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kj is ✨querying✨ @kjsilver.bsky.social · 21h

This is the peak of coziness I want ot 🥺

#WriteSky #BookSky #WritingCommunity

Iris Andersi @goodwords.bsky.social · 22h

Linatta Mosset: curmudgeon, witch, plant-enthusiast, and a secret harborer of a sense of humor 🌱

Her best friend is Toad, a cat-shaped familiar with a snarky (but loveable) attitude 🐈‍⬛

Chronic illness makes life challenging, but her journey is full of heart 💚

#DVpit #Cozy #A #R #F #CI #DIS #LGBT

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kj is ✨querying✨ @kjsilver.bsky.social · 21h

I see apothecary and I am SOLD
#WriteSky #BookSky #WritingCommunitiy

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kj is ✨querying✨ @kjsilver.bsky.social · 21h

Nothing but the truth here!!!

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kj is ✨querying✨ @kjsilver.bsky.social · 21h

I am biased bc I love this book, premise (and miss zilla ofc) but not many books make me read them in less than 2 days. This is one them. Absolute FIRE prose ❤️‍🔥

#WriteSky #BookSky

zilla @zillawrites.bsky.social · 1d

Hotel Adair’s wallpaper doesn’t peel. Its piano stays in perfect tune. Its plush carpet covers all stains—but that grandeur only lasts when the hotel's been fed.

Luckily, when Cody's tight-knit friend group checks in, they bring plenty of secrets to satisfy its hunger.

#DVPit #A #H #CI #LGBT #ND

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K.A. Hela ✨ Prepping for edits...again✨ @jundlife.bsky.social · 1d

Dune 2 X The Unbroken

In a city under siege those born with psychic powers are conscripted to defend their home. Sylin answers the call while Naraha resists...until he is forced to become the monster he fears.
And visions of threatening 'Strangers' are increasing.
#agentsguide #amquerying #writesky

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kj is ✨querying✨ @kjsilver.bsky.social · 1d

I WISH I could read this again like it was the first time, SO bloody good I can't even explain 🔥❤️‍🔥

zilla @zillawrites.bsky.social · 1d

Hotel Adair’s wallpaper doesn’t peel. Its piano stays in perfect tune. Its plush carpet covers all stains—but that grandeur only lasts when the hotel's been fed.

Luckily, when Cody's tight-knit friend group checks in, they bring plenty of secrets to satisfy its hunger.

#DVPit #A #H #CI #LGBT #ND

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kj is ✨querying✨ @kjsilver.bsky.social · 1d

this will cure my post TSITP depression ❤️‍🔥

maggie @maggiesbooks.bsky.social · 1d

Always a bridesmaid... never gets a 2nd date. When Madelyn's ex resurfaces at the same time a new suitor sparks her interest. With a deadline to decide fast approaching, Madi must decide if she'll choose between herself, Felix, Jonah, moving to London or some of the above. #DVPit #U #A

Lunch at the Restaurant Fournaise (The Rowers’ Lunch) Date: 1875 Artist: Pierre-Auguste Renoir French, 1841-1919 https://www.artic.edu/artworks/81555/lunch-at-the-restaurant-fournaise-the-rowers-lunch

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kj is ✨querying✨ @kjsilver.bsky.social · 1d

i am SO here for this!!!!!! ❤️‍🔥

Arumi Writes (too much) @arumiwrites.bsky.social · 1d

KPOP DEMON HUNTERS x MINDWALKER

In a dark hour past midnight, time freezes for modern mortals, and cursed souls hunt the living. A Valkyrie must defeat these souls & heal their mortal pain, while battling her attraction to a Soul Reaper who seeks to devour them instead. #A #SFF #R #F #SF #DVpit

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kj is ✨querying✨ @kjsilver.bsky.social · 1d

psychological horror & unreliable narrator?? hell yes, please!!!!

Jules Nickerson @julesnickerson.com · 1d

DARK ACADEMIA HORROR

She made a pact to live out her dead sister’s dreams...but what happens when those dreams force her to study in a department that brainwashes its own grad students?

🩸 psychological horror
🩸 unreliable narrator
🩸 competition b/n grad students
🩸 disability rep

#DVpit #A #H #POC

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kj is ✨querying✨ @kjsilver.bsky.social · 1d

the way i'm rushing through my current (physical books i started months ago) reads to be able to read this should be studied, honestly.

Anna is querying gothic horror 💌 @annahirsch.bsky.social · 1d

The banshee’s cry means death, but Ciarán’s family doesn’t believe he heard her. He’ll do anything to prove himself—if he doesn’t fall for the banshee first. As the black plague closes in, he must choose between fighting for the living or embracing the seduction of death.

#DVPit #A #H #HF #JV #LGBT

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kj is ✨querying✨ @kjsilver.bsky.social · 1d

omg this sounds SO good!!!!!

Rajani Thindiath (Ruhj-ni) @rajanithindiath.bsky.social · 1d

ANIMAL FARM x THE GOOD PLACE

When grief-ridden sub-editor Archa discovers that the Afterlife’s soul-sucking CEOs have set their sights on her beloved grandfather’s soul, she must decide:
Damn her soul or save his.

