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author of LOVE, GODS AND SINNERS (First Ink, Pan Macmillan 2026). snake lover. SG-UK. rep: Lucy Irvine (Peters Fraser + Dunlop). if i get a movie deal i'll buy my followers bubble tea 🗡️

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cam! 🐍 瑷薇 @camiscribbles.bsky.social · Nov 22

sapphic KIM POSSIBLE
Crime leader Harper falls for her assassination target-flatmate, and must now keep her secret identity safe while wooing her enemy-love-of-her-life, ft:
🗡️ sapphic enemies + lovers
🗡️ full asian cast set in singapore
🗡️ "u have to take her out" "...date or kill?"

out 2026 🥹

LOVE GODS AND SINNERS
swordfights-turned-makeouts
asian mythology
support women's wrongs
secret identity shenanigans
enemies to still enemies but in love

a picture of two girls fighting, one with a sword and the other with a dagger

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Natalia Wik is in her ✨querying✨ era @weavinguptales.bsky.social · Feb 1

Woke up to some amazing news. So happy to announce that I’m a RTM mentee and will be working with @camiscribbles.bsky.social! 🥹

Round Table Mentor @roundtablementor.bsky.social · Feb 1

Here are our mentees from the Young Adult category:

Young Adult mentees:

Birdie Schae is mentoring Ornella and Sonja J. Kaye.
Bita Behzadi is mentoring Ethan Rubin.
Camille Chong is mentoring Natalia Wikana.
Cass Biehn is mentoring Cindy Chen.
CL Montblanc is mentoring Rachael Allysa.

Eunice Kim is mentoring L. Amariti.
Helen Z. Dong & Solar Hoàng are mentoring Brian Patrick Byrne.
Jill Tew is mentoring Jada-Kai Meosa John.
Karis Rogerson is mentoring Melonie.
Laura Galán-Wells is mentoring Shylin (Shaye).

Noelle Monét is mentoring Ashley B.
Olivia Sun & Vishaka Sriram are mentoring FT Zahra.
Raven Traylor is mentoring Kimani Key.
Samantha Chong is mentoring Briana O'Neal.
Sofia Aves is mentoring Emily Bennett and Megan McCuen Witt.

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cam! 🐍 瑷薇 @camiscribbles.bsky.social · Feb 2

Natalia's story is fun, vibrant, and I could sense its potential from the very first page! I can't wait to work with her and get this heartwarming, rompy story out to query <33

Natalia Wik is in her ✨querying✨ era @weavinguptales.bsky.social · Feb 1

Woke up to some amazing news. So happy to announce that I’m a RTM mentee and will be working with @camiscribbles.bsky.social! 🥹

Round Table Mentor @roundtablementor.bsky.social · Feb 1

Here are our mentees from the Young Adult category:

cam! 🐍 瑷薇 @camiscribbles.bsky.social · Dec 19

wish I could go out and conduct research for my book, but that would require a level of kissing girls and gratuitous violence that would get me exiled from institutions

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cam! 🐍 瑷薇 @camiscribbles.bsky.social · Dec 18

at the airport yesterday and let someone's oppo headphones connect to my phone. played them yang jeongin's HALLUCINATION for a good few seconds before they cut our connection </3

cam! 🐍 瑷薇 @camiscribbles.bsky.social · Nov 25

occasional raw urge to agree to connect to a random pair of headphones in the bus so someone else can listen to my light and saviour han jisung with me

cam! 🐍 瑷薇 @camiscribbles.bsky.social · Dec 18

yes

Round Table Mentor @roundtablementor.bsky.social · Dec 18

Applicants, be sure to check your inboxes and spam folders--full requests have started going out, and the mentors are eager to read!

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cam! 🐍 瑷薇 @camiscribbles.bsky.social · Dec 17

also fyi that i'm talking about fulls now but we're still deep in the process of selection and even just initial scanning so please don't worry if you haven't received a request yet!

cam! 🐍 瑷薇 @camiscribbles.bsky.social · Dec 17

just wanted to let roundtable mentees know that mentors are just as excited to receive your fulls as you are to receive a request...like tell me why i'm refreshing my google drive like this

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cam! 🐍 瑷薇 @camiscribbles.bsky.social · Dec 15

reading roundtable mentor submissions and i'm literally frothing at the mouth...everyone's so talented

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Round Table Mentor @roundtablementor.bsky.social · Dec 14

Round Table Mentor matches unpublished authors seeking trad or indie routes with experienced writers who provide editorial and career guidance. It's 100% free!

Just 24 hours left to get your application in! Mentee applications close at 12 noon EST on December 15th. Go to our website to apply now!

