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Writer of adult fantasy with Really Bad Eyes™ and ADHD. Come for the books, stay for the chaos. Rep: Handspun Literary authortaylorleigh.carrd.co

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Arumi Writes @arumiwrites.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
KPOP DEMON HUNTERS x MINDWALKER By day, Elowen is a celebrity influencer. By night, she’s a Valkyrie who hunts the corrupted dead and heals their mortal pain. To protect her city, she must defeat a Soul Reaper who seeks to devour them. Too bad she’s falling for him instead. #A #SFF #F #R #DVpit
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For any of my unagented friends wanting to submit to Entangled!
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🕯️✨Taylor Leigh✨🕯️ (is on sub) @authortaylorleigh.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
It's been a minute since I've been on here but for some reason bluesky won't let me follow anyone 🫠
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🕯️✨Taylor Leigh✨🕯️ (is on sub) @authortaylorleigh.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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🕯️✨Taylor Leigh✨🕯️ (is on sub) @authortaylorleigh.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Having read this one I can say confidently that Arumi writes intoxicating love interests and absolutely brilliant worlds that have such unique magic systems (and monsters!).
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🕯️✨Taylor Leigh✨🕯️ (is on sub) @authortaylorleigh.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Incredibly happy to announce that after two years of querying two different manuscripts, I'm now represented by Ben Miller-Callihan at Hanspun Literary! I'm so excited for this part of my publishing journey, especially with such an incredible advocate and team behind me.
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L. Quinn @librarianquinn.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
An AMA with a UTA agent discussing AI use, encouraging authors to "absolutely" use AI to draft submission letters, & saying she uses it to write letters to publishers. I did not know this was normal, are most agents using AI to pitch editors now? #writingcommunity www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAGM...
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Emily Talbot AMA - AI Segment
YouTube video by Quinn Laurent
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🕯️✨Taylor Leigh✨🕯️ (is on sub) @authortaylorleigh.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
I am. Vague. 👀
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rihdara klay 📖 @rihdaraklay.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
an agent's guide to OUR BODIES ARE MADE OF SUGAR, my dystopian fantasy for fans of BABEL and THE HUNGER GAMES! 🍰 i #amquerying, so if you'd like to see this project, let me know (if i am not already in your inbox ;) ) #writingcommmunity
a portrait of marie antoinette's face scribbled out with the title "Our Bodies Are Made of Sugar" and the subtitle "Let them be cake" on toppitch + images of babel and the familiarseveral snippets of the book here
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rihdara klay 📖 @rihdaraklay.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
WE HARVEST THE CARNAGE a fantasy horror about a college freshman who joins a club of pre-meds to harvest the organs of the elite with body magic 🫀dark academia x body horror x STEM 🫀south asian rep x bi4bi 🫀vengeance, moral ambiguity, & guts galore #questpit #W #A #F #H
medical illustrations of a skull and a spine in the top left corner; a bronze statue of Lady Justice in the top right corner; a picture of a red brick house and a tree mid-autumn with red and orange leaves hanging on its branches in the bottom left corner; and a close-up of michaelangelo’s david in the bottom right corner.
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Athena Kane @athenakane.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
TAMSYN MUIR x HUNGER GAMES x BACHELORETTE Pretending to be a man, Dorian enters a deadly tournament to kill the priestess whose magic is draining the planet & pursue her interests: swords & women. But in the labyrinth, the cameras aren't the only thing she must evade. #A #SF #F #LGBT #W #QuestPit
Top Left - Angel in mist with wings spreading over praying worshippers
Top Middle -  a skyline of a city in ruin
Top Right - A woman with black hair whose neck is held by a shadowy mist
Middle Left - a white drone against greenery, looking like a butterfly
Middle - a woman with a painted face a black gothic veil and crown, holding a bouquet of yellow flowers
Middle right - an abandoned ferris wheel
Bottom left - woman pressing a knife to someone's chin
Bottom middle - a broken sarcophagus
Bottom right - bloodied fists
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Bee 🐝 has a BOOK DEAL! @beemorris.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Introducing ✨ALICE & THE AFTERLIFE✨ #QuestPit #AgentsGuide #Q Reluctant medium Alice accidentally lands a job cleaning haunted houses & chasing down a serial killer... 🌊 ghosts by the coast 🏡 dead roommate 👻 possessions & poltergeists 🐈 psychic cat lady 🧠 autistic FMC 🏳️‍🌈 queer & trans rep
Book Title: Alice & The Afterlife. 75,000 words, paranormal mystery, new adult. A background of a graveyard with a cute image of a cartoon ghost.Background of the seaside. Pitch reads: Alice can see ghosts. She’d really rather not.

