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Amanda Molloy @amandamolloy.bsky.social · 10h

I bit the bullet and sent off my first batch of queries. I have big feelings. #amwriting #writingcommunity amandamolloy.substack.com/p/round-one?...

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Round One

My first cold queries

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Amanda Molloy @amandamolloy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Will's used to being a foreigner as a 3rd-culture kid, but when his family moves ‘home’ to the US, he feels like a foreigner there too. Autistic and selectively mute, he invents a new identity to dodge bullying. If the truth gets out, he may lose the only friends he’s ever had. #DVpit #MG #ownvoices

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Amanda Molloy @amandamolloy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

SPEAK UP x KAREEM BETWEEN A 3rd-culture kid finds out moving 'home' is the hardest culture shock of all. Autistic, selectively mute Will pretends to be someone he's not until helping a new student reminds him that the parts of himself he's been hiding are worth sharing. #DVpit #MG #ownvoices

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Amanda Molloy @amandamolloy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

An autistic boy with selective mutism moves to his passport country of America after being born and raised abroad. Desperate to leave his bullied past behind, he invents a new identity. If the truth gets out, he may lose the only friends he’s ever had. SPEAK UP x KAREEM BETWEEN #DVpit #MG #ownvoices

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Amanda Molloy @amandamolloy.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

New day, new problems. I used to wonder how I could possibly come up with 40,000 words that would fit together into a story. Now I'm trying to figure out how to whittle that story down to 40K. #amwriting #writingcommunity

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Amanda Molloy @amandamolloy.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Summer writing reality: The schedule is gone. The routine is gone. The kids are everywhere. 'Writing in the margins of a full life' is not a metaphor. It's a Tuesday. #AmWriting #WritingCommunity

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Amanda Molloy @amandamolloy.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

The days are getting longer, but my writing sessions are getting shorter.

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Amanda Molloy @amandamolloy.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Something I keep learning about writing from lived experience: you can't rush the processing part.

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Amanda Molloy @amandamolloy.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

End of the school year hits different when you're a writer-parent. Even more so when you're a teacher-writer-parent.

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Amanda Molloy @amandamolloy.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Writing two very different books at the same time has taught me something. The nonfiction wants truth. Every detail, every failure, every hard-won inch of progress. The MG fiction wants emotional truth. What it costs to be misunderstood. Turns out they're not that different after all.

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Amanda Molloy @amandamolloy.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Reminder for writers in the middle of a hard draft: You don't have to make it good today. You just have to make it exist today. #AmWriting #WritingCommunity #WritingMotivation

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Amanda Molloy @amandamolloy.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Something nobody tells you about writing nonfiction from personal experience: some chapters will be easy. And some will ask you to go back somewhere you really don't want to go.

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Amanda Molloy @amandamolloy.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Something I've been sitting with: the books that helped me most weren't the ones with all the answers. They were the ones where I felt, for the first time, that someone understood the question.

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Amanda Molloy @amandamolloy.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

The query process has a way of making you read your own work like a stranger would. Which is uncomfortable. But also really useful. #AmQuerying #WritingCommunity #QueryTrenches #AmWriting

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Amanda Molloy @amandamolloy.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Writing for middle grade means writing for the kid who feels like nobody quite gets them yet.

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Amanda Molloy @amandamolloy.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

You can be an expert in something and still struggle with it personally. Those two things don't cancel each other out. They just make you human. And sometimes they make you a writer. #AmWriting #WritingCommunity #NonfictionWriter

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Amanda Molloy @amandamolloy.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Something nobody warned me about when I started writing nonfiction from lived experience: some chapters will be easy. And some will definitely not be.

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Amanda Molloy @amandamolloy.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

The strange math of writing nonfiction from lived experience: The closer something is to you, the harder it is to write. The harder it is to write, the more someone needs to read it. Keep going anyway. #AmWriting #NonfictionWriter #WritingCommunity

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