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SharonMCabana
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A queer, autistic writer and weirdo trying to make it in a weird weird world.

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@wipsnips.bsky.social
“I’m a biologist.”
Moira Jean laughed a little, remembered that biologist was what Becky had wanted to be before she became a hospitality manager. The first tears trickled down her face.
“I’m so sorry to have disturbed you,” Moira said. “My mistake.”

The Selkie’s Heart ❤️
January 15, 2026 at 9:18 PM
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carosas.bsky.social
A STUDY IN DROWNING meets ALL THAT CONSUMES US in a south-american inspired world:

"A grieving sister’s scavenger hunt through her dead sibling’s journals uncovers a secret society, a vanished prodigy, and ghosts that won’t let her graduate alive."

#BluePit 📖 #Q #YA #OV #LGBT #F #H
January 13, 2026 at 6:27 PM
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angelaaahhh.bsky.social
A romantic portal fantasy about best friends trapped in a world that forced them to decide what they'd give up to save their family, and a prince destined to kill the only woman he's ever loved to save the universe from death herself.

#BluePit #BluePit📖 #A #F #W #OV #POC #LGBT #ND
January 14, 2026 at 2:11 AM
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trangnguyenwrites.bsky.social
JADE CITY x SIX OF CROWS

When her mentor goes missing, Gemna joins forces with fellow mage, Ren, to unravel the connection between the string of disappearances and a terrible discovery that could mean a future where mages are not just outlawed…but wiped from existence.

#Bluepit #Bluepit📖 #A #F
moody, foggy mountain backdrop with a person in martial arts type clothing visible on a stone platform. text reads CONDUCT OF MAGES, adult fantasy, complete at 100K, now represented by Elizabeth Pratt, Trellis Literary THE PITCH on a moody green mountain backdrop: When her mentor goes missing, Gemna joins forces with fellow mage, Ren, to unravel the connection between the string of disappearances and a terrible discovery that could mean a future where mages are not just outlawed…but wiped from existence. THE VIBES on a moody green mountain backdrop: energy magic heists & scheming found family research subplot sloooow burn female role models SE Asian setting THE COMPS on a moody green mountain backdrop: Blood Over Bright Haven Jade City Heartless Hunter
January 13, 2026 at 5:20 PM
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abymack.bsky.social
SHE WHO HOLDS THE SEA

PRINCESS MONOKE X THE POPPY WAR

When a cursed empire kidnaps an island heir, it doesn’t realise she’s the vessel of two warring goddesses—or that she plans to burn and drown the throne that chained them.

Inspired by pre colonial Jamaican mythology

#bluepit #F #YA #A
January 13, 2026 at 8:27 PM
sharonmcabana.bsky.social
#wipsnips

Perhaps it is because I try so hard to be different, and generally enjoy it so much, that I don’t read the undercurrent of malice percolating amongst my peers.

I should pay closer attention.

Girl Dragon, A Memoir
#querying #writing #booksky #amquerying #memoir
January 14, 2026 at 9:53 AM
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erinabecca.bsky.social
18-year-old Vreta isn’t sure where she belongs in the world. But when she sets out to restore the stolen memories of her beloved’s sister, she must learn to accept, value and trust herself—or risk losing her own identity to a ruthless duchess.

#BluePit #Q #YA #F #ND
Mood board created by @trutherford! Features a couple embracing, a close up of a painter working, a dazzling golden light, a woman making a “shh” gesture, a carriage on a dirt road, a girl having her hair braided, and dangling wisteria blossoms. The text on the image says “Stolen Magic” and “R. Ehrick.”
January 13, 2026 at 8:20 PM
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muzetrigger.bsky.social
✨Magical Academia!
💜Disaster Sapphics!
🔥 Arson!
😭Misbegotten Curses struggling to do "the Right Thing™️"

Lion Girl and the Ember Maiden is about being wrong, loving others, and fighting for your truth amidst the laws of a magic library!

