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Dana Nuens 👻 🎃

@dananuens.bsky.social
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Naturalist. Environmental Science teacher. YA Writer. Lover of whales (especially right whales). Traveler. All about Halloween. ‘24 #Revpit Winner

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Dana Nuens 👻 🎃 @dananuens.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Recently I finally took the leap and wrote/ #amquerying a rugby romance as a former player. It feels so much more prevalent now after Quinnipiac University's announcement. Also, if you don’t follow @ilonamaher.bsky.social what are you doing with your life? #rugby #romance #collegeathletes
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Dana Nuens 👻 🎃 @dananuens.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Hi Erica, it says you'll be open to queries the first week of the month, but your query tracker is closed. Just wanted to check! Thank you!
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Dana Nuens 👻 🎃 @dananuens.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Ooh. Fresh cut grass. #CRPBees
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Dana Nuens 👻 🎃 @dananuens.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Andi’s roommate Maya is her closest friend at school. She’s bubbly and voracious & talks WAY too much for her own good The whole MS is about relationships—Andi’s always had to act a certain way to be liked by her lax teammates. That’s not the case w/ the rugby girls. They become her family #CRPBees
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Dana Nuens 👻 🎃 @dananuens.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Yes! It’s only the props and lock not the whole team and they sing the opening credit to Avatar: The Last Airbender
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Dana Nuens 👻 🎃 @dananuens.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Yes! It’s only the props and lock not the whole team and they sing the opening credit to Avatar: The Last Airbender BUT that was inspired by 2 of my teammates who would use the Pokémon song for their pump up.
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Dana Nuens 👻 🎃 @dananuens.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Yes! It’s only the props and lock not the whole team and they sing the opening credit to Avatar: The Last Airbender
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Dana Nuens 👻 🎃 @dananuens.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
No! She has to do a 5th year of HS at a boarding school to get a sports scholarship. It’s 2–only the props and locks sing and it’s the opening credits to Avatar:The Last Airbender
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Dana Nuens 👻 🎃 @dananuens.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
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Dana Nuens 👻 🎃 @dananuens.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
I’m going with #3
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Dana Nuens 👻 🎃 @dananuens.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
1. I wrote an MS with these characters years ago & after watching the USA Women’s Rugby win Bronze I started this MS. 2. The rugby team’s pump up song is the Pokémon theme song 3. Though it’s Andi’s first year at college, she’s 19 b/c she had to do a year of Post Graduate #camprevpit #CRPBees
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Dana Nuens 👻 🎃 @dananuens.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
I think right now my biggest obstacle is finding time to sit and write since I’ve got a one year old. Not to mention when I finally get to sit down I’m easily distracted. #CRPBees
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Dana Nuens 👻 🎃 @dananuens.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Coming back from a busy weekend to join in on this #camprevpit prompt. I hate revisions because I know I need to fix something but I don’t know what it is! #CRPBees
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a cartoon character says " that 's rough buddy " in front of a fire
Alt: Zuko from Avatar the Last Airbender says " that 's rough buddy " in front of a furnace on a hot air balloon
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Dana Nuens 👻 🎃 @dananuens.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
I played the ‘She’s the Man’ movie soundtrack while writing to get in the sports mindset. #CRPBees
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Dana Nuens 👻 🎃 @dananuens.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Coming of age
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Dana Nuens 👻 🎃 @dananuens.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
#CampRevpit #CRP When a picture of Andi in her sports bra at practice goes viral, she begins to get strange messages. If she can’t uncover who’s behind this, her first year at college might be her last. YA Contemporary—> Thriller
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Dana Nuens 👻 🎃 @dananuens.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
My MC wants to be accepted by her teammates, not just because she’s good—because she’s better than all the boys—but because they like her as a person. #CRPBees
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Dana Nuens 👻 🎃 @dananuens.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
#VillainVoices #CampRevPit #CRPBees My “villains” would say it’s about an attention seeking girl that only plays boy’s lacrosse to get a guy finally being kicked out of the sport and finding a sport that is more suited for her.
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Dana Nuens 👻 🎃 @dananuens.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
So while there is romance (F/M for the main one and a side of F/F) right now it’s written as more of a college-YA like Begin Again. I’m debating on whether to make it more of a classic sports romance, but that would require a lot of edits.
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Dana Nuens 👻 🎃 @dananuens.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Thanks! Though the bumble g is supposed to be bumbling!
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Dana Nuens 👻 🎃 @dananuens.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
It feels like you’re not doing anything!
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Dana Nuens 👻 🎃 @dananuens.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Yes! I was a lock. Every now and then I would get thrown in as a flanker and it was so weird being on the outside of a scrum.
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Dana Nuens 👻 🎃 @dananuens.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Forward. A lock.
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Dana Nuens 👻 🎃 @dananuens.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
1. A girl who plays boy’s lacrosse in college 2. A sexist post about her with a picture of her in a sports bra 3. Rugby 4. A really cute student coach she has Orgo with 5. She’s a closeted comic book nerd #CRPBees
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Dana Nuens 👻 🎃 @dananuens.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
They [the boys on her lacrosse team] always respected me more if I could hang with them, if I were the ‘cool’ girl. I call it my Superman persona. It’s a little backwards since Superman had to act bumble g as Clack Kent. Bumbling Andi isn’t my alter ego, it’s my true self. #CRPBees #camprevpit
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Dana Nuens 👻 🎃 @dananuens.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
I’m definitely hoping that’s the case. I love the couple of college YAs that have come out recently like Begin Again and See You Yesterday.
