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Arrested for murder after a miscarriage. Accepted a plea bargain - Now I'm a felon. Memoirist, actor, Co-producer at BAB on 3 Productions. https://ginadobson.com/

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GinaDobsonBAB @ginadobson.bsky.social · Aug 6

In 1998, I was arrested for murder after a miscarriage.
A plea bargain was my only way out.
A world where women can be punished for what goes on with their bodies is a very scary place.
#Questpit #Q #NF #M #OWN

Newspaper headline reads: Sederwall pleads guilty to concealing death

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GinaDobsonBAB @ginadobson.bsky.social · 16d

Comments like this remind me how important it is to share my story. #writerslife #documentary

GinaDobsonBAB @ginadobson.bsky.social · Sep 3

Because we've been raised to believe we need men's protection. Perpetuates the patriarchal cycle.

GinaDobsonBAB @ginadobson.bsky.social · Sep 3

This pisses me off so much.

GinaDobsonBAB @ginadobson.bsky.social · Sep 3

Wish I could be there.

GinaDobsonBAB @ginadobson.bsky.social · Sep 3

Laws that devalue women and take away their autonomy is not something new. We are going to see more and more stories like this.

#writingcommunity #socialjustice #womensrights
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I Was Arrested for Murder After a Miscarriage

My ex-boyfriend sought revenge using a baby that was never born

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GinaDobsonBAB @ginadobson.bsky.social · Aug 26

Sometimes I feel like I don't matter. Like the way I was treated by the law & news media when I was wrongly arrested for murder b/c of a miscarriage. But I can't be silenced. We have too much to change.
#womensrights #domesticviolence #womenshealth #socialjustice #writingcommunity

Woman with black eye. Tape over her mouth says "SPEAK"

GinaDobsonBAB @ginadobson.bsky.social · Aug 22

Sickening

GinaDobsonBAB @ginadobson.bsky.social · Aug 22

This documentary gives a horrific glimpse of what will happen more and more as women's rights to bodily autonomy are challenged. Arrested & charged with murder 5 years after a miscarriage.
#womensrights #womenshealth #socialjustice #domesticviolence #writingcommunity

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DOMESTIC VIOLENCE - Finding Freedom - part 2, Conviction

YouTube video by Texas Pictures Documentaries

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GinaDobsonBAB @ginadobson.bsky.social · Aug 21

Thank you! I agree. Sometimes a messy ending is the best one.

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Cassie Wallin Author @cassiewallinwrites.bsky.social · Aug 6

Final post for #questpit ✨

Thank you everyone!

Here’s a streamlined look at THE LAST WORD for agents and readers who want a quick glance.🧡

Emotion is outlawed. Memory is rewritten.
Soft rebellion, found family, slow-burn epic romance—and hope in the dark.

#W #A #S #SF

Title slide: “THE LAST WORD – Upmarket Speculative Fiction” with comparison books Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro and The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa. Dark atmospheric background with glowing white title text.

Pitch text: “Emotion is outlawed. Memory is rewritten. Nova erases memories for the regime, but when a glitching implant shows her a phantom in the code, she must choose obedience—or a truth she was never meant to remember.” Themes listed include found family, soft rebellion, trauma and recovery, slow-burn romance, and hope in the darkness. Images of a woman walking in misty mountains, a glowing neural network, and a silhouette at sunset.

Quote: “I saw you under the maple tree.”
Followed by atmospheric pitch lines: “A voice she can’t forget. A past they tried to erase. A choice that could break her—or set her free.” Visuals of blood on a wall, a tactical soldier, and a futuristic city skyline.

Nine-image aesthetic grid: futuristic cityscapes, a cabin in the woods, digital patterns, a forest, broken glass, and a lone figure walking into mist. Emphasis on contrast between nature and surveillance tech.

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Kathryn Orwig @kathrynorwigauthor.bsky.social · Aug 6

THE SHADOW KING
#questpit #Q #A #F #RF #R

ONE DARK WINDOW x FROM BLOOD & ASH

Once a Shadow Demon cuts you, the clock is ticking, not in months, but minutes before you turn into a shadow too.

