BBTMSinblog.brighttidestudios.com·May 29 · 5 min readThe Title Tournament: How to Find the Perfect Title for Your Book Through a Fun GameEvery author knows the unique dread of the "Working Title." You’ve poured 80,000 words of blood, sweat, and tears into a manuscript, only to realize the most important three to five words are complete00
BBTMSinblog.brighttidestudios.com·May 7 · 4 min readBehind the Curtains: What Actually Happens to Your Manuscript at Bright Tide?If you have spent the last few years posting chapters on Wattpad at midnight, refreshing comments, and building a story in real time with an audience that genuinely cares, then the phrase "publishing 00
BBTMSinblog.brighttidestudios.com·May 7 · 11 min readSubverting the "Tragic Queer" Trope: Why We Deserve Happily Ever AftersThere is a scene that queer readers of a certain age have memorised without meaning to. It does not belong to one story. It belongs to all of them. The queer character, having finally, briefly, been a00
BBTMSinblog.brighttidestudios.com·May 7 · 10 min readWhat Is "New Adult" Anyway? Mapping the Gap Between YA and Adult Queer FictionIf you have spent any time in writing communities on Tumblr, Wattpad, or publishing Twitter, you have almost certainly watched this conversation happen in real time. Someone posts their manuscript sta00
BBTMSinblog.brighttidestudios.com·May 7 · 9 min readQuery Letter Graveyard: 3 Common Mistakes That Get Queer Manuscripts RejectedThere is a specific kind of silence that follows sending a query letter. You have written the manuscript, you have revised it, you have drafted and redrafted the letter itself probably more times than00
