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J. Alvin
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jalvinwrites.bsky.social
HOTEL DEL LUNA x THE GRIM REAPER'S GUIDE TO CATCHING A KILLER

A bell boy working in a hotel operated by grim reapers gets caught in a murder mystery investigation when the client he's supposed to lead to their room ends up missing under his own watch.

#DVpit #preDV #A #Mys
September 29, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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dvpit.bsky.social
📣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
August 20, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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authortachan.bsky.social
What’s this??? Stickers and ✨foiled prints✨ and signed book plates galore for everyone who pre orders ONE LAST GAME! 🔗 in bio for pre order info 🫶🩷

#scifibooks #amreading
Graphic promoting a pre order campaign for the novella One Last Game by T A Chan. Pictures of two stickers, art prints, and a book plate
June 23, 2025 at 6:26 AM
jalvinwrites.bsky.social
Boosting my friend @authortachan.bsky.social's pre-order campaign for ONE LAST GAME. Get art prints, a signed bookplate, and two vinyl stickers. Swags will be mailed after the September 9 pub date.

Pre-order campaign form: forms.gle/16qRNjX8usQE...

Purchase One Last Game: books2read.com/u/bzxE9E
Two novellas with a woman and a man on the cover respectively. May also include an art print, sticker, and a signed bookplate
June 20, 2025 at 2:46 AM
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roundtablementor.bsky.social
Join a selection of RTM mentors next Tuesday, June 17 at 5pm EDT for a panel on navigating publishing while marginalized!

The panel will be livestreamed on our YouTube channel, with the recording posted afterwards.
Graphic of an open envelope with a letter promoting an event. Text: You're invited! Round Table Mentor Panel: navigating publishing while marginalized. YouTube, June 17, 5pm ET. Graphic includes the URL for the RTM YouTube channel, @RoundTableMentor.
June 12, 2025 at 1:26 PM
jalvinwrites.bsky.social
How I take criticism: 🥲
June 15, 2025 at 2:24 AM
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youdeservepit.bsky.social
#YouDeservepIt friends! Will you help share about this special children’s publishing event that our host is launching this summer? #writingcommunity #kidlit 👇👇👇
drenderturmaud.bsky.social Danielle Render Turmaud, PhD @drenderturmaud.bsky.social · Jun 13
Take Your Kid to Publishing Day is a🌟FREE🌟 virtual summer publishing event for children (5+ including teens!) where kids will engage in fun activities & meet INCREDIBLE authors/pub professionals joining like 👇PLEASE 🔁 so that more kids can hear about this special event! #writingcommunity #kidlit
drenderturmaud.bsky.social Danielle Render Turmaud, PhD @drenderturmaud.bsky.social · Apr 10
📣 Information for the summer 25 “Take Your Kid to Publishing Day!” free/virtual event is ✨LIVE✨ ! If you have a child interested in registering, or are an #agent/#editor/ author wanting to participate, find the link for more info below. Please 🔁! #kidlit

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June 13, 2025 at 5:04 PM
jalvinwrites.bsky.social
Oh heck yeah!
June 11, 2025 at 8:29 AM
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annlittler.bsky.social
Snow White but she’s a gamer trying to make it big. Shame her wicked stepmother has other plans.

🍎Snarky banter
🍎Enemies to lovers romance
🍎Forced proximity in an English country manor
🍎Peril in & out of a VR fantasy world

#WIPPIT #YA #R #SF #SnowWhiteWIP

Querying this autumn/fall
Snow White and her rival, with him saying “You’re Going Down” as she least expects it
May 23, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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saraduran.bsky.social
Pirates of the Caribbean—if Jack Sparrow were a vengeful sapphic ghost possessing a sapphic princess Elizabeth Swann, Will Turner went on a gender journey, and the curse could only be broken when two hearts meet the light—through love or bloodshed 🫀🗡️

#QuestPit #YA #F #Q #LGBT
A moodboard showing the pirate (Amir), the princess (Mira), and John. Amir silhouetted against a cloudy sky with a sword slung over her shoulder and a group of joyful sailors on a pirate ship. She has this quote: Continue to love Continue to forgive Continue to grow Mira is shown in the reflection of an ornate mirror. She is wearing long white gloves and a pink ballgown with her hair in a natural updo and the lesbian pride flag is subtly depicted over her photo. There is another photo of two girls kissing in the surf at sunset. Mira has this quote: We looked at each other a little too long to be “just friends” John is shown with his bare back to the viewer, facing the sea with the trans pride flag subtly depicted over his photo. He also has a close up of iridescent mermaid scales and this quote: Go bravely, go deeply, or do not go
May 7, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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noodlesandnovels.bsky.social
If you combined the:

🍄 Sharp whimsy of EMILY WILDE

🌈 Queer found family of THE HOUSE IN THE CERULEAN SEA

🧙🏻 Dry humour of WITCHES ABROAD

🫶 Intergenerational friendships of Pixar's UP

You'd get THE UNLIKELY MALARKEY OF DORRIS AND BERYL

#QuestPit #F #A #Q  #AgentGuide #AgentGuides #WritingFantasy
noodlesandnovels.bsky.social Nadine 📝 @noodlesandnovels.bsky.social · May 7
Prophecies don’t have age limits.

