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Deanna Winters is Querying
@deannaunwritten.bsky.social
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Mom | writer | sewing enthusiast
#Q : Veins of Calris, a dark fantasy
#WIP : A Poisonous Devotion, a dark romantasy
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Deanna Winters is Querying @deannaunwritten.bsky.social · Aug 6
Veins of Calris, complete at 89,000 words, is a dark fantasy novel with dual points of view, blending resurrection horror, identity, and slow-burn romance in a dark, atmospheric world.

#agentguide #questpit #df #q #h
deannaunwritten.bsky.social Deanna Winters is Querying @deannaunwritten.bsky.social · Aug 6
LUCY UNDYING X FOR THE WOLF

Ginevra was remade to be a weapon. But inside, something thorned and grieving is breaking free.

#QuestPit #Df #Q #H
Veins of Calris title, hands with plants growing from stitches in the skin Stained glass windows behind a woman in a veil, an overgrown window arch, a rose bouquet in a dagger sheath with the dagger on top, and a spiderweb
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If you liked Hunger Games Erik you're gunna love NaNo Erik
printrunpodcast.bsky.social PRINT RUN @printrunpodcast.bsky.social · Oct 16
we are preparing some Nano programming. stay tuned.
October 17, 2025 at 5:59 PM
deannaunwritten.bsky.social
I know there a strong views about prologues, but what about jumping straight into action? My view is mostly from a fantasy lens, but curious what thoughts would be.

#writingcommunity
October 18, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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writingruhls.bsky.social
Half Sick of Shadows is a gothic where horror never comes from characters' identities. Modern audience shouldn't find diversity scary! Instead, horror comes from the wealth inequality, environmental issues, & medical field hurdles of the 19th cent that remain relevant today. #DVPit #H #A #DIS #LGBT
October 8, 2025 at 11:26 PM
deannaunwritten.bsky.social
Thank you for such a fun day! I always love getting to see what everyone is working on and what I should keep my eyes out for 👀
dvpit.bsky.social #DVpit - Diverse Voices Pitch @dvpit.bsky.social · Oct 9
Yesterday's #DVpit was amazing & inspiring!
Thanks to everyone who participated, supported, & any agent/editor who came!
Speaking of, agents & editors are invited to keep perusing the hashtag the next week to request!
If you got requests, please check out our "After DVpit Guide" dvpit.carrd.co#after
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pitch event for creators from marginalized communities.
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October 9, 2025 at 3:45 PM
deannaunwritten.bsky.social
To destroy the death cult that killed her, Ginevra must first survive the body they’d see unmade. But when a woman from her past begins to recognize her, she learns that vengeance and love demand the same thing: truth.

#DVpit #CI #A #DF #LGBT
October 8, 2025 at 6:02 PM
deannaunwritten.bsky.social
LUCY UNDYING X FOR THE WOLF

Inspired by FRANKENSTEIN

Murdered by a death cult, remade as a weapon with thorns for teeth and calris veins as veins—Ginevra must decide if she’s their savior, their monster, or something else entirely.

#DVpit #A #df #lgbt+ #q
October 8, 2025 at 3:14 PM
deannaunwritten.bsky.social
Thesis? ✔️
Sent off my Fulls and Partials? ✔️
finally time to read and work on my poison wip and ya wip!

#writingcommunity
October 7, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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catherinewinters.com
#SFFChat A1: Horror is the fourth pillar of speculative fiction after SFF and magical realism. You can't dissociate them. Look at Alien. Hellraiser. The Shining. Dark City. Event Horizon. Modern horror and sci-fi AND fantasy all owe a debt to Frankenstein.
sffchat.bsky.social SFFChat @sffchat.bsky.social · Oct 2
#SFFChat Q1: What role does horror play in SFF? (or replace "horror" with fear, spookiness, or another similar thing!)
A spooky person with a sheet over them that's tinted orange.
October 2, 2025 at 10:28 PM
deannaunwritten.bsky.social
This month, I submit my thesis for my MFA program, sent some fulls out, and queried agents I never thought I would be "good enough" for. Yes, it's also a stressful time, but I am so excited to see what the future holds.

#amquerying #WritingCommunity
September 19, 2025 at 10:17 PM
deannaunwritten.bsky.social
Two #pitchdis requests! There is something about someone wanting to read more, knowing that you deal with chronic illness, that really warms the heart ❤️
September 16, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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torribelle.bsky.social
#PosterPit #Q #F #M #H

The Ravens x Buffy
📚 A prestigious college
🌊 in a seaside town
💀🩸w/ a blood-soaked past
👩🏽‍💻where a law school student is eager to solve a deadly mystery
🎸 & a rock star is desperate to protect his career
🔪 a sadistic killer stalks his prey,
👹 while monsters lurk in the shadows
August 16, 2025 at 4:09 AM
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deannaunwritten.bsky.social
LUCY UNDYING X FOR THE WOLF

Inspired by FRANKENSTEIN

Murdered by a cult, remade as a weapon—she must decide if she’s their savior, their monster, or something else entirely.

