Victoria | She/her | 📚 Author of literary & folk-horror short stories | ✒️ Writing for Independent Book Review | @victorialilly on 🦋
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An #agentguide for my #amquerying novel, SHRIKE'S EYRIE, a sapphic gothic horrormance.
In this haunted house we support women's rights and women's wrongs. Be gay, eat the rich.
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God I loved this book and the whole Alpennia series to bits! It's so well written, and Floodtide is also so charming and sweet. I love Rose-Jones' world building and can't recommend this historical fantasy enough, especially to wlw fans ❤️ #booktwt #books
From our review: Floodtide by Heather Rose Jones is the fourth book in the delightful Alpennia series but it can be read as a standalone novel.
The busy streets of Rotenek are dangerous for a rviv.ly/VUB0F9
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At a crossroads of what to do about my writing career (lol, career) and I'm just, spinning like a top
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And then your book dies in the querying trenches
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- You write a book
- And then you get published?
- Your query 1-100 agents.
- And then you get published?
-...with response time from 5minutes to 2 years.
- But then-?
- You go on sub
- And then you get published?
- Your agent queries 1-100 editors
-BUT THEN YOU-?
- No.
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Got a rejection for a short story from a magazine I like and really wanted to publish in. But it was a personalised and helpful rejection which is such a rarity nowadays, I've decided to count it as a win
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An #agentguide for my #amquerying novel, SHRIKE'S EYRIE, a sapphic gothic horrormance.
In this haunted house we support women's rights and women's wrongs. Be gay, eat the rich.
#PopUpPitA #LuckyPit #horror #gothic #lgbtqi
1872 London. Agnes is a spirit-medium aching for meaningful work, better pay, and a soulmate. When an invitation arrives to visit a grand estate and banish a spirit haunting it, Agnes cannot resist. The adventure, however, turns into a nightmare
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My new pitch card for the sapphic gothic horror novel I #amquerying
With the economy crumbling and inequality skyrocketing, what can be more pertinent than a story about proverbially eating the rich 😁❤️
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Oh this sounds so delightfully spooky! And it has an Agnes as a protag! ❤️
For every industry like I get on my new #agentsguide, I’m going to give away a positivity pass or a query letter critique to someone who boosted it. (We’re now at 3 agent likes and a bookmark!)
My first randomly selected winner is: @qzion_t_gipson! I’ll DM you. 💕
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🚨title reveal🚨
excited to share that my second book, A SLOW AND SECRET POISON, is coming out early next year!
wiltshire, 1922. a young gardener is drawn into the web of secrets surrounding her new employer, a cursed heiress living in a crumbling manor
penguin.co.uk/books/455958/a…
ALT Screenshot of Penguin website showing holding cover for A Slow and Secret Poison by Carmella Lowkis
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Understanding a nation through its novels - In this feature article, Lee Ann Eckhardt Smith examines the history of Canada through its literature historicalnovelsociety.org/o…
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And submitted my querying manuscript for #revpit
Perhaps they can help me fix what isn't working, so pray 4 me
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On top of my book slowly bleeding to death in the querying trenches, today I got a rejection on my PhD funding application
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Wrote nearly 4k words yesterday and completed a short story in one sitting! Thus (hopefully) bringing my months long writing slump to an end!! 🥳
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