Now the fate of the Kingdom rests on the bad hip of a retired librarian.

Will curmudgeonly Dorris answer her calling, or ignore impending doom for a good cup of tea?

#questpit #F #A #Q #LGBTQIAbooks #amquerying #writingcommunity #fantasywriters #booksky #writesky
A cream-coloured slide with green ink splatters in the upper left and lower right corners. The lower right splatter has a cottage illustration within it. The text on the slide reads: THE UNLIKELY MALARKEY OF DORRIS AND BERYL - Pitch - Prophecies don’t have age limits. It’s a fact 82-year-old Dorris learns when an uppity gnome arrives on her doorstep and declares she’s the Chosen One… sixty years late. Now Dorris must exchange her books, cottage, and weekly visits with her best friend Beryl for a noble quest. If she refuses, the kingdom of Grit (and Dorris’ beloved home library) will burn to ashes. Will the octogenarians break the sixty-year curse as prophesied? Or will Beryl’s shady past with dark magic reappear and doom them all? A cream-coloured slide with green ink splatters in the upper left and lower right corners. The lower right splatter has a cottage illustration within it. The text on the top of the slide reads: The Unlikely Malarkey of Dorris and Beryl - Fantasy Comps. Below the text are three book covers with text beneath them. Left to right they are: The House in the Cerulean Sea (queernormative found family), Nettle and Bone (flipped fairytale quest with bite) and Howl’s Moving Castle (elderly MC, self-aware humour). The two lines of text at the bottom of the slide read: quirky, comedic, cosy. LGBTQIA+ and chronic illness rep. A cream-coloured slide with green ink splatters in the upper left and lower right corners. The lower right splatter has a cottage illustration within it. The text on the slide reads: The Unlikely Malarkey of Dorris and Beryl - character comps. Below the text are four film stills. Left to right, top to bottom, the film stills are: Sophie Hatter, a frowning old woman in a blue dress and straw hat; Pascal, a green chameleon blowing a raspberry; Mercutio, a drag queen in a diamanté top and white wig; Valerie and Max, an old couple in drab brown clothing waving at someone off-camera A cream-coloured slide with green ink splatters in the upper left and lower right corners. The lower right splatter has a cottage illustration within it. The text on the top of the slide reads: The Unlikely Malarkey of Dorris and Beryl - Opening Lines. Beneath the title is a white text box. The text inside reads: Dorris’ destiny came rapping at her door on a Tuesday afternoon. Rat-a-tap-a-rap, went the door. Dorris froze. She wasn’t expecting company. Company always called ahead. She let her eyes swivel from her book to the window. The front door wasn’t visible from this angle. Her shoulders relaxed a little – whoever was causing the ruckus probably couldn’t see her, either. She continued reading. Rat-a-tap-RAP, the door insisted. Dorris’ armchair was warm and deep. Her favourite stripy mug was steaming at her side. There was a major plot twist coming. She wasn’t getting up for anybody. “I can SEE you!” a voice hollered from outside. Confound it.
May 8, 2025 at 2:24 AM
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authorjazz.bsky.social
An #agentsguide to BLOODWEAVER 🩸

A story of sisterhood, betrayal, and the cost of holding everything together while falling apart. And a girl who learns too late that survival always asks for something back.
#questpit #W #F #A #agentguide
May 8, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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jendiarenzo.bsky.social
A scorned marine biologist turned mermaid queen must return to Bermuda as a human siren to seek revenge on men, guard her heart from a wayfarer on the beach, and choose what kind of monster she’s willing to become to save her kingdom.

#questpit #Q #A #F #R #PR
May 7, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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margreyfield.bsky.social
SixofCrowsxANASTASIA
6 years after her kidnapping & mind-erasing, a convict works w a scholar & a shapeshifter to steal an item to heal their sister
But when her memories return, she finds her kidnappers during the heist & must choose between ruthless revenge & the sister
#QuestPit #W #F #AgentGuide
A Guide to Dust We Shall Return An Anastasia Retelling Fantasy Heist By Marceline Greyfield A convict stolen from her country, with no memory and a shattered leg, reluctantly teams up with a martial scholar and a vampiric shapeshifter to steal a healing artifact to save her best friend’s life. But when the scholar uncovers Nara’s memories of her kidnappers, the duo finds them in the city with the artifact’s powerful owner, and Nara must decide if vengeance is more important than the lives of everyone around her. Including hers. Themes and tropes Tri POV (F/M/NB) Physically disabled FMC (#OWN) Soft and sassy MMC Nonbinary vampiric shapeshifter MC Ensemble cast Found family A wedding and a ritual Unique magic system Sibling bonds E2L Second chance romance Religious machinations Twisty, slowly revealed backstories Comps: Six of Crows: A heist as the central plot with similar worldbuilding and a romance subplot Anastasia: Anastasia retelling (if she hunted down the people who ruined her life) Memento: Protagonist with a failing memory seeking revenge Piranesi: Mazes and memory magic featuring distrustful allies
May 7, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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halphelan.bsky.social
THE SPELLSHOPxLATE BLOOMER

