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Author R. Lynn Hanks @rlynnhanks.bsky.social · 11d

🤩🥰🫶 aw thank you Rebecca!!!!

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Rebecca loves Grogu @rebeccaveight.bsky.social · 11d

This is what I'm reading today since the lovely @rlynnhanks.bsky.social has sent me an ARC. If you love the humor of Firefly, the drama of Dawson's Creek, Valerian & Ender Games vibes you HAVE to read this. Out on Thursday.
#Blueskybooks #BookSky #reading #booklover #books

Author R. Lynn Hanks @rlynnhanks.bsky.social · Sep 1

Come hang with them! Word on the street they’re a fun time 🫶
Coming October 9, preorders open!

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Author R. Lynn Hanks @rlynnhanks.bsky.social · Sep 5

How to read my space opera romance 😘
Coming next month! Preorders open!

Author R. Lynn Hanks @rlynnhanks.bsky.social · Sep 1

Come hang with them! Word on the street they’re a fun time 🫶
Coming October 9, preorders open!

Author R. Lynn Hanks @rlynnhanks.bsky.social · Aug 26

Preorder bundles for my space opera romance, Gamma Raids I are now live on my website!

Author R. Lynn Hanks @rlynnhanks.bsky.social · Aug 15

What to expect when an Econ-French major writes a space opera?

Super smart data scientist teens with splicy little hints of accepted French. But hey, it worked for Kat and Lee’s world. 🫶

My space opera romance, Gamma Raids I, comes out October 9. I’m taking ARC applications for another week!

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Author R. Lynn Hanks @rlynnhanks.bsky.social · Aug 4

The author
The first page
The book
P.s. I’m taking ARC applications for 2 more weeks!!

Author R. Lynn Hanks @rlynnhanks.bsky.social · Jul 26

Some of my favorite and unhinged reader comps to my upcoming space opera romance, Gamma Raids I 🫶

P.s. I’m looking for ARC readers!

Author R. Lynn Hanks @rlynnhanks.bsky.social · Jul 17

“You look happier…” thanks! This author sure is. We’re down to just under 3 months until this book baby releases! I’m looking for early readers if anyone is interested in an ARC!

Author R. Lynn Hanks @rlynnhanks.bsky.social · Jul 15

Setting the heat meter for my new adult space opera romance, Gamma Raids I

ARC applications are open!

Author R. Lynn Hanks @rlynnhanks.bsky.social · Jul 13

Looking for your next scifi read? I’m looking for ARC readers! See the link in my bio for applications

Author R. Lynn Hanks @rlynnhanks.bsky.social · Jul 9

Cover Reveal 😍😍😍
ARC Applications are now live! (See link in bio)

Author R. Lynn Hanks @rlynnhanks.bsky.social · Jun 22

Sunday morning vibes 💕

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Author R. Lynn Hanks @rlynnhanks.bsky.social · Jun 20

My flash fiction poetry piece published yesterday 🫶 it’s a 3 min read if anyone’s interested.

Young love, with hints of scifi and fantasy

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Author R. Lynn Hanks @rlynnhanks.bsky.social · May 7

So excited to share Nairi & Captain Dormai’s story “A Paper Alliance” in our upcoming anthology.

📚preorders & ARC applications open now!

🏷️SFF

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Bethany Averie ~ Querying YA Fantasy @writingbybethany.bsky.social · Apr 20

When Kallie collides into Chase, it's decidedly not love-at-first-sight, but as they grow closer feelings change; however, with a feud, family drama, and a deluded rival, banishment seems more likely than a happily-ever-after. #POSTERPITQ #YA #F #PosterPit

A graphic made to look like a movie poster. In the background is a Christmassy type village covered in snow and decorated with lights. On one side is a picture of a dark haired man not facing the viewer. On the other side is a dark haired girl, with her eyes looking up and sort of daydreaming. The text of the picture read: YA Author Bethany Averie presents SUGAR & FROST a YA Fantasy Romance, currently querying. At the bottom of the poster, the text reads: When Kallie collides into Chase, it's decidedly not love-at-first-sight, but as they grow closer feelings change; however, with a feud, family drama, and a deluded rival, banishment seems more likely than a happily-ever-after.

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Jax Wolff Writes @jaxwolffwrites.bsky.social · Apr 19

Less than a week into his first adventure with his mage best friend (and crush), luckless Mick finds himself stuck with a god in his head and the body of a dragon. Now he and genius mage Eleanor must restore his humanity—before his existence triggers a divine war.
#PosterPit #PosterPitW #F #R #NA

A vintage-style poster depicting a red/orange dragon perched on a rock with a watercolor explosion in the background. Text at the top left reads: Ace Rep, Hopepunk, and Friends to Lovers in a new fantasy adventure!

At the bottom:
The Nameless Song
A Jax Wolff Presentation
Coming soon to the trenches!

