Tess Sharpe

@sharpegirl

Writer. Whirlwind of murder, dog hair & gingham. Rep:

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    29 Jul 2020

    Some news from yesterday...

    Millie Bobby Brown To Star And Produce Netflix’s Adaptation of ‘The Girls I’ve Been’; Jason Bateman’s Aggregate Films Also Producing
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  2. 12 hours ago

    I've also had a lot of success with "cute date" epilogues in Romance series. Where our existing couple go on some sort of date (apple picking, paint class, going to the animal shelter, volunteering, etc) and they run into the pair who become the next couple.

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  3. 12 hours ago

    This thread is perfection.

    Bonus content for books is a powerful marketing tool, but sometimes authors get stuck on what to write for a new vignette for characters they've maybe moved on from. Here are some ideas: * Wedding or commitment ceremony (if not in the book & if appropriate for the characters)
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    13 hours ago

    Yep. I highly recommend everyone watch Twenty Feet From Stardom, which details how a lot of Black women vocalists kept a check in the 70s and 80s because UK bands like The Stones were obsessed with their sound and kept them in the studio

    I’ve never really listened to The Rolling Stones until now and it’s kind of freaking me out how much of this is just... black music LOL
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    17 hours ago

    There is very clearly a disaster bearing down on the Gulf Coast, and nothing I say or do can fix it. In the next few days, please remember that very rarely did people choose to be trapped there and that very rarely did they choose the government that fails them.

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  6. 17 hours ago

    And look: I don't think this has hurt me. When I wrote my chapter books, I actually volunteered to do them under another name and everyone was like "No, we want them to be Sharpe books." But it gets murky, having to correct ppl/categories. Having a separation would be nice.

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  7. 17 hours ago

    I also regret it because at the time I wrote BWH, I thought I wasn't going to write anything younger than YA. I was super wrong about this and now I have chapter books, YA, and then Adult books about destroying Meth Kingpins all under the same name, lol.

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  8. 18 hours ago

    I regret it because Barbed Wire Heart got overwhelmingly labeled YA when it came out. I'm fine with teenagers picking it up, But I don't want teenagers picking it up, thinking it's written FOR them, because it is not.

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  9. 18 hours ago

    There are several factors to consider when branding pen names. When I went out with BWH, our thinking was that the critical acclaim attached to my Sharpe name might help since I didn't have any other shiny gotchas that the adult world can like. I honestly regret this.

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  10. 18 hours ago

    An important thing to consider when asking yourself this question: if you publish kid-lit first, your adult work will overwhelmingly get mis-labeled YA if you do it under the same name.

    Where do y'all stand on using different pen names when writing for different age groups? Like if you wrote MG, YA, and adult would you use 3 different names? Or just a different one for adult? Or the same one for everything? 🤔
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  11. Aug 28

    Goodreads Librarians, is there a way around this? Like, someone I can contact to be like "Hi, this is the pitch I wrote to the book I wrote, I give you permission to use this content."?

    Okay I have a Goodreads question, y'all. When 6 TIMES was announced I edited the book description to add the PM pitch like I always do and I've just seen that it was removed and this message appears?
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  12. Aug 28

    This has been a stressful 36 hours, let me tell you. New followers, I promise it's not always fire and lost cats here. Usually it's just vintage clothes, publishing and writing talk and me talking about Murder She Wrote.

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  13. Aug 28

    Oh wow, it's like tweeting it fixed it in 5 minutes: K got him! Also, for anyone who didn't know because this was a new tip for me: apparently putting the litter box out to locate a lost cat is very helpful because of the smell.

    Okay, cat rescue friends: Mom accidentally let Scratch out and he's now loose in an unknown neighborhood/off in an unknown direction. I've got a trap with tuna, clothes from me and Kyle set out, & posters on the way. Any tips other than me sitting here slowly losing my mind?
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  14. Aug 28

    Scratch is the absolute worst of our cats to get out, so I am a giant fucking mess right now, since I've lost multiple cats on this street when I was a kid because people drive down it like they're in a Nascar Race.

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  15. Aug 28

    Okay, cat rescue friends: Mom accidentally let Scratch out and he's now loose in an unknown neighborhood/off in an unknown direction. I've got a trap with tuna, clothes from me and Kyle set out, & posters on the way. Any tips other than me sitting here slowly losing my mind?

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  16. Aug 27

    It's my pitch and I wrote it and uploaded it and I'm not going to go after GoodReads for using it so I'm confused as to how to proceed.

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  17. Aug 27

    Okay I have a Goodreads question, y'all. When 6 TIMES was announced I edited the book description to add the PM pitch like I always do and I've just seen that it was removed and this message appears?

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  18. Aug 27

    Word on the (facebook) streets is that the firefighters are mopping up the fire and have good control of it. Waiting for official word rather than just scanner jabber.

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    Aug 27

    LABOR DAY SALE From now until September 7, get 20% off ALL purchases with code LABOR DAY! Yes, this includes book boxes and the Get a (Writing) Life planner! Support Black business while getting gorgeous stationery, home goods, and accessories >>

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  20. Aug 27

    On the bright side, I have been re-united with my vintage clothes, which have been in the valley since my first forest fire evacuation of this fire season (laughsob we aren't even in the worst month of it yet). I missed them!

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  21. Aug 27

    We’re all out safe! Sorry to be all ‘let me teach you about book proposals’ one minute and ‘fiery doom’ the next, but unfortunately that is kind of my Brand during fire season.

    There's a fire. Evacuating now. Only way to let ppl know. Sorry.
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