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Sasha Green @sashagreen.bsky.social · 3d

Ravi and his family are celebrating the Sri Lankan new year with love, gratitude, and of course, curry! 💛

For fans of FRY BREAD.

#DVpit #OWN #PB

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Sasha Green @sashagreen.bsky.social · 3d

It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s…Amelia!

Amelia is a young ostrich who dreams of flying. But there is one problem. Ostriches. Don't. Fly. Will Amelia follow everyone's advice and pull her head out of the clouds? Or will she follow her heart and find a way to let her dreams soar? #DVpit #PB

Sasha Green @sashagreen.bsky.social · 3d

#DVpit #YA #LGBT #R

A teen artist finds love and support from an unexpected ally when his father’s death forces him home to confront long buried family secrets that could change everything he knew about himself.

For fans of Heartstopper & I Wish You All the Best

Sasha Green @sashagreen.bsky.social · 3d

Ravi and his family are celebrating the new year with traditions that have been handed down in their family from generation to generation.

Join them as they celebrate the new year with love, gratitude, and curry.

For fans of FRY BREAD.

#DVpit #OWN #PB

Sasha Green @sashagreen.bsky.social · 3d

🥹❤️ Thank you!!!!!!

Sasha Green @sashagreen.bsky.social · 3d

Amelia is a young ostrich who dreams of nothing more than flying. But there is one problem. Ostriches. Don't. Fly. Will Amelia follow everyone's advice and pull her head out of the clouds? Or will she follow her heart and find a way to let her dreams soar? #DVpit #PB

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Sasha Green @sashagreen.bsky.social · 3d

#DVpit #YA #LGBT

A teen artist finds love and support from an unexpected ally when his father’s death forces him home to confront long buried family secrets that could change everything he knew about himself.

Sasha Green @sashagreen.bsky.social · 3d

😂Thank you!!❤️

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Sasha Green @sashagreen.bsky.social · 3d

Amelia is a young ostrich who dreams of nothing more than flying. But there is one problem. Ostriches. Don't. Fly. Will Amelia follow everyone's advice and pull her head out of the clouds? Or will she follow her heart and find a way to let her dreams soar? #DVpit #PB

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Sasha Green @sashagreen.bsky.social · 3d

For fans of Heartstopper & I Wish You All the Best

#DVpit #YA #LGBT #ND

Sasha Green @sashagreen.bsky.social · Jul 13

Thank you!!🥰

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Gavin / G. B. Ralph @gbralph.com · Jul 13

🕵️ Cosy mysteries
🏳️‍🌈 Gay sleuth
🇳🇿 Set in NZ

Investigate The Milverton Mysteries for a chaotic cast of local busybodies, delicious baked treats, a demanding and disdainful ginger cat, a very slow-burn romance with a rather appealing policeman, and of course… murder!

#BluePit 📖 #P #A #M #LGBT #OV

Be gay, solve crime. Rainbow banner. Book cover images for The Milverton Mysteries by G. B. Ralph.

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Adam Reisinger @adamreisinger.com · Jul 13

After a devastating injury ends her competitive career, Chloé LaFleur seeks solace and purpose in the world of show skating. She meets Freja Lindholm, who, despite their differences, might be exactly what Chloé needs.

In revisions, querying later this summer.

#BluePit 📖 #R #A #LGBT #WIP #Q

Intro page for agents guide to THE ICE BETWEEN US a sapphic figure skating romance novel

Pitch for THE ICE BETWEEN US

Chloé LaFleur is one of the best women’s figure skaters in the world. Or she was, until a devastating injury ended her competitive career. Adrift without skating (and after being dumped by her girlfriend), Chloé signs on to do the one thing she swore she’d never do: show skating.

Freja Lindholm is the show’s most experienced skater, but show life has grown tiring. She’s ready to hang up her skates when this newcomer arrives. Freja is forced to get the former Olympian up to speed show skating world, giving her new purpose.

When fate throws the two together as roommates, they clash. But before long, the ice between them begins to melt, and it might just be that they’re both exactly who the other one needs.

Comps for THE ICE BETWEEN US

• Unsteady by Peyton Corinne
• Wake Up Nat & Darcy by Kate Cochran
• Book Lovers by Emily Henry

Excerpt from THE ICE BETWEEN US

“And this must be the great Chloé LaFleur you're always raving about. I hear the Golden Girl is joining our cast next season."

"Bronze," Chloé says, tersely.

I shift my body in her direction and turn my gaze downward. She's shorter than I expected, but even I have to admit that she's quite beautiful, even in ill-fitting clothes with no makeup on. I can see why, even beyond her skating, they wanted her for our cast.

"What's that?"

"I won bronze in Beijing, not gold. And I'm proud of it."

The humility is surprising. I expected her to have an ego, but immediately she's deflecting. Still, I'm not buying it.

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Cynthia Lamb @cynthialamb.bsky.social · Jul 13

THE RIVER KNOWS YOUR NAME + THE MISSING SISTER

Two sisters
One given up for adoption at birth
The other searches for her
From urban coast to rural heartland and back, she finds sweet new love, bitter loss, and that rare kind of healing that sticks.

