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C.C. Foster 👻🫀🔔 @ccfosterwrites.bsky.social · Sep 5

A MURAL OF SORROWS
An Upper YA retelling of The Oval Portrait

I wrote this book through deep, heartbreaking grief, and now it's with my agent. Here's a sneaky peek of the book that put me back together. ❤️‍🩹

Rep: Alex Land at MWLA

#literaryeditors #writingcommunity #sapphic #authorsky #books

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#DVpit - Diverse Voices Pitch @dvpit.bsky.social · Aug 20

📣Announcing #PreDV and #DVParty!📣

Excited to bring back #PreDV & #DVParty leading up to #DVPit!

Practice your pitches during #PreDV on Mon, Sept 29, 2025!

Get to know your fellow participants during #DVParty from Oct 2-Oct 7!

Follow this account or dvpit.carrd.co for all official announcements!

#preDV September 29th, 2025 12PM - 5PM ET

Join us for our practice vent, #preDV on Bluesky!
Come with your best pitches and receive4 feedback from agented authors.

All participants are welcome to also give feedback and make friends during the community event before Oct 8th's #DVpit.
More info at dvpit.carrd.co

#DVparty
October 2nd - October 7th 2025

October 2nd (Day 1): Post a moodboard/art

October 3rd (Day 2): Introduce your main character

October 4th (Day 3): Opening LInes

October 5th (Day 4): Your Story as a meme/gif

October 6th (Day 5): Your Story's theme song/playlist

October 7th (Day 6): Hype your next project

Post on Bluesky with the #DVparty hashtag. Open all day. Please use alt-text if you post images. No AI generated images allowed. Have fun and make friends leading up to #DVpit! More info at dvpit.carrd.co

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C.C. Foster 👻🫀🔔 @ccfosterwrites.bsky.social · Aug 25

30 poisoned guests. 3 antidotes. 1 killer banquet. 🫀

A condemned mortician infiltrates a sentient manor seeking proof of her sister's death. Survival means outwitting the host's lethal magic--and the specter that's slowly killing him. {2027 Voyager}

#authorsky #writingcommunity #writersky #author

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Nadine Flint @nadineflintbooks.bsky.social · Aug 25

Can we have a moment for Ruth McKell’s cover reveal for her debut HONEY IN HER VEINS? Cottagecore fantasy about about a man with a monster in his head who reunites with his first love to find mythical honey in the woods of Appalachia 🐝🐝🐝

A honey gold background with a silhouette of a man and woman. Bees fly around them. The title reads HONEY IN HER VEINS by Ruth McKell

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C.C. Foster 👻🫀🔔 @ccfosterwrites.bsky.social · Aug 18

The main trio of comps for WHAT LIES BETWEEN, a gothic fantasy horror retelling of The Tell-Tale Heart, coming 2027 with @harpervoyagerus.bsky.social

💀 Mortician FMC
👻 Ghosts 🤝 Neuro magic system
🫀 Dual POV Villain romance
🩸30 poisoned guests / 3 antidotes

#writingcommunity #writers #authorsky

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C.C. Foster 👻🫀🔔 @ccfosterwrites.bsky.social · Aug 7

😭😭

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C.C. Foster 👻🫀🔔 @ccfosterwrites.bsky.social · Aug 7

Crying

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Cailin Barrett-Bressack @cailinwrites.bsky.social · Aug 6

If you like grounded, speculative novels featuring woman-led cults, unique depictions of grief, off-beat humor, sister relationships, and neuroscience, then BOY do I have the book for you! 🐐
#Questpit #AG #A #S

Guide to: The Magic of Now
The story of a 62-year-old farmer, the goat her sister may be reincarnated into, and the new age cult that could be behind it.
By: Cailin Barrett-Bressack
Rep: Alex Land, Mad Woman Literary Agency

The Pitch
Gyla, 62-year old in mourning, encounters a mysterious goat on her farm that she suspects contains the consciousness of her recently deceased sister, Tina. Her quest for answers eventually leads to ReNewAll, a reclusive new-age community fixated on death and grieving– and with a goat on their brochures.
In addition to nonsensical classes like Stargazing with Your Eyes Closed and Untangling the Truth through Macrame, ReNewAll and its neuroscientist leader teach The Magic of Now, a practice that allows members to vividly revisit memories of their deceased loved ones.
As Gyla grows from skeptic and unlikely cult infiltrator to a willing member of ReNewAll’s inner circle, she must ultimately choose between immersing herself in an illusion of the past where Tina is still alive (and human), or dedicating herself to the imperfect (but tangible) version of her sister that is trapped inside the body of a goat.

