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Brodie Smith @brodiesmith.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

Never underestimate the motivational power of reading a book you think is not good. "I can do better than that" has some serious writer oomph.

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Brodie Smith @brodiesmith.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Can't believe I finally got to watch @criticalrole.bsky.social on a Thursday night 😍🥰 Thank you for coming to Sydney!! I hope we turned out for you as much as you turned out for us. My fave pics from the night. No spoilers I hope!!

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Brodie Smith @brodiesmith.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Oh, I've been so busy with real life work and real life anxiety that I totally missed questpit coming up! I am so not in a good mental place to participate but I'm gonna go on a liking spree 🥰

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Brodie Smith @brodiesmith.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

I've devised an "Ultimate Pitch" from the most used words in #SmallPitch pitches: [Protagonist] meets father; two must save world in time and find way home. Life story, family secret, new friend, past love, and magic help. Tell me yours!!

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Brodie Smith @brodiesmith.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Already cut 1500 words... 🫣

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Brodie Smith @brodiesmith.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Anyone else who submitted to #SmallPitch suddenly having a weird paranoia that their manuscript isn't finished *enough*, polished *enough*, and doing one more manic round of edits? Just me, then?

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B. van Bodegom 📃is AGENTED @bvbodegom.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

CABIN IN THE WOODS X JOHN DIES AT THE END X KNIVES OUT When their detective friend is murdered during their annual gaming retreat, 5 dads must use their years of TTRPG experience—and puns—to solve the crime before they're all killed off like NPCs in a badly-written game. #2025Pit #A #H #HA #M

6 over-the-top frightened man along the bottom and side edges on a black background, blood spatter between them with the title DAD BODIES in white on top of that.

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B. van Bodegom 📃is AGENTED @bvbodegom.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

TREASURE PLANET X STARFIELD When Jak finds an ancient wrist computer with his new friend Eris—a tech prodigy—he couldn't have guessed it would tear him from his home on a pirate space station to an interstellar quest for answers about his dad's legacy, old mysteries & himself. #2025Pit #YA #SF #M

An industrial space station hallway, with the title of the book and the undertitle. JAK STERZAND: ESCAPE FROM FREEPORT

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Sally Bromley @sallybromley.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

In WWI Sussex, when a petty criminal is gutted like a fish & his cousin accused of the murder, tales of forbidden love, the infamous Fowler Gang & the suffragettes, bleed together, staining the River Arun red. #2025Pit #Q #A #HF

Images of Peaky Blinders, a dead fish, man&woman kissing, two women kissing and a WWI soldier.

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

🎶Em is a thief-turned-violinist who unfortunately must go back to thieving for *one last job* 🔥Lelia is a disabled woman who quits the enginemage job that was killing her in favor of a life on stage...but she's running out of savings 🎻Time to steal a legendary violin ✨Fun! #2025pit #A #F #LGBT

Photo collage of six photos surrounding the name Em Robbins.

Top right: Sheet music sitting on a brown lattice table.
Top center: food spread including cheese board, tomatoes, salad, olives, and potatoes.
Top right: Violin in case.
Bottom left: pale blonde woman wearing a black shirt, holding a violin.
Bottom center: foaming beer in a glass.
Bottom right: docks overlooking the horizon.

Photo collage of six photos surrounding the name Lelia Daniels in the center.

Top left: blurry twinkle lights
Top Center: reddish tea in glass mug
Top right: brunette woman wearing brown cardigan playing violin
Bottom left: violin
Bottom middle: red potion in a bottle
Bottom right: Stacked sheet music

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DM Shepard @dmshepard.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Golden Girls x Jaw Breaker Rebecca is on a wine cruise in France as a substitute for her deceased mother. When bodies pile up, and blood flows like wine, she realizes her mother's Boomer mean girl squad has a secret past they'll kill to keep buried. #2025Pit #A #M #U #R

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🦋 Gabriel Yuriria @gabriel-yuriria.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

TRIANGLE X TIMECRIMES A dead lover + a deal with something not human to bring him back = a very unhappy ending ☠️ trans mc desperate for love ☠️ only person who loved him dies ☠️ eldritch entity in a forest ☠️ time loop where everything goes wrong ☠️ a lot of people die #YA #H #Q #ShortStory #2025pit

Upper left: young man in hoodie walking into the woods
Text upper center: all things beautiful died with you
Upper right: dirty hands hovering over dirty legs
Center middle: skull in the dirt
Lower left: sysiphus pushing boulder, broken clock
Lower center: hand lying in the dirt
Lower right: person standing in the woods

