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The ghost of Ashley J Johnson 👻 @thatjackanapes.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

THE GREAT x LE MORT D'ARTHUR Morgan was fifteen the first time she spoke with the dead. It was brief, and she lost too much blood, but then she knew she could do it and no one could take that from her. #1stlinepit #WIP #A #F #HF

A graphic featuring a detail from the painting Morgan Le Fay by Fredrick Sandys. Morgan is performing some kind of magic, her wild red hair and draping clothes voluminous around her. Over the image is text that reads "I have studied Cicero, Aristotle, Virgil, Homer, St. Augustine, Caesar, all on my own. You ruined my life, motherf***er. Teach. Me. Magic."

A 9-grid moodboard giving the impression of gothic medieval moodiness with photos and classical art. A silver goblet, a knight in a joust, a man with a book in dark robes, an illuminated manuscript, a woman with windswept red hair staring out at the sea, an arcane sigil, a woman with a sickle standing over a glowing cauldron, a king's helmet, arched gothic architecture.

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Crystal Bayless ✍🏻is writing & editing✍🏻 @crystalbauthor.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

We all tell ourselves “If I had known then what I know now…” when we think about the things we would do differently in any given situation. I never imagined my own death would be one of those moments I would need to reflect back on... #W #NA #MM #PN #1stLinePit #CMe

Top right photo: a book with a skull and fake candle on top and a bottle of poison marked by a bat in front. Quote under its always the people you would suspect less or is it? Under that an orange tinted and blurred photo of a queen from behind with the quote dead; then under that a queen and king chess piece that has a feast of foods below it.

Middle top photo: a clue board that detectives use to solve crimes. Then a frothing skeleton hand black wine glass the quote The difference between medicine and poison is in the dose. Under that a graveyard iron gate flanked by trees and fog the the quote beside it it's all lies darling, then a quote I know what you did on white paper.

Top right pic: A hand and arm in a white dress laying on the ground. Words in orange Ghosts of Our Past. Then under that a pic of a queens half face gold crown, brown hair, brown eyes, looking off to the right she looks scared. Then under that a castle with trees, storm clouds, a large full moon.

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Makayla Leigh 🌿🌊⚔️ @themakaylaleigh.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

⚔ BLOODGUARDxTHE SERPENT AND THE WINGS OF NIGHT ⚔ "A deep, guttural cry rips from my chest and claws its way out of my throat. A scream so raw and unrestrained, it blazes hot in my lungs. The forest will soak up my pain." #1stLinePit #Q #YA #F

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Morgan Lenana @morganlenana.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

#1stlinepit THE POPPY WAR X CHILDREN OF BLOOD & BONE Kill all or kill none, if you live one, they’ll be your fall. That was the motto. In the Eastern Protectorate, failure was fatal. Want an African perspective on colonialism? See #agentsguide below #C #Q #F #SPF #A #writingcommunity #Africansff

African mask on black background with the words "Agents guide to Loyalties and Lies" and "Fantasy set in Africa 86,000 words"

Black background with Pitch and Comps containing Covers of The Poppy War, Children of blood and bone, and An Ember in the Ashes

A mood board with fire, a foggy forest, soldiers, warriors, a shaman and an African mast with words describing elements of the story: magical realism, dystopian elements, reference to Kenyan colonial history, Folklore reimaginings, consequence of choice and multiple African cultures.

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Liz 👻🍂🪦 @thewriteratlas.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

NAUSICAA X IF WE WERE VILLAINS ‘Ari waited until the groundskeeper turned around the bend of the carriageway to break the window.’ #1stLinePit #A #F #WIP

Moodboard featuring: misty old building through a gate; a shelf of animal and human skulls, a piano in a greenhouse with a chandelier; a hand reaching out of thorns; a center square with reading: BONES WIP, Eco dark academia, ghosts, murder, bone magic; a messy desk with books and plants; a messy shelf with oddities; a big antlered skull on a rock; a shoulder dressed in an old-style buttoned white shirt and black vest.

