Let me talk on this specific piece right here. THIS is the reason why you get my long ass threads, you get my rants, you get my transparency. https://twitter.com/AshiaMonet/status/1293372148787097600

I am TRAUMATIZED by my querying experience. And because of how it happened to me, I do whatever I can to stop others from being run through the same way.

I know I joke about hating compliments a lot, but on some level it's so, so SO hurtful to be complimented on a work when you were told 1,000 times it wasn't good enough.

The industry told me it was hard to connect to DEAD GIRLS and FUNERALS when queer and BIPOC readers were saying "I love this," "I needed this" "This is a book I would pick up at the book store."

Not to mention the SOUL that I put into the original EVIL GRANDMA.

I wasn't really going anywhere with this. I just want to make it known - the trauma is 100% real.

Sometimes I still cry remembering I was rejected a billion times, and it hurts even though I don't want it to, even though it shouldn't because I'm past it now.

I will always tell writers the truth because when the truth surprises you, it hurts.

I don't really care about any agents or publishers or programs that get mad about it.