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Sammie @spottedsnake.bsky.social · 2h

ARCANE x GIDEON

A convict and a scientist descend into a toxic chasm to save their city. The mushrooms bite. The chill brings hallucinations. The deeper they go, the less human they stay...and the more the dark begins to whisper their names.

#SFpit #A #Q #H #LGBT #SSF #agentsguide

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Catherine Irb @khetie.bsky.social · 2h

#SFpit #A #Q #SFan

How to get a magical job when you have no powers while NOT falling for your arrogant colleague.

👌Totally no lying
⭐️ If Sanderson designed technology
📖 Corporate satire
🧬 Software devs are wizards
🩸No magic, use wit

THE MINISTRY OF TIME x DUNE x THE GOD AND THE GUMIHO

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Sean Holten @seanholten.bsky.social · 1h

THE INVISIBLE LIBRARY x INCEPTION

When their writer abandons them, characters in an unfinished novel become aware of their existence.

Struggling to find The End, they reach out beyond their paper kingdom to a lonely bookworm who's always wanted to step into a book...

#SFpit #A/#YA #Q #F #HR #LGBT

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Fay Irwin (pen name) @fantasyscience.bsky.social · 1h

Two awkward scientists on an alternate Earth must overcome their mutual dislike to save the world from mass starvation. But their growing feelings for each other prove to be as explosive as the chemicals they work with.

#SciFiPit #SFPit #A

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Kat Mellon @katmauvais.bsky.social · 1h

I saw that we can pitch fantasy as a sub-genre for #SFpit, so here I go!

SO FAR AWAY: fantasy meets group therapy as six people vanquish their inner demons in a shared simulation.

#A #F #agentguide #agentsguide

A graphic containing pitch information for SO FAR AWAY.

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jwawrites.bsky.social @jwawrites.bsky.social · 1h

When she loses access to FDA-approved VR therapy to manage her OCD and writer’s block, Emmy turns to dark web imitation VR therapy in pursuit of self-optimization—and pays a heavy price. A near-future upmarket speculative domestic psychological thriller.
#SFPit #A #Q #SSF #SF #OWN #LGBT #DIS

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Stephanie Winter @wintersleep85.bsky.social · 54m

Thank you!

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Chloe Marcus @chloemarcus.bsky.social · 6h

🪨Nerdy rock collector
🏙️A society deep in the earth
✨Dream fueled magic
👾Ancient life-sucking monsters closing in
🫢All tangled around a terrible secret

#SFPit #YA #Contemp #Fantasy

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Rachel Blaine @rachelblaine.bsky.social · 1h

Can she hide long enough to get away with murder?

🥵 climate fiction
🏳️‍🌈 queer friends to lovers
🫂 found family
🍴 cannibal fun
🧬 unique genetic abilities

#SFpit #WIP #YA #DYS #H #writingcommunity

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Natalie Brown @nattykbrown.bsky.social · 6h

On the brink of extinction a translator holds the fate of two species in her hands, but as she learns secrets from both sides, she must decide which, if any, deserve to be saved

#SFPit #A #Q #SF #Clifi #agentsguide

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L.M. du Plessis 🇳🇦 🇺🇦📚💙 ‪✨Editing Cavern Clipper✨ @smoking-gnu.bsky.social · 5h

Good Morning #SFpit!

It's been a while since I took part in a pitch event, so here's my #agentsguide for #literaryagents.
Presenting my #A #WIP that I guess is a #SSF with a small dash of #F to it.
CAVERN CLIPPER (TREASURE PLANET X JOURNEY TO THE EARTH).

Background, Flying sail ships amids obscuring clouds.
presenting an Agents Guide to: Cavern Clipper.
Status: first draft complete at 117K words
Image Credit: “The Stormriders: Steampunk Pirates” by neko1206 on Deviantart.

Background, cavern lit up by bright orange-yellow light.
The Pitch: WHEN SAM DIES, HE AWAKENS IN A WORLD OF ENDLESS TUNNELS AND MASSIVE CAVERNS. JOINING A HUNTER CLIPPER CREW, HE GETS CAUGHT BETWEEN PIRATES AND A MYSTERIOUS STRANGER WHOSE URGENT MESSAGE COULD SAVE HUMANITY.

