My baby is gonna be my debut!🥹⚾️🩵

Agents, @johnnatries.bsky.social‘s 0 draft made me laugh out loud and yearn for a fictional man I’d met 3 seconds earlier. Just imagine how lovely her final drafts are! (Teacher of the Year is one of my fave reads in 2025)

Johnna Matook@johnnatries.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Appreciation post for the lovely and awesome @elliemayauthor.bsky.social for looking at my messy 0 draft and incomplete blurb and giving me ideas that make me feel like "okay, i can DO this!"

Nothing else seems to be working, so I'm going to have to actually *write* my book. I appreciate your understanding at this difficult time.

Named my work Fantasy Football team “Pigskin of a Killer, Bella” so all these boys will know if they lose, they’re losing to Twilight

Here, fixed it.

One thing about me is I’m always gonna be overstimulated by my own hair

People who say drafting is easier than revising, I just want to talk

Taylor's dream job at a Silicon Valley startup comes with a catch: she must out-code Alex, her infuriatingly charming opponent, to keep it. But when rivalry sparks romance, their careers—and hearts—are put on the line. Work-life balance? Never heard of her. #LuckyPit #PopUpPitA #PopUpPit #A #R #CR

A Southern inheritance is always dark—whether it's a penchant for pills, a blood-soaked family farm, or an ancient magic. Sierra spurns them all, but when her dad disappears, she must choose which monsters to slay, and which to become. #PopUpPitE #LuckyPit

Fresh from #SmoochPit! When Carter starts to fall for another contestant on a popular reality dating show, he must decide between his original plans and the direction his heart is pulling him or he may ruin both in the process. #PopUpPit #PopUpPitA #LuckyPit #R #LGBT

When it comes to superstitions, there’s only one hard and fast rule: it’s only weird if it doesn’t work. And Elliot’s got a lot of them that aren’t working. That is, until Maggie comes along. We don’t joke about the mojo in Swing for the Fences🍀 #LuckyPit #PopupPit #amquerying #Q

If you’re a #litagent, you need to be fighting for @johnnatries.bsky.social ‘s Teacher of the Year. I cannot wait to see this book on shelves!

Elliot Vance = your next book boyfriend (agents pls im begging)

Johnna Matook@johnnatries.bsky.social · 2y ago

Just finished reading @elliemayauthor.bsky.social 's #smoochpit book and MAN OH MAN was it so good! Elliot is the perfect book boyfriend.

Accidental outsider Maggie Parker & ladder-climbing baseball player Elliot Vance team up to practice dates, prep for interviews, and preserve superstitions together, working toward the future that he wants and she hates— a life sentence as her father’s employee. #agentsguide #Q #R #A #YouDeservepIt

These end-of-year, inbox-clearing rejections got me youtubing how to self publish

My oldest queries are 100 days old today, so in honor of this trenches milestone, here’s a snippet from page 100 of Swing for the Fences! There is no better vibe than the one Kamryn brings to the function 🥰🤍

I’ve written 25k words in the last week Every last one of them is for my day job.

If the Swing for the Fences crew had a yearbook superlatives page: #UnhingedPit #Q #A #R

Just an update that my algorithm test started feeling me bird-watching content so I’m not sure where we got mixed up but I’ll take it I guess

Alright 🦋, let’s take this algorithm thing for a spin. Show me: - Lit Agents seeking sports rom-coms👀 - Querying writing community📝 - My aggies👍🏼 - Baseball⚾️ - Swifties🫶🏻 - people funnier than me so I can find the joy✨ - people who love & empower others so I can love and empower them💙