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Mother, Lover, Dreamer.
Querying: FOREIGN BODIES.
WIP: HABEAS CORPUS.
Gritty spec-fic writer, it's cathartic.
Reformed dropkick.
Protect literature. Write ban-worthy books.
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savdoesbooks.bsky.social
#sunriseonthereaping movie trailer is out, huge day for gen z cusp #dystopian fans (me) (someone read my #amquerying dystopian manuscript) #thehungergames #booksky
November 20, 2025 at 2:40 PM
savdoesbooks.bsky.social
Does anyone have any good links to articles/videos on anything related to writing in the mystery genre? My latest YA manuscript is most def sci fi but I'm thinking also def mystery. Now I'm editing I want to know if I'm hitting the genre beats to query it as such! #WriteSky #amquerying 💙📚🪐📚 #booksky
November 20, 2025 at 3:09 AM
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So surprised I have this! From my #amquerying YA sff 'Foreign Bodies'. This is one of my favs. It's a lil spoiler, but hey, judging by how almost every agent who's read it has requested something more marketable first (yay?) it's a while away :'-) #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #booksky 🪐📚💙
Screenshot from user's manuscript. Black times new roman text on white background. It reads: “Do you think you’re human still?” “Yes,” he says, without hesitation. “I suppose he is, too. But it was different.” I look down to rub a thumb absently over the palm of my hand, scraping a fingernail at the dried blood. “Do you ever feel yourself… Fighting? To stay attached?” “Attached?” Nero echoes. “To your feelings,” I say. “To the human side.” “No,” he says. “Not once. It’s the only part of me I know I have.” “Do you miss it? Who you were?” After this, I pause. Nero leans against the wall beside me. “I don’t think I’m like Roland,” he mutters. “Not in that way, at least. I don’t have anything left like that to remember.” “Then what could you possibly have to compare it to?” I’m sure my voice is barely audible. “What, being human? Everything in the world,” he admits. I’m sure his hand twitches as if to reach for mine, but he pulls it back. Instead, he looks at me with an intensity that makes me feel as if he’s trying to burn his truth into my skin. “The sky. The sun. The fire in my stomach. That’s how I know it’s all real.” “What do you know about the world?” I scoff. “Like I tried to tell you, it’s not my first day on Earth,” he says. “I want to find my dad,” I whisper. My voice sounds like my own, ten years ago. “Then that’s what we need to do.” I drop my gaze to the floor. There it is, again. The retrograde sort of grief I’d tried to bury. The word 'retrograde' is highlighted in yellow.
November 19, 2025 at 2:58 AM
savdoesbooks.bsky.social
#WIPSnips From my #amquerying YA sci-fi thriller, Foreign Bodies. Fun one... Couldn't choose between them! :-) #booksky #writesky #writingcommunity
Screenshot from user's manuscript. It reads in black font on white background: '“Can I see it? The scar?” I ask. When he nods, I take a few tentative steps forward to get a closer look, because it’s not just his neck. The even lines decorate the entirety of his back, as if somebody has gutted him like a pig for market and sewn him together again. My mind flashes back to my week of work in the butcher’s shop, and I reach out tentatively with a finger, expecting to find a raised surface. Instead, I’m surprised by the absence of a scar. There’s no divot in the skin, not a crease or wrinkle. It’s a seamless, clean line, so precisely stitched you couldn’t dream of it out here. My body goes numb as I pull my finger up the line on his spine. It meets the circle at the base of his skull. There, in tiny letters, is a word etched into his skin in a white, well-healed scar.' Screenshot from users manuscript. "Some of these people look like they’ve been here for weeks. Some, years, judging by the pallor of their skin. Like they have been stuck here below the ground in some kind of sick purgatory between their world and ours. I wonder if they can’t leave, in fear of what might happen when they reach the surface, or whether they know what is waiting for them when they do."
November 15, 2025 at 6:36 AM
savdoesbooks.bsky.social
from my #amquerying YA SFF "Foreign Bodies." If someone wants to pick it up that doesn't want to make it NA romance-dystopia (romastopia? spicetopia?) pls let me know bc turning down an offer of rep after a call is NOT what i expected to do :'-) #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #BookSky
Image of screenshot from the user's manuscript. Black text on white background reads "I even admire the way the sun glitters off the rows of buildings here. It’s the only thing that feels almost familiar, even if it doesn’t burn my skin like at home. Even the potted plants and the crawling vines planted evenly through the streets look artificial, too perfectly green amongst the grey. They’re probably fake, I think, and I remind myself to check the next time we pass by one again. If it weren’t for the dome, it would have been so obvious what was waiting here for us. These buildings would have stood tall above the wall, ruining everything they were trying to hide. But I know they exist, because I am trapped here, imprisoned under their false sky. “Monotonous, huh?” says Tejas. “Makes our twin houses look like the most fascinating things in the world.” “You can say that again.” " The word 'building' is highlighted in yellow block.
November 13, 2025 at 12:58 PM