#BluePit📖 #Q #A #WF #OV #LGBTQIA+ #BluePit

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R. S. Mot @motthepaladin.bsky.social · Jul 13

Rules For Ghosting x Conventionally Yours

💚 An aro/ace MC
👩‍❤️‍💋‍👩 A badass lesbian girlfriend
🏳️‍🌈 Actually, everybody is queer
🪶 A guardian angel willing to commit crimes
👀 The ability to see souls, ghosts, and more
🚗 An epic road trip

#bluepit 📖 #A #F #SP #W #OV #LGBT #ND

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Author Adlin K.T. @adlinktauthor.bsky.social · Jul 13

Miguel's 1st Year at LoMA:
🔪Figure out who killed Mami
👻Awaken her sleeping opía
🌬️Attune with the stubborn elements
🤝Make friends with other mages
🌌Deal with the bully
🧛🏻Don't get bit by a vampire
💘Don't fall in love! Seriously, that's not important
#BluePit #YA #F #UF #CF #Q #LGBT #LGBTQIA

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Kelton Davis is querying! 🏹⚔️🌠 @keltondavis.bsky.social · Jul 13

GODKILLER X BONE SHARD DAUGHTER

A desperate heir. A disgraced warrior. A deadly assassin.

🏹 Strong FMC
🏹 Rich Worldbuilding
🏹 Hunt for Redemption
🏹 Cyclical Trauma
🏹 Found Family

#BluePit 📖 #A #Q #AmQuerying

Background: Mountain monastery surrounded by red trees
Title Card
Text: An Agent's Guide To: The Daughter and the Nameless Son by Kelton Davis | Adult Fantasy | 100k Words | Querying Now!

Background: Mountain monastery surrounded by red trees | Six images surrounding a quote (from clockwise): A sunset, a hammer striking hot metal, a red-haired archer, a grizzled old man, red arrow fletching, a red forest.
Text: "You might be too broken to help me yourself," she said, all pretense of courtesy gone, "but if you're a shadow of the man he said you were, you ought to still know something at least.
"Have you ever heard of an assassin who could change their shape?"

Background: Mountain monastery surrounded by red trees
Title: Comps
Images: Covers of GODKILLER by Hannah Kaner, THE JUSTICE OF KINGS by Richard Swan, and THE BONE SHARD DAUGHTER by Andrew Stewart. Arrows connect similarities between comps.
Text:
From GODKILLER: Cross-Country Quest to Forbidden Land, Surrogate Parenthood (shared with THE JUSTICE OF KINGS)
From BONE SHARD DAUGHTER: Disgraced Heir, Strong FMC (shared with both others)

Background: Mountain monastery surrounded by red trees
Title: Pitch
Text: Niozene has never been good enough.

As daughter and crown heir to the Mother, a living goddess and ruler of her country, perfection is the only standard she’s ever known. Yet, despite her flawless scholar’s education and a polished career as a ranger, Niozene has failed to convince the Mother to look past her greatest flaw—she lacks the holy power to control the minds of others that ordains her family as living gods with divine right to rule.

When a shape-changing assassin nearly kills the Mother on Niozene’s watch, she is stripped of her titles and given an ultimatum: return with the assassin’s head, or face excommunication from both her homeland and the afterlife. Desperate, she accepts the task as a final chance to prove herself and show the Mother she deserves a place as her daughter.

Allowed only the help of Sonsan, a surly tracker and criminal also facing excommunication, Niozene dreads that she may have lost her chance at redemption before she has even left home. But when Sonsan reveals that he shares the same strange shape-changing power as the assassin, Niozene realizes his assignment to accompany her is more than coincidence. As they track the assassin deep into a forbidden land, confronting demons, ancient magic, and the ghosts that haunt their dreams and blood, they must uncover the truth behind their quest—and the buried history neither knew they shared—if they wish to live to see their promised redemption.

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Sasha Green @sashagreen.bsky.social · Jul 13

#BluePit 📖 #Q #YA #R #LGBT #ND #agentsguide #bluepit

For fans of Heartstopper & Felix Ever After

✅ Enemies to Lovers
✅ Found Family
✅ Slow Burn
✅ Secrets and Twists
✅ Boarding School
✅ Seaside Town
✅ Angst with a side of humor

A young man looking out onto the ocean and a wave

A silhouette of a teenager with a backpack against an ocean backdrop

Two teens comforting each other with an embrace

Comparable titles cover pages: Heartstopper, Felix Ever After, I Wish You All the Best, What If It’s Us

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Sasha Green @sashagreen.bsky.social · Apr 11

Headed into the last #RevPit weekend. Thank you to the organizers, editors, first readers, & fabulous storytellers that make up this event!!🥰 This was so much fun! Grateful for the friendships & knowledge gained. Can’t wait to cheer each of you on in your publishing and writing journeys.🥰😘👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