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Lizz Henke @catladylovesbooks.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

I was trained to be a monster in battle and a lady in court. When blades locked, a frenzy overtook me, and I became what people feared—the Viper. 👑 Court politics 🗡️ A dagger wielding princess 🤔 Witty banter 🌶️ A playboy prince 🐦‍⬛ Dangerous cult uprisings 🛑NO TURNING BACK #1stLinePit #Q #F #RF #YA

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Elise Betz #amquerying and seeking representation @elisebetz.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

#1stLinePit #C #A #R #RF Light #F #MCe Brienne of Tarth X Daredevil X Tristan & Isolde 👸 #BIPOC bi-racial princess who is not "perfect" 👨‍🦯Blind #DIS romantic interest 😍 He falls first 💔Political marriage engagement keeps them apart 🌞🌶️ #HEA with spicy ending

Images in corners: rough tumbled yellow stone pendant, line outline of a nightingale on a branch, two moons in conjunction, a branch of Lady of the Night.
Text: The Sun Diamond Princess & the Blind Assassin
#1stlinePit
If beauty was a currency for women to procure a husband, Princess Myra was a pauper

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Niko Stevens @nikostevens.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

“There was a thin line between paranormal investigation and instigation, and the only things between it were me and my grave.” #1stLinePit #Q #YA #F #M

Comps (Truly, Devious and Don’t Let the Forest In) and tropes

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el🦋 | drafting🌿 @thatfunkylilfey.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Six of Crows x Cruel Prince For everything Ser Valdemar Brannigan had faced in his life, nothing presented a challenge that could measure to that of writing his own will. — Mothlight 🦋 [ #1stLinePit ; #WIP ; #A ; #F ; #LGBT ]

3x3 grid with the text "MOTHLIGHT' overtop

row one: a bust of a figure (mouth to shoulder shown) lying in a bed of flowers ; hands holding aloft a flower crown ; a red sash tied around the arm of a figure in armor, their hand on a sword hilt

row two: close up of a butterfly wing ; a person turned away from the viewer with long wavy bond hair ; close up of spider webs

row three: jaws of a crocodile where only the teeth are wholly visible, the rest is in darkness ; flower petals cover the neck and jaw of a figure (only that part is visible) ; monarch butterflies and a silhouette of a hand to make it seem like a butterfly has landed on it

Mothlight Trope Map, starting from top and going clockwise

• NB MC x Trans Man LI
• revenge against abusers
• grief is unexpressed love
• established couple
• memory loss
• what doesn’t kill you better start running
• breaking cycles of trauma
• established couple
• unapologetically queer cast
• shapeshifting as a queer/trans metaphor

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Sarah Gallego Author HOTWQ @sarahgwrites75.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

The Gods must fucking hate me. It was the only fathomable explanation for why, with all their infinite and omniscient wisdom, they’d decided to shove a mutated beast outside the only escape route from the tower. #1stLinePit #A #NA #RF #Q All the light we cannot see x Radiance

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Blythe Gilpin @blythewrytes.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

UPROOTED x EMILY WILDE Heidi adjusted the microscope’s lens, darting glances up at the professor to ensure her mentor couldn’t see what she was working on. 🪲✨🌌🏳️‍🌈📚💕 Can a natural historian save the one she loves at the cost of her heart, or worse, her research? #1stLinePit #Q #A #F #RF #CZ #CMe

A collage of images, starting from top left and going clockwise to center: Elinor Dashwood from Sense & Sensibility, tea being poured into a teacup, a journal with a diagram of a flower, a pink with black spots truffle pig, a partially shadowed hand writing on a chalkboard, a clump of light pink blooming flowers in a forest, a brontosaurus skeleton in a museum, a desk with flowers and journals, and in the center a diagram of ancient plants.

A graphic which reads: An agent’s guide to RETURN THE SKY, Adult Fantasy, 112,000 words. PITCH: Assistant natural historian Heidi ventures into the cursed forest for her thesis. She expected danger. She didn’t expect to fall in love with a strange rogue who presents her with a choice - help them and start a war between the forest and her home, or betray them and keep her family safe. Comps are Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries, Where the Dark Stands Still, and Uprooted. Tropes and themes include dark academia, non-binary love interest, yearning, cozy fantasy (with teeth), slow burn, forced proximity, hidden histories and secrets, eventual happy ending, queernormative world, and dark forests.

