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Kala is Querying
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LL:Joffe Books Prize '24
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Kala is Querying @kpbooksnstuff.bsky.social · 21d
𝕕𝕦 𝕄𝕒𝕦𝕣𝕚𝕖𝕣'𝕤 ℝ𝔼𝔹𝔼ℂℂ𝔸 𝕩 ℕ𝕖𝕥𝕗𝕝𝕚𝕩'𝕤 𝕋ℍ𝔼 ℙ𝔼ℝ𝔽𝔼ℂ𝕋 ℂ𝕆𝕌ℙ𝕃𝔼
When everyone she loves has motive for a murder, a PR exec who's always tried to do the 'right thing' must decide how far she'll go to protect them. Especially the man she's in love with. The dead woman's husband.
#Questpit #Q #A #RF #MY
An Agent's Guide to Careless Whispers, Romantic Suspense, a 97k word romantic suspense. Various pictures of characters from the book. Pitch & Plot and has the following text: With their multiple homes and a business portfolio of luxury hotels, the Constantines' lives might be a world away from 29-year-old Listy Powers’ but Troy and his sister Olympia are like family, an unlikely yet close bond forged years ago at university. So when she learns Olympia, badly injured in a car accident, is back home on the Greek island of Paxos, Listy sets off immediately to see her. Being at their villa, however, means unavoidable proximity with Olympia's very disapproving eldest brother whom Listy has always loved. When they first met 8 years ago, Kris was a married man with a pregnant wife; now he's a widower. But as the attraction they'd fought back then re-kindles, suspicions resurface about Kris' wife's death. Beautiful, manipulative Rianna had not been well-liked. Her speciality was ferreting out people's secrets. And everyone, Listy discovers, has something to hide. As she unravels what happened to Rianna, the truth threatens Listy’s future happiness and the lives of those dear to her, and she must decide if crossing that line to protect someone she loves is a price she's willing to pay. OPENING LINES - When she hears the footsteps behind her, she doesn't rise from the lounger or look round but just rolls her eyes and takes another gulp of wine, fixing her gaze ahead. Beyond the villa's perimeter wall where the wooded slopes fall away, the sea glimmers under the silver coin of a moon. 'I told you to leave,' she says, her voice slurred. 'It's over. There's nothing more to say.' 'I have plenty to say.' Her head whips round then. She smiles. SNIPPET - When she died,' Olympia says in a hard voice, 'I was relieved. All I could think was, we're free of her now. Now we can begin to be happy.' Listy's face spasms. 'But you're not,' she says. 'None of you are. It scares me, Olympia, all this hate. So much hate. Troy has it too. It's like...like it's eating him up. Rianna's dead but she might as well not be, the hold she still has on you all.' Olympia begins rummaging in the drawer again. 'You didn't know her. You wouldn't understand.' 'I want to. Tell me what happened the night she died. You said she and Kris were arguing.' Collage of pictures and the title The Vibes, Tropes & Themes & The Comps. Tropes and Themes are: du Maurier's Rebecca vibes; Found family; Loss; Slow burn romance; Yearning; Obsession; Unrequited love; Secrets; Betrayal; Murder The Comps – Nanny Wanted by Lizzy Barber, End of Story by AJ Finn, The Perfect Couple by Elin Hilderbrand, Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier and the Sky Atlantic series Riviera
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Rejection on my full 😔
But this is a senior agent. She owns the agency & she didn't have to say this about my writing, did she? AND she wants to know what else I'm working on! So I pitched her my wip🤞🏼
I best finish it now! 😄
Any #litagents interested in the book I #amquerying? See my📍post
#amwriting
November 26, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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ghoward1950.bsky.social
I was his editor for LIBRA, the greatest experience of my working life and an honor unsurpassed in my lifetime. Don is not just a genius, he is a gentleman.
libraryofamerica.bsky.social Library of America @libraryofamerica.bsky.social · 6d
The novelist Don DeLillo turns 89 today. Throughout his career, the books of this perennial Nobel Prize favorite have overflowed with ideas, language, personas, and historical fragments that, released into the minds of readers, transcend their fictional origins and become part of the real world.
Don DeLillo - Library of America
www.loa.org
November 21, 2025 at 4:15 AM
kpbooksnstuff.bsky.social
I've been away for my birthday and didn't want rejections putting a dampener on things so avoided my querying email inbox. Just plucked up the courage and....FULL REQUEST!! 😃
Full request on my #GhostPit submission just a day after I sent it over a week ago!! 🥳
#amquerying
November 17, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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sallybromley.bsky.social
Updated #agentsguide following #questpit
'A sister always has your back, until she sticks a knife in it.' 🔪
#litagents
#amquerying
Turquoise background. Open book image in bottom left with Bookclub 82k. A beautiful young woman in a gold picture frame, spelled with age A beautiful young woman tossing long dark hair over her shoulder. Eyes closed. Splashes of gold paint on the blue grey background Four book covers. Blue Sisters, drawing of a young woman's sad face, The Push, two women facing away from each other, silhouette, The Picture of Dorian Gray, a young man's face, half of it aged, Hello Beautiful, a young woman's smiling face. A series of images: spooky trees, a dilapidated pier, a woman on a cat walk, a woman having her face injected,a pale hand reaching for a devil's hand. Turquoise background, splashes if gold, three boxes of text.
November 16, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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hedgehoggrl.bsky.social
Stairs.
59 Rivoli, Paris

