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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Related: Good God, how I miss color in movies & TV. Real color. Not that "desaturated" color. COLOR.

alex 🌱 @alexmoranbooks.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Not to alarm anyone, but… this book I'm working on is genuinely the most insane thing I've ever written. I didn't know I had this kind of book about rage, codependency, the violence of love, and grief in me set against a blistering cold PNW winter, but here we are. 🧍🏽‍♀️ #writingcommunity

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alex 🌱 @alexmoranbooks.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

dvpit was so fun! I haven't had the chance to pitch before, and it was everything I dreamed of. You all are so very, very creative, and I need every single story I saw published. <3

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alex 🌱 @alexmoranbooks.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

this book has my whole heart. 😮‍💨💓

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alex 🌱 @alexmoranbooks.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

25yrs ago, single mom Catherine Duarte vanished on a logging road, leaving her 5yo daughter in a snowstorm with a note and suitcase. Now an adult, her search for answers uncovers a surrogacy experiment that could bring a country to its knees and unmasks a monster in her DNA. #DVPit #A #H #SF #DIS

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alex 🌱 @alexmoranbooks.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

A reporter investigates a rural town thick with reports of people who turn into wolves & women vanishing in the night. There, she is given a chance to find the truth behind her mother's disappearance 25yrs ago, & uncovers a secret abt her linage that could bring a nation to it's knees. #SF #A #DVPit

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alex 🌱 @alexmoranbooks.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

X-FILES x TWIN PEAKS 🐺 Female anti-hero 🧪Decaying town full of secrets 🐺 Unsubtle critique of law enforcement 🧪Unreliable narrator 🐺Brooding mmc w/ slutty glasses 🧪Subtle romantic subplot 🐺Forced proximity 🧪Horror as a vehicle for exploring trauma & adoption 🐺Women in STEM #DVpit #A #H #MH

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alex 🌱 @alexmoranbooks.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Agents, pls love this as much as I do.b

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alex 🌱 @alexmoranbooks.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

TWIN PEAKS x SHARP OBJECTS A journalist searching for justice for the missing women of Raven Cove gets more than a hit true-crime piece when she uncovers a dangerous government-funded eugenics scheme, forcing her to walk the ethical line between what makes a villain and a hero. #DVpit #H #A #MH

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alex 🌱 @alexmoranbooks.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

TRUE DETECTIVE x X-FILES To solve her mom's disappearance 25 yrs ago, a grieving journalist investigates a remote fishing village plagued by missing women and reports of people who turn into wolves. But finding the truth means facing her past, and the monster hiding in her own DNA. #DVpit #H #A #MH

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PicantePit 🌶 @picantepit.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

#PicantePit is happening tomorrow so make sure to read through the rules!

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Leticia Urieta @leticiaasu.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

For me, every season is soup appropriate, but fall is the beginning of the officially sanctioned Soup Season. Would love to do a soup potluck competition with frienda and call it "soup there it is."

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alex 🌱 @alexmoranbooks.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

#AskDV do you need to hire an editor before querying your work? I find the investment is risky because you don't know if it'll be money well-spent or money you lose bc the book died in the trenches.

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alex 🌱 @alexmoranbooks.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

#AskDV what are some market trends that have occurred this year in publishing or in your query inbox that have or have not surprised you? 👀

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alex 🌱 @alexmoranbooks.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

X-FILES x SHARP OBJECTS When another woman disappears in a string of missing persons cases from a rural fishing town in Maine amidst reports of people turning into wolves, a journalist is given a chance to find out the truth about her mother's disappearance there 25 years earlier. #PreDV

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Locus Magazine @locusmag.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

The Locus Awards are just around the corner! We will joined by artist guest of honor #AlyssaWinans whose work has been featured on the covers for #AMouthfulofDust #TheRedScholarsWake #TheMemoryoftheOgisi & more! Buy tickets at locusmag.com/2026-lo... or via our bio!

