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Bre Knight

@breknightwriter.bsky.social

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📖 28 y/o Christian bookwyrm 🐉Fantasy lover, though romance can be 🥰 📝 Working on too many WIP but my main one has a girl taking her chosen one twin sister's place to save the world

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Bre Knight @breknightwriter.bsky.social · Apr 5

"The world had finally noticed it had lost its chosen one, and now it had come looking for her."

#1stLinePit #F #YA #WiP #CMe

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Bre Knight @breknightwriter.bsky.social · Jun 6

Starting a new book! Anyone read it yet? And what are your current reads? 👀
#booksky #books #reading #reader

Bre Knight @breknightwriter.bsky.social · Jun 5

I know a lot of words. They just all leave my head the moment I'm needing to think of them versus knowing them when they're in front of me 🤣 Brains be strange.

Bre Knight @breknightwriter.bsky.social · Jun 5

Me reading a book: *knows 95,207 words*
Me writing a book: *knows 2,813*
Bonus round of me talking: *knows 146 words*
#booksky #writersky #books #writer

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Bre Knight @breknightwriter.bsky.social · May 22

As a writer and a reader, I love looking at bad reviews on books I love. It's a great reminder of how subjective the reading experience really is, and that even if there's people who think your book is a 1 star, someone else out there will think it a 6 out of 5 #booksky #books #writer #writersky

Bre Knight @breknightwriter.bsky.social · Apr 7

"Oh, you're a writer, you must be so smart."

Me: *replacing all the spots I put sports player because I forgot the word athlete apparently*

#writersky #writers #booksky #books #author #authors #amwriting

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W. J. MARWOOD 🪦 @intothemarwoods.bsky.social · Apr 5

🗡️ FMAB x SIX OF CROWS

“Evren Layvey often wondered what it would cost to create God.”

An alchemist and a thief must work together to stop a rogue magician and his manifestations, while a foreigner has news that could bring war to the nation.

#1stLinePit #WIP #A #F #LGBTQ

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Bre Knight @breknightwriter.bsky.social · Apr 6

... That's enough social media for today...

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Katie Collan @kancollan.bsky.social · Apr 5

LEGENDBORN X AVATAR: THE LAST AIRBENDER

The wind has only spoken to me once in my life.

#Q #YA #F #Jewish #1stLinePit

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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Meghan Spelbrink is QUERYING 📚❤️🤞 @mspelbrinkwrites.bsky.social · Apr 5

"Sapina was done acting like a lady."

#1stLinePit #RF #NA #A #C #Q #amquerying #romantasy #writingcommunity #agentsguide #writersky #booksky

Heir of Night Pitch: A princess disguised as a man competes for her stolen throne to defeat a demon possessing the dynasty of kings, while fighting against monsters, societal conventions, and her own growing feelings for a competitor.

Heir of Night Blurb: When the brutal assassination of the king leaves Karop without a male heir to the throne, his daughter steps up to take her place as the nocturnal desert nation’s first ruling queen. But Sapina’s fiancé and his ambitious father betray her and propose a contest to choose a new king, leaving her to marry the winner and continue the bloodline: Powerless. Tame. A good little consort.

Filled with righteous indignation, she disguises herself as a man to compete. Her ruse works until she meets Howen, a fellow contestant whose disarming banter and charm pit her desire to win against her longing for true connection. Too bad she isn’t the only one in this competition who isn’t what they seem.

As the trials begin, a long-forgotten magic manifests, plunging the contestants into a mystery they never anticipated. Sapina uncovers a suppressed history, a possessed dynasty, and an immortal war that threatens her kingdom even more than human prejudice. Can Sapina lean on her small band of allies to save it, or is it better to trust her enemies?