After a public breakdown (and two-year stint in a “wellness” facility) Alice Windsor moves to the coast for some peace and quiet. Spoiler alert: she doesn’t get it.

Enter Rani – a stubborn cleaner who offers Alice a job cleaning houses, exercising ghosts and solving her twin brother’s murder.

But when rumours of a serial killer start swirling, and a vicious ghost from the past resurfaces, Alice must embrace her abilities or risk becoming a ghost herself...
Comp titles. Images include covers of popular media including: A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, The Cemetery Boys, The Sixth Sense, Ghostbusters, Sunshine Cleaning and MaidThemes page. Themes include: serial killer myster, haunted house hijinks, queer & trans rep, autistic heroine, found family, "i see dead people" (but make it funny), and "my dead roommate doesn't pay rent." There is also a quote from the first line of the book that reads: "There is a dead man sitting at my kitchen table."
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Willy is writing disaster jocks 🏈🌲 @mmwilliams24.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
SUPERNATURAL x FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS After a starved+beaten girl runs through the donut shop where he's working alone, Grayson has to convince his teammates she's in danger & hiding in the woods The only problem? She's a famous influencer & her accounts are posting as usual #QuestPit #YA #W #MY #PR
Over an olive-green background, there are three images. In the upper left corner is an image of a blue football helmet sitting on a football field at night. In the lower right is an image of coniferous trees cloaked in fog. In the center is a snippet from my book which reads: "The very moment her mom drives away, I blurt, “She’s gone. You can come out.”
Willow worms her way out from under the counter, looks me in the eye, and then starts running out without saying anything.
“Wait!” I exclaim.
She pauses, watching me warily, as I fumble for something to say. Something smart, firm, and reasonable that can get me answers about what's thing is happening right now. About whether she’s safe.
Or whether she’s dangerous.
Instead, I ask, “Maple bar?”
She grabs one from the display case and bolts out the door, and the donut shop is quiet again. Like nothing ever happened, except for some dirt on the tile and a trash can out of place."
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🕯️✨Taylor Leigh✨🕯️ (is on sub) @authortaylorleigh.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Locke Lamora X ODW To save her sick sister, visually-impaired thief Nefeli agrees to a treasure hunt for a lost relic. As her sight declines with each use of magic, she must outwit dragons, powerful magic, and—worst of all—politicians before her world goes dark for good. #questpit #Q #A #F
Black and white background of desert sand dunes with white script "The City of Dragon Glass by Taylor Leigh Agent Guide"Background of black and white desert sand dunes

The Pitch 

Nefeli's gift of sensing magical relics has made her a world-class thief, but tapping into her power comes with a cost: her vision. With every use of her magic, her degenerative eye disorder worsens. A few more heists and Nefeli fears she'll be left with vague shadows in the dark—something she's avoiding at all costs. What use is a thief who can't see what she's trying to steal? But when her sister Sadiya's fragile health crumbles, Nefeli must choose: her sight or her sister. 

Against Sadiya's wishes, Nefeli agrees to a dangerous job posing as a noble at a political summit. If Nefeli can hunt down a long-hidden relic for a secretive influential family, she'll earn enough for her sister's treatment. The catch? The summit is crawling with dragons, scheming politicians, powerful magic users…and worst of all, Kadir, a former fling who knows Nefeli's not who she claims to be. 

Nefeli only has a fortnight to find the missing relic before access to the palace closes for another century. If she's going to succeed, she must rely on Kadir's help, despite the risk of him blowing her cover at any moment. And with her vision tunneling in, completing the job will force Nefeli to confront her biggest fear: without her sight, who is she?

The City of Dragon Glass by Taylor LeighBackground of black and white desert sand dunes

The Snippet 

"I'm scared," she whispered. "I'm scared of the day I open my eyes and there's nothing left to see. It doesn't matter that there are aids or that so many people thrive without sight. I know that one day, my memories of what things look like will fade—and they will. Even now, I forget constellations that I used to be able to see. Like those constellations, all other images will fade into the darkness until I don't remember the details of a sunset, or the flash of Sadiya's smile. I will be trapped inside my head, smothered by the knowledge of just how much I've forgotten."

