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Katie Carlson is seeking new rep!

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Either writing romance or thinking about Howl’s Moving Castle Currently querying, revising, writing, and plotting… and reading Wings of Fire for my daughter 😂

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Katie Carlson is seeking new rep! @katiecarlsonwrites.bsky.social · 17d

Seeking new rep for DIRTY DRAFTING, an adult contemporary romance featuring:

💔 a romance writer who needs inspiration
☕ the gruff owner of her favorite coffee shop
6️⃣ a deal: six dates, no sex
💥 "Does this count as sex?"
📖 a book secretly based on their relationship
♾️ that might steal their own HEA

a mood board with pictures of a woman's freckled skin and red hair, the wall of a bar/coffee shop, hands making latte art, a pile of pennies, a man with his arm around a woman as they look out over a lake, a man looking at a lake with his hair up, a microphone, a collection of different mugs, and an open laptop sitting next to a latte

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 1d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Katie Carlson is seeking new rep! @katiecarlsonwrites.bsky.social · 15d

Victoria and Quinn attempt to keep it casual in DIRTY DRAFTING, now querying! Will they succeed? Absolutely not!

#unhingedpit #A #R #Q

Drake meme--top: Victoria and Quinn have a deal: six dates, no sex*
bottom: *does not include: touching *redacted*, tasting *redacted*, *redacted* while watching in the mirror

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Katie Carlson is seeking new rep! @katiecarlsonwrites.bsky.social · 17d

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 24d

Your email finds me deeply burned out and disassociating.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · Sep 3

"Go to an old cemetery. See all the baby graves from before the 1950s & 60s? After that, hardly any. That's when people started vaccinating their children. If you're unsure what to do to protect your kids, the answer is literally written in stone." — Michael Okuda

How quick we forget.

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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · Aug 28

Minnesota Nice has left the chat.

Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · Aug 28

I dare you to go to Annunciation School and tell our grieving community, in effect, guns don’t kill kids, antidepressants do.

Just shut up. Stop peddling bullshit. You should be fired.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Aug 28

RFK Jr on the mass shooting in Minnesota: "We're launching studies on the potential contribution of some of the SSRI drugs and some of the other psychiatric drugs that might be contributing to violence."

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Mark O’Brien @bookmarkobrien.bsky.social · Aug 18

I am calling on Hachette to take the comma from Little, Brown and donate it to Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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Katie Carlson is seeking new rep! @katiecarlsonwrites.bsky.social · Aug 17

Is it just me, or is there nothing less sexy than revising a spicy scene?

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maggie @maggiesbooks.bsky.social · Aug 16

A summer to remember, a summer to forget, a week in winter to give it one last shot.

🗻 lake house setting in summer and winter
🥂 soapy family drama
💍 will the wedding be ruined?
💔 healing or reopening old wounds?
📸 yearning for nostalgia

#posterpit #q #r #a #amquerying

None of This
Was Real

10 years ago,she ruined everything. Now, they’re reunited at her sister’s wedding and maybe he’s the one who shouldn’t be trusted.

chance
second
of age
coming

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Jade Mason @jademasonwrites.bsky.social · Aug 16

FUNNY STORY x SUMMER ROMANCE + WHEN HARRY MET SALLY X THE WEDDING SINGER

Two Broken Hearts. One Pact. A Year to Rewrite Their Story.

🎵 Trailer "Colorful" Jukebox The Ghost | End Credits "Heaven" Niall Horan
#posterpit #wf w/ #r #a #w

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Jade Mason @jademasonwrites.bsky.social · Aug 16

Nellie’s hiding more than a layoff. Struggling to pay rent and crushed by grief and expectations, she reconnects with her ex-work rival who helps her find what she truly wants beyond the role she’s been playing.

#posterpit #q #wf w/ #r #amquerying #filipinorep

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Jade Mason @jademasonwrites.bsky.social · Aug 16

Things aren’t going according to plan for Nellie:

🤐 Laid off, hiding it
🇵🇭 Afraid to disappoint her Filipino dad
💸 Can’t afford BFF’s wedding
🏠 Rent’s rising
💕 Keeps running into ex–work rival (groom’s brother)

Maybe falling apart is exactly what she needs. #posterpit #q #wf w/ #r

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maggie @maggiesbooks.bsky.social · Aug 16

New #agentsguide for the novel I #amquerying.

If you loved "Every Summer After" then this is for you!

🗻 lake house setting in summer and winter
🥂 soapy family drama
💔 healing or reopening old wounds?
📸 yearning for nostalgia

an agent’s guide to
None of This Was Real
adult contemporary
romance/ women’s fiction
87,000 words

The pitch
Jasper and her ex reunite at the lake 10 years after a painful breakup. When feelings become too hard to ignore, Jasper must decide if she'll heal her old wounds or reopen them and risk ruining not only their repaired friendship, but her sister's wedding too.