Mentee applications close tomorrow, 12pm EST. roundtablementor.com/apply

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cam! 🐍 瑷薇 @camiscribbles.bsky.social · Dec 12

and if you're reading this, fortunately we do have a mentorship currently accepting submissions!! i'll be a mentor in this one accepting YA/NA/Adult scripts across multiple genres, and i'm so excited to be a support to you as a querier, writer and person! www.roundtablementor.com/apply

Apply — Round Table Mentor

www.roundtablementor.com

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cam! 🐍 瑷薇 @camiscribbles.bsky.social · Dec 12

as a writer who was backed by community both from twitter and my mentor, i feel horrible knowing that new/young querying writers dont have the same resources. with that said PLEASE apply to Roundtable Mentor! not getting in doesn't mean anything, but getting in could do you a world of good <3

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cam! 🐍 瑷薇 @camiscribbles.bsky.social · Dec 12

all my mentee friends are still friends with their mentors, and your mentor is both a career and emotional support through the horrible experience of querying. of course, thousands of authors succeed without a mentorship. but i'm saying please give it a shot !!

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cam! 🐍 瑷薇 @camiscribbles.bsky.social · Dec 12

it's not even about the book editing - you'll grow as a writer to edit your own book. you can have friends to beta read. but a mentorship is extremely useful for industry information, for knowing how to act with agents, learning query etiquette and avoiding red flags that could hurt your career.

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cam! 🐍 瑷薇 @camiscribbles.bsky.social · Dec 12

want that for our new generation of writers. i feel so bad that this is the community you get. this is why mentorships are SO important. it links you up to a writer with experience, who's been screened and who has actual experience. it gives you information that the old grapevine could've given you.

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cam! 🐍 瑷薇 @camiscribbles.bsky.social · Dec 12

simply put, the careful grapevine of information for publishing and querying broke. it took two years, and it eroded slowly enough that we didn't quite realise it was gone until it was.
but i've seen the horrible querying advice and practices boosted by engagement farming on twitter. i DON'T-

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cam! 🐍 瑷薇 @camiscribbles.bsky.social · Dec 12

blue-check click baiters and people who paid for verification and 'expertise', not people who've earned it. the broken twitter algorithm favours those who've paid, and misinformation runs rampant - about publishing, about querying. the community, overrun by bots, no longer connects organically.

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cam! 🐍 瑷薇 @camiscribbles.bsky.social · Dec 12

THE IMPORTANCE OF MENTORSHIPS (for querying writers):
let me paint a picture - circa 2022-2024. the biggest mentorships have just died. the biggest vessel of community for publishing and writers, AKA twitter, has sunk. writing info threads are dominated by-

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cam! 🐍 瑷薇 @camiscribbles.bsky.social · Dec 12

WHY YOU SHOULD APPLY TO A WRITING MENTORSHIP (ft the old guard of mentorships, my experience as a mentee, and Roundtable Mentor)

in 2022, I was a mentee hopeful with a manuscript that would later become my debut novel. Why did i choose to do a mentorship?

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cam! 🐍 瑷薇 @camiscribbles.bsky.social · Dec 11

as a young author...both these interviews had me frothing at the mouth like people do not get me like this artist trajectory does...it is part of my foundation

cam! 🐍 瑷薇 @camiscribbles.bsky.social · Dec 11

han jisung 2019 to 2024...im bringing my obsession to bsky bc yall don't get him like i do...young artist overcompensating for his inexperience in a horrible industry and pushing his creative boundaries vs finding himself and overcoming the glaring imposter syndrome oh im SICK

screenshot of a man saying 'but i can't get out of work because i'm anxious. people like me can't take a break because they feel empty'

young man in a black shirt saying 'i became much healthier. i let go of many negative things. back then, not being able to sleep felt different from having trouble sleeping now'

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cam! 🐍 瑷薇 @camiscribbles.bsky.social · Dec 11

4 more days to apply to the excellent mentors at RTM...as a former mentee of a writing mentorship, i can't emphasize enough the support that a mentorship offers. you have peers, a mentor, querying resources and a community through the thick of it all. this is a great opportunity for all writers!!

Round Table Mentor @roundtablementor.bsky.social · Dec 11

Apps for Round Table Mentor close this Sunday Dec 15th at 12pm Eastern time! How did writing your synopsis go/how is it going?
#WritingCommunity

Image: Muppet Pepe in apron looks dismayed. Text: Realizing RTM apps close in 4 days and I still have to write my synopsis

Image: Three dragons with text above each. Left two dragons look sinister and serious. Right dragon is making a silly face and sticking his tongue out. Text above each dragon left to right: My Manuscript - My Query Letter - My Synopsis

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cam! 🐍 瑷薇 @camiscribbles.bsky.social · Dec 11

hit a new level of comfort in my house (going to the toilet without turning any lights on)

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cam! 🐍 瑷薇 @camiscribbles.bsky.social · Dec 8

I've been using goodreads less but I got an email from them announcing the winners of the awards and I was like...whew

cam! 🐍 瑷薇 @camiscribbles.bsky.social · Dec 7

when the same white authors are allowed to dominate the charts over and over again in categories like fantasy or romance, it pushes bipoc/marginalised stories out of the limelight and gives those stories so little chance to get popular

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cam! 🐍 瑷薇 @camiscribbles.bsky.social · Dec 7

i know goodreads has stopped becoming our touchstone of quality, but it's still a pretty big marketing feature for many authors and still one of the biggest reader databases. many bipoc/marginalised stories rely on being in popular genre markets for publishers to take a chance on them, and-

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