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Mother, Lover, Dreamer.
Querying: FOREIGN BODIES.
WIP: HABEAS CORPUS.
Gritty spec-fic writer, it's cathartic.
Reformed dropkick.
Protect literature. Write ban-worthy books.
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So surprised I have this! From my #amquerying YA sff 'Foreign Bodies'. This is one of my favs. It's a lil spoiler, but hey, judging by how almost every agent who's read it has requested something more marketable first (yay?) it's a while away :'-) #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #booksky 🪐📚💙
Screenshot from user's manuscript. Black times new roman text on white background. It reads: “Do you think you’re human still?” “Yes,” he says, without hesitation. “I suppose he is, too. But it was different.” I look down to rub a thumb absently over the palm of my hand, scraping a fingernail at the dried blood. “Do you ever feel yourself… Fighting? To stay attached?” “Attached?” Nero echoes. “To your feelings,” I say. “To the human side.” “No,” he says. “Not once. It’s the only part of me I know I have.” “Do you miss it? Who you were?” After this, I pause. Nero leans against the wall beside me. “I don’t think I’m like Roland,” he mutters. “Not in that way, at least. I don’t have anything left like that to remember.” “Then what could you possibly have to compare it to?” I’m sure my voice is barely audible. “What, being human? Everything in the world,” he admits. I’m sure his hand twitches as if to reach for mine, but he pulls it back. Instead, he looks at me with an intensity that makes me feel as if he’s trying to burn his truth into my skin. “The sky. The sun. The fire in my stomach. That’s how I know it’s all real.” “What do you know about the world?” I scoff. “Like I tried to tell you, it’s not my first day on Earth,” he says. “I want to find my dad,” I whisper. My voice sounds like my own, ten years ago. “Then that’s what we need to do.” I drop my gaze to the floor. There it is, again. The retrograde sort of grief I’d tried to bury. The word 'retrograde' is highlighted in yellow.
November 19, 2025 at 2:58 AM
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#WIPSnips From my #amquerying YA sci-fi thriller, Foreign Bodies. Fun one... Couldn't choose between them! :-) #booksky #writesky #writingcommunity
Screenshot from user's manuscript. It reads in black font on white background: '“Can I see it? The scar?” I ask. When he nods, I take a few tentative steps forward to get a closer look, because it’s not just his neck. The even lines decorate the entirety of his back, as if somebody has gutted him like a pig for market and sewn him together again. My mind flashes back to my week of work in the butcher’s shop, and I reach out tentatively with a finger, expecting to find a raised surface. Instead, I’m surprised by the absence of a scar. There’s no divot in the skin, not a crease or wrinkle. It’s a seamless, clean line, so precisely stitched you couldn’t dream of it out here. My body goes numb as I pull my finger up the line on his spine. It meets the circle at the base of his skull. There, in tiny letters, is a word etched into his skin in a white, well-healed scar.' Screenshot from users manuscript. "Some of these people look like they’ve been here for weeks. Some, years, judging by the pallor of their skin. Like they have been stuck here below the ground in some kind of sick purgatory between their world and ours. I wonder if they can’t leave, in fear of what might happen when they reach the surface, or whether they know what is waiting for them when they do."
November 15, 2025 at 6:36 AM
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from my #amquerying YA SFF "Foreign Bodies." If someone wants to pick it up that doesn't want to make it NA romance-dystopia (romastopia? spicetopia?) pls let me know bc turning down an offer of rep after a call is NOT what i expected to do :'-) #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #BookSky
Image of screenshot from the user's manuscript. Black text on white background reads "I even admire the way the sun glitters off the rows of buildings here. It’s the only thing that feels almost familiar, even if it doesn’t burn my skin like at home. Even the potted plants and the crawling vines planted evenly through the streets look artificial, too perfectly green amongst the grey. They’re probably fake, I think, and I remind myself to check the next time we pass by one again. If it weren’t for the dome, it would have been so obvious what was waiting here for us. These buildings would have stood tall above the wall, ruining everything they were trying to hide. But I know they exist, because I am trapped here, imprisoned under their false sky. “Monotonous, huh?” says Tejas. “Makes our twin houses look like the most fascinating things in the world.” “You can say that again.” " The word 'building' is highlighted in yellow block.
