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📎There's a lot of beauty in ordinary things.
🗡 #amquerying
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📚 LR: Episode Thirteen
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zilla @zillawrites.bsky.social · 9d
TALK TO ME x THE GIRLS ARE ALL SO NICE HERE x CABIN IN THE WOODS

* dual timeline
* tarot & ouija boards & seances
* OBX setting
* bachelorette weekend with a body count
* best friends forever (as a curse)
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erikhane.bsky.social
feels like this is a make-or-break thanksgiving for Bluesky. I better see some dogshit food pictures getting absolutely crushed on here this Thursday. I better see fights about macaroni. I need to see some Mishaps
November 25, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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tech bro: i have made Artificial General Intelligence

programmer: you fucked up a perfectly good calculator is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety
reckless.bsky.social nilay patel @reckless.bsky.social · 8h
I’ve been running around asking tech execs and academics if language was the same as intelligence for over a year now - and, well, it isn’t. @benjaminjriley.bsky.social explains how the bubble is built on ignoring cutting-edge research into the science of thought www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
November 25, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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jenniferluce.bsky.social
MEXICAN GOTHIC X CRIMSON PEAK

🇰🇷A dark reimagining of the Korean folktale Heungbu and Nolbu
👻Haunted Houses
🥀Sentient Gardens
🖤Buried Family Secrets
✨️Biracial Representation

#WIPPit #A #G #H #F
A dark reimagining of the korean folktale Heungbu and Nolbu, haunted houses & sentient gardens, biracial representation, buried family secrets THE SEEDS OF OUR SINS Adult Gothic Fantasy Horror MEXICAN GOTHIC X CRIMSON PEAK When Seo-Yun returns to her estranged grandmother'sisland estate to investigateher family's history of disappearances, she finds a house steeped in rot and the once prized garden now withered and dying. As the decay in the house mysteriously begins to heal, while creeping vines from the garden hungrily spread throughout the halls, whispering warnings of a faceless ghost that draws closer each passing night, Seo-Yun must unearth generations of her family's secrets—and the truth buried in her grandmother’s garden—before she becomes the next woman claimed by its dark history. A moodboard with a picture of a woman under a curtain, a foggy forest, a woman staring into the forest, wilted flowers, a foggy ocean, wilted vines, a woman standing in fog, korean architecture, a woman at a window
November 23, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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annahirsch.bsky.social
A DOWRY OF BLOOD x THE BACHELOR

Holland only agrees to date Dracula on TV to boost her influencer career. When producer manipulation goes too far, she tries to leave, but finds the eliminated girls haven’t been sent home—they’ve been fed on.

#WIPPit #A #H
Mood board depicting dark, campy vampire aesthetic with a silhouette of Dracula. Headline reads "Who Wants to Be Dracula's Bride" with tagline "This season's to die for".
November 23, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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ivytwoods.bsky.social
Pirates of the Caribbean but if Elizabeth was a bisexual mage, Will and Jack were combined into a lesbian monster/pirate, and James Norrington was an age-appropriate hottie that didn’t suck. Then add more angst and a cult
#WIPPIT #A #F #R #FR #Agented
On a background of dark blue water and a pinky purple octopus tentacle Sculptor of the Waves Ivy T. Woods Queer Romantic Fantasy WIP On a background of dark blue water and a pinky purple octopus tentacles Pitch When Minna is offered a place weaving the winds and waves on one of the largest ships in the Fleet, it comes with a catch—her betrothal to the Deckmistress’ son. Willing to do anything to achieve greatness, she takes the deal, surprised to find that her betrothed is actually quite tolerable. But when they capture a monstrous pirate, Minna is forced into the role of jailer and becomes entranced, putting Minna at odds with her Deckmistress, her betrothed, and the entire crew as she fights to save the monster from both execution and the shackles of the god that enslaves her. But the god is coming to reclaim Its slave and will destroy everything in Its path to get her. On the right is a tall ship illuminated by a sunset in a white circle On a background of dark blue water and a pinky purple octopus tentacles Comps & Tropes The poster for pirates of the Caribbean, curse of the black pearl and the cover for bury our bones in the midnight soil Bisexual love triangle Actually has to choose Arranged marriage / forced proximity Enemies to lovers Yearning She’s a monster and I don’t care On a background of dark blue water and a pinky purple octopus tentacles First lines Minna clutched the handrail as the ship smacked into the water, riding a violent dip between waves. Her bare foot slipped on the step and she fell, barking her shin against the steep steps of the ladder. She made a mental note to smack Kadir later—he needed a gentler touch. The seas were to be guided, not forced. She hauled herself off the wooden planks and touched a finger to the sun-darkened skin of her leg. No blood at least. She strode down the aisle between the oars to her father’s cabin at the stern and pushed the door open, not bothering to knock. If the Deckmaster needed her so urgently, he could deal with her barging in.
November 23, 2025 at 6:20 PM
zillawrites.bsky.social
Lazy #wippit 😂
zillawrites.bsky.social zilla @zillawrites.bsky.social · 9d
TALK TO ME x THE GIRLS ARE ALL SO NICE HERE x CABIN IN THE WOODS

* dual timeline
* tarot & ouija boards & seances
* OBX setting
* bachelorette weekend with a body count
* best friends forever (as a curse)
November 23, 2025 at 5:58 PM
zillawrites.bsky.social
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a person in a grim reaper costume sitting on a couch with doritos and a bottle of diet coke
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November 21, 2025 at 8:04 PM
zillawrites.bsky.social
Check out this giveaway happening for one of my favorite books of all time!!