Sahira must kill the Shadow King to live.

But will her bleeding heart forgive her?

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Sam Peil 🧟 @sampeil.bsky.social · Aug 6

AITA (M26) for lurking outside of my house while my wife cries? SHE'S MEAT. Is it my fault that my brain went on autopilot and took me here? Sure, I've stalked a couple of my patients, but it's the end of the world.

THEY'RE MEAT NOW.

🦷🏳️‍🌈🧟‍♀️
#H #na #a #q #sf #questpit #lgbt

dentist in white jacket with red "paint" splatter. just his torso visible. text says: THE DENTIST WILL EAT YOU NOW Sami Peil @sampeil

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Author Adlin K.T. @adlinktauthor.bsky.social · Aug 6

Miguel's 1st Year at LoMA:
🔪Figure out who killed Mami
👻Awaken her sleeping opía
🌬️Attune with the stubborn elements
🤝Make friends with other mages
🌌Deal with the bully
🧛🏻Don't get bit by a vampire
💘Don't fall in love! Seriously, that's not important
#QuestPit #YA #F #UF #LGBT #Q

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Cheyne & Sarah are querying 📜🖊️ @goodrenwrites.bsky.social · Aug 6

SHE-RA X GALAVANT

Ota and Alder have been destined enemies for countless reincarnations. And frankly, they’re sick of it.

⚔Enemies to divorced
🖤Unchosen Ones
🤬Fuck destiny, let’s kill god
🪢Non traditional soul bonds
🌱Genderfluid dryad
🏳‍🌈Sapphic subplot

#QuestPit #NA #F #Q #LGBT

A pinboard with an assortment of images and notes pinned or taped in place. There is a subtle branching mycellium pattern on the board. In the top right a note is taped that says "Make me a hero." In the bottom left corner is a sticker that says "You can do it" but can is scratched out in red. Attached to the board are the following images: a sandy horse, with a speech bubble coming off it that says "Hi! I mean... uh neigh." A crystal ball with a tree at sunset. A smoking volcano. A photo of a broken red clay pot. A calendar with the month labeled Seguster. A man in an ominous black cloak standing in a field. A castle with a dragon flying near it. A black kitten being held. A raven. A meteor approaching a planet. A highland cow whose photo has tape with the lesbian flag pattern. A red string loops in a heart to a picture of the shadow of a gorgon. An alder branch with catkins. The photo has a gold star sticker and blue thread connecting it to a photo of mushrooms.

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Deva Taylor @deva-writes.bsky.social · Aug 6

KUSHIEL’S DART x PRIORY OF THE ORANGE TREE

Wolf Spider is a dark, epic fantasy novel with mythological enemies

🐺Norse Myth Retelling
🦑High fantasy but eldritch
🔥Complicated family
☠️Feral female rage
👑Anti-imperialist
❤️Queer-normative, polyamorous + kinky

#questpit #Q #SFF #DF #A #amquerying

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Lilia Moore 📚 @liliamoore.bsky.social · Aug 6

REVOLUTIONARY ROAD x AMERICAN PSYCHO

📺 PORTRAIT OF AMERICAN ROT

The violent self-destruction of an esteemed WWII veteran and family man.

Featuring:
📰 Suburban Psychological Horror
📰 Morally Black Protagonist
📰 Queer and Neurodivergent Rep
📰 Multiple POVs

#QuestPit #W #A #HisFic #H #LF

In 1950s America, a veteran struggling to escape the influences of his domineering mother and festering war trauma engages in increasingly violent extramarital affairs, with his mental deterioration and abusive behavior threatening to destroy the constructed family life he fought so hard to create.

Writing Sample: Conrad’s life came to a close the day the Japanese surrendered and he was forced to retreat to civilian life. The honeyed crawl of suburbia left him raw with yearning for more, and had long since dragged his interiority to bleed out all sticky on the hot pavement.

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Gabriela is querying a dystomance @gabriela-stluke.bsky.social · Aug 6

0.6% of Calascans don’t have a soulmate and are exterminated at thirty until a new reality show, LAST CHANCE MATCH, gives matchless another shot, but when the show turns deadly, Cera and Ryde are forced to fight for her happily ever after—and to make it out alive.

