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Jess Cane is ✍️ drafting ✍️ @jesscanewrites.bsky.social · Jan 24

YouShouldBeSoLucky x TedLasso

Don’t ask Jude how he ended up halfway around the world reporting on a US college baseball team okay? He’s already at odds with his new corkers about it.& definitely don’t ask him what he thinks about the schools hot new assistant coach either 👀

#YouDeservePit #wip #A

A series of images depicting baseball fields, baseball players, and a reporter.

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Tien Lee (she/her) @authort-lee.bsky.social · Jan 24

Whale x Outlander

A failed scholar-turned-florist is suddenly reborn as a noble in an alternate ancient East Asia. Having no romance nor accomplishments in his 1st life, he now seeks simple love & comfort despite familial obligations & a curse to harm loved ones.
#A #WIP #Up #Spec #R #YouDeservepIt

This is a 2x3 moodboard. All pictures have lines that align together to help them flow more into each other and seem more connected. On the left are darker, warm-tinted modern scenes featuring a young man with his arms crossed in a field, a locked rusty door, and a street. On the right are lighter, cool-tinted ancient scenes featuring a young woman delicately embracing flowers, a closeup of a slightly ajar ancient paper door, and a traditional walled cityscape

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Sara Duran ✨is querying✨ @saraduran.bsky.social · Jan 24

A 🐚 is the perfect gift for a crush, but stealing from the sea has consequences. As it stirs, John is swept into danger—and a truth he’s always avoided: maybe he doesn’t really *want* to be a boyfriend.

Maybe he doesn’t want to be a boy at all.

#YouDeservePit #YA #F #W #LGBT

A moodboard for John, showing hands gathering flowers from the sand, glittering abalone shells, a silhouette of a young man swimming and staring at a moonlight beach, iridescent scales, a sun halo through the water, a silhouette of a mermaid swimming, lightning striking near a lighthouse, and a mermaid tail on a rocky shore. The trans pride flag is subtly depicted as a gradient across the board, with baby blue, rosy pink, and white.

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Zed Prospero @zprospero.bsky.social · Jan 24

GOOD OMENS X THE OFFICE

Virgil Mora, Hell's Consultant, has 3 months to turn the business around to save Lucifer, the angel he's fallen for, getting a celestial pink slip.

But his old job, and mistakes, come back to haunt him. Literally.

#YouDeservePit #WIP #A #F #LGBT

A grid of 5 images, at the top the words "I DIDN'T EXPECT 'GO TO HELL' TO BE CAREER ADVICE" and at the bottom "HELL IS WORK"

The images are, in order:
1 - A black pawn topples a white king on a chessboard
2 - 8 - A businessman stares at his shadow which has horns and a tail.
3 - The central image is a customized pentagram sigil with the name VIRGIL MORA around it in a circle
4 - A lit lighter being held in a man's hand.
5 - A man in a white suit is back-to-back with a man in a black suit. They are holding hands.

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Bookishbabeiswriting @bookbabewriting.bsky.social · Jan 24

Jennifer's Body x Together We Rot
Boys are disappearing and all signs point to Lyric's friend/crush. It's going to be a killer summer.
Sapphic pining
Cannibalism as a metaphor for love
Cult town in Canadian prairies
Bubblegum horror vibes
#YouDeservepIt #Q (after SmoochPit) #YA #H #R

Moodboard with beige and pink undertones. Polaroid pictures of girl sucking on lollipop, a creepy old church, girl with lighter, and a fair at night. Have a killer summer is scrawled in upper left corner.

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AG Finch @agfinchwriting.bsky.social · Jan 24

A guide to FRESH FOR THE SLAUGHTER.

In a world that begs for blood, how far can faith take a lamb?

Sleeping gods, a dying world, and the violent women who are meant to save it. Religion as a weapon and its servants as the shield.

#WIP #A #F #YouDeservepIt

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Rowan Brighton Brown @rowanbrightonbrown.bsky.social · Jan 24

⋆⁺₊ ✧ White Trash Witchcraft ✩ ₊ ˚. ⋆

Southern inheritances are always dark—But when Sierra’s dad succumbs to something even stronger than his usual opioids, she must decide which monsters to slay and which to become

#YouDeservePit #Q #H #T #LitAgents #Agentsguide

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Jess Cane is ✍️ drafting ✍️ @jesscanewrites.bsky.social · Jan 24

LGBTQ CORPSE BRIDE x CASPER

Desperate to escape the scorn of his Victorian aristocrat family, Caspar Morgan didn’t really mean to marry a corpse. But even the afterlife has rules & as they find themselves falling for each other, they’ll have to face madness, magic,&murder.
#YouDeservePit #wip #A

A series of black and gray images showing various scenes of cemeteries, male silhouettes, and text saying “can I keep you?”

