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Viola Grace @viola-grace.bsky.social · 27d
An Agent’s Guide to WHAT ARE THE CHANCES- an adult historical mystery set in Chicago, 1929, where a math genius living in her crime family’s luxury hotel must ally with an investigative duo to solve a series of murders, all the while secretly pursuing her own revenge.

#bluepit #bluepit📖 #M #A #Q
WHAT ARE THE CHANCES, 96,000 words, Adult Historical Mystery Chicago, 1929. Val’s life in her adoptive crime family’s hotel used to be nothing but bartending and calculating guests’ cards with her mathematical brilliance. But then her uncle Maximillian, the head of the syndicate, is killed before the hotel’s star-studded gala—and his death is identical to her secret suitor’s unsolved murder. With the chance for revenge in her grasp, Val allies with an infamous investigative duo to catch the killer. Comps Last Call at the Nightingale Katharine Schellman Flavia de Luce series by Alan Bradley Hulu’s Only Murders in the Building Inspirations The Great Gatsby Agatha Christie The Tower of Terror (1997) Tropes: Roaring 20’s Jazz Age Speakeasies Settings Speakeasies Casinos Settings that are characters Diverse Cast Puzzles and secret codes High speed chases Whodunnit Locked room mystery Found Family Chicago, 1929 1:34 a.m. The man with the bowler hat was going to lose. He looked so confident, with his slightly unbuttoned white shirt and condescending smirk. He didn’t even bother putting up the mask of a poker face to hide his prediction of the outcome. In his mind, he had already won. All that was left was to play the game. Valentina had been watching the round for several minutes now. She twisted a rag inside a dirty glass, keeping a subtle eye on the match. She couldn’t see the man’s hand from behind the bar, but if she had calculated it correctly, there was a seventy-four percent chance that he was holding two kings and three different nine cards— a full house. With a hand like that, he was in the perfect position to win. But he was wrong. He was going to lose. Val didn’t know this because of mathematics, however. She knew this because the man sitting across from him never played fair. Why would he? He was the owner of the joint, and if there was anything that Maximillian Eulio liked more than playing a dirty game of poker, it was getting away with it.
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Was in and out of #bluepit and any time I do a pitch event I’m actually baffled by the amount of talent out there, these stories are incredible. Also SUPER excited to see some of my mutuals getting agented and on submission!!!! LET’S GO!!!!!!!!!!!
January 14, 2026 at 3:47 AM
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emiliayoung.bsky.social
THE THINGS WE RUN FOR ( #OnSub 2026!)

Shameless x Riverdale (s1) x AGGGTM

☕️ Drama-Mystery with Romance
📓 Runaway x Boy Next Door
☕️ 90s Small-Town Murder Mystery
📓 Found Family
☕️ Genderfluid and Pan Rep
📓 Mental Health Rep
☕️ Fake Identity Turned Real Identity

#BluePit📖 #BluePit #R #M
#Editors #OS
emiliayoung.bsky.social Emilia Young | Author @emiliayoung.bsky.social · 27d
#Editors THE THINGS WE RUN FOR ( #OnSub 2026!)

Emma Bridge ran to find a safe home, but the town she picked is anything but. When she gets wrapped up in a cold case that threatens her siblings, who can she turn to while keeping her secrets safe?

#BluePit📖 #BluePit #YA #R #M
#DIS #LGBT #OV #OS
Editor’s Guide To: The Things We Run For YA Drama Mystery with Romance 94k Words Represented by Amanda Wooden at SBR Media 4/13/1995 Run. What a powerful instinct. Emma Bridge had wanted nothing more than to be with her two siblings in a home that felt safe, but those wishes never came true. With nothing left to lose, Emma runs away from the spotlight of the Hills to a small town across the country, but this new home is anything but the safety she’d been after. The weight of the world has fallen on her shoulders, and she can’t carry it alone. But with her old name in every police station and her new name on every tongue in town, she’s not sure who she can trust to help carry the burden. What we know: -Runaway in Hiding -Fake Identity (turned real identity) -Mental Health Rep -Genderfluid and Pan Rep -Found Family -90s Small-Town Nostalgia At the bottom, the name Emma Bridge is crossed out and replaced with Peyton Freys 6/23/1995 “The Hills have Eyes” There’s a collage of pictures. Picture one is of two people, one sitting on the counter with the other in front of them. Picture two is go a small-town street with snowy homes to either side. Picture three shows a row of high school desks. Picture four shows a box of police evidence. Picture five shows a group of kids sitting behind an abandoned building. Picture six shows someone flipping off a police car. Picture seven shows a paper with the words “Child Custody Hearing” printed on it. The last picture shows a boy at a school desk, writing something into a notebook. In the bottom right, it says Going on submission in 2026
January 13, 2026 at 5:10 PM
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carosas.bsky.social
A STUDY IN DROWNING meets ALL THAT CONSUMES US in a south-american inspired world:

"A grieving sister’s scavenger hunt through her dead sibling’s journals uncovers a secret society, a vanished prodigy, and ghosts that won’t let her graduate alive."

#BluePit 📖 #Q #YA #OV #LGBT #F #H
January 13, 2026 at 6:27 PM
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✨ONE DARK WINDOW x KATABASIS✨

Lola Knight is cursed with a violent dark magic. When it kills her best friend, she must attend Le Fay academy to seek control before it kills again-or consumes her. But the monstrous mystery waiting for her could consume her entire world.

#bluepit📖 #A #F #LGBT #Q #OV
A shadowy school building, stars in the sky, and the text: an agents guide to the bells of le fay, adult dark academia fantasy, A. J. Sable The silhouette of a woman holding a ball of light in front of trees. The text reads: pitch, Lola Knight didn’t mean to murder her best friend. When her violent and volatile magic spirals out of control, instead of punishment, she’s enrolled in an elite magical academy to seek control before it kills again. But there she finds herself at the centre of a monstrous mystery; one that could rip the human world, and the witching world, apart. A spell book lying open amongst candles and a mirror. The text reads: tropes, sapphic enemies to lovers, female rage, elite magical university, secret society, body horror, underworld realm. The shadow of a woman standing before a giant misty creature. The text reads: with the cathedral-like academy behind her, the gothic towers soaring above the treetops, it felt like she was in a fairy-tale. But if that were true, she was no princess. She was the monster they had to defeat.
January 13, 2026 at 11:13 AM
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Tangle and Tether
Teen scientist Brilliance Overland and her bestie Annie complete her late mother's quantum wormhole tech!
They escape to a promising world beyond. But something breaks that promise.
Their exploration is mired in loss, loneliness, and a childhood bond that no longer works.
#BluePit
Old school looking book cover: Ominous redheaded girl overlooking the Earth. Book title, Tangle and Tether, Brilliance of Earth, Book One. More about the book: Brilliance Overland is a prodigy who craves answers and adventure. Her invention— latticed entanglement aperture passthroughs (LEAP)—opens a quantum-based wormhole to a world more advanced, yet far more backward than she imagined. With her best friend Annie, Brilliance enrolls at Avram Circle, the premier science academy in a system of interlinked worlds, hoping to unravel their origins. But in a place where every relationship is entangled, every truth is knotted with lies, and every discovery leads to deeper complexity, Brilliance finds that her will and scientific principles alone can’t untangle the mess. Brilliance relies on Annie’s empathy to navigate the social brambles rooted in this new world, but as Brilliance buries her own “unproductive” feelings, Annie’s patience frays. When their friendship is tested, Brilliance must confront the tethers that bind her: Unspoken grief for her mother, whose voice and lessons echo as AI in her mind; the causal chains that connect her actions to unintended consequences; and the realization that even in a universe of infinite possibility, some bonds—of love, loss, and home—are impossible to sever. To survive forces that want to control them, Brilliance must learn that true understanding isn’t just about unraveling mysteries, but about embracing the beautiful, messy tangle of relationships and the tethers that hold us together—even across worlds. Themes: - Quantum entanglement as a metaphor for the complexity and messiness of relationships, regardless of time or distance. - Tethering as both a source of strength (home, love, memory) and a challenge (grief, responsibility, causality) - The interplay between scientific genius and emotional intelligence - The search for origins—of worlds, of self, of the bonds that shape us
January 13, 2026 at 6:49 AM
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NAUSICAÄ X FF7

Nature is decaying, nobles are hoarding magic, and demons prey on everyone. A possible chosen one, a man who failed his destiny, and a woman rejected by fate must work together for one last chance to save the dying world.

