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Damian is ✨️drafting✨️ @d-s-saavedra.bsky.social · 20h

HELL FOLLOWED WITH US X THE WOODS ALL BLACK

As the lies of his religious order begin to unravel, Thay must rely on the stranger Elio to find a cure to the curse that will turn him into a Beast.

🐑Trans MC
🫀Cannibalism
🐑Poly monster romance
🫀Trans rage

#DvPit #TV #OWN #A #H

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solar @solarhoang.bsky.social · 3d

As we are coming closer to the end of @awwlitmag.bsky.social ’s kickstarter campaign, I’m excited to share a snippet in my short story INTO THE SHADOW.

If you're still looking for something to read this spooky season, we will lead you Into The Dark 🌑

www.kickstarter.com/projects/all...

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PicantePit 🌶 @picantepit.bsky.social · Sep 1

Hola mi gente!

#writingcommunity we finally decided to come to Bluesky and will be hosting on both X and on here.

Keep an eye on this page for the next coming weeks!

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Kristen Renee @kristenrenee.bsky.social · Aug 15

Blue Crush 🌊 x Sirens 🧜🏼‍♀️

When wanting to drown your ex after they break your heart is a normal feeling it’s also a normal reaction in Breaker Bay 💔
And when you’re a girl gang of sirens whose love language is violence…
It’s a little too normal🧜🏼‍♀️

#QueerPit #NA #A #R #F #SPF

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leona has an agent✨🦋 @leonahwrites.bsky.social · Aug 15

When a vampire cult comes out of hiding to hunt down an escapee, a journalist and the mysterious late-night coffee shop owner team up to take them down for good.

🕷️horror writer with cats
🍒comedic found family
🦇slow burn sapphic romance
📓stealing faces
#QueerPit #agented

a red background with an ombré of black bats flying left to right. over top is a semi transparent black box that includes a white map of a path from house to where the x marks the spot. it’s a real trope map with tropes in white text reading: “small town murders and a late night coffee shop, suspect-to-lovers, holiday episodes, the cusp of horroromance, vampire cult hunting and escapee, and 300 year old vampire x local crime reporter” “TVOCS trope map” and a doodle of andrea (tall white woman with thick hair wearing a bottom down) in the bottom left corner, and dalia (a vampire hanging like a bat) in the top right corner

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DH Strange @dhstrange.bsky.social · Aug 15

HOT FUZZ x FIFTH ELEMENT w Eleanor Shellstrop (GOOD PLACE)

💖 disaster bi MC
👽 hot alien LI
🔗 forced proximity
🛏️ there’s only one (sofa) bed
🕺 disco-dancing assassins
🚀 space shenanigans
👑 secret royalty?
🎉 saving the galaxy, probably

#A #SF #R #QueerPit

9 images total. Top row: image of planet Jupiter, image of alleyway with neon lighting, image of a person running at night against the back drop of a large white wall. Second row: image of a couple lying on the ground, their heads are touching and they’re both curled in the fetal position in purple lighting, image of two hands clasped against a background of blinds, image of a busy dance club with neon purple lighting. Bottom row: image of a couple walking down a wet alley with hanging lights at night, image of a M/F couple kissing, image of the Milky Way against a mountainous terrain.

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Kanirthi is querying 🦋 @kanirthi.bsky.social · Aug 15

THE HENNA WARS X NEVER HAVE I EVER

My #agentsguide for DARED TO IGNORE YOU, a YA Contemporary featuring:

💖Sapphic enemies to lovers
🥻South Asian FMC
🦋Coming-of-age in the UK
🔪Revenge from outcast
🎤 Grammar school drama

#Litagent #amquerying #ownvoices #QueerPit #Q #YA #COA

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Ali Z @alizagame.bsky.social · Aug 15

Brooke isn't just searching for her missing secret girlfriend, Leah. She's searching for the pastor's daughter in a cult-like church that seems determined to deny her very existence. She's fighting for her love. And her sanity.

#QueerPit #lesbian #ya #thriller #querying

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Rowan Brighton Brown @rowanbrightonbrown.bsky.social · Aug 15

With their attempts at coming out repeatedly thwarted and the attempts on their life getting more and more serious, Andy realizes they’re being stalked by their pre-transition doppelganger—and she won’t stop until she’s taken the life they thought they’d left behind
#QueerPit #AG #YA

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Marnie is querying a dragon heist romantasy! @amcrollwriter.bsky.social · Aug 15

🦋 YA dystopian sapphic romantasy 🦋

In a city built on inequality and policed by magical robots, a master thief and a climate activist team up to take down Panergy—the volatile, pollutive magic that is secretly destroying the world—in one explosive heist.

