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Amber Baird @amberbairdpdx.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Are there any lesbian monsterfucker films, outside of the vampire sub-genre?

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Amber Baird @amberbairdpdx.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I present to you, for spooky season: Lenore’s Song by Amber Baird substack.com/home/post/p-...

Your sweat glistens like the pissy condensation on the side of the urinal at a dive bar. While your esteemed face flushes to the color of a raw pork chop. I’ve got so much time for metaphors now.

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Amber Baird @amberbairdpdx.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Burrito Gods revision progress: 55k/65k.

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Amber Baird @amberbairdpdx.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

To the Burrito Gods: Imagine Anna Dorn and Sarah Gailey characters work together at Doublemeat Palace, and they think it's The Bear, but it's really The Menu.

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Amber Baird @amberbairdpdx.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Burrito Gods draft progress: 50k/65k. I worried I wouldn't be able to write after the strokes last year, and I couldn't for quite a while, but I'm fully back in the swing of things now and it feels so good.

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Amber Baird @amberbairdpdx.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Out now! a.co/d/0aIchl5L

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Amber Baird @amberbairdpdx.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Burrito Gods draft progress: 47,500/65000 I have about 15,000 left to edit and about 2,500 new words to write. So close.

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Amber Baird @amberbairdpdx.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Just a few things that informed the stories in Space Babies (blasting off July 28th). Space Babies is a digital zine; 14 pages of retro futuristic feminist sci-fi; the duology of stories “Who’s Your Daddy?”/“Stella’s Stars.” Preorder now on Kindle. a.co/d/0bpKAo5w

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Amber Baird @amberbairdpdx.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

What car would a demon masquerading as a working class human drive?

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Amber Baird @amberbairdpdx.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

So I did a thing. Space Babies is a digital zine; 14 pages of retro futuristic feminist sci-fi; the duology of stories “Who’s Your Daddy?”/“Stella’s Stars.” Releases July 28. Preorder now on Kindle. a.co/d/0bpKAo5w

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Amber Baird @amberbairdpdx.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

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Amber Baird @amberbairdpdx.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Good to finally have a name for it. It's funny Burning Man Syndrome is actually more common in women.

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Amber Baird @amberbairdpdx.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

So close. So, so close. Then: eyes. Would you like to be eyes? Would love a few more beta readers. You do not have to be a writer, just someone I can trust, but it helps if you like quirky queer horror. (I'd love to read your quirky queer horror too.)

ovals in alternating aqua and magenta featuring a burning building, a moldy wall, two people with long hair kissing, a metallic cow figurine, someone with long hair looking in a mirror streaked with makeup, horns adorning a human head with blonde hair, a chili pepper squeezed between teeth, and a polo-shirt wearing kitchen worker holding a long knife. In the center, it reads To the Burrito Gods! and features a cartoon graphic of a aqua, gold, and magenta burrito with stars on it, against a white and gold marble backdrop.

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Amber Baird @amberbairdpdx.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

“Who’s Your Daddy?” - grimy 90s coming of age w/ aliens “Loose Teeth” - the horror of having teeth “Lenore’s Song” - a ghost story where karma acts quickly I’ve added 3 short stories that were no longer accessible to my website readbaird.com

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Amber Baird @amberbairdpdx.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Finally to the wild shit, I'm so excited.

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Amber Baird @amberbairdpdx.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Burrito Gods third draft progress: 30k/65k. Feels so good to be writing again.

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Amber Baird @amberbairdpdx.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Thank you so much to the beautiful weirdos who have purchased book covers from me so far. The response has been amazing! Premade book covers for weirdos. $50. Message me for details, or visit my website to inquire.

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Amber Baird @amberbairdpdx.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

My book cover inventory is growing with styles for all tastes as long as you’re weird. No AI ever. $50. #bookcovers #writingcommunity #indieauthor

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Amber Baird @amberbairdpdx.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

I don’t write fanfiction anymore but the AO3 notifications still warm my heart.

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Amber Baird @amberbairdpdx.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Some influences for To the Burrito Gods. Querying soon. #amrevising

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Amber Baird @amberbairdpdx.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Instead of using AI, you could totally buy a book cover from me for your incredibly amazing horror, sci-fi, gothic, literary, or satire indie book. You know, if you want. $50. Message to claim and for customization. 🎈 #indieauthor #bookcovers #writingcommunity

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Amber Baird @amberbairdpdx.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

I hate when people use ”an audible” to mean an audiobook.

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Amber Baird @amberbairdpdx.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

I wrote 500 words of fiction for the first time since my strokes. Unfortunately, it was not work on the novel I am supposed to be finishing.