#PhotographersOfBluesky #EastCoastKin #SatARTday #SaturdayStairs
Looking down through the center of an old, wooden oval staircase covered in stickers and spattered with paint.
November 15, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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alicebooks333.bsky.social
"Show up, show up, show up,
and after a while the muse shows up, too."
— Isabel Allende

#5amwritersclub #amwriting #booksky #writersky #authorsky #WIP #poetry #writingcommunity #writerscommunity
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November 14, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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blissbooks.bsky.social
A small sample of reading and listening material! #writersky #booksky
November 13, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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alicebooks333.bsky.social
20 years after her little sister was kidnapped,

psychiatrist Annie Burton has a new patient…

someone claiming to be her dead sister.

IT’S ME VIOLET

#5amwritersclub #amwriting #poetry #wattpad #authors #mystery #mustread #BookWorm #amreading #NaNoWriMo #writingcommunity #writerscommunity
November 13, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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blsamaddar.bsky.social
Slipping through a door,
she chases light,
reprieve from the shadowscape within.

The air beyond is still,
neither warm nor cold,
sighing in moonlight not meant for her

She traces “sorry” on a hidden #measure of skin,
returning to her starless sleep.
There, among her shadows, she is home.

#vss365
Dark forest with moonlight
November 11, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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sallybromley.bsky.social
Perfect for Christmas, 'A Bloody Merry Murder' by #theanonymums Emile Castera and Eve Goodfellow. I'm gifting this copy to The Arcade Bookshop in Littlehampton, who are holding a #giftforbookforchristmas event on Christmas Eve.
#bookpost
Book cover. A Bloody Merry Murder in black and red writing. A Christmas wreath, glass if wine, child's dummy and a hand print. Two red Christmas baubles.
November 11, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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blissbooks.bsky.social
Let’s be friends! What’s Written in the Sand in the #querytrenches now! #writing #fantasyromance #prophecy #themummy #writersky #amquerying
November 11, 2025 at 7:39 PM
kpbooksnstuff.bsky.social
November 11, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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blissbooks.bsky.social
11/11 Portal Energy. Magic is in the air. Release your potential #magic #angelnumbers #november11/11
November 11, 2025 at 7:41 PM
kpbooksnstuff.bsky.social
🧡🧡🧡
blissbooks.bsky.social Sheila Bliss @blissbooks.bsky.social · 19d
✨What’s Written in the Sand✨
✨In the query trenches now ✨
#writing #romantasy #writersky #booksky #amquerying
November 7, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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blissbooks.bsky.social
The more I dive into What’s Written in the Sand the more I fall in love with it. I hope you do as well. Thanks for sticking around ✨🧡 #writing #romantasy #amquerying #fantasyromance #timetravel #adventure #booksky #writersky
November 6, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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blissbooks.bsky.social
When the binge watching pays off and you outline, write a blurb and the first two chapters of a Gilmore Girls meets The Housemaid thriller. Don’t let anyone tell you you’re wasting your time when you’re lounging. You’re cultivating your creativity!
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November 6, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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sallybromley.bsky.social
#litagents take a 👀 at this. I loved Rebecca and can't wait to read this. 💥
kpbooksnstuff.bsky.social Kala is Querying @kpbooksnstuff.bsky.social · 21d
𝕕𝕦 𝕄𝕒𝕦𝕣𝕚𝕖𝕣'𝕤 ℝ𝔼𝔹𝔼ℂℂ𝔸 𝕩 ℕ𝕖𝕥𝕗𝕝𝕚𝕩'𝕤 𝕋ℍ𝔼 ℙ𝔼ℝ𝔽𝔼ℂ𝕋 ℂ𝕆𝕌ℙ𝕃𝔼
When everyone she loves has motive for a murder, a PR exec who's always tried to do the 'right thing' must decide how far she'll go to protect them. Especially the man she's in love with. The dead woman's husband.
