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Altia Yarrow @altiayarrow.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 12/20 #classics #booksky #bookchallenge #20bookchallenge #frommyshelves

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Altia Yarrow @altiayarrow.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Trying to edit the midpoint of my manuscript today, but I'm still sleepy from acupuncture and the wind is so loud I can't hear myself think 😭

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Altia Yarrow @altiayarrow.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 11/20 #Fantasy #booksky #bookchallenge #20bookchallenge #frommyshelves

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Altia Yarrow @altiayarrow.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 10/20 #Fantasy #booksky #bookchallenge #20bookchallenge #frommyshelves

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Altia Yarrow @altiayarrow.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Just needed to share that I edited 6,000 words today for my second draft and I'm feeling really proud of myself. I'm more than halfway done with Draft 2, and I'm (hopefully) done with all the chapters that need full rewrites! Glad I pushed through the sucky days! #writing #writingcommunity #author

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Altia Yarrow @altiayarrow.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 9/20 #Fantasy #booksky #bookchallenge #20bookchallenge #frommyshelves

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Altia Yarrow @altiayarrow.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 8/20 #Fantasy #emilywilde #heatherfawcett #booksky #bookchallenge #20bookchallenge #frommyshelves

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Altia Yarrow @altiayarrow.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 7/20 #Fantasy #booksky #bookchallenge #20bookchallenge #frommyshelves

The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, Folio Society edition

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Altia Yarrow @altiayarrow.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 6/20 #Fantasy #booksky #bookchallenge #20bookchallenge #frommyshelves

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Altia Yarrow @altiayarrow.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 5/20 #fantasy #booksky #bookchallenge #20bookchallenge #frommyshelves

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Altia Yarrow @altiayarrow.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Had a minor work burnout over the weekend and now all I want to do is edit silly videos. Someone please make me get off my phone and start editing this next chapter 😅 #writingcommunity #writer #help

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Altia Yarrow @altiayarrow.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 4/20 #kidlit #booksky #bookchallenge #20bookchallenge #frommyshelves

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Weaver Literary Agency @weaverliterary.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Just a reminder that you should read books by black authors year around ✨️ Here are some favorites to get you started.

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Altia Yarrow @altiayarrow.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 3/20 #manga #booksky #bookchallenge #20bookchallenge #frommyshelves

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Altia Yarrow @altiayarrow.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

My healthy writing habit is that I schedule my writing time week by week. At the beginning of every week, I decide on what days I will focus on writing and for how long, and I stick to it. It's helpful for people like me who hate routine, because you can change things up every week! #writer

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Brianna Heath | Author @briannahwrites.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

All right, let's do this, #WritingCommunity! Next Saturday (Feb 8), I'm hosting #CritPit, an event for #writers to find critique partners and alpha/beta readers. The event is open to all writers! Please share widely!

#CritPit
What is it? A bsky event to help writers find new alpha readers, beta readers, and/or critique partners!
When is it happening? 8 February 2025. No time zone restrictions. As long as it’s Feb 8 somewhere, #CritPit is happening!
Who can participate? All writers who have something for which they’d like to find a reader/partner! This includes novels, novellas, short stories, etc.

How to participate
1. Create a short (single post-length) pitch to describe your work. Your pitch doesn’t need to be perfect, but it should tell people what your writing is about!

2. Post up to 3 works, 1 post per work

3. Include the #CritPit hashtag!

4. To help people find you, include an age category tag and at least 1 genre tag (see bit.ly/CritPit for a list of tags)

5. If a pitch interests you, leave a comment to let the writer know!

FAQ
Am I allowed to like pitches? Yes! Anyone can like, comment, and/or repost! Go wild!
Are agents/editors participating? This is NOT an event for pitching to agents/editors. This is for writers to find other writers. Agents/editors who are also writers may participate, but do so as writers only.
Can I include a moodboard/graphic? Do I HAVE to include a moodboard/graphic? Graphics (moodboards, “a guide to,” etc.) are not required but they are allowed. Do include alt text for all images. Do not use AI-generated content.

Finding a match
You do not have to work with everyone to comments/volunteers as a reader!
Recommended first steps for a potential match:
1. Discuss whether you’ll be swapping (reading for each other) or just 1 person will read for the other.
2. Share a slightly longer blurb + any content/trigger warnings.
3. Share a sample (like first 1-2 chapters) so you can see if you vibe (reader is interested/engaged & writer feels the feedback style of the reader works for them).
4. Always notify someone if you don’t think you’ll be a good fit, can’t make the time commitment, or can’t finish once you start.

