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Gina Denny @ginad129.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Over 2,000% funded, six stretch goals unlocked, nearly 200 backers! Now it's time for pre-orders and Goodreads!!! a.co/d/00zSR4rr

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Gina Denny @ginad129.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Kickstarter is closed! 🏴‍☠️ A shapeshifting princess runs from her grief and lands on the wrong side of the law 🏝 The jungle island queendom that raised her 💋 An empath who falls too hard, too fast 🌊 Swashbuckling adventure to sweep you off your feet 💔 A Broken Heart of Blackened Stone

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Gina Denny @ginad129.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Everyone who backs today (except the "just the flat stuff" tier) gets four free bookmarks. We're on our way to our first stretch goals: every backer's name listed in the acknowledgements of Book 3, bonus short stories for backers only, and reversible dust jackets on the special editions!

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Gina Denny @ginad129.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Funded in 6 minutes! 🏴‍☠️ A shapeshifting princess runs from her grief and lands on the wrong side of the law 🏝 The jungle island queendom that raised her 💋 An empath who falls too hard, too fast 🌊 Swashbuckling adventure 💔 A Broken Heart of Blackened Stone, a NA romantic fantasy on K!ckstarter

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BB Lorik (writing SFF 💀📖) @authorbblorik.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Todays #RevPitWaiting prompt is Resource Share. I’m assuming it means writer resources? If so, I have endless resources, and I’ll add them into my comments. First, @ginad129.bsky.social iykyk Those who don’t know, follow her on every social platform she’s on—thank me later #revpit

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Gina Denny @ginad129.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

As a thank you to this community, I’m launching exclusive covers and bonus content before the regular retail editions are available. www.kickstarter.com/projects/gin...

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Coming soon: Pirate Queen Chronicles: Special Edition Romantasy Trilogy

A runaway princess. An empathic pirate who loves her. The warrior guarding her back. An adventure to sweep you off your feet.

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Gina Denny @ginad129.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Today is one of the most important days of my career. I am publishing my debut novel this September. A Broken Heart of Blackened Stone is the first book in the Pirate Queen Chronicles, a trilogy about a shapeshifting princess who runs from grief but lands on the wrong side of the law.

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Gina Denny @ginad129.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Tomorrow begins the @/thirty30writingchallenge in place of #NaNoWriMo I created a group but am sort of flying by the seat of my pants here (shocking) Join! Let's encourage each other!!! thirty30k.com/groups/6904d...

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Connect with writers, track your progress, and finish your novels

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Gina Denny @ginad129.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Any time I work with a nonfiction client, I ALWAYS refer them to Eric’s resources. If you’re writing nonfiction, this workshop is absolutely sure to be gold.

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Gina Denny @ginad129.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

“Agents can’t possibly tell if they’re gonna love the book in just the first five pages!!!” Right. But they can tell if it’s not right for them in that amount of time. Sample pages are a filtering tool, and if the agent isn’t hooked, then they’re never gonna fall in love the way they need to.

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Gina Denny @ginad129.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Today I told A Man what I do for a living and in the course of that conversation he laughed at the phrase “self published rapid release romances” So, in case you need some spite and rage to fuel your work today 🫡

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Gina Denny @ginad129.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Literary agents are paid on commission. When you receive money from a publisher, your agent takes a 15% cut. They do not charge reading fees or submission fees or maintenance fees. Do not pay for representation up front.

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Gina Denny @ginad129.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Well that’s a delightful new thing to worry about.

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Gina Denny @ginad129.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

It keeps coming up with some version of “I buy SOME books so it should be okay that I only steal SOME OTHER books” and that just simply isn’t how ethics work

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Gina Denny @ginad129.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

I don’t know why the pro-book-pirating crowd keeps popping up in my algorithm but I don’t support piracy. Use your library. Shop used. Borrow from your friends. Ask for books/bookstore gift cards as gifts. Unless you live in a place where the book is literally illegal: Don’t. Steal. Books.

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Gina Denny @ginad129.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

It’s always a different question. Sometimes it’s about stakes, sometimes about structure, sometimes motivations. But there’s always *something* the author couldn’t see and I love helping them see it.

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Gina Denny @ginad129.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

I’ve been doing “premise and plot” chats with authors, helping them work through stories that are giving them trouble and it has to be some of the most rewarding work I’ve done. There’s always one question that the author hadn’t thought of that unlocks the whole story. It’s like magic.

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Gina Denny @ginad129.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Prologues, but on youtube instead of tiktok this time. And they decided I was too ugly to be taken seriously at my actual job so that’s fun too 🙃

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Gina Denny @ginad129.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

And also… they can just do a hard thing and ignore the lady on the internet!

