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stacyzappala.bsky.social @stacyzappala.bsky.social · Jan 17

Unicorn with the heart of a human. Changed human to change the way society sees both unicorns, witches and mortals. a war is coming unicorns are out for revenge. Can Brody stop it? if he will it cost him new feelings of love and his life?

#p2ppit #YA #Novella #Fantasy/Romance

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stacyzappala.bsky.social @stacyzappala.bsky.social · Jul 14

Okay.

stacyzappala.bsky.social @stacyzappala.bsky.social · Jul 14

I saw this post and I'm new to blueskyi wasn't sure if this post was directed towards me or other people?

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alan anarchy @alananarchy.bsky.social · Jul 13

Ladybird x Garden State

an innocent catholic schoolgirl. a bottle of whiskey. on her airbuds, Lana del Rey. will she save his soul? or will he drag her down with him? how long can they sneak around behind her parents' backs? find out when you read my #ya #R #Q novel "I Speak of Dreams" #BluePit

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Loni Cameron @lonic.bsky.social · Jul 13

MEXICAN GOTHIC X BAD CREE A gunshot, whispers from the shadows; yet the one holding the gun might not be the real evil. #Bluepit #BluePit 📖 #A #Q #POC #gothic #SP

4 swatches of grey-blue shades. Six images, a dark basement 2 dark forests, library, bedsheets, teapot, women hugging

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Marin/Spencer Madden | Author | Querying! @marinspencermadden.bsky.social · Jul 13

What if Will Shakespeare got a second chance with the man he buried in an unmarked grave, Kit Marlowe?

#BluePit #HF #R #LGBT #DIS #OwnVoices

OUT FOR QUERY: Of All the Stories in All the World [Adult Speculative Historical Romance, 80,000 words]

A knife splattered with ink on an unspooled scroll, sitting on a background of red stage curtain with dried daisies around the border.

BLURB: In the modern day, Kit Marlowe has woken up in his second life, with a scar on his stomach and no memory of how he died. His husband Will is nowhere to be found. The more Kit searches, the stranger and stranger things he finds—like the original version of Romeo & Juliet that he and Will burned four hundred years ago, now buried in a graveyard deep in haunted woods.

In the 16th century, Anne Hathaway lives in a world of malicious men. Constantly struggling against God and the cruelty of her circumstances, Anne strikes up a friendship with a boy named Will. As they grow closer, Anne starts to realize she may be more like the men she hates than the boy she loves.

Back in the modern day, Will Marlowe, née Shakespeare, has been hiding out from Kit. This new world is not as it seems, and Will is terrified history will repeat itself—and this time, his husband will be lost for good.

Words on an unspooled scroll, sitting on a background of red stage curtain with dried daisies around the border.

Comparable Titles:

The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller — poetic queer retelling that focuses on grief and the afterlife

If We Were Villains by M.L. Rio — deeply inspired by Shakespeare’s work and involves a decades-old murder mystery fuelled by love

Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland — creepy yet whimsical, grey-sky vibes, ghosts

The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern — the vibes and poetic language plus incidental queer representation

Words on an unspooled scroll, sitting on a background of red stage curtain with dried daisies around the border.

The Atmosphere:
- dried lilies on an old journal
- hands writing a letter with a quill
- two boys leaning into each other in a field
- a foggy deadwood
- two boys in old clothes wrestling
- a chair in a golden field
- a woman walking into a river

Words on an unspooled scroll, sitting on a background of red stage curtain with dried daisies around the border.

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Sarah Ressler @resslerwrites.bsky.social · Jul 13

The knight usually saves the princess, but when he falls out of the story through A RIP IN THE PAGE, the Narrator must scramble to get to The End. He makes the best of a bad situation using gelato, a Pegasus named Cupcake-McSparkletail, and a princess who doesn't need a knight #bluepit📖 #Q #PB

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Stephanie Winter @wintersleep85.bsky.social · Jul 13

NAUSICAÄ X FF7

Hana believes she is meant to save the world, Matthias wants it to end, Kalyn will cross lines to save everyone, and Prince Evan is just along for the ride. Chased by enemies who want them dead, they will either save everyone or destroy themselves.

#BluePit📖 #F #A #WIP

A foggy forest. A dark bird. Night sky. A fence. A person in a foggy forest. The back of someone.

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Effie Seiberg @effies.bsky.social · Jul 13

The Sky City Swindle:
In a land of haves and have-nots, a 12 y/o con artist wins a scholarship to a fancy boarding school. She wants to pull a Robin Hood and con them all to help her community, but cons are hard when everyone else is magically lucky... and her own luck's about to run out.

#bluepit📖

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Abruptly Mystic @abruptlymystic.bsky.social · Jul 13

Theoretical Defense
A Tower Defense Progression Fantasy

#bluepit 📖 #A #F #ProgFant #W #WF #LGBTQIA+

Place holder cover for Theoretical Defense, promising a cover reveal soon. Arrows pointing away from the cover towards tropes: Progression Fantasy, Shipwrecked on an unknown island, Tower Defense, Mismatched mentor/mentee relationship, Bookish FMC

Auralee never had the knack for magic, but she’s dedicated her life to the study and preservation of it.