A witch, moonlighting as a lady knight, must team up w/ a human to save the ren faire

🪽 magical renaissance faire
✨ women in armor
🧚 meddling magical creatures
🔮 palm readings
⛅️ grumpy/sunshine
🔥 twin flames

#questpit #F #R #lgbtq #AG #OS soon
May 7, 2025 at 4:30 AM
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gwenvines.academics.blue
ARCANE x BLD OVR BRIGHT HVN x DISCO ELYSIUM
🧑‍🎓cut-throat postgrad STEM academia w/
🩺corrupted magic tech/ethics
🩻body horror
🤌obsessive ace yearning
🧠neurodivergence as power
🚨unreliable narrator
🛠️blacksmith biceps
🏆dangerous duels
🌿strange plants
👤& the strange man growing them
#questpit #A #F #Q
Image from a medical textbook of a man with his arm extended, skeletal structure shown in part, 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, 107,000 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 prove 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. A painting in the background of a blond man viewed in profile, head bowed, with an X drawn across his face through which an xray of his skull and spine is visible. The text reads THEMES: ivory tower classism & egos manipulative relationships neurodivergence as power grey ethics in technology academic power abuse consent in medicine code-switching in the lower right hand corner in dark text, it reads (there was only one bed) 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.
May 7, 2025 at 4:01 AM
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thekellerverse.bsky.social
In the Service of Gods and Admirals

Mass Effect x Treasure Planet

🎬 New Adult Scifi/fantasy
🚂 Steampunk
♀️ FMC
🚀Solar-Sail Spaceships
🔮 Crystal magic
🧠 PTSD
🦸‍♀️ Reluctant hero
🪐 Planet Hopping
👽 Many Alien species
⚖️ justice/redemption/revenge

#Questpit #W #SFF

#writingcommunity
May 7, 2025 at 4:27 AM
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alethearlyons.bsky.social
Music reshapes reality. 1 voice holds the key to salvation or destruction.

On a #QuestPit to revive human creativity, a depressed bard & an elven hacker use song to bring the dying Mortal Realm closer to Faery. But doing so could unleash another darkness.

#A #F #SF #SFF #LGBTQ #P

bit.ly/LotB-GR
Background of ripped up sheet music. Central bar with 'Legend of the Bard'. Left: A pink violin and a purple mandolin, lightning, a spiky queen, a noose, two people about to kiss. Right: Hands cupping tea, old books, holo images of a hacker, pollution, a person wearing a visor and standing in a neo tunnel. "Life wasn't a song. Even the bloodiest song of vengeance and betrayal had hte beauty of its tune. Life was a copper clip dreadful: cheap, gory, and lewd."
May 7, 2025 at 9:02 AM
jalvinwrites.bsky.social
I'd totally read this 👀
aecwrites.bsky.social allison e. crisostomo @aecwrites.bsky.social · Apr 23
Insp: What if the slice of life seasons of Pokemon had competition, institutional conspiracy, & uncomfortable secrets? Add a diverse cast, anti-colonialism, & my upbringing in the north woods of Minnesota.

Bonus: The deep need to tell stories about those on the outside barging in.

#CRPGlasswings
safiyabintsaleh.bsky.social Safiya Bint Saleh @safiyabintsaleh.bsky.social · Apr 23
DAY 3 ACTIVITY: What is the inspiration behind your current project?

Bonus: What inspired you to start writing and why? How did you make the decision to take the leap and start writing? #CRPGlasswings
April 23, 2025 at 10:51 PM
jalvinwrites.bsky.social
So I finished Red Dead Redemption 1 (with high honor) back in Jan 2025 and I was crushed.

I finished Red Dead Redemption 2 (also high honor) and goddamn it, @rockstargames.com, not again...
April 4, 2025 at 1:36 AM
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jenichappelle.bsky.social
Purple prose, or language that's overly flowery, which usually means overusing descriptive words and intense words

Ex: Jess slid one bare foot into the creek. But before she could even savor the chill of the water, rustling came from the forest behind her. #RevPit

Now let's make it purple 👇
andreamiles.bsky.social Andrea Miles @andreamiles.bsky.social · Mar 28
What does “leaning purple” mean?
March 28, 2025 at 8:15 PM
jalvinwrites.bsky.social
FAIRY DOGMA: a plus-sized baker who has shied away from love & romance suddenly finds herself partnered with a handsome fairy prince after making a careless wish.

Genre: adult paranormal romance (with cozy and comedic elements)
A couple featuring a plus-sized baker and a fairy prince
March 21, 2025 at 1:59 PM