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she/they 🏳️‍🌈

📖 in the query trenches
☕️ obsessed w/ yummy bevs
👩‍⚖️ law school applicant

so excited to meet everyone!! i’m ALWAYS looking for recs so pls share :))

i’d also love to swap query critiques! i want to see your lovely books in the world ♥️
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tara @tarakazhani.bsky.social · Jan 27
THIS GIRL’S A KILLER x MEXICAN GOTHIC

A gritty speculative thriller in which a socially bereft pre-med student must team up with her academic nemesis to prove that she didn’t kill her classmate — unless, of course, she did.

#A #T #M #SPF #2025Pit #queer #POC
Photos of Orange County, California in a blue-and-orange collage. From left to right, top to bottom: UCI’s campus, a building in downtown Orange, a pair of palm trees on Newport Beach, a girl standing in front of the ocean at night, a street sign for San Joaquin Hills, a bird’s-eye view of a burning log, mist-ridden trees towering over campus apartments, a road at night, and a silhouette standing in front of an orange sunset.
tarakazhani.bsky.social
a DC attorney tried to threaten georgetown law with a hiring freeze if georgetown didn’t “abolish DEI” (??!)

the dean basically told him to stfu & the interactions on the gtown law student discord are giving me LIFE. the sass? the wit? the intellectual outrage?
March 7, 2025 at 11:31 PM
tarakazhani.bsky.social
i feel like i’ve experienced a million new life plot twists in the last 24 hrs INCLUDING

-query stuff

-acceptance into a t12 law school (yay!!) and a scholarship from a t14 (double yay!!)

-almost got wrecked this morning when a car crossed oncoming traffic & veered head-on into me
March 6, 2025 at 3:17 AM
tarakazhani.bsky.social
not to be cliche but representation is soooo important write that book! interview for that job!!! you never know whose life you’ll change
February 25, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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aoc.bsky.social
It is perfectly legal to know your rights and to educate others about them, too.

EVERYONE in the United States, citizen or not, has rights. I will not allow this administration to intimidate us from helping you know about them.

Here’s our shareable guide ⬇️: (pt. 1/2)
KNOW YOUR RIGHTS IN CASE OF ICE: CONOCE TUS DERECHOS EN CASO DE ENCUENTRO CON ICE: DO NOT OPEN YOUR DOOR. ICE cannot enter your home without a warrant signed by a judge. Tell the agents to show you the warrant by sliding it under the door. NO ABRAS TU PUERTA. ICE no puede entrar a tu casa sin una orden firmada por un juez. Diles a los agentes que te muestren la orden deslizándola debajo de la puerta. ASK THEM TO LEAVE. If ICE doesn't have a warrant, tell them you do not consent for them to enter your home and ask them to leave. At work, ICE cannot enter employee-only areas without permission. 2 PÍDALES QUE SE VAYAN. Si ICE no tiene una orden judicial, diles que no das tu consentimiento para que entren a tu casa y pídeles que se vayan. En el trabajo, ICE no puede ingresar a áreas exclusivas para empleados sin permiso. REMAIN SILENT. You have the right to remain silent. If the agents ask you questions, tell them, "I wish to remain silent." PERMANECE EN SILENCIO. Tienes derecho a permanecer en silencio. Si los agentes te hacen preguntas, diles: "Deseo permanecer en silencio".
February 14, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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erininthemorning.com
Breaking: A federal judge sides with Washington, Oregon, and Minnesota and has just blocked Trump's anti-trans EO banning care under the age of 19 via a TRO.

This is the second federal judge in a row to conclude that the President's EO is likely unconstitutional.
February 14, 2025 at 9:07 PM
tarakazhani.bsky.social
doing my annual reread of red white & royal blue to get myself out of my monthlong reading slump :/

lmk if anyone has similar book recs, i want to laugh! (and maybe cry)
February 12, 2025 at 8:10 AM
tarakazhani.bsky.social
this week i learned that my dad microwaves his cereal
February 8, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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ellenlweintraub.bsky.social
Received a letter from POTUS today purporting to remove me as Commissioner and Chair of the FEC. There's a legal way to replace FEC commissioners-this isn't it. I've been so fortunate to serve the American people and stir up some good trouble along the way. That's not changing anytime soon.
February 6, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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alidavis.bsky.social
I went to my Congressman's local office today. First off, they were surprised that I was there. They said they had been getting phone calls, but I was the first walk-in. That said, the phones were not ringing off the hook. If the DC phone lines are busy, try calling the local office.
February 4, 2025 at 2:36 AM
tarakazhani.bsky.social
im definitely late but i downloaded @5calls.org today and it’s SO useful for calling your reps!!

i swear this isn’t sponsored i’m just type a & a sucker for organized action.
February 1, 2025 at 12:26 AM
tarakazhani.bsky.social
“The night of the murder began with a stroller.”