November 13, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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This book. No words could describe it in a way that would, at all, communicate how it made me feel. But I'll damn well try: Brilliant. Heartbreaking. Political. Thought-provoking. Intriguing. Artistic. Risky. Timely. In other words—it's very, very good. #booksky 💙📚
Cover image of 'Chain-Gang All-Stars,' written by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah. A stylised image of a red scythe or scythe-like weapon. with colourful, flame like shapes coming from the blade tip. The background is a mustard yellow colour. The title appears in black block letters lower middle of the page. A gold badge reads 'One of the New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year,' and a silver badge reads 'National Book Award Finalist'
November 12, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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a strange one, today! #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WIPSnips #booksky
Screenshot from users manuscript, the word 'shirt' is highlighted in neon yellow. Black text on white background reads, "Still, I can’t help but laugh when he tosses me a bottle of liquor, because Ada gives him a sideways glance that looks like it could split him in two. If there’s something I need right now, it’s bravery, but I also need to forget about the open sores sticking to the inside of my shirt. This will work for that plenty, so I give her a nod and swig from the bottle. She shakes her head."
November 12, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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Someone tell David Attenborough... bc I'm coming for his gig. #Booksky #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WIPSnips
Image of a screenshot of users manuscript. Black text on white page reads: “Go on,” Nero says. When I look up, he’s watching me cautiously. “If humans could rewrite our bodies at will,” I turn my attention back to the page, “would we still be human? Or would we become something else entirely, drifting between borrowed selves?” I realise, now, the pictures on the page are this same creature, after all. It really does as the words say. It is almost indistinguishable from those it desires to replicate.
November 9, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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ooh, as a simile denier (joking) this has got to be one of my favourites I've written! #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #Booksky
Cropped image of the user's manuscript text in Times New Roman font on a white background. The word 'movement' is highlighted in yellow, indicating that the user searched for it in their document. The text reads: . It’s a learned movement, I suppose, just like mine through the rubble. Only here, their bodies ebb and flow in synchronicity with one another. From this high up, they’re like a busy school of iridescent fish in a running creek.
November 7, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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ME rn fr... Bc as somebody diagnosed with the need it now disorder (ADHD), waiting to hear back on manuscript requests is certainly a lesson in patience (and a special kind of torture) lol #booksky #amquerying
Funny image of Drag Queen Katya, a bald person wearing dark eye makeup with tear streaks, fading red lipstick, and a tan velour jacket with tripes at the wrists and collar, sits outdoors, smiling uncomfortably while holding a cigarette, a box of cigarettes and a phone.
October 14, 2025 at 4:13 AM
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any excuse to share my fav wedding photo
Image of a wedding portrait photo. The background is a wall with brightly coloured grafitti tags, bubble letters in white with black and pink borders. The word is hidden by the central figures, man and woman on their wedding day. The man has dyed blonde hair and wears an ivory suit, black collared shirt, and golden bolo tie secured at the centre. The bolo tie is gold, in the shape of a horse-shoe, and has floral accents. The woman has pink hair with a blunt cut fringe, wears a mesh dress with diamontes, and red bracelets. She holds a floral bouquet of bright pink flowers and red roses, and they are showing off gold and emerald wedding rings on their ring fingers.
September 4, 2025 at 6:36 AM
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how it feels when i have three manuscripts i'm working on and an inbox waiting for submission news, but need to focus on my university assignments first lmaooooo #booksky 📚💙
August 18, 2025 at 3:18 AM
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lmaooooo meeeee #hamilton #musicaltheatre
August 2, 2025 at 4:31 AM
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Looking for Alaska. Funnily enough, I remember reading this and thinking they were all tame for supposed 'rebels'. Just goes to show the adult disconnect with how teenagers behave, as it was deemed 'unsuitable' for the age group. Read #bannedbooks ! #booksky #bookchallenge #💙📚 #politicalbooks 6/?
Book cover of 'Looking for Alaska,' written by John Green. A solid black background, with a thin trail of white smoke curling from a recently extinguished candle which appears at the bottom of the image. The words 'a novel' appear beside the smoke. The title, 'Looking for Alaska,' appears in white, lowercase type and is outlined by a red rectangle, centered at the bottom of the page. The author's name, 'John Green,' is printed beneath it in white text.
July 21, 2025 at 3:44 AM
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1984: challenged/banned for its political messaging and satirical themes. I might be Australian, but in the spirit of October's American Library Association Banned Books Week, “Censorship is so 1984." Read #bannedbooks ! #booksky #bookchallenge #💙📚 #politicalbooks 5/???