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Amber Baird @amberbairdpdx.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

The best books I read in 2025 in my top genres: horror & thriller; mystery & thriller; contemporary & literary; science fiction & fantasy. #bestof2025 #booksky #bookrecommendations

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Amber Baird @amberbairdpdx.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

Well my body has knocked me flat again. I love being chronically ill!

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Amber Baird @amberbairdpdx.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Some influences for To the Burrito Gods. Querying soon. #amrevising

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Amber Baird @amberbairdpdx.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

TO THE BURRITO GODS: a horror story about working in food service. ⛪️ workplace cult 🌯 foodie satire 💋 sapphic w/ trans LI Querying soon. #questpit #A #H #LF #WIP

First panel is a mood board in pink, gold, and blue. "To the Burrito Gods" printed in the middle. Images in the board: two hands clasping, a burrito, a rainbow, something on fire, someone praying, an eye up close, a smashed up car, a computer and sketchbook, a series of knives.

On the right panel against a grungy green background, info:

Desperate Amanda doesn't have a lot of options in rural Oregon, but she thinks her dreams have come true when she's hired at Burrito Gods, a hip fast-casual joint, making a thriving wage, only to find that to climb the ranks she'll have to lose her soul.

Movie poster for Sorry to Bother You X book cover for Pizza Girl.

TO THE BURRITO GODS is a horror story about working in food service featuring a late queer coming-of-age for fans of Rachel Harrison and Grady Hendrix.

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Ivy T. Woods @ivytwoods.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Geralt of Rivia meets THE PACIFIER When Audlan’s boss is killed by a rival sorcerer, he is abruptly saddled with his boss’ “children”—five shadow demons summoned from another dimension. Audlan must hunt down his boss’ killer and stop Ig from getting blood on the carpet #QuestPit #AG #W #A #F

In a black background, in red text: SHADOW DADDY, Geralt of Rivia meets The Pacifier

a cloaked figure in black pushes a black stroller on top of a red circle (with the bottom cut off)

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Katharine Van Amburg @kvanamburg.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

🌿💀✨ A flower-seller inherits a countryside manor — overrun by 73 dogs, countless dangerous ghosts, and one disgraced celebrity necromancer. To keep her new home, she must restore the house & work with the necromancer to expel the ghosts… before she becomes a haunting, too. #questpit #A #F #Q

A collage of mainly black and green images, featuring skulls, candles, dogs, books, flowers, cottages, forests, and ghosts. There are some graphics on it that show dog paw prints, a teacup, and a moon. The text reads: Houndstooth Hollow: When Artemisia inherits a manor from the mother she never met, she expects newfound wealth and a lovely home in the countryside — not a crumbling gothic manor overrun by 73 dogs, countless dangerous ghosts, and one disgraced celebrity necromancer. In order to pay back her debts and save her new home, she must brave the debutante world to secure a fortune and reluctantly enlist the help of the necromancer, whose dark magic represents everything she’s tried so hard to leave behind.

A collage of mostly black and green images, featuring old manor houses, crumbling greenhouses, lots of dogs, and quaint cozy cottages in the sunlight. There are some graphics, such as dog paw prints, a moth, a dog face, and stars. The text reads that this is for fans of gothic cottagecore, afternoon tea & midnight rituals, sentient manor, occult academia magic system, necromancy, forced proximity (haunted house), floriography, haunt the rich, cemetery picnics, and haunting as metaphor. There are also comp titles listed: Belladonna, Half a Soul, The Spellshop, Sorcery of Thorns, The Haunting of Hill House, Crimson Peak, The Addams Family, Tim Burton, India Holton, whimsical macabre, and books where the dogs don’t die.

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Sydney is 🦋ON SUB🦋 @booksbysydney.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

The perfect romcom escape for fans of Lynn Painter and DCOMs like Camp Rock and Lemonade Mouth! 💚Summer band camp for adults 🩵Second chance romance 💚Found family 🩵Mental health rep 💚Secret summer fling 🩵Coming of age in your 20’s 🎸 EDITORS interact if you're interested ✨ #QuestPit #AG #A #R #OS

collage muted green of a friend group spending their summer together in the mountains, playing cards, etc

scrapbook collage of book vibes including comparison titles, music artists with similar vibes, musical instruments, and movies

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CeCe Dawson | Querying Urban Fantasy & Gothic Horror Writer @authorcecedawson.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

17yo Sophie never believed in ghosts until one starts whispering her name beneath the red maples of her family’s cursed Texas estate. The house breathes. The trees bleed. And the boy she can’t stop dreaming about has been dead a century. #QuestPit #YA #H #Gothic #Q

