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Lama // لاما ⚔️🇵🇸📚 @thebookesquire.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

PALESTINIAN X CITY OF BRASS Cursed by the blood-soaked decisions of their ancestors, a banished prince, brooding commander, and warrior woman must save their empire from a genocidal king. 🕊️ elemental magic vs spirit/blood magic 🕊️ secret cult 🕊️ simmering romance #questpit #Q #A #F #DF #RF

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Katie Wu @katiewuwrites.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

I GOT BOOK DEAL🥺cryingggg 🔗in bïo for my substack which has all the details about my six-figure deal #writersky #author #writing #fantasybook

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Katie Wu @katiewuwrites.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Spite is my most powerful motivator

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Katie Wu @katiewuwrites.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

The severance pacing was whack and they didn’t do a good job seeding certain plot twists or plot points for it to be effective lol

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Katie Wu @katiewuwrites.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

I may have had a mini breakthrough in my Asian gothic book and it was thanks to a VIDEO GAME #writersky

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Katie Wu @katiewuwrites.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

📣NEWS: MADDER LAKE, my Night Circus but magic painting academia book, has new rep! I’m obsessed w my two lovesick (read: in denial) horny-for-colors art students and I’m excited to try to sell this with my agent Jim McCarthy!!! #writersky #darkacademia #booknews #rivalstolovers #writingcommunity

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Katie Wu @katiewuwrites.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Trying to get back to my historical speculative Asian gothic wip but it’s feeling like the toughest thing I’ve ever written

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Katie Wu @katiewuwrites.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Happy lunar new year🧧🐍

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Katie Wu @katiewuwrites.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

I’m taking the first two-week break I have really taken from writing in the last year 🫠 what do I do w all this time

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Fonda Lee @fondalee.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

I've stayed in a pretty good mood this week by dissociating from reality

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Katie Wu @katiewuwrites.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Writing tip of the day…rejections always hurt but the nice ones sometimes hurt MORE??? #writersky #writingtip

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Katie Wu @katiewuwrites.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

😱BAT EATER is a horror book about the anti-Asian h8 crimes in NYC during the pandemic…SO YOU BET IM GONNA READ IT!!! I lived through that shit 😤 #booksky #bateater #bookrecs

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Ali Enchanted @alienchanted.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Yoooooo this cover art (minus the text and placement) is SO GOOD. #dramione #booksky

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Katie Wu @katiewuwrites.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Idk why I keep doing extreme patience-based hobbies (writing, running, bike touring)…now SOURDOUGH💀

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Katie Wu @katiewuwrites.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

This book reminds me of The Spear Cuts Through Water but murder mystery politics - I LOVE IT SO FAR

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Katie Wu @katiewuwrites.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Once again crying 🥲 happy to have made an impact no matter how big or small #booksky #writersky

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Katie Wu @katiewuwrites.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

On a happier note, I’ve discovered that running is like exactly like writing: pain pain pain for hours but for some reason I do it anyway 🫠 #writersky #writingcommunity

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Katie Wu @katiewuwrites.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Posting my final screenshot here as I move through the stages of grief lol #booksky

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Katie Wu @katiewuwrites.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Whether this is a PR stunt or if TT has been given to Meta, it just feels like I’m being sold to the highest bidder bc in America, everything is for sale apparently

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Katie Wu @katiewuwrites.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

these comments always make me sad and grateful💞 I will be relaunching on YouTube (Link in bio to pre subscribe 🥲)

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Can a headline alone be eligible for a Pulitzer?

I knew one day I’d have to watch powerful men burn the world down – I just didn’t expect them to be such losers

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Katie Wu @katiewuwrites.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

I sent them 1200 words frenetically typed in 40 min

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Katie Wu @katiewuwrites.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

You know what it feels like? Like you wrote a whole ass book and then a few ugly losers dumped water on your laptop

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Katie Wu @katiewuwrites.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

I don’t think most people understand how much effort it takes to make content - each TikTok took me 2 hrs to script/film, and another 2 hrs to edit…all for 4 min of content. I DID THAT FOR TWO YEARS!!! FOR FREE BASICALLY and now it’s all gone #tiktokban #contentcreator

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Katie Wu @katiewuwrites.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Someone from The New Yorker emailed me asking to talk to a booktoker about how it feels to lose booktok well LEMME TELL U #booktok #booksky

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Katie Wu @katiewuwrites.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

I’M TIRED OF FEELING LIKE IM BEING SOLD

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Katie Wu @katiewuwrites.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

These kind of messages make me cry and all that turns into anger #tiktokban #writingcommunity #writersky

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Katie Wu @katiewuwrites.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

I made actual money on tiktok, now I’m PISSED

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Moly @molywrites.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

What if Buffy the vampire slayer was a Filipino gardener? Then she’d wield her trowel as a stake against🩸blood-thirsty monsters🩸terrorizing her island, find a way to complete 3 magical collections before the blood moon to eradicate them—oh, and navigate a ❤️‍🔥love triangle❤️‍🔥 #P2Pit #YA #F #RF #Q

Two figures in a lake at night. The sky is starry and it looks like dots of light are either pouring into the lake or being pulled from the lake. The title of the novel is THEY CLAIMED THE NIGHT and the comp titles of WHERE THE DARK STANDS STILL and WHAT THE RIVER KNOWS ARE LISTED.

