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    About Rebecca:

    Rebecca Ross was born and raised in Georgia, where she continues to reside with her husband, her lively Australian Shepherd, and her endless piles of books. She loves coffee, the night sky, chalk art, maps, the mountains, and growing wildflowers in her yard. And a good story, of course.

     

    She was a girl of words and stars and iron…

     

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    Rebecca Ross 🌙
    What a year. 💥 I’m going to jump on IG live What a year. 💥 

I’m going to jump on IG live today at 2 PM EST to talk about the letter I finally opened (which my past self wrote) and to also share some things to come in 2021. I hope you’ll be able to join me because I’d love to check in with you and quietly revel in this last day of 2020 with friends. 

Happy New Year’s Eve! ✨
    Some of my favorite reads this year! 📚 If I’m Some of my favorite reads this year! 📚 If I’m honest, I didn’t read nearly as many books as I would have liked. But these five books were magical for me. 

I buddy read Jemisin’s The Broken Earth Trilogy with @valialind , and it was such a fun experience to read these intricate, amazing novels with a friend. ✨

I read SPLINTERS OF SCARLET by @emilybainmurphy way back in January of this year, and still get that wonderful, nostalgic feeling when I think back on the story. ❤️

And I’m so thrilled to be joining @gamwyn ‘s virtual launch for INTO THE HEARTLESS WOOD, which completely swept me away, on January 12th! Visit Joanna’s profile to find all the details! 🌿

What were some of your favorite books this year? ✨
    Happy Christmas Eve! ✨ I edited 50 pages of DREA Happy Christmas Eve! ✨ I edited 50 pages of DREAMS and walked 2 miles and now I’m going to shut my laptop and enjoy the rest of the day with my better half and pup. I hope you and yours are enjoying the holiday season! 🖤
    Copy edits for DREAMS landed in my inbox last week Copy edits for DREAMS landed in my inbox last week, and I’ve been steadily making my way through them. Every time I reach this stage of revisions, I’m eternally grateful for & find myself in awe of my copy editor—they fix my “grey” into “gray” and my “farther” into “further” and my never ending quandary of “lay” versus “lie” and make sure my math of “they traveled for three days” actually adds up to three days in the manuscript. 🖤✨ Also... we’re one step closer to DREAMS becoming a finished book!
    Earlier this year, I wrote my future self three le Earlier this year, I wrote my future self three letters—one to open on the last day of 2020, one to open in 3 years, and one to open in a decade. Some of y’all might remember this (I shared a post about it), and I’m honestly very excited to open this first letter on December 31st. ✨ When I sat down to write these letters, it was the beginning of March. A very uncertain time, and I remember thinking, “I have no idea how different my life might be by the time I read these letters.” It was a sobering feeling, and yet here I am, eleven days away from the last day of this wild year. ✨ Have you ever written your future self a letter? I think I might start marking a tradition of it.
    🌿Announcement Post🌿 Happy Saturday friends! 🌿Announcement Post🌿

Happy Saturday friends! I’ve randomly chosen the winners for my 3 Prize Giveaway! They are as follows:

✨ Prize # 1: @charliewritewithme 
✨Prize # 2: @sne_k22 
✨Prize # 3: @aquinnahbree 

Congratulations! Please DM me your mailing address. And thank you so much to everyone who entered! 🌿
    GIVEAWAY IS NOW CLOSED. Winners will be announced GIVEAWAY IS NOW CLOSED. Winners will be announced soon! ✨3 PRIZE GIVEAWAY ✨

All right friends. Here we go. Please read through this carefully if you plan to enter. I have 3 different prizes up for grabs—swipe to see all the details and some close ups. 

✨PRIZE 1:✨
*A hardback signed copy of SISTERS 
*Character Art by @gabriella.bujdoso 
*2 candles—“Evadne” & “Halcyon”—made by @wickandjanecandles 
*”The Girl Who Knew the Taste of Flight” Bookmark by Ink & Wonder
*4 myth cards, made by yours truly, which features the myth found in the book. 
*An enamel pin by @shinyapplestudio 

✨PRIZE 2:✨
*Signed paperbacks of RISING & RESISTANCE 
*Character Art by @yara.noe 
*”Your Queen has Returned, and She Is A Striking Light in the Darkness” Woodmark by Ink & Wonder
*”Let the Queen Rise” pushpin
*”The Summer Solstice” candle made by @novellyyours 

✨PRIZE 3:✨
*Your choice of 2 of my foreign editions (German, Polish, Italian, Dutch, Spanish).

✨HOW TO ENTER:✨
🌻Follow this account 
🌙Tag 2 friends
⚡️In the comments, say which prize you would like (prize 1, prize 2, or prize 3).

✨OTHER IMPORTANT THINGS:✨
*There will be 3 different winners—one for each prize. 
*This is open to international readers, but please make sure your country is currently accepting mail from the US.
*Giveaway will end on Thursday December 17th at 9 PM EST.
*Winners will be randomly drawn from the comments and will be announced here on my IG. 
*If you are under 18 years of age, you must have consent from your guardian to enter. 