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Vironika Wilde @vironikawilde.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous x My Dark Vanessa Relapse/Rewind: a raw, brutally honest, time-travelling, upmarket page turner about a survivor seeking freedom in all the wrong places. #QuestPit #Q #A #DR

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Kai 🐇 🏳️‍⚧️ is querying @kai-terin.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Dowry of Blood x The Death of Jane Lawrence x Saltburn 🩸1975 small English town 🩸cursed vampiric witches 🩸queer obsession 🩸everyone's guilty (Original artwork by yours truly) #QuestPit #F #A #Q #LGBTQIA #WritingCommunity

Image: a white hare sleeping in a golden frame with a black snake coiled around it
Title: The Dark Swan
Blurb: the witches are hungry, but Eddie Sharpe is famished...

Pitch: A cursed vampiric coven binds gentle, pliant Edmund Sharpe to lifelong servitude. He fights to keep his soul from the coven’s decay, but his shared obsession with their enforcer slowly erodes his morality. When his buried magic surfaces, Edmund wields the power to either destroy his captors or join their hunger to survive.

Mood. Quote: “I want you to crack my ribs open and sink your teeth into my heart, wrap your fingers around it and tear it loose so you could always carry me with you. I want to see it beat in your mouth before you swallow it whole.”

Comps: THE DEATH OF JANE LAWRENCE by Caitlin Starling, THE DOWRY OF BLOOD by S.T. Gibson, THESE VIOLENT DELIGHTS by Micah Nemerever, Saltburn (movie)

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Giovanna Lennox @giovannalennox.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

For #editors ! THE PENETRATION TEST Contemporary romance x suspense. 🌶️ high spice 🏙️London 👩🏻‍💻women in stem (&real code) 🥷🏻hidden identity 🔀twist ending ❤️‍🩹betrayal A tech entrepreneur with a debt to pay. An investor battling a mysterious extorter. = one (unstable) connection #questpit

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R. E. McManus @earthkids.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

ANNA KARENINA x GOOD LUCK, BABE! After Kitty accidentally 13 Going on 30s herself into the future, she has a 2nd chance to win Alexei Vronsky's heart. In order to do so, she concocts a plan involving a woman who apparently knows her a little too well from her missed past. #QuestPit #W #A #R #SFF

Anna Karenina Retelling features the woman from 13 Going on 30 skipping through space over the moon where a space station floats and a woman in a space suit falls out. Underneath there are women in a variety of either mod or retrofuturistic 60s-70s fashion looking at her.

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arlen ren ✨ @arlenrenwrites.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Enby teen Sam is supposed to put cryptids & conspiracies behind them. But when bestie Katie starts acting weird, Sam knows the cult on the edge of town is to blame. The only one who'll help them prove it is Casper, who's from the cult himself. Can Sam trust him to save Katie? #QuestPit #YA #W #H

The words "A Guide to The Langley Conspiracy by Arlen Ren" over a background of a gap in a chain link fence in a woodland. a silhouette of a UFO hovers in a gap in the trees.

Non-binary teen Sam is on their last warning. Their bully has been excluded from school, but they're having to resit the year. They're separated from their best friend, Katie - but she's barely spoken to them all summer, anyway.
Back at St. Jean's Catholic High School, Sam finds out why.
While Sam was ditching classes, kids from the commune on the edge of town joined the school, forming the mysterious "Astral Club" whose badge is pinned to Katie's lapel. Sam knows that Katie's weird behaviour must be linked to this "club", but no-one else seems to think there's a problem. No-one apart from Casper, the boy from the commune who's set on helping Sam investigate the conspiracy at the heart of St. Jean's.

character art of a white-haired boy with light brown skin drinking from a straw, and a disgruntled-looking white enby with pink hair. under the white-haired boy (Casper) are the words "what does he want?!", and above the picture of the pink-haired enby (Sam) are the words "hi, I'm Sam". themes are listed on the page: YA Paranormal, non-binary MC, "I want to believe", friendship breakup, queer refusal to conform.

a moodboard alluding to UFOs, disappearances, conspiracy maps, with two inspiration pieces of media linked to it via arrows: the X-Files and Twilight (yes, Twilight. I know. I KNOW.)

