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B. Engstrand @beesmahclouds.bsky.social · 3d

*updated #agentsguide*

Officially seeking #literaryagents for this spicy horromantic lit fic 🦷

🩸Dracula, but immoral gods
💀Find you in every lifetime
🩶You came, you called
🥀Contemp, Fantasy & Historical themes
🫀Dealing with Trauma & Abuse

#amquerying #horromance #horror #romance #draculalovestory

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B. Engstrand @beesmahclouds.bsky.social · 7d

Been secretly hanging on to this art for my #amquerying soon project! I can’t get over it!!

My FMC Isla, plus a few past lives, and reposting with my MMC Endri for good measure 😏

#bookart #originalcharacter #procreate #horromance #literaryfiction #fallinloveagainandagain

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Mirai Amell 📚 @miraiamell.bsky.social · 11d

Cinderella x Rumpelstiltskin. When a magicless maid kidnaps the blood faery prince to escape her cruel mistress, she inadvertently saves him from hired assassins. Now entangled in a wish made before their time, they must uncover who hunts him. And why she's dying.
#DVpit #A #F #R #MH #POC

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B. Engstrand @beesmahclouds.bsky.social · 24d

Officially announcing the completion of my spicy ✨horromantic lit fic✨ hitting the trenches soon!
(bc I love torture)

🩶mult timelines
🤍emotional labor
🩶transformation
🤍bodily autonomy
🩶post-religious identity

#agentsguide #amquerying #amwriting #editorsguide #litagents

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B. Engstrand @beesmahclouds.bsky.social · Aug 22

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B. Engstrand @beesmahclouds.bsky.social · Aug 22

Pspsps!

The Narratess Indie Book sale is THIS weekend, and you can get the ebook of Ascension for $0.99 on Amazon!!😁

The price may be updated a day early, too👀

There are SO many amazing books participating! (Full roster: indiebook.sale)

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B. Engstrand @beesmahclouds.bsky.social · Apr 15

Hmm I think you’re right 😂 I spent so much time and met so many people there… I can’t get rid of it, but the algorithm is all wonky and I barely see posts from mutuals 😩

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B. Engstrand @beesmahclouds.bsky.social · Apr 14

Oooh I see! I miss the old twitter community and try to hang on but tbh it’s just not the same 🥺

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B. Engstrand @beesmahclouds.bsky.social · Apr 14

Omg I really need to remember bluesky exists.

Have all my writing friends moved here? 👀

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B. Engstrand @beesmahclouds.bsky.social · Mar 1

📖 Booksta-shoot!

Writers and readers, this is your sign to do a #booktography shoot!

You can find Ascension wherever books are sold! I‘ll have more online stock this week too!🥰 Super thankful you guys have sold me out again!!

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Rosantha Tindall @rosanthatindall.bsky.social · Feb 26

Best beware,
Best take care,
Better keep watch for the Whisper-Man!

The children of the lower streets are disappearing. As winter closes in, thief Silver and assassin Luca race for answers.

The Whisper-Man is scheduled for release on August 5th by ShadowSparkPublishing!

#WSPit #WSPitW #A #F #C

A moodboard showing snow, lanterns, black and white streets, and shadowed figures.

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B. van Bodegom 📃is querying & writing @bvbodegom.bsky.social · Feb 25

TREASURE PLANET🪐 X THE EXPANSE🌌

Bookworm Jak dreams of escape from a pirate-run space station. With his friend Eris, a tech genius, he finds an ancient wrist computer tied to his family and a legendary lost starship. As they seek answers, so does a notorious captain.

#WSPit #YA #SF #M #WSPitQ #Dis

ink drawing of Jak Sterzand, a teenage boy, crawling towards the viewer in a ventilation or maintenance shaft type tunnel. His name and title of the book JAK STERZAND above him, and underneath in smaller letters, the subtitle: ESCAPE FROM FREEPORT

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Courtney & Clarke Collins | Fantasy Co-Authors @collinsauthors.bsky.social · Feb 26

⚔️IN THE NAME OF HONOR⚔️
@shadowsparkpub.bsky.social

A half-elven princess and her loyal guardsman must save her father, the king, from a fate worse than death: total corruption. But their rescue mission turns into a hunt, and only the princess or the king can be saved.

