Rachel Russell 🌿

an #agentsguide to WE FEED THE RIVER, my MaXXXine meets Midsommar adult Midwest folk horror—hitting inboxes this summer! featuring: 🍂 a bluegrass festival 🍂 cults 🍂 female rage 🍂 a dash of romance 🍂 & a speculative twist ending #questpit #agentguide

who will love WE FEED THE RIVER? people who enjoy: 🍂 small town folk horror 🍂 music festivals 🍂 sapphic yearning 🍂 ruthless female rage 🍂 creeping dread 🍂 sinister nature vibes 🍂 cults 🍂 twist endings

if the scammers and bots can persevere, so too can you with your writing goals

behind every writer is a preferred software for writing (the holy trifecta: Word, Google Docs, Scrivener) & a horror story about why they don't use the others

writer struggles: • killing darlings • having brainrot about stories • needing that one song on replay loop • no snacks or caffeinated beverage • trying to balance multiple wips • agonizing over rewriting a difficult sentence • sitting down to write & brain clocking out

worried about how many em dashes your book has? add more just to be safe

it's Summerween, which perfectly fits this book that: 🍂 has so far earned 14 agent likes 🍂 received editor interest 🍂 & is almost query ready! come for the music. stay for the ritual sacrifices.

we're writers. of course we sometimes obsess over fixing a clunky sentence for a whole hour

“being a writer” is 10% writing and 90% reading, socialising, walking around, getting ideas and organising the external and internal environments that make writing possible

writers: this is my favorite character also writers: he's got a tragic backstory, is depressed, & is about to experience some truly horrific stuff

you can bold text in notepad now. what a time to be alive.

— come for the music. stay for the ritual sacrifices. #unhingedpit ~ adult midwest folk horror

— come for the music. stay for the ritual sacrifices. #UnhingedPit ~ adult midwest folk horror

writer's block means there aren't enough character deaths in your book

unfortunately, i'm not nonchalant or mysterious i'm just a naturally awkward person who becomes talkative once i'm comfortable

—"I use it to draft pitches. What takes me an hour takes it five minutes. At that pace, I do not mind being ignored." the author of this article said the quiet part out loud: those who use AI are doing so to cut corners out of a sense of entitlement

behind every writer is a looming breakdown over their book and that one friend that always knows what to say to stop the spiral

legend has it that every time a writer denounces AI, a book deal finds someone in the writing community

writers after killing a much-loved character