Margery Bayne is querying
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Queer sci-fi & fantasy romance author (Hades & Persephone retelling in the query trenches) • Librarian • Writing craft for emotionally powerful stories. she/her 🖤🩶🤍💜@margerybayne on Medium.
November was one of the lowest writing months I've had in a long time. A major car accident derailed my life for a while followed by a funeral and the holidays (Thanksgiving and my sister's birthday). Trying to resettle and recenter for December before the holidays shake everything up again.
December 5, 2025 at 2:15 AM
November was one of the lowest writing months I've had in a long time. A major car accident derailed my life for a while followed by a funeral and the holidays (Thanksgiving and my sister's birthday). Trying to resettle and recenter for December before the holidays shake everything up again.
It's the time of the year for wrap-ups and best-ofs. Here's my best books of the year:
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Best Books of 2025: My Top Reads of the Year
Highlights from a year in reading; here are my book recommendations
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December 4, 2025 at 9:37 PM
It's the time of the year for wrap-ups and best-ofs. Here's my best books of the year:
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#BookRecs #ReadsOfTheYear
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I'm going to work on a spin-off short story in the Safe Haven universe. Different characters, expanded setting and worldbuilding, same romantic yearning.
#AmWriting #AmQuerying
#AmWriting #AmQuerying
December 4, 2025 at 2:18 PM
I'm going to work on a spin-off short story in the Safe Haven universe. Different characters, expanded setting and worldbuilding, same romantic yearning.
#AmWriting #AmQuerying
#AmWriting #AmQuerying
From Safe Haven:
Distantly, he heard the front door open, hanging there, letting cold air and city sounds inside, and then closing again, leaving the restaurant quieter for all those who had exited.
#WIPSnips #WritingPrompt #AmQuerying
Distantly, he heard the front door open, hanging there, letting cold air and city sounds inside, and then closing again, leaving the restaurant quieter for all those who had exited.
#WIPSnips #WritingPrompt #AmQuerying
December 4, 2025 at 2:17 PM
From Safe Haven:
Distantly, he heard the front door open, hanging there, letting cold air and city sounds inside, and then closing again, leaving the restaurant quieter for all those who had exited.
#WIPSnips #WritingPrompt #AmQuerying
Distantly, he heard the front door open, hanging there, letting cold air and city sounds inside, and then closing again, leaving the restaurant quieter for all those who had exited.
#WIPSnips #WritingPrompt #AmQuerying
I love queer romance books in speculative settings (sci-fi, fantasy, etc.) What are your recs?
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#BookSky #WriteSky #IndieAuthors
December 3, 2025 at 9:37 PM
I love queer romance books in speculative settings (sci-fi, fantasy, etc.) What are your recs?
#BookSky #WriteSky #IndieAuthors
#BookSky #WriteSky #IndieAuthors
Why would the readers care if they get together or not?
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The Two Most Important Questions Every Romance Writer Must Ask
Whether you are writing a romance, period, or a romantic subplot within a book of another genre, these questions apply. They are rather…
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December 3, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Why would the readers care if they get together or not?
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Note to self... if you can't find your favorite earrings, check you travel makeup bag. You just never unpacked it three months ago.
November 25, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Note to self... if you can't find your favorite earrings, check you travel makeup bag. You just never unpacked it three months ago.
From Safe Haven:
It felt like he kept trying to edge Haven into a corner from one direction, then the next, then the next. To trap him into vulnerability? Honesty?
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It felt like he kept trying to edge Haven into a corner from one direction, then the next, then the next. To trap him into vulnerability? Honesty?
#WIPSnips #WritingPrompt
November 21, 2025 at 7:10 PM
From Safe Haven:
It felt like he kept trying to edge Haven into a corner from one direction, then the next, then the next. To trap him into vulnerability? Honesty?
#WIPSnips #WritingPrompt
It felt like he kept trying to edge Haven into a corner from one direction, then the next, then the next. To trap him into vulnerability? Honesty?
#WIPSnips #WritingPrompt
From Safe Haven:
From couch to armchair, Bliss and Bennie shared a couple look, knowing in their own special language. Perry’s stomach squirmed.
#WIPSnips #WritingPrompt
From couch to armchair, Bliss and Bennie shared a couple look, knowing in their own special language. Perry’s stomach squirmed.
#WIPSnips #WritingPrompt
November 20, 2025 at 2:02 PM
From Safe Haven:
From couch to armchair, Bliss and Bennie shared a couple look, knowing in their own special language. Perry’s stomach squirmed.
#WIPSnips #WritingPrompt
From couch to armchair, Bliss and Bennie shared a couple look, knowing in their own special language. Perry’s stomach squirmed.
#WIPSnips #WritingPrompt
This is our blue promise,
Satin as the evening breeze
- a poem
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Satin as the evening breeze
- a poem
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Blue Promise
A poem of the nighttime sky
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November 19, 2025 at 9:37 PM
This is our blue promise,
Satin as the evening breeze
- a poem
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#Poem #Poetry #QuickReads #WriteSky
Satin as the evening breeze
- a poem
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#Poem #Poetry #QuickReads #WriteSky
From Safe Haven:
A generous interpretation was that Haven was giving the friends space to catch up; a less generous one would be that he was avoiding being relegated to third-wheel status in his own home.
#WIPSnips #WritingPrompt
A generous interpretation was that Haven was giving the friends space to catch up; a less generous one would be that he was avoiding being relegated to third-wheel status in his own home.
#WIPSnips #WritingPrompt
November 19, 2025 at 2:29 PM
From Safe Haven:
A generous interpretation was that Haven was giving the friends space to catch up; a less generous one would be that he was avoiding being relegated to third-wheel status in his own home.
