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SonnyZappa @sonnyzappa.bsky.social · 16d

Introducing my MC Rea through incorrect quotes:

(A historical fantasy set in WW2 Italy)

#UnhingedPit #YA #H #W

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SonnyZappa @sonnyzappa.bsky.social · Aug 16

Thank you!

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SonnyZappa @sonnyzappa.bsky.social · Aug 16

ANATOMY OF A THIEF X INGLORIOUS BASTERDS X YA

Featuring:
🦋 A Mastermind teenage girl
🦋 A Heist against the Nazis
🦋 A group of talented "undesirables"
🦋 Found family
🦋 Yearning
🦋 Female rage and female friendship
🦋 Italian setting by Italian author
🦋 Resistance through art

#PosterPit #YA #HF #W

Black and white map of rome
THIEVING SPARROW
FOUND FAMILY
HEIST
LOW FANTASY
The pitch: Nazi Occupied Rome, 1944
Eighteen-Year-old Rea Sisti wages her own war against Nazism by stealing Italian artworks en route to Germany. When a mysterious American hires her to obtain a painting, she sets up a crew of talented "undesirables" for the theft of the decade. But "Diana L'immortale" might be more than she bargained for.

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Aaron Olátunjie Cole is ✨Vague✨👀 @aaronolatunjie.bsky.social · Aug 16

HUNGER GAMES x COBAB x POWERLESS

Inspired by Central Africa's Underworld of Kalunga

A boy with dangerous magic must compete in a deadly competition to save his mom's soul from the Underworld, but his growing love for the Prince threatens to destroy the kingdom

#PosterPit #Vague

A movie poster of Aaron's YA Fantasy, SoulCast, with the lead characters in the center. One is a Black warrior, the other is a Black Prince.

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Millie Abecassis @millieabecassis.com · Aug 16

Forthcoming 10.21.2025 at Brick & Bloom, a spellbinding debut brimming with intrigue and dangerous magic ✨

🌹 Historical fantasy
🇫🇷 Belle Époque
🔥 Slow-burn sapphic romance
🩸 Body-based magic system
🗡️ Family feuds
🗝️ Gothic vibes

#PosterPit #P #A #F #HF

Request an ARC here: forms.gle/N6awtckRwFGy...

A poster, featuring an illustrated portrait of Aubeline de Sterraux from A LEGACY OF BLOOD AND BONE. She is a white woman with brown hair tied in an intricate hairstyle. She wears a black dress with puffed sleeves and white earings. Aubeline is shown kneeling and praying, her head looking up.

The top of the poster is colored, and the bottom part is black and white, the two part being separated by a red stain reminiscent of blood.

The title of the book is in the center. Underneath is more text reading "A novel by Millie Abecassis," then a quote by April Yates reading "A gothic gem, rich with dread, desire, and a magic system as haunting as it is original."

Under the quote are the names of several characters, listed as if they were actors: Aubeline de Sterraux, Vinnie Anneton, Damarisse de Sterraux, and "unhinged dudes."

At the top are Cannes festival-style quotes reading "dangerous body-based magic" and "slow-burn sapphic romance."

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SonnyZappa @sonnyzappa.bsky.social · Aug 16

INDIANA JONES X SIX OF CROWS

#PosterPit #W #YA #HF

A movie poster featuring a girl holding a lighter with Rome on the background and embers that slowly turn into Fireflies. It reads: THIEVING SPARROW
FOUND FAMILY
HEIST
LOW FANTASY
The pitch: Nazi Occupied Rome, 1944
Eighteen-Year-old Rea Sisti wages her own war against Nazism by stealing Italian artworks en route to Germany. When a mysterious American hires her to obtain a painting, she sets up a crew of talented "undesirables" for the theft of the decade. But "Diana L'immortale" might be more than she bargained for.

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SonnyZappa @sonnyzappa.bsky.social · Aug 13

What's straighter than *check notes* comparing your friend to the sun?

