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@princeandprag.bsky.social

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I wrote a speculative fiction novel. I enjoyed doing it. I’d love to see it published the old fashioned way. It’s standalone, but I'd like to complete a trilogy to play out new consequences and new character stakes. Let me know if you’d like to read it!

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FGV is Querying @princeandprag.bsky.social · 5d

Neuroscience tells us human consciousness arises from neurons connecting and interacting.

But those are not the only cells in our brains.

In EXAPTATION, neuroscientist Joakim Mayor discovers each human brain can hold more than one mind.

Which mind deserves control?

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A drug trial fails. Patients fall silent. Their immune systems don’t.

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#WIPSnips #writingcommunity #writingprompts

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#WIPSnips #writesky #writingcommunity #writingprompts

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FGV is Querying @princeandprag.bsky.social · 1d

Your book sounds very interesting, too! Yes, I'd be happy to swap. I haven't been a formal beta reader in the past, so would need guidance about what you need from me.

FGV is Querying @princeandprag.bsky.social · 1d

Maybe! Discuss over DM?

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one "ultimate", no penultimate. Though there's one spot where I could have put one...

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FGV is Querying @princeandprag.bsky.social · 3d

Page 31. A simple scene. A mentor visits a mentee.

FGV is Querying @princeandprag.bsky.social · 3d

Thank you! Please let me know if you're interested in giving it a read. I know everyone is super busy, but I would welcome additional beta readers. I'm querying, but I am certain the book is not a finished product...

FGV is Querying @princeandprag.bsky.social · 3d

haha, with these comps, I am definitely in your target audience!

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L. D. Rex is Querying @ldrexauthor.bsky.social · 3d

Before she dies, a former lead psychiatrist at a sanatorium admits to some dark truths about her time there, but not all. A phantom begins haunting her granddaughter, guiding her closer to the truth behind the institution's walls, deep in the Canadian woods.
#QuestPit #Q #PNH #M #R

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Cailin Barrett-Bressack @cailinwrites.bsky.social · 3d

When Gyla discovers her deceased sister’s soul is trapped in a goat's body, she will do anything to figure out why–including joining a cult.

AIMEE BENDER X ETERNAL SUNSHINE X CATHERINE HOUSE

#Questpit #AG #S

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
neuroscience meets "woo" psyeudoscience
Older female protagonist
by cailin barrett bressack
rep: alex land, MWLA
Images of goat, field, meditation, brain scan, farms.

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Alexis ☕ is querying @abookishchai.bsky.social · 3d

HAZELTHORN X YOUR BLOOD, MY BONES
YA Speculative Horror

Lucas begrudgingly works at a haunted community theater and must cooperate with Mira, a first-year criminal justice student with a sour attitude, to investigate the theater’s botanical horrors.

#questpit #WIP #YA #S #H

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🌱 El(iza)beth 🌬️ K 🔥 T 🌊 @arachnereid.bsky.social · 3d

🍏 Those who do not share their vision covet the fruits of their labor.

🔥 Long after Collapse, an empath's quest to save her people offers humanity a way forward in a world desperately in need of change.

🌲wilderness skills
🌪️ #CliFi
🕉️ #mindfulness
✨earth magic
🔮psychic powers
#A #Q #S #SFF #questpit

Long after the dust settles, what will grow from the rubble?

Seven generations after collapse, oceans have reclaimed coasts and civilization’s remains are rotting back to the earth. Extreme climate and violent humans threaten a peaceful community hidden in the Green Mountains.
Niwa, a gifted yet timid young empath-scholar, is prompted by group vision to lead a perilous and mystical quest to retrieve a rumored key to peace. Using unique psychic gifts, archaic technology, and nature-based survival skills, Niwaju’s group traverses a depopulated but healing landscape to save their people from impending doom.
The travelers draw upon their survival skills, varying levels of control over their own unique psychic gifts, and residual tech artifacts, encountering diverse, unique characters on crumbling highways and swollen rivers through the mountains of Appalachia, moody swamplands of “New New Orleans”, and the Rocky Mountains.
As she finds her inner resilience, Niwa’s mission becomes about more than saving her People from destruction; it offers humanity a way forward in a world desperately in need of change.
Incorporating mindfulness, sustainability, earth based magic, and wilderness skills, this tarot-themed journey offers a vision of hope, transformation, and growth in a narrative adventure guide to thriving civilization’s aftermath, with surprising twists.

a hand drawn map of a route across a sea-risen US, superimposed over a background of hopeful leaves sprouting from trees in an sunset sky over the Earth

elemental magic
visions
survival skills
climate fiction
#clifi
indigenous futurism
plant medicine
meditation
wilderness
permaculture
neotribalism
community
backpacking
post-apocalyptic
hopepunk

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jenn (is querying and writing) @kotegentarri.bsky.social · 4d

THOROUGHFARE ₊ ⊹ ˑ 𓂃

a religious apostle & western outlaw must work together to stop an eldritch horror spreading across the desert

- novella (26k)
- a sunshine MMC and grumpy FMC
- eldritch monsters but the true horror is humanity

#questpit #Q #A #H #S #West

A writing pitch in the UI of Netflix with the title Thoroughfare, a description of the "work", and similar recommendations as the form of comparables: Vampries of El Norte, Blood Meridian, What Moves the Dead, and Red Dead Redemption 2. The background is a blue artwork of a western city and a gothic chapel with strange smoke coming from the belltower.