Background, massive square cavern in background with small forest and deer in foreground.
Comps: TREASURE PLANET X A JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH
Tropes and themes:
• TRANSMIGRATION (ISEKAI)
• AIRSHIPS
• PIRATES
• CAT AND MOUSE BATTLES
• A MESSAGE THAT MUST BE DELIVERED!

Background, Cavern with a skull face being watched by a woman.
Excerpt:
THE CLIFF FACE STRETCHED DOWN FOR KILOMETERS! HOUSES WERE BUILT INTO THE SIDE OF IT! WALKWAYS BUILT INTO THE CLIFF-SIDE ALLOWED WALKING ACCESS DOWN TO THE BUILDINGS, WITH PEOPLE ON THEM AS IF IT WAS THE MOST NORMAL THING TO DO!…
…HIS STOMACH TURNED AT THE SIGHT. HE STARTED BACKING UP WHEN A SHADOW PASSED OVER HIM, ANOTHER WONDERFUL, TERRIBLE SIGHT FLYING IN THE AIR FAR ABOVE HIM.
A SHIP. WITH SAILS, LIKE YOU’D SEE ON THE OCEAN, IN HISTORY BOOKS OR PIRATE MOVIES. FLYING!

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Rachel Blaine @rachelblaine.bsky.social · 3h

After killing a beloved classmate in self-defense, Candy’s body begins to change. Now she must hide her unique genetic abilities or else she’ll be spending the rest of her adolescence in a breeding lab… or worse.

#SFpit #WIP #YA #dys #writingcommunity

Red lizard, woman in gas mask, red sky, pink clouds, PURE RED even if she manages to control her abilities, she’ll never hide her skin color, pink sky, woman’s back, red butterflies, woman silhouette

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B. van Bodegom 📃is querying & writing @bvbodegom.bsky.social · 12h

BLACK MIRROR × SEVERANCE × THE GOOD PLACE

Having a happy death is a luxury service for the rich and Wren is the rising top salesman—until a cynical coworker and a depressed billionaire force him to rethink it all in a world where even your last smile has a price tag.

#SFPit #A #Dys #WIP

Made from non-AI free stock images.

This image is a book cover design for a novel titled "Happy Death Inc." by B. Van Bodegom. The cover is divided into three distinct horizontal sections:

1. Top Section: Features a cartoonish blue sky with white clouds and a bright sun. At the top, a tagline reads:
"How much would you pay to die with a smile?"
The word "HAPPY" appears in large, playful, hand-drawn-style font, partially overlapping the sky background.

2. Middle Section: A photograph of a deceased man in a suit, lying in a casket. He has an exaggerated smile on his face, almost unnaturally wide and clean, suggesting artificial enhancement or post-mortem alteration. Overlaid on this image is the word "DEATH" in the same large font as the previous word.

3. Bottom Section: A cartoon city skyline in pastel tones, similar in style to the top sky background. The word "INC." is overlaid prominently in the same large font. At the very bottom, in smaller capital letters, it says:
"A Novel by B VAN BODEGOM"

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Stephanie Winter @wintersleep85.bsky.social · 2h

Thank you!

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ruby 🌌 @rubydevereux.bsky.social · 10h

Hi #SFPit,

I am out of ideas for pitch content, so if #literaryagents could check out my #agentsguide for my #YA #Q novel about:

✈️ space cadet influencers
✈️ rural-futuristic 🇦🇺
✈️ a mother/daughter activist duo
✈️ overcoming military propaganda

that would be rad, THANKS!

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Trinity🫧is querying🫧 @trinitywrites.bsky.social · 11h

METAL BONES, PLASTIC HEART
👩‍💻Lonely teenage hacker
🤖Mysterious android boy
❤️‍🔥Slow-burn romance
🩸Powerful mega-corporations
🌃A sprawling city
🔎Scavenger hunt for computer chips that hold answers about more than just a murder...
🎨: @kaelidem
#SciFiPit #SFPit #YA #CB #Q

white hair boy stands next to girl with black braid on the roof of a cyberpunk city

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Bee Morris 🐝 is querying! @beemorris.bsky.social · 5h

#SFpit #NA #Q #HR #F
Charlie will do whatever it takes to solve Lydia's murder, including:

🫖 drugging the mayor with magic tea
🔮 contacting the dead
🕵️ stealing evidence
🧿 breaking curses
🧠 losing her sanity
💋 seducing the man who killed her

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Sage like the Pumpkin Spice @sagecollins.bsky.social · 3h

DR HORRIBLE x STARS & SMOKE x RENEGADES

🦸🏼‍♀️ Kickass shapeshifting heroine
🧑🏻‍🎤 Celebrity villain
🗣️ Unreliable narrators
💥 Superhero action
🖤 Obsessive love
✅ Jumping through League’s hoops
👫 Supportive BFF (maybe LI?)
🎤 Voicey POVs
🚪 Scooby Doo doors
😜 Hero & villain share a body?