The City of Dragon Glass by Taylor LeighBlack and white background of desert sand dunes 

The Comps

Two lines of photos, top includes the covers of A Dance of Lies, Godkiller, and One Dark Window
Botton line includes The Stardust Thief and The Foxglove King

The City of Dragon Glass by Taylor Leigh
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H.L. Schiff @hlschiffwriting.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
An Agent's Guide to CALL OF THE ELDER. 🐉 Jewish Fantasy 🐉 Agent interest 🐉🐉 DRAGONS 🐉🐉 When a dragon elder summons Eila, the last priestess of her people, she must travel across hostile lands to find him before insanity sets in and she fails her family. #QuestPit #A #Q #F #agentsguide
Cover slide for an agent's guide to the high fantasy novel, "Call of the Elder." It has the tagline, "She must answer his call or face a fate worse than death. The background is a glacial lake at night with star borders in white.Pitch for Call of the Elder. The background is a glacial lake at night with star borders in white. The Pitch Reads: 

Fifteen years after violent raids stole her people’s magic, Eila lives a lie. Hiding her forbidden magic, she does everything she can to keep her disabled father warm and fed. The tattoo on her back marks her as dangerous–the ones on her wrists hide her as safe.

When, one night, a dragon elder summons her, Eila has no choice but to travel across hostile lands to find him. On the way, she is joined by a king’s soldier from her hometown and a bounty hunter from the east, both of whom want to help her, though their motives are their own. The three of them must work together to get Eila to the vast mountains, find the elder, and deliver an omen to all of the world before the call of the elder breaks her.For Fans Of: with five book covers: The Fifth Season by NK Jemisin, A Dark and Drowning Tide by Allison Saft, Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik, The Jasmine Thrown by Tasha Suri, and An Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir. Underneath is a list of book features: Epic fantasy stories, dragons, female power, slow burn romance, compelling characters, jewish stories, intricate world building, inherent queerness, and religious critique. Between each feature is a little golden dragon.

The background is a glacial lake at night with star borders in white.First Line:

"Based in the light of a cracked oil lamp, Eila struggled to breathe."

The background is a glacial lake at night with star borders in white.

There is a mood board in the center with varying pictures depicting elements of the story, such a dragons, romance, a pistol, prayer, fire, and a woman in a dress. In the center is the phrase: But the gods heard them, the gods pitied them, the gods intervened.

On each side is a list of story attributes: Multi POV, Adult Second World Fantasy, First in a Series, Political in Nature on one side; 1800's Aesthetic, Non-Western Cultures, Has made every beta yell at me, Queer MC and LI on the other.
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Dallas Rose 🌹 @dallasrosebooks.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Now #amquerying: LEARNING FOR YOU, the teaching/karaoke romance of my heart 💜 YOU BETWEEN THE LINES x KATHERINE CENTER When budget cuts threaten her district, new teacher Jules must compete with her annoying(ly handsome) rival to keep her dream job—and avoid falling for him. #QuestPit #A #R
Agent pitch guide title slide: LEARNING FOR YOU, Adult Contemporary RomancePitch blurb: Due to impending budget cuts, high school teacher Jules Clark's dream job is already in jeopardy before it's even started. With each department set to get rid of one new hire, Jules must compete with the annoying(ly handsome) former lawyer, Adrian Pierce, to keep her place. Where she finds herself in over her head, he seems to breeze through it all. He also pops up everywhere, from heated encounters in the copy room to a tension-filled work karaoke league, culminating in an assignment to collaborate on a joint teaching unit.
As they spend more time together, Jules finds she and Adrian have a lot in common...including a simmering attraction that becomes impossible to ignore.
With one job and two of them, Jules worries their growing chemistry can only lead to resentment. Though she lets Adrian in, old fears of not being good enough consume her as the deadline looms closer.
If she lets selt-doubt take over, Jules could lose everything-not only her career, but also the love that's right in front of her.Tropes and Vibes:

Golden retriever love interest
Workplace rivals to lovers
Karaoke league shenanigans
Complicated family dynamics
Forced proximity/collaboration
Strong female friendship