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Eliwood S(pooky) Ghost @eliwoodsgheist.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

DRESDEN FILES X GRAVITY FALLS Girl meets boy. Girl meets monsters. Girl has to save the town. Sometimes what you don't know can kill you in Bludeye Beach. 👧Character driven 🫂Found family 💕Slow burn romance 👻Monster menagerie #2025pit #A #Q #H #F

A tourism style poster showing several bright and cheerful images of sandy beaches and people playing in the water. The bottom image is a smiling girl with big red X's over her eyes. Over the collage are the words "Welcome to Bludeye Beach", and over that text a graffiti style phrase "something is wrong in bludeye beach"

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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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Brandon Love @blovewrites.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

17 is hard, but when you're set to take over presidency from your father, survive a ☠️ attempt, are betrayed by the two you love & learn your role is to maintain peace by keeping 200yo lies & manipulating the public or start the biggest war in centuries, 17 is REALLY hard. #2025Pit #Q #YA #SF #LGBTQ

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Crissie (C.T. Wood) @crissthecreative.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

When Larkin discovers she’s pregnant after a very out-of-character one-night stand with a man who turns out to be the Greek god Apollo, she must face monsters, vengeful gods, & most terrifyingly, her feelings for Apollo to protect herself & her unborn child. #2025pit #A #R #RM #F #LGBTQIA #ace

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

Grim are immortal. Auri knows this. But when one shows up to take her father's soul, she cuts him a deal. If he spares her father, she'll find him what he wants: a way to die. Now Auri has a week and a day to kill this immortal (who she's definitely not falling for). 🐈‍⬛ #A #F #RF #2025Pit 🐈‍⬛

A collage of 4 images, all black and white. A crow in a winter tree, an autumn leaf, a river of stars in the sky, and a woman underwater.

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Faegheh @faegheh.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

GODKILLER X THE STARDUST THIEF Mira, a mercenary, teams up with a demon without memories to find his summoner and avenge her beloved. But soon realizes to have her revenge she must confront the gods she never believed in. #2025pit #A #F #RM #OwnVoice

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Vee Haacke 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ is querying! @goddessvicky.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

💫 CROWNED IN LIGHT 💫 NICK AND NORAH'S INFINITE PLAYLIST X RAVEN CYCLE SERIES 🌹Romance/Romantasy 👨‍👨‍👧Polyamory ❤️‍🔥Slow Burn 👨‍👨‍👦‍👦Found Family ⚖️Gods & Goddesses 🎵Music! ♿Diversity 🏳️‍🌈LGBTQIA+ 💖Soul Mates ✨Magical Realism Agent's guide included 📖 #2025Pit #Q #A #YA #R #NA #F #RF #SPEC #SPF #LGBT #OV

A photo collage that features a woman wearing a crown, a college campus, a hand playing the guitar, piano keys, and a pair of bloody knuckles

A photo that reads:
Crowned In Light
A literary agent's guide to the first book in the Crowned Series
As 85k word Urban Speculative Romance/Romantasy
First three books are finished, edited, and ready to query!
This one has it all!
- Magical Realism
- Slow Burn
- Found Family
- Gods and Goddesses
- Music Heavy
- Soul Mates / Past Lives
- Strong Female Friendships
- Disability/BIPOC representation
- DAVID BOWIE?!?!

A photo that reads:
The Pitch!
It’s the end of a hot Iowan summer, and twenty-four-year-old Matilda West is gearing up for her sophomore year of college at Oak Ridge University. A scholarship student, she is swayed by the suggestion of her favorite professor to join a study group he’s created for his Classical Mythology course. The students in the group adopt her quickly, but Matilda’s past has made her wary and anxious of new people and their intentions.
When she finds herself drawn toward two of the people in the group, including an unexplainable feeling like she’s met one of them before, Matilda is thrown in the middle of a situation she couldn’t have seen coming. Weird dreams and the fact that her life might not be what she thought it was force Matilda to question whether her fate was already decided, or if someone else is pulling the strings… How does one juggle school work, healing trauma, finding love, and supporting a diverse community, while also fighting for their fate and the rest of the world?

A photo that reads:
For Fans of:
Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist
Maggie Stiefvater
Richelle Mead
Laurell K Hamilton

Adults over the age of 18 whp enjoy a world sprinkled with mythology and More, and fantasy rooted in reality.
Reader who enjoy diverse, complex characters, especially LGBTQIA+ characters, those with disabilities, and those deailing with PTSD and trauma in an honest and real way.
Romance Readers who enjoy things like friends to loves, enemies to friends, slow burn, found family, angst with a happy ending, and polyamory.