#FR #YA #D #Agented #Editors #QueerPit

an editor's guide to... Burn The Moths
YA fantasy/dystopia

Six of Crows (heist novel, found family), Fable for the End of the World (dystopian society, sapphic romance), Blood over Bright Haven (complicity + corruption, magical secrets)

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👻Scarlet🎃Mitchell☠️ @scarletvmitchell.bsky.social · Aug 15

A lonely student must unlock hidden powers to save her new friends... the gargoyles.

🏳️‍🌈Sapphic goth-girl MC
😓Mental health
🎨Technicolor hellscape
🖤Darkness is not evil
⛪Haunted chapel
⏳Coming of age

Don't Let the Forest In x City of Bones x Daughter of Smoke and Bone

#QueerPit
#YA #UF #F

Text next to an image of dragon gargoyles reaching out from a cathedral steeple-
Rooted in Stone
YA Urban Fantasy
100k words

Words written over a dark black background with a crow motif-
Rumors say that St. Romain’s is haunted. That suits lonely, troubled goth-girl Helena, perfectly fine. Right away she is fascinated by the eerie sculptures on the campus chapel. Wounded by past rejections, she is reluctant to open up to anyone. All she wants to do is fool her therapist long enough to not get kicked out of another school. When she develops a crush on the mysterious and beautiful Kia, Helena learns her secret… Kia is a gargoyle. The statues are not just stone, but powerful guardians of a rift between worlds. These uncanny guardians quickly find a friend in Helena, but she hides a dark power of her own.
When war spills through the rift, the stones of their beloved chapel begin to crumble and Helena is drawn into the battle to protect the world. Trapped in a strange, technicolor netherworld, our goth-girl heroine must face the darkness within or risk the collapse of both worlds and the destruction of her newfound family of stone… and Kia with them.

Text over an image of the milky way above a quiet lake in the forest, a rowboat in the foreground-

Tropes-
Morally gray angels
Darkness is not evil
Found family
Queer MC

Themes-
Explorations of power
Mental health rep and self-discovery

Text over a lightened turquoise scale and fin motif, like a mermaid’s tail-
“Coral and Bone” by Tiffany Duane
“Bleeding Violet” by Dia Reeves
“Daughters of Smoke and Bone” by Laini Taylor
“Don’t Let the Forest In” by CG Drews

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leona has an agent✨🦋 @leonahwrites.bsky.social · Aug 15

Olena has spent her whole life hiding, but the woods call upon her true self.

🌞missing someone you barely knew
🪻luck, betrayal, longing
🕷️bone & nature magic
🪻a band of magical misfits
🌞who are you when no one is looking?

here’s some reader reviews!
#QueerPit #agented

dark green background with white text reading “READER REVIEWS of The Bone Collector”
review from taylor: "...like Once Upon a Broken Heart, but different? More death.
Darker. Narnia too for the young adult adventures."
- taylor
review from suzanne: "I f-ing love bone collector, i really do.
Can't wait to give it to my (hypothetical)
baby." -suzanne
review from mina: "imagine being FIFTEEN, an illegitimate PRINCESS, whose father pits you against your brothers, with a DEADLY disease around, and you experience GAY panic at the first pretty girl to look at you, and you have to go on a QUEST while on your FIRST PERIOD... i'd end it"
- mina
olena is in the bottom right corner: a very pale 15 year old girl who looks incredibly tired. she has dark hair under a silk scarf that’s covered in art of lions and dragonflies. she’s wearing a dark blue cloak and dark dress and is fiddling with a bone.

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leona has an agent✨🦋 @leonahwrites.bsky.social · Aug 12

me to my agent when i pitch yet another fantasy with very dark undertones

a zoomed in picture of a cat that looks like it’s holding the camera. the caption is “Be honest… R U tired of me?? (say no)”

leona has an agent✨🦋 @leonahwrites.bsky.social · Aug 6

thank you!!

leona has an agent✨🦋 @leonahwrites.bsky.social · Aug 6

five (somewhat) prodigies enter into their final year of academy

only this year is destined to be different than the last

🌊ex friends & ex lovers
🌬️island town & gossip
🌑a scholarship project goes awry
🌬️unlocking ocean magic
🌊dark coming of age

#questpit #YA #F #W #AG

a nine picture ocean moodboard

row 1, 3 pics: a black and white foggy picture of a pirate ship, two people fully clothed laying on the sand as the waves wash up to their heads, a black and white foggy picture of a man in ship sails
row 2, 3 pics: a girl swimming in the ocean at night, a woman holding a lantern looking out at the sea, a boy sitting on the beach at sunrise
row 3, 3 pics: waves crashing up against dark rock stairs, sparkly dark blue waves washing up at night, a dark picture of a kelp field

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leona has an agent✨🦋 @leonahwrites.bsky.social · Aug 6

IMMORTAL LONGINGS x THE PRISON HEALER

⚔️mangroves, mysterious islands, & flesh eating crabs
📰becoming the thing you hate most
🥀toxicity, cannibalism, & fancy clothes
📰1890s science & politics
⚔️a deadly tournament to become the king’s highest advisor
#questpit #A #F #W #AG