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Altia Yarrow @altiayarrow.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 2/20 #Fantasy #booksky #bookchallenge #20bookchallenge #frommyshelves

The Lord of the Rings, The Return of the King book cover

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Alise @shereadytoread.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

If you are a BLACK INDIE AUTHOR, reply to this tweet with a blurb about your book and a link of where to purchase it. If you are a reader please repost this! #booksky #blackbooksky #diversebooks #blackhistorymonth

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Altia Yarrow @altiayarrow.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Don't mind me, I'm just trying to get good at book photography before I actually have to use it to sell my own book. What's that? If I don't put down the camera and start editing, I won't have a book to sell? Shhhhhhh.

The Book That Wouldn't Burn, a novel, sat atop an open book next to a gold necklace. A candle lights the image.

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Altia Yarrow @altiayarrow.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Looking to add more BIPOC authors to my TBR, especially now that it's #BlackHistoryMonth . Any recommendations? Adult, YA, and chapter books welcome, but please limit to fantasy books with endings that are at least somewhat happy ❤️ #Fantasy #books #bookrecs #booksky #readingcommunity

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Altia Yarrow @altiayarrow.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 1/20 #Fantasy #booksky #bookchallenge #20bookchallenge #frommyshelves

Daughter of the Forest by Juliet Marillier

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Altia Yarrow @altiayarrow.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

To all the well-meaning people who said "Why don't you write it?" when I lamented my ideal book not existing: Did you understand the consequences? #writingcommunity #books #authorlife

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Altia Yarrow @altiayarrow.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Somehow managed to bring the perfect book for the café I stopped in between jobs. The entire menu was monochromatic! #books #bookcommunity #reader

Equinox, a book by David Towsey, on a table next to a black and white cake slice and a black and white latte.

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Altia Yarrow @altiayarrow.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Cinder Cat is being distracingly cute. I'm trying to edit, my love. Stop. #catsofbluesky

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Altia Yarrow @altiayarrow.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

I feel like I'm too close to my story to do this justice 😅 But I'd love to hear other writers' bad explanations of their stories! #booksky #writingcommunity

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Altia Yarrow @altiayarrow.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

So #2025pit is over, but please excuse me while I go back through all the pitches I reposted and marvel at everyone's ideas. Thank you to everyone who interacted with mine, as well! Let's keep putting ourselves out there and get published! #writingcommunity

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Katie Collan @kancollan.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

LEGENDBORN X AVATAR: THE LAST AIRBENDER When fighters start disappearing from an underground elemental tournament, a sixteen-year-old participant with wind powers must uncover the tournament’s secrets before she loses a match and shares their fate. #2025Pit #YA #F #Jewish

A collage featuring a hooded figure standing in an underground tunnel that has the four elements on the walls and floor.

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Manuscript Wish List® @manuscriptwishlist.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Hello Writing Community! We are delighted to announce our First Official Bluesky *** #MSWL Day *** February 12, 2025. 🎉🎉🎉 Agents + editors can post what they ✨wish✨ they had in their inboxes; writers can find their next best fit for querying. Learn more here: manuscriptwishlist.com/the-next-off...

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The Next Official #MSWL Day: February 12, 2025 – The Official Manuscript Wish List Website

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Caitlin @awritingcaitlin.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

LIGHT FROM UNCOMMON STARS x ARCANE When a god offers Lelia the life she’s always wanted in exchange for her help on a museum heist, she agrees with barely a second thought. But Lelia’s not used to consequences, and stealing a legendary relic comes with several. #2025pit #A #F #DIS #LGBTQ #ND

Moodboard featuring four photos:
Bottom left: view of a museum second floor. museum has columns and arches in the architecture.
Left: closeup of a violin as someone plays it.
Top right: Violin sitting on a dark surface.
Bottom right: artistic music staff with notes.
On the right is a color palette in browns ranging from dark to light.
A sticky note in the bottom right says: Finn's Fiddle

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Ruth Cantu is querying 🦄 @ruth-cantu-writes.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Final pitch for #2025pit ⚔️Witches with swords and compulsion magic⚔️ Fate chose wrong. Alys Sathos has no desire to free an enemy realm from their queen’s mind twisting magic. Especially not after the prince captures her when her broom crashes behind enemy lines. #F #A #RF #ownvoice #bipocFMC

A collage of pictures with the text ELEUTHERIA across the center. Pictures from clockwise: a man and woman being pulled apart, a woman with gold dust led fingers over her mouth, a sun and moon motif, a golden key on an open book, a hand holding a crown, a woman holding a skull, a woman open mouthed with smeared gold makeup, a man’s bare chest dusted in gold and he’s clutching a blackened hand with claws, golden snakes among golden vines, black cracked leather dusted with gold.