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amwriting2025.bsky.social @amwriting2025.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

WHAT THE RIVER KNOWS X THE GIRL OF FIRE AND THORNS “The sunrise on the worst day of my life was blood-red. Its rays crawled like tenuous fingers over the copper-hued hills of the desert. A falcon glided on puffs of balmy air, with outstretched wings and tucked feet.” #1stLinePit #Q #YA #HF

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Rebecca Leigh @rebleighauthor.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

“Three women hung from a tree, their lifeless bodies swaying in the early gray morning. No one was there to mourn them. Save for one.” #1stLinePit #Q #YA #HF

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Mariah Stillbrook @mariahstillbrook.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

THESE WITCHES DON'T BURN X FOURTH WING The corpse was seated in the same soft, rose-colored corduroy chair I’d used to play on as a child. #1stLinePit #Q #A #UF

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Kelly Beck @kellylbeck.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

“𝑆𝑡𝑢𝑐𝑘-𝑢𝑝 𝑏𝑖𝑡𝑐ℎ. 𝐶𝑜𝑙𝑑-ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑒𝑑. 𝑇𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑏𝑙𝑒𝑑. I’ve been called a lot of names in my life, but only one stuck: flight risk. I can’t deny running from Rodney, Mississippi." 🛶MEET ME AT THE LAKE x WHERE THE CRAWDADS SING🐊 #1stLinePit #OS #editors

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Gwend💫lyn Vines @gwenvines.academics.blue · 05/04/2025

WITCHER x CRIMSON PEAK x BROADCHURCH The Fifth’s standard-issue armour performed admirably versus tooth and claw, blade and burr alike repelled by its tough leather and metal plates. The one assailant against which it failed to defend was the cold. #1stlinepit #WIP #A #H #gothicromantichorror

a moodboard for a gothic romantic horror in tones of red and black. Images from top left to bottom right are silhouettes of a man with a sword and a woman at night from behind, in front of a large window and candelabra; a close up on an apple with beads of moisture on it; an old manor at dusk or dawn, surrounded by snow and trees; old medical or chemical bottles behind a clothbound journal; a painting of a man playing violin; a wooden writing desk with an open book atop it; a prosthetic ring finger made of metal; a stained glass window featuring roses; old metal syringes; a man wearing a red eyeglass over his right eye; snowy woods with a trodden bloody trail winding through them; an apple tree at night with many apples on the ground; an anatomical drawing of the interior of a man's ribcage, his organs removed and only the ends of the vessels remaining

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A.M. Ruggirello @ashleyrugg.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

FINAL FANTASY x BEYOND GOOD & EVIL x SHADOW OF COLOSSUS Green once blanketed Earth. Of course, that was before our planet was renamed Sin. Some have the luxury of forgetting. The rest of us have no choice but to remember. #1stLinePit #A #SF #WIP

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Amy Pepin @appleseed-amy.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

You can tell a lot about a person by how they play a game—the choices they make, the rules they follow, or the ones they break. It all matters in the end. #1stLinePit #YA #H #WIP

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Natalia Wik is in her ✨querying✨ era @weavinguptales.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

"True to the canon of the chosen one, Seridewi fucked up royally because the smell of the Northern Sea mixed with that of lilies lingering was usually a welcoming invitation, but not tonight" — from my Arthurian x Indonesian mythology WIP #1stLinePit #YA #F #WIP

moodboard consisting of 9 pics (a group of swords joined in a huddle (hands can be seen), a river, two hands reaching out for each other against a pinkish sky background, a good masquerade mask on a silky surface with fairy lights, a dagger held behind someone’s back - they’re in a medieval-like dress, the back of an Asian man in a decorated white suit, a skull cradled in the hands of someone in a white-yellowish 18th century dress - they’re also some plants, Indonesian shadow puppets and hands holding a pocket watch against a bluish dress background) in a grid

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Chantel is ON SUBMISSION ✨ @cpearsonwrites.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

