#Rewritten Goosebumps meets Wimpy Kid in stinky, spooky, spider-infested showdown. A Fart Witch wants to possess Jacob’s Abuela. His brother’s armed with beans. They’ve 1 shot to save the town & Abuela—with flower potion & sibling chaos. #SayExcuseMe.#MG #F #HA #QuestPit #Q.

I live in a town that has a Food Festival. We are foodies. Every time we try a local place that is “highly recommended” or has great reviews, it ends up being rubbish. A food festival town devoid of actual foodies, seems a bit tragic.

And that's a wrap. Bedtime. Up early tomorrow to do a bit of reading.

I got an agent ❤️ on a pitch…I’m now feeling serious pressure - like if my query isn’t awesome, I’m letting them down. Imposter syndrome strikes again. I’ll read the chapters & query out loud one more time, for my own peace of mind.

#Rewritten Narnia’s coming of age+cannon fire & female rage. The sea gives & takes. It took Dad—imprisoned. Then gave Mom back. Only now she’s a pirate in 1721. To save Dad, I’ll cross centuries, face traitors & become something I never expected:A Barrett. #YA #QuestPit #Q #HF #S

#Rewritten.If LemonySnicket & Cpt Underpants had a stinky lovechild. Saving the town from a Fart Witch?.Normal. Saving your grandma from becoming the Fart Witch?.Personal. Middle grade horror with stinks, sentient giant barking spiders & sibling chaos. #MG #Q #F #HA #QuestPit.

How’s everyone’s quest pit going? It’s been a bit mad at work today but I’ll pop in later to support you all.

#Rewritten .Goosebumps meets Wimpy Kid. Hexes of Eternal Stench. Barking spiders. A Fart Witch bent on possessing Abuela. Only Jacob, his chaos-gremlin brother & their gang can save Woodville—with super-soakers, sibling mayhem & a well-timed fart. #MG #Q #F #HA #QuestPit.

“Cannons first. Questions later.”.Mom’s voice sliced through the smoke as a man in a powdered wig tried to kill us. (First line) #TheBarrettChronicles

Yep. FOMO got me again. I love pitch events. looking forward to meeting a bunch of new people & supporting old favourites today!.

I've just dropped my questpit pitches on BlueSky 1-2-3-4. BlueSky doesn't have the handy scheduling feature yet. 🫤.

Now to decide whether I have time to revisit The Skybridge Key before the dark, spooky season returns and I'm compelled to work on Blackwood. It's been such a rewrite/edit frenzy lately, that I'm tempted to just read until the end of August.

Missing my girls while they in Canada until Thursday - thinking how it wasn’t that long ago that they thought axolotls were imaginary like unicorns. Then I showed them the axolotls at the garden centre. 🤯.

I'm beat. Off to bed. Another very busy day tomorrow.

The Fart Witch rewrite complete. Now to read aloud + edit. Here's the pitch :). Diary of a Wimpy Kid meets Goosebumps meets What If the Fart Joke Actually Had Plot Stakes?.

Felt like some chocolate so got a KitKat. They aren’t nearly as good as I remember them being.

I've added interlude chapters into The Fart Witch since there are some chapters that might be a little scary. I've given personalities to a few of the spiders and it's hilarious. I'm cracking myself up.

Subscribing to premium x would be useful to get the engagement & no ads. But I don't want the dumbass blue checkmark - it's like a scarlet letter. No thanks. It's the principle of it.

Instead of illustrating The Curse of the Fart Witch, I put a super-hard eye on it and rewrote the beginning. I’ve given the spiders more agency & I love it. I’ve started using Flesch readability scores in Word to get the reading level right. That’s been eye opening.

Good morning & happy Monday!.