HEIR OF NIGHT Comp Titles:
A Song of Wraiths and Ruin series (Roseanne A. Brown)
We Hunt the Flame series (Hafsah Faizal)
Dance of Thieves series (Mary E. Pearson)
A Tribute of Fire series (Sariah Wilson)
Damsel (Netflix 2024)
"The Man" by Taylor Swift
"Sit Still, Look Pretty" by Daya
"Speechless" by Naomi Scott

Heir of Night mood board: ancient writing on wall, glowing feathers, starlight magic, BIPOC woman closeup, almost kiss, phoenix, demon closeup, tropes (rivals to lovers, found family, forced proximity, one bed, hidden history, feminine rage, secret identity, enduring hope)

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Amelia @ameliagthorn.bsky.social · Apr 5

❝Magic untended festers. Magic forgotten rots.❞

Kaos x The Witcher x Godkiller

#1stLinePit #agentsguide #F

The title cover to an agents guide for the project.

The background is a volcano erupting, streams of lava flowing across the page.

The words

“An Agent’s guide to” - in glowing orange surrounded by a black box.

“The Dying Religion” - in an echo effect in black and white font surrounded by an orange glow.

“Adult epic fantasy” - in glowing orange surrounded by a black box.

The pitch page for the project. The pitch itself is in a large black box with dashed orange borders, the word pitch intersects with the box and is in a black and white echoing font.

The pitch is:

No one expected orphans to survive the war
meant to end magic, least of all win it.
But victory’s price? The death of their God.

Now war returns to a still healing continent,
the enemy intent on slaughtering
the five remaining Gods.

and the children raised as Holy-War cannon
fodder must decide if they’re worth saving.

The background is a volcano erupting, streams of lava flowing across the page.

The comps & tropes page for the project.

The background is a volcano erupting, streams of lava flowing across the page. Every box is black with an orange, dashed border, and the boxes for tropes and comps have the appropriate title, partially intersecting the relevant title. The quotes do not.

Comps:

Kaos, Witcher and Godkiller

The quote “martyr, coward, traitor or fool. Your choice, really, you’ll serve our needs one way or the other.”

The quote “there is only one religion in war, and believe me when it’ll you it’s a godless faith.”

Tropes:

Gods pay their dues
Hero x villain
Found family
Heist into hell
Friends to lovers to enemies
Morally grey mc & villain
Magic comes with a price

A villain and hero page for the project.

The hero and villain both have information about the individual characters in two separate black boxes, both with orange dashed borders. The word “hero” and “villain” intersects the relevant boxes (right and left respectively)

The background is a volcano erupting, streams of lava flowing across the page.

Villain

The gods killed all he loved
Out for revenge on the gods
Brainwashed veteran
Waterbender
Raised as cannon fodder
Reborn as propaganda
In love with the hero

Hero:
Raised to be the weapon of the gods
Out to destroy the institution that forged him
Guilt ridden veteran
Electricity bender
Raised as cannon fodder
Remade as a national threat (not what graphic says but need to resave that one)
In love with the villain

In the centre is the quote “your first mistake was thinking that people like you and I were ever born to do anything but burn.”

With arrows pointing from hero (the receiver) to the villain (the speaker.)

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Danni Grace @dgracewrites.bsky.social · Apr 5

“Clustered in the chest of Kit Clearwood, there lived a beast.”

Howl’s Moving Castle meets Brave in a steampunk setting. 💕

#1stLinePit #WIP #YA #F

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Chantel is ON SUBMISSION ✨ @cpearsonwrites.bsky.social · Apr 5

A SONG TO DROWN RIVERS X WHEN THE MOON HATCHED

There are three rules for provoking a Galah: never look into its hollow eyes, never speak your true name, and never, under any circumstances, let go.

Fantasy retelling of SEA folklore
⚔️ So. Much. Yearning
⚔️Forbidden Love
#Q #NA #YA #F #RF #1stLinePit

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Rachel is Editing @rpiswriting.bsky.social · Apr 5

#1stlinepit

“Lianna Bontrower had a heart cursed to be stolen.”

