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Grace Eliza @gracelizaa.bsky.social · 3h

A little peak inside everyone's favorite cafe in Foggy Dell

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The night sky theme continues inside the shop. Golden orbs hang at varying heights to give the impression of stars against the dark blue backdrop of the walls and ceiling. A stainless steel counter runs along one side of the room. A few shelves of books inhabit one of the corners and tables with cushioned chairs and benches fill the rest of the space.

Something brushes against my leg. A mostly black cat with bright orange streaks like lightning branching out against a dark sky blinks luminous yellow eyes at me.

Grace Eliza @gracelizaa.bsky.social · 1d

In this scene from Foggy Dell, Maisie really underestimates how angry Stacy is.

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“I’m glad that we’re helping her,” says Alex, and I find, in the energy snuggled under my tight throat and above my churning stomach, that I am too. We don’t have proof of her innocence yet, but a reasonable hunch, and I’m excited to share it with Stacy. I’ve only known her a day, but it’ll be nice to relieve some of her angst.

Knuckles rap on the door and I rush to let Stacy in.

“Hi,” I say. “We have a surprise for you.”

“What—” Her gaze locks in on Kate by the couch.

“Hi sis,” Kate half smiles.

I thought I’d have to explain my keys theory before this became a happy reunion, but Stacy crosses the room immediately. It takes me a second too long to realize she’s not going in for a hug. Instead, she punches her sister in the stomach.

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Grace Eliza @gracelizaa.bsky.social · 3d

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The word of the day is monster. Here's a little snippet (had to keep it short to avoid spoilers) from Foggy Dell.

“Thank you,” she brushes a sweaty lock of hair from her face. Her expression is hard, calculating. She’s deciding how to end this. End us.

I should be paying more attention to her, reasoning or pleading or at the very least struggling, but. . . I’m too busy taking in the monster at the edge of the clearing.

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j.m. avants @jmavants.bsky.social · 5d

HOWL’S MOVING CASTLE x FREIREN

When her father disappears, Sav must navigate the aftermath: her village’s abandonment, her mother's blame, and her own depression. Entering a magical tourney to win audience with a powerful mage might restore her people’s faith…or break her own. #GhostPit #A #F #W

A moodboard with images of stars, forests, a blonde woman in a cloak, and a fantasy inn.

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Maria @msibook.bsky.social · 4d

ONLY MURDERS IN THE BUILDING x GHOSTS

When an inquisitive 25yo secretary inherits an abandoned detective agency, she partners with the private investigator’s ghost to find her neighbor’s killer in a case that mirrors the PI’s own unsolved murder 60 years earlier.

#GhostPit #A #Q #PN #MM #M

Moodboard consisting of nine images including: old books and bloodstained documents, stilt house on a beach, crumpled papers and a magnifying glass, a woman sitting in the shadows in front of a conspiracy board, a chalk outline of a body, a man's silhouette, a coastal town, a colorful Victorian house, and a crowded concert.

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Grace Eliza @gracelizaa.bsky.social · 5d

That makes my day 😊

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BB Lorik (writing SFF 💀📖) @authorbblorik.bsky.social · 5d

#GhostPit #Q #A #RF 👻
Nefarious Enterprises
Hope rests on thin ice when a desperate unemployed witch juggles a double life by teaming up with a clumsy debut Overlord to save her town from the Snow Queen’s harsh economic freeze❄️
🎃Halloween Core
💎Heist
🤏🏻Pinch of spice

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Grace Eliza @gracelizaa.bsky.social · 5d

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Grace Eliza @gracelizaa.bsky.social · 5d

Greetings from Foggy Dell, a town nestled between the perilous ocean and ancient redwoods of northern California, where tales of the strange might be more than just stories, and one way or another ghost speaker Maisie and supernatural skeptic Stacy are going to find out.

#GhostPit #Q #PN #A #MM 👻

A corkboard with photos of the forest and ocean and notes pinned to it. The notes: “Vampire???”, “Time of death: midnight”, and “Tremulous Oak Sanctuary: might not be a cult (but also might be)”.

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Adrienne Trinity Reina @adriennereina.bsky.social · 5d

A village witch teams up with the vampire she vowed to protect her village from in order to take down the child of a god who has been terrorizing them both.

#GhostPit #A #F #FR #WIP

A mood board consisting of: a misty forest on a mountainside, a stained glass window with apothecary bottles in front of it, a tree bench reflected red against a dark sky, a hallway lined with gothic architecture windows, a red moon, a white rose stained with red, and a series of white candles half-melted.

