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Natalie Nee📚 @novelnatalie.bsky.social · 14d

Thank you, @mrbullbull.bsky.social for publishing my flash, “Vladimir Nabokov Would Be Proud”!

MrBullBull @mrbullbull.bsky.social · Sep 4

"As I ambled through a cloud of Tommy Girl perfume, new but not-unwelcome sensations spider-walked their way across every nerve ending. For the first time, my body felt awake, like my entire childhood had been a nap Mom insisted I take." @novelnatalie.bsky.social mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

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Natalie Nee📚 @novelnatalie.bsky.social · Mar 3

Honestly forgot about Chingy! 😅

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Ann Glimmer @annglimmer.bsky.social · Jan 24

A jarl's daughter must trick her father's murderer into kissing her to break a deadly curse on her family. But the more time she spends with her enemy, the more she questions who the true villain really is—and forbidden desire threatens to ruin everything
#YouDeservepIt #NA #Romantasy #Q

A mood board with the title TRUE HATE'S KISS with images giving viking vibes, magic weapons, feuding clans, Scandinavian folklore, Enemies to lovers

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Nicole Field 🧛‍♀️🏺🏳️‍🌈 @faerywhimsy.bsky.social · Jan 24

CIRCE X CLYTEMNESTRA

The face that launched a thousand ships once belonged to a woman. That woman deserves to speak her own name, rather than have it echoed in time from the mouths of those who despised her.

Helen of Sparta - told from her own point of view.

#YouDeservePit #Q #A

Canva image - blonde woman on the beach with gods surrounding her. Helen is written in big, blue lettering.

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Ceci Li @writerceci.bsky.social · Jan 24

#YouDeservepIt
It’s Only Me, a YA contemporary romance:
Raised by her strict Tiger Mom, Maggie Wang fake-dates the hockey team grump to make her crush jealous, only to fall for the wrong guy and risk breaking all her mom’s rules.
#Q #YA #R #C #ComingOfAge #poc #writingcommunity #amquerying

Nathan playing hockey. Maggie playing keyboard. Maggie studying. Preschool. Nathan listening to music with eyes closed. Nathan and Maggie skating. Nathan kissing Maggie’s hair. Bunny hugging teddy bear. Nathan and Maggie hugging.

Comp titles: Lynn Painter’s Better Than The Movies; Ann Liang’s This Time It’s Real; Tashy Bhuiyan’s Counting Down With You; Laura Taylor Namey’s A Cuban Girl’s Guide to Tea and Tomorrow; Jenny Han’s To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before

Maggie Wang lives by her tiger mom’s rules—even her crush ticks all the right boxes. But when she finally works up the courage to confess to the perfect guy, he’s too oblivious to look beyond their friendship. Desperate to turn his head, Maggie hatches a plan: snag a fake date to his hockey team’s skate party and make him jealous, as long as she can survive her clumsy self on the ice.
Enter Nathan Myers—the team grump. Once he agrees to be her stand-in, everything seems simple enough: he’ll teach her how to skate, and she’ll put up with his attitude. Only the more time they spend together, the more Maggie discovers a gentle teddy bear hidden beneath Nathan’s gruff exterior. For the first time, she wonders if it’s okay to let go of certain expectations—being herself might actually be enough.
But Nathan’s a wild card with no college plans. He doesn’t fit in the future Maggie’s mom has mapped out for her. Trapped between the family expectations and her growing feelings, she must decide whether breaking the rules is worth it with the boy who’s becoming more than just a fake date.

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Natalie Nee📚 @novelnatalie.bsky.social · Jan 24

A year after Savannah Weston’s fatal drowning, Dr. Ezra Weston finds himself falling for her doppelgänger. But when the same clues that proceeded his wife’s mysterious death start to reappear, he must prevent history from repeating itself—all while proving he’s not a murderer.
#youdeservepit #A #WF

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Natalie Nee📚 @novelnatalie.bsky.social · Jan 24

Ditto with yours!! 🖤

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Angie is ✨querying✨ @angie3tomatoes.bsky.social · Jan 24

One Dark Window x Belladonna

🏠A sentient house
💀 A deadly curse
🦌 A mythical stag with eyes like death

Tayah flees to Ravensford for a fresh start, but the town’s secrets—and a charming carpenter—may ruin her before she can escape. Gothic fantasy with a feminist edge.

#youdeservepit #wip #f #a

Someone or something was trying to communicate with her

Craig cliffs, gothic village, art supplies, red doors, mansion, books, misty architecture, library, Ivy covered cemetery

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mar is querying ☁️🏜️ @margreyfield.bsky.social · Jan 24

EMBER IN THE ASHES X 4TH WING
1 tournament
2 fighters w/ deadly secrets
3 powerful men she must seduce
Competing to save her people, Ferne never wanted to fall for her partner.
Or kill him. Her banned shadow magic will protect everyone she's fighting for or destroy them.

#Q #F #R #RF #YouDeservepIt

a cloaked figure walking through a hall
smoke pouring from a woman's mouth
"are you angry with me? don't stop. a slight flush of anger looks good on you."
a hand intertwined with a ghostly hand
"how did you get out? i didn't."
two shadowed figures embracing
"in a fight they're lethal. around each other, they melt."
a woman wielding a sword
a white cloaked figure sitting on a ledge

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Natalie Nee📚 @novelnatalie.bsky.social · Jan 24

Omg thank you so much 🖤🥹😭

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Natalie Nee📚 @novelnatalie.bsky.social · Jan 24

Thank you so much 😭🖤

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Erin @erinaries.bsky.social · Jan 24

Dark Matter x The Midnight Library: Phoebe thought things were bad, until she got trapped in a nightmare, or a suburban tract home. That she can't figure out which is worse might be her biggest flaw. #YouDeservePit #A #Q #SPEC

Top, l to r: a shadowy figure in a doorway, an industrial staircase, a group of blurred figures. Middle: l to r: headlights on a foggy road, an exit sign seen through a heart-shaped window, the side of an office building in green light. Bottom: a dark forest, a hand pressing against glass, a figure in a distant doorway.

