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#MiseryPit - A pitch event focusing on Mysteries, Thrillers, and True Crime for the #writingcommunity and #Booksky authors. Hosted by @jocelynegregory.bsky.social

Next event: February 1st, 2026
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#MiseryPit @miserypit.bsky.social · Jul 3
Two new tags!
#WFM Women's fiction Mystery
#WFT Women's fiction Thriller
miserypit.bsky.social #MiseryPit @miserypit.bsky.social · Nov 25
Pitching Guide!
1. Pick one age category 2. One genre category (or 2 if you need 2) 3. Include #MiseryPit in pitch 4. Moodboards OK! 5. Retweet and support your fellow authors! 6. Only Agents and Editors can like posts 7. Post 1 project per hour to keep timeline from getting cluttered 8. Have Fun! Age categories (pick one) #PB = Picture Book #C = Children’s #CB = Chapter Book #MG = Middle Grade #YA = Young Adult #NA = New Adult #A = Adult Categories (pick the best that fits your manuscript) #HM = Historical Mystery #CM = Contemporary Mystery #COM = Cozy Mystery #FM = Fantasy Mystery #SFFM = Science Fiction Fantasy Mystery #DS = Dystopian Mystery #UM = Utopian Mystery #MM = Military Mystery #RM = Romantic Mystery #NM = Nonfiction Mystery #HT = Historical Thriller #CT = Contemporary Thriller #COT = Cozy Thriller #FT = Fantasy Thriller #SFFT = Science Fiction Fantasy Thriller #DT = Dystopian Thriller #UT = Utopian Thriller #MT = Military Thriller #RT = Romantic Thriller #NT = Nonfiction Thriller Categories #TCT = True Crime Thriller #TCM = True Crime Mystery #TC = True Crime Status #Q = Querying #WIP = Work in Progress
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And that's a wrap for #MiseryPit!!!
Thank you everyone who pitched, liked, shared, and gave support!

There will probably two more pitch events, and like in past years (how is this the third year!?), it should happen in summer and early December.

Until then! Thank you and see you soon!🕵️
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February 2, 2026 at 8:05 AM
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Final stretch! Less than an hour left till the end of #MiseryPit!
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February 2, 2026 at 7:19 AM
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Good evening pitchers! There's roughly two hours left to pitch! Get those #MiseryPit pitches in!
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February 2, 2026 at 6:19 AM
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If U like Heated Rivalry, you'll love Love and Lust a Legionary Romance. Castra Vetera's top doc Galenus falls for Marcus, a disgraced engineer plagued with survivor's PTSD. In a May/Dec romantic thriller they find love while facing bloody barbarians, ghosts, plague & Caesar. #MiseryPit #A #HS #T #Q
Two soldiers in the legionary baths.
February 2, 2026 at 4:25 AM
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Psychics gather@Pompeii's gladiator's school, awakening the ghosts of the untimely dead - spirits tied to where they died. Homeless boys, surgeons, whores, patrician women & their gladiator lovers share their last days in Thirteen -- a polyphonic novel. #MiseryPit #A #T #HS #Q
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February 2, 2026 at 4:19 AM
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Beyond the Gate - Forced to join the legions or lose the farm,Titus must divorce Marcella as only officer's can wed. Unwilling 2 wait his 20-yr deployment, Marcella lives beyond the fortress gate w/the other 'wives' when an officer dissappears. Who killed Quintus & why? #MiseryPit #A #T #HS #WF #Q
February 2, 2026 at 4:15 AM
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#MiseryPit #A #F #T #Spec #Q Aoife & Roman Gen. Germanicus face mutiny & murder, but when he commits genocide against Germania's Shining Sisters she leaves for Greece, where she enters the Mysteries becoming the Hand of the Dark Mothers in their unending war against the Brotherhood of Sol Invictus.
The moon rises over the ruins on Mt. Olympus, as Roman General Germanicus and some Praetorians chat and Aoife, the Britannic witch looks on.
February 2, 2026 at 4:14 AM
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COOP KNOWS THE SCOOP X BOB’S BURGERS: #MG kids on bikes adventure in 2 timelines:

1995: Friends find out their parents were in a band together & search for their hit album.