#PosterPit #PosterPitQ #Q #DF #F #A
A woman shrouded in a veil clapping her hands together and surrounded by vines. Text reads: remade as a weapon but something thorned and grieving is breaking free. VEINS OF CALRIS by Deanna Winters. Ginevra, the monster. Malrath, the creator. Bernhart, the knight. Alexa, the priestess
August 16, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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zprospero.bsky.social Zed Prospero @zprospero.bsky.social · Aug 16
THE OFFICE x GOOD OMENS

Virgil Mora has three months to turn around a vampire-ran Ohio gas station to restore Heaven’s faith in Hell and save his boss, Lucifer, the angel he’s fallen for.

Before his past mistakes come back to haunt him. Literally.

#PosterPit #W #A #C #F #LGBT
A movie poster, at the top is the title “Hell Is Work” and underneath it a tag line “The Devil is in the details” The background is red with a light red graph showing a plummeting arrow representing a failing business. In the foreground is a three pronged Devil’s pitchfork with a halo around the central tine. Sitting on the curved crook of the right tine, nonchalant, with one arm wrapped around the tine is a black silhouette of a man wearing a suit and tie. His legs dangle casually above a field of flame. On the curved crook of the left tine, staring at the other man, is a white figure of a man with wings spread, casually playing footsie with the other man. At the bottom is the words “A novel by Zed Prospero”
August 16, 2025 at 4:07 AM
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jundlife.bsky.social
DUNE X THE LIBRARY AT MT.CHAR

In a city of psychics under constant duress, those born with lethal abilities are drafted into the Guild sworn to protect their home.
Even if this means turning them into monsters...
Now, visions of Strangers threaten to bring them ruin.
#PosterPit #Q #A #F
The Strangers' War. We paid for these stars in blood
August 16, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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maggiesbooks.bsky.social
New #agentsguide for the novel I #amquerying.

If you loved "Every Summer After" then this is for you!

🗻 lake house setting in summer and winter
🥂 soapy family drama
💔 healing or reopening old wounds?
📸 yearning for nostalgia
an agent’s guide to None of This Was Real adult contemporary romance/ women’s fiction 87,000 words The pitch Jasper and her ex reunite at the lake 10 years after a painful breakup. When feelings become too hard to ignore, Jasper must decide if she'll heal her old wounds or reopen them and risk ruining not only their repaired friendship, but her sister's wedding too. Maybe they were just yearning for nostalgia this whole time. Comps happy place: What if your happy place stopped being happy? every summer after: Two timelines, lake house setting adelaide: A story that will break your heart and sew it up again His presence made me feel like I was seventeen again and happily suffocating in my family’s lake house. Back then, I was enamored by the smell of pine trees, lake water, and cigarettes in a dive bar parking lot. Summers were like a warm pitcher of beer, a crisp can of Pepsi, and tobacco-tainted kisses. Now I was twenty-eight, killing time waiting for the delayed 1 train after telling the lawyer we shouldn’t see each other anymore and it was frigid outside. Excerpt
August 16, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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madelynknecht.bsky.social
From the creators of ARCANE x FMA x CRIERS WAR

🦾metal-based magic system
👨‍❤️‍💋‍👨queer romance
😱anxiety rep
💀anti-colonialism
🤖the dangers of propaganda

#PosterPit #YA #LGBT #SF #SFF
Movie poster of black, red, and gold featuring a blonde boy and a brunette boy, and women with metal in their bones. Text reads THIS METAL WAR. When an anxious mechanic named Circuit is recruited into the war between science and magic, he uncovers the truth about the war and his own abilities that puts him at risk of execution by the hands of the very army that conscripted him. To survive, he makes a pact: help the volatile and frustratingly handsome bot Asher get revenge on his creator. Don't fall for their lies. T for Teens. Beware propaganda.
August 16, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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dawnberkoski.bsky.social
Raised by corporate vampires with little freedom or choice, Alex is used to Yakuza business rivals and back-alley deals. But nothing prepares him for Jason, a witty bartender who challenges everything he knows, and who harbors secrets as deadly as the vampires after him. #PosterPit #Q #R #A #writing
Movie poster concept for I Am Chosen, a paranormal romance by Dawn Berkoski. Art and photography by Dawn Berkoski. It depicts a man in a hoodie (Jason) walking in a dark alley towards a man in a suit. (Alex)
August 16, 2025 at 4:02 AM
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saraduran.bsky.social
THE PIRATE, THE PRINCESS, AND JOHN is now in query inboxes near you ✨

#PosterPit #YA #F #LGBT #Q #amquerying
A faux movie poster for The Pirate, the Princess, and John featuring a silhouetted ship sailing on a layered blue ocean toward a distant castle under a pale moon, with three character names at the top: “Amir (the pirate),” “Mira (the princess),” and “John (for now).” Below the ship is the quote: “A ship in harbor is safe, but that isn’t what ships are built for.” The title appears in large white serif letters, and at the bottom is the tagline: “YA fantasy, 82k, multi-POV; anti-colonial, non-Western, political intrigue; besties to lovers, found family, platonic ‘touch her and die’; strong girls, big feelings, sharp prose; diverse, queer, magical.” The author’s X handle @SARADURANAUTHOR and Bluesky handle SARADURAN.BSKY.SOCIAL appear in the lower right corner.
August 16, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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charyoung.bsky.social
🎸 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

