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Arwyn Sherman @arwyns.bsky.social · Aug 7

I want to get better at being here but I got low key overwhelmed. If I don't follow you back it is not personal I'm just old and the group notification thing is hard. Just say hi and I'll follow back.

Book cover of girl fading away behind bed of feathers posted on a close up image of a feather

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Robert Nazar Arjoyan @robertarjoyan.bsky.social · Jul 21

Contract signed! My epistolary short story "Give Me Wings" will be featured in the Monstrous Angels anthology edited by
@arwyns.bsky.social! It's the 1950s and an ostracized filmmaker ventures from LA to Armenia in order to make a movie about a musical monk only to unearth mysteries millennia old.

a close up of a man 's face with the letter m below him

Alt: Orson Welles from The Third Man

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Gwend💫lyn Vines @gwenvines.writes.fyi · Feb 23

CALL FOR SHORT STORY SUBMISSIONS: arwynsherman.wixsite.com/arwyn-sherma... #writingcommunity #writesky

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: MONSTROUS ANGELS | Arwyn Sherman

arwynsherman.wixsite.com

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Gwend💫lyn Vines @gwenvines.writes.fyi · Feb 23

Anthology edited by the amazing @arwyns.bsky.social !

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korraiko | waitlist open @korraiko.bsky.social · Feb 14

Quote this 🟥 art with 🟪 art

A woman, her hands and mouth covered in blood, she's wearing a white dress and a veil on her head

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Laureanne Broton ⚔️querying⚔️ @lxnne.bsky.social · Feb 13

ELPHABA X ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF FAERIES X DON'T LET THE FOREST IN = TEARS OF A BANSHEE

🖤Sibling rivalry
🖤Themes of grief, jealousy & revenge
🖤Good FMC turned bad
🖤Morally grey, angry & imperfect characters
🖤Challenging the system

Belated #questpit post for my #agentsguide #Q #F #H #NA #writingcommunity

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Arwyn Sherman @arwyns.bsky.social · Feb 14

I ..I feel like I should rewrite this now bc I love that 💀 this one is less polycule and more 'do I let the god take over completely' possession situations.

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Arwyn Sherman @arwyns.bsky.social · Feb 14

Oh gosh I love everything about this.

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Jax Wolff Writes @jaxwolffwrites.bsky.social · Feb 14

GIDEON THE NINTH x FINAL FANTASY XIV
When magicless Mick agrees to go adventuring with his mage bff(/crush) Eleanor, the last thing he expects is to be stuck a dragon and bound to the gods' dead adversary. Now he and Eleanor must change him back, before his existence triggers a war.
#Cupit #NA #RoFa

Moodboard of eight images.
Top left: A figure plays a violin in a dark room. The image is shot in such a way that only the violin and one of the player's hands is visible.
Center left: A man stands in darkness; his head is on fire.
Bottom left: A wireframe of a dragon against a bright orange background
Top/mid center: Alphonse Mucha's Emerald, featuring a woman staring intensely at the viewer as she leans against the head of a snarling serpent. A white line is drawn straight through the image to neatly divide the woman's head from the serpent's.
Bottom center: The Lovers, from the Art Nouveau Tarot deck, featuring a couple just about to kiss. The card is lying on a white space, surrounded by red/white roses.
Top right: A figure in white robes wanders through a very green forest.
Center right: A bolt of lightning arcs above a mountain range in a very violet sky.
Bottom right: A black hole swirls in a sea of violet stars and nebulae.

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Arwyn Sherman @arwyns.bsky.social · Feb 14

Ezra wants his fiance to stop murdering people
Grace just wants to find her best friend.
The god possessing her just wants a way *out*.
Through gore and body dumps they'll find love.
#cupit #DR

Moodboard with dark macabre vibes, outline of teeth, a deer, a skull with a crown, a month, with images behind of a girl, knife, the forest, and the image of movie Apostle, book Maeve Fly, and video game Far Cry with album of halo kitsch

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Oksana Kerro @kueshka.bsky.social · Feb 13

Daisy Baker, a Shadar-kai elf cleric 🌙

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Jennifer Luce @jenniferluce.bsky.social · Feb 12

When Keira's sister is taken, her fate intertwines with the God of Light as she faces the last remaining gods, vicious monsters of land & sea, & her own dark powers to find a shapeshifter who could be anyone & whose price for her sister will have her choose b/w love & duty
✨️ #Questpit #RF #F #Q #A 🌗

3 by 3 grid of pictures: a woman in a forest with a giant wolf; a silhouette of a woman; silhouette of a couple kissing; a woman reaching out to light; two hands touching; a woman surrounded by a phoenix; art of a winged person saving someone falling; silhouette of couple kissing in the sun; a crown and dagger

Crown of Amethysts
Na Romantic Fantasy 99,000 words
Shadow and Bone meets A Court of Thorns and Roses
Pitch: When Keira's sister is taken by a shapeshifter, her fate intertwines with the God of Light as she faces the last remaining gods, vicious monsters of land and sea, and her own dark powers to save her. But the enemy could be anyone, and his price for her sister will have her question the cost of love and duty.
Comp titles: a fate inked in blood and spark of the everflame.
Tropes and themes: love vs duty, found family, vengeance and betrayal, Forbidden and slow-burn romance, forced proximity, dark secrets and hidden truths, half the Gods are dead, and gods. Goddesses, mortals, and more.