“CRIMSON WIP FASHION”
a collage of fashion (extravagant long gowns with insect and sun imagery) surrounding a 9 picture mood board for Into the Barracks.

row 1, 3 pictures:
1. a black and white photo of a gothic castle, 2. a picture of a soldier in golden armor holding a golden helmet, 3. rough ocean waves and a cloudy sky

row 2, 3 pictures:
1. a golden hue picture of wine from a golden pitcher being poured into a golden goblet, 2. a black and white picture of a woman holding a sword looking toward a castle, 3. a golden hue picture of someone tracing the tops of old perfume bottles

row 3, 3 pictures:
1. a pile of silver coins, 2. an intricate room with a golden chandelier in the foreground and a golden wall and painting in the background, 3. a black and white picture of an intricate palace staircase with many lit chandeliers

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leona has an agent✨🦋 @leonahwrites.bsky.social · Aug 6

thank you!!

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leona has an agent✨🦋 @leonahwrites.bsky.social · Aug 6

🦇80k words of cozy romance and vampire horror…🍒

A small town news reporter suspects a late night coffee shop owner of a series of brutal murders, but the two end up teaming together to take down the vampiric cult terrorizing their town.

#questpit #A #PR #AG

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leona has an agent✨🦋 @leonahwrites.bsky.social · Aug 6

Forced to live her life competing for a title she might not want at all, Olena is faced with the choice of concealing her true self forever or using her powers to save her family from a deadly plague.

🕷️bone magic, slavic folklore, lots of teenage banter🕷️
#questpit #YA #F #AG

a nine picture meme moodboard

row 1, 3 pics: a pink jester holding a gun that says “can’t a whimsical girl crash out in peace,” a picture of green lily pads, a man screaming labeled *confused screaming*
row 2, 3 pics: a deer skull sitting on moss, a floating wizard meme that says “on a quest rn, talk later,” another deer skull in a field of ferns
row 3, 3 pics: a little boy holding a sign meme where the sign says “i don’t know what to say next srry i’m bad at talking,” a dark lake with green lily pads, a plague doctor with the raven mask and a pink cloak and lantern with text that says “my plague is bubonic but my lore is iconic”

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Corrinne @corrinney.bsky.social · Jul 30

vague ... mutiple [redacted] of [redacted] already ... 👀 ... what?

Seriously though, I'm so grateful for all the [redacted] who love this book of my heart as much as I do. I thank each of you for believing in my book and my writing career!

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Corrinne @corrinney.bsky.social · Jul 13

IMPERIAL ASIA story about pheromone powers
#BluePit #BluePit📖
FRANKENSTEIN but in a Cantonese matriarchy

🪭Canton gothic
⚔️cocky swordswomen & kungfu
🪭love or pheromone?
⚔️maggots & mad scientists
🪭violent yearning
⚔️generational trauma
🪭locusts
#Q #A #R #H #F
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Canton gothic, editors interest, shortlisted PNWA finalist, love or pheromone, violent yearning, Chinese lesbians, Chinese women, Chinese moon moths, dagger, clandestine rendezvous, Chinese fan, Chinese building

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leona has an agent✨🦋 @leonahwrites.bsky.social · Jul 20

my first line for my ya adventure fantasyyyyy #writingcommunity

a black and white background of a girl turned away from the camera with a black text box and white text reading “The Bone Collector” “At the peak of the tallest mountain in Novpresh, Olena Thunderchild feels most at home, though she suspects this is because she’s not allowed anywhere else.” “Leona H. Lach”

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Corrinne @corrinney.bsky.social · Jul 13

IMPERIAL ASIA story about pheromone powers
#BluePit #BluePit📖
FRANKENSTEIN but in a Cantonese matriarchy

🪭Canton gothic
⚔️cocky swordswomen & kungfu
🪭love or pheromone?
⚔️maggots & mad scientists
🪭violent yearning
⚔️generational trauma
🪭locusts
#Q #A #R #H #F
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leona has an agent✨🦋 @leonahwrites.bsky.social · Jun 21

i really am so disappointed by 28 years later i wrote a substack so long it’s an estimated 16 minute read

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leona has an agent✨🦋 @leonahwrites.bsky.social · Jun 6

art by @/shizunpilled on twt!

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leona has an agent✨🦋 @leonahwrites.bsky.social · Jun 6

if you cry every time you listen to marjorie by taylor swift just like me then this is the book for you

white text reading “an Editor’s guide to The Bone Collector rep: morgan hughes and arianna siddiqui at fineprint lit” over top of olena: a very pale 15 year old girl who looks incredibly tired. she has dark hair under a silk scarf that’s covered in art of lions and dragonflies. she’s wearing a dark blue cloak and dark dress and is fiddling with a bone.

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