#posterpit #q #a #lf #m
a movie poster for my novel ALL THE DEVILS. the main image on the poster is of a man with his face obscured showing only his eyes. this image is in black and white. over the image is some text. in the left hand corner is a snippet stating the following “there would be no them from the tomorrow that had already begun. the devils were done. the dream destroyed.” on the right of the image is some information about the novel as follows: daisy jones meets knives out, a literary mystery, crossover potential. underneath the image is more text. first we have the tagline “the song of death never sounded so sweet”. next is the novel’s tile “all the devils”. “a novel by char young” follows this and then underneath is the novel’s pitch as stated above in the post. finally at the bottom are the words “coming soon to the query trenches” and “strand studios”
August 16, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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bvbodegom.bsky.social
CABIN IN THE WOODS × JOHN DIES AT THE END

When their detective friend is murdered during their annual gaming retreat, 5 dads must rely on years of #TTRPG experience—and puns—to solve the crime before they're all killed off like NPCs in a badly written campaign.
#PosterPitQ #A #H #M #Posterpit
This is a horror movie-style poster for "DAD BODIES" with the tagline "THE GAME JUST TOOK A DAD TURN." The design features a large D20 die (showing numbers 19, 1, 7 and 13) at the center top, surrounded by blood splatter effects against a dark background with a gothic manor silhouette.Six men are arranged around the bottom portion, each showing expressions of terror or shock with hands raised defensively. They're labeled with names: Vincent, Sam, Troy, Hank, Marv, and Dave. The poster includes several review quotes in decorative frames: "I had to stop eating" and "OMG" and "EW! Haha!!" all attributed to beta readers.The poster credits "Written and Directed by B. van Bodegom" at the top and includes a "BIG 5 INTEREST" badge. At the bottom is a movie rating-style disclaimer with "RESTRICTED" rating and warnings about strong language, violence, and adult content.
August 16, 2025 at 4:09 AM
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jenniferluce.bsky.social
Hi #PosterPit! If you're interested in a dark, modern-day Korean folklore and myth reimagining, layered with quiet, intimate dread and character-driven storytelling, then check this out:

#Q #H #R #A
Themes: Korean folklore set in modern-day pnw, anti-hero POV, psychological unraveling and monstrous transformation, dark, intimate atmosphere, slow-burn romance Selected as a finalist in the 2025 PNWA Writers Contest for Horror/Paranormal Title: GUMIHO Adult Upmarket Horror Romance at 76,000 words Cursed with a vengeful gumiho, Mina has spent centuries feeding it souls to become a god—and now she needs just one. But when she falls for her final target, wicked whispers invade her mind, visions of loved ones haunt her, and her body begins to change. As the gumiho consumes her from the inside out, Mina must face her demons and sever the curse—or achieve godhood and lose herself to become something monstrous.
August 16, 2025 at 4:01 AM
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eliwoodsgheist.com
Four werewolves. Three months. Two full moons.
One chance to save a life.
Can love even exist amid such corruption?

Coming soon: EYES SHINE SILVER IN MOONLIGHT, a werewolf romantasy that forces a choice between duty and desire.

#PosterPit #PosterPitW #R #F #A
A movie poster with two silhouettes of people on either side of a moon with an eye superimposed over it. Below the moon is a lit up building. Text on the poster reads: A werewolf romantasy from Eliwood S.Gheist. Eyes Shine Silver in Moonlight. Honor the oath. Submit to moonlust. Rated DS for Decadently Spicy.
August 16, 2025 at 6:02 AM
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hldocherty.bsky.social
A #NA dual-POV #F #R where These Violent Delights meets Arcane.
Featuring:
🥀 A firebrand FMC from the slums
🥀A gilded MMC with blood on his hands
🥀 Class war meets monster horror
🥀 Fated mates with a twist
🥀 He'd do anything for her
🥀2 publishers interested / 10 manuscript requests.

#PosterPit #Q
August 16, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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alexisveenendaal.bsky.social
Professor Hark is sent to a prestigious school that trains the best adventurers in the kingdom. His mission from the Bureau: secretly audit the professors there. What he doesn't expect is oddball colleagues and students who finally give him a home.

#PosterPit #W #AG #F #A #Cozy
August 16, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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tiff-d.bsky.social
The nursery rhyme The Farmer in the Dell haunts Emily—but the final verse, “the cheese stands alone,” is no rhyme. When her best friend’s illness turns terminal, Emily has days to uncover a truth that could destroy her marriage, child, & the life she’s built around saving Lacey. #posterpit #Q #A
A dark, eerie movie poster with a shadowy background of water, tree branches, and the faint outline of a woman’s face underwater. At the top, text reads: “By Tiffany Darling.” Centered text: “She’s dying. But that’s not the scariest part… The truth is so much darker.” Below, the book title appears: Everything I Gave Her. Subtext: “Now Querying #Q.” At the bottom: “A haunting spiral into the lies we tell for love. Psychological Suspense #T. Rated #A.”
August 16, 2025 at 12:36 PM