#BluePit 📖 #A #F #Q #agentguide
Dark forest. An agent's guide to The Blessing Returned. Adult fantasy. 98,000 words. Dark forest. Pitch. Idealistic Hana Hahl lives in a world that is slowly dying after a failed quest to bring back magic. The only ones left with power are self-serving royals and dark mages, while desperation has given rise to an anti-magic order. Caught up in a mystical event, Hana is blessed with an immense power that could restore nature to the world. As Hana struggles to control the overwhelming force, Lady Kalyn Nossi, the only known survivor of the disastrous quest, directs her to the one person who can help her. Matthias Azel, the failed chosen one, reluctantly agrees to teach Hana while concealing his past from her. Accompanied by Kalyn and a charismatic prince with a dangerous secret, they journey to seek answers about Hana’s destiny. They fend off demonic threats and the anti-magic forces as Hana struggles with magic that seems to resist her and a growing fear that the world isn’t meant to be saved. A dark forest. Comps. Nausicaä. One Dark Window. The Starless Crown. Godkiller. Final Fantasy VII Remake. Tropes. Chosen One (s)? Ecofantasy. Dieselpunk. Grumpy/Sunshine. LGBTQIA+. Multi POV. A dark forest. Snippet. She took a cautious step forward, unaware she was in a spectral form. Little drops of shimmering light followed her path, dissolving into the ground. “But this has to be a sign?” Grass grew where the light fell, delicate bits of nature that should be impossible. “Maybe it’s returning!” The young woman spoke with such bright reverence as if life was a fairy tale and magic was all they needed for a happy ending. It was as if she couldn’t see the shadows approaching her. The inevitable death. “Magic should never return.” After speaking those words, he sprang forward and shoved her away from the shadows. Pain rocked him as soon as he touched her. The scorching mystical agony tore a scream out of him, but it kept her away from the unearthly menace, and the shock did what he intended. Sent him back to his body.
January 13, 2026 at 6:51 AM
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GOOD BOYS ONLY🐾🌿

A plus-size baddie dog sits to survive after her ex leaves her—then she meets a guy in the personal care aisle who’s everything her ex wasn’t: loyal, patient & in desperate need of a dog sitter…which might just ruin her plan to swear off love forever