(my current wip)
charyoung.bsky.social char 𖤓 @charyoung.bsky.social · Jan 31
authors, if you see this, it’s a sign to post the first line of your book

“it begins with a murmur drifting upon the wind.”
gunsmile.bsky.social Ange @gunsmile.bsky.social · Jan 31
Authors, if you see this, it’s a sign to post the first line of your book.

"Robert Panzieri opened his bedroom door and came face-to-face with death."
February 1, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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georgetakei.bsky.social
This is what the government did with 120K+ Japanese Americans in 1942.

I know. I was there in those camps.
January 31, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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erininthemorning.com
Hospital protests have begun for hospitals that are complying with an executive order banning gender affirming care.

The order does NOT have the force of law, but some hospital systems are too scared of trump to defend trans kids in their care.

This one at UVA Hospital.
January 31, 2025 at 10:52 PM
tarakazhani.bsky.social
this was so worth the listen
January 27, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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yavannabrouwer.bsky.social
When taxidermist Ophelia is summoned to 'marry' the sea god, she runs off with a pirate to break her family's vows. But her childhood friend/total bonehead follows to drag her to her drowning death.

Friends2enemies2lovers | found family | crabby mcs 🦀😂

PotC x Wednesday

#YA #RM #F #AA #2025pit
January 27, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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mafbooks.bsky.social
Practical Magic 🪄meets a Bless Me, Ultima.

A psychic teen’s heartbreak drives her to create a love potion, bit it backfires, causing chaos. Guided by Curanderas she journeys to Oaxaca for an antidote where she uncovers family secrets & discovers the strength to rewrite her future

#YA #2025pit
January 27, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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johnwtrevino.bsky.social
🔥 FIX YOU 🔥

🔥 Latina Representation
🔥 Catholic High School
🔥 Enemies to Lovers
🔥 Sapphic Love Triangle
🔥 Slow Burn
🔥 Mental Health Rep
🔥 Passionate Sports Girl
🔥 Serial Killers
🔥 Love Conquers All
🔥 Cooper the Corgi

#2025Pit #YA #agentsguide #litagents
January 27, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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natalielouise83.bsky.social
THE GHOST WOODS meets THE SILENCE FACTORY in WOODBINE, a Gothic thriller in which a lonely stained-glass artist must reassemble the fractured pieces of his memory before a malevolent creeper destroys his last chance at love.

#2025pit #A #HF #T
Title screen of an agent's guide to Woodbine with a floral patterned background Pitch text: The Ghost Woods meets The Silence Factory in Woodbine, a Gothic thriller set in post-war Hampshire, UK, that explores love and nature as twin entities in their power both to heal and destroy. Stained-glass artist Tom Piper has lost his home to the bailiffs, his wife to another man and his daughter to an argument he can’t take back. But redemption comes in the form of Mary Goddard, the enigmatic owner of a crumbling country estate, who is willing to pay any price to restore a set of windows depicting the haunting love story of Tristram and Isolde. After a violent altercation with Mary’s delusional twin sister brings Tom and Mary together, their unlikely friendship quickly blossoms into something more. But when the lunatic sister starts talking sense at the same time as a mysterious creeper proceeds to wreak havoc throughout the house – and upon Tom himself – he is forced to question whether the feelings he has for Mary, and she for him, are the real thing or a madness all their own. Image shows a mood board featuring a fire, a moon on a misty night, a woman looking at herself in a handheld mirror and a grand doorway in a stately home. Comparison titles showing book covers of The Puzzle Wood by Rosie Andrews, The Ghost Woods by CJ Cooke, The Asylum by Karen Coles and The Silence Factory by Bridget Collins. Opening lines of Woodbine: The bride’s face was missing, that was the first thing I noticed. No one had escaped unscathed – the groom had lost everything from the waist down and the witnesses had been obliterated – but the neat hole at the neckline of her dress looked deliberate, as if a child had staved it in with a slingshot after the blast. I suppose that’s almost precisely what happened, though I didn’t know it at the time. I tutted and shook my head. Such a shame. Behind me, my new employer cleared her throat. ‘What do you think? Is there any hope?’
January 27, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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clarissagrunwald.bsky.social
BEAUTYLAND X SOMEONE YOU CAN BUILD A NEST IN

A doppelganger comes of age, and so does her childhood best friend, a monster hunter determined to destroy her.

