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Julia is 🪩querying🪩 @juliatrudell.bsky.social · Apr 25

Thank you!!

Julia is 🪩querying🪩 @juliatrudell.bsky.social · Apr 25

If an agency’s website doesn’t specify that a pass from an agent is a pass from the agency, does that mean I can query another agent from the same agency? Please help a girl out #amquerying #writingcommunity

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Julia is 🪩querying🪩 @juliatrudell.bsky.social · Feb 19

I was really going to stick to writing one project at a time but I’m back on my bullsh*t because I need to write down all my new ideas asap

Julia is 🪩querying🪩 @juliatrudell.bsky.social · Feb 17

Why is draft two the worst draft to get through ☝🏼😔

Julia is 🪩querying🪩 @juliatrudell.bsky.social · Feb 12

“But when he kisses me, all of it falls away. The world quiets, suspending us in our own little makeshift bubble. I hope no one pops it.”
#WIPSnips

✨#WIPSnips✨ A Daily Writing Share Tag @wipsnips.bsky.social · Feb 12

The #WIPSnips word for February 12 is "makeshift"

Remember that synonyms, variations, and ✨vibes✨ are fine!

#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

#WIPSnips a bluesky writing community tag
February 12 - makeshift
Share a line from your WIP with the daily word for inspiration
Use #WIPSnips. Don't forget Alt Text for graphics
Synonyms, variation and vibes are fine.
Support others on the #WIPSnips tag!
Hosted by rosie-j-potter.bsky.social

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Kyra is 👹querying👹 @kyrarain.bsky.social · Feb 12

RACHEL GILLIG’S ONE DARK WINDOW x ETHEL CAIN’S PREACHER’S DAUGHTER

A SILENCE SO DIVINE
🪶 115k words | Gothic Fiction 🕯️

A mute girl, a deaf boy, and a callous executioner will do whatever it takes to protect one another—or they’ll die trying.

#QuestPit #Q #DF #PR #R

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Julia is 🪩querying🪩 @juliatrudell.bsky.social · Feb 12

STAY ❤️‍🩹

In this friends-to-lovers rom-com, Sophie must navigate her fear of abandonment when her relationship with her best friend, Noah, shifts into uncharted territory.

#questpit #W #A #R

Stay
Julia Trudell
A collage of photos to look like a scrapbook of two people portraying the main characters

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Julia is 🪩querying🪩 @juliatrudell.bsky.social · Feb 12

PART OF ME 🍀

x Forced proximity
x Loathe to love
x Workplace romance

Maeve outruns the grief of the strained relationship with her late father by flying to his hometown: Dublin, Ireland.
There, she meets a surly bartender who doesn’t like her—and the feeling is mutual.

#questpit #Q #A #R

Part of Me
Julia Trudell
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Kyra is 👹querying👹 @kyrarain.bsky.social · Feb 12

“May the path Fate pave be just.”

A SILENCE SO DIVINE
🪶 115k words | Gothic Fiction 🕯️

A mute girl, a deaf boy, and a callous executioner will do whatever it takes to protect one another—or they’ll die trying.

#QuestPit #Q #DF #PR #R

A Silence So Divine
Avoiding damnation doesn’t always mean snuffing your Darkness, but stepping into it.

First Line
The storm was relentless.
But so was I.

Eden has spent twenty-two years isolated in her father’s manor. But when he disappears and she’s discovered by two brothers, she must confront the Darkness that swims in her veins—lest she lose the only love she’s ever known.