Sierra’s book comes out in May 2026!
So, if you like Love is Blind or The Traitors or Love Island or The Bachelorette …. Plus a dash of murder in space… this one is for you!!
November 20, 2025 at 8:33 PM
zillawrites.bsky.social
Rushing through some day job things to get back to writing the ✨new✨ thing.

Because publishing may be slow, but my mind doesn't know how to stop!
November 20, 2025 at 1:11 PM
zillawrites.bsky.social
TALK TO ME x THE GIRLS ARE ALL SO NICE HERE x CABIN IN THE WOODS

* dual timeline
* tarot & ouija boards & seances
* OBX setting
* bachelorette weekend with a body count
* best friends forever (as a curse)
November 16, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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litagentsofchange.bsky.social
Every reader deserves to see themselves reflected in the pages of a book. Join us this Giving Tuesday in our work to recruit and keep underrepresented literary agents in publishing. Read more and help us change the industry for good at the link in our bio ❤️

#givingtuesday #literaryagentsofchange
November 14, 2025 at 5:03 PM
zillawrites.bsky.social
I’ve realized that I am not made for mountains. I need more air and humidity in my life.

But the hot chocolate is helping.
Hot chocolate cup in front of red hot chocolate bar sign
November 14, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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julesnickerson.com
I am so thrilled to announce that I am now represented by Katie Shea Boutillier at Donald Maass Literary Agency! I am looking forward to working together on IVORY TOWER, a psychological horror and dark academia novel.
November 13, 2025 at 9:57 PM
zillawrites.bsky.social
It’s not hard to feel so grateful when you have this view for morning sprints.
Blurred computer screen with mountains in the background
November 13, 2025 at 1:51 PM
zillawrites.bsky.social
IT'S WRITERS' RETREAT WEEK!!

I cannot wait to hang out with my CPs and immerse myself in the words this week!
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November 10, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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reviseresub.bsky.social
Don't forget to send us your questions for our Editor Q&A Video Panel, which will take place at the end of #FiFRevPit. You can comment here, send a DM, or send us an email.

#RevPitFiF #writingcommunity
Don't forget to submit your questions for our Editor Q&A Video Panel. [Black cat on a stack of books next to pumpkins, a candle, and leaves. Hashtag FiFRevPit]
November 5, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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wippit.bsky.social
Spread the word!
#WIPPIT STICKY NOTE NOTICE We are moving to November 23! We want to give precedence to the large protest happing at the US Capital that's Happening November 22, so we are moving by a day to allow them the Platforms to make change.
October 29, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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jenichappelle.bsky.social
NO but honestly. Pitching and querying really are a vastly different creature. (Not to get too cheesy, but that's the focus of my query intensive haha because this is so real)
jundlife.bsky.social K.A. Hela ✨ Final edits?✨ @jundlife.bsky.social · 18d
Thanks! Writing is hard but this pitching business is like a whole other skill set. It will click....any time now.
November 7, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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jenniferluce.bsky.social
Here's a moodboard for GUMIHO:

🇰🇷 Inspired by Korean folklore & mythology
🖤Told from the eyes of an anti-hero gumiho
🌧Set in modern-day PNW
🥀Dark, intimate atmosphere
🌀Psychological unraveling & physical transformation
❤️Slow-burn romance

✨️Currently revising w/ SmoochPit✨️

#QuestPit #A #F #H #R
Grid of pictures: Hands coming out of the dark, a woman with a cloth over her face, a silhouette of a couple, a korean woman, a woman walking down a hallway, a woman with stained red hands and face
November 5, 2025 at 5:16 AM
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adropofmagick.bsky.social
ONE DARK WINDOW X KATABASIS

Alyss attends Nocturne Collegiate for one reason—revenge. With the (reluctant) help of her ex, her ex bff, & a devious half-vampire, she'll use memory magic to uncover the truth behind the murder that destroyed her life.🌙🦇⚔️

