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Angie M Brady @angiembrady.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I am realizing now why people have multiple projects going at once. I’m regaling my second project into my notes app with nothing more than random jottings. But it’s so hard not to start plotting and writing it 😅 Any advice? #writingcommunity #amwriting

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Angie M Brady @angiembrady.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I just finished a solid read-through and edit of the first half of my WIP. Now onto to writing the second half! First scene, girl gets her guys. Spoiler…he’s not the right one for her. She just doesn’t know it yet. #writingcommunity #amwriting

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Angie M Brady @angiembrady.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I just got a query rejection that assures me my book is good enough for Big Five, but my platform is not. First of all, weird thing to say. Second of all, this agent has less followers than I do. Significantly. Sus all around, IMO. #writingcommunity #amquerying

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Angie M Brady @angiembrady.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Any women’s fiction readers out there? What do you look for? Low stakes, high stakes? Chill plot, tense plot? One main character, several? I see so much about fantasy on here, but I know some of my commercial fiction / women’s fiction friends are here too! #writingcommunity

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Angie M Brady @angiembrady.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I keep trying to give my chapters such neat, clean endings, I think it gets too wordy. Intentionally cutting my chapters when the work is done on this draft to see how it feels at the end. How do you all like to end a chapter? #writingcommunity #amwriting

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Angie M Brady @angiembrady.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

I’m the kind of person who is always reading at least two books at the same time. Right now, I’m diving back into some comfort reads. I’m hoping for comfort, inspiration, and a renewed sense of needing to get my story out there. #writingcommunity #amwriting

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Angie M Brady @angiembrady.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Well trying to do a quick reread of my WIP for basic grammar edits and to get a general emotional check of the story as a whole - that backfired. It all looks like garbage and I’m ready to trash everything, laptop included. Send help. #writingcommunity #amwriting

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Angie M Brady @angiembrady.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

I’m doing way less rereading during this first draft than I normally do. I’m not sure I like it!! I might take a break from writing just to go back and do basic edits on what I have so far and make sure the emotional arc is coming through. #writingcommunity #amwriting

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Angie M Brady @angiembrady.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Very odd to be writing a rainy Thanksgiving scene when it’s 90 degrees out. But hey, maybe that’s why they are calling for thunderstorms tonight - just for me and my muse. ☺️ #writingcommunity #amwriting

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Angie M Brady @angiembrady.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

30k words in! Yes! A big topic of my book (women’s fiction) is miscarriage. Has anyone else tackled the subject in their books? Or read a good book with it in the plot? It’s a tough topic - but even tough topics need literary light! #writingcommunity #amwriting

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Angie M Brady @angiembrady.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

The beauty of being busy and accidentally not writing for a few days is falling back in love with your story when you get to sit back down with it again. #writingcommunity #amwriting

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Angie M Brady @angiembrady.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

I have a love/hate relationship with books with excellent line-level writing. On the one hand, it’s just gorgeous and admirable and I love seeing the art of the words on the page. On the other hand, it’s going to take a lot of work to get me there as a writer. #writingcommunity

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Angie M Brady @angiembrady.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

I tightened up my query letter on two queries I sent last night. While they raised my hopes, it also frustrates me that the majority of my queries are already out there and/or rejected with the old version. But alas, we move on. #writingcommunity #amquerying

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Angie M Brady @angiembrady.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Started at 23,400 words - goal is 25,000 by the end of the night. Wish me luck! #writingcommunity #amwriting

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Angie M Brady @angiembrady.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

I love the freedom of the first draft. I know I just spent 3 paragraphs describing my MCs apartment and most will get cut, but it’s a first draft. There’s no stop and ponder and lose momentum - just go, go, GO. #writingcommunity #amwriting

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Angie M Brady @angiembrady.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Stakes!?! What are they in women’s fiction?? I struggle with this, as I tend to give my characters more real-world drama, and those don’t typically come with hard deadlines. Do I need to impose those arbitrary deadlines? Or are my story ideas trash? #writingcommunity #amwriting

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Angie M Brady @angiembrady.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Sitting here, watching a war movie with my husband and brother. Incredible, violent, gruesome movie. And I’m so glad I write women’s fiction and choose clean, calm settings where my characters can thrive, even if they may get thrown into emotional turmoil. #writingcommunity #amwriting