#wip #f #r #adult #writingcommunity

Illustration of the main characters of my fantasy romance WIP. Lianna, a plus sized woman with dark brown curly hair stands in front of Fyrgus, a man with black hair and black fox ears. He is holding her in his arms and they stare lovingly into one another’s eyes. His hands are at her hip and waist and they are blackened with curse marks and have claws. Her hand raises up behind her to play at his hair. She wears a a midnight banyan embroidered with silver moons and a pink chemise a la reine inspired dress. Fyrgus wears a crimson coat embroidered with suns,

Shuffle of my fantasy romance WIP: Rosemary and Flame. The couple is in the center surrounded by trees and florals and a black fox, grey cat, a dragon flames, the sun and the moon

The great witch Beatrice Bontrower is missing and it’s up to her daughter, Lianna to find her. But Beatrice is lost in a magical land full of dangers and heart snatching fae and Lianna has no magic of her own. What’s a poor woman to do? Obviously bind herself to the first barely trustworthy fae she meets. He’s after the ring on her pinky, a family heirloom said to hold ancient magic, and he’ll do just about anything to get it, including helping a wayward woman find her missing mother. Together they traverse the wilds of Faerie on a path of danger and discovery, for Beatrice was a woman of many secrets and these secrets have teeth.

Tropes:
-Grumpy/sunshine
-Plus size 30 y/o fmc
-A magical quest
-Finding yourself as an adult
-Bickering is a love language
-He falls first but she saves him

Characters:
-An incorrigible flirt of a herione
-A grump with a dramatic flare
-A dragon king with a problem
-Don quixote but make him a cat
-A murderous witch

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A Carew @justonecarew.bsky.social · Apr 5

“Vantis stretched his stiffening back against the chair and looked at the clock.”

Featuring
🐉 a curious dragon
🐁 a loyal shapeshifter
👩🏿 a reluctant ruler
☠️ an aspiring necromancer
🧙🏾 his insurgent brother
📞 & their poor communication

#1stlinepit #a #f #amquerying

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Jennifer Luce @jenniferluce.bsky.social · Apr 5

"Bright droplets of red bloomed against the crisp, white layer of fresh snow.

A trail, unbeknownst to my victim, that would be his demise."

👻 PR w/ body horror
🇰🇷 Inspired by Korean folklore
🌦 Set in the PNW

#1stLinePit #A #P #R #H #WIP

3 by 3 grid of pictures: a woman with a bloodied face, a silhouette of a couple about to kiss, Korean architecture of a dokkaebi, a mouth with fangs, a woman looking down at a flower, a woman with yellow eyes, a woman staring into shattered glass, a silhouette of a woman, a hand clawing at the wooden floor

Gumiho
Adult paranormal romance with horror elements
Dark secrets, ticking time bomb, cinnamon roll mmc, grumpy sunshine trope, Forbidden and slow-burn romance, reluctant villain, dangerous attraction, Korean folklore and culture set in modern day PNW

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Bre Knight @breknightwriter.bsky.social · Apr 5

I am jumping between here and 🐦 for #1stLinePit and have grown SO confused between who I've followed and liked where because so many people are posting and interacting on both 🤣🤣

Me: I could have SWORN I liked this one already, or did I just do it in my head???

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Max is ✨querying✨ @mtaylorauthor.bsky.social · Apr 5

It was only quiet in the Thornewood on execution days.

HEARTLESS HUNTER x WHERE THE DARK STANDS STILL

#Q #YA #F #UF #1stLinePit #writingcommunity

To save her realm and her people from extinction, lone Dryad, Eryna, must hide amongst human high society and play their twisted party games to take back the magic that was stolen from her land.

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Iris Andersi @goodwords.bsky.social · Apr 5

Twelve vials sat on a shelf where one hundred should rest. Linatta Mosset picked up one of the tapered glasses—thumb-sized and filled to the brim with a warm, green liquid.

#1stLinePit #CZ #F #A #Q #dis #ownvoices #Agentsguide #amquerying

A flowery field below a blue sky is in the background. Photo credit: Yakup Tuğ from Pexels. Layered on top, a semi-transparent, wavy edged background has text on top that says: The Pitch: HOWL'S MOVING CASTLE meets THE SPELLSHOP. A curmudgeonly witch with a chronic illness who is caught up in brewing potions for an evil corporation must battle her tendency to self-sabotage when it comes to love and friendship.