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alex 🌱 @alexmoranbooks.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

omg *taps microphone* is this thing on? 😂 I haven't been on here for A WHILE bc i lost my password, but I'm back and am in the #querying trenches again, too. 👁️ I would love to connect with writers in the same space or those published or on sub! My passion is screaming about your accomplishments. <3

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alex 🌱 @alexmoranbooks.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

25 for 2025! Lots of thrillers and books with heavy themes, so I tried to sprinkle a few light-hearted ones here and there as breathers. 🙂‍↕️ #Books

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alex 🌱 @alexmoranbooks.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

another year around the sun ~ 🌞 I am grateful and looking curiouser and curiouser to the year ahead 🥹🥳🫶🏽

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alex 🌱 @alexmoranbooks.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

another late night writing due to family being sick and life lifeing. It's 1 AM, but what can you do! the words may be bad, but they'll exist. you can't edit a blank page.

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alex 🌱 @alexmoranbooks.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

it's past midnight, but i told myself i would write 1k words tonight even if i didn't feel like it. so glad i decided to show up bc even if i wasn't feeling it, my characters were 🥹 #writingcommunity

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alex 🌱 @alexmoranbooks.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

reading all the thrillers I can lately 🥹 Idk why fall becomes my thriller era every year, but I'm not mad abt it! I'm also watching some dark thrillers and documentaries on Netflix at night and... Yall, if I'm more jumpy than normal, this is why. 🫠

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alex 🌱 @alexmoranbooks.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

I was reading on my Kindle and started to highlight a section and make unhinged comments abt how much I loved a certain thing, but then realized they'd never see it bc it's not a Google Doc dang it. 😤😤😤 #Books

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Pixies a/k/a Map Nerd @mcburnellauthor.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

PSA Everyone who uses Canva: they have opted you in to training AI, you will need to get into your privacy settings to stop these assholes scraping your stuff. #WritingCommunity

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nicky the friendly shark @mostlysharks.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

him: (looking at my scars) wow, how did you get those? me: (knowing they’re from my cat scratching me) war

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alex 🌱 @alexmoranbooks.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

I've been screaming about this to anyone who will listen! Like, the trailer is identical and I was not prepared for how seriously the director was to his job! LIKE THE CASTING IS PHENOMENAL. ARE WE EVEN SEEING THIS? HICCUP IS REAL

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alex 🌱 @alexmoranbooks.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

forever torn between being a goblin with messy hair, sweats, and hunched over my desk writing, or getting dressed for the day, hair styled, face on, and writing in public. the goblin wins most days. 🥲😌 #writingcommunity

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alex 🌱 @alexmoranbooks.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

thinking abt @aijiang.bsky.social 's A PALACE NEAR THE WIND daily if not hourly since I finished last week. 😭 Thought provoking, honest, unique, and gut-wrenching. Top read this year for sure! #Books

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alex 🌱 @alexmoranbooks.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

It's amazing how when I am obviously busy on my laptop, and my keys click-clacking away is when my family wants to hold LENGTHY conversations, ask me questions, and expect replies back. Like, y'all, I'm good at multitasking, but this is too much. I'm just trying to write emo smexy tattooing. 🤣

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Azshure Raine 🍎 🌹 Romantasy and Retellings @azshure.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

It's been a hot minute, so introductions are in order! Ollo, I'm Azshure or just Az. I write Epic Fantasy that hinges on Romantasy/Dark Fantasy. As well as spicy retelling of Fairy tales with Fae and Far who turn into Wyverns. (Not dragons, it's important.) I also draw most of my own scenes

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alex 🌱 @alexmoranbooks.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

my agent is simply the best and I'll never stop screaming abt her prowess 🥹🗣️

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alex 🌱 @alexmoranbooks.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

🥲 I've never felt more seen than when the moon is big and staring at me through the window. Its soothing milky white strands wrap around my heart and squeeze tight, tight, tight. I'm so small and inconsequential, and yet the moon seems so happy to see me. Nature is so beautiful!