The seventy fifth anniversary cover of 1984 by George Orwell. The background is red with white stylised text reading "1984" at the top and "George Orwell" at the bottom. In the middle of the page is a large cartoon-style eye, as if cut out from pieces of paper and collaged, with a black pupil, grey iris, and a small red dot acting as a light reflection. It appears to replicate a camera.
July 17, 2025 at 4:54 AM
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Just finished this one today. Fascinating, honest and powerful. Banned / challenged for LGBTQIA+ content and considered sexually explicit. Read #bannedbooks ! #booksky #bookchallenge #💙📚 #politicalbooks 4/???
"All Boys Aren’t Blue" by George M. Johnson book cover. The cover art features a painterly style and depicts a Black person with a serious expression, wearing a colourful flower crown made of roses and birds of paradise. The background features a gradient sky that is blue and shifts to pink. The title is in bold white letters on the left bottom corner with the subtitle “A Memoir-Manifesto” above the author's name in blue at the bottom right
July 16, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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Official review from my brain-rotted father (who I have minimal contact with): "Would be good if it weren't woke trash."

So what I'm hearing is: I've done something right!

(Distracting myself from waiting for full manuscript responses)

#BluePit📖 #BluePit #YA #NA #SF #SP #OV #ND #Q
Image of text reads: Foreign Bodies, complete at 91k SPECULATIVE SCI-FI DYSTOPIAN AUSTRALIAN SETTING YA CROSSOVER querying Book 1 of an outlined 3 They teach them the world has died. To leave is certain death. But seventeen-year-old Lark knows this isn’t the case, despite what the Citizen Handbook tells her. After all, she’s spent her life under the Power Edict, dodging banished androids to scavenge in the bushland beyond the city borders. But when she rescues a mysterious boy from the Wilds, everything she thought she knew about survival crumbles. Nero has no memory and impossible healing abilities, but his appearance brings destruction. Lark’s uncle disappears. There’s an attack on her sector. Then she discovers the truth about the hierarchy dividing her city. Stepping into her uncle's footsteps, Lark learns of his fight against the conspiracy that threatens not only her family but every civilian living outside of Cobalt’s inner city. But as she navigates her trauma, relationships, newfound allies, and a growing alcohol dependency in her search for answers, she faces the ultimate betrayal. Because sometimes the enemy looks like your family. Red text on black textured background: What to expect White text on black textured background: messy fmc slow-burn chaos beat-by-beat timeline not the chosen one anti ai anti govt strong queer women a not quite love triangle ethics science A whole lot of present day CRITICISM shakespeare intertext (inspired by richard III) realistic mental illness, trauma and addiction portrayal found family action emotion body horror gut punches (literal + metaphorical) tigers (you’ll understand) plot twists that came to me at the dead of night dialogue that feels lived in Red text on black textured background reads, for fans of. Below, 20 square tiles show images and posters from popular media or book covers arranged in a grid, titles are as follows: The Hunger Games, 28 Days Later, Silo, Scythe, Splice, Blade Runner 2049, Fullmetal Alchemist, Black Mirror, The Q, Station Eleven, The Last of Us, Never Let Me Go, 1984, Ghost in the Shell, Companion, Mad Max: Fury Road, Euphoria, Ex Machina
July 13, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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FOREIGN BODIES is Euphoria X The Last of Us (if it had androids, duh), a YA Crossover spec fic.

Found family, wealth disparity, unchecked oligarchs, genetic manipulation, perseverance, science, identity, connection, grief, mental illness & addiction.

#BluePit📖 #BluePit #YA #NA #SF #SP #OV #ND #Q
a photo collage. top left shows a smoggy city skyline. middle left is a teary eye on a dirty face. Bottom left depicts a wildfire blazing across dry landscape. The centre is a science lab with glass tanks containing wet specimens and scattered bottles. bottom middle shows two silhouettes facing each other in a dimly lit space. Bottom right shows a group of people struggling through smoke and ash with shovels, fighting a fire. The background of the collage is a cityscape at night. an image collage. top left shows a fist punching through glass. Top center shows two figures running, blurred in motion. Top right depicts a rioting crowd waving red flares, engulfed in smoke. Bottom left features protesters and flares held in disagreement. The background is a digital screenwith the phrase 'what if we never met?' in red text. In the middle is a close-up of an eye, with the reflection of flames, and glitter trailing down like tears. a photo collage. top left shows two people touching foreheads. Overlaid is a closeup of hands clasping, and overlaid beneath is a scan of a hand. Top right is a screencap from anime Bubblegum Crisis, a city surrounded by high-rise buildings. Beneath, blue text reads 'a human being whose original human parts have had to be replaced'. Bottom left shows riot police in black gear. The centre bottom is a dark industrial space with green lighting. Bottom right shows a distressed woman staring into a mirror.
