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Christopher Kline Jr @jrklinewrites.bsky.social · 18d

I have a propulsive reimagining of Capture the Flag, set in a quadrennial bloodsport, where winning means the throne as a reflection to the corruption in US presidential elections.

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Christopher Kline Jr @jrklinewrites.bsky.social · Aug 16

#posterpit #Q

Every 4 years, a bloodsport crowns a new king in what Nevlyn thought was a fair contest. When the king murders her brother to rig it, she enters the sport to deliver justice. She’ll either dethrone him, or at least get to spit in his face on the way down.

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Christopher Kline Jr @jrklinewrites.bsky.social · 18d

#agentsguide for my #amquerying Cal Carver and the Secrets of Spellware

📝Middle Grade
⚔️Fantasy
🏞️Adventure
🤣Humor
❓Mystery
📱Magical Phone Apps (Spellware)

#writerscommunity

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Christopher Kline Jr @jrklinewrites.bsky.social · Aug 23

Hi Sam, do you like voicy MG with humor? I have a project I’ll be querying in the near future and am building an agent list for.

Christopher Kline Jr @jrklinewrites.bsky.social · Aug 23

My soon-to-query MG project CAL CARVER THE GOBLIN SLAYER

Kids will do almost anything to get their hands on a phone. But what happens when that phone doesn't just buzz---but zaps you into another world, and the only way home is mastering its magical apps?

#Litagents #writingcommunity #mswl #kidlit

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Christopher Kline Jr @jrklinewrites.bsky.social · Aug 16

Nevlyn Dalient isn’t a killer, she’s a survivor. But when a tyrant king murders her brother, she questions whether surviving is worth the cost of killing.

🏦Corrupt System

😠Defiant FMC

❤️‍🔥Rivals to Lovers

⚔️Capture the Flag twist

#posterpit #Q #Dystopian #Romantic #Fantasy

Christopher Kline Jr @jrklinewrites.bsky.social · Aug 16

#posterpit #Q

Every 4 years, a bloodsport crowns a new king in what Nevlyn thought was a fair contest. When the king murders her brother to rig it, she enters the sport to deliver justice. She’ll either dethrone him, or at least get to spit in his face on the way down.

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Lindsey Baltz, Fantasy Author @lsbwrites.bsky.social · Aug 16

#PosterPit #A #F #W
Drafting begins September. 👀

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Cassie Wallin Author @cassiewallinwrites.bsky.social · Aug 16

Nova erases emotion for the Order—until a voice in her implant awakens forbidden memories, urging her to burn it all down. Will she forget and survive, or risk her life so humanity remembers?

Never Let Me Go X The Memory Police
#PosterPit #W #SF #SPF #A #Q (querying soon) @posterpit.bsky.social

A mock movie poster for a book "The Last Word" tagline: "Some things can't be erased" an upmarket speculative fiction set to query in fall 2025. A woman stands in a wheat field with a dark figure before her. A city with a tall spire stands in the background. A circle of light and data spins around the point of the tower. a double exposure of tower lights are superimposed in front of it. The image is dark and foreboding.

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Jen @jenhwriter.bsky.social · Aug 16

Fear the women with the black blood. Fear the witch.

SEE HOW THEY BURN

❤️‍🔥 low romance
👹 the devil isn’t the bad guy
🦝 a raccoon ex
💀 necromancy
🪻 cities named after toxic plants
👯‍♀️ friends to lovers

#posterpit #q #f #a

Text: Fear the women with the black blood. Fear the witch.
See How They Burn
A novel by Jen Hallett

Two women engulfed in flames.

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K.A. Hela ✨ Prepping for edits...again✨ @jundlife.bsky.social · Aug 16

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

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Emma Al-munshi @emmaalmunshi.bsky.social · Aug 16

A repost for the #posterpit evening/respective time zone crowd 👍🏼
Blown away by the talented designs I’m seeing!

Emma Al-munshi @emmaalmunshi.bsky.social · Aug 16

Introducing the #PosterPit premiere of…

A KINGDOM TO DROWN ME

The Knight and the Moth x Heavenly Bodies

Will the waves of a broken Kingdom come crashing down on Mona Al’Maii?

☀️ Grumpy x Sunshine
🌊 Sunken kingdom, hidden beneath the ocean
🌟 Magical politics
⚔️ Quest

#W #F #R #NA #RF

A mock movie poster for a book. The background is an overlay of a close-up of a beach and the tree line of a misty forest.
The Images show:
- Outline of a woman with a sword
- Outline of a man with a bow and arrow
- Outline of an eagle
Text across the top reads:
GRUMPY x SUNSHINE
INSPIRED BY ATLANTIS
SLOW BURN WITH a chilli
LOST MAGIC, all of these with 5. Stars

Title reads: A kingdom to drown me, a romantasy novel by Emma Al-munshi

QUERYING SOON
Tagline is: Will the waves of a broken kingdom come crashing down on Mona Al’Maii

Then a mock up of a film rating that reads NA, Contains Mild 'Spice" mild violence and some scenes that readers might find exciting/terrifying

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E.M. Kerkman | 🏴‍☠️☠️🔥 @emkerkman.bsky.social · Aug 16

#PosterPit #W #NA #F #R #PiratesWIP

During her world tour, Captain Holloway is captured by pirates. After encountering an assassination plot, a magical curse, an unlikely romance, and an imminent war, she finally takes a side. The wrong side.