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Zed Prospero @zprospero.bsky.social · Apr 19

#PosterPit pitch thread:

bsky.app/profile/zpro...

Zed Prospero @zprospero.bsky.social · Apr 19

THE OFFICE X GOOD OMENS

A satire of both business and the supernatural, Virgil Mora, Hell's Consultant, must restore Heaven's faith in Hell by saving a vampire-run Ohio gas station in just three months to save his job and Lucifer, the angel he's fallen for.

#A #F #PosterPitW #PosterPit #LGBT

At the top is the text “Virgil Mora burns in Hell. It’s a pretty good job.”

On a background of red and orange flame, a black and white silhouette with of a man with a suit and tie sitting at a shiny marble table that covers the entire lower half of the poster. A white silhouette of an angel with wings spread is standing behind them.

In front of them is the title, glowing yellow, “Hell Is Work.”

In the reflection on the table is the title reversed, the angel is in yellow not white and has a dripping halo. The businessman is reflected in red and has horns.

At the bottom is the words “A novel by Zed Prospero”

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Author R. Lynn Hanks @rlynnhanks.bsky.social · Apr 19

Aw thank you 🫶

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Tamara 🍁👻🎃🧟‍♀️🌽 @tamaratoday.bsky.social · Feb 12

📜 THE BAD ONES X DREDGE 📜

After an ancient curse is unleashed on their sleepy seaside town, six teens must find a way to break it.

This YA Fantasy Horror features:
🌊Dual POV
🌊A Deadly Deal
🌊Ravenous Monsters
🌊Secrets With Severe Consequences
🌊Exes to Allies to [redacted]

#QuestPit #YA #F #H

Left to right. Top row: A lighthouse on a hill. A face covered in dirt or blood. An octopus with a skull for a head. Middle row: A row boat with a sea monster swimming up under it. "Fear me." A row boat on the water with a giant eye beneath it. Bottom row: a giant whirlpool with teeth. Two hands gripping the ground with the ocean off in the distance. A giant shadowy creature towering over a person in the ocean waves.

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Mike Mizov @mizov.bsky.social · Apr 19

Her family is broke, the gardener is dead, the manor might be alive, and Lottie Bradbury has a blood curse to break before she becomes its next victim.

Do you dare see the slow-burn gothic horror of The Last Heir of Bradbury Manor?

#PosterPit #PosterPitQ #Q #A #H #HF

The Last Heir of Bradbury Manor poster. It features a young girl burying a body in a cemetery while a young man looks on in abject horror while a manor looms over them in the background.

It reads:
Slow-burn gothic horror festival
Blood curse and gaslighting father fest
Cryptic diary and trauma bonding fest
Traking place in 1919 fest

The gardener is dead
The House is alive
Her family is cursed
Lottie Bradbury is
The Last Heir of Bradbury Manor

Now querying

There are two quotes
"Something about is resonated" - RevPit Editor
"I am wildly passionate" - Literary Agent

The Last Heir of Bradbury Manor movie poster featuring a young woman in a blue dress looking terrified as she falls down a well (or was she pushed?).

It has the tagline "You don't inherit a curse. You earn it"

Lottie Bradbury is "The Reluctant Heiress"
Gregory Winthrop is "The Wealthy Suitor"
Baron Thomas Bradbury is "The Lying Father"
and introducing Arthur as "The Forbidden Love"

It's 1919, the gardener is dead, the house is alive, and Lottie Bradbury must break a blood curse before it claims her mind, her future, and her soul.

Now querying

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nuzhatn.bsky.social @nuzhatn.bsky.social · Apr 19

500 word #PB:
When her grandmother longs for the garden she left behind in #Bangladesh, Eva plants a new garden for Nanu outside her window. As the garden grows, Nanu forgets her sorrows. But as winter nears, Eva wonders if Nanu will become heartbroken again. #PosterPit #CL #amquerying

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Author Alexis Veenendaal @alexisveenendaal.bsky.social · Apr 19

#PosterPitOS #F #A
Presenting the much-anticipated spectacular of the season:
🧙‍♂️Retiring wizard
🐀Animal companion
🪕Pickpocketing bard
🌳Tree-hugging druids
🤪Group of misfits
🥐Baked goods
💛Found family
🐉Magic and mayhem
#PosterPit

A cozy, comedic adult fantasy novel
THE RELUCTANT MENTOR

Athragast the Wizard is sick of mentoring Chosen Ones, but before he can retire, he needs one last capable hero. When the capable hero says “No”, he recruits Jon the busboy and a group of misfits instead.
ON SUBMISSION NOW

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Christine is agented @thechristinewrites.bsky.social · Apr 19

Ali Hazelwood's Love Theoretically meets Bolu Babalola's Honey and Spice

A slow-burn academic spicy romance set at an elite university about two rival professors forced to co-teach a class on love—and accidentally learn more than they bargained for.

#PosterPitW #PosterPit #NA #R #CR

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