Tropes/Details
-corrupt churchmen
-found family
-feminine rage
-enemies to lovers
-sentient houses
-the chosen one
-isolated location
-everyone has secrets
-dystopian future
-southern gothic
-sign language

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Julia is 🪩querying🪩 @juliatrudell.bsky.social · Feb 4

Whelp I just sent out all the queries for the agents I had on my list. Time to do literally anything at all to distract me from the anxiety 🏃🏼‍♀️

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Julia is 🪩querying🪩 @juliatrudell.bsky.social · Feb 2

Thank you! 🥲🫶🏼

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Julia is 🪩querying🪩 @juliatrudell.bsky.social · Jan 31

Querying ruined Fridays for me because I always get form rejections on Friday 🙂

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Kyra is 👹querying👹 @kyrarain.bsky.social · Jan 30

saying “I’ve got a good feeling about this one” with literally every agent I query 🥰 (I get form rejected)
#writingcommunity #amquerying

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Julia is 🪩querying🪩 @juliatrudell.bsky.social · Jan 30

KYRA IM WHEEZING

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Julia is 🪩querying🪩 @juliatrudell.bsky.social · Jan 29

Got to the third act conflict in my first draft and realized I’m at 50k words. Sooooomething isn’t adding up 🤨

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Kyra is 👹querying👹 @kyrarain.bsky.social · Jan 27

“May the path Fate pave be just.”

A mute girl, a deaf boy, and a callous executioner will do whatever it takes to protect one another—or they’ll die trying.

ETHEL CAIN’S “PREACHER’S DAUGHTER” X RACHEL GILLIG’s “ONE DARK WINDOW”

A Silence So Divine - Gothic Fiction
#2025Pit #A #SPF #D #R

A collage depicting eerie, gothic images.

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Julia is 🪩querying🪩 @juliatrudell.bsky.social · Jan 27

Thank you so much! ☺️

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Liana Stampalia @lianastampalia.bsky.social · Jan 27

Daisy Jones & The Six x Friends
🎸Friends but if they were college music majors
🙎‍♀️ Strong female lead
🔥 Electric onstage chemistry
📝Partially told through a documentary ten years later
🔀Plot twists
💙Messy second-chance love
#2025Pit #A #R #U

A mood board with a cerulean blue background. The bottom has a documentary-style microphone with audio waves. There are five polaroid pictures. Top left: Four friends at college graduation. Top right: Drum and drumsticks. Bottom left: Man playing electric guitar at a gig. Bottom right: Pacific ocean. Center: Couple holding hands with "I think we share the same soul" written in sharpie on the bottom of the polaroid.

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Julia is 🪩querying🪩 @juliatrudell.bsky.social · Jan 27

Thank you! 🥲🫶🏼

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Julia is 🪩querying🪩 @juliatrudell.bsky.social · Jan 27

Thank you!!

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Sally Bromley @sallybromley.bsky.social · Jan 27

In WWI Sussex, when a petty criminal is gutted like a fish & his cousin accused of the murder, tales of forbidden love, the infamous Fowler Gang & the suffragettes, bleed together, staining the River Arun red. #2025Pit #Q #A #HF

Images of Peaky Blinders, a dead fish, man&woman kissing, two women kissing and a WWI soldier.

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Julia is 🪩querying🪩 @juliatrudell.bsky.social · Jan 27

PART OF ME 🍀

77k words | contemporary romance/romcom

Attempting to outrun the grief of the strained relationship with her late father, Maeve flees to Dublin, Ireland where she picks up a job working for a surly bar owner who doesn’t like her—and the feeling is mutual.

#2025pit #A #CR

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Julia is 🪩querying🪩 @juliatrudell.bsky.social · Jan 24

Thank you so much! 🥹

Julia is 🪩querying🪩 @juliatrudell.bsky.social · Jan 24

STAY 💌

In this friends-to-lovers rom-com, Sophie must navigate her fear of abandonment when her relationship with her best friend, Noah, shifts into uncharted territory.

#YouDeservepIt #WIP #A #R

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Kyra is 👹querying👹 @kyrarain.bsky.social · Jan 24

THE LOST BOYS x BELLADONNA

🪦RAREST PERISH🕊️

Dove Daley was meant to die the summer of 1989. The only problem was, Fate couldn’t seem to sink his claws into her.
Indignation turns to intrigue turns to infatuation. From there, things get pretty fuckin’ strange.
#YouDeservepIt #WIP #A #R

RAREST PERISH

80’s paranormal romance
Dual pov
Forbidden love
Male yearning
BAMF FMC

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