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alex 🌱 @alexmoranbooks.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

⭐️ bookish checkpoint ⭐️ 📚 Last book you read: Don't Look for Me by Wendy Walker 📚 Current read: City of the Lost by Kelly Armstrong 📚 Last book added to TBR: I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman 📚 Next anticipated read: Vampires of El Norte by Isabel Caña or The Emperor of Gladness

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alex 🌱 @alexmoranbooks.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

I dnf a lot of books, and that's okay bc why spend time reading a book I don't like when I could be reading one I do and enjoying it? And sometimes I dnf a book and then come back to it a few months later, and LOVE it. Sometimes, it's just timing. #WritingCommunity

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alex 🌱 @alexmoranbooks.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

the things i film for social media 💀 sometimes, I look in the mirror and am just like... how'd I get here? all i wanted to do was write a book! 🗿 #writingcommunity

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alex 🌱 @alexmoranbooks.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

question: if you had the opportunity to meet your favorite author and have an hour of 1-on-1, would you take it? I've had this opportunity, and while I was nervous, it was incredibly rewarding and she was sooo beyond kind. 🥹

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alex 🌱 @alexmoranbooks.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

me: gets an idea and the vibe is just... this. 😂🙂‍↕️ You'll never guess what dirty means in this context, but today has been a great idea/creative energy day 🫡 #WritingCommunity

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Noelle Monét | BOUND BY FURY out now!! @noellemonet.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Friendly reminder that I am a Round Table Mentor this year! Take a peek at my MSWL below to see if we'd be a good fit!😊 Check out the thing in my thing for more info about RTM and the other mentors!

What is round table mentor? If you’re a writer looking to learn more about your art and its purpose, all while developing a thoughtful approach to crafting your stories, you’re invited to join Round Table Mentor—a program that delves into the art of content, rather than accolades.Selected applicants will partner with a mentor to hone their craft, and all applicants, regardless of acceptance, will have access to the resources in our Discord community.

MSWL: Fantasy: Give me found family on a magical road trip, complicated love triangles (or more), betrayal, dangerous women, sapphic romance, women-led rebellion, dire stakes, a fresh twist on a classic fantasy competition, sapphic bodyguard romantasy.Horror: Horror with a hefty dose of humor, girls turned wild, land with teeth, eldritch beasts, Indigenous Appalachian horror, there’s something in the mirror, houses that aren’t haunted but are the haunting, psychological horror. Thriller: Topical thrillers that cover gen z issues, fresh take on a locked room thriller, women who kill

Overly specific things I’d love to see: Social horror like Get Out, Candyman, or Jennifer’s Body, Be gay, do crime, The monstrous nature of girlhood, Black southern gothic anything, Antebellum era historical fantasy centering Black characters, Lush, immersive prose like in Your Blood My Bones and Starling House, Epistolary thrillers like Sadie, Epistolary… anything really, NA Dark Academia in a college setting, the more intense, the better, Body horror like in I Feed Her to the Beast and the Beast is Me or Wilder Girls, Time loops, Topical Black thrillers like Grown or Black retellings of classic media like The Weight of Blood

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alex 🌱 @alexmoranbooks.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Thought I'd take a minute to introduce myself: hi! I’m Alex, a chronically ill Guatemalan writer of spec. fiction. I am currently working on my strange werewolf thriller while my agent works on my other book about to go on sub. I also love K-pop, languages, F1, and meeting fellow #writers

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alex 🌱 @alexmoranbooks.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

my favorite animal is me when i finish a friend's unpublished book and send them a flood of memes and unhinged reactions after, bc i don't have any one else to scream abt it with 🥲💕🥹 #WritingCommunity

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solar @solarhoang.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

1920s Vietnamese chaebols sisters taking sibling rivalry extremely serious. #UnhingedPit #A #F #AG

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alex 🌱 @alexmoranbooks.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Looking for my fellow SFF, Horror, Spec., Romance, and Contemporary Hispanic/Latin authors! If you're in any of those categories, comment below, and I can get a starter pack going for us bc I've searched high and low on here, and I can't find mi gente 🥲 #writercommunity

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alex 🌱 @alexmoranbooks.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Controversial, but I think duologies are much more approachable than series bc the commitment is less, and I'm more likely to remember to buy the second book when it comes out.

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alex 🌱 @alexmoranbooks.bsky.social · 28/07/2023

If you found the recipe for immortality, would you sell it or would you burn it?

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alex 🌱 @alexmoranbooks.bsky.social · 27/07/2023

certain things happen in my life that remind me good people and things still exist. 😭✨

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alex 🌱 @alexmoranbooks.bsky.social · 26/07/2023

the urge to start the new idea I want to write vs the urge to hide from the blank page and read an already written book instead. 💀

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