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Amanda Burghart
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#AmQuerying upmarket fiction set in Philadelphia and County Clare, Ireland
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Amanda Burghart @amandaburghart.bsky.social · 2d
A teacher trades post-divorce shame for a trip to Ireland. Cue family reconnection, trad music sessions & a fling w a barman. When tragedy calls her back to Philly, she can maintain blood ties or break free from lifelong expectations. THE VIEW FROM LAKE COMO x THE WEDDING PEOPLE #BluePit 📖 #Q #A#WF
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FROM HERE TO CLARE - Upmarket Contemporary

🍻 Irish Pub
🎻 Trad Music
✈️ Vacation Abroad
✝️ Catholic Guilt
😣 Family Drama
💃Cousins partying
✨ Mid-30s Reinvention
💕 Finding Love Again
🫶 Found Family
👰‍♀️ Wedding
🌊 Beach
🍀 Ireland
🏙️ Philly

THE VIEW FROM LAKE COMO x THE WEDDING PEOPLE #BluePit 📖 #Q #A#WF
January 13, 2026 at 4:43 PM
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Maggie was ready to start a family in the Philly suburbs w her college sweetheart. Instead, she's in her childhood bedroom mourning the life she lost. When her cousin invites her to Ireland, she books a flight ✈️ True happiness awaits. But is it too late to redefine her future? #BluePit 📖 #wf #q #a
A photo of cliffs in County Clare Ireland, jutting into the sea.
January 13, 2026 at 8:02 PM
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READY OR NOT X VARIATION

A talented ballerina's unplanned motherhood and rehearsals for the lead in a new production collide as she struggles with her new body and the cute lawyer that crashed into her life.


#bluepit 📖 #W #A #R
January 13, 2026 at 5:26 PM
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prahajess.bsky.social
The Best Kisser in Prague

🇨🇿 A crossroads in history
🇨🇿 Expats in Prague
🇨🇿 Early-90s nostalgia
🇨🇿 Gritty slow-burn ♥️

#BluePit📖 #W #A #R #WF
#WriteSky #WritingCommunity
Image of a girl in profile, but with her head on the bar, holding a drink. Text: The Best Kisser in Prague
January 13, 2026 at 7:03 PM
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fantasyscience.bsky.social
Bats are dying, humanity faces mass starvation, and no one seems to care.

Antagonistic colleagues Nat and George reluctantly team up to save the world, but face greedy corporations, doomsday cults, and their own explosive chemistry.

#BluePit #BluePit📖 #Q #R #SF #A
Moodboard. Text: "ChemPortal," "Fay Irwin," "Sci-fi romcom." Central image: a steaming pressure cooker Outer images (clockwise from top left): - a table set with food and two colourful cocktails - printed text with "chemistry" bolded - a woman working on a car engine - the Toronto skyline - a colourful stack of books - bright light shining through a partially opened door - a bat hanging from a tree branch - latkes on a plate
January 13, 2026 at 8:55 PM
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ALL FOURS x THE WEDDING PEOPLE

THIS ENDS NOW: A serial marriage-jilter hits a swanky wellness retreat to learn why she keeps fleeing perfect husbands. There's only one cure: facing her nastiest ghost—the slippery, brilliant first love whose poison still runs in her veins. #A #UP #Q #WF BluePit 📖
A collage of photos: a classic red Vermont farmhouse in autumn, with a low stone wall in the foreground; the title of the novel, “This Ends Now”; a dark-haired woman floating face upwards in water, surrounded by white flowers, her eyes open; a blazing bonfire at nightfall; a dark-haired man wearing glasses lying on the ground, in profile, with a dark-haired woman to his side, holding him; the interior of Yale University’s Sterling Memorial Library, showing a Gothic cathedral-like entrance; a man’s hand clasping a woman’s hand, with a snow-covered fir tree in the background.
January 13, 2026 at 8:09 PM
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Grim Portents

HITCHHIKER’S GUIDE X CONSTANTINE

A man is murdered by a hell-beast on his wedding day. Now, with the help of the reaper who collected his soul, he must uncover who is releasing monsters from Hell if he wants to return to the life he was robbed of.