#BluePit📖 #Q #A #R
Good Boys Only cover page. Stock images of a plus-size white woman, and a plus-size white man with tattoos. Agent's Guide, 89,000 words, adult-plus-size rom-com. Images of polaroid pictures with stock images, including tattooed hand-holding, a Red Wings game, and a corgi + golden retriever. On a green background with Sydney and Owen repeated in a transparent deboss over the background Good Boys Only pitch. Includes a stock image of a man with tattoos, and a plus-size woman. Emoticons of a pawprint and leaf. Split green background with sage green and light green. With this text: After her boyfriend of six years moves out, retail manager Sydney Bennett is barely hanging on—juggling long shifts and a side hustle dog-sitting to tide her over. When she meets Owen Sutton in the personal care aisle after a rant about two “demonic Pomeranians,” he’s instantly charmed—and in need of a sitter for his own, much better-behaved dogs. What starts as a business arrangement turns into something gentler and deeper: a slow-burning romance between two people still healing from betrayal. But as Sydney faces losing her apartment and the past comes back to haunt Owen, they’ll have to decide if the safety they’ve found in each other is worth risking their hearts for. Sample page and comp titles. Well, Actually by Mazey Eddings. You, With a View by Jessica Joyce. Curvy Girl Summer by Danielle Allen. Young & Hungry (TV Show). Text: “I hate to admit it, but you might be onto something,” I say with a small smile. “A compliment? From the chef herself? Whew, I’m gonna need to sit down.” Owen beams at me, and it’s a blast of electricity straight to my heart. “But think about it—you can finally get out of retail hell. I can help you, too. With a business plan. I’m kinda good at that stuff.” His grin turns sheepish before he dips his pinky finger into the sauce, sneaking a taste. My body processes the feeling before I do, and I lean closer to him, a newfound buoyancy floating across my limbs. “You’d do that for me?” “I’m not sure when you’ll get it through your pretty head that I’d do anything for you, Syd. Literally anything you asked.” He steps toward me, body radiating heat like the oven, casting me in a warm glow. His words have my stomach sinking to the bottom of the ocean. Tension circles the space between us, grasping the string and yanking us impossibly close. I scan across him, the art decorating his perfect form, and it’s suddenly a bucket list item to be part of his canvas. “Would you get a tattoo for me?” Owen’s nostrils flare and he squeezes his fists, as if he can feel the sting of the needle inking me onto him. “What’d you have in mind?” he chokes out. I crane my neck. He’s so close, eclipsing the steam from the pan surely teetering toward burnt. I can’t find it in me to care. “I think a sage leaf sprig would suffice, since you do love using my middle name.” “I’m not opposed. Where would you want it? Somewhere hidden? Where you’d only see it if I let you? Maybe front and center for a daily reminder of you?” He shifts. Our chests brush. Breathing is an illusion, a magic trick. I’ve never drawn in a breath in my life. Good Boys Only Tropes: black cat x golden retriever, stranger to lovers, she's his dog sitter, confident plus-sized FMC, facetimes & texts, found family, he falls first his dogs fall harder, set in Michigan, starting over at 30, when the spice hits... The Couple. Two images with Sydney Sage Bennett text over a plus-size woman, and Owen James Sutton over an image of a tattooed man. Text: 30, Aquarius | Retail Ops Manager Empathetic. Competitive. Amazing cook. Loves hockey. Sarcasm as a shield. Pilates girlie. Brunch is her love language. Poor spending habits. Younger sister. Sworn off relationships to focus on herself. 31, Cancer | National Events Manager. Patient and loyal. Flirty. Loves hockey. Bottles everything up. Former company co-founder. Amazing dog dad. Acts of service. Takes care of his elderly neighbor. Older brother. Prone to emotional spill-overs.
January 13, 2026 at 5:00 AM
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QUEER NANCY DREW
17-yr-old Emmie is suspect #1 of a murder during her mom's book event. She needs to get her life back and not get killed in the process.
💖 Sapphic crush
🕵️ Amateur investigation
🎃 Halloween vibes
📚Indie bookstore
🐈 Store cat
🌈Queer cast
#BluePit📖 #Q #YA #M #LGBT #OV
January 13, 2026 at 5:00 AM
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smossman.bsky.social
PIRANESI x SOMEONE YOU CAN BUILD A NEST IN

I was a black cat, three months old, when my owner drowned me in a puddle on his front lawn.

And now that I have a human body, I'll ascend to godhood if it means my revenge.

#BluePit 📖 #A #F #H #DF #W #DIS #POC
A moodboard for the adult dark fantasy, GODCAT, featuring liminal spaces of a closed grocery store, an indoor pool, and abandoned house, an illustration from Dante's Inferno, a silhouette smiling in a red background, and a cat with a knife.
January 13, 2026 at 6:18 AM
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writerannchow.bsky.social
In the afterlife of Chinese myth, a dead war general will face an eternity of torture—unless she can fool an immortal court into believing that she and her murderer are lovers.

💕Fake dating your own killer
👑Deadly court politics
🌟Pretty boy x ruthless girl

#BluePit #BluePit 📖 #YA #F #R #W #OV #POC
Black and gold mood board. Pictures of Chinese calligraphy, a pagoda-style building, jewelry, and dragon statues. Center reads “This Twisted Eternity” and the quote reads “I’m nobody’s pawn, least of all his.”
January 13, 2026 at 5:05 AM
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THE LIES OF LOCKE LAMORA × BEST SERVED COLD × THE BUTCHER BOY

When a Court Jester snaps and brutally murders the tyrant king, he must perform and slay his way out of a kingdom in chaos, hunted by loyalists, hailed by rebels, while his sanity slips and fractures.

#BluePit 📖 #A #D #F #H #W #DIS
Book cover for "Mark of the Jester" by B. van Bodegom (author of Dad Bodies). Dark fantasy novel. Features a split jester mask in black and white halves with a red smile on the white half. 'The' runs vertically down the center, with decorative silhouettes of roses framing the mask. High-contrast graphic design in black, white, and red.
January 13, 2026 at 5:05 AM
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WHEN DEVILS SING X FEAR STREET

"Four pieces reunited by sinner's hand may finally break the Curse."
Looks like Chava Rose is sinning.