#DVpit #F #A #POC

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kj is ✨querying✨ @kjsilver.bsky.social · 1d

bone magic???? SAY NO MORE

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kj is ✨querying✨ @kjsilver.bsky.social · 1d

we love pretty masks coming off and having to face our true selves ❤️‍🔥

Bree Buonomo @breebwrites.bsky.social · 1d

22yo Casey is sick of being her mother’s rescuer when she can’t even save herself from drugs & trauma. So when she’s rescued by a vampire, it’s a new beginning. Except her vices are the same, masked in a pretty face. Casey must end all of her vices if she wants a true 2nd chance at life
#DVPit #A #H

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kj is ✨querying✨ @kjsilver.bsky.social · 2d

Hell yes we do!! The new wip sounds so fun

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Bree Buonomo @breebwrites.bsky.social · 2d

#BitterEndChallenge update!
Knocked out two goals at the end of September and I’m almost done with my brainstorm for my new novel!
I’ll be pitching my vampire book tomorrow for DVPit but that doesn’t mean I’m not excited to write something new 👀 do we want teasers for my new project?
#amwriting

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Arumi Writes (too much) @arumiwrites.bsky.social · 2d

Posting for #DVparty day 5!

Today's Prompt: What's your story's theme song or playlist?

A good song to understand the vibes of All These Pretty Cages is... Siren by Kailee Morgue

open.spotify.com/track/4xb8JH...

#booksky #writersky #DVpit

Siren

open.spotify.com

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Jennifer Luce @jenniferluce.bsky.social · 5d

Here's my #AgentsGuide to GUMIHO, my horror romance. #H #R

🖤 Placed 3rd in the horror/paranormal category of the PNWA writing contest
🖤 Big 5 Editor interest

A woman cursed w/ a gumiho must confront the darkest parts of herself to save the man she loves & her humanity—or become something monstrous

An Agent's Guide To:

GUMIHO

78,000 word Horror Romance by Jennifer Luce

Centuries ago, Mina Kim made a promise after her brother’s tragic death—to rid the world of the vile, the greedy, and even the gods who abandoned her and her brother when they needed them most. To receive the power of a god, Mina was possessed by a gumiho, a wicked fox spirit that feasts on one soul each year, and has spent her life collecting a thousand souls. Now she needs just one more.

Mina spends her days as a museum curator in the present-day gray city of Seattle, where she finds her final target in Kaiden Brennan, a grad student with a quiet charm whose hopefulness contrasts with everything she’s come to despise in humanity. With Kaiden in desperate need of help on his dissertation, Mina bides her time, waiting until the curse allows her to seize her chance and kill him. The more time she spends with Kaiden, the more she’s drawn to him, the human emotions she’s long thought buried beginning to resurface. Falling for Kaiden doesn’t just make her question her final kill, but the centuries of sacrifice she’s made to keep her promise.

But the fox refuses to let a single man ruin its destructive plans. Wicked whispers invade Mina’s mind, horrid hallucinations of her loved ones haunt her at every corner, and her own body starts to change. Mina realizes she’s being consumed from the inside out. With the fox hellbent on claiming Kaiden’s soul, Mina must confront the darkest parts of herself to separate from the fox to save him and her humanity—or achieve godhood and lose herself to become something monstrous.

Tropes & comps:

Korean folklore, set in modern-day PNW, anti-hero POV, slow-burn horror & romance, psychological unraveling, monstrous transformation, themes of grief & emotional vulnerability

SUCH SHARP TEETH X OUR WIVES UNDER THE SEA

Bright droplets of red bloomed against the crisp, white snow.

A trail, unbeknownst to my victim, that would lead to his demise.

“G-Gumiho!” the man shrieked in Korean, stumbling through the dense, snow-packed woods of the Bukhansan Mountains. Not far off, Seoul glistened below the edge of the forest, where many were lured into the national park by the quiet beauty my country still had to offer.

Except it was the dead of winter. And even the moon hid from us beneath a thick blanket of black clouds, turning its back on what it was about to witness.

Near-deafening silence answered him, and within it, the crunch of my boots against the snow as I strode closer. The tips of my fingernails, curved into claws, carved against the dry bark of a nearby tree, the low scrape reverberating through the empty forest—a sound I knew would only sweeten the terror in my victim’s heart.

The drunken businessman cried out my name once more. As if anyone was foolish enough to be here out at night, and even if they were, nobody would believe his panicked words.
Gumiho.

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Iris Andersi @goodwords.bsky.social · 6d

I'm excited to participate in DVPit next week!