#BluePit #BluePit📖 #MG #YA #F #SP #W #OV #LGBT #POC #TR
A mood board featuring (from top left to bottom right) a shot of flooded rice terraces, the card art from "Royal Magic Library", the alpine wildflowers of Mt. Rainier at sunset, a shot of Fountaine from Genshin Impact, the character Ajna from Indivisible, concept art of the Imperial City from the Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, a sunset photo of the sunflower fields in Hakodate Japan, art from the promotional video of Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree of Miquella riding Torrent, and a tulip field from the Puyallup Tulip Festival
January 13, 2026 at 7:45 PM
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Kinda Charming 👑✨
70K | Fantasy Adventure

Meet Neil Charming. He's clumsy, overlooked, and somehow always in the wrong place at the right time.

Help this quest find its next chapter with the right literary agent or publisher!

#Q #AmQuerying #BluePit #WriteSky #Fantasy #Authors #WritingCommunity
January 13, 2026 at 9:24 PM
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trangnguyenwrites.bsky.social
SIX OF CROWS x JADE CITY

When Gemna’s mentor goes missing she must uncover a larger plot to eradicate mages; one involving the emergence of a mysterious stone that mimics their powers

💥 energy magic
🀄️ Asian setting
❤️‍🔥 slow burn
🏠 found family
⚔️ heists
🧐 research subplot

#bluepit #bluepit📖 #A #F
movie style type poster in bright red, with the title CONDUCT OF MAGES, and subtext that reads: Mages are disappearing…Gemna will risk everything to find out why an adult fantasy, complete at 100k words Now represented by Elizabeth Pratt, Trellis Literary on a bright red background - THE PITCH: When her mentor goes missing, Gemna joins forces with fellow mage, Ren, to unravel the connection between the string of disappearances and a terrible discovery that could mean a future where mages are not just outlawed…but wiped from existence. FOR FANS OF: Six of Crows Blood Over Bright Haven Jade City on a bright red background, quotes from early readers: their chemistry is still in its early stages, but I love how clear their compatibility is. Even if I’d never seen them on the page together I would see how they could complement each other. it’s so difficult to decide what to rave about first, but I’ll start with the world building. from the first sentence, you begin weaving this world with intention. the tension (of the plot) is insane. your scenes are very layered. it feels like Gemna can’t catch a break. I’m obsessed with this magic system and the subtle themes of tech vs humanity
January 13, 2026 at 10:06 PM
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catherinewinters.com
When 16-year-old Nia picks the wrong pocket, she unlocks a magical talent she didn’t know she had. Now she’s posing as an heiress, a con man’s gone missing, and Nia and her friends are on the run with a living doll, pursued by gangs, magehunters, and the governor herself. #BluePit #YA #A #F #LGBT #W
A mood board of eight tiles and a centre square with lockpicking tools and ancient writing: 1. Always have an escape plan. 2. A swindler never lets herself feel like a fraud. 3. Don't look for the easy grab, look for the easy mark. 4. Never get involved with golems. The pictures depict, clockwise from upper right: A) A city of canals and towering footbridges. There are minarets and steeples and red-tiled roofs. B) A market selling elaborate lanterns, all aglow. C) A porcelain and gold hand, reaching upwards. D) Two figures leaping across rooftops against the coming dawn. E) A pocketwatch--or is it? Constellations and continents cover the front, the body of the watch engraved with runes. It's sitting on ancient parchment. F) A wax stamp with removable chits that function as coins in a card game. G) The lords of the city overlooking grand canals and issuing edicts. They are dressed in fine red robes and silks. H) Assorted bones and shells used for divination and more.
January 13, 2026 at 5:09 AM
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professoremily.bsky.social
THE GODS OF ATALANTIS

ATLA x The Selection

When Mireia is chosen as the newest incarnation of the Sea Mother, her simple life is upended. Now she & her counterpart, the Sun Father, must navigate their feelings for each other amid rising religious & political turmoil.