With the academic setting and workplace rivalry seen in YOU BETWEEN THE LINES, ONE ON ONE, and THE MAKEUP TESTHazy yellow moodboard with images of teaching, karaoke, books, and rumpled bedsheets 😏
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🕯️✨Taylor Leigh✨🕯️ (is on sub) @authortaylorleigh.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Want to participate in the Publishing for Minnesota auction but items ballooned out of your budget? If you donate to any of the listed charities and send me a screenshot of your receipt, I will gladly give your a query or synopsis a critique. No minimums as I know everyone’s financial status differs
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ACLU @aclu.org · 24/01/2026
ICE and CBP agents are out of control and put everyone in danger. We're calling for ICE agents to withdraw from Minneapolis, and for Congress to rein in ICE’s abuses in our communities.
Black graphic with text "ICE out of Minneapolis NOW"
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Writing Day Workshops @writingdaywksp.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
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🕯️✨Taylor Leigh✨🕯️ (is on sub) @authortaylorleigh.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
This section of the conference has been quietly replaced on their schedule but without acknowledgement or comment from the organizers. I remain concerned that WDW will continue to include pro-gen-AI content within their workshops given their silence.
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Dallas Rose 🌹 @dallasrosebooks.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Apparently Writing Day Workshops now has genAI-related programming for “writing with ChatGPT” and I have to say, I’m NOT impressed. GenAI has no place in creative spaces or education. I’d been thinking of attending a workshop but not if that’s on the lineup! 🙅‍♀️
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🕯️✨Taylor Leigh✨🕯️ (is on sub) @authortaylorleigh.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Heads up #writers and #literaryagents, Writing Day Workshops is now actively promoting the use of AI in their programming.
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🕯️✨Taylor Leigh✨🕯️ (is on sub) @authortaylorleigh.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
I'm over on Threads more @ authortaylorleigh if you want to follow my daily shenanigans 🤣 (If you mention that you followed me from here I'll like...give you a cookie or something?)
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🕯️✨Taylor Leigh✨🕯️ (is on sub) @authortaylorleigh.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Dear #literaryagents, for your consideration: To save her sick sister, visually-impaired thief Nefeli agrees to a treasure hunt for a lost relic. As her sight declines with each use of magic, she must outwit dragons, powerful magic, and—worst of all—politicians before her world goes dark for good.
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rihdara klay 📖 @rihdaraklay.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
LET THEM *BE* CAKE 🍰 Under a fascist empire led by a queen whose touch can turn bodies into sugar, a grieving royal translator finds solace in outlawed books. But when caught, she must escape and lead the revolution inspired by her defiance, or face being turned into royal dessert. #roundtablementor
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🕯️✨Taylor Leigh✨🕯️ (is on sub) @authortaylorleigh.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Hey y'all, I just entered #RevPit #10Queries. You can enter now for a chance to win free feedback on your query and 1st 5 pages over on their website! @reviseresub.bsky.social
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Dana Murphy @manadurphy.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
the scammers are back on their bullshit. if we’ve emailed you from a random hotmail account? (literally) no we didn’t.
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🕯️✨Taylor Leigh✨🕯️ (is on sub) @authortaylorleigh.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Locke Lamora X ODW To save her sick sister, visually-impaired thief Nefeli agrees to a treasure hunt for a lost relic. As her sight declines with each use of magic, she must outwit dragons, powerful magic, and—worst of all—politicians before her world goes dark for good. #DVpit #A #F #DIS #OWN #CI
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🕯️✨Taylor Leigh✨🕯️ (is on sub) @authortaylorleigh.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Hide her abilities. Escape the war. After her erratic magic leads to murder, conscripted mage Astraea is captured by an enigmatic enemy who understands her power better than she does. If she can’t escape, she’ll become a weapon of the queendom responsible for her father’s death. #DVpit #A #F #MH #CI
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🕯️✨Taylor Leigh✨🕯️ (is on sub) @authortaylorleigh.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Conscripted spirit mage Astraea just wants to escape the battlefield that took her father’s life—but her magic could be the key to solving mysterious deaths on the warfront, and an enigmatic enemy is the only person who can help her understand her growing power. #DVpit #A #F #DIS #MH #LGBT #ND #CI