#QuestPit #OS #AG #F #R
A MEMORY OF MOONKISSED MALICE Fantasy Dark Academia Feminine Rage Vampires Corrupted Moon Magic Villain Era Protag Queendoms Enemies to Lovers Found Family THE PITCH 18-year-old Alyss Veylas wishes to attend Nocturne Collegiate for one reason—revenge. Five long years after her sister was murdered by the school's guardian, she finally gets that chance. Armed with a Moon Fragment granting memory magic and the aid of her ex and his new girlfriend, Alyss must confront the woman who took away the person she loved most. CHAPTER ONE The rain made it easier to rob his grave. My shovel carved through the sodden earth, the water contorting into murky veins around its edge. Desperation drove each labored thrust, the burning ache in my muscles but an afterthought to the prize that lied in wait. Even the Valera Forest held its breath; the fog thick enough to smother the night's whispers. All was silent save for the spilling of soil under the deluge that drenched us. Us. As I lifted my gaze to the boy standing across from me, I found that word had lost all semblance of warmth. FOR FANS OF... The lush, gothic prose of... A fantasy academia setting similar to... A supernatural mystery like...
November 5, 2025 at 5:00 AM
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chloemarcus.bsky.social
🤓Nerdy rock collector
🌎A society deep in the earth
✨Dream fueled magic
👾Ancient life-sucking monsters closing in
🤫All tangled around a terrible secret
#QuestPit #YA #Fantasy #Q
November 5, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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annahirsch.bsky.social
#AgentsGuide to my upmarket #gothic #horror novel, THE BANSHEE OF CLAN MURTAGH 🖤

🇮🇪 Medieval Ireland
🥀 Doomed romance
☠️ The black plague
💌 2025 #SmoochPit Mentee

#questpit #W #A #H #HF
An agent’s guide to The Banshee of Clan Murtagh, 71,000 word gothic horror by Anna Hirsch Tropes: He’s human, she’s immortal • Only one grave • Byronic hero protagonist • Uncovering lost memories • Medieval Irish setting • Tragic ending Comps: The death-touched romance of Nosferatu, the Catholic guilt of The Possession of Alba Díaz by Isabel Cañas, the black plague of Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell, the folkloric love story of Juniper & Thorn by Ava Reid Pitch: When Ciarán Murtagh hears the cry of his family’s banshee for the first time in a decade, he knows one of his own is fated to die. But they don’t believe his warnings--why would they? The last time Ciarán heard the banshee he didn’t tell a soul until after his cousin’s tragic death, and they’ve never trusted him since. Desperate for redemption in his family’s eyes, Ciarán hunts down the banshee in search of answers. She’s equal parts frightening and alluring, and in his struggle to confront her, he inadvertently triggers the banshee’s memories. Memories of when she was a servant of his household, generations ago, named Deirdre. Deirdre claims that Ciarán’s physical touch restores her memories, and demands more. He agrees to meet by moonlight in hope of learning whose death she foretold. With every encounter, Ciarán’s attraction to Deirdre grows, setting him on a path of macabre desire. When the devastating bubonic plague befalls the Murtagh household, and Deirdre’s memories reveal a dark scandal in the family’s history, Ciarán must decide whether to stay by his family’s side in their final hours or embrace the seduction of the death-bringer. I was a boy of ten when I first saw death, but I’d heard her for years. It was an early summer’s day when we went to the lough. Niamh led us through the forest along the stream, babbling all the way with a lightness that opposed her urgent pace. “This could be our best chance to see the merrow! Auntie said the veil is thin. They’ll be near and then we can speak!” “She also said we shouldn’t go this far,” I begrudged her. Again about the merrow. She had been speaking of them for days, and insisted that Deaglán and I journey with her to the lough, where they lay beneath the surface. Finbar wasn’t supposed to come, but Aunt Eithne had made us watch him while she harvested yellow flowers on the hillside. He slowed us down, and Niamh’s frustration roiled off her like steam against the cool breeze. Though the land was ripe with life, winter still dragged a claw through the air. As we ventured deeper into the forest, a feeling of unease grew within me. A sound rang in my ears, so faint I could not tell if it was imagined or real. Because for weeks, it had haunted my dreams.  
November 5, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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ivytwoods.bsky.social
Pirates of the Caribbean but if Elizabeth was a bisexual mage, Will and Jack were combined into a lesbian octopus monster/pirate, and James Norrington was an age-appropriate hottie that didn’t suck. Then add more angst and a cult that wants to drown the world
#QuestPit #AG #W #A #F #R #FR #OV #LGBT
A moodboard that says “Sculptor of the Waves” There are pictures of: Waves in the top-left A tall ship anchored in the bottom-left An octopus writhing in the bottom-left-middle Lightning on a dark blue sky in the bottom-right-middle Cliffs overlooking a body of water in the top-right In the bottom-right “Pirates of the Caribbean X A bisexual Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil”
November 5, 2025 at 7:10 AM
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ivytwoods.bsky.social
In the century Tilaani has been alive and the 85 years she‘s been dead, she’s escorted the soul of nearly everyone she knew into the afterlife. And as always she is left in the space between:
🌱 Life and death 💀
🔥 Fire and ice ❄️
❤️ Surrounded and alone 🔪
#A #F #R #FR #C #Agented #GhostPit
October 30, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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klynnhanson.bsky.social
Please share 🙏✨ATTENTION QUERYING AND INDIE AUTHORS✨ @writehive.bsky.social #HiveMentor is opening soon! This mentorship is unique in that they accept all publishing paths so if you are querying to get an agent or looking to self-publish, this mentorship is for you!
November 5, 2025 at 3:05 AM