u/ClimbAlpinePath

Hi everyone! I just checked my paycheck for last week and I didn't get my PTO payout?? I took off last week for a week and I'm coded at 20 hours. I'm not getting 20 hours right now (lucky to get 10 hours right now) so I'm wondering if that's why? Insights appreciated!

UPDATE: gonna stick with my paperwhite! Thank you all!

i got the kindle paperwhite 12th gen for my birthday a week ago…and now the Colorsoft is on sale for the same price. what should i do???

Hi everyone! I've been really loving this community (mostly a lurker) and reading everyone's comments on other queries. I still believe I'm facing an uphill battle with the fact my manuscript is a portal fantasy, but I'm hoping that changes soon. Anyway, this is what I've come up with for a third attempt. I am on hold for querying for the time being, as I have some severe health issues that have cropped up that I need to take care of first (possible c-word at the age of 32F)

Dear [Agent],

I am seeking representation for WILDEST DREAMS, an adult portal fantasy novel complete at approximately 92,000 words.

Ellie Burton has spent twenty-two years being told the way her mind works is a problem to solve. She notices everything, says the true thing in rooms full of people pretending not to know it, and has spent years building a safer world in the pages of her notebooks: a magical queendom called Irisia, ruled by a princess named Eleanor who looks exactly like her. On her first day as executive assistant at a Manhattan publishing house, Ellie accidentally tears open a portal in the lobby with the force of her imagination. An inter-dimensional sorceress steps through. And the new vice president — composed, controlled, quietly falling apart — steps in front of the villain to protect an employee she has known for exactly one hour.

So begins the most disastrous and transformative Tuesday of both of their lives.

Pulled through the portal into Irisia, Ellie and Willa must reckon with what they find there: a world that is shockingly, impossibly real; an aunt-turned-tyrant on a stolen throne; a resistance army waiting for its queen; and the growing, complicated truth of their bond. Ellie must learn to inhabit the self she has only ever written. Willa, facing a custody battle, a crumbling marriage, and a career built on never needing anything, must learn what it costs to keep people at arm's length…and what it means to finally stop.

WILDEST DREAMS is a story about two women learning, late and imperfectly, that the parts of themselves they have spent years apologizing for are exactly what the world needed from them all along. It will appeal to readers of Under The Whispering Door and Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries — character-driven fantasy with warmth, emotional depth, and found family at its core — as well as readers drawn to neurodivergent protagonists whose differences are treated as clarity, not limitation.

ClimbAlpinePath is an autistic bookseller and former journalist. I have previously worked at [redacted news organization here]. Wildest Dreams is my first novel.

Sincerely yours,

ClimbAlpinePath

I've spent the last two months barely eating (but able to drink lots of fluids) and I had an ultrasound a few weeks ago finding this 1.7 cm mass. I do have an MRI scheduled in two weeks. Um...I am. Scared.

For context, I'm a 32F