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Maddie Block

@maddieblock.bsky.social

NYC | 🇰🇷🇺🇲 | Nonprofit marketing professional | Writer | She/her 🍉 Currently querying my memoir WHERE THE TIGERS DIED 🐅 🔗 madisonblock.org

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Maddie Block@maddieblock.bsky.social · 1h ago

This should not have to be said, but not every story about the Korean American experience is going to be exactly the same as Crying in H Mart and it feels a bit microaggression-y that the feedback I got in a rejection from an agent is that my book needs to be more like Crying in H Mart 🤔 #AmQuerying

Maddie Block@maddieblock.bsky.social · 4d ago

I taught my boyfriend that viral German TikTok song "Gut Genug" and now he won't stop singing it and all I hear from the kitchen as he's making coffee is DU BIST GUT GENUUUUUGGGGG What have I done

Maddie Block@maddieblock.bsky.social · last wk.

One of my coworkers declined a meeting invite, so I sent her a message asking if there was a time that worked better and she was like "no sorry, I won't be here that day, I'll be at a funeral" so I offered my condolences and she goes "it's fine, my grandma died and tbh I didn't really like her" 😂

Maddie Block@maddieblock.bsky.social · 2w ago

Okay so turns out having the posture of an overcooked cocktail shrimp is starting to cause actual problems because tell me why for 2 days now I've woken up with the WORST back pain of my entire life 🙃

GinaDobsonBAB@ginadobson.bsky.social · 3w ago

After my abuser turns my miscarriage into a murder charge, I’m thrown in jail while a manipulative DA uses my case for exposure. Branded the “Murdering Mommy,” I'm given an impossible choice: Risk everything to prove my innocence or plead guilty to be free. #Questpit #Q #NF #M

Woman's hands in chains
Suzy A. Win@suzyawin.bsky.social · 3w ago

A martial artist must weave scarves for her brothers, and questions her existence when she discovers she's a creature she loathes and one a sorcerer seeks to experiment on—a destroyer of her homelands. 🦢 The Six Swans loose retelling 🇲🇲 Lethwei MC ⚔️ Ares-inspired ML 🧚and faes! #QuestPit #W #F #SFF

first- some star flowers second - an extreme close up of a asian girl's face third - bandaged wrapped around an arm forth - geese flying from the water fifth - a guy and a girl sitting together on a hill sixth - a torso shot of a woman looking around seventh - a girl with a flower crown eighth - dirty bare feet ninth - a head of a marble stature stuck in some vines
Mike Mizov@mikemizov.bsky.social · 3w ago

HE SAVED THE KINGDOM ONCE. MAYBE HE SHOULDN’T HAVE. Disgraced Grand Inquisitor Wynsten is hired to find a missing ambassador. Instead, he uncovers forbidden magic and a conspiracy rooted in the blood ritual that made him a legend and ruined his life. #QuestPit #Q #A #DF #MY

INQUISITOR FOR HIRE ADULT DARK FANTASY NOIR · 93,000 WORDS · MULTI-POV · STANDALONE Once Rysia’s feared Grand Inquisitor, Wynsten now catches adulterers to make rent. When he is hired to find a missing ambassador before an uneasy peace collapses, the case leads him through forbidden magic, vanished daughters, and a conspiracy tied to the royal blood ritual that made him a legend, ruined his life, and fused the empire’s worst secrets to his chest. A MISSING AMBASSADOR. A DISGRACED LEGEND. A KINGDOM ROTTING FROM WITHIN. OPENING LINES “The heretics had nowhere left to run. Wynsten had made sure of that. Months of blood and smoke had led him beneath the Sovereign’s castle, into the old mines carved through the bedrock. A stronghold under the heart of the kingdom. These apostates would face justice here or burn.” Twenty years before he became an investigator for hire, Wynsten stopped a ritual fueled by Rysia’s own royal blood. A FANTASY INVESTIGATION WITH TEETH THREE TOUCHSTONES. ONE DECAYING EMPIRE. The Justice of Kings by Richard Swan - Institutional rot and compromised justice The Tainted Cup - a secondary-world mystery engine Chinatown - slow-burn corruption and a poisoned victoryINSIDE THE CASE A dark-fantasy noir for readers who want the mystery and the damage. A post-conquest secondary world inspired by the Crusader states Fallen hero / disgraced legend Missing ambassador Forbidden magic Secrets beneath the city Corruption at the highest level Reluctant found family Power no one understands Morally gray choices
Maddie Block@maddieblock.bsky.social · 3w ago

My mother was sent away from Korea as an infant. 50 years later, I returned to search for what we lost. WHERE THE TIGERS DIED explores the predatory adoption industry that erased my family's history and my attempt to reconcile with a homeland that feels both foreign and familiar. #QuestPit #M #Q

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Maddie Block@maddieblock.bsky.social · 3w ago

Tonight's been an emotional roller coaster. I got a rejection from an agent I *really* thought would be a good fit for my book, and ngl I cried. But right after that rejection, I got a lovely message from an old friend who I hadn't heard from in 2 years!!! And it was like no time has even passed!

Colin Dickey@colindickey.com · 3w ago

Please stop arguing about the historical accuracy of an adaptation of a book that has a cyclops and a couple of witches and some giants. I’m begging you.