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Brayden is querying @braydenrwrites.bsky.social · 4d

They call it Saltwater—because it burns going down.
A strange new drug blurs memory and reality until two best friends can’t tell if they’re saving each other or destroying what’s left.
Dual-POV, two unreliable narrators. #Q #A #S #LF #T #questpit

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Gabriela is querying + drafting @gabriela-stluke.bsky.social · 4d

Dear Cera,

Pack your bags! You've been invited to appear on LAST CHANCE MATCH, a new dating show where LOVE ISLAND meets SQUID GAME and BLACK MIRROR. Should you find a soulmate, you won't be exterminated in 2 years.

Are you ready to find the one who's to die for?

#questpit #A #R #SF #H #S #Q

Tropical villa backyard with patio loungers and pool. Photo has bad reception television glitch. Words overtop:

Welcome to the inaugural season of LAST CHANCE MATCH. 92,000 word dystopian horrormance

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🌱 El(iza)beth 🌬️ K 🔥 T 🌊 @arachnereid.bsky.social · 4d

🔮 An odyssey through the #tarot across the former US using the power of meditation, archaic tech, and ancient survival skills, to discover a key to peace

🌞 a vision of hope, transformation, and growth

🌱 wild edible plants, facing fears, and other skills

#A #Q #S #SFF #questpit #hopepunk #clifi

tarot cards (created by me with pen, paint marker, pastel, and photo background):
0: The Fool, a figure holding a sunflower stepping off a ravine
VI: The Lovers, titled "an auspicious pairing"
IX: The hermit, a figure holding a lamp in a colorful swamp,
XIV: Temperance , labelled "Techno-Alchemist"
a map of the US with shrunken coastline over sunset,
XVIII: The Harvest Moon in the Columbia River Gorge
XIX: The Sun, labeled "Sunflower Village"
XIII Death: What Rises From The Ashes
and II: The high priestess, a figure meditating in the woods

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Demri Redmon @demri18.bsky.social · 3d

WEYWARD x THE BEWITCHING

When two witches in different times find themselves battling the same ancient forest spirit, they must use magic to communicate and find a way to save their covens from destruction.

#questpit #Q #A #H #S

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Jenn Lee Frances @jennleefrances.bsky.social · 4d

For Fans of the Lyrical & Creeping Angst of
DON'T LET THE FOREST IN

🖤AWARD for Best Submission SCBWI MayFest 2025
🖤WINNER Write Hive Mentorship 2025
🖤3 Big 5 Editor Requests

🖤Simone is Haunted & Hexed in THE TRUTH OF FEAR

#Spec Upper #YA Crossover #NA Feminist Horror + Romance #S #H #R #QuestPit

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BB Lorik (writing SFF 💀📖) @authorbblorik.bsky.social · 4d

#QuestPit #A #S #W
If Grey’s Anatomy had magic, merged with Hunger Games, & was written by Mary Shelly:

A MALIGNANT GAME

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Brayden is querying @braydenrwrites.bsky.social · 4d

If “Euphoria” and “Get Out” had a baby and left it on the beach to rot in the sun, this is that book. In a world where billionaires can buy forgiveness by erasing memories, remembering becomes an act of rebellion. #Q #A #S #LF #T #questpit

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🌱 El(iza)beth 🌬️ K 🔥 T 🌊 @elizabethtitus.bsky.social · 4d

🔥 WHAT will GROW from the ASHES of our fallen civilization?

🕸️ a post collapse adventure of psychic powers and nurturing community

🔮 journey through the tarot across the former US, with unexpected twists

🌱 Clan of the Cave Bear x A Psalm for the Wild-Built

#A #Q #S #SFF #questpit #hopepunk #clifi

a Death tarot card I drew titled "What rises from the ashes" with death on a moped, a sun tarot card, a lovers tarot card, a color Hermit tarot card (I did all the art)

quotes: "Every end is a beginning" - Tai Gong Diao
"Light shines brightest in the deepest dark!" - Jim Butcher

a variety of photos from my travels (+one dilapidated shack I did not capture myself) of reflective water in various landscapes and urban decay and plants growing through, swamp, fire, bridges, a map of the US with shrunken coastline over a sunset sky with leaves growing from dead branches

elemental magic
visions
survival skills
climate fiction
#clifi
indigenous futurism
plant medicine
meditation
wilderness
permaculture
neotribalism
community
backpacking
post-apocalyptic
hopepunk

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FGV is Querying @princeandprag.bsky.social · 3d

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FGV is Querying @princeandprag.bsky.social · 3d

DARK MATTER x THE MOUNTAIN IN THE SEA x WESTWORLD

A failed drug trial reveals a second consciousness lurking in some human brains - maybe yours. A scientist races to suppress it; a zealot races to set it free - at the cost of everything that makes us human.

#QuestPit #Q #S #SF

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