#2025pit #A #H #F #LGBT
A robin's egg, cracked, revealing blackness. Entitled "Cowbird" An excerpt from the book "Cowbird", on a blurred forest background. The excerpt reads: They find the shells of two cowbird eggs a few days later, broken in the woodpile. One is just cracked, mostly whole. Through the break in the other egg, Valentine can see the cowbird, pinkish, partially-formed. She tries to show Mira, but Mira doesn't want to look. "What do you think happened?" she asks. She puts her face right up to the crack, close enough to see the shape of its beak and one black, lidded-over eye. "Maybe the robin figured it out." Valentine thinks about this. She peeks one more time into the broken shell. Then she drops the whole egg into a gap in the woodpile. "Good," she says.
January 27, 2025 at 6:23 PM
tarakazhani.bsky.social
THIS GIRL’S A KILLER x MEXICAN GOTHIC

A gritty speculative thriller in which a socially bereft pre-med student must team up with her academic nemesis to prove that she didn’t kill her classmate — unless, of course, she did.

#A #T #M #SPF #2025Pit #queer #POC
Photos of Orange County, California in a blue-and-orange collage. From left to right, top to bottom: UCI’s campus, a building in downtown Orange, a pair of palm trees on Newport Beach, a girl standing in front of the ocean at night, a street sign for San Joaquin Hills, a bird’s-eye view of a burning log, mist-ridden trees towering over campus apartments, a road at night, and a silhouette standing in front of an orange sunset.
January 27, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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gabriela-stluke.bsky.social
Mixing sugar with butter? Good.
Mixing business with pleasure? Bad. Terrible. Stupid.
But there's no crying in baking, and the cost to save S&N Sweets? Pretending to be his live-in girlfriend.

#R #A #YouDeservePit #AmEditing
It'll Cost You: A Contemporary Romance Comps: Unfortunately Yours by Tessa Bailey, A Not So Meet Cute by Meghan Quinn, 2 Broke Girls TV Show Natasha has one dream: to take S&N Sweets from side business to storefront bakery. When her sugar daddy leaves her, she’s chef kitchenless, broke, and lands flat on her back underneath her annoying co-worker, Beckett. Rock has met bottom until Beckett makes her an offer she can’t refuse: pretend to be his live-in girlfriend, and she can have full access to his ovens. Another agreement without sweet promises, because no one stays in Nat’s life forever. Beckett doesn’t need a girlfriend to be happy, despite the protests of his friends and family. All he wants is to be promoted from VP of Operations to COO of Carmichael, Lennox & Ross, Corp.. He just needs to survive the acquisition of Sterling Property Group, all while pretending to be someone he’s not. When Nat derails all his plans, he wrestles between being the man he promised someone else he would be, or the happy one he never thought he’d be again. Snippet from IT'LL COST YOU where Natasha wagers her terms to pretend to be Beckett's girlfriend, stating it'll cost him if he wants her to be sweet and loving.
January 24, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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phoebeoh.bsky.social
Twenty years after escaping a serial killer, Marissa is horrified when he begins haunting her. Paranoid and desperate for help, she must destroy the ghost before he finishes what he started twenty years ago.

MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT x THE GIRL FROM WIDOW HILLS

#2025PIT #A #M #S #T #BIPOC #LGBT #ND
A moodboard in a 3 by 3 grid. From top left to bottom right: the opening of a sewer outfall; a woman hidden behind a semi-transparent cloth; foggy woods; a dark trail in the woods; the title text "OUTFALL;" a pile of messy trash on the street; the back of a woman running through a field; the inside of a sewer outfall with the outside world visible; the vague outline of a figure's head, hands, and body, as though pushing against a semi-transparent wall.
January 27, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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blovewrites.bsky.social
17 is hard, but when you're set to take over presidency from your father, survive a ☠️ attempt, are betrayed by the two you love & learn your role is to maintain peace by keeping 200yo lies & manipulating the public or start the biggest war in centuries, 17 is REALLY hard.

#2025Pit #Q #YA #SF #LGBTQ
January 27, 2025 at 1:43 PM