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Writer, nap taker, cat parent, mark AMM round 9, WriteHive Mentee 2024, WriteHive Mentor 2026 They/them Rep by Alex Land at Mad Woman Literary

Depiction of a slim but muscled tall white woman with red hair and brown eyes. She’s wearing a green t shirt and blue jeans, and she’s crouched with her hands on her knees. On her back and pulling her hair is a gray creature with red eyes and bug-like wings. It’s grinning with pointed teeth.
A pretty black kitten resting against someone’s chest
Orange and white text on a purple background reads 1 DAY until submissions open for WriteHive! #HiveMentor An image of an astronaut in the bottom right corner points up at the text
What is #HiveMentor? #HiveMentor is a mentorship program by WriteHive for authors across all publishing paths—trad, self, and small press. Thayer than organized by genre, #HiveMentor keeps the focus on author’s writing careers.
A white person’s hands attempt to type on a MacBook keyboard, but a sweet black kitten reaches around from behind the computer to bat at the person’s fingers.
Text on a purple background: “I’m a mentor for WriteHive!” Lower left corner contains the WriteHive logo and the hashtag #hivementor. White text to the right says swipe to see MSWL and important dates. Centered is a picture of me, a white person with curly brown hair and glasses
A creek cutting through some trees
A sweet black kitten curled up agains someone’s arm
A sweet black kitten sitting on a person’s chest, blocking the person’s view of the camera
A sweet gray cat and a cute black kitten sitting on the tank of a toilet on either side of a toilet paper roll. A blue striped hand towel hangs between them. The black kitten looks directly at the camera, while the gray cat is giving a Kubrick stare. The image is both adorable and unsettling.
A sweet gray tabby sitting on a wooden floor looking off to one side. She’s regal. She’s beautiful. She’s never done anything wrong in her life
A pair of cardboard mailing boxes containing the books I ordered
Meme image of Disney’s Snow White with her face pressed against a window in such a way that it’s pushing her nose and upper lip up. Text reads “Pakidge”
A sweet brown and cream furred dog with big brown eyes. He’s resting his head on someone’s arm and looking up expectantly
A little black kitten who is not nearly as little as she used to be. She reclines against someone’s blanket-covered leg as she looks at the camera
A sweet gray tabby and a little black kitten I probably squeezed onto the top tier of a cat tree. The black kitten is kind of squished to the back and is resting its head on the tabby’s flank
An unrepentant black kitten curled up in someone’s lap, looking at the camera with a “who, me?” Expression
A sad cartoon mushroom on a painted background of a landscape. Text reads What a time to be alive (distraught)
A green background with flames curling up from the bottom. On the left side, the cover of These Familiar Walls by CJ Dotson: dark green background with the green-tinged image of a house with light in the windows at the bottom and title text that looks like the letters are on fire. Text to the right reads “A spine-chilling, heart-pounding suburban horror novel at the heart of the genre, perfect for fans of T Kingfisher, Cassandra Khaw, and Catriona Ward. On sale April 14, 2026, St. Martin’s Press
A pretty gray tabby sitting in a chair at the head of a table. She looks out over the surface unimpressed
A little black kitten sprawling across someone’s lap and looking directly at the camera
A little black kitten curled up in the crook of someone’s arm
A little black kitten with its paws stretched out asleep on someone’s lap
Picture of a word count screen in Scrivener. Workout reads 10,009
A little black kitten perched on top of a pile of books
A little black kitten being cradled in someone’s arms
Playbills for Beauty & the Beast 2001 tour, The Music Man 2002 tour, Fosse 2002 tour, Miss Saigon 2003 tour, Jesus Christ Superstar 2004 tour, Cats 2004 tour, Grease 2004 tour, Les Mis 2004 tour (x2), Phantom of the Opera 2004 tour, Thoroughly Modern Mille 2005 tour, Chicago 2006 tour, Elvira 2006 tour, Hairspray on Broadway (2006), Mamma Mia 2006 tour
Souvenir programs for the 1997 Les Mis tour, the 2001 Beauty & the Beast tour, the 2004 Les Mis tour, the 2004 Phantom of the Opera tour, the 2006 Chicago tour, Wicked on Broadway (2006), Les MIs on Broadway (2007), Spamalot on Broadway (2007)
A stack of playbills and souvenir programs from Broadway shows, Chicago theaters, and national tours
A souvenir program for the North American tour production of Les Miserables
Screenshot of a text document. It reads “why? Idk that’s a later problem”
A lovely tuxedo cat stretched out on a wooden porch
Six newborn kittens curled up in a cardboard box. There are three dark gray kittens with a tabby pattern, one light gray with a tabby pattern, one that’s white with patches that have that dark gray tabby pattern, and one black kitten with white feet and a white belly. They are so small!
