looks to me like a great reading list! 📚🌈

Let's hope that diverse voices are never silenced!

#amwriting #amquerying #booksky

www.ala.org/bbooks/frequ...
Top 10 Most Challenged Books of 2024
Every year, the American Library Association compiles a list of the Top 10 Most Frequently Challenged Books based on reports from the field and media coverage.
www.ala.org
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Congrats to all my fellow writers for your amazing posts yesterday during the #DVPit event! I am so proud of you! 🥰

I can't wait to see all your works in print! 😀📚

#writingcommunity #writesky #amwriting #amquerying
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Happy Wednesday #writingcommunity!

For those looking for resources during Banned Books Week- 🚫 Pen America provides great info. I've used their legislative tracker for data in writing my "Rabbit Hole" novel (currently #querying). 📚 📝

#booksky #amquerying #amwriting

pen.org/banned-books...
Banned Books Week 2025
We invite readers, authors, educators, librarians, and everyone who opposes censorship to get involved during Banned Books Week 2025.
pen.org
bettebergeron.bsky.social
It's Banned Book Week... so consequential, especially now. 📚

What banned book most inspires you as a writer? 📝
I loved Lula Dean's Little Library of Banned Books--it gave me the courage to strengthen revisions in my "Rabbit Hole" novel.

#booksky #amquerying #writingcommunity

bannedbooksweek.org
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Good luck! Don't get discouraged... each rejection hurts, but wear them as a badge of honor. You are an AUTHOR!!
bettebergeron.bsky.social
Record heat here in the N'East. A perfect day to stroll along the beach... or is it?? 🔍🐚

Sharing my #agentsguide to "The Fragility of Seashells," a blend of mystery & W.F., set off the coast of ME. 🌲🌊

Obsessions, inheritance, dueling relatives, & Twainian wisdom...

#amquerying #writingcommunity
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Welcome! This is a safe space to share and celebrate each other!
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manuscriptacademy.bsky.social
Our October graphics look so cute! And what a fun month we have planned:

🍂InCOMParable: A New Approach to Comps
🍁Live Panel with Macmillan Editor Christina Lopez
🎃 #MSWL Live Agent Panel: Horror
☎️Publishing Help Desk (for all your un-Google-able questions)

More here! manuscriptacademy.com/calendar
bettebergeron.bsky.social
I just finished the fabulous "How to Read a Book" by Monica Wood (amazing Maine author!). 🦜📚🌲

My favorite quote... "And the book, the unique & unrepeatable book, doesn't exist until the given reader meets the writer on the page."

Have a great weekend #writingcommunity! 🖋️

#amquerying #booksky
bettebergeron.bsky.social
In honor of World Postcard Day, I found an antique card of my hometown in Maine (downtown looks exactly the same, except for the dirt road...). 🌲🌊😀

I wonder what glorious stories these old cards could tell?

Happy posting, #writingcommunity! ✍️

#writesky #booksky #amquerying #amwriting
Antique postcard of downtown Thomaston, Maine
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Welcome! This is a very supportive community!!
bettebergeron.bsky.social
Hang in there... three rejections simply mean you were brave enough to send your creativity out to the world!!
bettebergeron.bsky.social
I agree- a template rejection that was incomplete. So sorry that this happened!
bettebergeron.bsky.social
I met so many amazing authors at the #MWPA "Crime Wave" this weekend (held in an 1800's building thought to be haunted...). 🔎👻

The consistent advice... Aim high--don't give up on chasing our dream! 😀📝📚

#writingcommunity #amquerying #amwriting #writesky
bettebergeron.bsky.social
TGIF #writingcommunity!

Reposting my #agentsguide for "Resisting the Rabbit Hole"-- a women's fiction piece centered on the very real consequences of educational policies of exclusion & censorship (sound familiar?)--w/ a touch of Maine humor and lots of heart! 🍎📚

#amquerying #querying #amwriting
Pitch poster for the women's fiction novel "Resisting the Rabbit Hole"
bettebergeron.bsky.social
Congratulations! That's huge news!!
bettebergeron.bsky.social
By happy accident (it's YA not Adult), I picked up Samira Ahmed's amazing "This Book Won't Burn." I'd definitely recommend it for anyone- of any age- who advocates for the incredible power of books. 📚

So timely... especially now!

#booksky #amwriting #amquerying #writingcommunity
Jacket cover from Samira Ahmed's book "This Book Won't Burn"
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Countdown is on... to the #MWPA Crime Wave! Can't wait for the roundtables (so many to choose), speed connections, coffee, book slam, author panel, more coffee, & interview w/ Paul Doiron (followed by more coffee)!☕

#amquerying #mysterywriters #writingcommunity

www.mainewriters.org/maine-crime-...
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emckinnon.bsky.social
Full card, anyone? 🤪🤪

#amwriting #amquerying #amediting #writingcommunity
bettebergeron.bsky.social
One of my favorite books this year! It's hard to find contemporary books about teachers/teaching... that aren't mysteries or RomComs!
bettebergeron.bsky.social
"A novel is not unlike a musical composition in its effect: each word like a music note used with a particular intention." ✒️🎶
--Barbara Shoup

#writesky #writingcommunity #amwriting #amquerying
bettebergeron.bsky.social
I start on my next project! Once I get immersed in a new story, the silence is filled.