2025: Their kids hear about said album & go on a quest to find the lost recordings. #miserypit #W #HM #CM
Clockwise from top left: Led Zeppelin, the kids from Bobs Burgers,the suburbs, vinyl records and Thanksgiving.
February 2, 2026 at 3:44 AM
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IT X THE WEIGHT OF BLOOD: Max finds 2 photos, taken years apart & quests to unravel the mystery of the girl in the pics & her link to 7 missing girls while tangling w/ the eldritch horror their crazed cult leader murderer unleashed on the world. #miserypit #YA #CT #Q #CM
Clockwise from top left: a girl dancing in the woods, a creepy house, a fire monster, creepy forest, a black bird and an abandoned factory.
February 2, 2026 at 3:32 AM
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THE FORTxBOBS BURGERS: 1988. Suburbia. 13 yo Vinny goes on an epic kids on bikes adventure w/ his friends to find a crashed UFO. Along the way they find an exact duplicate of their neighborhood, a secret mansion & uncover a conspiracy that threatens more than their neighborhood. #miserypit #MG #SFFT
Clockwise from top left: the cover to The Crystal Shard, a hedge maze, a mansion, the Hellfire Club, a space suit and the suburbs.
February 2, 2026 at 3:01 AM
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Good evening #MiseryPit pitchers! We have about 5 1/2 hours left of #MiseryPit! Still time to get those pitches in!
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February 2, 2026 at 2:32 AM
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Home was the system that broke them. Years later, the people who built it are forced back together—not to fix what went wrong, but to decide who they’re willing to become now.

CHAIN-GANG ALL-STARS x SOME DESPERATE GLORY.

#A #CT #WIP #MiseryPit
On-screen text reads: “Home. The word struck like a hairline crack in a glass floor—barely visible, but fatal if tested.” Additional text across the collage reads: “Either find a way or make one.” “THE SURGEON OF SILENCE.” “we do terrible things for the people we love.” And near the bottom: “We both knew what we were making. You don’t get to walk away clean. You don’t get to shoot the past just because it came back wrong.” The image is a dark, multi-panel collage showing surveillance data, military dog tags, armed operatives moving through corridors, weapons, and fragments of technology. A central figure is seen from behind in low light. The overall tone is tense and somber, emphasizing moral consequence, loyalty, and the cost of survival within violent systems.
February 1, 2026 at 11:24 PM
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Hello pitchers!

We are now halfway through #MiseryPit! 12 hours left to pitch your mystery, thriller, and true crime manuscripts!!
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February 1, 2026 at 8:40 PM
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"A Heart in Pieces" is about Jess Harper, a junior at Longview University. One night while Jess is walking home from her audition for the school play, she finds a dead body. Which of the ten-thousand students at Longview is turning members of the student body into corpses? #Miserypit #A #Q #CT #RT
February 1, 2026 at 8:16 PM
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Hello #MiseryPit pitchers! We are nine hours into pitching! Keep them coming! 🕵️
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February 1, 2026 at 5:42 PM
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Fear Street x The Secret History

While Jess is walking home from her audition for the school play she finds a dead body. When her friends begin turning up dead she wonders which of the ten-thousand students at Longview is turning members of the student body into corpses.

#Miserypit #CT #RM #RT
February 1, 2026 at 5:26 PM
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silenthisper.bsky.social
She built a system to stabilize trauma. It rewrote people instead. A surgeon returns to the blacksite she fled, knowing the only way to stop it is to dismantle what she made—and accept what can never be undone.

CHAIN-GANG ALL-STARS x SOME DESPERATE GLORY.

#A #CT #WIP #MiseryPit #AmEditing
On-screen text reads: “You don’t stop wildfire by naming it a threat. You decide whether you’re willing to be the ground it crosses… or the ones it leaves behind in ash.” Below it, a quoted passage reads: “Ghost-code didn’t stabilize minds. It rewrote them. Thread by thread. Thought by thought. Until what came out the other side wasn’t a person anymore—it was an echo wearing their memories like clothing.” — [REDACTED] The image shows a person in dark clothing seen from behind, partially in shadow, holding a rectangular object in one hand. Their face is not visible. The background is textured with torn paper and faint, unreadable text, resembling redacted documents. The overall tone is somber and ominous, suggesting loss of identity, ethical violation, and psychological erasure.
February 1, 2026 at 5:13 PM
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silenthisper.bsky.social
A 📝 of my #MiseryPit posts for THE SURGEON OF SILENCE 🩺, a 98k Speculative Thriller Fiction (currently editing).
February 1, 2026 at 2:57 PM
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She built a system meant to heal. It kept running after she left—and learned how to hurt. When a blacksite reactivates, a trauma surgeon returns to dismantle it, forcing everyone involved to reckon with what survival cost them.

CHAIN-GANG ALL-STARS x SOME DESPERATE GLORY.