It's all Captain Falcon's fault.

The text in the image reads: "Magic, mutiny, romance, and a six-month deadline. What could possibly go wrong?" "Dual POVs, sentient oceans, vengeful ghosts, magical curses, enemies to lovers, and lovers to enemies." "He has a curse to break. She has everything to prove." "Sail By Dawn, a new-adult fantasy novel by award winning author E. M. Kerkman." The background image is of a sailing ship on a stormy sea with dawn light shining from behind it. It is a paining titled "Bird of Dawn" by Montague Dawson.

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Tyler is querying 👑🪲🌿 @tylerstasi.bsky.social · Aug 16

#PosterPit #F #Q

HURRICANE WARS x SWORD CATCHER

a dark, whimsical, jeweled-insect fantasy

featuring...

👑morally gray FMC
🪲lush worldbuilding
🌿rebellion + political intrigue
🌋volcano magic
💫estranged sibling dynamics

poster pit pitch for the mothblood queen by tyler stasi; green background with shadowed woman with a crown and holding a moth on her finger

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talhe.bsky.social @talhe.bsky.social · Aug 16

“Sisters. I cannot undo your murders, but promise that no one else will suffer as you have. I swear upon my life and our vow that I will kill Nobunaga Oda for his crimes against us or die trying.”

#PosterPit #Q #F #YA

A young Japanese woman in a kimono, trousers, and leg armor holding a naginata to her chest stands in front of an open widow.

Text:

A WARRIOR-NUN MECH-PILOT SEEKS REVENGE FOR HER MURDERED SISTERS

FANGS OF THE WOLF

IRON WIDOW x SHADOW OF THE FOX

Japanese mythology
Ki-powered mechs

#OwnVoices 97k YA Fantasy

Historically-Inspired Japanese Setting

Art by Sebbiiroo
HTTP://SEBIIROO.CARRD.CO/

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amwriting2025.bsky.social @amwriting2025.bsky.social · Aug 16

Heretic Queen x Girl of Fire and Thorns

🗡️ A baddass warrior-queen
😱 murder most foul
🔪 a treasonous plot
❤️ forbidden love
🔮 spooky visions
#PosterPit #Q #HF #YA #WritingCommunity

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karimecc.bsky.social @karimecc.bsky.social · Aug 16

#PosterPit #YA #H #Q Rewritten.
Ixtab, the Mayan Death goddess, haunts a little Mexican town, dragging ppl to Xibalbá, land of dead. She got Gustavo at the bridge of lost souls, and his sister Alondra would do anything to save him... even descending to hell.

Mayan Death goddess Ixtab, with her jade armor and a skull penacho

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Liz 👻🍂🪦 @thewriteratlas.bsky.social · Aug 16

In the course of researching his thesis, Aris accidentally resurrects the ghost of the man he’s studying, and together they uncover a conspiracy on campus that threatens to destroy magic in their world.

#PosterPit #A #F #W

An image of herb bunches, gemstones, and an animal skull. Overtop is text reading: fantasy dark academic, bone magic university, environmental horror, the MAW is hungry. A novel of academic obsession. Adult fantasy, thesis woes, gray morality. Coming soon to inboxes November 2025.

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Linh Nguyen, is writing @dreahun.bsky.social · Aug 16

THE SHADOW DIVIDE - Querying Soon
When trauma is fashioned into a bioweapon that kills through a single touch, a spy must risk his everything to seize it
❤️‍🔥POVs of the hero, the girl & the villain
❤️‍🔥Stylish action
❤️‍🔥Technology fear
#PosterPit #A #T #W

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Christopher Kline Jr @jrklinewrites.bsky.social · Aug 16

I like it, and very clean design!

Christopher Kline Jr @jrklinewrites.bsky.social · Aug 16

Thank you !! :)

Christopher Kline Jr @jrklinewrites.bsky.social · Aug 16

A Meddler's role is simple---survive. But against sword wielding knights riding fire-breathing dragons...survival is anything but simple.
🏦Corrupt System
😠Defiant FMC
❤️‍🔥Rivals to Lovers
⚔️Capture the Flag twist
#Posterpit #Q #Dystopian #Romantic #Fantasy

Christopher Kline Jr @jrklinewrites.bsky.social · Aug 16

#posterpit #Q

Every 4 years, a bloodsport crowns a new king in what Nevlyn thought was a fair contest. When the king murders her brother to rig it, she enters the sport to deliver justice. She’ll either dethrone him, or at least get to spit in his face on the way down.

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Christopher Kline Jr @jrklinewrites.bsky.social · Aug 16

#posterpit #Q

Every 4 years, a bloodsport crowns a new king in what Nevlyn thought was a fair contest. When the king murders her brother to rig it, she enters the sport to deliver justice. She’ll either dethrone him, or at least get to spit in his face on the way down.

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