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SonnyZappa @sonnyzappa.bsky.social · Aug 12

My Mc Rea from my WW2 Wip keeps insisting she's not a lesbian, meanwhile this is what she's writing in her diary addressed to a friend who kissed her once and gave her a violet shaped necklace

#WritingCommunity #Snippet

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Zoo Music Girl @zoomusicgirl.bsky.social · Jul 9

#UnhingedPit seems like a suitable first public outing for my #WIP

Still very much in progress, but #A #Upmarket with #R elements

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SonnyZappa @sonnyzappa.bsky.social · Jul 6

Writers, describe your WIP in the worst way possible:

Teenage boy dies, decides to kill god

Noga is in the query trenches!! @nogayourbroga.bsky.social · Jul 5

Writers, describe your WIP in the worst way possible:

That Mitchell and Webb Look at Downton Abbey

Morgane Boyd @morganeboydauthor.bsky.social · Jul 5

Writers, describe your WIP in the worst way possible:

Local woman really wants to be eaten by a dragon

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SonnyZappa @sonnyzappa.bsky.social · Jul 4

Thank you for the tag Millie but I don't have a page 187 yet...

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Millie Abecassis @millieabecassis.com · Jul 4

Yo! #WritingCommunity, drop lines 8+9+10 from page 187 of your MS and tag 3 friends!
@lness.bsky.social
@chriscampeau.bsky.social
@sonnyzappa.bsky.social

Her blond hair fell over her shoulders like a golden waterfall, giving her a mesmerizing aura only reinforced by her ocean-blue eyes. No wonder Renan fell in love with her and couldn’t commit himself to ignore his feelings and comply with his family’s expectations.

— A Legacy of Blood and Bone, chapter 12
Forthcoming October 21, 2025

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SonnyZappa @sonnyzappa.bsky.social · May 23

BABEL X DISHONORED
🌘Morally gray protagonist
⏳Dangerous Academia
🔮Soul-tearing magic
🦋Female rage
♟Sapphic Enemies AND lovers
📜Kill List
🏛 Ancient Rome inspired Steampunk setting
#WIPPIT #A #F

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Stephanie Winter @wintersleep85.bsky.social · May 23

NAUSICAÄ X FF7

A young woman is blessed with magic that could restore life to a dying world. Allied with a mentor who thinks the world should burn, a ruthless noble with her own agenda, and an enigmatic prince, she must evade enemies and learn if she is meant to save the world.

#WIPPIT #F #A

A foggy street. A vintage dress. A gas mask. Legs on a rocky ground. A silhouette of a man and woman. Flowers in sunlight.

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ThePoetJean - art comms open! 💫 @thepoetjean.bsky.social · May 23

Failed steampunk inventor Ari is perfectly content w/ living a quiet life in isolation in his empty mountain town...until the eccentric star baron Cy fell out of the sky & screwed up those plans. Ari fixes his robot leg, they fall hard & fast. Will it last?

#F #HF #A #U #R #LGBT #SFF #WIPPIT #FBW

THE STAR BARON'S HUSBAND
A LGBT+ Steampunk Fantasy Webserial by Jean M. Hodges

ORIGINAL ILLUSTRATION BY SAE AKA LIGHTLYBOW

Fully-rendered illustration of a happy BIPOC mlm couple in a romantic embrace, one man with glasses on smiling as his husband gives him a kiss on the cheek.

ORIGINAL ILLUSTRATION: Fejtel on Bluesky

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SonnyZappa @sonnyzappa.bsky.social · May 23

HUNGER GAMES X LITTLE NIGHTMARES
⚓️Young adult fantasy horror
⚓️Unhinged non-binary MC
⚓️Haunted ship
⚓️Found family
⚓️Theseus and the minotaur loose retelling
⚓️Deadly monsters
#F #H #YA #LGBT #WIPPIT

Every year, forty of Kilea’s children sent to a haunted ship as a sacrifice to avoid a war with the giants. Birdie’s part of this year’s sacrifice, but they’re armed with a slingshot and plenty of viciousness, and they have no intention of dying on that ship.

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SonnyZappa @sonnyzappa.bsky.social · May 23

HUNGER GAMES X LITTLE NIGHTMARES
Every year, forty of Kilea’s children sent to a haunted ship as a sacrifice. Birdie’s part of this year’s sacrifice, but they’re armed with a slingshot and plenty of viciousness, with only one objective: survive.
#F #H #YA #LGBT #WipPit

A moodboard feuturing various creepy animals and the lyrics to the chorus of Eat your young by Hozier.

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Morgan Wodring 🦑 NEW WEIRD NATION @morkalmarrh.bsky.social · May 16

I am bouncing off the walls to announce that I'm now represented by @ajvanbelle.bsky.social of @bookeralbertagency.bsky.social! From the get-go, they understood this strange world and its characters and helped them to shine bright. I'm excited to begin this mycorrhizal symbiosis!

