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Nicole Winchester 📚 @nicolewinchester.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Hit me with the first line of your novel, published/finished or not. #authorsky #writesky #amwriting "No one noticed two men materialize at an empty table in Lincoln's Waffle Shop."

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Nicole Winchester 📚 @nicolewinchester.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I dreamed last night that they made Nightcrawler gay in the next Marvel movie. He was dating Bobby/Iceman, who is canonically gay. Every comic book nerd with a YouTube channel was incensed. Look at this dude though. Prime Tumblr twink material. #xmen #Marvel

Nightcrawler holding three swords, one with his tail.

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Nicole Winchester 📚 @nicolewinchester.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

#latenightwrite I have too many wips. One of them is a horror-comedy about a succubus. One of them is a dark comedy/drama about a former child actress and a ghost. One of them is IDK genre about a man who thinks he has to become a Buddha or his demons will kill him. They're all stuck somehow.

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Nicole Winchester 📚 @nicolewinchester.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

The new Medicaid work requirements are going to kill people. There are 7 million open jobs in the US right now. There are 66 million people on medicaid. 36 percent between 19 and 64 don't currently work for non health reasons. That's about 9 million more people competing for 7 million jobs

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Nicole Winchester 📚 @nicolewinchester.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

it should not be 90 degrees in September where I live. It should not be 90 degrees in September. IT SHOULD NOT BE 90 DEGREES IN SEPTEMBER!!

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Nicole Winchester 📚 @nicolewinchester.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Me to my boyfriend: what happened to the fruit I put in the fridge? My boyfriend:

This is just to say by William Carlos williams: I have eaten the plums that were in the icebox, and which you were probably saving for breakfast, forgive me they were delicious so sweet and so cold

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Nicole Winchester 📚 @nicolewinchester.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

The character arc of the MMC. He takes a major backseat to the FMC. It's a delicate balance between them. He's a hopeless dork who doesn't understand women and kinda refuses to. I have to figure out how to develop him somehow, either that or make his character arc go more negative.

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Nicole Winchester 📚 @nicolewinchester.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

"I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb... I also know I'm not blonde." -Dolly Parton 💜

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Nicole Winchester 📚 @nicolewinchester.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

August 19th just FEELS like a Wednesday, doesn't it?

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Nicole Winchester 📚 @nicolewinchester.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

We're under a regime that can't handle it when a woman is even the slightest bit mean to them

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Nicole Winchester 📚 @nicolewinchester.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Thinking about renaming my unfinished novel from "American Buddha" to "Appointment in Samsara" but I feel like that might be a little too obscure for even the most pretentious MFA.

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Allison Alexander @aealexander.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

If you are looking for comps for your query letter, check out these databases for sci-fi, fantasy, and horror novels published in the last year: www.aealexander.com/comp-finder-... #Querying #AmQuerying

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Comp-Finder Databases — Allison Alexander

Looking for comparative titles for your query letter? Access these databases of fantasy, sci-fi, and horror novels published in the last five years.

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Nicole Winchester 📚 @nicolewinchester.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

On a "monstrous woman" kick rn, sometimes literally. Any suggestions? #booksky

cover for Such Sharp Teeth by Rachel Harrison, a silhouette of a werewolf over a blood moon on a black background

Cover for Pretty Evil by Zoe Rosi, pink background with a knife substituting the T and the I

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Nicole Winchester 📚 @nicolewinchester.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Just finished my ARC copy of The Lord of The Wood by @elizmanderson.com and it was lovely! Read my review here: www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

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See what your friends are reading

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Nicole Winchester 📚 @nicolewinchester.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

I haven't written or submitted a short story in quite a long time, since The Messenger took up all my time and energy. It felt great to write a fun little Halloween-y piece. If it doesn't get accepted anywhere before Halloween then I'll post it to my blog.

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Nicole Winchester 📚 @nicolewinchester.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

No, Outlook, I don't want to see memories FROM MY EMAIL. What would you show me, a utility bill? A receipt? GET OUDDA HERE

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Nicole Winchester 📚 @nicolewinchester.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Please, brain, stop thinking about yet another book idea I beg you, I just wrote 30k words of a book, it's going so well and it has an outline and everything, don't make me keep stopping and starting please #authorsky

guy looking behind meme at girl captioned "another story idea," man looking behind captioned "me," girl he's with captioned "my 9738 unfinished projects"

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Nicole Winchester 📚 @nicolewinchester.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Dealing with an AQI of over 300 and 95 degree weather at the same time IS NOT FUN.

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Nicole Winchester 📚 @nicolewinchester.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

It's so hot that my boyfriend had to beg for the Popsicles I was saving for myself (he can have them I'm not a monster)

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Nicole Winchester 📚 @nicolewinchester.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Now that I've queried The Messenger to approximately 49,058,292 literary agents, OF COURSE I think of the perfect sentence to add to the end of the blurb to tie the FMC's past to her present predicament, the one thing that everyone said was slightly off with the query in the first place.

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Nicole Winchester 📚 @nicolewinchester.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

"Why's everything gotta be so political??" Because politics affects every aspect of your life that's why ya dingus

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Nicole Winchester 📚 @nicolewinchester.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

reworking my query and requerying my manuscript and waiting and waiting and waiting and a little more waiting just for the heck of it

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Nicole Winchester 📚 @nicolewinchester.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

I know it's Saturday already. I don't care. "She tried to say, 'I’m fine,' but what came out was a mouthful of noodle vomit."

