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Madeline ✨🧜‍♀️ @immadeline.bsky.social · 15d

I’m behind this guy who owns a business talking about how he:

1. Doesn’t hire people with kids
2. Doesn’t hire Gen Z
3. Doesn’t hire people with priorities outside of work

And he is going on and on about how everyone is lazy and doesn’t want to work. People want to live life, not make you $$$

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Madeline ✨🧜‍♀️ @immadeline.bsky.social · 27d

My sister is flying me first class and thinks I’ll sit next to someone to make a connection with.

✨Manifesting a super cool literary agent who wants adult fantasy novels about women being cursed into sirens for disobeying men sits next to me ✨

#WritingCommmunity #writersky #fantasy #Editing

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Madeline ✨🧜‍♀️ @immadeline.bsky.social · Aug 27

Yes fellow APD people!!! My FMC in my WIP has it, and while everyone’s experience is different, I hope one day people will read it understand APD and how living with it makes you feel.

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Madeline ✨🧜‍♀️ @immadeline.bsky.social · Aug 26

I was taught to hate my Middle Eastern features by my immigrant family. Why? White people are treated better

Arabic last name? Changed. Curly hair? Straightened!

To say white people are discriminated against for anything, especially #writing is absurd & a sign of major privilege

- a 🇱🇧 white lady

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Madeline ✨🧜‍♀️ @immadeline.bsky.social · Aug 21

I went to a Christian highschool and while I’m agnostic, I argued with teachers and classmates relentlessly about the way they spoke of homeless people, LGBTQ+ community, minorities, and women.

I’d quote the passages we read to argue and it was me and a few other kids against the ENTIRE class

Sam Missingham @samatlounge.bsky.social · Aug 21

If you call yourself a Christian and you think homeless people are criminals, you very much are not a Christian.

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Madeline ✨🧜‍♀️ @immadeline.bsky.social · Aug 20

I know comps are to show the vibes of the story, but I want to comp books that sold semi well!

Madeline ✨🧜‍♀️ @immadeline.bsky.social · Aug 20

Question for #litagents and any #authors and #writers

How do you track books in your genre and know if they are selling well? Publishers Marketplace?

I’m gearing up for finding comps. Any advice is appreciated ✨🤩

#writingcommunity #querying #F #A #UA #fantasywriters #writersky #WIP

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Madeline ✨🧜‍♀️ @immadeline.bsky.social · Aug 20

Working on Facebook ads for my TNR group. Can’t wait to see the response. The videos a filming company took of our work turned out AMAZING 🤩 #TNR #KittenSeason

Madeline ✨🧜‍♀️ @immadeline.bsky.social · Aug 17

Thank you, Dawn!!

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Dawn Berkoski @dawnberkoski.bsky.social · Aug 16

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)

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Madeline ✨🧜‍♀️ @immadeline.bsky.social · Aug 16

They are SO beautiful I agree!!

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annelise is vague! @anneliserichardson.bsky.social · Aug 16

CIRCE x LADY MACBETH

🏔️Roman mythology
🙏 Cult vibes
💀 Betrayals & vengeance, guilt & grief
🔥 Headstrong female MCs
❤️‍🩹 What are the limits of a mother's love?

Ancient Rome's founding myth, & the myth of the Sabine women. Unabashedly feminist. 🐺
#PosterPit #Q #F #HF

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Madeline ✨🧜‍♀️ @immadeline.bsky.social · Aug 16

This is GORGEOUS! Did you draw this yourself?! Also, love the premise ❤️

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Madeline ✨🧜‍♀️ @immadeline.bsky.social · Aug 16

This so stunning! Plus, the MC is pianist?? I’m in!

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Sara Duran ✨is querying✨ @saraduran.bsky.social · Aug 16

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.

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wott is querying! @wottenmoss.bsky.social · Aug 16

The last Conduit is dead—and Magpie of Lornwhen is thrilled about it.

#PosterPit #Q #PosterPitQ #F #NA #YA

A movie poster featuring a misty forest, a magpie flying over the blue mountains rising into the sky.
Text: Enter the spiritwoods. When the Magpie Flies, a book by M H Wottenmoss. Undiscovered magic, queer fantasy, chaotic academia. Querying now.

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CK Chang @sonusventi.bsky.social · Aug 16

BORN OF AN EMBER
When a phoenix refuses to burn, love will rise from its flame — but can the valley’s magic survive?

Dual POV. Charged chemistry. Consequences that burn.