💞 Women's autonomy
✡️ Jewish mythology
❤️🩹 Star-crossed lovers who refuse to give up
🌈 Diverse ensemble cast
⚖️ Strong themes of equality

#YA #H #Q #OV #BluePit📖
A title card with the text "An Agent's Guide to FROM ONE MIFLETZET TO ANOTHER - Katie Collan - young adult horror 95,000 words" over the outside of a synagogue. Comparative titles with arrows pointing to relevant descriptions. Titles include: HOW TO SURVIVE A SLASHER by Justine Pucella Winans, WHEN DEVILS SING by Xan Kaur, Netflix's FEAR STREET 1994. Captions: HOW TO SURVIVE A SLASHER: "Ride-or-die female friendship", "Scream-esque meta humor" WHEN DEVILS SING: "Deal with the devil" WHEN DEVILS SING, FEAR STREET: "Small town curse" FEAR STREET: "Star-crossed lovers", "Women's autonomy" All three: "Diverse ensemble cast", "Themes of equality", "Exploration of identity" Pitch: "When a Jewish girl accidentally reawakens an ancient curse over her town, she must fight through mythological nightmares and break the curse before she's torn apart like the demon who started it all." A mood board featuring a collage of seventeen pictures, with the title "FROM ONE MIFLETZET TO ANOTHER" in the center and the sentence "FOUR PIECES REUNITED BY SINNER'S HAND MAY FINALLY BREAK THE CURSE" overlaying the collage in fragments. From left to right, top to bottom: the Jewish star hanging from a tree branch; a hatchet lying beside a digital camera; a red snake; a hand holding a lighter; a menorah perched beside Hebrew scripture; a Torah scroll; a depiction of Lilith, the mother of demons; a depiction of a powerful demon's silhouette; the entrance to a synagogue; an oak tree in the middle of a grassy field; a Torah scroll; a shadow-covered skull; the wall of a synagogue; a fire-breathing serpent rising above the sea; a luscious, green forest; thick roots of an old tree; a forest that leads into darkness.
January 13, 2026 at 5:00 AM
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beawritessometimes.bsky.social
DANCING WITH THE STARS X CARAVAL

In a live performance reality game, an acrobat competes for a chance to free her soul from a manipulative entity.

Featuring:
✨ Glitz, Glamour, and Social Games
🎭 Deities based on the performing arts
💔 Forced allies in proximity

#BluePit📖 #BluePit #A #F #W
January 13, 2026 at 5:10 AM
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SINNERS x THE DEVILS x CASTLEVANIA

There's three rules to surviving as a nightrunner: don't get comfortable, don't be a hero, and don't be unlucky.

Corado's about to break all three.

🤠 Vampire Cowboys
🦇 Monstrous Night Hordes
🏜️ Pueblo Pit Cities

Querying now!
#A #F #Q #BluePit 📖
#amquerying
Image: A man in a black cloak and a wide brim western style black hat, holding a revolver; only his eyes as yellow pinpricks are visible. Text: A Novel By Kelton Davis Blood from Stone 112000 Words Adult Gothic Western Fantasy Querying Soon Art: Apocalypse by Oliver Odmark Title: Pitch Text: In the twenty years since the vampires rose up out of the earth, Corado hasn’t done too bad for himself. He’s still alive, for one, and he’s got a lucrative trade as a nightrunner smuggling people beneath the vampiric horde that blots out the sky each night. It's dangerous work, but enough to get a roof over his head and a bottle in his hand at the end of the day. That’s pretty good for life under the vampires. Then an attack from the horde leaves him stuck in the desert, alone with a newly-orphaned boy, and his luck finally dries up. He resolves to find what remains of the boy’s family and put it all behind him—but instead of taking him off Corado’s hands, his so-called “family” offers a new deal: escort them to the vampiric capital in exchange for a veritable fortune. Corado knows he shouldn’t. It’s a long, dangerous route, and the group has a smack of sedition to them that he knows firsthand to be a quick way to a bloody death. It is a hell of a lot of money, though. Background image: same as first slide. Title: Comparable Titles Images of the covers of The Devils by Joe Abercrombie, Godkiller by Hannah Kaner, and Red Rabbit by Alex Grecian. Text drawn with an arrow from each image: Found family (from the Devils) Reluctant parent figure (from Godkiller) Western-inspire Gothic setting (from Red Rabbit) Unlikely travel companions (from all). Background image: same as first slide.
January 13, 2026 at 5:00 AM
viola-grace.bsky.social
An Agent’s Guide to WHAT ARE THE CHANCES- an adult historical mystery set in Chicago, 1929, where a math genius living in her crime family’s luxury hotel must ally with an investigative duo to solve a series of murders, all the while secretly pursuing her own revenge.