A SONG TO DROWN RIVERS X WHEN THE MOON HATCHED There are three rules for provoking a Galah: never look into its hollow eyes, never speak your true name, and never, under any circumstances, let go. Fantasy retelling of SEA folklore ⚔️ So. Much. Yearning ⚔️Forbidden Love #Q #NA #YA #F #RF #1stLinePit

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Heather Carter @hlcarterauthor.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

STARLING HOUSE X CRIMSON PEAK "I drifted on a strange sea between worlds. Blips of consciousness, and then? Trapped in a nightmare of claws and darkness. Yes, it had to be a dream." #1stLinePit #WIP #Agented #A #R #P #F

A gravestone background with white text that reads: A GUIDE TO ECHOES OF RADFIELD HALL BY HEATHER CARTER. AGENT: RAMONA PINA (BOOKENDS LIT)

GRAVESTONE BACKGROUND WITH TEXT THAT READS: THE PITCH: ALLOSON AND JOHN ARE TRAPPED IN A DECREPIT MANSION THAT COMES TO LIFE NIGHTLY WITH A TWO-HUNDRED-YEAR-OLD BALL. AMID FLOODING ROOMS, DEMONIC LIONS, AND VIOLENT ENTITIES, THEY MUST BREAK THE CURSE OR BECOME GHOSTS THEMSELVES. COMPS: STARLING HOUSE X CRIMSON PEAK

THE TROPES: ADULT GOTHIC FASTASY, - AMNESIA, - GHOSTS, -TIME TRAVEL/LOOP, -HORROR AND ROMANCE, -SPICE

OPENING LINES: I drifted on a strange sea between worlds. Blips of consciousness, and then? Trapped in a nightmare of claws and darkness. Yes, it had to be a dream. The hazy edges and echoing rumbles filtered through what should’ve been a harsh line between the waking world and the realm of sleep.

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Kendall Rae @authorkendallrae.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

“If the Faceless Gods knew I read the missive sprawled out on the painted desk before me, I’d be dead. Unfortunately for my masters, the note, written in golden, honey-sweet lettering, contained the most delicious news of my lengthy existence. As if I’d give it up now.” #1stLinePit #Q #A #F #RF

A guide to THE FATEPAINTER.

Text in image:

120,000 word adult romantic fantasy.

Determined to win the approval of her immortal masters, a lesser goddess with the power to alter human fate embarks on a mission to destroy a mortal prince’s court.

Comp Titles:
THE FOXGLOVE KING by Hannah Whitten
A FATE INKED IN BLOOD Danielle L. Jensen
SPINNING SILVER by Naomi Novik

* Meddling gods
* Courtly intrigue
* Enemies-to-lovers
* Tension and yearning
* Fairy tale vibes
* Unique mythology/magic

A mood board that includes images and drawings of: snowy landscapes, a palace, masked figures dancing around a fire, a woman surrounded by stars, a moonlit lake, and a river of gold.

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Natalia Wik is in her ✨querying✨ era @weavinguptales.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

SEA fairytale retelling “Once upon a time, in a land worlds away from where a girl with glowing golden hair won the heart of a prince with glass slippers, a girl with raven hair that absorbed the night sky would need a moonstone to capture a princely heart” #1stLinePit #YA #WIP

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Lizz Henke @catladylovesbooks.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Happy #Caturday! Take it easy and enjoy the little things. #cat #catlife

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Ann Glimmer @annglimmer.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Nine years of fragile truce between our clans—and my boneheaded mistake could tear it all apart. ⚔️Age-old clan feud 🧪Unique magic & world 🐉Scandinavian fairytale creatures ❤️‍🔥Steamy forbidden love 🛡️"Who did this?" 🗡️"Touch him & die" #1stLinePit #Romantasy #NA #AgentsGuide

An agent’s guide to: TRUE HATE’S KISS

A jarl’s daughter must trick her enemy into kissing her to break a deadly curse on her family.

109,000 words
New Adult Romantasy
By Ann Glimmer

Blurb:
When a man from the enemy clan murders Älva’s father, she swears revenge. But then her family is cursed to die. The only way to break the curse?
A TRUE HATE’S KISS
The man she hates the most must kiss her of his own free will.
But the more she learns about her enemy, the more she questions who the true villain really is—and forbidden desire threatens to ruin everything.