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Angie M Brady @angiembrady.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

The confidence I had when I finally got this idea RIGHT 💪🏻 21k in and this story was meant for me - hopefully it will be meant for others one day too #amwriting #writingcommunity

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Angie M Brady @angiembrady.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

I still have no idea if I’m a plotter or pantser. I have a single sentence summary for all the chapters I’m planning for my book, is that enough to make me a plotter? #writingq #writingcommunity #amwriting

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Angie M Brady @angiembrady.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Page 9 of THE HOUSE THAT BUILT US. Shout out a number, I’ll hit that page next. “Sadie could swear that the air was thicker than normal, like it got in the hours before a storm when the clouds were heavy with rain but not yet ready to release their torrent.” #amquerying #writingcommunity

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Soph @soph-pl.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Here are 2 pictures. I posted one 9 months ago for #UnhingedPit . The other I prepared today. How about a game of "spot the difference" for my heartfelt & high-heat Berlin romance? There's even a prize! 👀😉 See comments. I'll go first ⬇️ #A #R #CS 🧵1/3

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Angie M Brady @angiembrady.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

#unhingedpit #q #wf #womensfiction #f #a An off screen conversation the three sisters had in a coffee shop. Probably. ☕️🧋🫖 (I’m a simple hot tea girlie myself - currently obsessed with a blackberry sage black tea!)

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Angie M Brady @angiembrady.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

How long does a first draft take you? My last project’s first draft took me ~4 months, which was a lot faster than I expected. I’m hoping I can duplicate that timeline this summer. #amwriting #writingcommunity

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Angie M Brady @angiembrady.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Excited to work on my WIP, but I also need to find time to send more queries for my last project. Ah, what a problem to have. #writingcommunity #momlife #writerslife #amquerying #amwriting

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Angie M Brady @angiembrady.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Taking a mini vacation with my toddler this week! I’m already trying to write these beautiful trees and flowers into my book. I’ve never been a particularly descriptive writer, but I think I need to be one now. What inspires you? #writingcommunity #amwriting

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Angie M Brady @angiembrady.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

It’s one of those weeks where everything hits just right - kids, housekeeping, writing, living, loving. I’m unironically living my best life….now just to add “trad published” to the list! #amquerying #momlife #writingcommunity #goals

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Angie M Brady @angiembrady.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

What a privilege it would be to wake up and just write as much as you want. Between work and young kids, I’m just grabbing a few chunks of time when I can throughout the week. #writingcommunity #momlife #amwriting

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Angie M Brady @angiembrady.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

I see so may posts about fantasy and romance books (and they look AWESOME guys) - but as someone querying a women’s fiction book, it makes me worry what the market is like for WF nowadays. It feels difficult to find agents with a focus on WF 😅 #writingcommunity #WF #amquerying

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Author Tess Foster @tessfoster.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

SIDE EFFECTS MAY INCLUDE LOVE What if the only way a chronically ill, overburdened daughter could survive her toxic mother's final months was to put down her to-do list, face her resentment, and finally let someone take care of her? 75k word contemporary women’s fiction #Q #A #WF #QuestPit

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Morris The Spider @morristhespider.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

#QuestPit An atypical rock star ashamedly wants another opportunity to become a parent after the loss of his miracle baby; however, the miracle baby was his love’s last chance, and if he chooses one, he gives up the other. #Q #A #WF Deep Cuts X Everything After X The Rom-Commers

Borrowed Bandana agent's guide title card featuring a list of teased story topics

Borrowed Bandana agent's guide featuring point shoes, a guitar neck, and two comparable book titles over a stylized vinyl record in a blue, white, and red bullseye.

Borrowed Bandana agent's guide featuring the story pitch

Borrowed Bandana agent's guide featuring a guitar, a Grammy, a motorcycle helmet clustered in front of a stylized vinyl record in a blue, white, and red bullseye next to two comparable book titles.