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🌱 El(iza)beth 🌬️ K 🔥 T 🌊 @arachnereid.bsky.social · 5d

🔥 WHAT will GROW from the ASHES of our fallen civilization 🔥

🕸️ a #Post-Collapse novel of psychic powers and nurturing community
🔮 journey through the tarot across the former US
💀 facing death and the ghosts of the past while thriving the apocalypse

#A #Q #Spec #SFF #Ghostpit #hopepunk

moody moodboard with pictures of urban decay and plants growing through, swamp, fire, bridges, and a Death tarot card I drew titled "What rises from the ashes" with death on a moped

elemental magic
visions
survival skills
climate fiction
#clifi
indigenous futurism
plant medicine
meditation
wilderness
permaculture
neotribalism
community
backpacking
post-apocalyptic
hopepunk

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Fil Cameron @flcr24.bsky.social · 5d

ADULT SIX OF CROWS WITH GHOSTS

Jack’s sworn to protect the dead, so when a book on harvesting magic from ghosts falls into the wrong hands, he’ll stop at nothing to steal it back. His crew has a few more scruples. The masked serial killer offering to partner up? Less so.

#GhostPit #F #A #Q

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Maria @msibook.bsky.social · 5d

HOW TO SOLVE YOUR OWN MURDER x GHOSTS

When an Agatha Christie fangirl inherits an abandoned detective agency in a New England beach town, she teams up with a noir-loving ghost to find her neighbor’s killer in a case that mirrors her PI aunt’s only unsolved case.

#GhostPit #A #Q #PN #MM #M

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Jocelyne Gregory @jocelynegregory.bsky.social · 5d

Vikings x Derry Girls = Viking, Nun, Murder, Chicken.

A chance encounter between a Viking and a fake nun leads to murder, mystery, and romance. And chickens. The chickens are key to the plot.
#GhostPit #Q #A #His #HR #MM

A collage of Viking and medieval themed images including a goblet, warriors, and nuns, French lavender, a castle and Nunnery a random chicken and a very cold you woman wrapped in a grey blanket.

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B. van Bodegom 📃is querying & writing @bvbodegom.bsky.social · 5d

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.

#GhostPit #A #DS #SF #W

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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Drea Laj @drealaj.bsky.social · 5d

When vampire Corrine enters a cooking competition, the last thing on her mind is love. She has to battle stiff competition and her growing feelings, all while keeping her secret hidden from the reporter who she's falling for.

#ghostpit #wip #pn #r #cozy

Red background. Text: everything changes, except me. Next to a milkshake with a blood drop running down the side.

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Zed Prospero @zprospero.bsky.social · 5d

THE OFFICE X GOOD OMENS

A satire of both business and the supernatural, Virgil Mora, Hell's Consultant, must restore Heaven's faith in Hell by saving a vampire-run Ohio gas station in just three months to save his job and Lucifer, the angel he's fallen for.

#GhostPit #F #Con #E #LGBT

The silhouette of a man with a briefcase and an angel with horns stand in front of a fogbound gas station at night as above them a large billboard proclaims "Hell Is Work"

The tag line in glowing yellow text at the bottom says "Hell is empty and all the demons are in polo shirts"

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Gus Ryer @gusryer.bsky.social · 5d

ASHES OF THE SUN ❌ HORIZON ZERO DAWN

When a machine god severs the world from ancient nanotech, two engineer priests, a blademaster & her warrior-poet twin must hunt it for a cure—and for revenge.

Failure will doom the world to divine wrath, but success will be deadly.

#GhostPit #Q #A #SF #F #SFF

A giant spaceship hovers over a dusty, walled fantasy cityscape. In the foreground, two figures stand in shadow looking out over the scene. The words 'An Agent's Guide to CASCADE, by Gus Ryer' is along the top. His website, gusryer.com, is below.

A slide with metadata and story elements for CASCADE:

Genre: Science Fiction w/ Fantasy Elements
Wordcount: +-130,000

It also shows the book covers for the following:
ASHES OF THE SUN, Django Wexler
THE ARCHIVE UNDYING, Emma Mieko Candon
ELDER RACE, Adrian Tchaikovsky
NOTES FROM THE BURNING AGE, Claire North
Ps5's Horizon Zero Dawn

Below that are the following phrases:
Found family
Failed terraforming
A vast, hidden history
Nanotech magic system
Epic fantasy quest in a sci-fi world
Ancient mechanical gods
Arachnid mammals & guard drones
Sword (1) vs. Railguns (lots)

$A warrior woman w/ a winged helmet, armor, cape, and spear is along the right side of the image, fractured into triangles. Part of the following pitch is along the left: 2,000 years in the future, a galactic human empire fell, severing TRAPPIST-1e from other inhabited worlds before its terraforming could be completed. Wild nanotechnology ravaged the land, and civilization fell into a dark age. Eventually, the God Keepers—engineer priests who restored ancient nanotech—rose to power. While Lendi dreams of life outside the God Keepers, Falder is desperate to keep his best friend from abandoning their order—and him. But, when an ancient machine god crash-lands in a ball of fire and gray death, it severs Keepers from nanotech, plunging the world back into chaos. Meanwhile, Sedna and Renfrik have little patience for Keeper rules or mysticism. But, when a flood of nanites in the god’s wake consumes their home, they’re left with nothing to protect but each other...$