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🕯️✨Taylor Leigh✨🕯️ (is on sub) @authortaylorleigh.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Locke Lamora X One Dark Window Nefeli's a thief who'd agree to anything to save her sick sister—even a treasure hunt in a dragon-riddled palace. Her sight declines with each use of magic, so she must con everyone (and avoid her ex) to find the relic before her world goes dark. #DVpit #A #F #DIS #OWN
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🕯️✨Taylor Leigh✨🕯️ (is on sub) @authortaylorleigh.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Locke Lamora X A Dance of Lies To save her sick sister, a visually-impaired thief agrees to a lucrative treasure-hunting con amidst magic, dragons and—even worse—politicians. If only her smooth-talking former fling wasn't around and able to blow her cover at any moment. #DVpit #A #F #DIS #MH #OWN
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🕯️✨Taylor Leigh✨🕯️ (is on sub) @authortaylorleigh.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Captured, Astraea would rather die than ally with the country who killed her father. But when desiccated bodies burned with an ancient rune litter the warfront, her magic might be the key to finding out why. If only her enemy wasn’t the sole person who understood her magic. #DVpit #A #F #DIS #MH #ND
Background is a watercolor made of oranges, blues, and blacks of what appears to be a cave with skulls lining the walls (an ossuary). In the foreground is a white woman with silver curly hair from mid-thigh up with one arm stretched out palm up and the other reaching out palm down. Her eyes are glowing silver and there is a bloodied symbol across her chest and abdomen. She is dressed in brown pants and a cream band across her chest. Silver threads extend from her body and hands
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🕯️✨Taylor Leigh✨🕯️ (is on sub) @authortaylorleigh.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Locke Lamora X ODW To save her sick sister, visually-impaired thief Nefeli agrees to a treasure hunt for a lost relic. As her sight declines with each use of magic, she must outwit dragons, powerful magic, and—worst of all—politicians before her world goes dark for good. #DVpit #A #F #DIS #OWN #CI
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🕯️✨Taylor Leigh✨🕯️ (is on sub) @authortaylorleigh.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Hide a murder. Conceal her erratic magic. Escape the gods-damned war. Conscripted mage Astraea has things under control—until captured by an enemy who understands her power better than her. She’s nobody’s pawn, but if she doesn’t escape she might become her enemy’s newest weapon. #DVpit #A #F #DIS
Background is a watercolor made of oranges, blues, and blacks of what appears to be a cave with skulls lining the walls (an ossuary). In the foreground is a white woman with silver curly hair from mid-thigh up with one arm stretched out palm up and the other reaching out palm down. Her eyes are glowing silver and there is a bloodied symbol across her chest and abdomen. She is dressed in brown pants and a cream band across her chest. Silver threads extend from her body and hands
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🕯️✨Taylor Leigh✨🕯️ (is on sub) @authortaylorleigh.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Locke Lamora X One Dark Window Nefeli's a thief who'd agree to anything to save her sick sister—even a treasure hunt in a dragon-riddled palace. Her sight declines with each use of magic, so she must con everyone (and avoid her ex) to find the relic before her world goes dark. #DVpit #A #F #DIS #OWN
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🕯️✨Taylor Leigh✨🕯️ (is on sub) @authortaylorleigh.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
ODW X Locke Lamora Con everyone. Find a lost relic. Save her sister. 💥 Disaster-Bi FMC 👁️ Sight Declines w/ Every Use of Her Magic 🐉 Dragons (who might eat you) 🕯️ Broken Magic 🔥 Burned Desert Palace 🤫 Everyone Has A Secret 🔮 Magic w/ Consequences 🥰 Found Family #DVpit #A #F #OWN #DIS #ND #MH #LGBT
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🕯️✨Taylor Leigh✨🕯️ (is on sub) @authortaylorleigh.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Hide her abilities. Escape the war. After her erratic magic leads to murder, conscripted mage Astraea is captured by an enigmatic enemy who understands her power better than she does. If she can’t escape, she’ll become a weapon of the queendom responsible for her father’s death. #DVpit #A #F #MH #CI
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🕯️✨Taylor Leigh✨🕯️ (is on sub) @authortaylorleigh.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Locke Lamora X ODW To save her sick sister, visually-impaired thief Nefeli agrees to a treasure hunt for a lost relic. As her sight declines with each use of magic, she must outwit dragons, powerful magic, and—worst of all—politicians before her world goes dark for good. #DVpit #A #F #DIS #OWN #CI
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🕯️✨Taylor Leigh✨🕯️ (is on sub) @authortaylorleigh.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
With DVpit on the horizon, please remember: comment to share support but don’t like or repost! That’s for agents/editors to show their interest :)
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🕯️✨Taylor Leigh✨🕯️ (is on sub) @authortaylorleigh.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
