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Becki Jayne Crossley @beckiwrites.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Proofs of Tart arrived today and to say I’m excited is a major understatement 🥹😭🍓

Selfie of a woman with chin length blonde hair holding a pink book called ‘Tart’. Her expression is one of screaming excitement.

A photo of a hand holding a pink book called ‘Tart’ featuring an oozing strawberry tart on the cover. The tagline reads: ‘When the world is telling you who you are, how do you speak your truth?’

Becki Jayne Crossley @beckiwrites.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

It’s 200 days until my debut novel comes out! If you’re into queer YA romances about coming out and coming of age you can preorder it now 🍓✨ www.amazon.co.uk/Tart-Becki-J...

Graphic with a pink textured background and a strawberry pattern. Red bubble text reads: 200 days ‘til TART. Underneath is an image of a book cover featuring a strawberry tart and the title TART by Becki Jayne Crossley.

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Becki Jayne Crossley @beckiwrites.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

Writing wrap up 2024 - it’s been a good’un 🥹✨ #amwriting

Graphic with a pink textured background with a strawberry pattern. Text reads: words written, 82k. 16k added to TART, over several rounds of editing across the year. 66k written of WIP, fully plotted and ready to finish and revise in early 2025

Graphic with a pink textured background with a strawberry pattern. Text reads: most words written in a day: 10k. I’m not saying they were good words but by god they were words

Graphic with a pink textured background with a strawberry pattern. Text reads: achievements - hit the best seller and hot new releases charts for my genres with preorders (what?!). Includes screenshots of Amazon book charts for Best Sellers in Young Adult Fiction on Bullying (TART by Becki Jayne Crossley featured as no 2 behind Roald Dahl’s ‘Matilda’), and Hot New Releases on LGBTQ+ issues (TART by Becki Jayne Crossley featured as no 1)

Graphic with a pink textured background with a strawberry pattern. Text reads: other stuff - 80 TART samplers signed at YALC (out of around 400 given out). 5-8 entire tarts eaten in celebration of TART’s book deal (in truth I lost count a bit). 3 strawberry themed outfits bought for announcement week

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Becki Jayne Crossley @beckiwrites.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

When u r the prize in the claw machine 🥰🙌

Selfie of a smiling white woman with shoulder length blonde hair wearing a black top with a cocktail umbrella tucked behind one ear. The backdrop is of a variety of colourful stuffed animals.

Photo of a white woman with shoulder length blonde hair wearing a black top and red sequin skirt, standing against a backdrop of a variety of colourful stuffed animals. She’s looking up and smiling with her arms raised towards a giant claw machine claw.

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Becki Jayne Crossley @beckiwrites.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Please enjoy my favourite festive reaction image memes 🎄✨

Screengrab of Jeremy from Peep Show looking annoyed, with the caption: “That wasn’t very Christmassy”

Text reads: “My work email auto reply after Dec 1st is gonna be just this image.” Image is of an annoyed woman in a Christmas jumper with the captions “Sounds like a 2024 problem”

Screenshot of a tweet that reads “You’re really gunna act like that when Santa Claus is literally on his way to town”

Text reads: “Do you have any plans this week? Me:” Image is a photo of a sticker with a crude drawing of a rat, hunched over and smiling mischievously, next to a little cheese. Caption is “Eat cheese and sin”

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Becki Jayne Crossley @beckiwrites.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

In my feelings about the Eras Tour ending tonight, and feeling unbelievably lucky that I got to see it twice 🥹🩷✨

Photo of the Eras Tour stage and big screen, with confetti and fireworks going off.

Photo of the Eras Tour stage from a high angle in Wembley stadium, with fireworks going off.

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Becki Jayne Crossley @beckiwrites.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Timeline extended because I’m seeing it again today ✌🏻

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Becki Jayne Crossley @beckiwrites.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

If anyone needs me, I’ve finally seen Wicked so unfortunately you’ll have to wait 5-7 business days while I process 💚

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Becki Jayne Crossley @beckiwrites.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

On Spotify Wrapped Eve, I just want to make one thing clear. There will be people who say no one cares about your Spotify Wrapped and to stop posting all your graphics. They are wrong. I care. Show me all your graphics. Let’s delight in the wild west that is the yearly music roundup ✌🏻

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Becki Jayne Crossley @beckiwrites.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

How it started vs how it’s going 🥹

Screenshot of a Facebook memory from 10 years ago today. Status reads: “The last couple of months have been rough. But for the past 28 days I’ve had something positive to focus on and tonight I achieved something I was beginning to think would never happen. One month, 50,000 words. Nailed it.” There is an image of a completed NaNoWriMo graph.

Photo of a pink booklet with the title ‘TART’ by Becki Jayne Crossley, featuring an oozing strawberry tart on the cover. In the blurred background sits a blonde woman in a pink dress behind a table full of books, signing copies of the booklet.

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Karen M. McManus @writerkmc.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

FYI to anyone who’s gotten a message from this account. Please ignore (or block and report). Thanks to the folks who let me know, and thanks for reading!

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Becki Jayne Crossley @beckiwrites.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

You can now add TART to your ‘want to read’ shelf on Goodreads! So if you want to read… please do that! 😅 www.goodreads.com/book/show/22...

