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Lara Henneman @lhenpen.bsky.social · 3d

🌟 THE LAST SESSION X HOLLYWOOD PARK 🌟

A cult survivor turned social worker inherits a surprise parcel of land. Only problem? It's still occupied by the abusive fundamentalist group that raised her...and they're not giving up without a fight.

🌲🔪🩸♀️CULT DAUGHTER

#questpit #a #t #q

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Lara Henneman @lhenpen.bsky.social · 3d

Yay thank you for replying! Will def be reading more of your books

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Lara Henneman @lhenpen.bsky.social · 4d

The title made me choose it, could NOT resist. A fun read, especially 🖤 the Cannibal King novella included in this #horror collection by @haileypiperfights.bsky.social

Photo of Teenage girls can be demons book

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Lara Henneman @lhenpen.bsky.social · 11d

Just got a rejection from an agent I queried THREE years (and two manuscripts) ago lol

#amquerying #laughsoyoudontcry

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Lara Henneman @lhenpen.bsky.social · 17d

I submitted to the @Uncharted_Mag_ Novel Excerpt Prize! Publication + $3k! Details here: www.unchartedmag.com

Home - Uncharted

www.unchartedmag.com

Lara Henneman @lhenpen.bsky.social · Sep 22

Lots of agents I've been tracking are opening their query boxes in September.

a cat 's paw is sticking its head out of a wooden door

ALT: a cat 's paw is sticking its head out of a wooden door

media.tenor.com

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Lara Henneman @lhenpen.bsky.social · Sep 6

Three agent 🚩from a second-time querier's perspective

#querying #amquerying #writersky

www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8S1mbyx/

🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩for agents from a second time querier #dearwriter #querying #queryingauthors #literaryagents

TikTok video by lhenmama

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Lara Henneman @lhenpen.bsky.social · Sep 1

For anyone #querying a thriller or suspense novel rn, this list is a goldmine- thrillerfest.com/pitchfest/pa...

2026 Agents/Editors

thrillerfest.com

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Lara Henneman @lhenpen.bsky.social · Aug 5

Having a pretty good day so thought I'd take it down a notch or five with some #querying

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Lara Henneman @lhenpen.bsky.social · Jul 28

I am now officially querying two books 🤹🏻

Not sure if I need a high-five or a hug

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Lara Henneman @lhenpen.bsky.social · Jul 17

Guys did you know if you check your email a million times a day it does NOT get agents to write back any faster? My continued experiments bear this finding out.

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Lara Henneman @lhenpen.bsky.social · Jul 14

Wow that is dedication! 💪🏻

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Lara Henneman @lhenpen.bsky.social · Jul 14

Received a 'no' from a prestigious #litmag saying my piece "interested them more than most," which is so so funny.

Like, this was better than most of the crap we get but still no. 🤭🪭

Lara Henneman @lhenpen.bsky.social · May 26

Usually I listen to audiobooks in the car only but this beauty of a mystery by @amyjordanbooks.bsky.social had me listening at all hours, the audio equivalent of an absolute page turner.

#amreading #thrillers

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Lara Henneman @lhenpen.bsky.social · May 16

This Book Will Bury Me is SO good. Loved the audio book!

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Lara Henneman @lhenpen.bsky.social · May 15

It's SO good! Halfway thru and loving it

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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · Mar 23

Musk is censoring the following information: The US Social Security commissioner is consulting with the Justice Department about shutting down the agency.

“This move would immediately begin halting benefits payments for millions of Americans.”

archive.ph/1SiaC

Acting Social Security head consults with Justice Dept. on threat to close agency
Leland Dudek argues that a ruling blocking Elon Musk's cost-cutting team from access to sensitive taxpayer data could apply to all employees.

Leland Dudek, the acting commissioner at the SSA, said that the judge's order could apply to any SSA employees, Bloomberg News reported. "As it stands, I will follow it exactly and terminate access by all SSA employees to our IT systems," the report quoted Dudek as saying.
He also said his antifraud team and IT staff could be considered DOGE affiliates. "Really, I want to turn it off and let the courts figure out how they want to run a federal agency," Dudek said, according to the report.