savdoesbooks.bsky.social
This book. No words could describe it in a way that would, at all, communicate how it made me feel. But I'll damn well try: Brilliant. Heartbreaking. Political. Thought-provoking. Intriguing. Artistic. Risky. Timely. In other words—it's very, very good. #booksky 💙📚
Cover image of 'Chain-Gang All-Stars,' written by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah. A stylised image of a red scythe or scythe-like weapon. with colourful, flame like shapes coming from the blade tip. The background is a mustard yellow colour. The title appears in black block letters lower middle of the page. A gold badge reads 'One of the New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year,' and a silver badge reads 'National Book Award Finalist'
November 12, 2025 at 1:18 PM
savdoesbooks.bsky.social
a strange one, today! #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WIPSnips #booksky
Screenshot from users manuscript, the word 'shirt' is highlighted in neon yellow. Black text on white background reads, "Still, I can’t help but laugh when he tosses me a bottle of liquor, because Ada gives him a sideways glance that looks like it could split him in two. If there’s something I need right now, it’s bravery, but I also need to forget about the open sores sticking to the inside of my shirt. This will work for that plenty, so I give her a nod and swig from the bottle. She shakes her head."
November 12, 2025 at 1:11 PM
savdoesbooks.bsky.social
Someone tell David Attenborough... bc I'm coming for his gig. #Booksky #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WIPSnips
Image of a screenshot of users manuscript. Black text on white page reads: “Go on,” Nero says. When I look up, he’s watching me cautiously. “If humans could rewrite our bodies at will,” I turn my attention back to the page, “would we still be human? Or would we become something else entirely, drifting between borrowed selves?” I realise, now, the pictures on the page are this same creature, after all. It really does as the words say. It is almost indistinguishable from those it desires to replicate.
November 9, 2025 at 1:42 PM
savdoesbooks.bsky.social
ooh, as a simile denier (joking) this has got to be one of my favourites I've written! #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #Booksky
Cropped image of the user's manuscript text in Times New Roman font on a white background. The word 'movement' is highlighted in yellow, indicating that the user searched for it in their document. The text reads: . It’s a learned movement, I suppose, just like mine through the rubble. Only here, their bodies ebb and flow in synchronicity with one another. From this high up, they’re like a busy school of iridescent fish in a running creek.
November 7, 2025 at 3:06 PM
savdoesbooks.bsky.social
Just got my first full req rejection. Why did nobody tell me that it could feel good! Nice to know it's not a structure/craft problem, or I'd be worried about having it out with other agents. I hope one has a vision for it in the market, but it's a push to keep working on other projects! #booksky 💙📚
October 26, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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October 15, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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loripatrick.bsky.social
Newport Public Library 📚 banned books staircase. I identify as a library nerd 🤓
This speaks volumes to me. 🦋 📖 #booksky
October 13, 2025 at 12:40 AM
savdoesbooks.bsky.social
ME rn fr... Bc as somebody diagnosed with the need it now disorder (ADHD), waiting to hear back on manuscript requests is certainly a lesson in patience (and a special kind of torture) lol #booksky #amquerying
Funny image of Drag Queen Katya, a bald person wearing dark eye makeup with tear streaks, fading red lipstick, and a tan velour jacket with tripes at the wrists and collar, sits outdoors, smiling uncomfortably while holding a cigarette, a box of cigarettes and a phone.
October 14, 2025 at 4:13 AM
savdoesbooks.bsky.social
any excuse to share my fav wedding photo
Image of a wedding portrait photo. The background is a wall with brightly coloured grafitti tags, bubble letters in white with black and pink borders. The word is hidden by the central figures, man and woman on their wedding day. The man has dyed blonde hair and wears an ivory suit, black collared shirt, and golden bolo tie secured at the centre. The bolo tie is gold, in the shape of a horse-shoe, and has floral accents. The woman has pink hair with a blunt cut fringe, wears a mesh dress with diamontes, and red bracelets. She holds a floral bouquet of bright pink flowers and red roses, and they are showing off gold and emerald wedding rings on their ring fingers.
September 4, 2025 at 6:36 AM
savdoesbooks.bsky.social
how it feels when i have three manuscripts i'm working on and an inbox waiting for submission news, but need to focus on my university assignments first lmaooooo #booksky 📚💙
August 18, 2025 at 3:18 AM
savdoesbooks.bsky.social
goshhh i have been SO unwell the past two weeks i haven't even had time to open scrivener, toddler parenting is not for the weak lol #booksky
August 12, 2025 at 1:07 PM
savdoesbooks.bsky.social
🔸 last book you read: Chain-Gang All-Stars, Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenya
🔸 your current read: Strangers, Taichi Yamada
🔸 last book added to your tbr: Gravity Let Me Go, Trent Dalton
🔸 next read: Babel, R. F. Kuang

