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Caitlyn Averett @craverett.bsky.social · 2d

Excited to be part of the 2025-2026 mentor group! Stay tuned for our MSWLs, coming soon!

Round Table Mentor @roundtablementor.bsky.social · 2d

We are SO excited to announce our 2025-2026 Round Table Mentors! The talent, dedication, and energy of this team is simply incredible.

Full bios and wishlists will be up on our website soon!

📢🗓️For interested parties—mentee applications open Nov. 6, so mark your calendars!

Mentors Part 1:
Molly McDonough
Deena Helm
Julie Lew
Megan Bontrager
Seren Kilig
Natalie Kikić
Deandra Davis
Christie Curry
Eunice Kim
Carmeline Melchior
Corvin A. Doupagne
Rachel Kitch
Samantha Chong
Fatiha Rais
Shepard DiStasio
Thea Liu
Damara Allen
Karis Rogerson

Mentors Part 2:
Julie Hafsa Derbal
Tali Shammas
Lilly Lu
Cassy Klisch
Camille Chong
Bayley Mae
Amanda Helander
Libby Kennedy
Taylor Pitts
Shaina Cordas
J.D. Myall
Asia Murphy
Grace Morrow
Meredith Mooring
Ellen Mulholland
Chantel Pearson
Stephanie Kim Johnson
Caitlyn Averett
Sabina Martin

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Round Table Mentor @roundtablementor.bsky.social · 2d

We are SO excited to announce our 2025-2026 Round Table Mentors! The talent, dedication, and energy of this team is simply incredible.

Full bios and wishlists will be up on our website soon!

📢🗓️For interested parties—mentee applications open Nov. 6, so mark your calendars!

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Caitlyn Averett @craverett.bsky.social · Aug 25

I’m most active on Instagram if you want to see more stuff like this!

Caitlyn Averett @craverett.bsky.social · Aug 25

StoryGraph 🔗 here: app.thestorygraph.com/books/d51f5c...

Not Your Typical Love Story by C.R. Averett

A debut YA romance pitched as You've Got Mail meets Loveless, about a pair of aroace-spec (asexua...

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Caitlyn Averett @craverett.bsky.social · Aug 25

Goodreads 🔗 here: www.goodreads.com/book/show/22...

Not Your Typical Love Story

A debut YA romance pitched as You've Got Mail meets Lov…

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Caitlyn Averett @craverett.bsky.social · Aug 25

Over on my Instagram people voted for what they wanted to see in celebration of my debut reaching 100 adds on Goodreads…and the winner was the first vs final opening! So here’s my cringy opening compared to the final—and a few other variations that existed along the way.

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neb.txt: 18 days to halloween🍉 @nebulouswrites.com · Jun 27

🖤 it's time to reveal the cover of Black As Diamond~!

Black As Diamond is a dark fantasy about breaking a curse, finding yourself—and complicated relationships with mothers.

learn more here: nebulouswrites.com#books

(art by christian chang & design by charlotte strick)

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LGBTQReads @lgbtqreads.bsky.social · Jun 13

Most Anticipated LGBTQ+ Young Adult Fiction: July-December 2025

After We Burned by Marieke Nijkamp (July 1st) A terrible accident. A horrible loss. A regrettable tragedy. That's all anyone in Fenix can talk about when a fire consumes the local high school, taking the life of a student. The town…

Most Anticipated LGBTQ+ Young Adult Fiction: July-December 2025

After We Burned by Marieke Nijkamp (July 1st) A terrible accident. A horrible loss. A regrettable tragedy. That's all anyone in Fenix can talk about when a fire consumes the local high school, taking the life of a student. The town mourns, except who really knew―let alone cared about―Eden when she was alive? And why was she in the building that night?

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LGBTQReads @lgbtqreads.bsky.social · Jun 16

Most Anticipated LGBTQ+ Adult Fiction: July-December 2025

Once again, Romance will have its own post later this week! Today's post is sponsored by Janelle Cressida and her brand-new m/m fantasy romance, Son of the Moon, on sale now for $2.99! Some acts of kindness change more than just one life...…

Most Anticipated LGBTQ+ Adult Fiction: July-December 2025

Once again, Romance will have its own post later this week! Today's post is sponsored by Janelle Cressida and her brand-new m/m fantasy romance, Son of the Moon, on sale now for $2.99! Some acts of kindness change more than just one life... Buy it: Amazon *** Hot Girls With Balls by Benedict Nguyen (July 1st) Six is 6′7″, scheming to rejoin the starting lineup, and barely checks her phone.

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Caitlyn Averett @craverett.bsky.social · Apr 6

*goes to see other post* okay I’m even more excited for it now!