✨Good luck!! 🖤
    I’m writing this Saturday (my manuscript just re I’m writing this Saturday (my manuscript just reached 34,000 words, which means I am officially in the murky middle of the story) and I thought I’d share a few of my favorite things while drafting: 

Favorite drink while writing:
Decaf coffee ☕️ (I’m doing my best to cut back on caffeine these days 😅)

Favorite garb while writing:
Pajamas or anything soft ✨

Favorite (current) music while writing:
Audiomachine 🎶 

Favorite time to write:
Mornings ☀️ (although some scenes emerge better at night)

Favorite place to write:
My office 🌿

Fellow writers, what about you!? Comment below and let me know your five favorite things to have while writing.
    Just wanted to drop a note and say that I have a s Just wanted to drop a note and say that I have a special giveaway planned for next week! 👀 Make sure you’re following my notifications if you don’t want to miss it. (There’s going to be 3 different prizes up for grabs!). ✨ Happy Friday!
    Books & braids for a sunny, cold Wednesday.✨ Tel Books & braids for a sunny, cold Wednesday.✨ Tell me one of your favorite reads of the year! 📚
    It’s just me and the words this weekend. My curr It’s just me and the words this weekend. My current WIP (which I’m dubbing “ink”) has been unfurling across the page quite steadily, and I’m completely writing it by the seat of my pants. Which is so exciting and yet TERRIFYING—(where are you taking me, little book?!). But this is also why I love drafting—that thrill of discovery. Watching things come together at your fingertips like magic. Letting the story bloom, like it’s been hiding in your bones for years, waiting for the right season to emerge. ✨ 

I’ve also been enjoying these little dessert plates from @anthropologie which are so pretty I’m almost scared to eat off them. But I’ve been full of new ideas lately, and so I feel like saying hello to inspiration any way I can. ✨

What are you up to this weekend? ✨
    I’m so excited that SISTERS has been nominated f I’m so excited that SISTERS has been nominated for an @epicreads Book Shimmy Award! You can vote for it under the “All By My Shelf” category, which is for the best stand-alone of the year. And I must say my book is in some fabulous company! 😍 The link to vote can be found on EpicRead’s account, in their bio. And you have until Friday December 13th to cast your vote for this semi-final round. Thank you so much for nominating my book, friends! I’m so honored. 🖤
    Happy December 1st! ✨ The tree has been decorate Happy December 1st! ✨ The tree has been decorated, the nights are growing longer, the stars are burning brighter, and my muses have finally returned to me after a year of meager writing and waning creativity. I’m not sure why I write best in the cold, but most of my stories are born in frosted walks & deep, dark nights. ✨ Do you have a favorite season?
    The feasting is over, and it’s time for me to re The feasting is over, and it’s time for me to return to work. I took several days of vacation over Thanksgiving, because I wanted to be fully present with the people I was with. I cut back on social media, didn’t write a word, and read a good book. My heart feels full and brimming now, and my fingers are eager to type. I’m curious to see where these new characters take me. 

It’s also the last day of November! If you participated in NaNoWriMo, how did you do? Any amount of words written is a huge achievement, and I hope this month has been one of creative joy for you.
    This is a very underexposed Polaroid of me holding This is a very underexposed Polaroid of me holding THE QUEEN’S RISING a few months after it was published. This little debut of mine has now been on the shelves since February 2018—a time that suddenly feels ages ago—but it never fails to surprise and humble me when readers just now discover it, especially after they’ve read SISTERS. I’m just very thankful for all of you who have read my books and joined me on this journey, and I can’t wait to share more stories with you. 🖤
    Turned in my line edits for DREAMS last night, and Turned in my line edits for DREAMS last night, and I’m so relieved to have them done! 🌙🍂 

A few things I focused on this revision round: 
🍁 Ensuring all of my plot threads are coming together in a clear way.
🍁 Adding more romance. In particular, setting up the emotional beats for the hate-to-love featured in this book. 
🍁 Cutting unnecessary words (I’m looking at you, adverbs) and any other descriptions that aren’t needed. 
🍁 Rewriting and reimagining some scenes, deleting and adding a few new ones.

The manuscript’s next stop is with my copy editor (who I am eternally thankful for as I’m not the best with grammar!).✨ Now I must go clean my house, because it always suffers during deadline, and catch up on some reading. I hope you all are having a wonderful week so far! 🍂
    Gathering up new story inspirations. 🍂 Sometime Gathering up new story inspirations. 🍂 Sometimes I find it refreshing to think of stories as tactile and sensory experiences, and I look for things to hold and study and feel that will help me unearth ideas that I wouldn’t have before. 🍂 

Today it’s old letters with faded calligraphy, a photograph from 1929 of a man and his dog, a book with pages so old they feel like satin, a fern I pressed from my yard now trapped in glass, and a spool of crinkled ribbon. I have no idea what types of story seeds are hiding in them just yet, but sometimes magic takes its time to be fully known. 🍂 

I also have this new journal that I’m excited to fill! Nearly ALL of my books were first sparked by random ideas I wrote down in my journals.🍂
    “I didn’t know what it was like to experience “I didn’t know what it was like to experience a nightmare. What it felt like to wake frightened from something that felt hauntingly real. 

As a magician, I chose to never dream.” ✨

Here’s a little snippet from DREAMS LIE BENEATH, brought to you by my second round of edits. ✨ I don’t have a release date yet for this book, but it’s planned for fall 2021, so we’re a little under a year away!! I’ve seen the cover (it’s so beautiful 😍😭), and little by little, this book is feeling more and more complete. Revisions are the hardest stage of writing for me, so send me all the good vibes! 

I can’t wait for you all to meet Clem and her magical world. ✨
    Today’s work space. ☕️✨ Sometimes it helps Today’s work space. ☕️✨ Sometimes it helps my productivity to write in different rooms of my house (even though I do love my office). My dining room has the most afternoon light and I just want to soak it all up and spin it into words. ☀️🍂
    Your voice is so important, and if you haven’t v Your voice is so important, and if you haven’t voted yet, there’s still time!✨

I voted this morning, and now I’m going off social to do a kettlebell workout and escape into a book.✨
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