I’m going to make a cute graphic later but the 1st day of Disability Pride Month seems like a good day to announce that my book is now available everywhere for pre-order. 😱‼️😍
It’s a romance novel that also unapologetically calls out ableism—oh, and everyone is disabled. 😌🫶🏻
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Publishers Marketplace Category: Fiction: Romance NOW THAT WE DON'T TALK By Rachel Pologe Imprint: Berkley Deal Report June 5, 2025 Rachel Pologe's NOW THAT WE DON'T TALK, a debut contemporary romance following two childhood friends-to-enemies-to-lovers, in which a commitment-phobe finds herself spending Hanukkah at home with the family of her nemesis when she learns their moms are dating, to Kerry Donovan and Genni Eccles at Berkley, in a two-book deal, for publication in fall 2026, by Nicole Payne at Copps Literary Services (world).
My debut romance novel, NOW THAT WE DON’T TALK, is being published by Berkley! This is an actual dream come true, and I can’t believe this is my life 🥹
Turns out all I needed to do to get my infant to burp consistently was to make her a song like I did for diaper and outfit changes, so now we sing, “Do You Wanna Burp for Mama?” to the tune of “Do You Want to Build a Snowman?” and why didn’t I figure this out months ago 🫠
Just thinking about the time my ex started telling me about his past relationships and then paused and said, “It’ll be easier if I just do this,” and sent me a link to a two-part Tumblr post he’d written on the subject. He was 30 years old.
What advice would I give film students? You really, really do not need to put your school projects on IMDb because one day you’ll have actual credits and yet it’ll say you’re known for something you made 12 years ago that 3 people saw and as hard as you try, you’ll never be able to get that deleted!
I’m preemptively embarrassed about how many times Spotify is going to tell me that I listened to Tubthumping by Chumbawamba, my infant’s all-time favorite song, this year in our Wrapped, and it’s still only January.
One summer my theatre camp put on a musical (which I was in) & a play, & the barometer for how well the actors in the play were doing was whether or not they made me cry. Which says a lot about how much I cried at 15 (& now), & about my people pleasing! (Need me to cry for validation? I got you!)
I did a mall walk with my mom class and let me tell you, the people of Sherman Oaks were *stoked* to see a bunch of babies all hanging out 😂
I think about this catchphrase way too much for a man who was in my phone as “Ryan pumpkin beer”
The world is bad but today I’m thinking about the guy I went on one date with 11 years ago who worked in software but was “actually a comic” and who said, “Boom! Comedy! Write it down!” after every (unfunny) joke. Do you think he ever found someone to write it down…?
(Is it clear I have an infant?)
When someone asks what you've been working on lately & you're like "uhhh I've actually been doing some... songwriting?"
The song:
🎶this is the getting dressed song cause sometimes we gotta get dressed/we gotta pull our arms through the sleeves & then we shimmy shimmy shimmy til our hands are free🎶
And before you start googling, no, this show is not on my IMDb
Don’t know if I’ll ever work in TV again, but I take great comfort in the fact that the most abusive showrunner I worked for, who held my wrists, refusing to let go, & used to joke that I was going to sue him for s3xual hara$$ment, who’s had reports at multiple studios, remains gainfully employed 🙃
I haven’t worked in TV since the show I was on for 2.5 years got canceled on the eve of the strike. Who knows if I’ll ever work in TV again at this point! But I do write romance novels now, and hopefully they’ll be on your shelves someday in the not too distant future.
Hello friends, old & new! You may have known me on the other app from talking loudly re: issues facing writers’ assistants & script coordinators (did that for a decade), or from when a showrunner peed in front of our writers as a power move, yet that wasn’t the worst room I’d been in. 🙃 Anyway, hi!
Thanks for this! I was wondering where the influx of new faces came from. Appreciate it!
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This has happened to me so many times! I’ll either offer to answer Qs over email or say reach back out in X month when things should be calmer and I almost never hear back again. Wild!
Yes!!
Can’t wait to meet them!!
Four Things that Made Me a Writer:
-The Princess Diaries by Meg Cabot
-Pacey & Joey from Dawson’s Creek
-Being an only child forced to entertain herself
-Praise from a popular boy in my sixth grade English class about my creative writing assignment
Hello! I’m a writer currently on sub with my second chance Hanukkah romance novel, which just won the romance category of Book Pipeline’s Unpublished contest! I’ve worked in TV writers’ rooms for the last decade & wrote 2 freelance episodes of my own. Happy to be here & no longer on the bird app!