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Rob Bignell, Editor/Author @inventingreality.bsky.social · Mar 14

#authorlife #writerslife #writeitdown #amwriting #writingcommunity

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Lara Henneman @lhenpen.bsky.social · Mar 13

Holy guacamole 🥑 I won a MD State Arts Council Grants for Artists! I'm so used to getting "no's" from grants/ fellowships that I had to read the email 5 times before it sunk in. It's $2500 to support living expenses for artists and I won it for my fiction writing. Every little bit counts!

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Theo @sainttheosylas.bsky.social · Feb 17

NEEDLEHEART
Between Two Fires X INDIKA X Educated

An acolyte on a suicide mission that would usher in the end times loses her faith as she experiences the outside world.

🌘Dark Celestial Fantasy
🌠Medieval Horror
☀️Religious Guilt
#Sludgepit #WIP #H #DF

A series of religious and cosmic images on a black background: A tied up lamb, a hand clutching needles, an eclipse, a meteor swarm, and an ashamed looking nun. Additionally, there are two quotes: 'You fucked up, and I said sorry. with the word sorry repeating over and over, and 'Unwanted Child'

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Jennifer Luce @jenniferluce.bsky.social · Feb 12

When Keira's sister is taken, her fate intertwines with the God of Light as she faces the last remaining gods, vicious monsters of land & sea, & her own dark powers to find a shapeshifter who could be anyone & whose price for her sister will have her choose b/w love & duty
✨️ #Questpit #RF #F #Q #A 🌗

3 by 3 grid of pictures: a woman in a forest with a giant wolf; a silhouette of a woman; silhouette of a couple kissing; a woman reaching out to light; two hands touching; a woman surrounded by a phoenix; art of a winged person saving someone falling; silhouette of couple kissing in the sun; a crown and dagger

Crown of Amethysts
Na Romantic Fantasy 99,000 words
Shadow and Bone meets A Court of Thorns and Roses
Pitch: When Keira's sister is taken by a shapeshifter, her fate intertwines with the God of Light as she faces the last remaining gods, vicious monsters of land and sea, and her own dark powers to save her. But the enemy could be anyone, and his price for her sister will have her question the cost of love and duty.
Comp titles: a fate inked in blood and spark of the everflame.
Tropes and themes: love vs duty, found family, vengeance and betrayal, Forbidden and slow-burn romance, forced proximity, dark secrets and hidden truths, half the Gods are dead, and gods. Goddesses, mortals, and more.

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Lorraine Birnita @lorrainebirnita.bsky.social · Feb 12

FOURTH WING + ACOTAR

In a realm of monsters, humans are food.

A human princess on the hunt 4 the last dragon eggs must fight 4 survival and save her people while trying not to lose her heart to the vampire prince who craves not only her blood but her soul.

#questpit #NA #RF #W

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H. L. Docherty (Updates Only) @hldocherty.bsky.social · Feb 12

THESE VIOLENT DELIGHTS x THE BALLAD OF SONGBIRDS AND SNAKES for any #LitAgents who have the following on their MSWL:

🥀 Forbidden Love
🥀 Family Feuding/Messy Family Dynamics
🥀 Mental Health Rep
🥀 Queer-Norm World
🥀 He Falls First
🥀 Dystopian NA Fantasy
🥀 Strong FMC / Soft MMC

#QuestPit #Q #NA #F #R

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Keren Dibbens-Wyatt @honeycombhermit.bsky.social · Feb 12

A golem made of spent bullets and shrapnel has a question, but can anyone on earth answer it? If she leaps to the stars, will she receive the solace of a reply there? Poignant Christian #PB for older children and adults who also wonder, “Why?” #CF #A #Q #QuestPit #Faith

digital art by Julien_Blot on Pixabay of a giant robot/golem

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Andi is 🏳️‍⚧️ RE-DRAFTING DESECRATE 🏳️‍⚧️ @andromedaexists.bsky.social · Feb 12

ALL FOR THE GAME × THE FALL OF ICARUS × MY HERO

🪶 trans men's wrongs
🪶 destroying the fascist corpocracy
🪶 explicitly autistic characters
🪶 what the horseshoe crabs doin?
🪶 tattoos as therapy
🪶 toxic gays
🪶 we were here before your laws and we will be here after them

#P #A #DF #QuestPit

a photo of my holding a hardcover of ΔΆΙΟΣ in front of the Newport Aquarium with white text that reads Newport Aquarium.

a moodboard for ΔΆΙΟΣ with a bunch of images that give a general revolution and overthrowing the government vibe.

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