#bluepit #bluepit📖 #M #A #Q
WHAT ARE THE CHANCES, 96,000 words, Adult Historical Mystery Chicago, 1929. Val’s life in her adoptive crime family’s hotel used to be nothing but bartending and calculating guests’ cards with her mathematical brilliance. But then her uncle Maximillian, the head of the syndicate, is killed before the hotel’s star-studded gala—and his death is identical to her secret suitor’s unsolved murder. With the chance for revenge in her grasp, Val allies with an infamous investigative duo to catch the killer. Comps Last Call at the Nightingale Katharine Schellman Flavia de Luce series by Alan Bradley Hulu’s Only Murders in the Building Inspirations The Great Gatsby Agatha Christie The Tower of Terror (1997) Tropes: Roaring 20’s Jazz Age Speakeasies Settings Speakeasies Casinos Settings that are characters Diverse Cast Puzzles and secret codes High speed chases Whodunnit Locked room mystery Found Family Chicago, 1929 1:34 a.m. The man with the bowler hat was going to lose. He looked so confident, with his slightly unbuttoned white shirt and condescending smirk. He didn’t even bother putting up the mask of a poker face to hide his prediction of the outcome. In his mind, he had already won. All that was left was to play the game. Valentina had been watching the round for several minutes now. She twisted a rag inside a dirty glass, keeping a subtle eye on the match. She couldn’t see the man’s hand from behind the bar, but if she had calculated it correctly, there was a seventy-four percent chance that he was holding two kings and three different nine cards— a full house. With a hand like that, he was in the perfect position to win. But he was wrong. He was going to lose. Val didn’t know this because of mathematics, however. She knew this because the man sitting across from him never played fair. Why would he? He was the owner of the joint, and if there was anything that Maximillian Eulio liked more than playing a dirty game of poker, it was getting away with it.
January 13, 2026 at 6:12 AM
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Grace focus on one project at a time challenge impossible 🫠🫠🫠
November 8, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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Wishing all my friends a merry Mayor Mamdani and a happy Pennsylvania SC retention 😘😘😘
November 5, 2025 at 2:43 AM
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THE SHRIEK I JUST LET OUT OMG !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
NBC NEWS New York City Mayor results projecting Zohran Mamdani as the winner
November 5, 2025 at 2:40 AM
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it’s unofficially the first day of nanowrimo quick someone yell at me to lock in
November 1, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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An Agent’s Guide to WHAT ARE THE CHANCES- an adult historical mystery set in Chicago, 1929, where a math genius living in her crime family’s luxury hotel must ally with an investigative duo to solve a series of murders, all the while secretly pursuing her own revenge.

