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Brodie Smith

@brodiesmith.bsky.social

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Writer by day, writer by night. Reader of fantasy, mystery, and National Geographic History. Australian. some time word go other time word stop

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Brodie Smith @brodiesmith.bsky.social · Jan 24

My Agent's Guide to THE PRODIGAL DAUGHTER, a young adult high fantasy featuring:

💜 • Ace protagonist
💫 • Mages challenging the gods
🗡️ • Assassination at the highest level
👑 • Complicated interwoven noble families
🪞 • A narrator very aware of her unreliability

#YouDeservepIt #Q #YA #F

A black and gold swirled square background, upon which are the words "An Agent's Guide to The Prodigal Daughter 98K YA Fantasy By Brodie Smith"

The words "The Pitch" above three inset images. On the left is the book cover of "Alanna The Song of the Lioness" by Tamora Pierce, with a black lioness roaring on a red background. In the middle is the promotional image for the television show Bridgerton Season 2, featuring Anthony, Kate, and Edwina. On the right is a promotional image for the television show Reign, featuring Mary Queen of Scots, King Francis, and Queen Catherine. Beneath this is the novel's pitch: "Achieving Mastery of magic at seventeen isn't easy. Why can't Kyan's family understand that? How far does she have to go to prove herself? When an assassin strikes at the king, and a conspiracy unfolds, she'll get her chance."

A black book cover featuring a blue feather and the words "The Prodigal Daughter" on it. Around this cover are six tropes and tags: "bittersweet ending", "ace rep", "mages, knights & assassins", "gods walk among us", "nobility with secrets", and "runaway comes home".

The words "First Lines" above three paragraphs relating the opening lines of a novel. "Chapter 1 - Kyan Gets Caught." "Kyanna Ravenspell has worked for this day what feels like all her life. She stands alone beneath n ancient arched dome, the navy dark stone crossed with goldwashed rafters. She stands still among whipping greenery. Vines and snakes tear at her hair. Spikes and wet leaves streak by, bladed, aiming to cut at her skin. But she's protected - by a thin barrier of sky blue magic."

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Brodie Smith @brodiesmith.bsky.social · Jul 13

Never underestimate the motivational power of reading a book you think is not good. "I can do better than that" has some serious writer oomph.

Brodie Smith @brodiesmith.bsky.social · Jun 20

Can't believe I finally got to watch @criticalrole.bsky.social on a Thursday night 😍🥰

Thank you for coming to Sydney!! I hope we turned out for you as much as you turned out for us.

My fave pics from the night. No spoilers I hope!!

Brodie Smith @brodiesmith.bsky.social · Apr 29

Vigorously lol

Brodie Smith @brodiesmith.bsky.social · Apr 28

I got a D*tton leaflet in the mail yesterday and I saw the words "follow Tr*mp's leadership" on it and immediately held it within two fingers like it was toxic to put it in the outdoor garbage bin. no other major party leaflet yet though 🙃

Brodie Smith @brodiesmith.bsky.social · Feb 12

Oh, I've been so busy with real life work and real life anxiety that I totally missed questpit coming up! I am so not in a good mental place to participate but I'm gonna go on a liking spree 🥰

Brodie Smith @brodiesmith.bsky.social · Feb 6

I've devised an "Ultimate Pitch" from the most used words in #SmallPitch pitches:

[Protagonist] meets father; two must save world in time and find way home. Life story, family secret, new friend, past love, and magic help.

Tell me yours!!

#SmallPitch @smallpitch.org · Feb 6

The January 2025 Wrap-Up is live!

Read our latest post to learn more about how we ran the January edition of #SmallPitch, see numbers & stats, and what issues we ran into and the improvement opportunities for next time.

January 2025 Wrap-Up

In light of the recent changes to various social media platforms, we decided to move #SmallPitch events to a platform that is entirely within our own control. Now that our first fully independent e…

smallpitch.org

Brodie Smith @brodiesmith.bsky.social · Feb 5

Honestly I'm intrigued by the concept though

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Brodie Smith @brodiesmith.bsky.social · Jan 31

I got a #SmallPitch request!! 🫣🫣🫣

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Brodie Smith @brodiesmith.bsky.social · Jan 30

Already cut 1500 words... 🫣

Brodie Smith @brodiesmith.bsky.social · Jan 29

Anyone else who submitted to #SmallPitch suddenly having a weird paranoia that their manuscript isn't finished *enough*, polished *enough*, and doing one more manic round of edits?

Just me, then?

Brodie Smith @brodiesmith.bsky.social · Jan 29

Anyone else who submitted to #SmallPitch suddenly having a weird paranoia that their manuscript isn't finished *enough*, polished *enough*, and doing one more manic round of edits?

Just me, then?

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B. van Bodegom 📃is querying & writing @bvbodegom.bsky.social · Jan 27

CABIN IN THE WOODS X JOHN DIES AT THE END X KNIVES OUT

When their detective friend is murdered during their annual gaming retreat, 5 dads must use their years of TTRPG experience—and puns—to solve the crime before they're all killed off like NPCs in a badly-written game.
#2025Pit #A #H #HA #M

6 over-the-top frightened man along the bottom and side edges on a black background, blood spatter between them with the title DAD BODIES in white on top of that.

