M.A. Ruth

#queerwriters

Honestly, just survive lol. Life’s stressful right now. Ugh!

#PretendPanel

Hate it!

But getting better lol.

#QueerPrompts

#WeeknightWriters

My cat had kittens! I am surrounded by cuteness. 🐈‍⬛

#WeeknightWriters

Once again I am lost in the sauce and unmotivated. I did do some writing last week, but this week has been pitiful. 😅

#AwesomeCharacters

I like flawed happy endings that leave you thinking, “is this really a HEA or a recipe for disaster?”

Okay so hear me out. I am a caregiver during the day which means I have a LOT of downtime so I write during my breaks. lol

#writingq

🎉1 Week!🎉

The #RevPit submissions window opens in ONE WEEK, at 12 p.m. ET on March 12.

You're meeting our editors this week. We're answering your burning questions.

Is there anything else you'd like to discuss? Toss us your questions, and we'll do our best to answer them!

That’s awesome! Definitely doing this. Thank you! 😊

#pretendpanel a daily prompt tag hosted by @hiriadunning.com MARKETING MARCH 6th: Marketing your writing: How do you feel about it? 7th: What’s your biggest roadblock for marketing your writing? 13th: Marketing DOs: book marketing that has worked for you 14th: Marketing DON'Ts: book marketing that has turned you off reading that book and/or author? 20th: If you could only tell your readers just ONE thing, what would it be? 21th: What's the gift that your writing can give to your readers? What's the reason for them to read your work in particular? 27th: Resource share day 28th: Freebie Saturday - post anything! Please support your fellow #pretentpanel posters with replies, likes and reposts New #pretendpanel questions every Friday and Saturday. Hop in any time!

Another month of #pretendpanel begins tomorrow. I hope this one can be a supportive little hotpot of ideas, strategies and philosophies with something for everyone in it, no matter your stance on the topic or wherever you are in your publishing journey.

#Marchistics

In the quarry, (Greed) they use outdated pickaxes and shovels to harvest HellQuartz.

Silly question: What is nanomyway? I’ve been seeing the hashtag but not sure how to join in.

#FantasyIndiesMarch

Rowan doesn’t really believe in fate and that she’s so lucky she’d lose money in a casino parking lot before ever entering…

Page 9 of Inferno

#AwesomeCharacters

I have a ch that is scrapped a quarter of the way into the story because I had too many characters to manage. 😅

#WritingPrompt

I write in order, but allow myself room to go in different directions than outlined.

Lies run rampant in Inferno. But they’re spoilers so I can’t talk about them. 😅

#FantastIndiesMarch

My queer YA mystery and sapphic YA ghost story have both been put on the back burner so I can work on a paid opportunity.

#WritingPrompt

#MarchWorldbuilders

No flowers in Hell, but there’s HellQuartz which is absolutely gorgeous like a rainbow kaleidoscope!

Close-up of snow covered trees on a night sky background "Good morning! To everyone struggling to keep going and keep making art in the face of all of the world’s horrors: We see you, we understand your struggle, and we are so, so proud of you for fighting your way through it"

Good morning! To everyone struggling to keep going and keep making art in the face of all of the world’s horrors:

We see you, we understand your struggle, and we are so, so proud of you for fighting your way through it

The MC doing something profoundly klutzy or stupid.

Rowan trips and falls a lot.

Charlie (my MC from my sapphic ghost story) is so awkward in front of her LI she flounders.

#WritingPrompt

Very much so 😂

In other news: my cat had kittens!

#cats #kittens

This gives away a big part of the action my Rowan ends up with an armful of snowflake scars.

Post from Julia Fine that says, "Write the book you want to read because you will have to read it 75 times."

#writerslife

#FantasyIndiesMarch

Rowan’s guilty pleasures are Sweets, TaTu, romance novels.

#LateNightWrite

Hi I’m Mel! I write poetry and queer YA fiction!

My current WIP features a ghost, a love interest, and a centuries old love story I just realized I need to change.

#QueerWritersChat

1. Edit my novel
2. Submit my poetry to contests
3. Find a writing group

“All the Things she Said” by TaTu for Inferno. It fits Rowan perfectly.