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Gina Denny @ginad129.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Absolutely love when someone asks for advice and I give advice to that person and basically the advice is “that’s gonna be hard to sell and here’s why” and dudes come from all over to tell me I’m wrong because their favorite something something whatever did it forty years ago so I must be stupid

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Gina Denny @ginad129.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

I’m a “training wheels” and “bumper pads” kind of parent so we slowly introduce elements of smart phones but when I was a teacher I was genuinely shocked by how many kids just … had the whole internet in their pocket with no supervision at all

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Victoria Strauss @victoriastrauss.com · 14/07/2025

1. Scam alert thread! 🧵 Watch out for out-of- the-blue emails from supposed marketing experts claiming they just happened on your book & are eager to promote it. This is something I'm seeing more and more of. Marketing scams aren't new, but this is a new twist.

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Gina Denny @ginad129.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

I’m just an editor, standing in front of your manuscript, begging you to stop making your characters wink every couple pages

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Gina Denny @ginad129.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

The same as more than half of all vowels I say: uh. Which is also how the “a” sounds in that word

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Gina Denny @ginad129.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

So much of it is just a bunch of unsexy business decisions and people do not want to hear about it

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Gina Denny @ginad129.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

If you think traditional publishing doesn’t do *any* marketing, you might just not understand what marketing is. They can and should do more, especially for their marginalized authors and mid list authors. But they are never doing “nothing”.

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Gina Denny @ginad129.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

If you start writing a new wonderfully weird idea, but you run into trouble executing that wonderfully weird idea, there are two possible causes: 1. it’s a dumb idea that won’t work 2. you’re a visionary genius & the only person who can pull it off The only way to know? Keep writing.

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Eric Smith @ericsmithrocks.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Woke up to lots of A.I. and… em dash discourse? If you’re a new writer getting stressed over that, please know using the beloved em dash, en dash, or just a regular ol’ dash is normal and perfectly fine. Don’t let social media twist you into knots over here.

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Gina Denny @ginad129.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

This is what unilateral control of the federal government looks like. And it’s bad.

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Gina Denny @ginad129.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

My ten-year-old is playing Fortnite in his Homer Simpson slippers with headphones on, singing along to Kpop Demon Hunters soundtrack at the top of his lungs and it’s the cutest thing to happen in my house in a long time

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Gina Denny @ginad129.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

And I’m doing that. I have monthly recurring donations to a local food bank and immigrant protection group. Our jobs (the whole family) are all doing the good work. We’re involved in the community. I just feel totally helpless.

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Gina Denny @ginad129.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

I don’t know what to do. I voted. I volunteered. I called my reps (though they all voted against it from the start). I donated. I had hard conversations, so many that I lost friends and lost contact with family. I’m raising my children to do the right thing. But I’m at a loss. What else is there?

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Gina Denny @ginad129.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Does anybody remember that Adam Sandler movie where he gets a remote control so he can skip over all the fun parts of his life and get back to work? No reason.

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Gina Denny @ginad129.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Considering the AI summary of my text messages routinely tells me the exact opposite of what the 12-word text message actually says… It’s gonna be a hard “no” from me on this. Do not ever under any circumstances trust an AI summary of your contract.

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Gina Denny @ginad129.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

I don’t think these clowns know what pizza is

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Mia Uribe @miauribe.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Popping in on this Friday afternoon to tell every aspiring writer on #Bluesky what a wealth of expertise @ginad129.bsky.social is. Seriously—her TikTok, Patreon, editing/pitch services are all exceptional. A treasure! #writersofbluesky #querying #WIP

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Gina Denny @ginad129.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Luckily I did absolutely nothing to summon them, so I can stay outta this one entirely lol

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Gina Denny @ginad129.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

I did not summon the Star Wars guys to my comment section. I never summon Star Wars guys to my comment section. And yet they have arrived anyway.

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Gina Denny @ginad129.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Today I learned that Carla Gugino has a brother AND a father named Carl Gugino

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Gina Denny @ginad129.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Don’t pay anybody. The number of legitimate hybrid publishers is so vanishingly small that you should assume they’re all scams until you’re well-established in the business and have the tools to properly vet them. Don’t pay anyone a single cent to publish your work for you.

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Gina Denny @ginad129.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

There is no such thing as “just” self publishing. Trad pub is not impossible. Both paths are difficult for different reasons, both paths can be the right path for you for different reasons.

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Gina Denny @ginad129.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Writing is an art. Publishing is a business. Your desire to pursue artistic expression does not require you to pursue the business of publishing. You are under no obligation to monetize your joy.

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Gina Denny @ginad129.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

And that it’s THE key to everything 😬

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