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Jenny @kiffwrites.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

OUABH X CASTLEVANIA NOCTURNE X READY OR NOT ♠️An Alice in Wonderlandesque débutante competition ✨in a Versailles palace 💎w/deadly bargains 🩸 and even deadlier vampires #P2Ppit #uw #f #crossover

3x3 Moodboard of my pitch with photos of candles, mazes, Versailles, the wall of mirrors, a vial of blood, a tea set, a clock and the two mcs

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Katie Wu @katiewuwrites.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

🖤DIVINE RIVALS x BABEL art school🎨…as ao3 tags: Scholarship girl x Posh rival, magic painting contest, horny-for-colors, barbie rapunzel magic system, drawing each other is a form of denial, blood infections, DIY paint from plants, what’s rivalry if not obsession, mushrooms #P2Ppit #RF #F #A #Q #UW

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Katie Wu @katiewuwrites.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

🎨THE NIGHT CIRCUS but magic painting academia🖤 Homesick immigrant teams up w/ hot posh rival to win magic painting contest when her scholarship is cancelled—while they anonymously collab on a new magic canvas that could change the world …and try not to kiss. #P2Ppit #F #A #UW #RF #Q

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Deanna J. Valdez 📚 ✍️ @deannajvaldez.com · 13/01/2025

💀 Deal with a devil 🔑 Unlock a dark power 🔥 Unravel a hidden heritage ADDIE LA RUE X JUNIPER & THORN In THE DEVIL OF LOST THINGS, Ria’s Faustian bargain grants her the power to find lost things—but at a deadly price. What must she become to escape Hell’s grip? #BluePit #Q #A #F 📖📚💙🪐

THE DEVIL OF LOST THINGS mood board. Image sources: victoriamisu, Off-Road – Suburban Men, Hope Stands Alone - The Closing Eclipse Cover Art, Alamy Stock Photo, Intercepted Gravitation - The Ball by Gaston la Touche, 1889, Heidi Oracion - Pinterest, Stock Photo, Victorian London Setting of Jekyll & Hyde by Maria Xose, Boiserie from the Hôtel de Varengeville, Albarracín (Teruel), Spain | Flickr Photo by Martin Zalba

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Katie Wu @katiewuwrites.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Not exaggerating, I literally owe ALL of my writing successes to #BookTok (finding an initial agent, getting to speak on panels, meeting publishers, getting agent referrals the second time around)…AND IM FURIOUS THEY’RE TAKING IT FROM ME #tiktokban

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EllieAboutTown @ellieabouttown.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

When Ser Emeric is accused of the latest undead attack, he decides to resurrect the legendary Saint who defeated them centuries before to ask for help. Unfortunately, he gets her martyred sister instead. ~ Saints & Martyrs ~ One Dark Window x 6 Deaths of the Saint #bluepit #f #w #a #r #d

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Katie Wu @katiewuwrites.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

🖌️Adult DIVINE RIVALS x BARBIE RAPUNZEL movie (lol) Magic painting contest. MC makes paints from carnivorous plants. Hot posh rival is #sadboi and chaotic. Blood infections?? They must collaborate for plot reasons and kissing. Everyone is horny for colors. 📖 #BluePit #A #F #Q

Screenshot from Barbie RAPUNZEL movie showing Barbie and dragon standing in front of a painting on a wall

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Katie Wu @katiewuwrites.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Sorry for how often I spam pitch MADDER LAKE (divine rivals x magic painting contest) lol I’m just really in love w this story 😌🧚 fun fact: I almost went to art school #writingcommunity #writersky

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Katie Wu @katiewuwrites.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

🎨THE NIGHT CIRCUS but magic painting academia🖤 Homesick immigrant girl teams up w/ hot posh boy rival to win magic painting contest when her scholarship is cancelled…while they anonymously collab on a new magic canvas that could change the world …and try not to kiss 📖 #BluePit #A #Q #F

3x3 collage of a painting of a girl, two hands touching, a close up for a veiny hand, a painting of someone holding a book, painting of two people holding each other, paint brushes, a motif of a stained glass window, a gloomy tree, a boy silhouetted

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Katie Wu @katiewuwrites.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

🎨DIVINE RIVALS x BABEL x magic painting contest Homesick immigrant girl must collab w hot posh boy rival when her scholarship is canceled. 🧚…they both find a magic canvas that can change the contest (and the world) 💀…he’s secretly a scholarship student too 😱…they kiss #BluePit #A #YA #F #Q #OV

3x3 collage showing Asian MC, two hands touching, hand touching a book, mossy trees, a man and woman at a ball, pigments, a man in an art studio, a poetic quote, a silhouetted man

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Katie Wu @katiewuwrites.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

INSTAGRAM REELS IS THE BAD PLACE

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Katie Wu @katiewuwrites.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

I love rereading my early goals for a book once I finish editing bc sometimes it be like damn I really cooked there

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Katie Wu @katiewuwrites.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Nosferatu x TikTok last night @ Church of the Intercession 🖤🥀

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Katie Wu @katiewuwrites.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

🖼️ DIVINE RIVALS x magic painting contest snippet #holipit #writersky #F #NA #Q

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Katie Wu @katiewuwrites.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

1906, San Francisco Chinatown. A second generation Chinese laundry girl kills herself to go to limbo to save her dying older sister. 🗡️Asian Gothic 💧both sisters are sad, but one has a sword 🌑 manifestation of pollution as demons 🖤LI is a will-o-wisp 🥀Father Nature villain? #wippit #A #F

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Katie Wu @katiewuwrites.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Had such a lovely time yapping and giggling w @theagwrites.bsky.social, Alex, and Ava at BN Union Square ☺️ congrats on the launch of MONSOON RISING ❤️🖤 #writersky #authors #booklaunch #booksky #monsoonrising #thehurricanewars

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Katie Wu @katiewuwrites.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

fyi writers, if you need an easy way to make 3x3 photo grids without canva i discovered this super easy website that does it in 1 second #writesky #writer #author #writingtip

mollykannn.github.io

3x3 Photo Grid

Create your 3x3 Photo Grid

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