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Jacy Sellers ✨🖤 @jacysellers.bsky.social · 13d

Waking up to no overnight rejections.

#amquerying

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Sarah Rowlands @sarahauthor27.bsky.social · 14d

I'm finally querying this YA Folk Horror!

#amquerying #YA #horror

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Jacy Sellers ✨🖤 @jacysellers.bsky.social · 17d

Hello October!

#october #bookstack #ghosts #reading

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Jacy Sellers ✨🖤 @jacysellers.bsky.social · 20d

Hello October! 🍁✍️ Time to dig into my dark thriller draft 🖤📖 I’m aiming for 800 words a day so I can hit that word count and keep momentum flowing 🚀💪 Here we go!

#AmWriting #WritingCommunity #WritingGoals #WritersLife #AmDrafting

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Sadie Hartmann (Mother Horror) @sadiehartmann.bsky.social · 26d

NEW BOOK MAIL!! @titanbooks.bsky.social @nuzo.bsky.social @cynthiapelayo.bsky.social @laneheymont.bsky.social @scribnerbooks.bsky.social

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Jacy Sellers ✨🖤 @jacysellers.bsky.social · 28d

Who wants to be my #agent? I need a partner in crime—literally. If it’s dark, I make it darker. Creepy settings, messy characters—my 4 stories are twisted and impossible to put down.

💀 Nightclub murders
⚰️ Funeral home secrets
🕰️ Historical gothic terror
🌹 Ghostly cold-case mystery

#UnhingedPit #Q

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KatherineMcRea @listentomelovelett.bsky.social · 28d

Oh nooooo, looks like Jack and Charlotte will HAVE to work together, how unfortunate. *sips tea* #UnhingedPit #R #romystery #amquerying

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JJ Lubinski (she/her) @jjlubinskiwrites.bsky.social · 28d

#unhingedpit #YA #SF #Q

A canva flyer? Our hope to finding the cure to a fatal neurotoxin lies within the people who push out updates like this?! Be for real.

A poorly made canva flyer with a light grey background and navy and maroon writing that says:
Sphere News
Disastrous Storm Approaching:
Must remain inside at ALL times. Our SRI team will be working diligently to clear our streets of any trace of indroxin. In the case of a breach in our dome, do NOT go outside. Stay away from windows. Be sure your home is sealed and your air is being circulated.

Indroxin Updates:
Cure research is still ongoing. We are working diligently in order to keep you safe. Remember the early warning signs if you or a loved one have been exposed:
1. Auditory and visual hallucinations
2. Loss of memory
3. Loss of facial recognition
Remember to do YOUR part in helping us find the cure-call the Sphere line if you know of any orphaned children. The could be the answer to all that we seek!

MISSING:
Subject FOX has been taken from the Sphere. DO NOT APPROACH. Has been recently exposed to indroxin and is experiencing a break in reality. Call the sphere line IMMEDIATELY if spotted.

We want to take a moment for all the test subjects who’ve died in the search for the cure. Please see attached for full list of these heroes.

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Jacy Sellers ✨🖤 @jacysellers.bsky.social · 28d

The Lovely Bones x Home Before Dark — gothic suspense where obituaries, ghosts, and black roses unravel murder.

⚰️ Obituary writer sleuth
🌹 Black roses = killer’s mark
👻 Ghostly visions & hauntings
🏡 Small-town secrets
😔 Cold case grief
🌸 Cultish garden club

#UnhingedPit #Q #mystery #gothic

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Dawn Berkoski @dawnberkoski.bsky.social · 28d

When you bring a pizza box to a sword fight.

I Am Chosen~A different kind of paranormal romance. *Agent guide on profile* #UnhingedPit #R #Q

Raised by corporate vampires with little freedom or choice, Alex is used to Yakuza business rivals and back-alley deals. But nothing prepares him for Jason, a witty bartender who challenges everything he knows, and who harbors secrets as deadly as the vampires after him. #R #A #Q #writing 📖

I Am Chosen, a paranormal romance by Dawn Berkoski. Art and photography by Dawn Berkoski depicts a katana in a pizza box.

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Sarah Van Goethem @sairdysue.bsky.social · 28d

Move over Hallmark
The Christmas season was originally a time for calling back the dead. So, let's give that a go.
🎄dual timeline
🎄haunted house
🎄grief
🎄the past bleeding into the present
🎄dead bodies
🎄snowy frozen world
🎄 gothic
#A #H #AG #CS #unhingedpit

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Sarah Van Goethem @sairdysue.bsky.social · 28d

Editors, don't sleep on this. Pun intended.
This vacation is going from sleepy to creepy.
🌊 foggy seaside town
⛵️ legend about a ghost girl from a shipwreck
💰 missing treasure
🐦‍⬛ all the crows
🏚 weird old mansion with an eerie past
#UnhingedPit #MG #OS #AG #H #gothic #spooky

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ElectricDC @electricdc.bsky.social · 28d

Punk barista Josh Keller really DID want to be the savior of the broken, the beaten, and the damned...

He won't find out until it's too late that he's NOT the Chosen One, the foretold Hero with a capital-H. And that mistake might just cost him his one true love.

