#authormentormatch I am SO THRILLED to be mentoring @DarjaniMaya!!! She writes voicey SF full of space trips and starships, badass women-in-charge who can’t always be tough, political dynamics primed to explode, and LOL-puns. YAY! [thanks to @wenyilee_ for the aesthetic!]

EVERYONE LOOK AT HOW AMAZING MY MENTEE IS!!! I'm so, so proud of her!! Watch out, publishing: you've got one hell of a manuscript hitting your submission desk soon!

My mentee is Very Wise. Check it out, writerfolk!

Celebrate others’ successes, one day yours will come💫

Operation: Mini-Hulk, Day 437 I have successfully infiltrated Jockdom. Upon my completion of their latest cultural rite, subjects bestowed me a metal medallion – a symbol of great honor. I am fully assimilated. The Jocks suspect nothing. My fellow Nerds: we strike at midnight.

................OMG STOP MELISSA, gahhh -- you guys, I have things to do today, why am I like this

....it’s been booby-trapped!-- by ANOTHER SURVIVING LIBRARIAN, a snarky and darkly handsome 40-something, who now has our group’s metaphorical balls in a vise.

So then she and some Rich Bros who did Crossfit will embark on a quest across the desolate nuclear plains to find this book, with hijinks along the way. But when they arrive at City X, and they successfully break into the library, they discover.....

So to locate it, she’ll work with some of the Rich Tech Bros to build a new inter-library search capability from the ground-up using the vestiges of the remaining patchwork of systems – and there it is, at a library in City X.

the librarian is now the only person alive who knows what kind of “How To Life” info exists AND where to find it? But nuclear storms destroy everyone’s generators, so the community needs the Electricity For Dummies guide like NOW, but it’s not available at the local library.

society’s new leader will become a librarian (a witty and quietly beautiful 40-something who survived The Event b/c she’d been delivering documents to her girlfriend who’d worked for one of the rich guys and got pulled into the bunker by mistake), b/c

Can we get a near-future Sci-Fi novel about these ultra-wealthy doomsday preppers building themselves luxury bunkers all waking up after the Dystopian Event and realizing they now need to, like, scrub their own toilets and Do Things they’ve no clue how to do? And how b/c of that,

FRANKENSTEIN in 2098 She died by his gun. Autopsy scars on her chest and nanites in her veins, she's risen from the dead—the most infamous girl in the world. 90 days of resurrection to find justice. She won't die twice without taking him down too. #sffpit #a #sf #lgbt #poc

JENNIFER'S BODY x BLACK MIRROR The government resurrects a college girl to testify against her killer. But the trial stalls, leaving her with criminals as allies, violence as justice. Choose the law, he walks. Choose revenge, and she's a killer too. #sffpit #sf #a #lgbt #poc

PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN in 2098 A vain sorority girl is temporarily resurrected to prosecute her killer. But ultimately, only her ex-best friend—now elite hacker—can help get her justice. Succeed and they become monsters. Fail, the monster goes free. #sffpit #a #sf #lgbt #poc

Regina George x BLACK MIRROR I'm a sorority girl, AHist major & gun victim. NOT survivor. Every holoUI tap is a rotten cell replaced by nanites. The NRA nixed my testimony but I'm in court to support my girls. We go high. Right? AMA the high road 🙂 #sffpit #sf #a #lgbt #poc

If who/whatever's controlling the algorithm for our current era of human history would stop playing this game of "let's see how many different catastrophe-levers we can pull before civilization *actually*-legit-for-real collapses" for like a month, it'd be super cool

In the spirit of Valentine's Day, #writingcommunity, especially you #romancelandia writers: Be honest -- how many of you have remained in a super-dramatic romantic entanglement long past its natural expiration date solely (or at least partly) for the writing fodder?

#capybaraclub is happening now!!!! (i.e. the adult mentor Zoom chat) #authormentormatch

Hey #AuthorMentorMatch! If you applied to @melissarwork and were not selected for AMM, I'd love to look at your opening pages and query. Reply here by 11:59pm PST Monday with your - MS genre + tags (1 reserve for BVM) - Pick: positivity pass OR critique I'll choose at least 3!

For those who are dealing with the disappointment of not being chosen for #AMMR9. I feel you. I was you, four years ago. Not even a full request. Yesterday I got to announce a 2 book deal with a Big 5 imprint. Keep going. Your time will come, I promise. ❤️ #AuthorMentorMatch