#Bluepit #Bluepit📖 #YA #F
Atlantis Moodboard featuring: Ancient board games, temples with waterfalls pouring into pools, neat ancient fantasy cities, forehead kisses, frolicking in canals amid a palace, beautiful island coastlines, more ancient cities, and cool statues of strange gods. Center Quote: “From the day you left this village, you became more than merely yourself. You are the Sea Mother. This is the role fate has placed upon you. I told you when you left that I believed this path has opened up to you for a reason. I still believe that. You’ve been given a chance that few others ever have—the chance to change the world for the better. I’d even dare say it’s your duty to do so, now that you have the means.”
January 13, 2026 at 1:00 PM
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🔥WHAT will GROW from the ASHES?

A young woman's quest across ruins of former US becomes larger than saving her village from raiders. It offers humanity a way forward in a world desperately in need of change.

Nature will reclaim the land🌱We create anew
#CliFi
#Hopepunk
#BluePit
#BluePit📖
#Q
#A
#SP
a Death tarot card I drew titled "What rises from the ashes" with death on a moped, a sun tarot card, a lovers tarot card, a color Hermit tarot card (I did all the art) quotes: "Every end is a beginning" - Tai Gong Diao "Protect your spirit, for you are in a place where spirits get eaten" - John Trudell a variety of photos from my travels (+one dilapidated shack I did not capture myself) of reflective water in various landscapes and urban decay and plants growing through, swamp, fire, bridges tarot cards from my novel, created by me fantasy map of the US post 60 m sea level rise in background over a sunset sky with leaves growing from dead branches elemental magic visions survival skills climate fiction #clifi indigenous futurism plant medicine meditation wilderness permaculture neotribalism community backpacking post-apocalyptic hopepunk
January 13, 2026 at 5:00 AM
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SINNERS x THE DEVILS x CASTLEVANIA

There's three rules to surviving as a nightrunner: don't get comfortable, don't be a hero, and don't be unlucky.

Corado's about to break all three.

🤠 Vampire Cowboys
🦇 Monstrous Night Hordes
🏜️ Pueblo Pit Cities

Querying now!
#A #F #Q #BluePit 📖
#amquerying
Image: A man in a black cloak and a wide brim western style black hat, holding a revolver; only his eyes as yellow pinpricks are visible. Text: A Novel By Kelton Davis Blood from Stone 112000 Words Adult Gothic Western Fantasy Querying Soon Art: Apocalypse by Oliver Odmark Title: Pitch Text: In the twenty years since the vampires rose up out of the earth, Corado hasn’t done too bad for himself. He’s still alive, for one, and he’s got a lucrative trade as a nightrunner smuggling people beneath the vampiric horde that blots out the sky each night. It's dangerous work, but enough to get a roof over his head and a bottle in his hand at the end of the day. That’s pretty good for life under the vampires. Then an attack from the horde leaves him stuck in the desert, alone with a newly-orphaned boy, and his luck finally dries up. He resolves to find what remains of the boy’s family and put it all behind him—but instead of taking him off Corado’s hands, his so-called “family” offers a new deal: escort them to the vampiric capital in exchange for a veritable fortune. Corado knows he shouldn’t. It’s a long, dangerous route, and the group has a smack of sedition to them that he knows firsthand to be a quick way to a bloody death. It is a hell of a lot of money, though. Background image: same as first slide. Title: Comparable Titles Images of the covers of The Devils by Joe Abercrombie, Godkiller by Hannah Kaner, and Red Rabbit by Alex Grecian. Text drawn with an arrow from each image: Found family (from the Devils) Reluctant parent figure (from Godkiller) Western-inspire Gothic setting (from Red Rabbit) Unlikely travel companions (from all). Background image: same as first slide.
January 13, 2026 at 5:00 AM
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FFXIV x TENSURA
When luckless Mick agrees to be his best friend Eleanor's adventuring partner, he expects to keep her safe, not be turned into a divine dragon. Now he and Eleanor must face his mission to lead a war against the gods—but is destiny as inevitable as it seems?
#BluePit #BluePit📖 #W #F
Moodboard of four images, all of which comes from various paintings by Alphonse Mucha: Left: Salon des Cent. A woman conceals her mouth with a hand, her index finger curled down. She's glaring intensely at the viewer. Middle top: The Moon. A woman wearing nothing but a navy blanket covered in stars stands against a backdrop consisting of the night sky and a crescent moon. She covers her smile with one hand. Middle bottom: Emerald. A serpent snarls at the viewer from amidst green lilies. Right: Poster for the 6th Sokol Festival. A woman in red, wearing a crown, sits as she clutches flower rings in her right hand and up her right arm. A ghostly, green image of a woman glares behind her.
January 13, 2026 at 5:03 AM
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Fern Brady x Neurotribes
I’m a queer, autistic weirdo. I’ve survived bullying, sexual harassment, abuse, and an ED. In GIRL DRAGON, I use more than a decade of therapeutic insight to help autistic readers understand themselves and learn to thrive in a neurotypical world.