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Dana Nuens 👻 🎃 @dananuens.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
#CRPBees I wrote YA Contemporary and Fantasy and have started aging up to college-based YA (a little of a cross over between YA and a sports romance) and am planning on working on a romantasy after this MS. I’d like to one day work on chapter books, but I need to do some research for that
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Dana Nuens 👻 🎃 @dananuens.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
#camprevpit #CRPBees I’m at the top of the mountain. I finished my first draft (pushed myself to do so to submit to revpit). And now I realize that I still have to get back to the bottom—EDITS! I’m not sure what my MS needs, though I do know it needs edits
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Revise & Resub @reviseresub.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
DAY 2 #𝗖𝗮𝗺𝗽𝗠𝗮𝗽 Hope your first night by the fire sparked your inspiration! 🔥 Today, your manuscript is your map. What stage of your project are you at? Are you lost in the woods? Climbing a mountain? Sailing the seven seas? Use a visual metaphor or a gif, or even draw us a map. #CampRevPit
A well-fed green caterpillar sits on a little hill to the right of the screen, eating a pile of pages labeled with the words “story notes.” On the left, a Camp RevPit flag waves at the end of a flagpole. There is a blue sky with fluffy white clouds in the background. Text overlaid on the blue sky reads, #CampMap. What stage of your project are you at, Campers?
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Dana Nuens 👻 🎃 @dananuens.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Ok. This is an MG, so different. But atmospheric wise similar
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Dana Nuens 👻 🎃 @dananuens.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Rian, have you read Witches of Willow Cove? Not sure what age group your WIP is, but it gave me the same vibes (one of my CPs is the author so I’ve read both books multiple times)
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Dana Nuens 👻 🎃 @dananuens.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
I’m Dana from New England (EST). My MS takes place on a small college campus by the ocean, so lots of green sports fields, brick buildings, and rocky shore lines. #CRPbees
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Dana Nuens 👻 🎃 @dananuens.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Hi #CRPBees! I’m working on a YA college-based contemporary right now, but I also write YA fantasy and am being to plot a romantasy for my next project!
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Dana Nuens 👻 🎃 @dananuens.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
#CampRevPit #CRPBees I’m working on a sports YA about: 🥍 A girl who plays collegiate boys’ lax 📸 a post that causes her to be suspended 🏉 the amazing women’s’ rugby team that accepts her 🧪 The cute student coach she has chem with ⏳ Deciding between her sport and her new team may break her
Nine pictures: a girl kicking a rugby ball, a college building, a guy cooking, beakers, rugby ball, team hands in, girl doing pull ups, two girls holding flowers, lacrosse helmet
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Dana Nuens 👻 🎃 @dananuens.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Can I sign up for 2 cabins? I signed up for a cabin based on the MS I’m editing right now but I’d love to also be in a cabin that’s the genre with the MS I’m beginning to plot
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Dana Nuens 👻 🎃 @dananuens.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
BEGIN AGAIN x Ilona Maher & USA Women’s Rugby 🥍 A girl who plays collegiate boys’ lax 📸 a post that causes her to be suspended 🏉 the amazing women’s’ rugby team that accepts her 🧪 The cute student coach she has chem with ⏳ Deciding between her sport and her new team may break her #NA #CR #2025pit
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Dana Nuens 👻 🎃 @dananuens.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
BEGIN AGAIN x Ilona Maher & USA Women’s Rugby 🥍 A girl who plays collegiate boys’ lax 📸 a post that causes her to be suspended 🏉 the amazing women’s’ rugby team that accepts her 🧪 The cute student coach she has chem with ⏳ Deciding between her sport and her new team may break her #NA #CR #2025pit
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Dana Nuens 👻 🎃 @dananuens.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
HOT DOG GIRL in Stars Hollow 🎃 a bi girl who loves Halloween 🧟‍♀️ the haunted house she starts to impress the girl she likes 💀 the cute but infuriating theater boy who helps her the entire time 🍁 an October she’ll never forget #YA #CR #2025pit
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Dana Nuens 👻 🎃 @dananuens.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Thanks!
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Dana Nuens 👻 🎃 @dananuens.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
BEGIN AGAIN x USA Women’s Rugby When she’s suspended from the boy’s lax team, Andi joins the rugby team until her hearing to keep her scholarship. But as the hearing draws closer, Andi has to chose between her new friends & cute student coach for the sport she’s put years of work into. #YA #2025pit
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Dana Nuens 👻 🎃 @dananuens.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Hi all! I’m a writer just getting back into the swing of writing and social media after having my son 9 months ago. I write both YA Fantasy and Contemporary and am delving into adult! My YA Witch MS was a #24revpit winner! Can’t wait to connect! #amwriting #amquerying #YA #YAFantasy
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