After a research trip leaves her marooned on an island that shouldn’t exist, the arcane scholar takes shelter in the ruins of the island’s lighthouse, triggering its dormant purpose — Defense of a ley lash; one of the many ties that binds an ancient evil beneath the sea floor. If she wants to ever be found again, or even just survive, she’ll need to find a way to anchor the ley lash and keep the waves of sea monsters from unleashing their broodmother.

Without any magical talent of her own, Auralee have to rely on the hidden gift of her fellow survivor — a sailor off her same wrecked ship — his willingness to learn, and her own ability to teach. If she can’t, then what was the point of all that studying anyway?

Small moodboard depicting a shipwreck, a lighthouse in the middle of a storm, and a lantern placed beside a journal. Beneath that a music player 'playing' Deep Green by Marika Hackman

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⚔️ 𝕭𝖗𝖞𝖈𝖊 - 𝖅𝖊𝖓𝖎𝖙𝖍 & 𝕭𝖑𝖆𝖉𝖊 ⚔️ @zenith-and-blade.bsky.social · Jul 13

So excited for this! @books-that-go-boom.bsky.social writes such fantastic, innovative cyberpunk; you never know which direction it's going. He follows through with both concept AND execution. #bluepit

Greg Leunig @books-that-go-boom.bsky.social · Jul 13

Hey #BluePit - is this a good time to do a cover art reveal for the Neon Citadel hardcover version? Why not!

#P #A #SF #cyberpunk #TechNoir

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Alena Cerulean @alenacerulean.bsky.social · Jul 13

When a vampire and a monster hunter fight over a lesbian bar owner, it's the secrets all three women are hiding that might kill them. An incredibly dark (seriously, you’ve been warned) lesbian, mind control kink erotica with a HEA.

#BluePit📖 #A #PN #P #LGBT

Cover to SHE COMES AT NIGHT with arrows pointing from all the tropes: Vampire vs. Hunter, Erotica, Enemies to Lovers, Mind Control, Happily Ever After, Lesbian Threesome, Dark Secrets, Second Chance Romance

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Kathy Woods @kathyvwoods.bsky.social · Jul 13

FINAL FANTASY X DRAGON AGE

In a world full of magick-eating monsters, a young woman with no memory of her childhood finds herself thrown into the apocalyptic conflict which had been brewing under the surface; carrying a millennia of power all others fear.

#BluePit📖 #F #A #W

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C Chang @thepoliticsjunkie.bsky.social · Jul 13

Healing prodigy Catalín finds herself drawn to the very enemy who holds her captive, the unusually humane Captain Elyse. A ruthless viceroy offers Catalín a choice: take Elyse's life and win her freedom or remain in eternal captivity #BluePit 📖 #Q #A #LGBT #F

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aliamarielle.bsky.social @aliamarielle.bsky.social · Jul 13

Animals use cultural knowledge to communicate, find food, survive tough environments, and just have fun. Find out more in CREATURE CULTURE #BluePit #MG #NF

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Ji 🪚 @sawduhst.bsky.social · Jul 13

🫀With 2 weeks left to their scouting mission, people wait for word back from their astronauts, eager to flee to a new home away from Earth. Unbeknownst to them, the co-pilot just got infected with an alien parasite, exposing the planet's deadly underbelly.
#Bluepit #Bluepit💥 #A #NA #SF #H #Q #LGBTQ

Cover page for the sci-fi horror pitch REDWORM, outlining specific content warnings such as: depictions of blood & body horrror.

Second page of the sci-fi horror pitch REDWORM, showing the logline, page length, demographics, comp. titles, and genres of the story. specific text on the image will be pasted below:
LOGLINE:
6 Astronauts are sent to scout a new planet for human re-location, only for one of them to get infected by an alien parasite, and must now make a dire choice: to either let people flee the rapidly decaying earth to a new treacherous planet, or to deny mankind it’s last hope of survival.

LENGTH: ~150 pages

DEMOGRAPHIC: Adult/New Adult

COMP. TITLES:
Venom ( Donny Cates, 2018),
PARASYTE (Hitoshi Iwaaki),
Dorohedoro (Q Hayashida)

GENRE: Sci-fi, Horror, Psychological

Third page of the sci-fi pitch REDWORM containing sample pages of the story. these pages depict bruce, the lead character of the story, hearing thuds in the night. he leaves the base to investigate the source of these sounds in a cave. he soon finds vein-like structures in the cave, seeming to lead to the source of the sound.

Fourth and last page of the REDWORM pitch, displaying the last two sample pages. The scenes in these pages depict bruce stumbling upon a beating heart on the cieling of the cave, suggesting that this planet is alive & its own living organism. drops of unknown liquid ooze from the heart, containing other worm-like organisms within it. the final sample page shows one of these worms poppnig out of the heart, and falling onto bruce. The worm breaks through the helmet of his space suit, now digging its way to bruce's brain.