#UnhingedPit #Q #SFF #R

Three cheers for NPC revenge by Mike DC Current

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Alex the Headless Wordsman @authoralexharvey.bsky.social · 29d

Warbreaker x Madoka Magica

My (???F) girlfriend (26F) won't stay out of the way of me becoming a god and I'm tired of resetting time when she inevitably dies. AITA if I destroy her dreams because it's safer for her than going with me to a pit of gods and monsters?

#UnhingedPit #W #A #F #LGBT

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Jenee is writing 😘 😈 & 🌊 ✨ @jeneedutary.bsky.social · 29d

Which character from FIRE AND DEATH would get raptured? (Coming Oct. '26) #UnhingedPit #F #YA

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Jacy Sellers ✨🖤 @jacysellers.bsky.social · 28d

thank youuu 😘

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Soph @soph-pl.bsky.social · 29d

Because an agent–author relationship is a partnership.
Because I’m nothing if not a team player.

#UnhingedPit #Q #A #R

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Upmarket Fiction [Good it’s generic, since mine’s romance+WF+semi-historical all rolled in one]
Mock book cover, featuring a couple embracing (freepik.com)
Only One Summer in Berlin [Are we keeping this title?]
Soph
On submission Fall 2025
Primary agent: You
TV/Film agent: TBD
Rights available: worldwide
Length: 311 pages
Material: Unedited MS

Pitched as [x] [Sthg book club, w/ depth & growth] meets [y] [Sthg spicy! But not gratuitous], a poignant [Too much?], emotionally rich, heartfelt, smart and sexy [Word salad? But it’s all there! Let’s also weave in it’s funny. And immersive.] love story about a disciplined student who falls for edgy, leafy, laid-back post-Cold War Berlin—and for her host, a single dad struggling with his future. But she can’t stay.

Largely obscuring the blurb, a Post-it reading: Dear future agent, Even if we sign today, the Frankfurt fair is still gonna be a stretch, so I thought I’d help. Maybe slip it in as a loose sheet? Needs finalizing, but it shouldn’t take you long…
Words from the blurb: ’97 Berlin isn’t [Am I selling “Berlin as a character” enough? What about the 90s angle?] / dream destination. But when poor / poli-sci degree / heads to Berlin / Larger-than / language / handball / his six-year / friendship / their att / One massa / It can only be a fling / path lies in Paris / for shared custody of / secrets that tie him to Berlin. When / them to make an impossible choice: abandon these /or each other. [Stakes high enough? Still clear it’s a HEA?]

Picture of a barn owl
Soph was born in a barn, but soon spread her wings to roam the forests at night. She now lives at the top of a tower and collects mice (well, their bones). When not hooting her next novel, she enjoys moon-gazing. She wishes she were as effortlessly cool as Hedwig but suspects she’s more of an Archimedes. [Finally a decent bio!]

Frankfurt 2025 - adult catalog

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Rajani Thindiath (Ruhj-ni) @rajanithindiath.bsky.social · 29d

ANIMAL FARM x THE GOOD PLACE

AITA for loving that I’m called a god?
And ruling over the guardians of souls in the Afterlife?
Those sniveling guardians should be grateful that they're
MY minions!
What would they do with power anyway?

Late stage capitalism, you say? Bah!

#A #F #UnhingedPit

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Jessica DeLand - Author (is getting published! 😱) @delandjessica.bsky.social · 29d

Oh, it's happening! 😃 My favorite pitch event!

If anyone wants to swap support for #UnhingedPit, like or comment here!

Can hardly wait! 🥳

Unhinged Pitch Event @unhingedpit.bsky.social · 29d

Alright everyone, it's official. The NEXT #UnhingedPit event will be tomorrow, Sept. 23rd, from 8am-8pm in your time zone. Let the scramble to pull together an unhinged pitch begin. See you tomorrow!! #WritingCommunity

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Jacy Sellers ✨🖤 @jacysellers.bsky.social · 29d

The Night Shift meets Sharp Objects, psychological thriller where music unlocks murder

🎤 Nightclubs & radio life
🔀 Twisty, unpredictable plot
🌊 Atmospheric Myrtle Beach setting
🎶 Music as murder clues
🕵️‍♀️ Unreliable narrator / flawed protagonist
💔 Trauma & redemption arc

#unhingedpit #T #Q

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Unhinged Pitch Event @unhingedpit.bsky.social · 29d

Alright everyone, it's official. The NEXT #UnhingedPit event will be tomorrow, Sept. 23rd, from 8am-8pm in your time zone. Let the scramble to pull together an unhinged pitch begin. See you tomorrow!! #WritingCommunity

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Jacy Sellers ✨🖤 @jacysellers.bsky.social · 29d

I would love to swap and support in #unhingedpit !!

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Jacy Sellers ✨🖤 @jacysellers.bsky.social · 29d

Two rejections in one day = progress! Every response means I’m getting closer to the agent who’s the right fit. Onward! #amquerying

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Jacy Sellers ✨🖤 @jacysellers.bsky.social · Sep 14

My thoughts right now!!

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Jacy Sellers ✨🖤 @jacysellers.bsky.social · Sep 13

Saturday morning rejection = coffee + sending out five more queries 🙌🏼