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S. K. Kruse @skkruse.bsky.social · Sep 19

Dystopian Giveaway on Goodreads from fellow author Gianaclis Caldwell! Get one while still available! www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...

Book giveaway for The Binding by Gianaclis Caldwell Sep 19-Oct 01, 2025

Enter to win one of 100 free copies available. Giveaway dates from Sep 19-Oct 01, 2025. I'd love to give you a copy of my alternate history novel, The Bi...

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S. K. Kruse @skkruse.bsky.social · Jul 25

Oh and I just saw wicked pit was canceled! (Didn't have my glasses on when I read your comment 🙂) Bummer but thanks for the heads up!

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S. K. Kruse @skkruse.bsky.social · Jul 25

Oh wow! So many! Thanks and have a lovely day. 🌼

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S. K. Kruse @skkruse.bsky.social · Jul 22

Awesome!

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S. K. Kruse @skkruse.bsky.social · Jul 22

Could be a forest view
from a plane window! But it's up close #moss from the U.P.

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S. K. Kruse @skkruse.bsky.social · Jul 22

Not sure what you write, but this is coming up July 31st!

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S. K. Kruse @skkruse.bsky.social · Jul 14

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S. K. Kruse @skkruse.bsky.social · Jul 14

Thanks for your work! It was fun seeing everyone's pitches!

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Von Beckford @vonbeckford.bsky.social · Jul 14

7.13.2025 Tung is the new kid in Amity Falls a New England town obsessed with witches. But he quickly learns that his new home is full of legends and secrets. And if he’s not careful, they will eat him alive. “Hocus Pocus” meets “Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight” #BluePit📖 #W #F #D

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paljes.bsky.social @paljes.bsky.social · Jul 13

Since time immemorial, little ones have had this existential question: “Where does the sun go at night?” Join little Ro in the US as he uncovers the answer to this mystery with his grandma in India over a geography experiment during their weekly video call. #PB #OWN #STEM #BluePit #Q #POC

the sun is setting over the ocean with clouds in the sky .

Alt: the sun is setting over the ocean with clouds in the sky .

media.tenor.com

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Abigail F. Boneta @abibonetawrites.bsky.social · Jul 13

WHAT LIES IN THE WOODS × JACKAL

A psychological thriller with elements of feminist horror:

🩸female rage
🩸good for her
🩸prey vs predator
🩸social criticism
🩸art as clues
🩸caves
🩸serial killer(s?)
🩸latina FMC
🩸(dysfunctional) mother-daughter relationship

#BluePit 📖 #M #T #H #A

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Jessie May @jessiemayontheweb.bsky.social · Jul 13

#BluePit #Q #NF #MG

The Wheel of the Year: An Introduction to Pagan Holidays

Expository nonfiction exploring Pagan holidays and history for young readers of all faiths. Fun crafts and recipes too!

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Gemma Smith @gemma-smith.bsky.social · Jul 13

🔪 Ada - a medium & fraud, turns to murder, determined to create a ghost for her show

🪦 Harriet - terrified of spirits, cursed with the ability to hear them

☠️ When her best friend is murdered, Harriet must face her fear & seek out the dead to hunt the killer

✨Dual POV #BluePit 📖 #A #HS #Q

Gemma Smith @gemma-smith.bsky.social · Jul 13

Fame-hungry spiritualist, Ada, has turned to murder in order to create a ghost.

But she killed the wrong person this time. Harriet can truly speak to the dead & wants revenge for her murdered friend.

So begins a hunt between the pair, both determined to see the other one dead
#BluePit 📖 #A #HS #Q

A collage of Victorian-era images surrounding the words 'when the dead talk, secrets don't stay buried.' The images include: a woman holding a candle, a policeman finding a body, four images of seances, a woman stalking another woman in the street, and a slum.

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cnno @cnno.bsky.social · Jul 13

AMARI X CARIBBEAN FOLKLORE
#bluepit #MG #F #Q

12yo Noelle is the only non-gifted kid at a camp for Magical Knights in training
She must battle evil magicians, nightmare monsters and her own insecurities to save her best friend

Young black girl with folklore characters. Book covers for Amari, the Marvellers and Skandar

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M.G. Hauck - Fantasy Author @insomniauthor.bsky.social · Jul 13

The road that leads to him is paved with blood and pain and death.

