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Crystal Bayless ✍🏻is writing & editing✍🏻

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I'm just a girl who likes animals, music, reading, writing, & soon a published author who has a bookshop named Dragonfly Night Books. Currently preparing for self-publish a few books. Host of #WIPPIT and #Cupit

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Crystal Bayless ✍🏻is writing & editing✍🏻 @crystalbauthor.bsky.social · 16h

Here is my list for #SFPit

1. Bones of Moon Dust #WIP #A #SFan
2. Decimated #WIP #A #SFan #PA
3. Different Lives Different Souls: Beginnings #WIP #NA #SFan

Left side top to bottom

A picture of the moon half shaded with 2 quotes: “I am alone now, truly alone, and absolutely isolated from any life. I am it.” - Michael Collins “Fate has ordained that the men who went to the moon to explore in peace will stay on the moon to rest in peace.” - President Nixon.

A foggy grave yard.

An old picture of the Nasa communications room.

Right side top to bottom:

A picture of an astronaut on the moon and the title Bones of Moon Dust.

A picture from hunger games of a pile of skeletons.

A Dust Storm.

Black background.

Top left picture Is an alien ship over land with a space portal showing in the light. Top right is a picture of a jail fence.

Then a quote: “This is War. You're fighting in your own backyard. You're fighting for your family. For them, this is just some place. For us, this is our home. It's up to all of us to fight for it.” - Red Dawn (2012)

Middle left pic is a campfire. Top right is a tent, campers, and a campfire.

Then the title in rusted font, Decimated.

“Then a quote: The biggest risk, is to take no risks.” - John Marsden, Tomorrow When The War Began

Bottom left pic is an explosion. Bottom left is a dilapidated building behind a fence.

“Then a quote: We believed we were safe. That was the big fantasy.” - John Marsden, Tomorrow When The War Began

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Crystal Bayless ✍🏻is writing & editing✍🏻 @crystalbauthor.bsky.social · 20m

Well welcome. I linked some pitches in the comments if you want to check them out.

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Crystal Bayless ✍🏻is writing & editing✍🏻 @crystalbauthor.bsky.social · 16h

Stargate x Marvel x Freaky Friday

We all have inner voices, but what if they are us in the multiverse. Kaylee has lost almost everyone & she knows there must be a reason, but by trying to learn, she may end up in a conspiracy that could cost her life.

#WIP #NA #SFan #SFPit

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Crystal Bayless ✍🏻is writing & editing✍🏻 @crystalbauthor.bsky.social · 16h

Groundhogs dayxIndependence dayxRed DawnxTomorrow When the War Began

When humanity is captured people band together to escape, but little do they know that what awaits outside their camp isn't freedom, but a decimated world where only those with the strongest wills survive.

#WIP #A #SFan #SFPit

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Crystal Bayless ✍🏻is writing & editing✍🏻 @crystalbauthor.bsky.social · 16h

Have you ever wondered why we stopped going to the moon? This is the story of what turned man away from the bright light of what was to be our future.

#WIP #A #SFan #T #SFPit

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J.J. Phillips | #SCBWI #KidLit @jjphillipsyo.bsky.social · 16h

@scifipit.bsky.social

Hunted for his meteorite wand, twelve-year-old Catch must master spell-hacked spycraft to stop the Acolytes from seizing the Minerals of Power.

Secret Room
Magic-Enhanced Tech
Spycraft Mystery
Found Family
Origin Story
Hope

#SFPit #F #MG #AmQuerying #AmWriting #SCBWI

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rachel-j-writes.bsky.social @rachel-j-writes.bsky.social · 16h

INCEPTION x KATABASIS

An anxious student’s only chance to save her friends means delving into their nightmares - literally.

🏛️ Dark academia
✨ Autistic-coded FMC
🌙 Dangerous secrets
🌑 Missing father
🖤 All the gothic vibes

#NA #Q #SFan #SFPit

Dark academia mood board with images of Cambridge, books, classical art, a weeping student and hands reaching for each other.

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Alissa is Querying ✨🔥🧪 @alissalindemann.bsky.social · 16h

Arcane X The Darkness Outside Us X Shadow & Bone

The heir to a starless planet plots against the pyromancy regime with help from a girl with celestial magic and a lovable alchemist.

🔥 #OwnVoices Chronic Illness Caused by Magic
✨ Friends to Lovers to 🙊

#SFPit #YA #F #Dys #Q

A collage of images: someone holding a torch in front of a brick wall, a NASA image of space featuring many stars, a burst of flame, two figures cloaked in red robes, a girl with brown hair holding fire in her hands, Jayce and Viktor from the TV Show Arcane, an image of a solar eclipse outline. A quote reads: “Here they were again, always together, always touching, but at no point had either of them put name to what this was. In Calx’ mind, everything was impermanent, transmutable into something else. He waited for the day when this became something he no longer recognized. He did reverse alchemy. He tried to hold onto the gold as tightly as possible before it slipped away.”

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Catherine Irb @khetie.bsky.social · 8h

#SFpit #A #Q #SFan

The CEO of the biggest magical corporation is a murderer, and Ashy is out to prove it before she's fired – or worse, framed.

⭐️ If Sanderson designed technology
📖 Corporate satire
🧬 Software devs are wizards
🩸No magic, use wit

THE MINISTRY OF TIME x DUNE x THE GOD AND THE GUMIHO

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Haley Patricia @haleypatricia.bsky.social · 17h

After dying in a shed fire, Alexandra and her friends are sent back in time to solve their own murders and compete for resurrection. Whoever fixes the most of their past mistakes comes back to life, and the losers are erased from existence forever. #YA #SFPit #WIP 🥀🪦🔥

Red rose, shed on fire, red rose with red liquid, red solo cup, hand coming out of grave, red grave, skull with red roses, til death with red roses, red clock.