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Tracy Shawn @tracyshawn.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

After a self-restrained woman discovers her husband’s betrayal, she moves in with the very person she’s afraid of turning into—her brash, chaotic mother. #questpit #WF #Q

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Danielle Lauren @dani-is-writing.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

HER ROOTS RECLAIMED Immortals are disappearing, and Thea Green is their best chance at rescue Character-driven standalone Lush prose Mental health rep Neurodivergent FMC For fans of V. E. Schwab’s The Invisible Life Of Addie LaRue and Alix E. Harrow’s Starling House. #questpit #q #a #f #s #wf

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Kasy Long @kasylongauthor.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

YOU’VE GOT MAIL x THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT Annie thinks no one cares about her poetry on Instagram. Until she meets “@/jaa97” who reads every word. But is he the same man threatening her job at the library? 📚 #QuestPit #W #R #PT #LF #A #WF #WritingCommunity #writers

A collage of photos inside a library or bookshop. Couples are kissing and a woman is looking at a bookshelf. A typewriter is visible in the graphic. “All’s Fair in Love and…Rivalry?” is written in the graphic.

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Arianna Albanese Davis @writerwith3names.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

MARIA, MARIA, MARIA -83k words TARTUFO x THE GOOD PART 🔮Fate’s alleged curse 🌕 3 full moons to break it 🧿Superstitious family 🍝 A romp through Italy 👨🏾‍🦲 A handsome expat 👩🏻‍🍳 Finding her true purpose 🔄 Reversing the curse before she loses the dream life she’s built #questpit #amquerying #WF #A #Q #R

Novel title MARIA,MARIA,MARIA with a moon cycle surrounding it and a cornicello
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Book covers of Tartufo by Kira Jane Buxton and The Good Part by Sophie Cousens

Movie poster for My Big Fat Greek Wedding

Novel pitch with three full moons and a starscape in the background

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JSH @theogjsh.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

#QuestPit #lf #u #dr #a #q EVERAFTER is Bingeable.

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Angie M Brady @angiembrady.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Querying THE HOUSE THAT BUILT US ✨Women’s Fiction 3️⃣Triple-POV 🏡Real-world Stakes 🫂Sister Relationships ❄️Chill vibes Come find out how three sisters react to their parents selling their childhood home. (Spoiler: You won’t see “congratulations” in the MS.) #questpit #wf #q

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Clara Benson is ✨querying✨ @clarabenson.org · 29/04/2026

🌼FINDING ECHINACEA🌼 REBECCA x DR. QUINN x TITANIC Typhus strikes and brings a wealthy New Yorker intent on marrying the hardworking inn maid. To keep a promise to her sister, she accepts, despite warnings from a medical student who threatens her last hope for salvation. #QuestPit #Q #A #HF #R #LF

cover photo for Finding Echinacea's Agent's Guide, a couple kissing in a field and the words "a literary historical romance by Clara Benson

Get to know the book!
Enemies to lovers
Medical history of typhus
The tension between duty and desire
Historical Fiction set in 1847
Reconciliation in the wake of broken promises
Complex family dynamics
Money can’t buy happiness
Small village isolated setting
Class tension and social mobility

a mood board for Finding Echinacea; a maid, echinaceas, a pocket watch, church steeple, romantic couples and medical textbook pages

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Titanic for the love triangle, class disparity and overbearing fiance
Rebecca for the hasty proposal from a wealthy man with a secretive past
Dr. Quinn for the small town setting and medical tension

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Cassie Wallin Author @cassiewallinwrites.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Apple TV’s SEVERANCE meets SILO 🚫 Emotion as system error 👾 The haunting is digital 📋Corporate ritual menace 🧪 Complicit Protagonist 🧨 Creeping dread to visceral action #QuestPit #Q #A #SF #S #SFF #U

The pitch nova feels too much much and in this future it could get her mind wiped clean

Comps: severance, silo, the dram hotel, chaingang all stars

The characters. Nova the stranger and Kade

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B. van Bodegom 📃is AGENTED @bvbodegom.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

CABIN IN THE WOODS × JOHN DIES AT THE END × JUMANJI When one of them is murdered at their annual gaming retreat, 5 dads must rely on years of #TTRPG experience—& ball-busting puns—to solve the crime before they're all butchered like NPCs in a badly written supernatural campaign. #QuestPit #A #H #Q

Poster-style graphic with a black background and heavy red blood splatter. Large distressed white and red text reads “DAD BODIES.” A dagger runs horizontally through the letters, and a 20-sided die showing low numbers appears on the right. Along the bottom are black silhouettes of heads with X-shaped eyes. Beneath, smaller text reads “ROLL FOR FUCKERY,” and at the bottom: “A co(s)mic horror novel by B. van Bodegom.”