Maybe they were just yearning for nostalgia this whole time.

Comps
happy place: What if your happy place
stopped being happy?
every summer after: Two timelines,
lake house setting
adelaide: A story that will break your heart and sew it up again

His presence made me feel like I was seventeen again and happily suffocating in my family’s lake house. Back then, I was enamored by the smell of pine trees, lake water, and cigarettes in a dive bar parking lot. Summers were like a warm pitcher of beer, a crisp can of Pepsi, and tobacco-tainted kisses.

Now I was twenty-eight, killing time waiting for the delayed 1 train after telling the lawyer we shouldn’t see each other anymore and it was frigid outside.
Excerpt

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talhe.bsky.social @talhe.bsky.social · Aug 16

“You don’t need to stick around, fox."

“You swore you'd kill the mightiest warlord in the country, Miss Nun. You’re too interesting for me to leave." #PosterPit #Q #F #YA

A teenage kitsune boy and young East Asian woman hold one another's hands and lean against the other.

Text:

A VAGBOND SHAPESHIFTING FOX TRAMP RAISED IN A THEATER
A FORMER FERAL CHILD TURNED WARRIOR-NUN MECH PILOT

FANGS OF THE WOLF
THEY'LL FACE THE COUNTRY'S MOST POWERFUL WARLORD, TOGETHER

Iron Widow x Shadow of the Fox
#OwnVoices 97k YA Fantasy

Historically-inspired setting based off Japan

Japanese mythology, ki-powered mechs

Art by Sebiiroo https://sebiiroocarrd.co/

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Katie Carlson is seeking new rep! @katiecarlsonwrites.bsky.social · Aug 16

People We Meet on Vacation x Taylor Swift's Right Where You Left Me 💔

#PosterPit #W #R #C #A

A couple kisses in the snow in a movie poster for If We're Still Single, an adult contemporary romance novel, querying soon

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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · Jun 14

i'd rather ask ursula from the little mermaid for a favour and life advice than ask chatgpt anything

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Katie Carlson is seeking new rep! @katiecarlsonwrites.bsky.social · Jun 13

💔RIGHT WHERE YOU LEFT ME💔

👫Childhood best friends
⏳A year since they've spoken
💍A marriage pact
📄A list of ways to reclaim their former closeness
🛫Before she leaves their small town again
🔍Can they figure out they were made for each other in time?

IF WE'RE STILL SINGLE

#SwiftiePitch #A #R #WIP

a grid of photos including a beach at sunset, a man doing indoor rock climbing, a couple kissing in the snow, a girl running down a snowy street, a couple playing in the waves, a waterfall, a guy with messy hair

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Katie Carlson is seeking new rep! @katiecarlsonwrites.bsky.social · May 23

👫Two childhood best friends
💍One marriage pact

When Fiona drunkenly reminds Henry of the marriage pact they made at 17, he insists they fulfill it. Has he also been hiding feelings for her, or is he just keeping a promise? And can their friendship survive becoming something more?

#WIPpit #Con #R

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Katie Carlson is seeking new rep! @katiecarlsonwrites.bsky.social · May 14

On top of the regular horrors, I dreamed last night that I was dating Hozier, so my introduction to consciousness this morning was realizing I was not, in fact, dating Hozier

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EJTwriter | Emi T @ejtwriter.bsky.social · May 7

When Eleanor is forced to crash her plane near an Antarctic science station, she’s the only one who knows what went wrong. Now 18 months later, she escapes to the Smoky Mountains looking for absolution and Julian, the scientist she spent 6 frozen months falling in love with.

#questpit #A #R #LF #W

Photo grid showing polished rocks, a woman with her hands over her face in distress, researchers in Antarctica, a South Pole science station, a couple relaxing on a cabin porch in the woods, ice frozen on the ground, a plane flying over ice bergs, a man with his face in his hands in grief, a female pilot.

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EJTwriter | Emi T @ejtwriter.bsky.social · May 7

Reeling from a plane crash everyone says was her fault and running from the company goons intent on teaching her a lesson, former pilot Eleanor escapes to rural Appalachia looking for absolution and the only friend she has left.

#questpit #A #R #LF #W

Photo grid with a rural cabin in the mountains, a man overcome with grief, a couple holding hands over coffee, a misty forest, Jade rocks with the title The Places We Weren’t, a man cradling a woman’s face, a woman with her hands over her face in distress, a female pilot and her plane, a rusty bell on a porch.

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