#Questpit #Q #A #RF #MY
An Agent's Guide to Careless Whispers, Romantic Suspense, a 97k word romantic suspense. Various pictures of characters from the book. Pitch & Plot and has the following text: With their multiple homes and a business portfolio of luxury hotels, the Constantines' lives might be a world away from 29-year-old Listy Powers’ but Troy and his sister Olympia are like family, an unlikely yet close bond forged years ago at university. So when she learns Olympia, badly injured in a car accident, is back home on the Greek island of Paxos, Listy sets off immediately to see her. Being at their villa, however, means unavoidable proximity with Olympia's very disapproving eldest brother whom Listy has always loved. When they first met 8 years ago, Kris was a married man with a pregnant wife; now he's a widower. But as the attraction they'd fought back then re-kindles, suspicions resurface about Kris' wife's death. Beautiful, manipulative Rianna had not been well-liked. Her speciality was ferreting out people's secrets. And everyone, Listy discovers, has something to hide. As she unravels what happened to Rianna, the truth threatens Listy’s future happiness and the lives of those dear to her, and she must decide if crossing that line to protect someone she loves is a price she's willing to pay. OPENING LINES - When she hears the footsteps behind her, she doesn't rise from the lounger or look round but just rolls her eyes and takes another gulp of wine, fixing her gaze ahead. Beyond the villa's perimeter wall where the wooded slopes fall away, the sea glimmers under the silver coin of a moon. 'I told you to leave,' she says, her voice slurred. 'It's over. There's nothing more to say.' 'I have plenty to say.' Her head whips round then. She smiles. SNIPPET - When she died,' Olympia says in a hard voice, 'I was relieved. All I could think was, we're free of her now. Now we can begin to be happy.' Listy's face spasms. 'But you're not,' she says. 'None of you are. It scares me, Olympia, all this hate. So much hate. Troy has it too. It's like...like it's eating him up. Rianna's dead but she might as well not be, the hold she still has on you all.' Olympia begins rummaging in the drawer again. 'You didn't know her. You wouldn't understand.' 'I want to. Tell me what happened the night she died. You said she and Kris were arguing.' Collage of pictures and the title The Vibes, Tropes & Themes & The Comps. Tropes and Themes are: du Maurier's Rebecca vibes; Found family; Loss; Slow burn romance; Yearning; Obsession; Unrequited love; Secrets; Betrayal; Murder The Comps – Nanny Wanted by Lizzy Barber, End of Story by AJ Finn, The Perfect Couple by Elin Hilderbrand, Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier and the Sky Atlantic series Riviera
November 5, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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kpbooksnstuff.bsky.social
𝒅⃨𝒖⃨ 𝑴⃨𝒂⃨𝒖⃨𝒓⃨𝒊⃨𝒆⃨𝒓⃨'⃨𝒔⃨ 𝑹⃨𝑬⃨𝑩⃨𝑬⃨𝑪⃨𝑪⃨𝑨⃨ 𝒙⃨ 𝑺⃨𝒌⃨𝒚⃨ 𝑨⃨𝒕⃨𝒍⃨𝒂⃨𝒏⃨𝒕⃨𝒊⃨𝒄⃨'⃨𝒔⃨ 𝑹⃨𝑰⃨𝑽⃨𝑰⃨𝑬⃨𝑹⃨𝑨⃨ 𝒙⃨ 𝑵⃨𝒆⃨𝒕⃨𝒇⃨𝒍⃨𝒊⃨𝒙⃨'⃨𝒔⃨ 𝑻⃨𝑯⃨𝑬⃨ 𝑷⃨𝑬⃨𝑹⃨𝑭⃨𝑬⃨𝑪⃨𝑻⃨ 𝑪⃨𝑶⃨𝑼⃨𝑷⃨𝑳⃨𝑬⃨
When a death is suspected a murder, a PR exec must decide how far she'll go to protect the people she loves. They all have a motive. Esp. the dead woman's husband. The man she's always loved.
#Questpit #Q #A #RF #MY
There's movement on the loggia, a pencil-black figure passing behind the white pillars. Daunted suddenly by the prospect of moving into the open and Sofia's unwelcome scrutiny, Listy stops and waits for the trembling to pass. He isn't far behind. She turns at his footsteps and he brakes under the canopy of trees, sunlight dappling his face. Then, in a few quick strides he's there in front of her and his hands are cupping her face, his mouth coming down in a kiss of such gentle, restrained violence that something wrenches inside her even as her mouth opens irresistibly to his. When he finally lifts his head, his eyes trail over her face, his thumbs stroking her cheekbones. 'There's something about you,' he says gruffly, 'that sometimes makes me want to just grab a hold of you...and shake you.' She laughs unsteadily. 'Efkaristo, but I've had nicer things said to me.'
November 5, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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adropofmagick.bsky.social
ONE DARK WINDOW X KATABASIS