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aliamarielle.bsky.social @aliamarielle.bsky.social · Jul 13

TRICKS FOR TREATS: AND MORE SNEAKY ANIMAL SURVIVAL STRATEGIES Monkey reporter Mark is determined to expose the sneaky secrets of the animal kingdom. But meanwhile, he’s hiding a secret of his own. #BluePit #PB #Infofic #STEM

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Fox Rivera (she/her) @talesofavixen.bsky.social · Jul 13

TREASURE PLANET X THE FOURTH WING

"What God Made Shark"

• #POC & #LGBT cast
• Indigenous Caribbean & Irish Folklore
• Sapphic Sky Pirates
• Non-Binary Dragon Rider
• Anti-colonizer themes
• Tattoo-based magic system
• #TR rep
• #AgentGuide below!

#Q #NA #F #HS #BluePit📖 #BluePit

a pirate ship sailing a serene bright blue sea under a starry night sky. Centered in the image is a Black Flag with the words "What God Made Shark". A crow sits on the letter G and the end of the letter K resembles a shark's tail.

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KalSDavian.Author @kalsdavian.bsky.social · Jul 13

#BluePit #Indiedev #DUN #d20 #d6

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Tylor E Kunkle @tylorkunkle.bsky.social · Jul 13

KINSHIP OF AEITHALIS, an epic fantasy

✨ Anthro cast 🐲🐺
⚔️ Flashy action scenes
✨ Found family (but also birth family)
⚔️ Slow burn
✨ Idiots-to-lovers
⚔️ Surviving hardship
✨ Enemy of my enemy is my begrudging ally
#BluePit #📖 #W #A #F #LGBT

A digital illustration of two anthropomorphic reptiles locked in an intense battle, back-to-back. In the background are shadowy plant-like monsters with spidery limbs and long claws, the Invaders. One reptile, Kanaak, has olive-green scales and bronze armor. He's swinging a longsword at an Invader. The other reptile, Famena, has vermillion scales and bronze armor. She has her bronze shield raised, stalwart.

A digital illustration of a nighttime scene in a grassy fantasy field with mountains in the background. There are two anthropomorphic characters sitting in the grass stargazing. One is a green reptile, Dinn, wearing linen armor. The other is a brown-furred wolf wearing a green tunic.

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Veronica @littlecornerreads.bsky.social · Jul 13

THIS TIME IT’S REAL x A PHO LOVE STORY

My love letter to ABCs/Asian Americans, chaotic found families, and Asian food, featuring:

🎬 fake dating
⚔️ rival restaurant kids to lovers
🧁cinnamon roll boys who bake
🫶🏼 immigrant parent-child relationships

#BluePit📖 #YA #R #POC #DIS #W

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Steve Trower @sptroweresq.bsky.social · Jul 13

#BluePit📖 #SF #A
The Ambivalence Chronicles: A GameLit Comedy in 8 Bits
🤓 A geek dad
💾 A sentient computer
🦖 Dinosaurs
🥷 A hi-vis ninja
🚐 A surreal road trip
👾 Games come to life
🥚 And an actual Easter Egg Hunt!

Bits1-4 available now - ebooks books2read.com/u/bap2KP
Paperback from the author

Ebook covers for The Ambivalence Chronicles Bit#1: The Chip Whisperer; Bit#2: The Kempston Interface; and Bit#3: The Road Worrier, against a colourful background. Each cover includes the Ambivalence (an old ambulance) and a scene from the book, in the style of an early ZX Spectrum cassette cover.

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Margery Bayne @margerybayne.bsky.social · Jul 13

"Safe Haven"

Elios is a mining colony built on gravitum — a precious resource powering the galaxy but poisoning the land.

Amid corruption and sabotage, two should-be rivals must unite science and love to save their planet.

A queer sci-fi romance.
#BluePit #SF #R #LGBT #Q #bluepit📖#AmQuerying

Collage including images of a dome, test tubes, dna, gears, molecules, stars, and an astronaut. Text overlay reads, "That's the conundrum, isn't i? Everything has a trade-off. Everything has a cost."

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Steve Trower @sptroweresq.bsky.social · Jul 13

#BluePit📖 #ND #W
Based on a true story, 'Seeing Emily' explores the struggle of a child with invisible disabilities, as her family navigates a maze of red tape, ignorance, and personal doubt to get her the education she deserves in a system that is failing children like Emily
#TrueLife #FamilyDrama

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Judy L Mohr @judylmohr.com · Jul 13

Telepaths, poisoned atmosphere, artificial intelligence, government corruption, memory manipulation...

And a woman who wants to be free. But how can that be possible when the rain can melt away the skin?

Full list of retailers can be found at judylmohr.com/books/dancin...
#BluePit📖 #A #SF #SP #P

Promotional image announcing the release of the book Dancing in the Purple Rain by Judy L. Mohr. The cover features a person in a purple hooded coat standing in a neon-lit, rainy cityscape. Three formats are displayed: paperback, Kindle eBook, and a smartphone version, all showing the same cover design. At the top, the tagline reads: "Being special can make you a target." At the bottom, bold text declares: "Preorder Now!" against a dark, stormy background with lightning and digital rain effects.

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