#DVParty Astraea is angry. She's angry at her father for dying. She's angry at her mother for mentally crumbling after. She's angry at the crown for conscripting her. And she's *especially* angry that her magic won't fall into line and do what she says. Keeping others at a distance keeps her safe.
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🕯️✨Taylor Leigh✨🕯️ (is on sub) @authortaylorleigh.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
#DVParty Nefeli is a devoted sister and street-rat-turned-thief who has the ability to sense/find magical objects. It's made her an excellent thief...but at a cost. With every use of her power, her vision declines even more. And what use is a thief who can't see what she's trying to steal?
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🕯️✨Taylor Leigh✨🕯️ (is on sub) @authortaylorleigh.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
#SFFchat I love all things bones! Wet earth, mist rising, and anything spirit-y also has my heart
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🕯️✨Taylor Leigh✨🕯️ (is on sub) @authortaylorleigh.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
#SFFchat The creep factor is something I love incorporating to build tension. What might happen next? What's around the corner? Who is watching from the shadows (or even worse, broad daylight and yet nobody is around)
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🕯️✨Taylor Leigh✨🕯️ (is on sub) @authortaylorleigh.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
I am absolutely phobic of c*ckroaches following an experience where I was required to be in a location where hundreds upon thousands of them poured from the cracks in the walls, light fixtures, up from the floors, then started dying and dropping like demonic rain. So yeah. I'm, ah, phobic.
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🕯️✨Taylor Leigh✨🕯️ (is on sub) @authortaylorleigh.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
#DVparty here's my contribution to the moodboard! The first two are for one project, the third for another.
Background is a watercolor made of oranges, blues, and blacks of what appears to be a cave with skulls lining the walls (an ossuary). In the foreground is a white woman with silver curly hair from mid-thigh up with one arm stretched out palm up and the other reaching out palm down. Her eyes are glowing silver and there is a bloodied symbol across her chest and abdomen. She is dressed in brown pants and a cream band across her chest. Silver threads extend from her body and hands photo grid of nine photos, three across and three down. The center photo is semi-transparent mist behind the title "The Soul Weaver"
upper left: woman dressed in black in dark woods spreading smoke around her
upper middle: dark background with a hand cupped facing upward and what appears to be swirling white smoke (magic) from the fingertips
upper right: a tan and black caracal (large cat) snarling at the camera
middle left: human remains in repose 
middle right: a mummy with linen wrappings in repose 
bottom left: an old olive tree stretching across the photo with the sun shining brightly through the foliage 
bottom middle: Sedlec Ossuary where human remains have been strung into garlands, human skulls are in three separate stands with two pointed archways are visible in the background
bottom right: the ocean in the foreground with a domed cream building with two minarets stretching high above.  9 photo grid, three wide and three tall with the center being the largest 
middle is a black and white photo of sand dunes where the sand appears black versus a bright sky. Text over top reads: The City of Dragon Glass
upper left: barefoot woman walking away shown mid-thigh down with skirts fluttering to mid-calf
upper middle: pointed arched stone doorway with decorative carvings surrounding a wooden door 
upper right: arched stained glass windows up top framing a room with four tall, full bookshelves 
middle left: black and white jackal looking at the camera
middle right: an S-shaped viper on sand, photo shot from above
bottom left: an exterior corridor with columns lining the right side
bottom middle: what appears to be a ballroom with arched windows 
bottom right: hands cupped upwards with splayed fingers dripping with water that pools at the bottom of the image
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#DVpit - Diverse Voices Pitch @dvpit.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Today is DAY 1 of #DVparty, a community event to talk up projects that Diverse Creators plan to pitch during #DVpit! Since it's our inaugural year on Bluesky, we'd like to invite any diverse creator to participate! Share about your beautiful work & let's build a #writercommunity here! #writersky
#DVparty
Day 1 October 2, 2025):
Post a moodboard or art for your project!
Post on Bluesky with the #DVparty hashtag.
Open all day!
Please use alt-text if you post images. No AI generated images allowed.
Have fun and make friends leading up to #DVpit!
More info at dvpit.carrd.co
Follow us at dvpit.bsky social for more updates!
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🕯️✨Taylor Leigh✨🕯️ (is on sub) @authortaylorleigh.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Genuinely wondering if she's summoning something...
Calico cat sitting on the left looking into a brick fireplace full of lit white candles
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