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Tahlia is querying 🐦‍⬛ @tahliajneely.bsky.social · May 7

Love to hear it!

Tahlia is querying 🐦‍⬛ @tahliajneely.bsky.social · May 7

If you made TWIN PEAKS a strange mid-20s coming of age story ft. a mysterious mentor figure who disobeys logic, then added WUTHERING HEIGHTS style yearning, you'd get MONTGOMERY: a neo-gothic speculative literary novel that pays homage to gothic classics

#questpit #Q #LF #A

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Tahlia is querying 🐦‍⬛ @tahliajneely.bsky.social · Feb 13

I might need to send you a query!

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Tahlia is querying 🐦‍⬛ @tahliajneely.bsky.social · Feb 13

Thank you!!

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Tahlia is querying 🐦‍⬛ @tahliajneely.bsky.social · Feb 13

WUTHERING HEIGHTS x SHARP OBJECTS

🐦‍⬛ lovelorn protagonist
🌧️ haunted PNW town
🕰️ speculative elements
🌊 complex female relationships
⚓️ local history & legend
🚬 social commentary
🖤 all things dark, dreary, & chilling

#questpit #Q #F #A

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Tahlia is querying 🐦‍⬛ @tahliajneely.bsky.social · Feb 13

An agent’s guide to MONTGOMERY 🐦‍⬛

With no passion left except for the desire to win back his first love, Wallace encounters an uncanny stranger who sends him down a surreal path of self discovery plagued by ghosts, drownings, and existential nightmare.

#questpit #Q #F #A

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bookgorilla | #BookSky 💙📚 @bookgorilla.com · Jan 29

Reaching out to friends and followers!

Help take books where they are needed with our BookGorilla/BlueSky community member @southjerseyliz.bsky.social, a volunteer with The Free Books Project! They need free bilingual books Spanish/English for children & youth in need. thefreebooksproject.org

The Free Books Project | Taking Books Where They're Needed

Literacy liberates and connects. We're a non-profit on a mission to provide the residents of Camden, NJ (and beyond) access to books through our programs.

thefreebooksproject.org

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Tahlia is querying 🐦‍⬛ @tahliajneely.bsky.social · Jan 17

With nothing left except the desire to win back his first love, a young man encounters an uncanny stranger who, under the guise of mentorship, sends him down a surreal path of pseudo-self discovery plagued by ghosts, drownings, and existential nightmare.

#P2Pit #UW #Q #A #LF #H

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Michelle 🍂 is AGENTED 🕯️ @mdkerkhoven.bsky.social · Dec 23

Dear #litagents,

My 76,000-word #sapphic YA dark fantasy w/ horror elements & a claustrophobic coastal town setting, 𝐖𝐇𝐄𝐑𝐄 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐖𝐈𝐂𝐊𝐄𝐃 𝐋𝐈𝐄, is coming to the #amquerying trenches soon 👀

A 🖤 on my agent’s guide would be a great Christmas gift 🎄🎅🏻 #WritingCommunity

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Tahlia is querying 🐦‍⬛ @tahliajneely.bsky.social · Dec 20

Hello book people of Bluesky, I’m happy to present my brand new #agentsguide for Montgomery, my modern gothic lit fic novel! I plan to start querying after the holidays.

#writingcommunity #litagents

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Rowan Brighton Brown @rowanbrightonbrown.bsky.social · Dec 15

🌿White Trash Witchcraft🪲

A southern inheritance is always dark—whether it's a penchant for pills, a blood-soaked family farm, or an ancient magic. Sierra spurns them all, but when her dad disappears, she must choose which monsters to slay, and which to become.
#HoliPit #YA

A moodboard of green and white images showing folk horror and rural imagery. There is a girl with moths on her face, two deer creatures, a raised fist with vines, a pile of white pills, and a sign saying "no more overdose deaths"

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Tahlia is querying 🐦‍⬛ @tahliajneely.bsky.social · Dec 15