THE EMERALD KINGDOM
⚔️ Wizard of Oz x Princess Bride
💔 Love after loss
🫂 Found family
🖤 Who did this to him?
❤️‍🔥 Slow burn with 🌶️

#Bluepit #F #R #A

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Theo Transcendragons @theodoresnapdragon.bsky.social · Jul 13

Space station inspections are meant to be safe, but this one is different for Jen. Dr. Isengrim’s research facility is isolated and supposedly solitary, yet brimming with life and secrets. Is Isengrim in control, or is Jen surrounded by UNINTENDED DESIGNS? #BluePit📖 #Q #H #SF #TR #LGBT #OV #BluePit

Moodboard with photos of scientific vials, holes, an x-ray of a skeleton, a wall with “Everyone Makes Mistakes” on it in capital white letters, plants growing in water, and a space theme. In the center the words “Unintended Designs” are written in rough red script.

A moodboard over the quote “Impossible is for the Unwilling” with the name Jonathan Isengrim in it. Around it are sketches of vials, needles, a cage, medical tools, and a hand holding a scalpel.

A moodboard on a photo of a gold block puzzle with photos of animals, money, a notebook, and people helping each other on it. Above it are two colorful planets and a fork and knife holding up a roof. At the bottom is a photo of eyes in between two photos of a child crouched in a broken home and large hand building back a home. There’s also a symbol of a magnifying glass and the name “Jen Ishii” in gold.

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C Chang @thepoliticsjunkie.bsky.social · Jul 13

When her homeland is conquered, Catalín must conceal her identity as the queen’s healer or be forced to serve the invading empire. As her warden edges closer to unearthing the healer’s status, Catalín soon realizes she’s not the only one with secrets #BluePit 📖 #Q #A #LGBT #F

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Lee Burton - Author | Editor @leeburton.bsky.social · Jul 13

Set in a fictional Newfoundland outport in the 1950s, Found Harbour is a light literary novel which uses folklore and fantasy elements to explore how nostalgia for the past is a yearning for a sanitized fantasy world that never truly existed.

#BluePit 📖 #Q #A #HS #F #Canada

First page of Found Harbour. It reads:

Gran yelled out from the porch: “George, George, come quick! The devil just rode past the house on a bicycle.”
The devil? Mother had stepped out back to feel if the tablecloth on the line was dry. I left the potato I was peeling in the bowl, hopped up and trotted out toward the front of the house.
The devil, it turned out, looked like a thin man in a long brown jacket, its bottom edge hanging down over the top of his bike’s rear tire so it flicked up like a horse’s tail when it touched, trailing mud up his back. The devil was a tall man, his knees stumping up past the handlebars, making it so he had to keep a sort of bow-armed hold on the handles to avoid them, which on the snowy path that went by Gran’s house and that eventually passed our house too and led to the wharf, had his front tires wobbling like the nose of a dog snuffling in the grass. I watched him fighting to keep the bike steady, waiting for him to topple, until he grew smaller down over the hill and disappeared beyond some bushes.
I went back into the kitchen just as my mother was flapping Gran’s tablecloth over the kitchen table. It whooshed the hair back over my forehead. “Who was it, Danny?” she asked, smoothing out the wrinkles.
“I don’t know,” I said, picking up the small bowl of last fall’s potatoes Father had dug from the corners of the yard that Mother had placed on the chair.
“He had a bike? Probably Quentin Porter, then,” she said when I nodded. “Just moved back.”
“It was one of the strangers,” Gran asserted, shuffling in through the door. She bent low to the cupboard and took out two bread pans, and eventually found the tin of flour where it had always sat next to the stove. “Who in town got babies now? Kendall Grimes? Seems she’s due again. You tell her not to leave none of the little ones by a window this evening, else come morning she’ll have more problems than just not knowing who the fathers are. She won’t know who her little baby is either.”

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🌱 El(iza)beth 🌬️ K 🔥 T 🌊 @arachnereid.bsky.social · Jul 13

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

🌱an informative adventure guide to thriving the apocalypse

An empath leads a tarot-themed odyssey across the former US to bring home a 🗝️ to peace, using psychic powers and earth-based survival skills
#BluePit 📖 #Q #A #bluepit📖 #clifi #SP

a Hermit tarot card of an illuminated figure holding up a lantern in a colorful swamp

climate fiction
#clifi
indigenous futurism
plant medicine
meditation
wilderness
permaculture
neotribalism
community
backpacking
post-apocalyptic
hopepunk

a Priestess Tarot card with a figure meditating on a large stone in the woods

a Fool tarot card with a hand drawn figure blithely stepping off a gorge cliff in VT

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DH Strange @dhstrange.bsky.social · Jul 13

HOT FUZZ x FIFTH ELEMENT w Eleanor Shellstrop (GOOD PLACE)

💖 disaster bi MC
👽 hot alien LI
🔗 forced proximity
🛏️ there’s only one (sofa) bed
🕺 disco-dancing assassins
🚀 space shenanigans
👑 secret royalty?
🎉 saving the galaxy, probably

#Q #A #SF #R #BluePit 📖 #LGBT

9 images total. Top row: image of planet Jupiter, image of alleyway with neon lighting, image of a person running at night against the back drop of a large white wall. Second row: image of a couple lying on the ground, their heads are touching and they’re both curled in the fetal position in purple lighting, image of two hands clasped against a background of blinds, image of a busy dance club with neon purple lighting. Bottom row: image of a couple walking down a wet alley with hanging lights at night, image of a M/F couple kissing, image of the Milky Way against a mountainous terrain.