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Nicole Winchester 📚 @nicolewinchester.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

I was talking to someone at work about books they've read lately. They said they read some Sylvia Plath. I responded with, "Oh, I really wanted to read The Bell End." There was a long pause. Then I said, "Jar. I meant jar." Thankfully we're American so the joke didn't ruin my life. But it could have

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Nicole Winchester 📚 @nicolewinchester.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Is greed technically an emotion? Because it's already bankrupting humanity pretty quickly

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Nicole Winchester 📚 @nicolewinchester.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

I remember suddenly becoming fully conscious while playing outside at daycare. I think I was 5. I thought to myself, "Wow, I can think! Neat!"

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AK @aimzkritty.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

We’re so fucked

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Nicole Winchester 📚 @nicolewinchester.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

#SFFChat A4 I'd probably watch angels and demons going to war, but like, at a safe distance with a lawn chair and lemonade and some of those eclipse sunglasses so I don't get blinded. #writersky #writingcommunity #booksky #authorsky

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Nicole Winchester 📚 @nicolewinchester.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Gabriel (an angel) doesn't get to experience much leisure, but he does get a chance to sing. He would sing all the time if he were allowed to. Miranda (human) likes dancing around her kitchen when nobody is watching. #SFFChat #authorsky #writingcommunity #writersky #booksky

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Nicole Winchester 📚 @nicolewinchester.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Well, The Messenger is low fantasy set in the real world, so people do what they normally would to relax. Angels, however, are always on guard. #SFFChat #booksky #writingcommunity #authorsky

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Nicole Winchester 📚 @nicolewinchester.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Yes, some people skip descriptions to only read the dialogue. No, I don't take them seriously when they say they read 200 books a year. Fight me. #booksky

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Nicole Winchester 📚 @nicolewinchester.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

I used to think I only had one story inside of me I had to tell. Lol. Lmfao, even.

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Nicole Winchester 📚 @nicolewinchester.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

I want the world to start using "American" as an idiom to describe stuff that is completely fucked up. "It's been a real American winter, hasn't it?" "That's an American hackjob right there."

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Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

we have ALWAYS had the ability to NOT make something and pretend that we did. the difference now is theres an algorithm built for convincing people whove never stepped outside the theater door for a smoke break on opening night that they actually have. they have not. there is no ai for that.

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Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

in other words IT IS NOT THE PRODUCT. yes, it is cool to see your name on a marquee or your book in a store or your face on a poster, but the REASON this is cool is because it tethers you to the BETWEEN TIMES. the between times are everything. the PROCESS of creation is a gift to yourself

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Sydney Says @sohwriting.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Instead of solving all of Miriam’s problems, fulfilling the prophecy has saddled her with guilt, a town swimming in debt, and an elf she can neither keep nor free.

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Nicole Winchester 📚 @nicolewinchester.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Well since nobody seems to know about any upcoming pitch events, everyone go ahead and give me the logline to the thing you're working on right now and I will judge them like a diving competition. #authorsky #writersky #writingcommunity #amwriting

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Nicole Winchester 📚 @nicolewinchester.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Hey yo, does anyone know when somebody's doing another pitch event? I always tend to miss them. #writingcommunity #writing #authorsky #booksky #writersky

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Nicole Winchester 📚 @nicolewinchester.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

My antagonist (one of them) is basically, what if Ryan Gosling was secretly a huge asshole.

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ceej @ceej.online · 12/05/2026

no, babe. you’re not “defending western civilization.” you are a dip shit

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Nicole Winchester 📚 @nicolewinchester.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

I just solidified my subplot and I am zooominnng it works so nice and fits into the main message so welll

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Nicole Winchester 📚 @nicolewinchester.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

I have the irresistible urge to give all my protagonists animal companions. I don't know if it's from being raised on Disney princess movies or what, but I've found the MCs reactions to animals reveals a lot about their character.

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Nicole Winchester 📚 @nicolewinchester.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

I decided to use the meekest character as the only POV in my new novel. It's making it so tantalizingly interesting (and necessary) to find ways for her to use her voice and gain her confidence. #authorsky #writersky #booksky

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Nicole Winchester 📚 @nicolewinchester.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

#writersky #authorsky A small tip for combating the existential threat of writer's block: things don't have to lead to the key moment you've come up with. Maybe it's the key moments that need to change. Maybe it's the journey that's right, not the destination.

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E.D.E. Bell @edebell.com · 06/05/2026

Kenn is so *thrilled* that people are ordering his book. Trust me, you're not going to read anything else like this. And it's fascinating. Either way, you support an Indigenous Elder. Give it a look? (And there's an awesome blurb by the talented and gorgeous @christianek.bsky.social!)

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Agita Publishing @agitapublishing.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Happy Monday! Today we launch a fundraiser to help defray the costs of our forthcoming anthology SIDE HUSTLE: HORROR STORIES FOR LATE CAPITALISM. Oodles of great rewards including signed books by our invited authors Lauren Bolger, Poppy Z. Brite, and Mae Murray. Open call for subs coming in 10 days.

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Side Hustle: Horror Stories for Late Capitalism

An anthology of stories about the things we do to survive.

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Nicole Winchester 📚 @nicolewinchester.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Insomnia Orange Sounds more like a lipstick color (Can never beat Low Libido Beef Burrito though)

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Nicole Winchester 📚 @nicolewinchester.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

All I want is to make predictions about the far future and have them all be 100% correct so the generation that finds my writing will think I'm Nostradamus

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