quote with yours! #booksky
spacehippieface.bsky.social spacehippieface @spacehippieface.bsky.social · Aug 10
bookish checkpoint 🕯️

🔸 last book you read: All Dogs have ADHD - Kathy Hoopmann
🔸 your current read: A Heart Full of Hatred - Derek Landy
🔸 last book added to your tbr: The Phantom Tollbooth - Norton Juster
🔸 next read: The War of the Worlds - HG Wells

quote with yours! #booksky #books
theelleboyd.bsky.social Your Own Personal Elle Boyd @theelleboyd.bsky.social · Aug 10
bookish checkpoint 🕯️

🔸 last book you read: Heads You Win, by Jeffrey Archer.
🔸 your current read: On the Clock, by Claire Baglin.
🔸 last book added to your tbr: Still Alice, by Lisa Genova.
🔸 next read: Anna Karenina, by Leo Tolstoy.

quote with yours! #booksky #books
August 10, 2025 at 1:58 PM
savdoesbooks.bsky.social
reaaaalllly practising patience by not nudging the agents who have my submission before the date they gave me to do so eeeek #booksky 📚💙
August 7, 2025 at 7:16 AM
savdoesbooks.bsky.social
lmaooooo meeeee #hamilton #musicaltheatre
August 2, 2025 at 4:31 AM
savdoesbooks.bsky.social
Sooo I need to know: Are my fellow #booksy writers working on multiple manuscripts at once, or do you stick to one at a time? I'm a multi-work writer; I need the variation. I find having time away from work helps with writer's block and gives me plenty of time to let my scenes settle! 💙📚
July 29, 2025 at 6:09 AM
savdoesbooks.bsky.social
Also, super late to the party, but I love 'zombie' media. It's never about the perceived threat. #28yearslater exemplifies this: toxic masculinity, false heroes, familial bonds, and generational trauma. Can't believe it took me so long to catch it!
July 22, 2025 at 1:52 PM
savdoesbooks.bsky.social
Ok, how did I never think about writing a sci-fi spec fic set in a Victorian-build boarding school when I write sci-fi spec fic... and attended to a Victorian-build boarding school... lmao this is FUN 📚💙 🪐📚 #booksky
July 22, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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ebthen.bsky.social Eb @ebthen.bsky.social · Nov 14
If you're seeing encouragement/demands to do alt text and you're overwhelmed or confused about how to do it and you're worried you're going to do it wrong...

this thread is for you.

First: prompt questions to get you started.
ebthen.bsky.social Eb @ebthen.bsky.social · May 20
Alt text prompt Qs:

What would someone who can't see the image need to know about it in order to take part in the conversation? What is it about this image that made you choose it? What are the important details someone who could see the image would take away from it?

(Not for images of text.)
July 21, 2025 at 4:54 AM
savdoesbooks.bsky.social
Friendly reminder that bsky has an option to turn on 'alt text' for all images, and it will not let you post until you have popped that in. Very very helpful if you're forgetful like I am, and a quick and easy path to helping the internet be accessible for all :-) #booksky #💙📚
July 21, 2025 at 3:46 AM
savdoesbooks.bsky.social
Looking for Alaska. Funnily enough, I remember reading this and thinking they were all tame for supposed 'rebels'. Just goes to show the adult disconnect with how teenagers behave, as it was deemed 'unsuitable' for the age group. Read #bannedbooks ! #booksky #bookchallenge #💙📚 #politicalbooks 6/?
Book cover of 'Looking for Alaska,' written by John Green. A solid black background, with a thin trail of white smoke curling from a recently extinguished candle which appears at the bottom of the image. The words 'a novel' appear beside the smoke. The title, 'Looking for Alaska,' appears in white, lowercase type and is outlined by a red rectangle, centered at the bottom of the page. The author's name, 'John Green,' is printed beneath it in white text.
July 21, 2025 at 3:44 AM