The Comps
How to Age Disgracefully: quirky humor and warmly acerbic wit
Aimee Bender: surrealism used to highlight life’s bittersweet beauty
Catherine House: speculative exploration of insular communities
Eternal Sunshine: themes of memory and identity
comp cults: Teal Swan, Mother God, Elizabeth Holmes

A Snippet:
The Milky Way painted across the bowl of sky is technicolor and dizzying. The stars seem close enough that if she were to reach out and run her hands across the pricks of them, they’d snag splinters in her fingertips.
The wind grows louder. Gyla walks towards her pond, the forest pressing into the shore on three sides. Later in the spring, the pond's surface will be laced with pale green algae, but this early in the season the water is smooth glass, reflecting the night sky and also—the goat.
Gyla sees its reflection first, then draws her eyes up to where it stands motionless across the water. It’s hard to make out every detail in the muted blues of night, but she can tell who it is the moment she sees it.
“Tina?” Gyla whispers. The goat cocks its head to one side in response.
Gyla is not sure why she says her sister’s name aloud. It’s a physical knowing, the same way she senses weather changes in the marrow of her right knee. When she sees the goat, she feels her sister with her for the first time in months.
The goat approaches her cautiously. Its ear is pierced where an identification tag had been, but the tag is gone, and Gyla can see the stars reflecting on the surface of the pond through the small empty window in the cartilage.
Gyla knows she should be wondering if her mind is playing tricks on her. But she doesn’t waver in her conviction. Somehow, she can tell–this is her sister.
It’s Tina.

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C.C. Foster 👻🫀🔔 @ccfosterwrites.bsky.social · Aug 6

Thank you!

C.C. Foster 👻🫀🔔 @ccfosterwrites.bsky.social · Aug 6

Any excuse to write painted specters!! 🤭

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C.C. Foster 👻🫀🔔 @ccfosterwrites.bsky.social · Aug 6

I NEED IT

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Sammy Holden @holdencreates.bsky.social · Aug 6

SIX OF CROWS X A DARK & DROWNING TIDE
A flirty rogue & a haughty noble on a deadly quest must trust each other to gain power they desperately need—if only they’d stop lying to each other.
-Sapphic yearning/bickering
-Vicious gods
-Eye-centered magic system
#QuestPit #AG #F #A

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C.C. Foster 👻🫀🔔 @ccfosterwrites.bsky.social · Aug 6

A grieving twin enters a converted halfway house for magical youth seeking answers for her brother's death. But something strange stalks the halls at Vignette, & if she's not careful, she'll become the academy's latest masterpiece.

#QuestPit #AG #Sapphic #YA #F #H #OnSub (soon)

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C.C. Foster 👻🫀🔔 @ccfosterwrites.bsky.social · Aug 6

The Oval Portrait Retelling

A grieving twin is embroiled in a dark conspiracy when her late brother's journal leads her into the arms of his former rival--the best artist at Vignette Academy, & the one with the most to gain from his death.

#QuestPit #AG #YA #F #H #OnSub (soon)

Selena Lotus had mastered two very important things in her eighteen years of life: expecting the worst of every situation, and wearing her brother's skin.

