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Tara Lundmark

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Author writing YA from somewhere in my daydreams 💛 17 at heart Rep'd by @Charmstrong.bsky.social at Marsal Lyon Literary Agency www.taralundmark.com

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Tara Lundmark @taralundmark.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Congrats, Madelyn! So exciting! ♥️
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Tara Lundmark @taralundmark.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Congrats, Jim!
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Tara Lundmark @taralundmark.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
#alternahaircare #ultaclubcaviar
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Tara Lundmark @taralundmark.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Congrats, @authorjwilck.bsky.social on your release day! Happy book birthday, A Fortune with Benefits! ♥️🇨🇱🤠👢
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Tara Lundmark @taralundmark.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Congrats @anniemcquaid.bsky.social on your book release day! Happy Book Birthday, Crash Landing! ♥️🌴🛩
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Tara Lundmark @taralundmark.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Daily #WordcountCheck: Time for an update! Currently at 86,005, down from 98K. Only 8k to meet my goal. I still have 12 chapters to go. That's about 650 words to cut per chapter. (I have been averaging at least that so far.) Wish me luck! #amwriting #amediting #writingcommunity
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Tara Lundmark @taralundmark.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
I could go on and on. My husband's family is from there and I never get tired of visiting. It's so hard to leave. Please DM if you have any questions at all. We've road-tripped all over in Sweden.
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Tara Lundmark @taralundmark.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
If you want to get out of town, I highly suggest Skellefteå. Medium city with amenities up north, but located on a river and so quiet & laid back. Small town & historical charm. It's light out all night in summer like a fairy dream. Spend Midsummer's Eve there if possible! 🇸🇪
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Tara Lundmark @taralundmark.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Stockholm is a beautiful city. Take a tour via the boats through the archipelago. Skansen is an outdoor historical museum that makes a great outing paired with the Wasa Ship museum. Shopping & take public transport. A ferry to Drotningholm palace is also fun. Gamla stan old town shopping...
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Tara Lundmark @taralundmark.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Lol. I had the entire crew prepping my colonoscopy asking questions about my writing as the anesthesiologist was getting down to business 🤣 Weirdest nap I ever had...
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Tara Lundmark @taralundmark.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Where will you be (Stockholm or other areas) and for how long? There is so much 🥰🥰🥰
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Tara Lundmark @taralundmark.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Daily #WordcountCheck: Time for an update! Currently at 89,338. I only cut 422 words today. I'm hoping to get back on track this week. My original goal was to cut 600 per day, but I've proven I can do twice that. Must. Keep. Going. #amwriting #amediting #writingcommunity
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Tara Lundmark @taralundmark.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
That's great progress! 1000 a day is awesome!
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Tara Lundmark @taralundmark.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Daily #WordcountCheck: Time for an update! Currently 89,760, down from 98k I've been slow this week (spring break shook things up a bit). 1660 words cut since Monday. Not my best, but it's progress. Anyone else off target for spring break? #amwriting #amediting #writingcommunity
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Tara Lundmark @taralundmark.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
😄😄😄
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Tara Lundmark @taralundmark.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Daily #WordcountCheck: Monday update! Today I cut 1587 words, my biggest daily slash yet. I'm down to 91,420 from 98k. I don't dare send this MS to my agent @charmstrong.bsky.social until it's slashed & pretty. IYKYK #CathieMadeMeDoIt #amwriting #amediting #writingcommunity
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Tara Lundmark @taralundmark.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Daily #WordcountCheck: Update from yesterday. I'm at 93,007. My end goal is 78k. I cut 1111 words yesterday 💪 I'm up to chapter 8 and have consistently been able to cut 20% of each chapter. Am I an overwriter? Yes. Do you overwrite or underwrite? #amwriting #amediting #writingcommunity
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Tara Lundmark @taralundmark.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Thanks! I feel like I haven't been super productive lately, so setting a deadline & goals might help this actually get done. 🤪
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Tara Lundmark @taralundmark.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Daily #WordcountCheck: I'm at 94,118. My end goal is 78k. Aiming to cut at least 600 every day. That's 1336 cut since yesterday. Over double my daily goal. 🎉 Feel free to join me with a word count goal (positive or negative.) #amwriting #amediting #writingcommunity
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Tara Lundmark @taralundmark.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Daily #WordcountCheck: I'm at 95,454. My end goal is 78k. Aiming to cut at least 600 every day. That's 1213 cut since yesterday. Double my daily goal. 🎉 Feel free to join me with a word count goal (positive or negative.) #amwriting #amediting #writingcommunity
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Tara Lundmark @taralundmark.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Daily #WordcountCheck: I'm at 96,667. My goal is 78k. Aiming to cut at least 600 every day. Feel free to join me with a word count goal (positive or negative.) #amwriting #amediting #writingcommunity
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Tara Lundmark @taralundmark.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Luckily it's a first draft and I'm a total over-writer, so I know there's tons to cut. I just need to get down to it. 😅
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Tara Lundmark @taralundmark.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Well, I'm editing and I really need to cut about 20k from my manuscript. So here's my attempt at accountability. My goal is to chop 600 words a day. Let's see how I do. Anyone else have a word count goal (positive or negative?) Let's do this! #amwriting #amediting #writingcommunity
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Tara Lundmark @taralundmark.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Haha! You noticed!
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Tara Lundmark @taralundmark.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
My pre-order just arrived! So excited! It's beautiful 😍 Biggest congrats, @vvmontalban.bsky.social ♥️♥️♥️ #TheseVengefulWishes
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Tara Lundmark @taralundmark.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Wish I could be at your event tonight! Knock it out of the park ♥️
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Tara Lundmark @taralundmark.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Happiest book birthday, dear @vvmontalban.bsky.social I'm so excited for you and your amazing book These Vengeful Wishes!!!!
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Tara Lundmark @taralundmark.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Congrats to @jckenney.bsky.social and book birthday to Murder Under the Marquee!
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Tara Lundmark @taralundmark.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
This sounds amazing! Good luck 🤞
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Tara Lundmark @taralundmark.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Im so excited to go on submission to publishers soon for my historical fiction set in 1800s Sweden. #onsub #writingcommunity #historicalfiction #sweden taralundmark.com/f/researchin...
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Researching my Historical Fiction: A Wish Upon the Water
My husband's family is from Skellefteå, a small town in Northern Sweden. The first time I visited in 2005, one of the first things we did was tour the historic center of town called the Bonnstan, or "...
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Tara Lundmark @taralundmark.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Thank you!
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Tara Lundmark @taralundmark.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
My mom just sent me a picture of a watercolor she found at my aunt's house. I painted this portrait of her cats, Cleo and Sheba, thirty years ago when I visited her the summer of my senior year ♥️ #caturday
Watercolor painting of two Siamese cats
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Tara Lundmark @taralundmark.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
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Tara Lundmark @taralundmark.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
@shameezwrites.bsky.social Happy book birthday / release day, Shameez! So excited for you and for the world to meet your darling, nerdy characters 💕 Hope your day is wonderful!
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Tara Lundmark @taralundmark.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
Merry Christmas, Jim!
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Tara Lundmark @taralundmark.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
Happy Hannukah! ❤️
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Megan @writtenmeg.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Hello #writingcommunity ! As we are close to the end of 2024, I'd like to offer some querying advice for those planning to submit their work to agents in the new year. This will encompass how to write a standout query letter.
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P. Djéli Clark | The Disgruntled Haradrim @pdjeliclark.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
good morning.
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Claribel A. Ortega @claribelortega.com · 07/12/2024
the dream agent, publisher, whatever is the person or company that is a champion for you and your career, period, and often you won't know that till you're working with them so don't put them on a pedestal before they've even shown you their worth
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Cathie Hedrick-Armstrong, Lit Agent @charmstrong.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Dear #WritingCommunity & #QueryingAuthors I know some have been waiting for me to reopen. Unfortunately, I'm still getting through partials & fulls, & I owe it to those authors to finish those out before reopening. Right now, estimated open date is mid-late December. www.tinyurl.com/cathiesmswl
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Cathie Hedrick-Armstrong – The Official Manuscript Wish List Website
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Tara Lundmark @taralundmark.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Good luck querying! It's definitely progress!
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Tara Lundmark @taralundmark.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Fun! ❄️
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Kelly Dyksterhouse @kellydhouse.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
One of the best ways for #writers to gauge the literary market is to read recent releases from DEBUT authors. Why? These are writers whom publishers are willing to take a risk on, who don’t yet have a following, which means publishers believe their book has market value.
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Feather Flores ❄️☕️ @featherfully.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
‼️ Friends! The Support Trans Kids book auction is LIVE!!! ‼️ From now until FRIDAY 12/5, you can bid on all sorts of incredible bookish items in support of charities that provide support to queer youth, INCLUDING an hour-long mentorship session with me! 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼 www.32auctions.com/organization...
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"Mentorship Session with Feather Flores" 