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Courtney Reece is on sub @courtneywrites.bsky.social · Jan 24

ADDIE LARUE x DIVINE RIVALS x DAWSON’S CREEK

🌿 the accidental summoning of a trickster god
🌿love triangle
🌿late 90s nostalgia
🌿coming of age
🌿a magical take on the string theory
🌿enemies to lovers
🌿petty gods and their politics

#youdeservepit #a #f #q

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Rowan Brighton Brown @rowanbrightonbrown.bsky.social · Jan 24

Sierra loves her family and fears becoming them. Their healing hurts and their pills make you sick. But as infectious iron creeps through veins like kudzu, she is forced to take on her dark inheritance.

If she must deal with monsters, she might as well become one.

#YouDeservePit #Q #YA #H #T

A moodboard collage of green and grey images with an earthy, spooky vibe. There's a white woman with moths on her face, a deer skull emerging from the bushes, a black fist strangled with vines, white pills in a pile, images from trailer parks, a copperhead, and a sign saying "No More Overdose Deaths"

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Chase Grayson is Agented🌙 (Updates Only) @adropofmagick.bsky.social · Jan 24

ONE DARK WINDOW x IMMORTAL DARK

Nocturne's halls hold secrets darker than Alyss ever imagined. With sinister professors & corrupted moon magic, she'll need to work with her ex, his new girl, & an infuriately charming vampire to avenge her sister's murder.

#YouDeservepIt #Q #YA #F

A Memory of Moonkissed Malice
Villain Era Protag
Frenemies to Lovers
Queendoms
Found Family
Fantasy Dark Academia
Vampires
Feminine Rage
Corrupted Moon Magic

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Norees @noreeswrites.bsky.social · Jan 24

NINTH HOUSE x LIBRARY OF UNWRITTEN

🖤Book magic
🖤Scottish mythology

The day her brother vanishes Astra saves an intriguing man tied to his disappearance, together w/ a demon cat & anxious banshee they embark on a road trip to find him before it’s too late
#youdeservepit #OS #A #F #booksky

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Aaron Olátunjie Cole is ✨Vague✨👀 @aaronolatunjie.bsky.social · Jan 24

HUNGER GAMES × COBAB × FOURTH WING

Inspired by the Central African mythology of the Underworld of Kalunga

A boy with dangerous blood magic must compete in a deadly competition to save his mother's soul, before it's sacrificed to the Gods of the Underworld

#YouDeservepIt #YA #OS

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Jennifer Luce @jenniferluce.bsky.social · Jan 24

A magicless orphan will go to great lengths to save her best friend, the Princess, from marrying the enemy prince—even if it means becoming an assassin, outwitting a charming enemy spy, and stealing the last dragon egg in existence to tip the scales of power.

✨️ #YouDeservepIt #NA #RF #WIP #R #F 🐉

Three by three grid of pictures: a castle; a woman with a dagger; a woman with a bow; a princess sitting as the sun sets; a crown being held with bloodied hands; a couple holding each other; masked couple about to kiss; a woman with a sword behind her back; a woman riding a black horse

Crystal Dragons; NA Romantic Fantasy; Cinderella meets Fourth Wing.

Pitch: A magicless orphan will go to great lengths to save her best friend, the Princess, from marrying the enemy prince—even if it means becoming an assassin, outwitting a charming enemy spy, and stealing the last dragon egg in existence to tip the scales of power.

Tropes and themes: orphan taken in by the queen; bonded dragons and other magical creatures; fish out of water; enemies to lovers; forbidden and slow-burn romance; dangerous attraction; dark secrets and hidden identities; magic comes at a price.

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Adregem ཐིཋྀ @adregem.bsky.social · Jan 24

To secure her brother’s freedom, Sunday storms the dark realm ruled by the terrifying Moth King and makes a deal with his mysterious enemy, only to learn that she’s trusted the wrong monster.
#YouDeservepIt #WIP #A #F

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Natalie Nee📚 @novelnatalie.bsky.social · Jan 24

Thank you so much!!

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Sophie Cass (is agented) @scasswriting.bsky.social · Jan 24

When Olive’s nature-loving daughter goes missing, she reluctantly accompanies a grumpy half-beast mercenary on a journey through the Wilds to find her.

🍃 Eco-horror fantasy
🍃 Dual POV mum/daughter
🍃 Love, lust, life & death
🍃 Elemental second world
🍃 Everyone is morally grey

#youdeservepit #wip #a

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Natalie Nee📚 @novelnatalie.bsky.social · Jan 24

A year after Savannah Weston’s fatal drowning, Dr. Ezra Weston finds himself falling for her doppelgänger. But when the same clues that proceeded his wife’s mysterious death start to reappear, he must prevent history from repeating itself—all while proving he’s not a murderer.
#youdeservepit #A #WF

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Natalie Nee📚 @novelnatalie.bsky.social · Nov 20

A taste of my debut, 🌊Bitter🌊 (on sub)
🎨: barb.arts

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Natalie Nee📚 @novelnatalie.bsky.social · Oct 19

Cannot wait to read Genalea’s new book!!

Genalea Barker @gcbwrites.bsky.social · Oct 19

Getting re-acquainted with this MC's voice and loving it.
Book Baby #3 is coming 7/9/24

#yacontemporary #author

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