Alyss attends Nocturne Collegiate for one reason—revenge. With the (reluctant) help of her ex, her ex bff, & a devious half-vampire, she'll use memory magic to uncover the truth behind the murder that destroyed her life.🌙🦇⚔️

#QuestPit #OS #AG #F #R
A MEMORY OF MOONKISSED MALICE Fantasy Dark Academia Feminine Rage Vampires Corrupted Moon Magic Villain Era Protag Queendoms Enemies to Lovers Found Family THE PITCH 18-year-old Alyss Veylas wishes to attend Nocturne Collegiate for one reason—revenge. Five long years after her sister was murdered by the school's guardian, she finally gets that chance. Armed with a Moon Fragment granting memory magic and the aid of her ex and his new girlfriend, Alyss must confront the woman who took away the person she loved most. CHAPTER ONE The rain made it easier to rob his grave. My shovel carved through the sodden earth, the water contorting into murky veins around its edge. Desperation drove each labored thrust, the burning ache in my muscles but an afterthought to the prize that lied in wait. Even the Valera Forest held its breath; the fog thick enough to smother the night's whispers. All was silent save for the spilling of soil under the deluge that drenched us. Us. As I lifted my gaze to the boy standing across from me, I found that word had lost all semblance of warmth. FOR FANS OF... The lush, gothic prose of... A fantasy academia setting similar to... A supernatural mystery like...
November 5, 2025 at 5:00 AM
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SINNERS X HANNIBAL X I FEED HER TO THE BEAST When Virginia Bulle kills her ex-boyfriend, she decides to open a restaurant to serve his remains. This leads her to Calypso Raines' doorstep, which opens up a new recipe of the prices we pay to protect family.

#Questpit #Q #A #H
November 5, 2025 at 6:55 PM
kpbooksnstuff.bsky.social
Adore everything about this!! 😍😍😍
sallybromley.bsky.social Sally Bromley @sallybromley.bsky.social · 21d
Presenting my #agentsguide for
'Beauty is a Brittle Glass'
BLUE SISTERS X THE PUSH X THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY.
🪞 Adult 82k
🪞 Dual POV
🪞 Speculative Elements
🪞 Beauty & Fashion
🪞 LGBTQ
🪞 Friends to Lovers
🪞 Disability Rep
#questpit #A #Q
Green background. Images of a woman's face in a gold picture frame. Splashes of gold. A woman with long dark hair turning sideways, hair blowing in the wind, eyes closed. Splashes of gold paint. A gold handprint. Background is the close up of a woman's face, splashed with gold paint. Three bookcovers. Blue Sisters by Coco Mellors, a young woman's sad face, The Push by Ashley Audrain and The Picture of Dorian Gray and a young handsome man with a partially diseased face. Green background splashed with gold paint. Images of a model on a Catwalk, a woman having injections in her face, a group of spooky trees, a photographer and an evil hand reaching out for a pale woman's hand.
November 5, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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YOU’VE GOT MAIL x THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT

Annie thinks no one cares about her poetry on Instagram. Until she gains a follower who reads every word. But is he the same man threatening her beloved library? 📚

#questpit #QuestPit #W #RF #R #PT #A #WritingCommunity #writers
A collage of photos at a library/bookstore with people looking at books. “All’s fair in love and…rivalry?” in text.
November 5, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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OF WEAVING 🪡
The Gods Were Greek II 🏛️

CIRCE x EARTHSEA

‘You will have temples dedicated to you. Great statues and hills many will climb to pray to your name. For aeons to come, you will wield power, Athena…’

#questpit #HF #WIP #F #A
November 5, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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An elderly woman holds a grudge for forty years. On the outside, she goes to church, knits baby blankets and babysits, but her husband's betrayal has unleashed a psychotic anger that knows no bounds: a racy, multi-POV thrill ride with killer twists.
#QuestPit #Q #S #T #M #R
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November 5, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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A boy falls through a hole while ice fishing and is saved by his fourteen-year-old Granddad in 1963; a stranger from the present confronts him at a county fair, but he wants to stay to have adventures with his healthy granddad, because the one at home is sick.
#QuestPit #MG #ADV #F
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November 5, 2025 at 5:28 PM