A laptop and a glass with a pinkish red liquid on a black table
Partial screenshot of a Scrivener document open on a Mac. The very last line of text reads “END”
A red-haired white man leaning over and whispering to professional wrestler Rhea Ripley, while I stand off to the side. Whatever the man has said makes Rhea make a flirty face. My entire soul escapes my body
A sweet gray tabby curled up in a cat tree. She’s looking off to the right of the frame.
Me and my spouse with the tag team DIY (Tomasso Ciampa and Johnny Gargano)
A rose gold laptop and a maroon coffee cup filled with a latte sitting on a dark brown wooden table
Tony award winner Lin Manuel Miranda dressed up as pro wrestler Dominik Mysterio
Image of a project target pane in Scrivener. The word count reads 70,339 of 110,000
A sweet gray tabby sitting curled up on top of an open spiral notebook on the surface of a desk. I need to see the notebook she’s sitting on top of, but she clearly does not care.
Amazon page for She’s a Natural by S.K. McBird. Cover depicts a young woman with blonde hair wearing blue coveralls standing in a junkyard facing away from the viewer. In the distant sky, what looks like an air jet ski flies overhead
A series of images inspired by Phenom, a pro-wrestling retelling of Phantom of the Opera. Top left to right:pro wrestler Bayley destroying one of her inflatable Bayley Buddies, promotional image for Bianca Belair and Becky Lynch’s SummerSlam 2022 match. Middle left to right: promotional image for the Phantom of the Opera musical, promotional image for the 2019 NXT War Games event, the cover of Matt Wallace’s BUMP (illustration of a little girl in a lucha mask leaping from the top rope of a wrestling ring). Bottom: promotional image for Taylor Swift’s single “Look What You Made Me Do”
Various multicolored dice on a wooden table
Scrivener project target pane showing a word count of 50,041 out of 110,000
An image on a television of a painting of a white woman in Tudor-era dress
A white plate. On it, white rice, broccoli, and fish
Professional wrestler Rhea Ripley standing mid ring, holding the women’s world title aloft
Preshow card for Raw on Netflix. White text on a black and red background reads “RAW the live event is about to begin”
A very sweet golden brown dog resting his chin on someone’s hand and looking longingly at the camera. He just wants to be loved
A sweet gray tabby curled up on a red and white blanket. She’s looking sidelong at the camera
Red blanket with white text and the image of a man in a white shirt on one side. It looks like a billboard for lawyer Alexander Shunnarah.
Black hooded sweatshirt with and axolotl and the text “I axolotl questions”
A row of stuffed bears
Screencap from Instagram: a clipping of a word document with the word END centered. Caption reads “And that’s draft one of Wrestle Book done! Gonna let it sit for a while and come back to revise in the new year.” The image is dated December 16, 2022
A precious gray tabby with green eyes curled up on the lap of someone wearing gray sweatpants. It’s a very sweet image, if you don’t know she’s got her claws fully latched in the person’s legs
A beautiful black cat resting on somebody’s leg and staring down the camera. I miss him.
Wrestler Ethan Page with his face pressed into the chest of wrestler Oba Femi
A plastic to-go cup filled with coffee. Someone has written “you’re doing great!” on the lid in Sharpie