#WSPitP #A #F #R #LGBT

A trope board on a deep-blue background with the IN THE NAME OF HONOR cover in the center. At the top reads, In the Name of Honor, Vows & Valor Book 1, for those who would be heroes. The listed tropes are: princess/bodyguard slowburn, "don't you touch her," horror creatures, competing revenge arcs, dragon's fire with a twist, ecofantasy forest, queernorm world, and a cheese thief. At the bottom reads: Available Now, Shadow Spark Publishing

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B. Engstrand @beesmahclouds.bsky.social · Feb 26

Thank you! 🥹 driving thoughts always seem to hit 😆

Ares is the bane of my existence… and unfortunately knows his worth 🫠

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Katie Collan @kancollan.bsky.social · Feb 26

LEGENDBORN x AVATAR: THE LAST AIRBENDER

Either she fulfills her family's legacy, or she dies with it.

🤸‍♀️ Badass female protagonist
💧🪨🔥🌪️ Elemental magic system
🌆 Urban fantasy in NYC
🫂 Found Family
🗡️ Magic competition
🌈 Diverse ensemble cast

#YA #F #Jewish #Own #WSPit #WSPitQ

A title card with the text "An Agent's Guide to THE WINDWALKER - Katie Collan - young adult urban fantasy 105,000 words" over a person with a red cloak standing in the middle of a grassy field.

Pitch: "When fighters start disappearing from an underground tournament, a sixteen-year-old participant with wind powers must uncover the tournament's secrets before she loses a match and shares their fate."

A mood board featuring eight panels with a corresponding color palette in the center, as well as the caption, "Believe in the wind and you'll prevail." From left to right, top to bottom: fire burning down a building; ocean water; the sky above the clouds; a cracked, rocky ground; a red-haired girl in a red cloak with glowing white eyes, holding a dagger hilt with a transparent blade made of air; a skyline view of nighttime Manhattan; a NYC subway track; a boxing ring that depicts two people practicing punches beyond the ropes.

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Nina Castle @castlemantra.bsky.social · Feb 26

1984 X HOZIER X IN TIME

Health, wealth, & beauty in a single pill-if u can afford it. In future America, HealthCorp's lottery is May's best bet to escape poverty & win unrequited love. But w/ the CEO's son's offer to help steal meds, she not only risks his betrayal but her heart
#WSPitQ #A #SF 🌶️ #R

Looking back meme with May holding hands with her oblivious BFF and unrequited love but looking back at the CEO's disinherited son.

Comps: future government corruption meets Hozier level pining. Book image of The Marriage Act by John Marrs and Chain Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah with a Hozier album.

Themes: Spicy friends with benefits, American anger, power and control, facial and body dysmorphia, chronic illness rep, class divide and inequality, billionaire romance gone broke, social justice themes, and Healthcare corporate corruption.

Nina Castle’s Take As Prescribed, a spicy adult dystopian, first page teaser: CHAPTER 1

Thoughts and prayers aren’t worth much, at least south of the Divide. It’s a sentiment the plastics use when they hear of things like our mortality rate or ever-increasing birth defects, but don’t be fooled. This is America where thinking’s outdated, and we pray to pills.

In the north, they manufacture god in pharmaceutical bottles labeled “GeNew.” Not that anyone I know could ever afford it. Health, wealth, and beauty belong to the financially devout. To be fair, we all love money…it just doesn’t love us all back.

Uncle David tells me food’s the problem as he peels away two breakfast cubes from their thin plastic wrapping.

“It’s this damn processed shit makin’ us sick,” he says, smacking the pot harder than necessary on the single electric burner.

Guess it’s boiled cube, today.

“They price gouge us with poison, then try to sell us the cure. It’s all about money, May, mark my words. Those bastards at HealthCorp don’t give a damn about us unless we’re paddin’ their pockets.”

I nod along as I always do when the injustice inside him spills out in the form of a rant. David’s from a time they remembered whole foods, even if what they ate was a mere semblance of the real thing. Perhaps in Europe and the Asias it still exists along with their muffled cries for human rights.

As for me, I can’t be angry. Anger takes energy, of which I’ve little to spare. Like everyone this side of the Divide, I’m ugly with deformities. Weak with sickness. My broad shoulders hunch, and my spine curves to a hump at the base of my neck. My fragile hair litters our single room apartment like the black polyester threads from our tattered clothes. Like everyone, I am dying.

Book cover for Nina Castle's Take as Prescribed. Woman with open mouth and pill on her tongue while a man's hand grips her neck.

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Azshure Raine 🍎 🌹 Romantasy and Retellings @azshure.bsky.social · Feb 26

She's a 27 year old smut-loving barista.
He's a 23 year old immortal Fae King.

That Time I Was Kidnapped by the Fae King is a BatB retelling that is both funny and sexy.

Releases 3/11/25

#WSPit #WSPitP #A #F #R

A graphic with a few tropes, Enemies to Lovers. Baby Girl MMC, one bed/one horse etc. Includes cover art of That Time I Was Kidnapped by the Fae King

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Alyssa Lauseng 🐉🩸🔪 @5feetofredfury.bsky.social · Feb 26

Daisuke wants to change his future.

