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arlen ren ✨
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queer writer of otherworldly fiction ✍🏻 Trekkie 🖖🏻 X-Phile 👽 forever pup parent to Rufus 🐶🪽✨ he/they 🏳️‍⚧️ www.arlenren.co.uk
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arlen ren ✨ @arlenrenwrites.bsky.social · Nov 6
hello, I'm Arlen Ren (he/they), writer of otherworldly fiction that lurks beneath the surface of the everyday 👀

if you're interested in YA paranormal, fantasy and/or horror, you can check out my website—or the guides to my current WIPs (🧵)

www.arlenren.co.uk

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Arlen Ren Writes
www.arlenren.co.uk
arlenrenwrites.bsky.social
IT IS DONE

I HAVE FINISHED CREEK WIP DRAFT 1

IT IS NEARLY 94k WORDS LONG

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arlenrenwrites.bsky.social arlen ren ✨ @arlenrenwrites.bsky.social · 1d
hello #queerwriters 🌬️

so...I have not met my goal. I made REALLY good progress, but I had 3 chapters to write today and knew that my nephew was coming over.

so I spent the day playing with my nephew 🥰 and will finish the WIP tomorrow 💪🏻😤

I hope everyone else's weeks went well!
amaralynn.bsky.social AmaraJLynn🧜🐚masksmermara @amaralynn.bsky.social · 1d
#queerwriters Saturday: Check in Day!

How was your week? Did you accomplish what you set out to do?

Share your progress, encourage, cheer, and support others!

#WritingCommunity #lgbtqwriters
February 1, 2026 at 9:59 PM
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stevewestenra.bsky.social
This is an INCREDIBLE deal, holy shit o.o
categerbasi.bsky.social Catomica @categerbasi.bsky.social · 8h
Opening Emergency commisions bc I need a new laptop!!
All full illustrations are $150 USD
up to 3 characters. take it now.
please share!
categerbasi.bsky.social Catomica @categerbasi.bsky.social · Dec 12
📌

Portfolio 🎨
catycat.artstation.com

Prints 🗡️
www.inprnt.com/gallery/caty...

Comics ✏️
catymiau.itch.io

Email 💌
[email protected]

available for work: cover art, interior and character art.
February 1, 2026 at 4:16 PM
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kerstinhall.bsky.social
tell your friends, enemies, and anyone else in the vicinity who might have two dollars and ninety-nine cents.

url-shortener.me/ABSD
DIY promo graphic for Asunder — it’s currently on sale for $2.99. The text reads: “ 1 Feb - 28 Feb ASUNDER EBOOK ON SALE! All US retailers!* Do YOU want some very affordable giant spiders? Now is the time! 75% off! Please increase my sales numbers! *I think. Please don't shout at me if am wrong.”
February 1, 2026 at 12:12 PM
arlenrenwrites.bsky.social
not only did I misread a clue today...I got my left and right mixed up 😂 what a palaver

I solved the daily #CluesBySam, Feb 1st 2026 (Hard), in less than 13 minutes
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cluesbysam.com
Clues by Sam
A daily logic puzzle where you deduce who is a criminal!
cluesbysam.com
February 1, 2026 at 12:08 PM
arlenrenwrites.bsky.social
hello #queerwriters 🌬️

so...I have not met my goal. I made REALLY good progress, but I had 3 chapters to write today and knew that my nephew was coming over.

so I spent the day playing with my nephew 🥰 and will finish the WIP tomorrow 💪🏻😤

I hope everyone else's weeks went well!
amaralynn.bsky.social AmaraJLynn🧜🐚masksmermara @amaralynn.bsky.social · 1d
#queerwriters Saturday: Check in Day!

How was your week? Did you accomplish what you set out to do?

Share your progress, encourage, cheer, and support others!