📖 #F #H #PN #A #P #OV #POC #BluePit
Grim Portents cover featuring a skeleton hand holding a feather and emerging from an open book. The title is on a burning banner that envelops the feather and a large beast looms over it all. At the top, the tagline reads: Welcome to the first day of the end of your life… "I HAD ALWAYS TOLD MYSELF IT WAS A FIGMENT OF MY IMAGINATION, THE MIND PLAYING TRICKS. IT WAS JUST A SHADOW. BUT NOW THE MONSTER HAD BEEN GIVEN A NAME, AN IDENTITY. IT WAS REAL." Bill Baker wants nothing more than to marry the woman he loves, but when his wedding is interrupted by a rampaging hell-beast, his life is thrown into disarray. Desperate for a second chance, he will do anything to set his future back on track. Now, with the help of a soul-collecting reaper named Sonny, he must uncover who is releasing monsters from Hell, in order to earn back the life that was stolen from him and prevent the oncoming end of days. Faced with the choice between what is right and what is easy, Bill may have to sacrifice all he holds dear for one last shot at life. Ad for Grim Portents, featuring a print copy of the book and an ebook on an iPhone. A QR code that takes you to my website and the words “Scan to learn more about debut paranormal fantasy novel Grim Portents” below it. Under that, it says “Available online anywhere books are sold!” And above it all is the tagline “Welcome to the first day of the end of your life” Black and white sketch of characters Bill and Sonny. Bill is a dark featured man in a suit and kind of a Mark Ruffalo vibe. Sonny is a rotting corpse man with a cardigan.
January 13, 2026 at 2:22 PM
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THE ADVENTURES OF AMINA AL-SIRAFI X
GODKILLER

After causing a magickal outburst that engulfs her home, Naomi flees aboard a pirate ship. She’s lured in with the chance at a new life, but malevolent gods and mortals seek to drag her back and use her magick for themselves.

#BluePit📖 #A #F #Q #LGBT
January 13, 2026 at 8:31 PM
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chrisakins.bsky.social
EARTHLINGS!

BODY SNATCHERS x THE RUNAWAYS

When a 2nd generation alien sleeper cell is ordered to abduct her human friend, she saves her and goes rogue. Now her fellow operatives must track her down, but should they help her to sabotage the coming invasion instead?

📖 #Bluepit #W #YA #SF
Title of EARTHLINGS! over a view of the planet fl group of second generation aliens sleeper cells have spent their entire lives assimilating to human culture and gathering intelligence for the home world. To them, the eventual overthrow of farth has always been a distant goal meant for future generations. Now, when ordered to abduct and replace a human girl they have betriended, one of the alien operatives realizes that they have grown to care more for their found home and family than they do for their own people. She sabotages the abduction and goes on the run with the human girl. Her friends are ordered to track her down; but now questioning their own mission, they find themselves wondering if the entire invasion is a mistake and if they have more in common with these Earthlings than they ever thought...
January 13, 2026 at 3:29 PM
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rammwriter.bsky.social
Time to re-up this feller.

#BluePit #Q #A #T #SP #HS 📖 🦋
rammwriter.bsky.social Gert Ramm 🦋 @rammwriter.bsky.social · 3d
Ministry of Time x Life on Mars

An intelligence agent from 2023 and a Russian spy from 1997 travel to 1972, to steal Britain’s time travel secrets. Their subsequent collision with a very pissed-off MI5 officer sparks a temporal explosion of epic Cold War proportions.

#BluePit #Q #A #T #SP #HS 📖 🦋
January 13, 2026 at 7:00 PM
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mycelialwriter.bsky.social
Conscripted into a brutal war against the mystical Lumani, Rowynn keeps a dangerous secret—an uncontrollable magic rises within her, the very magic the army seeks to destroy. Her only solace is in a mysterious demon who visits Rowynn in her dreams.
#BluePit #BluePit📖 #A #F #P
Star of Shalik Moodboard that is dark, starry with photo of moon over the ocean, a celestial study, a dark starry man, the inside of an observatory, the silhouette of a woman, a castle, a starry sea, and a man's hand clad in a dark blue starry robe.
January 13, 2026 at 1:00 PM
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nehayazmin.bsky.social
Kavi gets BFF Ryhan to be her Practice Boyfriend so she can become the perfect girlfriend to her actual bf Aaron Mirza. It’s her last shot at love & relationships—due to a Qasam—& has to be perfect

if her family finds out, she’ll lose everything—inc dreams of studying Medicine in🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
#BluePit 📖 #YA #Q
Moodboard for ALL YOUR QASAMS with a quote from the novel reading ‘You are madness incarnate’ and five images: picture of a hot chocolate drink and heart-shaped cookies, a couple embracing during a boat ride, a young south Asian girl in south Asian bridal wear and jewellery smiling down at her maroon outfit, a close-up of a young man kissing the forehead of a young woman, a close-up the joined hands of a south Asian bride and groom, a young man in an aesthetic library reading a hardcover text book. The Moodboard is surrounded by arrows pointing to text that allude to the themes and tropes in the novel: “Meddling grandpa”, “perfect firsts”, “friends-to-lovers with a difference”, “only one bed”, “a decades’ old Qasam and some new ones”, “Bengali teens in STEM”.
January 13, 2026 at 7:22 PM
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Agent's Guide to KORI'S DESTINY WITH THE MULTIVERSE

