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Samantha Sloan @samanthahsloan.bsky.social · Aug 16

What Haunts Us

Mayfair Witches X Ninth House

A grad student who sees ghosts must return home to solve a murder—only to uncover a hidden sister, a family legacy tied to Death itself, and a killer determined to sever the balance between life and death.

#posterpit #Q #A #SPF #M

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Michelle 🍂 is AGENTED 🕯️ @mdkerkhoven.bsky.social · Jan 17

#P2Ppit

An agent’s guide to my #sapphic YA dark fantasy w/ horror elements & editor interest, 𝐖𝐇𝐄𝐑𝐄 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐖𝐈𝐂𝐊𝐄𝐃 𝐋𝐈𝐄, feat:

🫀 • Chronic illness rep
🧹 • Witches
⚓️ • A ghost ship
🍂 • Sleuthing lesbians
🌊 • Coastal town w/ sinister secrets

#Q #YA #F 🏳️‍🌈

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Michelle 🍂 is AGENTED 🕯️ @mdkerkhoven.bsky.social · Jan 17

THE WICKED DEEP x MIDNIGHT MASS

A suspected witch makes a pact with the captain of the ghost ship terrorizing her pious coastal town to break the ship’s curse & clear her name—only the town’s cryptic pastor will stop at nothing to keep the curse unbroken.

#P2Ppit #YA #F #Q 🏳️‍🌈

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- Chronic illness rep
- Ghost ship
- Sleuthing lesbians
- Corrupt church
- Coastal town with sinister secrets
- Stabby x sunshine
- Witches
- A curse

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Madelyn is ✨Editing✨🌈 @madelynknecht.bsky.social · Jan 17

So maybe Winona lied on her job application to become a heart mender.

And MAYBE she has a crush on the heartless girl selling organs from questionable sources.

And maybe it’s her fault an angry client burned down her clinic. But she can fix it… Probably. #P2Pit #YA #CF #LGBT

Pink image with hearts with art in the center of two girls holding hands. Text reads HEARTS TO MEND: YA sapphic contemporary fantasy. Sapphic romance, found family, unique magic system, slow burn, grumpy x sunshine, equal angst and humor, teaching the LI to be human.

Pink image with hearts and the three book covers for Spellbound by F.T. Lukens, Hearts Still Beating by Brooke Archer, and This Delicious Death by Kayla Cottingham. Text reads: For fans of humor and heart, grumpy x sunshine, complicated families, finding your place in a new world, mild/light gore, morally gray girlhood.

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Liz Newman @liznew212.bsky.social · Jan 17

Worlds collide when a dark queen's journey to break her curse forces her to take a human prisoner back to her realm. His brother will do anything to find out what happened, including infiltrating an exclusive nightclub where men seem to disappear.

#P2Ppit #a #f #q #amquerying 📖

A graphic with wrath of a Wildflower in the center. Bubbles of text around it say: Morally grey, urban fantasy, cursed dark queen, two realms, dual pov, romance, missing brother, new adult

The pitch. Decades ago, the princes of Lucis realm cursed her before they left to take over earth. Liming the days she can cross realms to hunt them and forcing her to take a mortal soul each visit has made killing the princes difficult, but not impossible. Now she is finally closing in on the prince with the key to breaking her curse, but she doesn't know that one of the mortal monsters she took on her journey to vengeance has a very loyal brother. Ryland finally has the job he needs at greeds, the exclusive nightclub where his brother was last seen two years ago. As he gets closer to discovering what happened to his brother and a trail of other missing men, he meets a beautiful partner to help him with the hunt. Together they find that their government is lying to them and monsters are real. And they are hunting one.

Book comps: the book of azreal, city of gods and monsters, throne of the fallen

The playlist: horns by Bryce fox monsters by ruelle, control by Halsey, kill of the night, hbic, happy clever after by Gin Wigmore

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Rowan Brighton Brown @rowanbrightonbrown.bsky.social · Jan 17

A southern inheritance is always dark—whether it's a penchant for pills, a blood-soaked family farm, or an ancient magic. Sierra spurns them all, but when her dad disappears, she must choose which monsters to slay, and which to become.
#P2Ppit #Q #YA #H #T #LGBT

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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🆂🅷🅴🆁🆈🅻 🆂🆃🅴🅸🅽 she/her @sherylstein.bsky.social · Jan 17

DAISY JONES ELEANOR OLIPHANT LADY PARTS
Director Skye (autism) prefers remaining behind the camera but when she reunites a squabbling '80s all-women band for a documentary to save her career, she must decide how to proceed when her personal story ends up before the lens. #Q #A #WF #UP #P2Ppit

Sweethearts of the Overthrow. Nine Squares: 1) woman with long gray curly hair, 60ish. 2) blank. 3) Woman with Black and gray curly hair, 60-ish. 4) old time movie camera. 5) 4 women from 1980s (a band) dressed in bright colors). 6) Young woman, blonde curly hair, glasses. 7) Older woman, short cropped gray hair. 8) Old cassette unspooling. 9) Older woman with black shag haircut.

