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@thelaurenline.bsky.social
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a mixxy-adjacent gemini 📍DMV 📚 #amquerying INTIMATE FRIENDS (WF/CR) 🖊️ writer, editor, sports marketer 🍊Syracuse Alumna ✨ @Forbes U30 '23. 🙏🏾Isaiah 41:10.

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Lauren @thelaurenline.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
After a week of sleeping, another of waiting for tears to fall, a third spent surviving on pastries, pizza, and pasta, and a final week binging Sex and the City and Insecure, I’ve officially had enough of rotting on the couch in grief. #1stLinePit #WIP #A #Con #R #Com #WF #CMe
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a man is crying while laying on a couch with his eyes closed .
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Lauren @thelaurenline.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
“If the doctor had warned me that clothes would disappear from my closet beginning in my daughter’s teenage years, I would've told him my fingers were crossed for a boy.” BEFORE I LET GO X SEVEN DAYS IN JUNE = INTIMATE FRIENDS #1stLinePit #A #Q #WF #CON #R #COM #CMe
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Lauren @thelaurenline.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
There are a handful of songs that really capture the vibe...but the title song, "Intimate Friends" by Eddie Kendricks is really the entire moment, inspiration, and heart of the book #RomComMarch
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Lauren @thelaurenline.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
A writer I really admire told me my novel put her in the mind of throwbacks like Terry McMillan. BRB going to weep.
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ᴍɪᴋᴀʏᴇʟ ᴍʏᴇʀs @chaclo.blacksky.app · 25/02/2025
Everything is gonna work out.
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Lauren @thelaurenline.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Thank you!
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J. K. Lambo @jklambo.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
ooo, this sounds like a good book! 😍
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Christine is agented @thechristinewrites.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
And dreams do come true!!
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Lauren @thelaurenline.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
I can’t wait to add this to my library!!
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Christine is agented @thechristinewrites.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
This is your agent’s guide to Love, Witches, and Wahala: where ancient magic collides with modern romance, curses are harder to break than hearts, and sometimes love spells turn into a full-blown magical disaster. 🍷✨ #RomanticFantasy #agentsguide #questpit #onsubsoon
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amarie is ✨ON SUB✨ @amariewrites.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
MEET MY MCs! When Amara struggles to find a contractor to renovate her plus-size boutique, she enlists the help of her ex-childhood best friend (& first love), Theo, who she hasn’t spoken to in 8 years💐 #questpit #r #agented
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Lauren @thelaurenline.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Writing the book was easy (enough), editing was (painfully) easy, but querying? I HAVE NEVER IN MY LIFE FELT LIKE THIS.
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a woman is crying while wearing a sweater that says i voted today on it .
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Lauren @thelaurenline.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
And suddenly...I'm obsessed with Marcellina Akpojotor
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Christine is agented @thechristinewrites.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
HAVE YOU SEEN THIS!!! Read it, and it's a book we all should have on our shelves.
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m 🌸 @maggiesbooks.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
HAPPY PLACE + EVERY SUMMER AFTER = NONE OF THIS WAS REAL If you love someone, let them go and if they come back for your sister's wedding, then nothing can possibly go wrong. She broke his heart years ago. She wants him back. He doesn’t trust her. But should she even trust him? #questpit #q #r
An Agent’s Guide to 
None of This Was Real
Adult Contemporary RomanceThe Pitch

 If you love someone, let them go and if they come back for your sister's wedding, then nothing can possibly go wrong.

Jasper’s life in NYC is falling apart. She might get fired and she’s not over her last relationship. She arrives at her family’s lake house in the Quebec Laurentians for her sister’s wedding week only to find her favorite ex is also invited. She broke his heart years ago. She wants him back. He doesn’t trust her. But should she even trust him?

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Every Summer After by Carley Fortune
Happy Place by Emily Henry
Seven Summers by Paige ToonWhat to expect
Canadian Setting
Two timelines
Family Drama
2010s Nostalgia
Flawed characters
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𝓓𝓮𝓼𝓼 ⚢ @iamdess.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
No response is a response. & it’s a powerful one. remember that baby ❤️
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VP is editing portal romantasy 💫 @vpwrites87.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Interstellar x Atlantis Sparks fly between a genius astrophysicist and her gruff benefactor as they attempt to unlock the secrets of a desolate planet before the lethal organism which destroyed it is unleashed throughout the entire galaxy. #questpit #SF #R #A #W
Mood board with space and sea vibes. Lots of purples and blues and vast expanses. There’s a jellyfish billowing its tendrils in one of the mood board tiles. The middle tile has a quote: “What do you know of the lost planet Arentis?” Followed by the description “Adult Sci-Fi Romance” and the social media handle @vpwrites78
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gabby is now ✨elle reed✨ @gabbywrites.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
THE SUMMER OF BROKEN RULES X HIGHLY SUSPICIOUS AND UNFAIRLY CUTE ☀️close-knit coastal town and weekly beach bonfires ☀️slow burn between ex-best friends ☀️secret beach hideaway ☀️end of the summer festival ☀️she may (or may not be) his muse 🤭 #questpit #Q #YA #R
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J. K. Lambo @jklambo.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
🧁 She's a jaded pastry chef 🍰 He's a charismatic baker ❤️‍🔥 When their rivalry reaches an all-time high and sugar-coated lies turn to bitter truths, will they be able to achieve their desires w/o getting burned or will all they’ve worked for end up in flames? #questpit #R #NA #W
Project Sugar and Spice moodboard 

Top row: black girl with afro wearing shirt and chef's apron holding a basket of bread; black couple spending time together; black guy with dreadlocks and beard wearing glasses