Here's my moodboard for my cozy romantic fantasy 💚

POTIONS UNINCORPORATED

💜 Chronic Illness Rep
🌱 Plant Magic
💚 Bisexual Witches
🐈‍⬛ A Snarky Familiar
😈 Evil Pharmaceutical Potion Company
☀️ Grumpy X Sunshine Romance
☕ Cozy Vibes

#DVParty #cozyfantasy

From left to right: 1. A chest of glowing green potion vials, 2. a cutting board with delicate purple rose petals and a small gray bowl, 3. a vibrant branch covered in moss and glowing pink mushrooms. Next row: 4. an open book with a key and a feather sits on a table in front of potion vials, 5. a black cat on a wooden plank has glowing yellow eyes, 6. a seaweed covered sea at dusk with rolling hills/mountains in the background. Next row: 7. a bench in front of a quiet pond with bright green trees surrounding it, 8. bright ivy leaves. The overall moodboard is predominantly created with shades of green and accented with shades of purple/pink.

Picture credits:
1. PORNTHIP ALOUNTHONG: Xamneua, Laos
2.Elina Sazonova from capturenow
3. adege from pixabay
4. RDNE Stock project from Pexels
5. Marcus Lange on Unsplash
6. Quang Nguyen Vinh from Pexels
7. menita from pixabay
8. Personal photo

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talhe.bsky.social @talhe.bsky.social · 6d

Art I commissioned from the great Sebiiroo (sebiiroo.carrd.co) of my currently queried/querying story, FANGS OF THE WOLF.

#DVparty #YA #Fantasy #OwnVoices

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Jennifer Luce @jenniferluce.bsky.social · 6d

#DVParty #H #R

GUMIHO
78k Adult Horror Romance

🇰🇷 Korean folklore set in modern-day PNW

🖤 Anti-hero POV

👻 Psychological unraveling & monstrous transformation

🥀 Slow-burn romance

Pictures of: a dark alley, a silhouette of a couple, claws coming out from the dark, a woman with a cloth over her head, a korean woman, a woman walking down a hallway, korean architecture, and a woman with red stained hands

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Victoria Jayne (they/them) is querying ya fantasy @victoriajayneoh.bsky.social · 6d

#DVParty #cozyfantasy

LATE BLOOMER X THE HONEY WITCH

78k Sapphic Cozy Fantasy Romance—The Witch and The Grocer

- witch x werewolf
- femme x butch
- haunted apothecary
- cozy winter cottagecore
- nonbinary bff
- open door spice
- sunshine x golden retriever
- ownvoices disability rep

Collage with snow fruit creepy graves apothecary vibes and fire magic

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Victoria Jayne (they/them) is querying ya fantasy @victoriajayneoh.bsky.social · 7d

Late Bloomer x The Honey Witch

An #agentsguide to The Witch and The Grocer, my sapphic cozy fantasy romance!

#amquerying #writingcommunity #litagents

The witch and the grocer with mortar and pestle

Witch elx werewolf butch x femme ownvoices heds rep first time open door spice the romance
Alarra thorne

The pitch with blighted fruit on the sides

Comps of the honey witch, late bloomer, the very secret society or irregular witches, and legenda and lattes

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kj is ✨querying✨ @kjsilver.bsky.social · 7d

September was a rollercoaster (super unproductive month) for me, so I'm VERY much looking forward to October!

#FallofWords

Katrin @nordlichtinla.bsky.social · 7d

It’s October! Already.

Will you be working on anything?

I’ll need to finish a read-through of what I worked on in September (👀), then maybe dive into more writing, all while querying.

Always keep swimming! But don’t forget to come up for air if you need to.

#OctoberGoals
#AmWriting
#FallofWords

Hazy image of a slender branch with filigree leaves.

Greens and browns. Backdrop is grass with brown spots of dirt.

Off-white / beige box in middle:

Hello October

What are your goals this month?

Template: Canva
Pic: me

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Katrin @nordlichtinla.bsky.social · 7d

It’s October! Already.

Will you be working on anything?

I’ll need to finish a read-through of what I worked on in September (👀), then maybe dive into more writing, all while querying.

Always keep swimming! But don’t forget to come up for air if you need to.

#OctoberGoals
#AmWriting
#FallofWords

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CE @obsidianmichi.bsky.social · 8d

Victoria is great, insightful, and needs some help. Utilize this awesome opportunity, friends!

Victoria Jayne (they/them) is querying ya fantasy @victoriajayneoh.bsky.social · 8d

Offering query package editing services!

I just got an enormous medical bill, and as you all know, i’m unemployed due to my health. But I love editing query packages, and I’m pretty good at it too.

Please DM me if you’re interested! Shares are welcome.

Editing services query package

$15–Query Letter
$20–First Five Pages
$30–QL & First Five
+$10 per additional 5 pages—up to 50 pages
$300—Whole package including agent guide, pitch posts, 50 pages, query letter, and synopsis
@victoriajayneoh on all socials

Credentials

summa cum laude B.A. in Creative Writing with a minor in political philosophy
sensitivity reader for trans, lesbian, neurodivergent, disabled storylines
26 requests across 3 projects
Big Five Editor interest (x2) based on pitch and agent guide
agent interaction from every pitch event
autistic special interest in writing
autistic special interest in editing
@victoriajayneoh on all socials

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