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Jocelyne Gregory @jocelynegregory.bsky.social · 14h

Murderbot + Fallout = THE AFTER WAR

Android Felic wakes up after 260 years and discovers The War is over, the human woman he falls for talks like a chat bot, his home corporation is in ruins, and an evil AI is planning to destroy the world. Again.

#SFPit #SciFiPit #A #Q #PA #CB #Romance

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Anja ✨ is on hiatus✨ @anjahudson.bsky.social · 15h

THE HUNGER GAMES x LES MISÉRABLES

In a city divided between a sky-high utopia and a poisoned slum, a prince and a thief try to build a bridge. But the king is secretly burning it all down, and he'll sacrifice his own son to light the match.

#SFPit #YA #Q #F #Dys #SFan #SP

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Joanne E. Peter @ravenvyper.bsky.social · 15h

CRESCENT CITY x GUILD HUNTER
An angel with blood on his claws and a beast in his soul. A broken huntress trapped in a cage gilded by blood. When their worlds collide, can she trust him to break her free? Or will she fall prey to the predator within him? #SFPit #Q #A #Mil #SFan #F #Dys #R #DIS #POC

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Bee Morris 🐝 is querying! @beemorris.bsky.social · 13h

#SFpit #NA #Q #HR #F
🪦 LYDIA IS DEAD 🪦

How far would you go to uncover your best friend's murder?

🔪 dark romance
👻 paranormal horror
🍽️ cannibalism
🦷 cults & curses

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Bee Morris 🐝 is querying! @beemorris.bsky.social · 12h

👻 ALICE & THE AFTERLIFE 👻

Reluctant medium Alice accidentally lands a job cleaning haunted houses and exorcising ghosts...
#SFpit #NA #Q #HR #F

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Joanne E. Peter @ravenvyper.bsky.social · 10h

CRESCENT CITY x GUILD HUNTER
A warrior angel has to either fight and escape the prison he's been dumped into or save the woman determined to kill him.
*Sci-Fantasy/Romance dystopian
*Enemies-to-Lovers
*Morally gray angels x Demon scientists
*Multi-POV
#SFPit #Q #A #Mil #SFan #F #Dys #R #DIS #POC

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Sean Holten @seanholten.bsky.social · 10h

REAR WINDOW x THE MATRIX

A woman witnesses a murder in a building that shouldn't exist.

Soon she's pursued by strange figures that remind her of ones from a video game she played as a child.

Is she in a simulation? Or is something stranger going on?

#SFpit #A #Q #HR #Thriller #Mystery

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Amanda Spino @amandaspino.bsky.social · 10h

When a rip in spacetime causes wormholes and other cosmic oddities to start popping up in town, twelve-year-old Mackenzie must balance homework and babysitting with time jumping squirrels—and keep her loved ones safe, no matter the cost.

#SciFiPit #SFPit #MG #Epistolary #Q

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Natalie Brown @nattykbrown.bsky.social · 10h

On the brink of extinction a translator holds the fate of two species in her hands, but as she learns secrets from both sides, she must decide which, if any, deserve to be saved

#SFPit #A #Q #SF #Clifi #agentsguide

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Anja ✨ is on hiatus✨ @anjahudson.bsky.social · 10h

ARCANE x ROMEO AND JULIET
An idealistic prince and a hardened thief from opposite sides of a divided city forge a secret friendship.

Until a royal betrayal sparks a riot that costs the prince his life and the thief her freedom.

#SFPit #F #SFan #Dys #Q #YA #SP

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M S Dyliacco @msdyliacco.bsky.social · 11h

LUTHER X BLADE RUNNER

The Titus Imperative keeps Wireds from harming humans.

At least, it should.

When humans and androids turn up dead in his city, PI Eliot must prove the killer isn’t Wired before they decommission all androids, including the one he loves.

#SciFiPit #A #Q #SSF #SFPit

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Sean Holten @seanholten.bsky.social · 11h

DEATH ON THE NILE x BACK TO THE FUTURE

A book lover and an unwitting nurse from 2036 London end up 99 years in the past - Egypt in 1937.

They're trapped on a steamer floating down the Nile. With a killer on board.

Sci-fi murder mystery, LGBT characters
#SFpit #A #Q #TT #LGBT

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Coastal Kate @gabbrogirl.bsky.social · 12h

The world has frozen. Oskar must take up arms to help defend the city.

But perhaps fighting isn’t the only way – for Oskar has found an old diary, hidden in the city library -

The key to the future is a book from the past

. #SciFiPit #A #PA #Cli #spub #sfpit

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Rachael Clarke / R.A. Clarke @raclarkewrites.bsky.social · 14h

💥 HANNA X THE ISLAND 💥

A hacker twin, an unpredictable clone anomaly, and an imprisoned psychologist must face a lab full of malicious corporate oppressors, their origins, their inner demons, and maybe even each other in a deadly scramble for truth and freedom. #SFPit #A #SSF #HR #Q

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Bee Morris 🐝 is querying! @beemorris.bsky.social · 9h

#SFpit #NA #Q #HR #F
Charlie will do whatever it takes to solve Lydia's murder, including:

🫖 drugging the mayor with magic tea
🔮 contacting the dead
🕵️ stealing evidence
🧿 breaking curses
🧠 losing her sanity
💋 seducing the man who killed her

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Bee Morris 🐝 is querying! @beemorris.bsky.social · 7h

GHOSTBUSTERS X SUNSHINE CLEANING 👻🧹

Alice can see ghosts.
Rani is haunted by her brother's death.

Together they start a business cleaning haunted homes, exorcising spirits & uncovering a serial killer plot buried deep in their costal town 🌊 #SFpit #Q #HR #F

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