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Gert Ramm 🦋 @rammwriter.bsky.social · Jan 17

Slow Horses ➕️➕️➕️

Time travel is brutal for an MI5 agent on the run from his government. They almost blew up 1972; he got the blame. Now there's a temporal vortex to close, if the hunters don't kill him first, and a Russian spy from 1997 is running interference.

#Q #A #T #SF #P2Ppit #litagents

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Samantha Sloan @samanthahsloan.bsky.social · Jan 17

The shadow of the gods x the bone shard daughter

🔥Three reincarnated souls back from the dead to stop the God of Destruction
⚔️Dark magic, fractured memories, and betrayals everywhere.
🌎A world on the brink, ancient powers rising.
💥Sacrifice everything or let chaos reign

#P2Ppit #UA #A #Q

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Samantha Sloan @samanthahsloan.bsky.social · Jan 13

If anyone wants to swap support for #P2Ppit comment down below and I will add you to my list!

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Samantha Sloan @samanthahsloan.bsky.social · Nov 13

🚩Alec’s “healing” involves dueling his almost-lover on cliffs.
🚩Annalise’s family tradition? Reviving their apocalyptic sibling. Nice.
🚩Loralye’s visions? Mostly herself… trying to kill her.
🚩They’re led by a prophecy with zero instructions, just vibes.
#UnhingedPit #A #F #Q #writingcommunity

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Michelle 🍂 is AGENTED 🕯️ @mdkerkhoven.bsky.social · Nov 13

OMG, the FMCs of my sapphic YA dark fantasy made headlines, y’all??? 😧🤯

#UnhingedPit #F #YA #W #LGBT

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Sara Duran ✨is querying✨ @saraduran.bsky.social · Nov 13

I know authors need to have tough skin, but was it really necessary for my characters to leave these one star reviews on goodreads?!

#UnhingedPit #YA #F #R #LGBT #W

A fake one star goodreads review from Princess Mira:

You guys know I’m a fan of sapphic besties to lovers, but the constant pining between the two princesses was sooooo frustrating. After the millionth stolen glance and billionth moment of OBVIOUS flirting I wanted to bang my head off the castle walls. And the way they both keep trying to deny it? Like come on! YOU’RE CLEARLY IN LOVE. JUST KISS ALREADY!!!

#the-closet-is-made-of-glass #you-arent-fooling-anyone #good-for-them-tho

A fake one-star goodreads review from Princess Dorothea:

Loved the treasure hunt. Loved the thing with the mermaids. Honestly, I didn’t even mind the redhead character being the feisty one. But do you have ANY idea how expensive first class tickets to The Bahamas are right now? I thought it was safe to read this with my gf because, yanno, it’s FANTASY, but the setting is clearly influenced by some beautiful tropical island and now she wants to go. I may be a princess, but I’m not MADE of money, people! Spirit it is (and I’m NOT talking about the ghost pirate).

#spoiled-gf #love-her

A fake one-star goodreads review from Captain Amir:

First things first: 100-year-old pirates CAN use goodreads, okay?

The best character is stuck inside the head of a teenage princess almost the whole time. “But what about the life lessons?” NO. What about how annoying it is that the pirate captain’s curse gets broken in the most infuriating how-did-I-miss-this way? Let’s focus on THAT. I bet my first mate that I could solve the stupid riddle before him and I will be seeking damages for the rum I lost.

#rumnearme #heysirigooglerum #whatthe

A fake one-star goodreads review from John:

I liked this story but my best friend Mira told me to give it one star.

#biodiversity #its-actually-really-good #sorry

There are three comments:

Captain Amir says: Are you kidding me? Did you learn NOTHING from the fisherman's son's character arc?

Princess Mira says: shut up Amir !! love u John <3

Princess Dorothea says: lmao classic

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ash is drafting🌿 @aemorrow.bsky.social · Nov 13

HAVE YOU SEEN MY CHARACTERS?

healer with ruin in her hands. heir bleeding nightmare. they’ve gone missing—don’t ask why. if you see black rain or hear the trees or walls start whispering, turn around. #UnhingedPit #W #A #F #R

PRESUMED DAMNED
MISSING PERSONS

(Hand drawn graphic outline of a woman)
Eirwen Wilford

Healer with ruin in her hands
Description:
-Long brown hair
-One green eye, one black eye
-5'6"
-Scarred left arm

Notes:
Carries a deep, unsettling power that pulls shadows close and drives strangers away. Last seen walking the edge of a cursed town, with black rain on her heels.

(Hand drawn graphic outline of a man)
Finnegan Darrow

Heir, bleeding memory and nightmare
Description:
-Messy black hair
-Amber eyes
-6'2"
-Always wearing far too many rings
-Scar on his left cheek

Notes:
Trails a fox and a thousand secrets. Haunted by dreams no one else can see, eyes like dying embers.

IF SPOTTED:
Don’t look twice. Don’t follow the whispers. And whatever you do, don’t listen to what the trees say about them.

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Samantha Sloan @samanthahsloan.bsky.social · Nov 13

Loralye’s visions are less “helpful insights” and more “near-death experiences.” And yes, the person trying to kill her in the visions is also her. Therapy, anyone? #unhingedpit #F #A #Q #writingcommunity

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