#A #CT #WIP #MiseryPit
silenthisper.bsky.social Haven Lopaz | Editing @silenthisper.bsky.social · 11d
🩺 THE SURGEON OF SILENCE — #agentsguide

🧠 Institutional control
🩸 A surgeon who built it, now here to end it
🕳️ Decommissioned blacksite
💀 High stakes
🔍 Multi-POV operatives & overseers
⚖️ Obedience vs refusal

Adult #SpeculativeThriller. Querying soon (currently editing)
On-screen text reads: “THE SURGEON OF SILENCE agent guide.” This slide exists to set expectations. The visual language is restrained and institutional: clean lines, dark tones, nothing flashy because this story is about how violence often wears a professional face. The mood is controlled, deliberate, and uneasy. Nothing is screaming, and that’s the point. This image introduces a speculative thriller concerned less with spectacle and more with systems: who builds them, who authorizes them, and who gets harmed when they’re allowed to operate without scrutiny. The title isn’t loud. It doesn’t need to be. Silence here isn’t absence, it’s policy. On-screen text references multiple points of view, including operatives, command figures, and witnesses. This slide is doing structural work. It signals that the story doesn’t belong to a single hero or a single moral lens. Everyone is inside the same machine—some enforcing it, some benefiting from it, some trying to survive it, some trying not to look too closely at what it’s doing. The tone here widens the frame. The harm isn’t abstract, but it’s also not isolated. Decisions ripple outward through command chains, protocols, and people who will later insist they were only following procedure. This image emphasizes proximity: who is closest to the damage, and who gets to stay distant enough to sleep at night. On-screen text references a surgeon who built the system and came back to end it, alongside themes of institutional control and high stakes. This slide explains why the story exists. It centers on accountability rather than redemption. The surgeon isn’t returning to fix a mistake or reclaim a legacy—she’s confronting the consequences of her own work after it’s been repurposed into something dangerous and sanctioned. The mood is tense but quiet, focused on refusal rather than rebellion. This image is about the moment when someone realizes that walking away wasn’t enough and that silence, even when it feels like survival, can still cause harm. The system didn’t break. It worked exactly as designed. That’s the problem. On-screen text highlights institutional violence, bioethics, and quiet tension. This final slide is intentionally unresolved. The visual restraint reinforces the core discomfort of the book: that some of the most devastating violence is clean, legal, and calmly justified. No chaos. No villain monologues. Just paperwork, protocols, and people doing their jobs very well. The feeling this image aims to leave behind is unease rather than closure. It asks the reader to sit with the question of complicity—what it means to build something powerful, to benefit from it, or to look away once it’s no longer yours to control. The silence here isn’t peace. It’s what’s left when everyone decides not to speak.
February 1, 2026 at 2:06 PM
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A search for a missing girl turns into something more sinister when a journalist is caught up in a terrorist attack. Implicated and with no choice but to go on the run, Kit seeks sanctuary with the terrorists, unable to return home until proven innocent

#MiseryPit #NA #SFFT #Q
February 1, 2026 at 2:00 PM
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safahamjad.bsky.social
The Miles Between Us, which features:
✅ a crime story with deep emotional resonance;
✅ an exploration of themes like grief, racism & identity;
✅ ordinary citizens stepping into investigative roles;
✅ MCs who seem worlds apart, and are yet so similar;
✅ a romantic subplot.
#miserypit #A #WIP #CT #CM
February 1, 2026 at 11:58 AM
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#MiseryPit #A #PSYT #WIP
Don't Hide from Me

Thirty-four-year-old, Emma Gelberbaum lives a carefully curated, isolated life in a smart home she designed herself—cameras, locks, voice assistants—all under her control. Or so she thinks...
Deep down, she fears someone might be looking for her...
February 1, 2026 at 11:18 AM
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crystalbauthor.bsky.social
The Last Year of the War x Team Yankee x The Plum Tree

When World War 3 breaks out Sadie, a college journalism student, finds herself thrown into a camp on American soil. Can she survive the horrors that permeate the camp or will she succumb to the darkness?

#W #NA #CT #MiseryPit
Black background Top left picture is of the fence and two buildings in Auschwitz. The top right is of an Auschwitz building with fall dead trees in front of it. Then in white font with teal edging it says the title The Girl Within. The middle left picture us a tank in a field. The middle right is the front of a large boat and a smaller boat on water. Then there's a quote that says "I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take side." - Elle Wiesel The bottom left picture is a blonde girl in a brown jacket and a black press vest that says press in white. She's standing in front of a tall brown building with lots of windows. The bottom right pic is a crowd of protesters in front of a building.
February 1, 2026 at 9:19 AM