AMARI x LOKI

After a meteor crash Kori learns her grief transcends the multiverse when doppelgängers attack. Now Kori must save herself, from herself or risk imprisonment in a time loop
#BluePit 📖 #Q #MG #SP #DIS #OV #POC #AmQuerying #AgentsGuide
January 13, 2026 at 5:03 PM
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Cursed to move backward through time, Joric has fewer memories of Fion each time they meet. If she can’t find a way to change his past before their final encounter, she’ll become a stranger to a man driven only by his memories of the terrible act that cursed him. #BluePit 📖 #W #A #F
19th century train car; Victoria ear ball with people dancing; old English street; gas lamp; woman in a ball gown; old clocks; god statue; apothecary shelf; 19th century seaside resort
January 13, 2026 at 7:56 PM
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In a dark kingdom where light is toxic and steel is untouchable, a mortal woman with a flashlight and a cosplay sword becomes a monster king’s obsession and the realm’s best weapon against a vengeful demigod. ཐིཋྀ THE MOTH KING (109K) ཐིཋྀ #BluePit 📖 #NA #F #R #Q #ND
Bats in a cave; the full moon; a death's head moth; fog in a forest; a light house; cracked earth; a sword. There are line drawings of moths and mushrooms around the edges.
January 13, 2026 at 7:59 PM
amandaburghart.bsky.social
Maggie was ready to start a family in the Philly suburbs w her college sweetheart. Instead, she's in her childhood bedroom mourning the life she lost. When her cousin invites her to Ireland, she books a flight ✈️ True happiness awaits. But is it too late to redefine her future? #BluePit 📖 #wf #q #a
A photo of cliffs in County Clare Ireland, jutting into the sea.
January 13, 2026 at 8:02 PM
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🐟FROM THE SEA FRET🐟

Callum Point - a queer transman - moves to a dead-end fishing town only to find it full of semi-mad townsfolk, monstrous fish, and an ever-present fog that whispers to him.

#BluePit #BluePit📖 #Q #A #H #OV #TR #LGBT
A moodboard consisting of 5 pictures, each outlined in navy blue. The 5th picture is in the centre. A foggy wooden dockyard at night. The inside of a tackle shop. Nets, buoys, and fishing paraphernalia hand from the wall and ceiling. A pile of grey fish. A hand reaching out of grey water, the sky above is overcast. A fishing boat on the ocean. Seagulls swarm it in the air. Outlined text over a dark blue ocean. The horizon is obscured by fog. Arrows point to words scattered across the image. The text reads: From the Sea Fret. Revenge. Queer Transmac MC. Cosmic horror. Paranoia. Thalassophobia. Creepy small town.
January 13, 2026 at 6:40 PM
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Ever since her best friend Bridget died ten years ago, Meg has been seeing her “ghost” to cope. Will an apology tour to the people Bridget hurt make her go away or will the truth of the night she died be a roadblock to moving on? #bluepit #bluepit📖
Everything You Did BOOK CLUB FICTION GHOST FISH X BLUE SISTERS X EUPHORIA
January 13, 2026 at 7:15 PM
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trutherford.bsky.social
Used the wrong hashtags for this post about ANTI-CHARTER CAMPAIGN
Reposting with the right ones and adding fantasy, because there wasn't one for speculative
#BluePit #BluePit📖 #A #W #F
trutherford.bsky.social T. Rutherford @trutherford.bsky.social · 3d
ANTI-CHARTER CAMPAIGN: Speculative Fiction
Jumanji X Abbott Elementary
School librarian Britt and her teacher friends must figure out how to stop a charter takeover of their beloved school.
The strange D&D game they're playing may hold the key.
Querying Soon
#BluePit 📖 #A #W
An image of a classroom over an image of a D&D game with dice. Text reads: Speculative fiction, Anti-Charter Campaign, is Jumanji X Abbott Elementary. Librarian Britt and her teacher colleagues must make the right rolls in a magical RPG to save their school from a charter takeover.
January 13, 2026 at 6:15 PM
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HAMNET x NOSFERATU

The black sheep of a powerful 14th-century Irish family pursues a forbidden romance with the banshee who's haunted his household for generations.