The dragon bonded intensity of 🐉FOURTH WING meets the emotional gravity of ❤️ONE DARK WINDOW.
#posterpit #q #a #f #r #posterpitq

“Born of an Ember” poster: title over orange flames with unicorn and dragon silhouettes; Romantic Fantasy; “Querying now.”

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Ann Glimmer @annglimmer.bsky.social · Aug 16

TRUE HATE'S KISS
✨Only her enemy's kiss will break the curse✨

🐉Scandinavian folklore & Viking vibes
⚔️Age-old clan feud
❤️‍🔥Enemies-To-Forbidden-Lovers
🛡️"Who did this to you?" / "You did!"
💀"Touch him and die"

#PosterPit #PosterPitOS #Agented #Romantasy

A movie poster made of an image of Lagertha from the TV show Vikings to the right and one of Robin Hood from the Robin Hood movie (2010) to the left, divided in the middle by an image of “Freydis sword”, adorned with intricate patterns, from the game Skyrim.

Title: True Hate’s Kiss.
Text: “To break her curse, she needs a kiss… from the man she swore to kill. TRUE HATE'S KISS. Based on the bestselling novel by Ann Glimmer. Spring 2027."

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Madeline ✨🧜‍♀️ @immadeline.bsky.social · Aug 16

MY LADY JANE X ONE DARK WINDOW X LITTLE MERMAID

Disobedient women are cursed as sirens. Princess Cornelia is no exception. To get her legs back, she must:

✨ Bargain w/a Sorceress
❤️ Woo over a siren-hunting Prince
🌸Steal an enchanted flower from🤴
🏰Reclaim her throne

#PosterPit #F #R #FT #W #A #NA

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Victoria Jayne (they/them) is querying ya fantasy @victoriajayneoh.bsky.social · Aug 15

#QueerPit Three gay witches—a transfemme autist, an abused music witch, and a burnt out prodigy—team up to supply magic to a sentient ancient flower for three months. The problem? The flower’s not supposed to be sentient. MC must learn to regulate her emotions to fix her mistake.

A harmony of witches tropes. Close ownvoices autistic 1st person pov, sapphic childhood friends to lovers, trans coming of age, magic has a scent, cozy greenhouse in the garden vibes, surprising and hilarious midpoint twist

Excerpt from chapter 2 Something Sharpe. These violets are lovely! Oh, Zen—Zenora you have no idea how worried i was that you’d be stuck in that weak state forever. But you’ve blossomed, just like the Allflower!

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Deanna Winters is Querying @deannaunwritten.bsky.social · Aug 15

LUCY UNDYING X FOR THE WOLF

Death should have been the end.
Yet Ginevra is remade into a monster-her soul still yearning for the one she made a promise to in life.
✨️A promise to come back safe
🌱A promise of moonflowers

#QueerPit #F #DF #LGBTQ #A

Moonflowers with a blue tint, a woman shrouded in a veil, an overgrown window with a ripped note over the image reading "promise you'll come back." "Will you recognize my soul?" Next to stained glass windows. A hand leaves flowers on a grave, and a hand reaches through webs.

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Kristen Renee @kristenrenee.bsky.social · Aug 15

Blue Crush 🌊 x Sirens 🧜🏼‍♀️

When wanting to drown your ex after they break your heart is a normal feeling it’s also a normal reaction in Breaker Bay 💔
And when you’re a girl gang of sirens whose love language is violence…
It’s a little too normal🧜🏼‍♀️

#QueerPit #NA #A #R #F #SPF

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Madeline ✨🧜‍♀️ @immadeline.bsky.social · Aug 13

Searching for #writers who want to swap manuscripts and be each others #betareaders

My #WIP is…

✨Adult Fantasy w/Romance

📖129,000 words

DM or comment if you’re interested! I’d prefer to swap so we can help each other out 🫶

Details ⬇️

#writingcommunity #booksky #sff #romantasy #fantasy

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Madeline ✨🧜‍♀️ @immadeline.bsky.social · Aug 12

Hi #writersky! I’m Madeline and I wanted to introduce myself as I start my first #betareader search! I’m a

✨ Fantasy Writer

🎪Aerial Artist

🐈‍⬛ Animal welfare professional

🎰 Vegas local

Looking forward to hopefully querying in 2026

#writingcommunity #ua #F #RF #romantasy #critiquepartners

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Madeline ✨🧜‍♀️ @immadeline.bsky.social · Aug 7

Reviewing my latest draft before I search for #betareaders and finding so many scenes I edited by hand but didn’t type up 😭😭😭

Maybe editing by hand isn’t the move?? I totally thought I was done!

#writersky #writingcommunity #booksmy #fantasywriters #editing #w #ua #SFF

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