Playlist:
Have I Found My Home by Paden
What A Good Woman Does by Joy Williams
Dear Happy by Gabrielle Aplin
Breathe Me by Sia
Stuck In My Head by Blue Eyes
Silence by Marshmello & Khalid
The World We Made by Ruelle
Like That by JP Saxe
Safe Place by RuthAnne
Hurts Like Hell by Fleurie & Tommee Profitt
Somebody Loved by The Weepies
For You by Angus & Julia Stone
Past Life by Morgan St Jean
Atlas: Heart by Sleeping At Last

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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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Ruth Cantu is querying 🦄 @ruth-cantu-writes.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

⚔️Fate chose wrong, and Alys won't free her enemies from the queen's compulsion magic⚔️ 🌙Night witches vs Day witches ⛓️Captured FMC ❤️Enemies to forbidden lovers 🫱🏼‍🫲🏼The weak many vs the powerful few 🌿Nature based symbolism 📚Effects of book bans and history erasure #2025pit #F #A #RF #ownvoice #bipocFMC

A collage mood board themed in black and gold pictures. The text Eleutheria is displayed across the collage. From clockwise the pictures are a man and woman being ripped apart, a woman with a finger to her lips, a sun and moon motif smeared in gold, a golden key on an open book, a hand holding a golden crown, a blurred woman holding a skull, a pale woman with a crown atop her head and gold smeared makeup, a gold dusted man's chest clutching a clawed hand, gold snakes among gold vines, a closeup of black leather dusted in gold

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Jax Devora (is writing) @jaxdevora.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

GIDEON THE NINTHxFFXIV When magicless Mick agrees to be an adventuring partner for Eleanor, his mage best friend (and crush), a mishap turns him into a dragon and binds him to the gods' dead adversary. Now they're rushing to break his curse before his existence triggers a war. #2025pit #F #R #A

Top left: A figure plays a violin in a dark room. The image is shot in such a way that only the violin and one of the player's hands is visible.
Center left: A man stands in darkness; his head is on fire.
Bottom left: A wireframe of a dragon against a bright orange background
Top/mid center: Alphonse Mucha's Emerald, featuring a woman staring intensely at the viewer as she leans against the head of a snarling serpent. A white line is drawn straight through the image to neatly divide the woman's head from the serpent's.
Bottom center: The Lovers, from the Art Nouveau Tarot deck, featuring a couple just about to kiss. The card is lying on a white space, surrounded by red/white roses.
Top right: A figure in white robes wanders through a very green forest.
Center right: A bolt of lightning arcs above a mountain range in a very violet sky.
Bottom right: A black hole swirls in a sea of violet stars and nebulae.

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Brodie Smith @brodiesmith.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

PS: I promise I will get to supporting 2025pit in the morning but it's half past midnight and I need sleep! See you all in a few hours 🥰

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Brodie Smith @brodiesmith.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

SONG OF THE LIONESS X BRIDGERTON X REIGN Achieving Mastery of magic at seventeen isn't easy. Why won't Kyan's family celebrate her accomplishment? How can she prove herself? When an assassin strikes at the king, and a conspiracy unfolds, she'll get her chance. #Q #YA #F #2025pit

A grid of 9 images in a collage.
1: starry black hands
2: two women in regal fantasy clothes facing away from the viewer
3: a darkly lit apothecary and magic workshop
4: a blue and white cityscape
5: a figure inside a blue fire bubble
6: hands placing a crown on a silhouetted woman's head
7: a woman in black gothic clothes reading a book in a library
8: a snowy village with lights under the house eaves
9: stylised symbology of the sun and moon

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Brodie Smith @brodiesmith.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Okay. I think I commented on every pitch I liked. And it only took me about three hours!! 😅 Thank you #YouDeservepIt, you were amazing! I think we definitely all deserve it.

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Brodie Smith @brodiesmith.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

a stubborn spare runs away to write her own future as a powerful mage. years later, she comes home to face her family, her past, and the impossible task of finding a place for herself in a world that doesn't want her - but just might need her. #YouDeservepIt #Q #YA #F

A book cover for "THE PRODIGAL DAUGHTER" by Brodie Smith. An outline of a twisting blue feather quill on a black background.