A photo of white flowers in grass is in the background. Photo credit: JillWellington from pixabay. The top layer of the image has a semi-transparent, wavy edged square with text on top. The text says: Genre: Cozy Romantic Fantasy. Word count: 78,000. Comps: The accessible fantasy writing of Legends and Lattes by Travis Baldree mixes with the humor of Under the Whispering Door by T.J. Klune and the grumpy-sunshine romance of The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna.

A photo of tiny potion vials on shelves by Alina Vilchenko from Pexels. The text on top of a wavy edged, square image. Text on top displays the first lines of my novel which begins: Twelve vials sat on a shelf where one hundred should rest.

A moodboard with a variety of images arranged in a grid displays mushrooms, a cottage, potions with herbs inside, pumpkins, and a spellbook.

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Bre Knight @breknightwriter.bsky.social · Apr 5

Thank you! 🥰

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Racquel Kechagias @racquelk.bsky.social · Apr 5

SUPERNATURAL × NINTH HOUSE

The sharp metallic tang of bloodshed filled the air, assaulting Valerie’s nose and setting her senses on edge.

#1stlinepit #A #F #Q #CMe

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MechaniChris @chrisakins.bsky.social · Apr 5

#1stLinePit
Grim Portents
HITCHHIKER’S GUIDE X CONSTANTINE

We killed another guy at the Whataburger this morning, which makes three since we started on the road yesterday.

#Q #A #F #COM #H #P

Cover for Grim Portents featuring a skeleton hand gripping a feather, emerging from a flaming book over a maze

"I always told myself it wasn't real. It was a figment of my imagination, the mind playing tricks. It was just a shadow.
But now the monster had been given a name, an identity.
It was real."
BILL BAKER WANTS NOTHING MORE THAN TO MARRY THE WOMAN HE LOVES, BUT WHEN HIS WEDDING IS INTERRUPTED BY A RAMPAGING HELL-BEAST, HIS LIFE IS THROWN INTO DISARRAY. DESPERATE FOR A SECOND CHANCE, HE WILL DO ANYTHING TO SET HIS FUTURE BACK ON TRACK.
NOW, WITH THE HELP OF A SOUL-COLLECTING REAPER NAMED SONNY, HE MUST UNCOVER WHO IS RELEASING MONSTERS FROM HELL, IN ORDER TO EARN BACK THE LIFE THAT WAS STOLEN FROM HIM AND PREVENT THE ONCOMING END OF DAYS.
FACED WITH THE CHOICE BETWEEN WHAT IS RIGHT, AND WHAT IS EASY, BILL MAY HAVE TO SACRIFICE ALL HE HOLDS DEAR FOR ONE LAST SHOT AT LIFE.

Black and white sketch of characters Bill and Sonny. Bill is a dark featured man in a suit and kind of a Mark Ruffalo vibe. Sonny is a rotting corpse man with a cardigan.

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Bre Knight @breknightwriter.bsky.social · Apr 5

What do they have against Whataburger eaters? 🤣

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Bre Knight @breknightwriter.bsky.social · Apr 5

I'm technically not new, but new to using it to any degree 🤣 This is also my first time ever doing a pit event.

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Dawn Berkoski @dawnberkoski.bsky.social · Apr 5

“The company had become his pride and joy, malleable to his command.”

I AM Chosen by Dawn Berkoski

PITCH: Alex, a power-hungry CEO penned in by corporate vampires, meets an orphaned bartender who helps him get the fangs to fight back. #1stlinepit #PR #A #Q BlueBloods x Yakuza

Several photos are shown in this Moodboard for I Am Chosen, a paranormal romance written by Dawn Berkoski. From the top left, a glass of aged scotch surrounded by butterscotch candies, a CEO standing in a high rise office, staring out a window, a giant hotel clock surrounded by Christmas decor, a photo of art depicting demons rising from hell, a sunset with black, billowy clouds hovering over an orange stripe, a dirty cement staircase near a darkened entrance, and the city of London as viewed from the river. Photography, except the man, by Dawn Berkoski

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Bre Knight @breknightwriter.bsky.social · Apr 5

Nice opening! Just want to give a tip someone just gave me as well. Perhaps pin this to your profile? I had to scroll down quite a bit to find your post 🥰

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