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Z. T. Fairfax @ztfairfax.bsky.social · Jan 24

✨ DON'T LET THE FORREST IN x THE MUPPETS ✨

Dear #litagents & #Editors, My 64,000-word YA horror with surreal, subversive, and slightly grotesque elements, THE HUGGLEBEEZ, is a cross between The Muppets and fandom mascot horror (FNAF, Amazing Digital Circus, DHMIS)
#YouDeservepIt #Q #YA #H #Spec #T

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Elizabeth Land Quant @elizabethlquant.bsky.social · Jan 24

Wanna break from *everything*?

May I introduce you to FUCK THIS MURDER, a neurospicy, totally gay murder romp, complete with:

🐊murder forest
🐊Biergarten
🐊pre-wedding shenanigans
🐊chaotic pansexuals
🐊touristy mountain town
🐊#disability rep
🐊BEES

#YouDeservepIt #A #Q #LGBTQIA+ #neurodiverse #OWN

a group of men in traditional german clothing are dancing together .

Alt: A group of men in lederhosen gleefully dancing at a Biergarten.

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Jess Cane is ✍️ drafting ✍️ @jesscanewrites.bsky.social · Jan 24

You had me at cigar eating rodent 😂😂

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Author Alexis Veenendaal @alexisveenendaal.bsky.social · Jan 24

The Reluctant Mentor: A hilarious story of what would happen if a grumpy old wizard had to mentor one last "hero", but got stuck with a bunch of weirdos (and a cigar-eating rodent) instead.

ADVENTURE ZONE x DISCWORLD

#q #a #f #Youdeservepit #comedicfantasy

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Rowan Brighton Brown @rowanbrightonbrown.bsky.social · Jan 24

A Southern inheritance is always dark—whether it's a penchant for pills, a blood-soaked family farm, or an ancient magic. Sierra spurns them all, but when her dad disappears, she must choose which monsters to slay, and which to become.
#YouDeservePit #Q #YA #H #T

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Rowan Brighton Brown @rowanbrightonbrown.bsky.social · Jan 24

Sierra loves her family and fears becoming them. Their healing hurts and their pills make you sick. But as infectious iron creeps through veins like kudzu, she is forced to take on her dark inheritance.

If she must deal with monsters, she might as well become one.

#YouDeservePit #Q #YA #H #T

A moodboard collage of green and grey images with an earthy, spooky vibe. There's a white woman with moths on her face, a deer skull emerging from the bushes, a black fist strangled with vines, white pills in a pile, images from trailer parks, a copperhead, and a sign saying "No More Overdose Deaths"

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Jess Cane is ✍️ drafting ✍️ @jesscanewrites.bsky.social · Jan 18

On my birthday??? I can’t think of a better way to spend it than stocking up my list of people to query as soon as I can 🥰🥰 so excited for this!

Manuscript Wish List® @manuscriptwishlist.bsky.social · Jan 16

Hello Writing Community! We are delighted to announce our First Official Bluesky *** #MSWL Day *** February 12, 2025. 🎉🎉🎉

Agents + editors can post what they ✨wish✨ they had in their inboxes; writers can find their next best fit for querying.

Learn more here: manuscriptwishlist.com/the-next-off...

The Next Official #MSWL Day: February 12, 2025 – The Official Manuscript Wish List Website

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Rowan Brighton Brown @rowanbrightonbrown.bsky.social · Jan 17

A southern inheritance is always dark—whether it's a penchant for pills, a blood-soaked family farm, or an ancient magic. Sierra spurns them all, but when her dad disappears, she must choose which monsters to slay, and which to become.
#P2Ppit #Q #YA #H #T #LGBT

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char 𖤓 @charyoung.bsky.social · Jan 17

🎸 daisy jones x knives out 🗡️

the songstress, the high-flyer, the gambler, the sweetheart, the watcher, the matriarch and the rogue. seven suspects. one the killer of renowned rockstar sam corvi. but who? only they can tell you

#P2Ppit #W #A #LF #M

a moodboard detailing nine images related to my work in progress devilswip, they are: big ben (london), a board of evidence, a street cornered off by crime scene tape, someone playing the guitar, the silhouette of a rockstar, musical notes, a crowd of music goers, evidence on the floor and someone punching a mirror.

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Jess Cane is ✍️ drafting ✍️ @jesscanewrites.bsky.social · Jan 10

The house is clean, I have a couple weeks off of work, and a trip next weekend. I can’t wait to dive into writing as much as I can 🤩

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#BluePit - A Storytelling Hype & Pitch Event @bluepit.bsky.social · Nov 4

Announcing #BluePit!

The first BlueSky exclusive writing pitch event open to all genres!

Much of the #WritingCommunity is migrating due to Twitter's new AI & block policy, so the time has come to bring pitch events with us.

Agent participation is welcome & public feeds will be provided!