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maggie @maggiesbooks.bsky.social · 4d

Excited to share "Dating Swamp" an upmarket novel I've been hard at work editing over the last week. Inspired by "Four Weddings and a Funeral" and "Bridget Jones' Diary," this take on modern dating culture and zillennial weddings isn't quite a love story. #writingcommunity #amwriting

an agent’s guide to
Dating Swamp
upmarket fiction

the pitch
Madi has a plan: if she doesn’t fall in love by Labour Day, she’s moving to London.

As she moves through a summer of her friends’ draining wedding events, Madi meets the sweet, charming Felix and reconnects with her charismatic ex, Jonah, with whom she has unfinished business. When the two find out about each other, they are both unwilling to let Madi go. An obssessive Jonah insists she date both of them, turning a harmless love triangle into a chaotic arrangement.

Will Madi choose Felix, Jonah, a new life in London, or some of the above?

Comps
bitter texas honey: Snarky third-person narration
magnolia parks: A twisty love triangle
Social engagement: Upmarket millennial wedding satire

first lines
Madelyn didn’t think she was one of the monsters in the dating swamp. An ex-tennis player and employed, she thought she was a diamond in the muck. But she hadn’t had a second date in over a year now, and she wondered if she had a rotten personality or if the men were the problem.

Madi didn’t catch the bouquet at Sydney’s wedding. She missed it because she was drunk on white wine and watered-down Aperol Spritz wandering around the venue.

maggie @maggiesbooks.bsky.social · 12h

My sequel is from the guy’s pov

maggie @maggiesbooks.bsky.social · 12h

It wasn’t so I wrote a sequel just for myself #writingq

Susan Savage Lee @susansavagelee.bsky.social · 15h

Do you ever feel like your story is truly finished? I just don’t. That doesn’t mean I work on it forever, but… #writingq #WritingCommunity

maggie @maggiesbooks.bsky.social · 16h

Why would the 20 year old reading it want that? That’s the big question

maggie @maggiesbooks.bsky.social · 16h

I almost want to set the camp book on the early 2000s and have Sage go to an Internet cafe to send pics to her crush. I might be watching a little too much Degrassi though because there’s no point in making it ‘historical’ #writingcommunity

maggie @maggiesbooks.bsky.social · 19h

currently working on an upmarket story where they're in a triad for a while. both of them are right for her diff ways. one is her ex. they end up together when the ex doesn't want her to date the other guy so he suggests they just combine since she won't give him up. a why choose? . #writingprompt

Ian Haramaki 🏳️‍⚧️✨ @cometkins.bsky.social · 19h

Tell me about the Romance you’ve written! What is the pair/polycule like? What made them right for each other? How did they get there? #WritingPrompt

maggie @maggiesbooks.bsky.social · 20h

every summer after, the summer i turned pretty trilogy

#WritingLifeMonthly #writingcommunity #BookSky #BookSky💙📚 #authorchat

Tracey Lee @traceyleewrites.bsky.social · 1d

📚 #WritingLifeMonthly October Day 09 📚

This one's not just a book you love, but one that makes you want to write. It could be fiction or non-fiction. What about it inspires you?

#writingcommunity #BookSky #BookSky💙📚 #authorchat

October #writinglifemonthly Day 09 Tell us about a book that inspired your own writing.
Build Community - Share. Like.Comment in Group. @traceyleewrites

maggie @maggiesbooks.bsky.social · 20h

The #WIPSnips word for October 9th is "battery"

#WriteSky #WritingPrompts #WritingCommunity

“And you’re not texting anyone?”

“Do we have to have this conversation again? No, you can look at my phone.” He pulled his phone out from the charger.

maggie @maggiesbooks.bsky.social · 1d

this sounds so good!

maggie @maggiesbooks.bsky.social · 1d

I think querying something with a love triangle that turns into a triad that’s not a romance is gonna be a hard road. I don’t know what I did with NOTWR that made it the queen of the maybe pile. #amquerying

maggie @maggiesbooks.bsky.social · 1d

If you love someone, let them go. If they show up at your sister's wedding, what could possibly go wrong?

A chance to make things right is not what it seems when one of the exes has a secret that will fuel the fire's of the other's insecurities.

#dvpit #a #wf

man and woman sitting on a rock

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

woman floating in water

maggie @maggiesbooks.bsky.social · 1d

Page 120 was all nsfw

maggie @maggiesbooks.bsky.social · 1d

Felix and Madi were both borderline wasted, but not the kind of drunk where they would forget about each other tomorrow. Madi didn’t do that at weddings where her parents were guests. They were the perfect kind of intoxicated one was supposed to be at their best friend’s wedding.

#writingq

Shadow Spark Publishing @shadowsparkpub.bsky.social · 1d

It's Hump Day, folks, and our friend demands a sacrifice. Let's get a page from your wip. Maybe it's the middle for you? Give us a line from PAGE 120

Haven't gotten to page yet? How about just 12, then?

#Wednesday #HumpDay #indieauthors #WritingCommunity #booksky #writesky #writingq 🪐📚💙

Wednesday Hump Day

The judgey-est camel you have ever seen

maggie @maggiesbooks.bsky.social · 1d

For the readers lol!

maggie @maggiesbooks.bsky.social · 1d

Such a cute feel good story!

maggie @maggiesbooks.bsky.social · 1d

This looks fun!

maggie @maggiesbooks.bsky.social · 1d

Dream setting

maggie @maggiesbooks.bsky.social · 1d

I am FALLing for Chloe and freyas chemistry

maggie @maggiesbooks.bsky.social · 1d

They are my nicolandria ❤️

maggie @maggiesbooks.bsky.social · 1d

She should think again about her worst fear maybe

maggie @maggiesbooks.bsky.social · 1d

Loved the great alone

maggie @maggiesbooks.bsky.social · 1d

Not a romance, but a love story: When Madelyn tries to choose between her ex, a promising new suitor and moving to London, she finds herself dating both men together. She's bitten off more than she can chew, and when the fighting escalates, she must choose the path that puts herself first. #DVPit #A

woman hanging over a tennis net

maggie @maggiesbooks.bsky.social · 1d

Love a Berlin setting

maggie @maggiesbooks.bsky.social · 1d

EVERY SUMMER AFTER X HAPPY PLACE

When exes reunite at wedding 10 years after tragedy tore them apart, old wounds reopen and they must decide if their love story was real or if they're just yearning for nostalgia and ignoring their broken trust. #dvpit #wf #a

woman standing in a body of water

maggie @maggiesbooks.bsky.social · 1d

I wish it was that easy