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Christopher Lee @librarianofthunder.bsky.social · Feb 12

A centaur cheats at jousting, until the fake horse head goes KERPLOP!

🌈Mythology X SPOP
🗡️Betrayed by the man he loves
🗡️Betrayed by his father
🐈‍⬛Cat Si from Irish folklore
🐐Snarky/greedy satyr
🐎Badass centaur
🧚‍♀️Tricky pixies can't lie
☀️Gods from many pantheons

#QuestPit #Q #YA #F #writing

The Title Page of the Agents Guide. The title of the book is THE STOLEN IDOL by Christopher Lee. It is a 86K word YA Fantasy. An image drawn and colored digitally by the author is in the center of the page. The image shows a broken opal colored disk in front of the Cat Si's golden eye.

The Pitch:
Winning a jousting tournament should be easy for a centaur, and it is, until the false horse head falls off Fotini’s shoddy disguise. She quickly steals the tournament prize, a golden idol, and gallops toward the forest ripping off her heavy jousting armor to outrun the tournament guards. When she arrives home to fulfill her contract, she discovers she accidentally ditched the idol with her disguise. Along with two fellow thieves, she retraces her steps praying the idol is still there. Hopefully it wasn’t cracked, or worse, found by a disgusting human.
Seventeen-year-old Jaimie Whitfield is accused of being a fae changeling, a creature who kidnaps children and assumes their form. If he does not escape, he will be executed for impersonating himself. His father will then invade the fae kingdom to rescue a son who hasn’t actually been kidnapped, all because he saw Jaimie kiss another young man and would rather believe his son has been kidnapped than accept his sexuality. As he awaits his demise, Jaimie turns to the broken idol he found by the roadside with a quiet prayer. He doesn’t expect an answer, but is shocked when a mysterious black cat slips through his high tower window.
Jaimie joins the shapeshifting cat known as the Cat Sí and the not fully human trio of thieves who dropped the idol to begin with. These outcasts race to warn the fae of the coming invasion. Along the way, Jaimie and his new friends learn long-forgotten secrets of how the Irish fae, the Cat Sí, and the Celtic gods are involved in an ancient feud with pantheons across the sea.

Tropes and Themes:

Found Family
Generational Trauma
Unrequited Love
Betrayal
Acceptance
LGBTQIA+ Representation
Celtic Mythology
Greek Mythology
Norse Mythology
Egyptian Mythology
Heroes Journey
Small Trickster Fae
Magical Girl Transformation

For Fans of:

Daughter of Sparta series by Claire M. Andrews
New take on several ancient myths
Mentions of gods from other lands
Ancient setting

Lore by Alexandra Bracken
Original story with mythical characters
Intense fight scenes

She-Ra (Netflix)
Lighthearted
LGBTQIA+ representation
Found family
Scary cat lady

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Arwyn Sherman @arwyns.bsky.social · Feb 12

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Gwend💫lyn Vines @gwenvines.writes.fyi · Feb 12

ARCANE x DON'T LET THE FOREST IN
🧑‍🎓cut-throat postgrad academia w/
⚛️engineering magic
🤌obsessive yearning
🚨unreliable narrator
📻corrupted magic tech
🩺ethical dilemmas
🩻body horror
🏆dangerous magic duels
🛠️blacksmith biceps
🌿strange plants
👤...& the strange man who ❤️s them
#questpit #Q #A #F #SF #H

A moodboard in dark tones, featuring a painting of a blond man with chin length hair in a green shirt at the center, with an X drawn across his face through which an xray of his skull can be seen. The images around him are of a university campus with gothic architecture, dark flowers and ferns, chemistry glassware, a ring of sparks, a river delta, machinery, anatomical images, and a smithy.

Text on it reads "THE BODY ABHORS A STRAIGHT LINE. FATE DOES NOT STRIKE IN A STRAIGHT LINE."

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Arwyn Sherman @arwyns.bsky.social · Feb 12

A monster-plagues girl trying to save her mother.

An angel that does not believe in God.

The violence that follows when their lives intersect.

