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#MiseryPit @miserypit.bsky.social · Aug 25

🚨🚨🚨 ATTENTION WRITERS 🚨🚨🚨

The next #MiseryPit pitching event will be December 1, 2025!

6 AM PST - 6 PM PST

See you then!

#WritingCommunity #BookSky #LitAgents #Writers #Editors #Authors #MysteryWriters #ThrillerWriters #TrueCrimeWriters

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#MiseryPit @miserypit.bsky.social · Jul 7

That's excellent news!!!! CONGRATULATIONS!!!!! 🤩

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#MiseryPit @miserypit.bsky.social · Jul 7

That's GREAT news!!! CONGRATULATIONS!!! 😍

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#BluePit - A Storytelling Hype & Pitch Event @bluepit.bsky.social · Jul 6

#BluePit is coming up fast on July 13th!

We'll be starting our pre-event Q&A #BluePitHype starting on July 8th!

We can't wait to see all your great pitches!

#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #AmQuerying #Writers #WriterSky

#BluePitHype

Pre-Event for #BluePit

We can hardly wait until Jan 13th to see everyone’s amazing pitches. So join use our pre-event Q&A!

#BluePitHype Q&A Schedule

July 8th - Introductions
July 9th - Art Share
July 10th - Character Interviews
July 11th - Advice Share
July 12th - Build Your List
July 13th - #BluePit

Join us starting July 8th!

@bluepit.bsky.social

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#MiseryPit @miserypit.bsky.social · Jul 6

Thank you so much!!

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Jocelyne Gregory @jocelynegregory.bsky.social · Jul 6

Thank you all for joining and pitching for #MiseryPit! Thank you authors for sharing your work and creative talents!

#MiseryPit @miserypit.bsky.social · Jul 6

#MiseryPit is over!

Thank you everyone for pitching your mysteries, thrillers and true crimes! The moodbards have been amazing! These events wouldn't happen without writers who participate so thank you for pitching!

If you've received an agent or editor like on your pitch, please let us know!

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#MiseryPit @miserypit.bsky.social · Jul 6

#MiseryPit is over!

Thank you everyone for pitching your mysteries, thrillers and true crimes! The moodbards have been amazing! These events wouldn't happen without writers who participate so thank you for pitching!

If you've received an agent or editor like on your pitch, please let us know!

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Dani @dani-s-writes.bsky.social · Jul 6

❤️‍🔥The League❤️‍🔥

Liam is a serial killer. He had a crush on Eamon as a child, until Eamon murdered Liam’s parents. Now, he wants Eamon’s head.
Shame that Eamon grew up gorgeous, suave, and so dangerous. And he 🥵wants Liam.
Let the games begin.

#MiseryPit #A #Q #CT (with psych suspense+horror vibes)

Cream background with comp titles and tropes

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Roxanne Gregory @roxannegregory.bsky.social · Jul 6

Gladiatrix Daughter of War - I am Aoife, survivor of the Druidic Ynys Môn genocide, Piso's brothel slave, witch of Roman General Germanicus, Hand of the Dark Mother and I will have blood justice for my people! Book I in the Gladiatrix Chronicles #MiseryPit #A #HT #WFT

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#MiseryPit @miserypit.bsky.social · Jul 6

About 20 minutes left for this #MiseryPit event!! Get those last minute pitches in!

#MiseryPit @miserypit.bsky.social · Jul 5

1 hour left for #MiseryPit!!!
Get those final pitches in before the event ends at 6 pm PST!
Good luck and happy pitching!

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Raven Youngblood - Author @ravenized.bsky.social · Jul 6

#a #q #miserypit #hm

GRAVEWATER

In the spring of 1919, something sinister is lurking in Loire Valley and Elle McIntyre is pretty sure it has a name and a seat on the city council. Her search for the truth turns deadly and will haunt Gatewood Manor for decades to come.

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Kiffils @kiffils.bsky.social · Jul 6

A quiet town is put into chaos and distrust when they awaken to find that every other house has their door painted yellow for an unknown reason.

#MiseryPit #SFFT #WIP

An image board including pictures of a lamppost in a foggy forest, a person clad in dark clothes with a mask, strands of caution tape, a house with a yellow door, a cabin in the woods, a woman peeking through a cracked door from below the doorknob, and a figure in a white hazmat and gas mask.

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Jenn aka Lady D @jennthedragonfly.bsky.social · Jul 5

Can Ava's relationship survive her choice to be a dominatrix? Will she be able to find out who killed her friend? Will the killer try to stop her? Find out in MURDER, SHE KINKED. 🩸🩸

#A #WFT #Q #MiseryPit

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Theo Transcendragons @theodoresnapdragon.bsky.social · Jul 5

The supernatural has been an open part of the world since phone cameras, especially here in LA. Yet August has no idea where his oddly specific time shifting powers came from.

When strangers gun him down in his own office, his mysterious powers become his only hope.
#MiseryPit #Q #A #FM #CM

A moodboard featuring images of an hourglass with green sand inside, a warm acorn growing from green leaves, a blue ocean coming up against a rocky brown coast, a dark figure wearing a homburg hat and looking out to the ocean at night, a notebook with the words “learn from the past” in it, the headlights of a car at night, the outline of a wolf howling against the full moon, a city bench with the words “YOU ARE NOT ALONE” written above it, and a light up sign reading “Los Angeles” against a blue sky. All the images are set against a green sunlit forest background. The words “August OUT OF Time” are written over the front.

A moodboard with the name “Vincent August Lloyd” on it with “August” emphasized by a green square. The background image is of an hourglass against a dark background. There are little images of leaves, acorns, a hand with fingers crossed, a paintbrush, a book, and sitting figure turned away. There are two dark symbols that almost completely blend into the background of a wolf howling and a target.

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Raven Youngblood - Author @ravenized.bsky.social · Jul 5

#a #q #miserypit #hm

She can’t rest until justice is served, he will always answer her terrible haunted call.

GRAVEWATER

An excerpt….

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Beth “B.R” Smith @brsmithbooks.bsky.social · Jul 5

Introducing my #WIP THE TAXIDERMIST, a romantic horror mystery described as THE HUNTING PARTY X RIP VAN WINKLE.

Illustration: own work.
Background image: provided copyright free by Birmingham Museum Trust.

#RT #MiseryPit #A

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#MiseryPit @miserypit.bsky.social · Jul 5

1 hour left for #MiseryPit!!!
Get those final pitches in before the event ends at 6 pm PST!
Good luck and happy pitching!

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lspopovich.bsky.social @lspopovich.bsky.social · Jul 5

The city’s lousy with heroes—cape-wearing, laser-eyed, sky-flying showboats. Don’s not one of them. He’s a PI with supernaturally sketchy luck, a nose for trouble, and a trenchcoat that smells like bad decisions. Now powers are vanishing, and he might be next. #A, #SFFM, #Q, #miserypit,

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Andrea Rigsby @arigsby.bsky.social · Jul 5

#MiseryPit #A #CT #ND #Q

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caasbrey @caasbrey.bsky.social · Jul 5

#MiseryPit #A #HM #Q A Thousand Blows x Ripper Street x The Alienist 19th century Scotland.
🔎Wife of a famous psychic says a Celtic monster is trying to kill her.
🔎Violent female gang is her protection
🔎Fake heir
🔎An immigrant detective with scientific skills
🔎Corrupt colonial interests

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