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Carly is ✨AGENTED✨ @cjvickwrites.bsky.social · Aug 6

SOUTHERN BOOK CLUBS GUIDE TO SLAYING VAMPIRES x HYSTERIA

💋middle-aged feminist rage
🛼campy 80s setting
💋body horror
🛼satanic panic backdrop
💋dark humor
🛼the darkest of deals
💋bubblegum horror

#QuestPit #AG #A #H #W #WIP #editorguide

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Carly is ✨AGENTED✨ @cjvickwrites.bsky.social · Aug 6

When a cult-driven murder-spree hits an 80s midwest PTA, Janet puts her true crime obsession to work. Alongside her misfit mom friends—a writer, a goth, & a sickly sweet PTA matriarch—Janet must uncover the real monster in town, before it claims them all. #QuestPit #AG #A #H #WIP

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Katy Lapierre 🖤 ✨ @katylapierre.bsky.social · Aug 6

THE OTHERWOODS x creepy Candy Land

To wish her wish come true and fix her ruined life, 13yo Nora plays the ultimate Game, leaping into a candy world laced with poison and riddles. But the Game's rigged, treats are torture, and she’s one wrong bite from being trapped forever.

#questpit #mg #h #ag

Collage of candy canes, a muddy bog, a watch, a lollipop, a girl lost in the woods, an image of a snake biting a hand with text that
reads: trust no one; a noose shaped from candy, dark chocolate, a red necklace, a dark castle draped in fog. Text over a dark candy patterned background reads: spells gone wrong, "ah trust issues," magic watch, time to get questing, torture by lollipop, deadly candy even deadlier games, inconvenient crushes, sugar transformation body horror, bewitched necklace.

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Cailin Barrett-Bressack @cailinwrites.bsky.social · Aug 6

Gyla's sister's soul has returned as a goat, and her only lead to why is a new-age cult that vividly relives memories. As Gyla goes from skeptic to inner circle, she must choose: an illusion of the past where her sister is alive (and human), or acceptance of her sister's new form 🐐
#questpit #AG #A

The Magic of Now
The story of a 62-year-old-farmer, the goat her sister may be reincarnated into, and the new age cult that could be behind it.
Unique manifestations of grief
woman-led cult
offbeat humor
central sister relationship
older female protagonist
neuroscience meets "woo" pseudoscience
By: Cailin Barrett Bressack
Rep: Alex Land, Mad woman literary agency

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Sammy Holden @holdencreates.bsky.social · Aug 6

GIDEON THE NINTH X THE FOXGLOVE KING
A sapphic political intrigue fantasy that features:
- a twisty murder mystery
- sentient, decaying magic with a price
- magical history lost to corruption
- childhood friends-to-enemies-to-????
- women’s wrongs
#QuestPit #AG #A #F

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Sammy Holden @holdencreates.bsky.social · Aug 6

WARCROSS x ONE OF US IS LYING
A group of rivals get stuck inside a glitching VR competition and must overcome their longstanding grudges to break themselves out—or they'll lose their minds to the simulation before they figure out who’s trapped them inside.
#QuestPit #AG #YA #SF

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Katy Lapierre 🖤 ✨ @katylapierre.bsky.social · Aug 6

UNDEAD GIRL GANG x BRING HER BACK

When Parker's family ink magic predicts her best friend's death, there's only one option—cast a forbidden spell to resurrect her. But an ink demon lurks and one wrong step in the spell will damn both their souls to an inky hell forever.

#questpit #ya #h #ag

A image of the dunes at night behind a photo collage showing: the beach, tattoos, moonlight behind dark trees, a couple holding hands, a spell book, two friends covering each other's eyes, an inky hand over a pale throat, a hand sinking into the ocean

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C.C. Foster 👻🫀🔔 @ccfosterwrites.bsky.social · Jun 16

Some of my fave #writingessentials 🫶🏻

#writingsetup #authorsky #writingcommunity #author #2027debut #writing #writersky

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Michelle 🍂 is AGENTED 🕯️ @mdkerkhoven.bsky.social · May 22

Stopping by to share the 🍂 editor’s guide 🕯️ to 𝐖𝐇𝐄𝐑𝐄 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐖𝐈𝐂𝐊𝐄𝐃 𝐋𝐈𝐄, my 83,000-word sapphic YA dark fantasy with crossover potential.

Peep the new pitch 👀

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C.C. Foster 👻🫀🔔 @ccfosterwrites.bsky.social · May 17

TV and movie comps for WHAT LIES BETWEEN, a gothic fantasy horror retelling of The Tell-Tale Heart, coming 2027 with @harpervoyagerus.bsky.social

#writingcommunity #2027debut #authorsky #writersky #author #amwriting #amediting