Middle row: sheets of thin pastry beside rolling pin sprinkled with flour; "are you flirting or starting a fight?" quote; choux pastry filled with homemade pastry cream  sprinkled with powdered sugar

Bottom row: Bowl of Nigerian puff puff drizzled with melted chocolate; baking ingredients like butter, sugar, eggs, and flour on black surface; cannelés de Bordeaux on wooden board
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Lauren @thelaurenline.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
BEFORE I LET GO x SEVEN DAYS IN JUNE When ready to give up on dating, one woman meets the man of her dreams through an unlikely matchmaker—her ex-husband, who clings tight to a gut-wrenching secret that’s bound to devastate the most intimate relationships in his life. #questpit #Q #A #R
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The Hottest Girl in Otaku 🔥 @libruh3.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
I quite literally only want to pour into me at this point of my life 💕
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Lauren @thelaurenline.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
I really love my book a whole lot and really soon, I hope an agent falls in love with it too 🥹
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Lauren @thelaurenline.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
discussing, sharing, experiencing music together is top tier intimacy.
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Lauren @thelaurenline.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
My friend wrote a book and the cover is here! I’m so excited to share the gorgeous design for The Recipe of Us, a heartfelt slow-burn romance about love, growth, and finding a home. Coming May 20th, 2025—add it to your TBR now! 💕 #TheRecipeOfUs #writingcommunity #booksky
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Naima Cochrane @stillnaima.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Zendaya and Tom Holland being engaged makes me perhaps unreasonably happy. I'm really rooting for them.
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Mel Smith @iammelsmith.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
The entire Mother album is a balm.
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Lauren @thelaurenline.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
Being blind to the signs that were always there <
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Lauren @thelaurenline.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Bad Sisters season 1 was an absolute banger. Apple TV really not missing!
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
A group of retired Black women in Philly gather weekly to sew period pads for girls in Africa. Along the way, they've also built a community here "We believe in each other and have faith in ourselves, and we have faith others are going to support us”
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Dozens of Black women in Philly gather weekly to sew reusable period pads for girls in Africa and beyond
A group of retired Black women in Philly, many already skilled quilters and artists, gather weekly to sew period pads for girls in Africa. Along the way, they've also built a community here.
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Jae Benear @jaebenear.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
This year, I wanted certain people to show up for me in the way I needed but that didn’t happen. Instead, God did and he did it in the biggest ways. Sometimes you have to go through the storm to truly get the picture of something so simple.
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Caroline Renard @carolinerenard.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-featur...
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How UPN Ushered in a Golden Decade of Black TV — and Then Was Merged Out of Existence
With hit sitcoms like 'Moesha' and 'The Parkers,' the network gave voice to a new generation of Black storytellers and creatives. But a change in strategy ahead of a merger with The WB led to "all the...
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🌻 @kenyahxo.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Rest in Peace & Power 🫶🏾
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Lauren @thelaurenline.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
The giants are really leaving us 🥹
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Red da Redz @adiarebecca.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Grief has really shown me the clearest that I can’t expect “me” out of people. While some may not know how to operate regarding grief, I’m just really shocked at the lack of support from people I was super close to. It’s so strange. No calls, no texts… nothing direct.
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Lauren @thelaurenline.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Buying every Black Santa I see in the store is so healing to my inner child 🥲
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KevOnStage @kevonstage.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
A thing about grief I hate to admit
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Lauren @thelaurenline.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
I know we all love Dodger Blue a lot but when Hitta J3’s verse comes on “gnx” something in me activates.
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Kyla Jenée Lacey @kylajlacey.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
John Legend’s Another Again and The Isley Brothers’ Voyage to Atlantis are sonically perfect.
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Mel Smith @iammelsmith.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
The older you get, the more you realize that you can have it all… just not all at once. Life is all about seasons.
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Mel Smith @iammelsmith.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
I’m so tired of paying bills, dawg lol
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Christinaaaa, Christina’s gone @chris-ti-nuh.blacksky.app · 01/12/2024
The theme for 2025 is discipline.
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Jawn Redcorn @jerzeejoker.blacksky.app · 01/12/2024
Sundays are for Jazz
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My Favorite Things
John Coltrane · My Favorite Things · Song · 1961
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Justin Tinsley @justintinsley.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Ravens/Eagles just kicked off. You may be wondering what that has to do with Richard Pryor — who would’ve turned 84 today. But in a game with two star Black QBs, you actually can’t talk about the story of Black QBs w/o mentioning Pryor. Seriously. andscape.com/features/ric...
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Richard Pryor told America about the struggle of black quarterbacks
A series chronicling the rise of black quarterbacks in the NFL Fifty seconds. That’s all it took for Richard Pryor to embed himself in the complex odyssey of bl…
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Quinta Brunson @quintabrunson.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Abbott elementary starts at 8pm this week with an hour long special. Please spread the word! 🎄 🫡
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The Athletic @theathletic.com · 01/12/2024
Syracuse comes back from down 21 to SHOCK No. 6 Miami 🍊 www.nytimes.com/athletic/liv...
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Lauren @thelaurenline.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
6-OTs is absolutely insane
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———► @ojadeu.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Every time. There’s something so familiar, so warm about it. It’s like a hug and a recollection and a longing, all in one song.
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Mel Smith @iammelsmith.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
It’s so Black and so 90s. Feels like a warm distant memory every time I hear it.
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Lauren @thelaurenline.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Whatever Sounds of Blackness put in “Soul Holidays,” I just could cry every time I hear it.
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Lauren @thelaurenline.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Kirk sweeping
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