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Brodie Smith @brodiesmith.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

It's 2am here in Australia and my eyes are starting to refuse to take in any new information 😩 I'll be back after some sleep to see how #YouDeservepIt is going and continuing to support the tag, the authors and all the beautiful pitches coming out!

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Chase Grayson is Agented🌙 @adropofmagick.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

ONE DARK WINDOW x IMMORTAL DARK Nocturne's halls hold secrets darker than Alyss ever imagined. With sinister professors & corrupted moon magic, she'll need to work with her ex, his new girl, & an infuriately charming vampire to avenge her sister's murder. #YouDeservepIt #Q #YA #F

A Memory of Moonkissed Malice
Villain Era Protag
Frenemies to Lovers
Queendoms
Found Family
Fantasy Dark Academia
Vampires
Feminine Rage
Corrupted Moon Magic

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raghad ☀️🍊 @raghadjibril.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

AHS: Freakshow x The Night Circus A schizophrenic maghrebi acrobat A diverse ragtag troupe of disabled freakshow performers A show-woman with many enemies A competition of traveling circuses & a grisly slew of political assassinations in Victorian Britain #YouDeservePit #WIP #Adult #His

Moodboard for my book featuring
A circus tent strewn with fairy lights
The silhouette of a carriage and coachman in fog
A ringmaster’s uniform
A victorian woman’s dress
Multicoloured balloons
The silhouette of Victorian men on the streets
A woman with melting clown makeup
A scene from The Greatest Showman: an acrobat up in the air with a man singing below
A brown man’s hazel eyes

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Lucy I PUBLISHING HYACINTHUS @lucyhalley.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

An #agentsguide to HYACINTHUS 🪻🏹 The fates do not let men soar too close to the sun without being scorched, and when Hyacinthus' love for Apollo forces him into a deadly rivalry between the gods, the prince can all but feel the wax start to drip... #YouDeservepIt #A #HF #R #H

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suzanne albanis (agented!) @suzannealbanis.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

THE POPPY WAR X SHADOW OF THE GODS🌋🧿 On a chain of Greek-inspired islands, Iro Zikos is spared by dying gods and granted the gold touch becoming a coveted weapon—just as the king of the largest isle dies, leaving a power vacuum and five ambitious families to fill it. #YouDeservepIt #F #A #Agented

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A.K Patersonwrites @akpaterson.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

CRIERS WAR X FOURTH WING ❄️ 100k word sapphic fantasy 🌨️ forbidden, heart-throbbing love ❄️ solve the murder or she dies 🌨️ warrior for hire, slave to a corrupt guild ❄️ shapeshifter of incredible power, yet powerless to control own fate 🌨️ betrayal #Q #A #F #YouDeservepIt

Pitch and comps. Comps include criers war, ACOTAR, fourth wing and priory

Tropes and vibes page featuring artists own art of MCs embracing

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Natalie Brown @nattykbrown.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Sherlock Holmes x Oceans 8 Amanda is a human lie detector. More used to exploiting her talents at underground poker, she is drawn into a real life game of truth or lie, where the players will do whatever is necessary to keep the truth hidden. #YouDeservePIt #A #T #Q #Heist #AgentsGuide

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Author Devon Thiele @devonthielewrites.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Practical Magic x Kate Daniels Abby can break any curse but her own. When her sister vanishes on Spring Isle, she’s drawn into a deadly mystery: a curse drowning victims on dry land. Abby must solve the island’s secrets—or risk being next. #YouDeservepIt #Q #A #UF #PR

Dark water background an agents guide to secrets in drowning

Comps: 9th house, the bone witch, Kate Daniels series. Readers who like magic in the current world, complex emotional dynamics, romance, magic and high personal stakes, dark magic, and supernatural mystery

Trope check! Found family, only one bed, curses, not a shadow daddy but some other love interest, morally gray FMC, banter, complex family, FMC = Dean from supernatural

Beta reader comments: damn that was good, I’m ready for the next one. It’s the best of supernatural season 1 with sisters. My mind is spinning trying to piece it together. I love the blank possessed by the blank. I’m refusing to read it at night. I need to get me a cavanaugh.

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Katie Collan @kancollan.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

LEGENDBORN x AVATAR: THE LAST AIRBENDER Either she fulfills her family's legacy, or she dies with it. 🤸‍♀️ Badass female protagonist 💧🪨🔥🌪️ Elemental magic system 🌆 Urban fantasy in NYC 🫂 Found Family 🗡️ Magic competition 🌈 Diverse ensemble cast #Q #YA #F #YouDeservepIt

Alt text: A title card with the text "An Agent's Guide to THE WINDWALKER - Katie Collan - young adult urban fantasy 105,000 words" over a person with a red cloak standing in the middle of a grassy field.