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Jennie🌷 @maobabie.com · 20/11/2024

What if I quit my job to focus on soup. Just making soup and eating it

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Courtney Floyd @courtney-floyd.com · 16/09/2024

I’m making a starter pack of 2025 debuts! If you’re a trad pub author whose debut comes out next year, @ me here to join. 🤩

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Becki Jayne Crossley @beckiwrites.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Just finished Heartstopper S3 (with a day’s break between E5 and 6 to read Solitaire) and now openly weeping at the fact that there are kids and teenagers out there who get to grow up with this kind of visibility in popular media 🥹 representation is so important. Feeling seen is so important.

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Becki Jayne Crossley @beckiwrites.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Introduce yourself with some jobs you’ve done apart from what you’re doing now 1. Soft play attendant (at Wacky Warehouse for those who remember it) 2. Terrible waitress in a tiny village pub 3. Corn maze scarer (very recent, will 100% be repeating) 4. Various call centres (various levels of awful)

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Becki Jayne Crossley @beckiwrites.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Day two of YALC and the Bloomsbury stall completely shifted all 400-odd TART samplers. Here’s a photo of the last one 😳🍓

Photo of a red carpet and skyline backdrop with large prop letters spelling YALC. Stood behind is a woman with short blonde hair wearing a pink strawberry print shirt and a red pinafore dress, smiling with her arms outstretched over the letters.

Photo of a single copy of a pink booklet with the title ‘TART - chapter sampler’ featuring a slice of oozing strawberry tart on the cover, on a green faux grass table cover.

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Becki Jayne Crossley @beckiwrites.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Day one of YALC was surreal. Not only was I absolutely surrounded by fellow YA enthusiasts but I got to sign copies of my debut novel’s chapter sampler 😳🥹 gearing up for day two! 💕🍓

Photo of a woman with short blonde hair wearing a pink strawberry print dress, smiling and holding up a booklet with the front cover reading ‘TART’ that has a slice of oozing strawberry tart on the cover. Pinned to the wall behind her is a tote bag with ‘Bloomsbury’ on it.

Photo of a woman with short blonde hair wearing a pink strawberry print dress, sitting behind a table full of books. She’s smiling and talking to someone next to her while signing a booklet in front of her.

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Becki Jayne Crossley @beckiwrites.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

I’ll be bopping around YALC this weekend dressed in strawberry print - please do say hi if you see me! You can also pick up a chapter sampler of my debut YA romance TART at the Bloomsbury stand if that’s your kind of thing! 💕🍓

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Bain 🇧🇸 @mrbainer.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

My agent sib getting published 🥹

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Becki Jayne Crossley @beckiwrites.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Absolutely over the moon to announce that my debut YA novel TART is publishing with Bloomsbury next summer - and is available to pre-order now! 🥰🍓💕 beckiwrites.co.uk#tart

Promo image of a pink book titled ‘TART’ by Becki Jayne Crossley. The cover features a slice of strawberry tart oozing sauce, and the tagline ‘Love bites when everyone says you’re a tart’. There is a banner across the top reading ‘Grab your exclusive chapter sampler at YALC 2024’, and a circular sticker style overlay saying ‘Pre-order now’. Underneath the book it says ‘Publishes 14th August 2025, Bloomsbury, illustrations copyright Sarah Long 2025’

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Mostly Book Talk @mostlybooktalk.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

I have created a starter pack of (mainly) UK children’s authors - I couldn’t find one anywhere. It is a work in progress so apologies if I haven’t found you yet and do let me have any additions go.bsky.app/GLnmxCv

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Finn Longman is only here occasionally @finnlongman.com · 09/11/2024

Extremely a WIP but the first tentative efforts at a #UKYA list are here: go.bsky.app/SvteGjd Please don't hesitate to ask to be added (or removed! I won't be offended if you'd rather not):

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Emily Krempholtz 📚 @writersofrohan.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

Hey look, a starter pack of 2025 debut novelists! There are so many amazing books hitting shelves next year. Check it out, #writingcommunity! go.bsky.app/H13XQTN

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Becki Jayne Crossley @beckiwrites.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

Really enjoying that the (few but appreciated) people finding my account are fellow writers! If you’re a YA author in particular please give me a wave! And let me know if there’s a hashtag we’re using for the community! 👋

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Becki Jayne Crossley @beckiwrites.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

As a super forgetful person, turning on the setting that prevents me posting images without alt text has helped me be more accessible without breaking my brain. You can find it under Settings > Accessibility 😊

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Becki Jayne Crossley @beckiwrites.bsky.social · 18/10/2024

Really need to start cross-posting over here as the other place crashes and burns in slow motion. Hello! I’m Becki and I’m a queer YA author working on a couple of things 👀 let’s be pals

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Becki Jayne Crossley @beckiwrites.bsky.social · 25/10/2023

No longer querying… I’m now officially represented by Saffron Dodd at ASH Literary! ✨

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Becki Jayne Crossley @beckiwrites.bsky.social · 03/09/2023

Now officially querying TART, a contemporary queer YA novel about coming out and coming of age against a backdrop of slut shaming, teenage savagery and the confinement of religion in a tiny British village 🍂🔥✨ full synopsis: beckicrossley.carrd.co

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