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Caroline is always writing @carolinekwriting.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Not querying yet (finishing final revisions) but testing out my agents guide! SINNERS x IWAV Angeline wakes up with a taste for blood and 200 years of missing memories. As visions reveal flashes of her past, she must uncover the truth before danger crosses her doorway. #QuestPit #W #A #F

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Jason L. @jasonlangford.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

DONT LET THE FOREST IN x toxic NARNIA Owen killed a beautiful monster to escape a magical forest world, but whoever kills the monster must replace it… 🏳️‍⚧️Trans rep 📖Dual-timeline 🔥Toxic obsession 😱Monstrous transformation + editor interest (x2) #questpit #YA #H #Q

A nine image moodboard with a deer skull, a boy with his face blacked out, a wolf's maw, an ao3 note saying "this is gay" , a boy being led into the woods, a raven, hands digging into undergrowth, a pinkie promise, and feet hanging over a brick ledge

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B. van Bodegom 📃is AGENTED @bvbodegom.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

An #Agentsguide to DAD BODIES! For the #litagents and #editors during #Questpit. Big 5 interest! Two editors at publishing houses requested and have received the full manuscript. Complete at 74,000 words. #A #H #M

Agent's Guide for literary agents and editors for the book DAD BODIES.

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Yalda is AGENTED💫 @yaldacollection.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

THE MAID X FINLAY DONOVAN 10 coworkers. 1 dead manager. A trio of coworkers must find their office manager's killer, before their scathing resignation emails are discovered, making them the prime suspects. #questpit #editorsguide #AG 🏃‍♀️Escape room whodunit 💘 Office romance

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𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐫 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐠 🍃 @charscrawls.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

🎸 daisy jones x knives out 🗡️ the songstress, the high-flyer, the gambler, the sweetheart, the watcher, the matriarch and the rogue. seven suspects. one the killer of renowned rockstar sam corvi. but who? only they can tell you #questpit #Q #A #LF #MY

a moodboard detailing nine images related to my book ALL THE DEVILS aka devilswip. in order from right to left they are: london notably the landmark big ben, a band performing on stage, a sheet of music, a record store, the silhouette of a rockstar, some musical instruments scattered on a bed, two men running, a pile of evidence and finally a hand holding a cigarette

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B. van Bodegom 📃is AGENTED @bvbodegom.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

BLACK MIRROR × SEVERANCE × THE GOOD PLACE Having a happy death is a luxury service for the rich and Wren is the rising top salesman—until a cynical coworker and a depressed billionaire force him to rethink it all in a world where even your last smile has a price tag. #QuestPit #A #S #SF #W

Made from non-AI free stock images.

This image is a book cover design for a novel titled "Happy Death Inc." by B. Van Bodegom. The cover is divided into three distinct horizontal sections:

1. Top Section: Features a cartoonish blue sky with white clouds and a bright sun. At the top, a tagline reads:
"How much would you pay to die with a smile?"
The word "HAPPY" appears in large, playful, hand-drawn-style font, partially overlapping the sky background.

2. Middle Section: A photograph of a deceased man in a suit, lying in a casket. He has an exaggerated smile on his face, almost unnaturally wide and clean, suggesting artificial enhancement or post-mortem alteration. Overlaid on this image is the word "DEATH" in the same large font as the previous word.

3. Bottom Section: A cartoon city skyline in pastel tones, similar in style to the top sky background. The word "INC." is overlaid prominently in the same large font. At the very bottom: A novel by B. van Bodegom

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Sarah LeFebvre @snlefebvre.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

A fangirl has to help her fave author finish her final manuscript post-mortem while a ghost from its pages threatens their theater. 📝Ghostwriter to a ghost 💗Pastel paranormal 👻Vengeful spirit 🎭Haunted theater 🖤Séance-gone-awry 🌴Florida summer vibes (but spooky) 💕One bed #questpit #YA #PR #LGBT #Q

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Fay Irwin (pen name) @fantasyscience.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

If Andy Weir and Ali Hazelwood co-wrote a book, it would be CHEMPORTAL. This scifi romcom with real chemistry features: 💥Explosions (real and figurative) 📻Science (mis)communication 🥰Enemies to lovers 👨‍👩‍👧‍👧Complex family dynamics ⚛️ #Steminist history 💪ND and LGBTQ rep #QuestPit #A #Q #SF #R

Dark blue poster background with a cartoon of a pink and silver pressure cooker. Text:
ChemPortal
A romantic sci-fi

Two awkward scientists just want to be left alone to build a lawnmower. Instead, thy find themselves battling time, powerful corporations, and doomsday cults to save the world from starvation.

Fay Irwin

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🕸️ mar 🕸️ @marescreve.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

IF WE WERE VILLAINS x THE DREAMERS (2003) Three messy bisexuals who make each other worse navigate the challenges of adulthood in 90s Europe. 💌 men who yearn 💕 bisexual love triangle 📚 antique bookshops 🗡️ support women’s wrongs 🌾 working class immigrant MC 🏳️‍🌈 LGBTQ+ rep #questpit #Q #A #LF

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