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Shayna Grissom 🪳 @shaynagrissom.bsky.social · 3d

Well Met X The Thursday Murder Club

Ren faire owner Dillon and newcomer Lana must work together not only to reveal a killer, but they must do so before it shuts down the already struggling faire.

#DVpit #A #R #C #T #LGTBQ

Shayna Grissom 🪳 @shaynagrissom.bsky.social · 3d

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Shayna Grissom 🪳 @shaynagrissom.bsky.social · 3d

Good luck today!

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Shayna Grissom 🪳 @shaynagrissom.bsky.social · 3d

thanks!

Shayna Grissom 🪳 @shaynagrissom.bsky.social · 3d

Well Met X The Thursday Murder Club

Ren faire owner Dillon and newcomer Lana must work together to not only reveal a killer but they must do so before it shuts down the already struggling faire.

#DVpit #A #R #C #T #LGTBQ

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Shayna Grissom 🪳 @shaynagrissom.bsky.social · 3d

I love the facial expressions. Nailed it.

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Shayna Grissom 🪳 @shaynagrissom.bsky.social · 3d

I still laugh out loud when I read it. So if nothing else, I find it amusing.

Shayna Grissom 🪳 @shaynagrissom.bsky.social · 3d

Good luck today!

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Shayna Grissom 🪳 @shaynagrissom.bsky.social · 3d

You always have the best artwork with your pitches.

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Shayna Grissom 🪳 @shaynagrissom.bsky.social · 3d

Good luck today!

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Shayna Grissom 🪳 @shaynagrissom.bsky.social · 3d

Good luck today!

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Shayna Grissom 🪳 @shaynagrissom.bsky.social · 4d

love it!

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Shayna Grissom 🪳 @shaynagrissom.bsky.social · 4d

Well Met X The Thursday Murder Club

Ren faire owner Dillon and newcomer Lana must work together to not only reveal a killer but they must do so before it shuts down the already struggling faire.

#DVpit #A #R #C #T #LGTBQ

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A.M. Weald - buy Fimbulvinter's Fires ❤️‍🔥 @amweald.com · 5d

my face as people start reading "Fimbulvinter's Fires"...

info: amweald.com/fires
buy: books2read.com/fires

🩸📚🪐📚💙📚🌈🚀💫💜😱

meme from spiderman where peter is sitting in a theater smiling and laughing at something, oblivious to the world. the text reads "people enjoying fimbulvinter's fires by a m weald. below him in the next panel is harry looking down at peter with a sort of sinister knowing. the text reads: me waiting for them to get to 'that part'"

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Shayna Grissom 🪳 @shaynagrissom.bsky.social · 18d

#UnhingedPit

Rom-com, at a ren-faire, bro?

Now with a dash of murder...
#A #R #C #M

a man in a wig is sitting in a chair with the words huzzah written on the bottom

ALT: a man in a wig is sitting in a chair with the words huzzah written on the bottom

media.tenor.com

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Melissa Tyndall @melissatyndall.bsky.social · Sep 10

3 main tactics are utilized:

✅ The “savage” enemy is portrayed as an irrational aggressor.

✅ Their brutality of innocent victims is graphically described.

✅ The government describes their hand as being “forced” to preserve peace.

Sounding familiar yet?

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Melissa Tyndall @melissatyndall.bsky.social · Sep 10

This is disgusting rhetoric, but it’s nothing new. I did my master’s thesis on the Bush presidencies’ wartime rhetoric in a continuation of a 1980 essay by Robert L. Ivie called “Images of Savagery in American Justifications for War.” The original paper can be found here: tinyurl.com/savageryrhet...

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Shayna Grissom 🪳 @shaynagrissom.bsky.social · Aug 18

On the Blog: Hybrid publishing in a nutshell.

shaynagrissomwrites.com/2025/08/18/i...