July 13, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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writing a sequel is both ten times easier and ten times harder than writing the first book, idk how to react do i laugh or do i cryyyy #booksky #💙📚
Musician Sabrina Carpenter, with her blonde hair styled in a bun, smiles at the camera while holding a microphone. She's wearing a pink satin dress and has a hand near her mouth . A soft orange background and a bouquet of flowers are visible behind her.
July 12, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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Not them trying to ban ANTI RACIST BABY for: Inflammatory racial and social commentary and illustrations. Going to pick this one up for sure! Read #bannedbooks ! #booksky #bookchallenge #💙📚 #politicalbooks 3/???
Illustrated book cover of "Antiracist Baby" by Ibram X. Kendi, illustrated by Ashley Lukashevsky. It features a smiling baby with pigtails and flower hair clips in a bright yellow carrier worn by a bearded adult. The baby has arms raised playfully. The title "Antiracist Baby" is prominently displayed in large, bold mint-green letters across the front.
July 12, 2025 at 2:29 AM
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Posting banned/challenged books I've read, and their reasons for being banned. 'Slaughterhouse-Five' by Kurt Vonnegut: Offensive language, war depiction, disrespect of political authority and 'emotionally disturbing scenes.' Read #bannedbooks ! #booksky #bookchallenge #💙📚 #politicalbooks
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Red book cover. Yellow writing top of page: Kurt Vonnegut. Centre page: "Poignant and hilarious, threaded with compassion and, behind everything, the cataract of a thundering moral statement." - The Boston Globe. Centre Page: crude, sketch-like drawing of a yellow skull, outlined in black. Bottom Page: SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE A NOVEL.
July 10, 2025 at 3:18 AM
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#UnhingedPit vintage justgirlythings posts that hit way different in the context of my dystopian YA crossover spec fic... i'll let u do the mathhhh <3 #YA #NA #SF #T #Q
text reads 'spending time with your dad' image of a baby and adult male text reads 'not being able to fall asleep because you're constantly thining about the past, present, and future' image of a woman in bed text reads 'loving tigers', image of a blonde-haired woman with a tiger image reads 'quality time spent with friends.' image of three pairs of legs by a park.
July 9, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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Celebrating crawling out of the writing dungeon with a new challenge to myself. I'm going to try to post my favourite books challenged around the world (because Australia is actually pretty good for this). Read #bannedbooks ! #booksky #bookchallenge #💙📚 #politicalbooks
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Cover of 'The Bluest Eye' by Toni Morrison. Purple book cover background. In the centre, a square picture of a young black woman in a bowler-hat, red cardigan and white printed skirt. The words read from top of cover to bottom of cover: Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye, National Bestseller.
July 8, 2025 at 5:54 AM
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when ur photog friend wants to shoot something coz she’s inspired by ur recently finished book instead of doing the headshots u requested, u say duh yes ❤️
June 5, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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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.
#Books
#BookSky
#💙📚
#BookChallenge
15/20
Cover of the graphic novel "Palestine" by Joe Sacco. The title is in bold font, yellow in cover, laid over a comic panel from the book which features a drawing of the busy streets of Palestine from the novel. There is a car in the centre, surrounded by buildings and busy refugees. In the bottom left corner, there is a yellow text box which reads: "Gripping... A political and aesthetic work of extraordinary originality' - From the new introduction by Edward Said. "The landmark work of comics journalism from the creator of Safe Area: Gorazde - Finally complete in one volume."
November 25, 2024 at 5:17 AM
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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.
#Books
#BookSky
#💙📚
#BookChallenge
14/20
Cover of the novel "The Haunting of Hill House" by Shirley Jackson. The image shows the shadow of a woman as she looks into a lake; her silhouette is reflected on the surface.
November 25, 2024 at 5:07 AM
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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.
#Books
#BookSky
#💙📚
#BookChallenge
13/20
Image shows the cover of the combined edition of the 'His Dark Materials' series by Philip Pullman. Black, with an overlay of a Polar Bear alongside a monkey, pine marten and cat in gold, surrounded by stars. There is a castle and hot air balloon in the background.
November 23, 2024 at 2:18 PM