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Diamond Fore is ✨querying✨ @diamondf.bsky.social · Jul 13

ATLA x WICKED

Calypso must steal 12 divine amulets in order to regain her powers and seek revenge against her enemies.

Villain FMC
Hero MMC
Elemental Magic
Destroy the world, dont save it
Hate at first sight

#BluePit 📖 #Q #YA #F

A vilain rises pitched as ATLA x Wicked
Ya fantasy, 106k words the background is our solar system planets aligned in a straight line with starts on the outer edges

The pitch: Calypso must steak 12 divine amulets in order to regain her powers and seek revenge against her enemies. Pictures of four books: Heartless Hunter, One dark window, the prison healer, poweless the background is our solar system planets aligned in a straight line with starts on the outer edges

Themes: villain fmc, elemental magic, destroy the world, dont save it
Tropes: secret identity, forbidden love, hate at first sightthe background is our solar system planets aligned in a straight line with starts on the outer edges

First lines: Calypso Morana was five when her world burned.
Later that cruel night, with tears and ash staining her face, she vowed every person involved in the destruction of her realm would die by her hands.
Thirteen years later, that time has come.

The night is still as Calypso plunges her dagger into the bark of a Red Tree, carving deeper as the trunk squirms with each cut. Thick branches above her shake, dropping a crop of crimson leaves in protest. A low warning echoes from the depths beneath the soil as the ground shifts. Slowly a root snaps up, lifting itself to freedom, slithering toward her like an eyeless serpent.

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Elisa Winther @elisawinther.bsky.social · Jul 13

THE RIVER HAS ROOTS x MOON-BRIGHT TIDES

In her darkest hour, Nilah’s dalliance with Death sinks her deep into an ocean of grief. Destruction looms as the only way left is down, but what if that’s exactly what she needs? Will her needs align with her wants?

#Bluepit📖 #A #F #H #W #BluePit

Moodboard for the short story with the working title "A Teasing Fate So Cruel" by Elisa Winther. A speculative horror which includes the ocean, death, and rebirth. The imagines include a face of someone drowning, a glowing mermaid, underwater kelp, and the sea.

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olha writes✨ @murecka.bsky.social · Jul 13

✨Adult historical fantasy with Ukrainian folklore.

Comps: BLOOD OVER BRIGHT HAVEN, BABEL, THE POPPY WAR

🩸secret society
🗝️found family
🤎slow-burn romance
🐺mythical beings as main characters
🕯️high-stakes political mystery
🗡️anti-imperial struggle

#BluePit #BluePit📖 #W #A #F #HS #OV

A collage of nine pictures with turning of 20th century aesthetics, dark alleys, one of man carrying a woman and one pf woman screaming. In the middle is yellow text on black background that reads „through death to freedom”

$Pitch. In a world inspired by Ukrainian folklore and the turn of the 20th century, Zoriana Spys discovers the secret student society of Kharakternys - people with various uncanny talents whom she'd always thought to be mere mythical creatures, and even though the discovery fractures Zoriana's perception of her people and herself, she must join forces with the society to investigate the Witches' disappearances before they lead to half of the country's extermination.$

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K.A. Hela ✨ Final edits?✨ @jundlife.bsky.social · Jul 13

Dune X The Library at Mt. Char

In a city of psychics Sylin was born to be a killer.
She prepares to join the Guild who will do anything to protect her home.
Even turn her Guildmate into a monster.

All while visions of 'strangers' threaten to bring ruin upon them all.

#BluePit #A #F #Q

Even in a city filled with telepaths and telekinetics Sylin was born to be a killer. She is nearing her initiation to the Char-Tesh Guild and is preparing to set off into the desert to defend against the reptilian Stalkers who threaten her home. While this should be a time of pride and passage the Guild is plagued by visions of the ‘Strangers’ who come to bring them ruin. She must rely on her found family and Guildmates to survive a battle they have long odds of winning.
At the same time the Guild Masters play a shadowy game of power and politics where the ends always justify the means. Even if it means taking her fellow Guildmate and turning him into a monster.

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