#A #Q #M #HF #dvpit #LGBT #NA
An Agent’s Guide to WHAT ARE THE CHANCES, 96,000 words, Adult Historical Mystery Chicago, 1929. Val’s life in her adoptive crime family’s hotel used to be nothing but bartending and calculating guests’ cards with her mathematical brilliance. But then her uncle Maximillian, the head of the syndicate, is killed before the hotel’s star-studded gala—and his death is identical to her secret suitor’s unsolved murder. With the chance for revenge in her grasp, Val allies with an infamous investigative duo to catch the killer. Comps Last Call at the Nightingale Katharine Schellman Flavia de Luce series by Alan Bradley Hulu’s Only Murders in the Building Inspirations The Great Gatsby Agatha Christie The Tower of Terror (1997) Tropes: Roaring 20’s Jazz Age Speakeasies Settings Speakeasies Casinos Settings that are characters Diverse Cast Puzzles and secret codes High speed chases Whodunnit Locked room mystery Found Family Chicago, 1929 1:34 a.m. The man with the bowler hat was going to lose. He looked so confident, with his slightly unbuttoned white shirt and condescending smirk. He didn’t even bother putting up the mask of a poker face to hide his prediction of the outcome. In his mind, he had already won. All that was left was to play the game. Valentina had been watching the round for several minutes now. She twisted a rag inside a dirty glass, keeping a subtle eye on the match. She couldn’t see the man’s hand from behind the bar, but if she had calculated it correctly, there was a seventy-four percent chance that he was holding two kings and three different nine cards— a full house. With a hand like that, he was in the perfect position to win. But he was wrong. He was going to lose. Val didn’t know this because of mathematics, however. She knew this because the man sitting across from him never played fair. Why would he? He was the owner of the joint, and if there was anything that Maximillian Eulio liked more than playing a dirty game of poker, it was getting away with it.
October 8, 2025 at 11:01 PM
viola-grace.bsky.social
WHAT ARE THE CHANCES is an adult historical mystery set in Chicago, 1929, where a math genius living in her crime family’s luxury hotel must ally with an investigative duo to solve a series of murders, all the while secretly pursuing her own revenge.
#HM #A #Q

Late to #dvpit but glad I made it :)
WHAT ARE THE CHANCES, 96,000 words, Adult Historical Mystery Chicago, 1929. Val’s life in her adoptive crime family’s hotel used to be nothing but bartending and calculating guests’ cards with her mathematical brilliance. But then her uncle Maximillian, the head of the syndicate, is killed before the hotel’s star-studded gala—and his death is identical to her secret suitor’s unsolved murder. With the chance for revenge in her grasp, Val allies with an infamous investigative duo to catch the killer. Comps Last Call at the Nightingale Katharine Schellman Flavia de Luce series by Alan Bradley Hulu’s Only Murders in the Building Inspirations The Great Gatsby Agatha Christie The Tower of Terror (1997) Tropes Roaring 20’s Jazz Age Speakeasies Settings that are characters Diverse cast Puzzles and secret codes High speed chases Whodunnit Locked room mystery Found family Chicago, 1929 1:34 a.m. The man with the bowler hat was going to lose. He looked so confident, with his slightly unbuttoned white shirt and condescending smirk. He didn’t even bother putting up the mask of a poker face to hide his prediction of the outcome. In his mind, he had already won. All that was left was to play the game. Valentina had been watching the round for several minutes now. She twisted a rag inside a dirty glass, keeping a subtle eye on the match. She couldn’t see the man’s hand from behind the bar, but if she had calculated it correctly, there was a seventy-four percent chance that he was holding two kings and three different nine cards— a full house. With a hand like that, he was in the perfect position to win. But he was wrong. He was going to lose. Val didn’t know this because of mathematics, however. She knew this because the man sitting across from him never played fair. Why would he? He was the owner of the joint, and if there was anything that Maximillian Eulio liked more than playing a dirty game of poker, it was getting away with it.
October 8, 2025 at 9:15 PM
viola-grace.bsky.social
I just had a “writing” account that openly uses AI to write their blog like all of my posts with my writing excerpts. From the bottom of my heart, how fucking dare you. Steal my writing and try to pass it off as yours and I stg I will become the villain SO fast. #writer #writingcommunity
viola-grace.bsky.social Viola Grace @viola-grace.bsky.social · Jul 19
hey just so it’s ABUNDANTLY clear if you take my writing and use it for AI and try to pass it off as your own I WILL sue and/or commit crimes :))
July 19, 2025 at 4:33 PM
viola-grace.bsky.social
hey just so it’s ABUNDANTLY clear if you take my writing and use it for AI and try to pass it off as your own I WILL sue and/or commit crimes :))
July 19, 2025 at 4:32 PM
viola-grace.bsky.social
*this is culturally inappropriate*
July 15, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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and a belated birthday to Jason Grace my BELOVED <333
viola-grace.bsky.social Viola Grace @viola-grace.bsky.social · Jul 12
happy birthday annabeth chase <33
July 12, 2025 at 11:28 AM