A graphic with CYANOSIS at the top, saying MORGAN WODRING is now represented by A.J. Van Belle of the Booker Albert Agency. The background is an illustration of a man and a woman back to back with a purple wyvern between them.

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SonnyZappa @sonnyzappa.bsky.social · May 12

I'm still learning how to draw (I started a couple of months ago), but I drew Sage, the MC from my Dark Academia WIP

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SonnyZappa @sonnyzappa.bsky.social · May 7

I'm reading this one and trust me, it brightens your day.
#QuestPit

Guendalina Cilli @guendalina.bsky.social · May 7

ALADDIN x GREEK MYTH
When Peleas bumps into Thetis, he's lovestruck. Too bad she hates that his family's company is turning a historical villa into a hotel. His plan?

🏠Stop the project
💰 Keep the business afloat
❤️Win Thetis's heart

#questpit #A #R #W

A moodboard of 9 pictures. The color are mostly warm, yellows, oranges and some light blues. The central quote says "I met you and suddenly I knew exactly what I wanted"
There are two pictures of trees, a detail of holding hands in the grass, a luminous kitchen with a view of the sea; a rich breakfast with glasses of orange juice; a series of arches with flowers

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Rachel North - querying @rachelnorthauthor.bsky.social · May 7

PRIDE & PREJUDICE X THIS IS HOW YOU LOSE THE TIME WAR

A cryptographer must time travel to reverse her ruined reputation and get her fiancé back—but when she meets a handsome spy, she wonders if finding love in the past is worth the risk.

#QuestPit #Q #YA #F #HR

Image: a Regency woman with a clock superimposed over her. Text: The Genesis Clock.

PITCH: Imbued with time magic, chronoglass could alter the Napoleonic Wars. For cryptographer Georgiana Adams, it gives her the chance to erase the moment that soiled her character and forced her betrothed to leave her.
For Joshua Durand, the chronoglass would undo the mistake that crippled him in the Battle of Trafalgar and cost him his job as a British spy. When they catch each other stealing chronoglass, they make a deal: they won’t turn the other in as long as they work together and ration the precious magic. The deal should be easy—until they fall in love.

Comp titles: Pride and Prejudice (writing style), This is How You Lose the Time War (time-traveling spies), Queen Bee (feminist social commentary), and A Fragile Enchantment (Regency magic).

Snippet from The Genesis Clock describing time travel.

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Julie Brydon @jbrydon.bsky.social · May 7

#QuestPit #Q #YA #F John Tucker Must Die x The Craft

HEX GIRLFRIENDS CLUB: A lesbian witch teams up with her nemesis to curse the girlfriend who has been two-timing both of them, but as their revenge plot heats up, sparks fly, making the coconspirators wonder if they should be more than frenemies.

Fall-themed background of wood and orange leaves with images of a blonde teen girl, two witches facing away and embracing in front of a fire, a goth teen girl, tarot cards, mixing spell ingredients in a small cauldron, and lavender and candles.

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T.Lane 🤦‍♀️ is editing [Crystal Spring Valley] @t-lane-writes.bsky.social · May 7

#QuestPit #W #SFF

In the world where people can control Elements of Nature, all Nersan wants is to make his girlfriend happy, but he has to make peace with his past first

#writingcommunity #writersky #writesky #fantasynovel

Text reads: Specters
character storyline: Nersan Ziya
Nersan supports his girlfriend wholeheartedly. When she embarks on an adventure of her lifetime, Nersan doesn’t think twice before following her. They encounter people who used to be his friends, but disappointed him in the past. Emma, dealing with her own problems, refuses to understand Nersan’s inner conflict regarding his former friends and the pair ends up separated. Once left on his own, Nersan has to admit that what his former friends did was a betrayal, on a very deep, personal level. Only then he’s able to fight his way back to those who truly love and care about him.

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Emi Lou Lockett is ✨querying✨ @emiloulockett.bsky.social · May 7

🎵GUILTY AS SIN x ANGEL OF MY DREAMS x COLORS🎵
Fate & her Atrocities (95k/Romantasy)
A locked gaze is all it takes for Starling to read a mind.
Kov has strange scars and the stranger ability to sow thoughts into heads.
Only they can't use their abilities on each other. #Q #Questpit #F #A #R

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