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Cameron Dòmhnallach @cdomhnallach.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

BABEL x A RIVER ENCHANTED Lachlan’s mentor, the top diplomat in a nation on the brink of being colonized again, has just been assassinated. Now, Lachlan must take up the mission that got him killed: negotiating on behalf of a shadowy rebel group intent on resisting invasion by force. #2025Pit #A #F

A collage of photos: on the top left a spiral staircase in an old book shop, and on the bottom left a young man with curly hair standing in the wind. In the bottom right there is a black-and-white photo of an elderly man, as well as a parcel of papers flanked by pen and inkwell. In the top right are four smaller photos: a misty Scottish Highland scene, a table full of overlapping maps, a dark desk filled with books illuminated by a desk lamp, and a vertical shot of a beach with birds circling overhead.

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Altia Yarrow @altiayarrow.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

EMILY WILDE×ENCHANTMENT OF RAVENS Omens are immortal. Auri knows this. But her father's omen of death is tired of life, so she cuts him a deal. If he spares her father, she'll find him a way to die. Now Auri has to somehow kill this immortal (who she's definitely not falling for). #A #F #RF #2025Pit

Collage of black, whkte, and gold pictures. A couple embracing beneath a tree, a woman silhouetted against the moon, hands holding a star, a road in a forest of fireflies, and a black cat with orange eyes.

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Sheila Bliss @blissbooks.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

The Mummy X From 🩸 & Ash The rules of life and love have changed now, but Alec is determined to find his mother. As he discovers more clues, his magic darkens, revealing threats graver than a missing mother or the mystery behind a woman’s eyes. #2025pit #F #R #A #Q

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karimecc.bsky.social @karimecc.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Pan's Labyrinth x the girl Who drank the moon Silena fell from a City in the sky, to a dark forest. She seeks to remember Who she is, and how to return home. Can she and her friend Ull find a key to ignite an old flying machine to fly back home, before the Corruptor captures them? #MG #F #2025pit

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Melissa Bergum @writingbubbly.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Lonely Jane has mood-affecting weather abilities, Corwin’s an anxious new kid. Both could use a friend. When Jane’s shady landlord threatens eviction because of her, she has to control her emotions, but how can she when she’s majorly crushing on Corwin?! #2025Pit #MG #Con #RomCom #SPF #DIS

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Angelina Flood @linala.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

NINTH HOUSExGilmore Girls A 21st-century witch promises to help a dead 17th-century predecessor. When she learns a coven masked as a company is using her ex to hunt the ghost for a killer internship, she must delve into her haunted past to save the man she loves & her kindred spirit. #2025pit #F #A

A collage of spooky, witchy images with white text reading WITCHES LIKE SILVER STARS over a stained glass raven.

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Jill Robinson @firstdraftdotblog.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

VOX x CLOUD CUCKOO LAND A pure, breedable female, Cybele is kidnapped and offered as a prize in a gladiatorial contest. When she convinces her assigned companion to search for her family, it leads to a deadly confrontation with her former captor and a dark, hidden truth. FRAGILE #2025Pit #A #D

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Natalie is ✨ writing a new thing✨ @natalielouise83.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

THE GHOST WOODS meets THE SILENCE FACTORY in WOODBINE, a Gothic thriller in which a lonely stained-glass artist must reassemble the fractured pieces of his memory before a malevolent creeper destroys his last chance at love. #2025pit #A #HF #T

Title screen of an agent's guide to Woodbine with a floral patterned background

Pitch text: The Ghost Woods meets The Silence Factory in Woodbine, a Gothic thriller set in post-war Hampshire, UK, that explores love and nature as twin entities in their power both to heal and destroy.

Stained-glass artist Tom Piper has lost his home to the bailiffs, his wife to another man and his daughter to an argument he can’t take back. But redemption comes in the form of Mary Goddard, the enigmatic owner of a crumbling country estate, who is willing to pay any price to restore a set of windows depicting the haunting love story of Tristram and Isolde.