🖤 2025 SmoochPit Mentee
🖤 Bubonic plague
🖤 Catholic horror
🖤 Only one grave

#BluePit #BluePit📖 #A #Q #H #HS #D #Gothic
Photo of a creepy gothic forest with the outline of red skeletal hands reaching in. Text reads "An Agent's Guide to The Banshee of Clan Murtagh: a gothic love story. 80,000 words, adult horror, by Anna Hirsch." Torn paper with a graphic of praying hands holding a rosary. Text reads: The pitch: Ireland, 1348: When Ciarán Murtagh hears the cry of his family’s eternally young banshee, he hunts her down to learn who in his family is fated to die. In the struggle, his touch triggers memories of the banshee’s previous life as a servant of his household—and she demands to know more. They meet by moonlight searching for answers in the banshee’s memories, and Ciarán’s growing attraction sets him on a path of macabre desire. But as the devastating bubonic plague closes in, Ciarán must decide whether to stay by his dying family or succumb to the seduction of the death-bringer. For fans of: the yearning in the time of plague in Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell, the Catholic horror in The Possession of Alba Díaz by Isabel Cañas, and the death-crossed lovers in Nosferatu directed by Robert Eggers. A spooky forest with a red outline of a skeletal deer overlayed on it. Large text reads: The first line: I was a boy of ten when I first saw death, but I'd heard her for years.
January 13, 2026 at 6:03 PM
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tkbwrites.bsky.social
Merlin's Invention-4 book series
Accidental time travel
Lost in the past Merlin is living a lie while trying to recreate the tech to return to his time

Hard science/Historical fiction with romance & humor
The Martian X Forest Gump

#A #SF #DIS #Q
#Bluepit #WriteSky #Writers #AmAgenting #LitAgents
January 13, 2026 at 6:36 PM
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nehayazmin.bsky.social
She was born to rule👸

He trained to burn🔥

The world will be devoured⚔️

Nothing is safe from the wrath of the sea🌊

🧜‍♀️sea folk
⚔️sibling rivalry
🖤hate-to-love
💘fake courting
💔forbidden love
🤫secrets, twists

#BluePit 📖 #F #P #POC
Moodboard with seven images and title along the bottom: Heir to the Throne Series. Image 1 is of a young man who appears to have huge angel-wings and a fire burning in the background. Image 2 is a scene of a ship that seems to have crashed against the rocks edging the sea. Image 3 is of a young woman with her arms around a young man. Image 4 depicts a young woman wearing an elaborate gold headpiece studded with blue crystals. Image 5 is of a young woman holding a sword and plummeting in the ocean. Image 6 depicts the outside of a beautiful castle, a huge moon in the sky, and a young woman in a black gown staring at the stars in the sky. The final image is of two ships caught in a storm at sea.
January 13, 2026 at 6:16 PM
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Vikings x Derry Girls = Viking, Nun, Murder, Chicken.

A chance encounter between a Viking and a fake nun leads to murder, mystery, and romance. And chickens. The chickens are key to the plot. #BluePit 📖 #Q #A #H #R
A collage of Viking and medieval themed images including a goblet, warriors, and nuns, French lavender, a castle and Nunnery a random chicken and a very cold you woman wrapped in a grey blanket.
January 13, 2026 at 5:18 PM
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fosterja8.bsky.social
"A Human Burden" is a short story anthology that delves into a multitude of different types of burdens. From the burden of time to the burden of a promise, each story brings a new complexity, a new weight to bear, and a distinct struggle to overcome.
#BluePit #BluePit 📖 #A #W
A HUMAN BURDEN BOOK POSTER
January 13, 2026 at 12:01 PM
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sageowenwrites.bsky.social
What do you do when the fling you ghosted shows up at training camp with the power to destroy your career?

Heated Rivary x Ted Lasso meets rugby and messy feelings

🌈 bi & demi discovery
🥺 yearning
🎤 mm athlete x journalist
🏉 forced to work with your crush

#BluePit📖 #lgbt #A #R #W
Moodboard for Sage Owen’s rugby romance novel WIP (tentatively titled The Re-Try). It features 7 images including anonymous men playing rugby, a tidy blond man in a collared dress shirt, Belfast at sunset, two cocktails on a moodily lit bar, and two men’s hands entwined on white hotel sheets.
January 13, 2026 at 5:20 PM