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Ivy T. Woods

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Romantic Fantasy Author | She/her | High school social science teacher | Mom Free Palestine 🍉 https://linktr.ee/IvyTWoods

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Ivy T. Woods @ivytwoods.bsky.social · Aug 15

#agentsguide to 🌲THE LAND OF UNDYING SUMMER🌲
This romantic fantasy has:
🐻‍❄️ A setting inspired by the Canadian subarctic
🌋Roots in animistic religion
⚡️A physics based magic system
👵🏽 Crotchety immortals
🏠 Complex family dynamics
🗺️ Neurodivergent MMC #ownvoices #OV

#A #F #R #FR #QueerPit

An Agent’s Guide To
The Land of Undying Summer
by Ivy T. Woods
Adult Romantic Fantasy
103,600 words

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With a picture of a mountain, forest, and a lake on the left and text on the right:

Pitch
When a half-dead priestess is forced to work with the wandering mage who nearly killed her, they develop a reluctant camaraderie. But when he kills a guard, her people’s distrust of the newcomer escalates into a full-scale uprising. His presence risks the lives of the only family she has left, leaving her to choose once and for all: is she beholden to the living, the dead, or herself?

With roots in animistic religion and a setting inspired by the Canadian sub-arctic, THE LAND OF UNDYING SUMMER is a stand-alone romantic fantasy

Comps
The atmosphere and vibes of:
The Gilded Crown by Marianne Gordon
Blood Over Bright Haven by M. L. Wang

The Humour of:
Nettle & Bone by T. Kingfisher

Chapter One - The End of Darkness
By the time Tilaani stepped through the Wolf’s Fangs, the screaming emptiness of her abandoned soul was almost bearable. Cool air gusted across the mountain, whipping her face with snow. Instead of barely cresting the horizon like she had expected, the sun was high overhead.

“Shit!” She snatched her cloak from an icy stalagmite and darted into a slim crack in the cliff face. The frozen stone was jagged from when the cliff had split last century and the edges tugged at her shirt as she sidled through, cloak still clutched in one hand.

Time warped within the cavern, stretching and compressing at random. Sometimes she would emerge to find that only a few minutes had passed outside. Today, the few hours she had spent being lectured by the Ancients had become nearly an entire night and day in the land of the living. The dead delighted in wasting her time, especially when she had actual duties to perform.

Allak would be insufferable if she was late.

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Jeni Chappelle @jenichappelle.bsky.social · 10m

It’s #RevPit #10Queries day!

⭐️ more than 100 random winners will get feedback

⭐️ you don’t need a complete ms, just a query + 1st 5 pgs

Details + link to enter 👇
reviseresub.com/mini-events/...

October 2025 10Queries

Are you readying your manuscript to query agents? Are you preparing for this year’s RevPit event? What better way to know if your query an

reviseresub.com

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 14h

This is the genius of the Portland protests - they make the claims of lawlessness look not just wrong, but comical

The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 17h

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 20h

The "set aside the art from the artist" thing in this case is moot. Harry Potter money now goes right to destroying the human rights of trans persons. A billionaire who got her ass kissed for two decades got a rebuke and now she's got to wreck the lives of others.

Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 1d

It cannot be made clearer.

If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.

JK Rowling pledges to keep up fight against SNP trans policies

Author vows to bankroll campaigners after Scottish government fails to pay group's legal fees in Supreme Court equality case

Ivy T. Woods @ivytwoods.bsky.social · 1d

Keep an eye out for suspicious mirrors 👀

Ivy T. Woods @ivytwoods.bsky.social · 1d

This book is AMAZING and I am gobsmacked it has not been picked up yet

zilla @zillawrites.bsky.social · 2d

Hotel Adair’s wallpaper doesn’t peel. Its piano stays in perfect tune. Its plush carpet covers all stains—but that grandeur only lasts when the hotel's been fed.

Luckily, when Cody's tight-knit friend group checks in, they bring plenty of secrets to satisfy its hunger.

#DVPit #A #H #CI #LGBT #ND

Ivy T. Woods @ivytwoods.bsky.social · 2d

I will shocked if an offer doesn’t come on this one soon!