Obito wants his past to die.

The Priestess of Shadow...

Wants to burn it all.
And the Demon of Grief is going to help her.

books2read.com/u/3yNNVB

#WSPit #WSPitP #NA #F #P #LGBT

Arrow chart for Dance of Demons. Book is against a wooden floor-like background with a symbol drawn on it.

Arrows read:
Dragon demons
Friends-to-...?
Intense female antagonist
Gay panic
LGBTQ+ rep
Blood rituals
Broken boys

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Kira of the Wind (Erika McCorkle) @kiraofthewind.com · Feb 26

Innkeeper Shallot watches helplessly as society around her crumbles. The rich get richer. The poor die, starving and freezing. She keeps adopting children, hoping to save them, not realizing she's amassing an army of anarchists who'll fix society one murder at a time

#WSPitW #A #F #LGBT #In #CS

Mood board made for the Good Thyme Inn series, coming soon. First picture: Thyme and a jar of thyme tea
Second: caption:
Memories of the Good Thyme Inn
Coming soon!
-Adult Dark Fantasy that becomes cozy in the second book
-Queer polycule
-Lots of worldbuilding
-High fantasy world of magic and nonhumans
-Anti-capitalist

Third pic: potion jar with thyme
Fourth pic: Interior of the inn, very wooden and with pink glowing flowers
Fourth: Exterior of the inn, white and brown and green, with a glass skywalk. The planet's rainbow rings are in the background
Fifth pic: Grilled looking behind him seductively. He has pretty silver hair which is purplish/pinkish in the light
Sixth pic: Aubergine holding a wine glass. He's dressed all in purple and has a green fireplace lit behind him. His eyes are stunning magenta and seem to glow under the shade of his hat
Seventh pic: Shanks the Kraken bartender. Pink and tentacly.

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Soph @soph-pl.bsky.social · Feb 26

✈️Boarding now! Destination: Berlin

🇩🇪☀️Multicultural summer romance
📼🌿‘90s retro & authentic
🏙️🌾Big city but small-town vibes
💖🔥Heartfelt & spicy slow-burn
👨‍👧🏠Single dad & forced proximity
💼🎖️Love, career & duty
🌅HEA
💘💭Romance x beach read

#WSPit #WSPitQ #A #R

Soph @soph-pl.bsky.social · Feb 14

🌶️HEARTLESS x✈️KILT TRIP x🖋️C Fortune

In ‘97 Berlin, a sensible French student’s plan to learn German leads to a sizzling romance with her reluctant host, an ex-athlete grappling with his future. But she’s only here for the summer and he can’t leave.

Heartfelt & retro #TDR #MCR
#Cupit #A #CR #HR #FBW

Moodboard. Background—left: 1. A man and woman embracing; right: 2. A man and woman’s hands touching; Clockwise from the top left: 3. A nighttime view of Berlin by night; 4. The Brandenburg gate; 5. A Berlin S-Bahn; 6. Berlin Victory Column
Credits for images used: 1. Designed by Freepik freepik.com; 2. Photo by Natalia Sobolivska on Unsplash; 3. Photo by Stephan Widua on Unsplash; 4. Photo by Yannic Kreß on Unsplash; 5. Photo by Lukas Bato on Unsplash; 6. Panorama of the Berlin Victory Column, Mathias Krumbholz, 24/10/09 under license creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en

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B. Engstrand @beesmahclouds.bsky.social · Feb 26

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B. Engstrand @beesmahclouds.bsky.social · Feb 26

Isla makes this mistake!

Her life for a dream—that’s the forgotten bargain she made w/the god of sleep. She refuses when he comes to collect & her friends slip into a coma. To save them, she relives nightmares. His secret—her anguish could save his existence. #wspitw #A #R #F

(shameless repost😂)

B. Engstrand @beesmahclouds.bsky.social · Feb 26

Thread for #wspit!🥰

B. Engstrand @beesmahclouds.bsky.social · Feb 26

Since Book 2 hit 50k words, throwing my hat in for #wspitw with this quote!

#NA #A #R #F
(Book 1 is #wspitp!)

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B. Engstrand @beesmahclouds.bsky.social · Feb 26

Yesss this sounds fantastic!!

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B. Engstrand @beesmahclouds.bsky.social · Feb 26

Isla makes this mistake!

Her life for a dream—that’s the forgotten bargain she made w/the god of sleep. She refuses when he comes to collect & her friends slip into a coma. To save them, she relives nightmares. His secret—her anguish could save his existence. #wspitw #A #R #F

(shameless repost😂)

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