#questpit #NA #dys #SF #R #S

Trope board for LAST CHANCE MATCH

Dystomance
Dislike to lovers
Forced proximity
One bed
Soulmates
Biased government
Deadly dating show
Second changes
Morally dark gray jealous MMC

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Lilith Murphy || Writer @lilithwrites.bsky.social · Aug 6

GONE GIRL x FEAR STREET x THE HUNGER GAMES

When her sister goes missing, Alex learns there's nobody in their small town she can trust. She must cut through lies, secrets, and her own paranoia if she wants to save what's left of her family.

#QuestPit #W #A #T #H

An agent's guide to "Dissonance," an adult psychological thriller by Lilith Murphy

Comps

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

Amazing sister dynamic
Unreliable narrator
Paranoid protagonist

Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn

Domestic thriller
Complicated family dynamics
Family secrets dragged into the open

Bright Young Women by Jessica Knoll

FMC (Female Main Character) who isn’t believed by men
Imperfect victims

The Pitch
Three years after the death of their parents, college dropout Alex Doyle must learn to take care of herself and her teenage sister Charlie. When Charlie disappears without a trace, Alex realizes she doesn’t know as much about her sister as she thought. Now, she must completely throw away everything she thought she knew-about her sister and their hometown-if she wants to find Charlie alive.

Tropes

Unreliable narrator
Paranoid protagonist
Stalker
Kidnapping
Betrayal & Revenge

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M S Dyliacco @msdyliacco.bsky.social · Aug 6

She sees love as a spreadsheet.
He thinks it’s an endless audition.
She’s in the red and he doesn’t get the callbacks he wants.

Can these besties figure out what they’re doing wrong on their rate-our-date podcast? Or will they discover something else about themselves?

#Questpit #A #R #W

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Katie Krohn @katiekrohnauthor.bsky.social · Aug 6

A teen outcast discovers she's from a secret line of Irish plant magicians and must harness newfound powers to protect herself from a vengeful, poison-wielding ancestor who hunts her family across time.

🍄 Elixirs + poisons + portals
🌿 12 family tribes
🎂 Magical baking

#questpit #q #amquerying

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Mark Philbin🍁 @mphilbinwriter.bsky.social · Aug 6

"Echoes of Death"

5 taunting emails
5 infamous historic recreated murders
5 planted playing cards
1 relentless pace ahead of The World Series

Only Robert Hannah can put it together and save 40,000 fans before the world witnesses his failure.

And his death.

#questpit #T #Q

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Bex 🥀🏳️‍🌈 @angelicspikes.bsky.social · Aug 6

#questpit #W #A #HF #R #H
Twice Drowned; A tired, old, trans cowboy gets caught in the path of a killer mermaid whom he mistakes as a damsel-in-distress. Together they end up on the run (from his past as much as her present) across the arizona desert of the 1950s. The past haunts them along the way

A moodboard of images: An old wooden church in a rural landscape, a blonde woman dipping her head underwater, an aged effect photograph of flowers, a blonde water nymph cropped from 'The Fisherman and the Nymph' by Henri Lehmann, a set of sharp pointy teeth on a black background, an abstract watercolour of a dark man in a cowboy hat cropped from 'Cowboy te paard' by Isaac Israels, a blonde woman sat beside a body of water, a close-up of a cactus.

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M.A. Ruth @maruthauthor.bsky.social · Aug 6

#QuestPit

Dante’s Inferno x Sapphic YA Romantasy

When Ro ends 🆙 in Hell, she never dreams she’d be the one to save Hell from a demon uprising. With her LI, Ally, Ro travels the 9 levels searching for Lucifer’s missing sword. Will she save the day…and her heart?

🌙 Love
🌙 Adventure
🌙 Betrayal

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M.C. Taylor ~ querying ~ @mctaylor-author.bsky.social · Aug 6

17-year-old RocsAnne must learn to trust herself and unyielding rage—the only weapon capable of saving all she loves—as she is caught between becoming a target of the god-titan of earth and an unexpected love triangle. #questpit #agentsguide #q #f #litagents

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