#bluepit #Q #NF #ND #LGBT
January 14, 2026 at 1:37 AM
sharonmcabana.bsky.social
I learned I’m autistic at 37. Life was a series of traumas, bullying, and abuse. I grew up and became a therapist. My diagnosis changed everything. Combining memory, poetry, and therapeutic insights, GIRL DRAGON is the story of learning to fly in a neurotypical world.

#bluepit #NF #ND #LGBT
January 14, 2026 at 1:34 AM
sharonmcabana.bsky.social
For everyone who’s ever asked, what makes the prince so great? In CHILD OF SNOW AND SPEAR, Gry starts strong and ends stronger. A queer, empowered heroine born of betrayal who risks her body and soul to fulfill a broken promise, save the useless prince, and find redemption.
#bluepit #Q #F #ND #LGBT
January 14, 2026 at 1:30 AM
sharonmcabana.bsky.social
Marillier x Damsel
Gry is a Valkyrie/Viking half-breed born of betrayal. When she in turn betrays the prince she promised to save, she must travel the realms of Yggdrasil. There, she risks her body and soul to save the prince and find redemption.
#bluepit #Q #A #F #ND #LGBT
Child of Snow and Spear
January 14, 2026 at 1:27 AM
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E. Woods x S. Addison Allen
Bilcraigh, Ireland is lovely, except the jet lag, broken car, and a cursed inn that’s been waiting for Moira. Turns out, she’s the one to break the inn’s spell. If only she didn’t have to break her heart, and the heart of the man she loves, in order to do it.
#Q #bluepit
January 14, 2026 at 1:24 AM
sharonmcabana.bsky.social
The inn was waiting for Moira Jean to break the curse. She’s destined to love and break the heart of the inn’s caregiver, a good man. As Moira discovers the truth of the past, she learns the greatest of loves sometimes requires the greatest of sacrifices.

The Selkie’s Heart
#Bluepit #Q #A #R #ND
January 14, 2026 at 1:21 AM
sharonmcabana.bsky.social
I just filled a bookshelf that holds 300 books and I have two more bookshelves to move over and a stack of TBR books. There are clearly too many books in my one bedroom condo. Know what this means?

I need to buy a bigger house.

#booklover #reader #writer #bookworm #books
January 11, 2026 at 12:04 AM
sharonmcabana.bsky.social
I’m heartsick over the last two days with federal eyes once again landing on my home city after a second straight day of shootings by ICE thugs following a weekend of international law violations and threats against a sovereign nation. I made the mistake, multiple times in fact, of reading comments.
January 9, 2026 at 8:14 AM
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kathrynthornwood.com
I donate. It's what I do, what I can do, what keeps me moving forward and not giving in to the impotent rage that everything fills me with.

Keep shining light on what they beg you to keep dark.
Keep trusting your eyes over their lies.
And keep telling your friends that you love them.
January 8, 2026 at 10:50 PM
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washingtonpost.com
The stimulants Ritalin and Adderall have been used to treat attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) for decades, but research shows they don’t act on the brain’s attention circuitry as had long been assumed.
ADHD drugs work, but not the way experts thought
New brain research could reshape our understanding of ADHD and the most common drugs that treat it.
wapo.st
January 7, 2026 at 3:00 AM