Agent’s guide to THE HUMMINGBIRD HARBINGER

🔪husband and wife cat and mouse game
🔪job burnout
🔪truths vs secrets
🔪st@lker and toxic friendships

It’s fun coming back on here and seeing that my last post was of gratitude for my editor.

Now I’m in the query trenches for my MR AND MRS SMITH meets GONE GIRL thriller and I’m so so excited for an agent to love is as much as I do

When you asked the universe to help you manifest a 6 figure book deal so you sign with an editor who is really making you work for it

Thank you editor, though, for spending so many hours on this and sending me a super thorough 21 page manuscript assessment, along with 2 hour long consultations.

I’m finally working on my newsletter and I’m actually so excited to just babble to you all and update you on writing and reading. Why haven’t I been serious about my newsletter before? #authorsky

I want to be only on the author and books part of this app. I’m here for an escape, not to watch the world burn 😭. #authorsky #booksky

There’s a momentum that comes from just doing the thing. I had been waiting for a couple months as I tested, studied, let my idea form, and waited for edits from book 1. I feel so energized from just putting 8 plot points in my wall yesterday for book 2!! #authorsky

Why does a small mistake or oversight (I mean like 200 count) at work cause severe anxiety and me thinking everyone hates me? This is why I can’t wait to just write full time but also why I’m terrified to write full time and leave my 9 to 5. #authorsky

So my editor is a month and a week late on delivering dev edits, and while I could be upset, I’m actually grateful. (1/4) #amediting

Fully recommending spending your weekends largely off social media. Minimal scrolling, minimal (if any) posting. Living the weekend has been helping me rest, ease my mental health, and prep for creativity needed to plot book 2. #author

In my debut, I address themes I have deeply experienced and wanted to explore through my characters: relationships, happiness in careers, friendships, wearing figurative masks.

And it wouldn’t be a thriller without a fun twist. I pride myself on this story playing a twist on you, the reader.

I love these thrillers so much because they are intriguing yet realistic and keep you guessing without unnecessary cliff hangers:

Fight Club
Broken Harbor
The Silence Of The Lambs
The Silent Patient
All The Colors Of The Dark
You
Yellowface
I’m Thinking Of Ending Things

#bookish #writersky

If you like twisty books

like Gone Girl
Silent Patient
and Fight Club

with deep personal introspection

like All The Colors Of The Dark
and In The Woods

then you’re in the right place. I’m working on my debut crime thriller with a twist that made the editor of Mistborn want to work with me

So why do I keep writing? Because these stories haunt me until they are told, because of all the people believing in me, because of my deep belief in myself and my characters. #authorlife

It’s that glorious time of the evening after I’ve finished my day job, my steps, my workout, and can sit with my book and dive into a new world.

Where are my crime thriller author and reader friends?

Some days in the life of an author waiting on her editor to get back to her on the latest version are wonderful (elated to be done with a draft, excited for the next steps, feeling closer to getting published), while other days are anxiety-ridden (worried about negative comments and querying)

The sky is blue and I’m excited to chat books and writing with you all!