Jennifer Luce @jenniferluce.bsky.social · 2d

Cursed with a gumiho, Mina has spent centuries feasting on souls to become a god & now she's one away. But when she falls for her last target, she must face her demons & sever the curse before the gumiho consumes her from the inside out—or achieve godhood & become something monstrous
#DVPit #H #R #A

Ivy T. Woods @ivytwoods.bsky.social · 2d

Bone magic 👀🦴

Ivy T. Woods @ivytwoods.bsky.social · 2d

THIS BOOK IS SO FUN AND I WANT IT OK MY SHELF, SOMEONE REP IT

Iris Andersi @goodwords.bsky.social · 2d

POTIONS UNINCORPORATED:

A curmudgeonly witch with a chronic illness must work with a cheerful thief to stand up to a greedy pharmaceutical company🌱🐈‍⬛ 💚

💜 Bisexual Romance
💙 Chronic Illness Rep
🐈‍⬛ A Snarky Familiar

HOWL'S MOVING CASTLE X THE SPELLSHOP

#DVpit #Cozy #A #R #F #CI #DIS #LGBTQIA

Ivy T. Woods @ivytwoods.bsky.social · 2d

This sounds so fun!

Ivy T. Woods @ivytwoods.bsky.social · 2d

YES

Ivy T. Woods @ivytwoods.bsky.social · 2d

I’ve read this book in its entirety and it is SO unbelievably good!

Anna is querying gothic horror 💌 @annahirsch.bsky.social · 2d

The banshee’s cry means death, but Ciarán’s family doesn’t believe he heard her. He’ll do anything to prove himself—if he doesn’t fall for the banshee first. As the black plague closes in, he must choose between fighting for the living or embracing the seduction of death.

#DVPit #A #H #HF #JV #LGBT

Ivy T. Woods @ivytwoods.bsky.social · 2d

I am ready to HYPE

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 3d

I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, it’s declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earth’s highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections

After Dinner Conversation® @afterdinnerconversation.com · 3d

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) @chronicleflask.katday.com · 3d

Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔

zeldawilliams
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From Create Mode
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Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I'll understand, I don't and I won't. If you're just trying to troll me, I've seen way worse, i'll restrict and move on. But please, if you've got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. It's dumb, it's a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it's NOT what he'd want.
To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to 'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough,
, just so
other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop puppeteering them is maddening. You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it.
Gross.

And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it 'the future. Al is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be reconsumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line, all while the folks at the front laugh and laugh, consume and consume.

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Revise & Resub @reviseresub.bsky.social · 3d

THIS FRIDAY!!! Are you excited, #RevPit?! If you're gearing up to enter RevPit #10Queries, here's everything you need:

⭐Complete query letter
⭐First 5 pages of manuscript

The query and first 5 pages will need to be uploaded to the form in one document and should be a standard manuscript format

What do I need ready for RevPit #10Queries? Don't forget to sign up for substack and follow on bluesky

Ivy T. Woods @ivytwoods.bsky.social · 3d

Look what I just got for my birthday 👀

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Chronic Illness Humor @chronicillness.bsky.social · 4d

Me, who is definitely not old.

pic of old lady - it's not easy being old

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ʕᵔᴥᵔʔ Milla Lorelei Mélomane 💙 ʕᵔᴥᵔʔ @britpoptarts.bsky.social · 4d

Ivy T. Woods @ivytwoods.bsky.social · 4d

Good news for my birthday, please!

Ivy T. Woods @ivytwoods.bsky.social · 4d

Name: Ivy
Current Read: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Last Show: Bob’s Burgers
Last Film: The Heffalump Movie (I have kids)
Fav Book This Year: Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
Fav Watch This Year: X-Files Rewatch

+ Something Spooky

Ivy T. Woods @ivytwoods.bsky.social · 4d

Excuse me while I tear my hair out

a man with long hair and a beard says " just five days left "

Alt: Jared Padalecki with long hair and a beard says " just five days left "

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Ivy T. Woods @ivytwoods.bsky.social · 5d

I see why main characters are usually orphaned only children 😂 MC of this book is one of five siblings with two living parents and a very involved Aunt. It is a LOT to weave together

Ivy T. Woods @ivytwoods.bsky.social · 5d

Time to decide what Canva Colour Palette I’m going to sell my soul to

Ivy T. Woods @ivytwoods.bsky.social · 6d

God, I love Wikipedia

Ivy T. Woods @ivytwoods.bsky.social · 7d

Lowkey writing a book about a sailing culture just so I have something to do with the otherwise useless terminology from several summers crammed into a 36 ft Hunter with my entire family. Including not one, but TWO younger brothers.

Art is pain, and all that.
#amwriting