#WritingCommunity #lgbtqwriters
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January 31, 2026 at 7:53 PM
arlenrenwrites.bsky.social
my sister recently finished The Dark Beneath The Ice and loved it 🔥❄️

eagerly waiting for her to start The Ones Who Come Back Hungry 😈
metuiteme.bsky.social Amelinda Bérubé @metuiteme.bsky.social · 1d
If you see this, show your dark/nighttime art

...which isn't really what the prompt meant BUT STILL
January 31, 2026 at 7:49 PM
arlenrenwrites.bsky.social
"love is a weakness she can't afford" 🔥🔥🔥
lliuwrite.bsky.social Lucy is querying @lliuwrite.bsky.social · 1d
A fox demon bard seeking to become human so she no longer has to devour hearts joins the deadly race up a wish-granting mountain but falls for a soft-hearted grump demon hunter—and with only one wish at the mountain’s peak, love is a weakness she can’t afford.

#questpit #Q #A #F
Illustration of a smiling bard and stern hunter standing underneath pink blossoms. Illustration of a scared bard with a fox hovering threateningly over her shoulder, teeth open and about to devour her, next to a stern hunter.
January 31, 2026 at 7:47 PM
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carolinekwriting.bsky.social
SINNERS x INTERVIEW WITH A VAMPIRE x BURY OUR BONES IN THE MIDNIGHT SOIL

❤️Vampire marriage bonds
🖤Dark secrets Femmine rage
🖕🏾Black/African rage Ancestral Magic
💔Narrative that spans 200 years 🖤🖤Forgotten memories
❤️Ride or die love
#QuestPit #Q #A #F #R
January 31, 2026 at 5:33 PM
arlenrenwrites.bsky.social
give it to meeeeeee 👻
jessicachandler.bsky.social Jessica Chandler (she/her) @jessicachandler.bsky.social · 1d
Recipe:

1 tsp teenage 👻 hunter

2 tsp 🤝 with the grim reaper to keep her cancer at bay

3 tsp annoying 👻 who swears he’s alive & begging for help finding his body

2 tbsp potential to ruin her 🤝 if she helps the 👻

Shake and stir. Pray the reaper doesn’t know what you’re up to
#questpit #Q #YA
Moodboard for Get Ghosted
January 31, 2026 at 7:42 PM
arlenrenwrites.bsky.social
this concept is just 🤩
ftzahra.bsky.social FT Zahra @ftzahra.bsky.social · 1d
❄️ BIG 5 INTEREST
❄️ 20 AGENT REQUESTS
❄️ RTM Mentee 2025

An Agent's Guide to The Death and Diffraction of Safa Rizwan

On the verge of death, Safa makes a desperate bargain with a mysterious jinn—now she has 3 obscure clues, 0 memories & 1 month to win back her life.

#QuestPit #YA #Q #F #agentsguide
January 31, 2026 at 7:40 PM
arlenrenwrites.bsky.social
this sounds SO GOOD 🔥
jasonlangford.bsky.social Jason L. @jasonlangford.bsky.social · 1d
❤️LESS HUNTER x PRINCE OF FORTUNE
🏳️‍⚧️ ex-princess Finn wants revenge on the empress who killed his family, but soon falls for her son, a boy with illegal magic. The boys must outrun the empress’s hunt for Finn before she discovers she’s not hunting a girl at all. #QuestPit #YA #F #W
A black and white sketch of two boys leaning their foreheads together. One has short curly dark hair and many scars, and the other has short blonde hair and nicer clothes.
January 31, 2026 at 1:59 PM
arlenrenwrites.bsky.social
I am OBSESSED with this concept 🔥
rowanbrightonbrown.bsky.social Rowan Brighton Brown @rowanbrightonbrown.bsky.social · 1d
With their attempts at coming out repeatedly thwarted and the attempts on their life getting more and more serious, Andy realizes they’re being stalked by their pre-transition doppelganger—and she won’t stop until she’s taken the life they thought they’d left behind.