Chapter 1

THE RUSH IS ON! This Tuesday, Planetfall, Inc. announced it would join the rash of megacorps racing to deploy terraforming infrastructure through the newly stabilized Taurine Strait. Previously dominated by New World Corporation, the franchised development of pseudoterra worlds is slated to be the hot market sector of the twenty-fifth century.
-Excerpt from InvestSyder: Stellar Ed., June 15, 2398

The streets of Mahyan never fully slept. Night’s darkness, not yet broken by either the sun’s rise or the blinding, baleful Eye of Toros, wrapped Lendi more completely than her robes. Still, she couldn’t shake the feeling that eyes were on her. She wanted nothing more than to run.
An eager vendor barred her way with his stringy arm. “A fine morning calls for a fine meal, miss.” He smiled and fanned out a selection of skewered mutton and whalemeat wrapped in sea grass. Pungent, spiced oil dripped onto the dusty street.

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Grace Eliza @gracelizaa.bsky.social · 5d

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Grace Eliza @gracelizaa.bsky.social · 5d

OCTOBER DAYE X WELCOME TO NIGHTVALE

When a blood-drained body is found at the edge of Foggy Dell, a small town in Northern California, Maisie—local ghost speaker—and Stacy—biologist and supernatural skeptic—become unlikely partners, investigating the mysterious death.

#GhostPit #Q #PN #A #MM 👻

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Gus Ryer @gusryer.bsky.social · 5d

QUANTUM MAGICIAN ❌ LOGAN LUCKY

When an AI-piloted space freighter threatens her home station, aging & indebted traffic controller Dez decides to rob the hell out of it

She's got a plan & a crew with baggage. But, when things aboard the ship aren’t as expected, all bets are off

#GhostPit #W #A #SF

A collage of images around a central glowing circle, within which is a sci-fi rendition of the Vitruvian Man and the words: ALWAYS ACCORD

Around it is an image of a space station; a mobster with a poorly-edited VR visor; an elderly woman standing against a sci-fi cityscape squinting while she shoots a laser pistol at the space station; and an elderly man astronaut with an uncertain expression.

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Catherine Winters @catherinewinters.com · 5d

F/NB WAYFARERS x MURDERBOT x SOMEONE YOU CAN BUILD A NEST IN

Everything fell apart when the human came aboard. Instead of nice meals and quiet cargo runs, Tai's stuck with bickering crewmates, sinister criminals, explosions, and worse, a human who wants to be friends. #GhostPit #A #Q #R #LGBT

Mood board/Agent's guide for my novel CARGO - a queer SF/heist/romance - 110,000 words

"Did you hear? There's a human on board."
A graphic of the wall of a spaceship with sticky notes and polaroid photos taped up. There are twinkle lights hanging from the ceiling.
alien ship's cook (fussy, anxious) + terrifying monster (ordinary human)

PITCH:
Tai’s terrified of humans. Everyone is. Violent pack hunters, humans are notorious for their strength, sharp teeth, and carnivorous appetites. But the ship’s cook is safe among the multispecies crew of the cargo hauler Coreward Baker: everyone knows the warrior species rarely leave their own space. Then Captain Raz hires Clarke, a human horticulturist.
Even after Tai overcomes their fear, they can’t stand Clarke. She’s bossy. Annoying. Useless in the galley, bad in a space suit. She might as well be cargo. Worse, she’s intent on befriending Tai—and why can’t they stop thinking about her, anyway?
That’s when things go wrong. As Tai starts to realize their feelings for Clarke, they’re horrified to learn that nobody on their crew of dropouts and runaways is quite who they seem, least of all Clarke. And it’s no coincidence. Raz reveals they’ve each been handpicked for a heist he’s spent years planning—and no one’s allowed to say no.

PRIORITIES:
make dinner
remain cozy
haul cargo
go for drinks
pull off one last score
try not to fall in love

FIRST PAGE:

“Did you hear? There’s a Human on board.”
I choked on my noodles and turned to stare at the diners at the next table. Like most of the restaurant’s patrons, the pair had hidden their profiles, a halfhearted attempt at anonymity.
“Gross,” the speaker’s crewmate said, oblivious to my alarm. “I hope it leaves soon.”
“Don’t let it hear you say that,” the first worker laughed. She made a show of looking for Humans, her eyes darting from table to table.
It. I frowned. I knew the workers’ language distinguished between people and things, and ‘it’ was an unkind choice of words at best.
The second worker shuddered. “I don’t know why we let them come here.”
The first laughed. “Are you going to stop them?”

COMPS:
Murderbot by Martha Wells
Someone You Can Build a Nest In by John Wisewell
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers

TROPES:
Non-binary narrator masking anxiety with sarcasm
lying to themselves
non-human perspective (afraid of humans)
neurodivergent main characters
metaphorically disabled protagonist
slow-burn friends-to-lovers and enemies to lovers in the same relationship
disabilitynorm and queernorm setting
found family
loveable pet/terrifying monster

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Grace Eliza @gracelizaa.bsky.social · 6d

Fairy lights draped around the desk and a cat or two nearby

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