After a violent altercation with Mary’s delusional twin sister brings Tom and Mary together, their unlikely friendship quickly blossoms into something more. But when the lunatic sister starts talking sense at the same time as a mysterious creeper proceeds to wreak havoc throughout the house – and upon Tom himself – he is forced to question whether the feelings he has for Mary, and she for him, are the real thing or a madness all their own.

Image shows a mood board featuring a fire, a moon on a misty night, a woman looking at herself in a handheld mirror and a grand doorway in a stately home.

Comparison titles showing book covers of The Puzzle Wood by Rosie Andrews, The Ghost Woods by CJ Cooke, The Asylum by Karen Coles and The Silence Factory by Bridget Collins.

Opening lines of Woodbine:

The bride’s face was missing, that was the first thing I noticed. No one had escaped unscathed – the groom had lost everything from the waist down and the witnesses had been obliterated – but the neat hole at the neckline of her dress looked deliberate, as if a child had staved it in with a slingshot after the blast. I suppose that’s almost precisely what happened, though I didn’t know it at the time. I tutted and shook my head. Such a shame.

Behind me, my new employer cleared her throat. ‘What do you think? Is there any hope?’

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Alexander Saxton @aewsaxton.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell x the Green Knight Polycrisis Arthuriana. A young knight thinks he’s the next Lancelot. He’s not. He sets off to slay a dragon & fails. He flees through a haunted countryside. Finally the worst happens—he gets to become everything he once wanted to be #2025Pit #A #F

Book cover. Blackline, Aubrey Beardsley style illustration against an ecru background. A cluster of images floating over hills & forests. A black flower; a woman with a sword; a crowned dragon, a wing and pillar, a mournful woman, a steel helmet, an old man gazing out a window at the light, a dogheaded man, a blindfolded man, a young knight lying exhausted with a skull-faced jester whispering in his ear. “Blackflower”.

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Stephanie Winter @wintersleep85.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

ATLA X BRIDGERTON A hero's side quest is a life-shattering experience for someone else. When a legendary hero crashes into a young lady's life, she finds herself questioning everything she ever knew as the two try to save her town from a mystical murderer. #2025Pit #A #F

A snowy forest. A shadowy hand. A shadowy woman. A woman in a dress. Steampunk gears. A full moon.

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Lavender Leonidas is querying & writing @authorlavleo.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

#2025pit #Q #A #F #R #FR When everything Belan learned about vampires turns out to be a lie, deciding whether or not to trust a handsome vampire lord is more than just a life or death decision- her research, the mysteries of her childhood, and her heart are all on the line.

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Laken Honeycutt 💫 Book 3 Kickstarter is live! 💫 @mycelialwriter.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Conscripted into a brutal war against the mystical Lumani, Rowynn keeps a dangerous secret - an uncontrollable magic rises within her, the very magic the army seeks to destroy. Her only solace is in a mysterious demon who visits Rowynn in her dreams. SHADOW & BONE + AVATAR #2025Pit #A #F

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Altia Yarrow @altiayarrow.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

EMILY WILDE SERIES × AN ENCHANTMENT OF RAVENS × STARDUST A tale of life, love, and letting go. 🍁Grumpy cat man×sheltered overacheiver 🍁Slow burn 🍁Animal transformation 🍁Grim reapers 🍁Did I mention the grumpy cat man? #F #RF #A #2025Pit

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Lynn Love @lynnlove.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

'CROWSTONES' BLY MANOR X THE BEGUILED 👭Female led 👻Ghost story 🗡️Murder mystery 🏔️Remote location ❄️The hardest winter on record “Here lies a poor distressed maid. Just in her bloom she was snatched away, Her clothing made of the cold earthen clay.”’ #2025Pit #H #HF #A

Images of a frozen lake, winter trees, and a wooden Shack by a river. A young, red haired woman looks worried. They're are spectral eyes looking through a forest

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Hannah Bashir @hannahbashir.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

OF WISDOM an Athena origin tale 🦉 Athena has been abandoned, cast aside on earth by a prophecy foretelling her rise to power and Zeus’ downfall. Determined to prove she isn’t a threat, Athena embarks on a journey back to Olympus, unaware every step she takes is unravelling her fate #2025Pit #HF

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