#IndieAuthor #indiepub #Indiepublishing #hybridpublishing #queryingauthor #queryinglitagents #horrorcommunity #GothicHorror #horrornovels

In the cold light of Day

“Are things okay at home with your husband?” Hang on, what? As readers (especially of the horror variety), we can’t help but wonder “What inspired this piece of work?”…

shaynagrissomwrites.com

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Soph @soph-pl.bsky.social · Aug 16

❤️ BEFORE SUNRISE x 🌶️ HEARTLESS

'97 Berlin. Shaking off its Cold War slumber to the beat of techno. Clocks on street corners and lakeside beaches.
And her larger-than-life yet adrift host… whose touch makes her wish this summer would last. But it can't.
#PosterPit #Q #R #A

Pic: Man and woman embracing (design by Freepik, freepik.com) + overlay: Berlin cityscape (photo by Stephan Widua on Unsplash)
Text:
Friends to lovers/Impossible love/Heartfelt & High Heat/‘90s retro/Destination romance
“I found myself rooting for them from the beginning”/“Propulsive & compelling without ever feeling rushed”/“Perfect mix of sensuality and humor”/“Definitely felt like I was there”
“A really heart-tugging story… great plot and great writing!”/“Can’t wait for this to be published”
One summer can change your life./But what do you do when the fall comes?
Only One Summer in Berlin
LL Murmures Littéraires 2025
’97. An ambitious French student reluctantly heads to Berlin to improve her German. When a housing mix-up lands her on the doorstep of a single dad grappling with his future, tense beginnings melt into friendship… and a growing attraction. As the mellow Berlin summer unfolds, they embark on a sizzling fling.
Love they can’t afford: to win custody of his son, he must stay in Berlin; her career path lies in Paris.

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Nikki T. Grant @nikkitgrant.bsky.social · Aug 15

YA social horror/thriller along the lines of PARABLE OF THE SOWER on a roadtrip across racist America.
17yo Samira is on the run with her fam in neo-Jim Crow America, struggling through Sundown Towns, lynch mobs, and illegal love with another girl. #QueerPit #YA #CoA #D #H #SPF #T

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Bee Morris 🐝 is querying! @beemorris.bsky.social · Aug 15

#QueerPit #Q
Alice can see ghosts... she'd really rather not 👻

🏳️‍🌈 Queer & trans rep
🧠 Autistic lead
🧽 Cleaning haunted houses
🔪 Serial killer mystery
🌊 Ghosts by the sea
🎭 Dark humour

a close up of a cartoon character wearing glasses and a scarf .

ALT: a close up of a cartoon character wearing glasses and a scarf .

media.tenor.com

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Noreen @noreenmughees.bsky.social · Aug 6

Cyrano x Vibrant Years

When penniless Jibran starts an epistolary affair with a spoilt heiress, little does he know he's falling for his best friend, the younger sister.
💍 Arrgd marriage
🥰 Best friends-lovers
💌 letters
🧘‍♀️anxiety rep

#questpit #WF #R #editors

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Shayna Grissom 🪳 @shaynagrissom.bsky.social · Aug 15

Thanks, you too!

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Ryan (is Querying ✉️) @ry-is-writing.bsky.social · Aug 15

It's like E.T. (if E.T. was hot and gay).

When an attractive alien named Caelum crash-lands in Bennett’s small town, Bennett must help the alien find his way home while dealing with his own developing feelings and the truth behind why Caelum ended up on Earth.

#QueerPit #YA #SF #R

Starboy

LGBTQ+ YA Sci-Fi

Complete at 83k words

Blurb

When Bennett Barker is forced to move to a small town for his senior year of high school, he thinks his biggest problems will be missing his friends, figuring out his back-home situationship, and coming clean to his mom that he isn’t following in her footsteps by majoring in astronomy. Then an alien named Caelum crash-lands into his life. Literally. Bennett rescues the alien when his pod slams down to Earth while Bennett is out delivering pizza. But this isn’t an E.T. situation. Caelum is tall, turquoise, and incredibly kind, which makes it hard for Bennett not to catch feelings. Now Bennett has to find a way to get Caelum back home. But as Bennett grows closer to the alien, he starts wondering if his extraterrestrial crush is hiding the truth about why he ended up on Earth.

Characters

Bennett
Bummed he moved to a new town his senior year
Likes learning (hah, nerd)
Works as a pizza delivery boy
Wants to become an engineer
Gets fixated easily on projects and people

Caelum
Home planet is thousands of light-years away
Likes plants and flowers
Doesn’t enjoy wearing clothes
Can photosynthesize, would rather drink coffee
Moon-shaped eye marks glow when he’s happy

Vibes

It's like E.T. (if E.T. was hot and gay).

IF YOU LIKE
First encounters
Nerdy boys flirting
Having to hide a hot alien in the bedroom
Traumatized intergalactic cinnamon rolls
Kids on bikes saving the world
Earth food taste testing
Super-powered pacifists

SIMILAR STUFF
Starfire from Teen Titans
Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas
The Gravity of Us by Phil Stamper
All That’s Left in the World by Erik J. Brown

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