#QuestPit #AG #YA
Red and tan collage of images, a moodboard with sewing items and red beads reminiscent of blood. A beaded torso with red wound on the chest, silver storm scissors, chipped black nail polish, patches that say they/them and DIY or die, a dress form with tattoo patches and top surgery scars.
January 31, 2026 at 1:58 PM
arlenrenwrites.bsky.social
I love these kids so much 😭
hadiyahsama.bsky.social 🚀 Hadiyah 🍉 @hadiyahsama.bsky.social · 1d
COBAB x Animorphs

After a desperate outcast pretends to be the Chosen One, the REAL Chosen One is kidnapped. To save him, she must cross the world, pursued in a dangerous game of cat and mouse with an Empire obsessed with the arcane abilities of her friends.

#questpit #Q #YA #F
January 31, 2026 at 12:06 PM
arlenrenwrites.bsky.social
this story has so much heart, holding up a mirror to how some things haven't changed all that much...just incredible 🔥
hadiyahsama.bsky.social 🚀 Hadiyah 🍉 @hadiyahsama.bsky.social · 1d
Kindred x Life on Mars
A Muslim young man must grapple with generational trauma and the very real danger of racism and discrimination when he is thrown back in time to 1970s Britain from 2024.

🌙muslim mcs
🗡️murder mystery
🗣️1970s british racism deepdive

#questpit #Q #YA #S #HF
January 31, 2026 at 12:05 PM
arlenrenwrites.bsky.social
I love this book so mucchhhh 🔥🔥🔥
hadiyahsama.bsky.social 🚀 Hadiyah 🍉 @hadiyahsama.bsky.social · 1d
Assassin's Creed x The Louvre heist (iykyk)

When a heist goes wrong, 2 members of opposing secret societies find themselves pursued by a jinn bent on the subjugation of human & jinn-kind. With Seen and Unseen on their tail, can they thwart the jinn's plans?

#questpit #Q #YA #UF
January 31, 2026 at 12:03 PM
arlenrenwrites.bsky.social
"betray her heart to save her friend" yesssssss 🔥🔥🔥
d-and-a-authors.bsky.social Dani & Ash are 🏴‍☠️ editing 🏴‍☠️ @d-and-a-authors.bsky.social · 1d
Once Upon A Broken Heart x Daughter Of No Worlds x Dark Water Daughter

A maid and a pirate hunting for a mythical stone spark a budding romance, but when his past threatens their mission & her bff's life, she must betray her heart to save her friend.

#QuestPit #NA #RF #Editing
An agent guide for The Siren's Call by Danielle Bradbury and Ashlea P Screaton. A new adult slowburn romantasy. Pitch: Delphine dreams of adventure, but usually pays for it in bruises. Pirate captain Osian offers an escape to sea, but she won't leave without her best friend, Otto. Her escape seems dead in the water, until Otto is sent with the pirates to pursue a legendary Stone, and she will not be left behind. Reunited on the waves, Osian and Delphine's spark strengthens. Then a deception within the crew locks a cruel enemy from Osian's past onto their tail, one who will stop at nothing to end his life. While Osian is eager to forget the reward, the pirates want Otto's life if the mission fails. Delphine must decide whether to trust the man she's falling for, or betray him to save Otto. Comp Titles: Once Upon A Broken Heart (Stephanie Garber) - Cocky but hopelessly romantic love interest - Selfless heroine sacrificing all for love - Magic and myths - Betrayal - True slow burn romance Daughter Of No Worlds (Carissa Broadbent) - Reluctant allies to lovers - Broken love interest with a scarring secret - Male yearning - Betrayal - Hidden rage & trauma Dark Water Daughter (H. M. Long) - High stakes survival and adventure - Critical quest fuelled by legend - Changing loyalty - Pirate fantasy - Sea myths & magical creatures Snippet: “Would you? Have regretted it, I mean?” Their eyes met. Delphine pinned him with her expectant stare, and he worried again whether she could rummage around his mind for the answers she sought. What could he say? She’d no doubt find him obsessive if he told her the truth – how he’d spent so many waking moments wondering if she remembered their one dance as fondly as he did, when moonlight had clung to her hair and tickled her face as she’d taunted him beneath the stars. How he’d been so relieved to see her on board his ship, in a way he couldn’t put into words. How he hadn’t managed to get rid of the smell of sugar since meeting her, and didn’t want to. Would he have regretted her kiss? “No, Ceraid.” He swallowed, shuffling under the weight of the question. “I could have never regretted it.”
January 31, 2026 at 12:01 PM
arlenrenwrites.bsky.social
this sounds STUNNING
smossman.bsky.social Azi is drafting a cat POV revenge dark fantasy @smossman.bsky.social · 1d
PIRANESI x SOMEONE YOU CAN BUILD A NEST IN