Pitch: "When fighters start disappearing from an underground tournament, a sixteen-year-old participant with wind powers must uncover the tournament's secrets before she loses a match and shares their fate."

A mood board featuring six panels with a corresponding color palette in the center. from left to right, top to bottom: a panel divided into four to represent each of the main elements (water, earth, fire, air); a skyline view of nighttime Manhattan; a red-haired girl in front of a gritty backdrop with the caption "Jewish air user"; a dimly-lit underground tunnel with the caption "underground entrance", accentuated by an arrow pointed to the final panel; a NYC subway track with the caption "hidden in plain sight", the arrow cutting through the image; a boxing ring that depicts two people practicing punches beyond the ropes.

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Brodie Smith @brodiesmith.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

My Agent's Guide to THE PRODIGAL DAUGHTER, a young adult high fantasy featuring: 💜 • Ace protagonist 💫 • Mages challenging the gods 🗡️ • Assassination at the highest level 👑 • Complicated interwoven noble families 🪞 • A narrator very aware of her unreliability #YouDeservepIt #Q #YA #F

A black and gold swirled square background, upon which are the words "An Agent's Guide to The Prodigal Daughter 98K YA Fantasy By Brodie Smith"

The words "The Pitch" above three inset images. On the left is the book cover of "Alanna The Song of the Lioness" by Tamora Pierce, with a black lioness roaring on a red background. In the middle is the promotional image for the television show Bridgerton Season 2, featuring Anthony, Kate, and Edwina. On the right is a promotional image for the television show Reign, featuring Mary Queen of Scots, King Francis, and Queen Catherine. Beneath this is the novel's pitch: "Achieving Mastery of magic at seventeen isn't easy. Why can't Kyan's family understand that? How far does she have to go to prove herself? When an assassin strikes at the king, and a conspiracy unfolds, she'll get her chance."

A black book cover featuring a blue feather and the words "The Prodigal Daughter" on it. Around this cover are six tropes and tags: "bittersweet ending", "ace rep", "mages, knights & assassins", "gods walk among us", "nobility with secrets", and "runaway comes home".

The words "First Lines" above three paragraphs relating the opening lines of a novel. "Chapter 1 - Kyan Gets Caught." "Kyanna Ravenspell has worked for this day what feels like all her life. She stands alone beneath n ancient arched dome, the navy dark stone crossed with goldwashed rafters. She stands still among whipping greenery. Vines and snakes tear at her hair. Spikes and wet leaves streak by, bladed, aiming to cut at her skin. But she's protected - by a thin barrier of sky blue magic."

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Brodie Smith @brodiesmith.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

I did lots of work today. None of it the work I had actually planned on doing, but I did a lot of it!

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Brodie Smith @brodiesmith.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Q for people who did #P2Ppit and who are planning to do #YouDeservepIt. Are you going to post the same pitch(es)? I'm thinking that since I posted 3 different projects for P2P, I'll focus on the project that got the most interest and try to promote it 3 different ways for YDP? Thoughts?

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Brodie Smith @brodiesmith.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

If you're a fan of: 👑 youngest daughters desperate for real purpose 🌑 a moon goddess on the hunt 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 identical twin princes who wish they weren't 🕯️ cults committing crimes ❤️ cosy apothecary x tired soldier lesbians 🖼️ painted visions 📞 your love interest cannot be found, please dial again later 👇👇👇

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Brodie Smith @brodiesmith.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

If you're a fan of: 🐈‍⬛ cursed unique power 🏰 a magic school where you succeed or you get expelled 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 "are we friends or rivals?" "yes" 🔮 mentors with questionable motivations ⚔️ warlord's daughters who have never known peace ⛵ searching for a place to call home 💙 bi polyam protagonist 👇👇👇

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Brodie Smith @brodiesmith.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

If you're a fan of: 🫅 being the power behind the throne 🪄 magic tied to the stars 💔 bittersweet endings (maybe the sequel will fix it!) 🤫 lying to your family to get what you want 🛡️ "I'm duty-bound to protect you" 👑 political fantasy with sprawling noble families 💜 ace protagonist 👇👇👇

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Brodie Smith @brodiesmith.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Thank you everyone who liked my pitches today during #P2Ppit! It was my first time participating in something like this and it was amazing to get some love from fellow writers ❤️ I'll share some more details on each project soon!

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