#WIPSnips #WritingPrompt
A generous interpretation was that Haven was giving the friends space to catch up; a less generous one would be that he was avoiding being relegated to third-wheel status in his own home.
#WIPSnips #WritingPrompt
My full manuscript request ended with a rejection. Sigh. Back to the querying trenches. #AmQuerying
November 18, 2025 at 3:24 PM
My full manuscript request ended with a rejection. Sigh. Back to the querying trenches. #AmQuerying
From Safe Haven:
It made Haven want something — selfishly — more than he had wanted anything in a very long time. He wanted to keep spending his time under Perry’s attention.
#WIPSnips #WritingPrompt
It made Haven want something — selfishly — more than he had wanted anything in a very long time. He wanted to keep spending his time under Perry’s attention.
#WIPSnips #WritingPrompt
Welcome to a new week of #WIPSnips
The word for November 17th is "spend"
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The word for November 17th is "spend"
#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts
November 17, 2025 at 11:22 PM
From Safe Haven:
It made Haven want something — selfishly — more than he had wanted anything in a very long time. He wanted to keep spending his time under Perry’s attention.
#WIPSnips #WritingPrompt
It made Haven want something — selfishly — more than he had wanted anything in a very long time. He wanted to keep spending his time under Perry’s attention.
#WIPSnips #WritingPrompt
Nothing like having the insurance agency of the truck that rear-ended you in an at-fault state with a witness and a driver who admitted fault multiple times completely ghost you. (Been having a bad week)
November 11, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Nothing like having the insurance agency of the truck that rear-ended you in an at-fault state with a witness and a driver who admitted fault multiple times completely ghost you. (Been having a bad week)
I've read a lot of the Great Gatsby retellings since it went into the public domain and I find it interesting how long most of them are compared to the original. Just a testament to how effective the original less than 50k words of the original were.
November 10, 2025 at 2:27 PM
I've read a lot of the Great Gatsby retellings since it went into the public domain and I find it interesting how long most of them are compared to the original. Just a testament to how effective the original less than 50k words of the original were.
From Safe Haven:
Warning sirens beeped with each movement as an excavator dug into silty dirt, the shouts of a dozen construction workers calling back and forth filled the air, and yet Verity spoke more than loud enough to be heard.
#WIPSnips #WritingPrompt
Warning sirens beeped with each movement as an excavator dug into silty dirt, the shouts of a dozen construction workers calling back and forth filled the air, and yet Verity spoke more than loud enough to be heard.
#WIPSnips #WritingPrompt
November 7, 2025 at 4:45 PM
From Safe Haven:
Warning sirens beeped with each movement as an excavator dug into silty dirt, the shouts of a dozen construction workers calling back and forth filled the air, and yet Verity spoke more than loud enough to be heard.
#WIPSnips #WritingPrompt
Warning sirens beeped with each movement as an excavator dug into silty dirt, the shouts of a dozen construction workers calling back and forth filled the air, and yet Verity spoke more than loud enough to be heard.
#WIPSnips #WritingPrompt
Creativity is a renewable resource. 💖
November 7, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Creativity is a renewable resource. 💖
A brand new short story about a road trip, a friendship, and lose.
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#WriteSky #ShortStory #ShortFiction
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#WriteSky #ShortStory #ShortFiction
Mile Markers, or All You Leave Behind is Ashes
A short story about grief, friendship, and road trips
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November 6, 2025 at 4:14 PM
A brand new short story about a road trip, a friendship, and lose.
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#WriteSky #ShortStory #ShortFiction
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#WriteSky #ShortStory #ShortFiction
A brand new short story about a road trip, a friendship, and lose.
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#WriteSky #ShortStory #ShortFiction
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#WriteSky #ShortStory #ShortFiction
Mile Markers, or All You Leave Behind is Ashes
A short story about grief, friendship, and road trips
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November 6, 2025 at 2:27 PM
A brand new short story about a road trip, a friendship, and lose.
medium.com/intangibleth...
#WriteSky #ShortStory #ShortFiction
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#WriteSky #ShortStory #ShortFiction
Where are the main places you get reading recs from? For me, from friends/family, from what my friends are reading and reviewing on goodreads, library browsing (I'm a librarian, so this happens every day), searching for books with specific tropes, archtypes, or readalikes to books I like.
November 5, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Where are the main places you get reading recs from? For me, from friends/family, from what my friends are reading and reviewing on goodreads, library browsing (I'm a librarian, so this happens every day), searching for books with specific tropes, archtypes, or readalikes to books I like.
But Sincere, his best friend... His shoulder to lean on, cry on, vent to, who was always ready to lie and say Perry was with them when he wasn’t, and always amicable to Perry trailing off mid-conversation to start scribbling out a new plant theory.
#WIPSnips #WritingPrompt
#WIPSnips #WritingPrompt
November 5, 2025 at 2:10 PM
But Sincere, his best friend... His shoulder to lean on, cry on, vent to, who was always ready to lie and say Perry was with them when he wasn’t, and always amicable to Perry trailing off mid-conversation to start scribbling out a new plant theory.
#WIPSnips #WritingPrompt
#WIPSnips #WritingPrompt
The aestetic value of owning an old fashioned typewriter sharply declines when you have to move it. 😬
November 4, 2025 at 11:49 PM
The aestetic value of owning an old fashioned typewriter sharply declines when you have to move it. 😬
I used to only write stories chronlogically (probably because I started with fanfic where you push serially), now I jump all around the place in my first draft. It's a patchwork quilt that I make make sense later. #WritSky #WritingCommunity
November 4, 2025 at 2:27 PM
I used to only write stories chronlogically (probably because I started with fanfic where you push serially), now I jump all around the place in my first draft. It's a patchwork quilt that I make make sense later. #WritSky #WritingCommunity