Win a 60-minute Zoom call with Feather Flores, editor at Simon & Schuster’s Atheneum Books for Young Readers, to discuss any and all things publishing: industry, craft, career, you name it! Before the call, Feather will read up to three picture book manuscripts (plus pitches) OR first five chapters of a MG/YA novel (plus pitch and synopsis), as well as a one-sheet of all your projects in the works, so you can discuss together. 

BIO:
Feather Flores joined Atheneum in 2022 after four years at Chronicle Books. She works on smart, joyful picture books; middle grade romps with coming-of-age themes; distinctive, atmospheric graphic novels; and bold, open-hearted YA that explores everything our identities, and our world, can be. Her list encompasses fiction and nonfiction, with an emphasis on stories by, about, and for people from marginalized communities. She was named a PW Star Watch Honoree in 2023 and an inaugural recipient of the We Need Diverse Books Internship Grant in 2015. You can explore her full manuscript wishlist at featherflores.com.
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Tara Lundmark @taralundmark.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
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Tara Lundmark @taralundmark.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
This is my constant struggle...
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Tara Lundmark @taralundmark.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
#kidlitchat Goals for the next 3 months -Cut 20k words from Manuscript #6 and send to critique partners -Revisit Manuscript #2 and polish to send to agent -Go on sub with Manuscript #4
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Tara Lundmark @taralundmark.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
##amquerying reminder
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Sandra Proudman @sandraproudman.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Please share widely 🙏🏼 I am taking item donations (literally anything from the publishing community or readers) for the next #KidLit4Ceasefire fundraiser to run Jan 15th through 31st. I am at about 100 items, trying to get to at least 500. airtable.com/appgMC1CTRup...
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Tara Lundmark @taralundmark.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
#kidlitchat Late to the game, but here we go: I finished a full draft of manuscript #6. I polished manuscript #4 to get ready for submission & polished manuscript #1 to send to my agent. I updated & made my website pretty with editor guides for each of my manuscripts. Hoping for a successful sub!
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