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B. van Bodegom 📃is querying & writing @bvbodegom.bsky.social · Jan 27

TREASURE PLANET X STARFIELD

When Jak finds an ancient wrist computer with his new friend Eris—a tech prodigy—he couldn't have guessed it would tear him from his home on a pirate space station to an interstellar quest for answers about his dad's legacy, old mysteries & himself.
#2025Pit #YA #SF #M

An industrial space station hallway, with the title of the book and the undertitle. JAK STERZAND: ESCAPE FROM FREEPORT

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Sally Bromley @sallybromley.bsky.social · Jan 27

In WWI Sussex, when a petty criminal is gutted like a fish & his cousin accused of the murder, tales of forbidden love, the infamous Fowler Gang & the suffragettes, bleed together, staining the River Arun red. #2025Pit #Q #A #HF

Images of Peaky Blinders, a dead fish, man&woman kissing, two women kissing and a WWI soldier.

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Caitlin @awritingcaitlin.bsky.social · Jan 27

🎶Em is a thief-turned-violinist who unfortunately must go back to thieving for *one last job*
🔥Lelia is a disabled woman who quits the enginemage job that was killing her in favor of a life on stage...but she's running out of savings
🎻Time to steal a legendary violin
✨Fun!
#2025pit #A #F #LGBT

Photo collage of six photos surrounding the name Em Robbins.

Top right: Sheet music sitting on a brown lattice table.
Top center: food spread including cheese board, tomatoes, salad, olives, and potatoes.
Top right: Violin in case.
Bottom left: pale blonde woman wearing a black shirt, holding a violin.
Bottom center: foaming beer in a glass.
Bottom right: docks overlooking the horizon.

Photo collage of six photos surrounding the name Lelia Daniels in the center.

Top left: blurry twinkle lights
Top Center: reddish tea in glass mug
Top right: brunette woman wearing brown cardigan playing violin
Bottom left: violin
Bottom middle: red potion in a bottle
Bottom right: Stacked sheet music

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Brodie Smith @brodiesmith.bsky.social · Jan 27

Aaaa exciting!!

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Brodie Smith @brodiesmith.bsky.social · Jan 27

I bet your dream cast for this one is amazinggggg

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DM Shepard @dmshepard.bsky.social · Jan 27

Golden Girls x Jaw Breaker

Rebecca is on a wine cruise in France as a substitute for her deceased mother.

When bodies pile up, and blood flows like wine, she realizes her mother's Boomer mean girl squad has a secret past they'll kill to keep buried.
#2025Pit #A #M #U #R

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Brodie Smith @brodiesmith.bsky.social · Jan 27

Beautifully sad! very "Don't Let the Forest In"

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🦋 Gabriel Yuriria @gabriel-yuriria.bsky.social · Jan 27

TRIANGLE X TIMECRIMES

A dead lover + a deal with something not human to bring him back = a very unhappy ending

☠️ trans mc desperate for love
☠️ only person who loved him dies
☠️ eldritch entity in a forest
☠️ time loop where everything goes wrong
☠️ a lot of people die

#YA #H #Q #ShortStory #2025pit

Upper left: young man in hoodie walking into the woods
Text upper center: all things beautiful died with you
Upper right: dirty hands hovering over dirty legs
Center middle: skull in the dirt
Lower left: sysiphus pushing boulder, broken clock
Lower center: hand lying in the dirt
Lower right: person standing in the woods

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Jennifer Luce @jenniferluce.bsky.social · Jan 27

SHADOW AND BONE x ACOTAR

When Keira's sister is captured by a shape-shifting immortal, her fate intertwines with the God of Light to rescue her; but an ancient darkness grows within Keira, and she must choose between stopping those who seek to harness it or saving those she loves #2025Pit #RM #A #F

Three by three grid of pictures: a white feather, a silhouette of a woman; a silhouette of a couple, a silhouette of a person with wings before a sunset; a silhouette of a woman wrapped in lights; a silhouette of a woman at sunset; a silhouette of a woman at sunrise; a couple kissing in the sun; a hand reaching out towards a window with sunlight.

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Brodie Smith @brodiesmith.bsky.social · Jan 27

Hell yeah we support women's rights and women's wrongs 🙌

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Brodie Smith @brodiesmith.bsky.social · Jan 27

Ohhh I didn't even see before that you had Dresden Files as a comp! Fantastic!!

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Eliwood S. Gheist @eliwoodsgheist.com · Jan 27

DRESDEN FILES X GRAVITY FALLS

Girl meets boy. Girl meets monsters. Girl has to save the town. Sometimes what you don't know can kill you in Bludeye Beach.

👧Character driven
🫂Found family
💕Slow burn romance
👻Monster menagerie

#2025pit #A #Q #H #F

A tourism style poster showing several bright and cheerful images of sandy beaches and people playing in the water. The bottom image is a smiling girl with big red X's over her eyes. Over the collage are the words "Welcome to Bludeye Beach", and over that text a graffiti style phrase "something is wrong in bludeye beach"

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Brodie Smith @brodiesmith.bsky.social · Jan 27

Ooh beautiful synopsis and moodboard!

ps don't forget to pin this to your profile so it's at the top of your activity and people can find it 🥰

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