A murdered cat becomes a human and tries to ascend to godhood for revenge. But in limbo, rage isn't enough to survive.

🔪 Revenge plot
🏚️Liminal Spaces
🐈‍⬛Cat POV
🎭 Unreliable narrator
☠️ Body horror
#Questpit #A #F #H #DF #W #DIS #POC
A moodboard for GODCAT, an adult dark fantasy, featuring six black cats and one magpie eye in the center.
January 31, 2026 at 12:00 PM
arlenrenwrites.bsky.social
someone PLEASE pick up this book and bring Sera closer to the world domination that she desires 🙏🏻
hadiyahsama.bsky.social 🚀 Hadiyah 🍉 @hadiyahsama.bsky.social · 1d
TGUWG x Poppy War

In a kingdom where necromancy is illegal, budding necromancer Sera fights her way to the top of the kingdom court. Discovery means death, but Sera has always wanted to make an impact & she won't let something like morals get in her way.

#questpit #W #A #DF
January 31, 2026 at 12:00 PM
arlenrenwrites.bsky.social
I was CONVINCED that I had it...

I solved the daily #CluesBySam, Jan 31st 2026 (Hard), in less than 10 minutes
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cluesbysam.com
Clues by Sam
A daily logic puzzle where you deduce who is a criminal!
cluesbysam.com
January 31, 2026 at 11:57 AM
arlenrenwrites.bsky.social
misread a clue againnnnnnn

I solved the daily #CluesBySam, Jan 30th 2026 (Tricky), in less than 7 minutes
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cluesbysam.com
Clues by Sam
A daily logic puzzle where you deduce who is a criminal!
cluesbysam.com
January 30, 2026 at 6:25 PM
arlenrenwrites.bsky.social
full moon on Sunday 1st Feb...feels very auspicious...
January 29, 2026 at 7:50 PM
arlenrenwrites.bsky.social
one clue misread, another misunderstood 😫

I solved the daily #CluesBySam, Jan 29th 2026 (Tricky), in less than 12 minutes
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cluesbysam.com
Clues by Sam
A daily logic puzzle where you deduce who is a criminal!
cluesbysam.com
January 29, 2026 at 6:50 PM
arlenrenwrites.bsky.social
annoying when guesses turn out to be correct...but then I suppose I shouldn't be guessing 🫠

I solved the daily #CluesBySam, Jan 28th 2026 (Tricky), in less than 9 minutes
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cluesbysam.com
Clues by Sam
A daily logic puzzle where you deduce who is a criminal!
cluesbysam.com
January 28, 2026 at 6:37 PM
arlenrenwrites.bsky.social
a big goal this week, #queerwriters ! 🏆

I want to finish Creek WIP before Sunday 😤 as of this evening, I've got 6 chapters left and 3 days to write them in (technically 4, but a long office day on Thursday leaves me dubious I'll get anything done then)

can I do it?!

only time will tell...
amaralynn.bsky.social AmaraJLynn🧜🐚masksmermara @amaralynn.bsky.social · 6d
#queerwriters Monday: Goals Day!

What do you hope to accomplish this week? Can be anything, big or small! Let us know so we can cheer you on!

#WritingCommunity #lgbtqwriters
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January 27, 2026 at 10:44 PM
arlenrenwrites.bsky.social
four chapters written in one evening...who am I?!?!
January 27, 2026 at 10:40 PM