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Caitlyn Averett @craverett.bsky.social · Apr 6

Yay! I’m also excited about it and don’t know anything other than that it’s an ace book 😆

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sarah l. hawthorn (A FATE WORSE THAN DROWNING '26) @slhawthorn.bsky.social · Apr 4

If you hate everyone, eat a snack.
If you think everyone hates you, take a nap.
If you hate yourself, take a shower.

If you hate your book, maybe it's time for an editing break 💙👀

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Caitlyn Averett @craverett.bsky.social · Apr 3

To clarify: 4 color = any book printing with full color interiors ie picture books, graphic novels, that kind of thing. 1 color books are anything with black (ie 1 color) text like a novel (even with a full color jacket/cover, it’s still considered a 1c book), and are typically printing domestic.

Caitlyn Averett @craverett.bsky.social · Apr 3

This sounds super scary & yes part of it IS, but not ALL books print overseas—ONLY 4 color books. & publishers aren’t passively accepting tariffs. They’re doing all they can to minimize the costs on anything that does ship from China. So yes it’s scary & bad, but authors shouldn’t feel hopeless!

Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · Apr 3

Incidentally, since almost all the physical books from major publishers in the US are printed in China, that probably just increased the price by 50%, which massively lowers sales and means publishers will do much smaller print runs.

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Rosiee "Captain" Thor @rosieethor.bsky.social · Mar 31

Submissions are OPEN!!

If you’re a new/emerging aromantic author of YA fiction, @madelinedyer.bsky.social and I would love to see you in the inbox! Full submission guidelines here:

madelinedyer.co.uk/call-for-sub...

Text reads: open call for submissions. Seeking new and emerging writers of young adult aromantic short fiction. Submission period from March 31st-April 28th. Link to application and guidelines in bio. This is a paid opportunity.

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Caitlyn Averett @craverett.bsky.social · Mar 22

Working in publishing is forgetting the word “BISAC” & being so annoyed bc no it’s not “keywords,” it’s the other thing…WHICH I SHOULD KNOW.

Luckily I remembered a few minutes later but oof that was annoying. Like pre-google days bc I couldn’t even figure out what to search to help me remember 😆

Caitlyn Averett @craverett.bsky.social · Mar 2

…and so no matter what does or doesn’t happen with this new book, it won’t be my debut, yet everything before this was written in the mindset of “maybe THIS will be my debut???” And suddenly things have shifted, which is very cool but also still very strange and new. 4/4

Caitlyn Averett @craverett.bsky.social · Mar 2

…but while NYTLS has my heart in one way, this new book has my heart in another way, and I’m so excited to see where it goes from here.

Drafting this book has been an interesting experience because it’s the first thing I’ve written since getting a book deal… 3/4

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Caitlyn Averett @craverett.bsky.social · Mar 2

This book has a long way to go—and ah, a couple thousand words to cut—but editing is the easy part for me.

It’s always daunting starting a new story after pouring yourself into the last one, and at the beginning, part of me always wonders if I’ll like the next one as much… 2/4

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Caitlyn Averett @craverett.bsky.social · Mar 2

And with that, the draft of my new YA romcom is done—phew! 92k words in a month (I mean, *close* to a month. Technically started 1/31 & February was short…but hey! Math is for my day job). My brain is a bit 🫠 but I’m happy to have it down on paper! 1/4

#amwriting #author #writingcommunity #writing

Computer screen showing document that says THE END, and 92,764 words

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Caitlyn Averett @craverett.bsky.social · Mar 1

Thanks! I’m trying at least, haha.

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Caitlyn Averett @craverett.bsky.social · Mar 1

So ace/aro relationships can work all sorts of ways, they’re just going to be a little different than what people typically think of as a “relationship,” but with equally meaningful connections & love for someone as any other relationship. It’s hard to sum up in a short space—there are so many ways!

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Caitlyn Averett @craverett.bsky.social · Mar 1

Well, it’s a spectrum so there’s no one answer. But my book explores the “requirements” we think of for a relationship & the different types of love that are often overlooked in the mainstream view of “romantic love,” & queer platonic relationships/how there are many different ways to love.

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Caitlyn Averett @craverett.bsky.social · Mar 1

Me with like, both main characters in my debut book oops…One particular unintentional character trait was a whole ~thing~

Maybe I’ll talk more about it one day but it took an author friend being like “is this character…?” and me being like “um he wasn’t supposed to be but I guess he is…?”

dean @mrwonderclown.bsky.social · Mar 1

boy howdy do i hate when a character study fic suddenly turns into projection and then i’m learning things about myself i never wanted to know

Caitlyn Averett @craverett.bsky.social · Mar 1

Thank you! 😊