#SFPit #Q #YA #SSF

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Jocelyne Gregory @jocelynegregory.bsky.social · 10h

Murderbot + Fallout = THE AFTER WAR

Android Felic wakes up after 260 years and discovers The War is over, the human woman he falls for talks like a chat bot, his home corporation is in ruins, and an evil AI is planning to destroy the world. Again.

#SFPit #SciFiPit #A #Q #PA #CB #Romance

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Q’Zion T. Gipson is ✨ON SUB! ✨ @qziontgipson.bsky.social · 5h

THE ROOTS OF DESTINY is an enchantingly lush YA climate sci-fantasy featuring:

🩵flowerless Earth

🌿plant magic system

☁️ enchanted garden AU

🌿 plant scientists

🩵Botany boarding school

#Editors, reach out to Najla Mamou at Savvy Literary for a flower-filled adventure!

#SFPit #YA #AG #OS

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Haley Patricia @haleypatricia.bsky.social · 13h

After dying in a shed fire, Alexandra and her friends are sent back in time to solve their own murders and compete for resurrection. Whoever fixes the most of their past mistakes comes back to life, and the losers are erased from existence forever. #YA #SFPit #WIP 🥀🪦🔥

Red rose, shed on fire, red rose with red liquid, red solo cup, hand coming out of grave, red grave, skull with red roses, til death with red roses, red clock.

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Gert Ramm 🦋 @rammwriter.bsky.social · 5h

Mission Brief
13/01/1972

TOP SECRET

🕑 Infiltrate time travel seminar
🕵‍♂️ Take out Soviet spies
🔫 Use a gun
❌️ Don't laugh at the agenda
📃 It’s all theoretical
😕 Apart from *that* demo
✅️ Full government endorsement
👍 Nothing can go wrong
🇷🇺 💣 💥
⬛️ Redacted

#SFPit #A #Q #TT

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Stephanie Winter @wintersleep85.bsky.social · 2h

NAUSICAÄ X FF7

A possible chosen one, a man who failed and his destiny, and a woman rejected by fate are forced to work together to save their dying world. The group struggles against demonic enemies, anti-magic forces, and the possibility the world isn't meant to be saved.

#SFPit #F #A #Q

A woman. A gas mask. A man in a suit. A 1920s style woman. A street. Sun.

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Crystal Bayless ✍🏻is writing & editing✍🏻 @crystalbauthor.bsky.social · 12h

Stargate x Marvel x Freaky Friday

We all have inner voices, but what if they are us in the multiverse. Kaylee has lost almost everyone & she knows there must be a reason, but by trying to learn, she may end up in a conspiracy that could cost her life.

#WIP #NA #SFan #SFPit

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Crystal Bayless ✍🏻is writing & editing✍🏻 @crystalbauthor.bsky.social · 12h

Groundhogs dayxIndependence dayxRed DawnxTomorrow When the War Began

When humanity is captured people band together to escape, but little do they know that what awaits outside their camp isn't freedom, but a decimated world where only those with the strongest wills survive.

#WIP #A #SFan #SFPit

Black background.

Top left picture Is an alien ship over land with a space portal showing in the light. Top right is a picture of a jail fence.

Then a quote: “This is War. You're fighting in your own backyard. You're fighting for your family. For them, this is just some place. For us, this is our home. It's up to all of us to fight for it.” - Red Dawn (2012)

Middle left pic is a campfire. Top right is a tent, campers, and a campfire.

Then the title in rusted font, Decimated.

“Then a quote: The biggest risk, is to take no risks.” - John Marsden, Tomorrow When The War Began

Bottom left pic is an explosion. Bottom left is a dilapidated building behind a fence.

“Then a quote: We believed we were safe. That was the big fantasy.” - John Marsden, Tomorrow When The War Began

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