The homer flex!! I love it

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lucy is querying HYACINTHUS RETELLING @lucyhalley.bsky.social · Dec 15

TSOA x CLYTEMNESTRA
🪻 Hyacinthus retelling
🪻 The golden age of Greek myth
🪻 Hozier-esque beautiful, lyrical prose (that two people on TikTok thought had been written by Homer)
🪻 Filled with metaphors about the sun and stars
🪻 Do we have any hope of escaping our fate?
#Holipit #HF #His #HR

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WIPPIT @wippit.bsky.social · Dec 10

As we near the date for #WIPPIT here is a reminder of the rules and hashtags (if I missed your hashtag I'm sorry, feel free of course to use any hashtag I missed). I hope you all are enjoying the sticky note questions and I look forward to seeing your pitches on Saturday! 🥰✍️

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#BluePit - A Storytelling Hype & Pitch Event @bluepit.bsky.social · Dec 11

Updated Version! There's been a handful of new pitch events announced!

The next event is on Dec 14th, #WIPPit, for WIP projects only and then #HoliPit on the 15th!

Pitch Event Starter Pack:
go.bsky.app/UzNMwUV

#WritingCommunity #Writers #WriteSky #AmQuerying #AmWriting #LiteraryAgents #LitAgents

BlueSky Pitch Events

December 14 - #WIPPit
December 15 - #HoliPit
December 18 - #ShortPit

January 13 - #BluePit
January 17 - #P2PPit
January 24 - #YouDeservePit
January 27 - #2025Pit

February 1 - #MiseryPit
February 12 - #QuestPit
February 14 - #CuPit
February 17 - #SludgePit
February 26 - #WIPSnipsPit

@BluePit.Bsky.Social

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Tahlia is querying 🐦‍⬛ @tahliajneely.bsky.social · Dec 12

Hi!! On ig I’m tahlia.writes

Tahlia is querying 🐦‍⬛ @tahliajneely.bsky.social · Dec 12

Absolutely

Tahlia is querying 🐦‍⬛ @tahliajneely.bsky.social · Dec 11

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

20/20
#booksky
#bookchallenge

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Tahlia is querying 🐦‍⬛ @tahliajneely.bsky.social · Dec 11

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

19/20
#booksky
#bookchallenge

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lucy is querying HYACINTHUS RETELLING @lucyhalley.bsky.social · Dec 9

THE SONG OF ACHILLES X CLYTEMNESTRA
🪻Hyacinthus retelling
🪻Hozier-esque beautiful, lyrical prose
🪻vengeful, passionate gods
🪻the queer romance and tragedy of ITWV (AMC)
🪻the golden age of Greek myth
🪻'will they, won't they?' slowburn and pining
#CheerPit #A #Q #H #F #R

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Lyndsey is ✨agented✨🏴‍☠️ @lyndseyreevewrites.bsky.social · Dec 9

DARK WATER DAUGHTER x TOGETHER WE ROT

This YA horror reimagines Samuel Coleridge’s deliciously eerie ‘Rime of the Ancient Mariner,’ chronicling three teens’ oceanic unraveling. Let’s unwrap what’s inside! #CheerPit #Q #writingcommunity #booksky

Wintery sea background with cliffs in the distance. A mock book cover features scenes from Gustave Dore’s ‘Rime of the Ancient Mariner’ illustrations. Light blue and white snowflakes surround the image, and text reads “Unwrapping THE PHANTOM FLEET by lyndseywrites.bsky.social.” A list of elements include Old Testament inspired creatures and commentary on storytelling/what makes a monster.

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Tahlia is querying 🐦‍⬛ @tahliajneely.bsky.social · Dec 10

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

18/20
#booksky
#bookchallenge

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Tahlia is querying 🐦‍⬛ @tahliajneely.bsky.social · Dec 8

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

17/20
#booksky
#bookchallenge

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Tahlia is querying 🐦‍⬛ @tahliajneely.bsky.social · Dec 8

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

16/20
#booksky
#bookchallenge

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