Speculative adult horror WE, THE MISSING coming May 2026

#questpit #P #H #A

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Gwend💫lyn Vines @gwenvines.writes.fyi · Feb 11

completely & totally obsessed with this work

Well Spoken, 30.5" x 22.25", graphite and mixed media on watercolour paper, #art by Donna Anne Gregory

Posted w/ permission from instagram.com/donnagregoryart/

A graphite and mixed media drawing of several Schwinn bikes, drawn from an upward angle looking down at the front wheels, handles, and frames. The background is a stone floor that is inverted in shade in some places where viewed through the bikes. The handle of the bike in the foreground is very prominent in the upper left of the drawing and very foreshortened. Bits of colour are visible throughout the piece, especially in the lower left surrounding one of the bike pedals and gears. The pencilwork is phenomenal, as is the handle (lol) on perspective, contrast, and composition. #art

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Gwend💫lyn Vines @gwenvines.writes.fyi · Jan 27

DON'T LET THE FOREST IN x BABEL
Jim's graduate research was meant to bring salvation to rural regions like his own. Healing, with a simple telepathic command. Growth. But not all growth is good for the body—or soul.

Lucky for Jim, botanist Bash is *excellent* at pruning.
#2025pit #A #F #SF 💙📚

Image from a medical textbook of a man with his arm extended, with the text "an agent's guide to SEE IN ME THE WOLF by Gwendolyn Vines," an #agentguide #agentsguide for an #amquerying manuscript.

PITCH: (dark STEM academic science fantasy, 108,000 words)
When Institute grad student Jim invents a device that could revolutionize medicine, his intoxicating suitemate Bash warns him it could be weaponized—and stops at nothing to make his point. Are Jim's degree & the lives he could save worth staining his conscience?

For fans of: the grounded and ugly magical academia of BLOOD OVER BRIGHT HAVEN, BABEL, and THE TWO DOCTORS GORSKI; the criticism of tech venture capitalism of RIPE; the obsessive acespec yearning, body horror, and unreliable narrator of DON'T LET THE FOREST IN, and the corruption of tech and its makers of ARCANE.

Image: a silhouette walking up the stairs, head haloed by a lit chandelier.

EXCERPT from SEE IN ME THE WOLF by Gwendolyn Vines/@gwenvines

This time, though, it was not Six whose face was bathed and baptized by light. It was Bash’s, his lone gold hoop gleaming amidst his curls, the spindly shadows of his lashes stretching over his dark eyes, and the sleeve of his linen robe where it draped from his arm rendered translucent by the sun’s rays. It was Bash who sat atop his regal, woody throne and passed judgment upon Jim.

Jim, his blond hair set aflame not by Kontrolle or diffuser but by the sun’s fleeting gift, stared back, waiting. Unlike Etienne, the King Reluctant, Jim had never been told he was the best. Unlike Six, the King Desirous, Jim had never needed to be the best. Unlike Bash, the King Apparent, Jim had never been the best.

Jim’s calling, his compulsion, was to be of use. That is all he had ever needed, wanted, or been. And it was Bash, now, to whom he wished to be useful.

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junkyard ambrose @caninebrainz.bsky.social · Feb 8

⚠️ COVER REVEAL ⚠️

LIBER BX3 infects your neurons 02/15

teenage hormones meet unfiltered digital depravity. three girls run the gauntlet straight to hell, breaking their brains & bodies in the depths of the early internet. the devil in the machine licks its lips.

Digitally decayed image of a red, almost meaty computer in a sea of neon green static. A triangle is burned around it. Text reading “junkyard ambrose” and “LIBER BXIII” melts down the image.

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Cristiana 'Cru' Leone @cristianaleone.com · Feb 7

QRP with your wings #art!

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Arwyn Sherman @arwyns.bsky.social · Feb 8

Trying to take a cute selfie and caught the moment my husband informed me he lost his wedding ring.

Person with dark hair and glasses looking concerned while hiding behind green hoodie.

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Arwyn Sherman @arwyns.bsky.social · Feb 8

My book is a speculative horror about a girl, her irresponsible mother, and the monsters trying to consume them.

Girl drawn in highlighter pulling a hood over her blonde hair with text "We, the Missing May 2026"

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Persee 🐉 @innatelywriting.bsky.social · Nov 7

Hello new place

I’m Persee, SoCal based aspiring author currently querying the book described in the images below, taking deep breaths and pushing forward 🩵

#amquerying #writingcommunity

(All images include purple and blue floral imagery) A Gift of Righteous Anger by Persee Tevebaugh An Agent’s Guide @innatelywriting

Pitch: When tensions rise between the magical forces of their world, streetwise fighter Sawyer and overly-optimistic princess Julianna are brought together on a quest and strike up a budding romance, both unaware that they work for opposing enemies.

Comp Titles: A Gift of Righteous Anger combines the magical genderqueer protagonists of THE BRILLIANT DEATH by A.R. Capetta with the colorful fae-inspired setting of THE CRUEL PRINCE by Holly Black.

Tropes in AGORA: “She was sent to kill her”, “Girl” disguised as a “boy” for adventures but make it trans, Enemies to Lovers?, Dual-pov characters lying to each other, Magic Forest, Eviscerates the “non-human non-binary” trope

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Arwyn Sherman @arwyns.bsky.social · Jan 22

Thank you Emmi!! I'm excited you're excited 💞💞💞💞

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