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Amy Dehaas @amywrites.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

A true-crime producer returns home to film a series on an unsolved serial killer case. When a new body turns up and threats hit her doorstep, she uncovers secrets linking the murders to her own past. What began as a docuseries is now a fight to survive her own story. #Questpit #Q #A #T #MY

Collage of six images. Image, one scattered police files and crime scene photos, image two, a White House with a red roof beside a lake with pine trees behind it, a Ouija board and tarot cards, and an overgrown cemetery with old headstones, crime scene tape. Text overlay reads: “She built a career unearthing other people’s secrets. Her own wouldn’t stay buried.”

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Laney - Add The Song of the Void on Goodreads! @laneylauthor.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

BLACK SWAN + DISNEYLAND GONE WRONG Every other character actor at EverAfter Theme Park has disappeared after bizarre personality changes, and desperate princess performer Juliet discovers she’s next when the character she plays begins to take over her mind. #questpit #H #A #W

A hand reflected in a mirror.
Text reads: Between Joy & Shadow. Adult psychological horror. Laney Lopez. 85k words

Pitch: Character actors at EverAfter Theme Park disappear after having bizarre personality transformations, and desperate princess performer Juliet discovers she's next when the character she plays begins to take over her mind. The park is alive. Magic is real. And something sinister lurks at the heart of EverAfter.

Themes and comps: Sinister fairytale lore, Disneyland-inspired setting, sentient statues, romantic subplot, identity vs performance anxiety rep. Horror Movie by Paul Tremblay, Hide by Kiersten White, Black Swan

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Angie M Brady @angiembrady.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

At its core, THE HOUSE THAT BUILT US gives you a glimpse at how people as close-knit as three sisters could have vastly different perspectives. Perspectives that color their pasts and influence their futures. Let me introduce you to the three sisters! #questpit #Q #WF

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Angie M Brady @angiembrady.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Alright I folded under the peer pressure and actually put some effort into making graphics for #questpit. Would have been a lot easier if I’d caved and let AI do it for me but alas, my anti-AI convictions were too strong. #writingcommunity #amquerying #noAI

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Angie M Brady @angiembrady.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Any advice for introducing a big family in a book? I gave my MC four brothers, all married off with kids. Even just introducing two in the first scene feels like so many names 😭 #writingcommunity #amwriting #writingquestion

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Angie M Brady @angiembrady.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Book club day! My friends and I created a small book club, which is great for getting us all to read out of our genres. I mean, I’ll never get them to read women’s fiction, but since 3/5 are male I’ll forgive it 😂 #bookclub #writingcommunity #fridayvibes

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Angie M Brady @angiembrady.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

I’ve been desperate to write, yet when I get the time my motivation disappears. But even without motivation I wrote on my phone, in bed last night and finished a chapter. Proud of myself for pushing through! #amwriting #writingcommunity

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Angie M Brady @angiembrady.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Maybe it’s all the negative expectations I had of the querying trenches, but so far I have to say it’s not bad! Yes, QT has me in a chokehold. But rejections are not the gut punches I expected and the waiting seems manageable. Maybe my standards were just that low 😂 #amquerying

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Angie M Brady @angiembrady.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Despite Mondays being my perfect, distraction free nights to write…I just didn’t have the mental energy for it tonight. Down side, my word count was not increased. Up side, my crochet bear project got itself legs! #writingcommunity #amwriting #selfcare #crochet

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Angie M Brady @angiembrady.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Querying THE HOUSE THAT BUILT US. Perfect for anyone who loves a low-stakes novel with real, relatable characters. Three sisters find out their parents are selling their childhood home. What kind of impact will it have on these three different women? #amquerying #womensfiction

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