Comp Titles:
- A Fate Inked in Blood by Danielle L. Jensen
- Heartless Hunter by Kristen Ciccarelli

Tropes:
Scandinavian Iron Age (almost Viking Age)
Pretending to woo him while betraying him
Feuding clans = enemies-to-lovers + forbidden love
Knife to throat
Complicated family dynamics
Magical swords and potions
Fairytale creatures based on Scandinavian folklore

Feedback from Beta Readers:
- "Couldn't stop reading all afternoon."
- "Your writing style is really strong, and you have a strong voice."
- "Their conversations being more tangible things rather than just flirtatious really open up the relationship."
- "This is one of thee the best books I've read since Addie LaRue."
- "It was a good slow burn romance and I liked that the male main character wasn't toxic or mean."
- "I loved how twisty the story became and found it a breath of fresh air in the genre."

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Helena is querying and drafting @nethermagic.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

"The library rumbles in the aftermath of an explosion; it’s the third one this week. I know better than to worry about another student struggling to learn that the incantation leuk may set something alight instead of producing a light." —Bleeding Stars #RF #A #Q #1stLinePit

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Libby Lineweaver @libbylineweaver.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

"Today was the day the little girl's Blessing became a curse." -Cursed Blessings #1stLinePit #A #F #LGBT #WIP #CMe

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Michelle Sanchez @sanchezmm.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

FOURTH WING x SCORPIO RACES "I wince at the searing path it trails down my throat, but when the alcohol forces the knots in my neck to loosen, the restless thing inside me finally stops hammering against my mental walls." #1stlinepit #ya #romantasy #wip #agented

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Flossie Foster @flossiefoster.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

SPIRITED AWAY x OUTLANDER 🌿 Sarcastic botanist 🥀 Broody yokai “The fluttering of leaves whispered his arrival.” #1stLinePit #Q #F #NA #YA #BookPitch #RF #Mythology

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Heather Carter @hlcarterauthor.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

#Editors "Chilly rain drove into me like tiny knives as I ran from the brutal man I once loved. Mud caked my clothes. My lungs burned, and my limbs shook. I didn’t want to die. I didn’t want to live with him either, a fate worse than death." #1stLinePit #A #Gothic #R #F #OS

a dark background with scrolling wrought iron inlay and white text that reads: A GUIDE TO A DEATH WITHOUT YOU, BY HEATHER CARTER, ON SUBMISSION NOW, AGENT: RAMONA PINA (BOOKENDS LIT)

a dark background with scrolling wrought iron inlay and white text that reads: THE PITCH, CAN TRUE LOVE TRANSCEND THE CHASM BETWEEN LIFE AND DEATH?, Chloe takes refuge in a haunted house, only to be trapped there, marked as the future bride of the underworld prince. She has three weeks to break the bond, or be his forever. But destiny has other plans in this ghost story.
THREE IMAGES: THE BOOK COVER OF LAKESEDGE BY LYNDALL CLIPSTONE, THE MOVIE COVER FOR THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (2004), AND A MOVIE COVER FOR THE NETFLIX SERIES, THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE

A DARK BACKGROUND WITH SCROLLING WROUGHT IRON INLAY. WHITE TEXT THAT READS: THE TROPES & REP: ADULT GOTHIC ROMANTASY, SOULMATES, FOUND FAMILY, MORALLY GRAY VILLAIN, TOUCH HER AND DIE, LOVE STRONGER THAN DEATH, SPICE, REP: ASD, MENTAL HEALTH, PLUS SIZE, PCOS

A DARK BACKGROUND WITH SCROLLING WROUGHT IRON INLAY. WHITE TEXT THAT READS, SNIPPET: My heart thumped under his palm. I ceased to breathe as I realized what he meant. There, encased in the arms of a villain, I struggled to contain the unwanted urges that clawed their way toward the surface. It was absurd. Mad. There was no way in heaven or hell I could ever love someone so wicked.

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Danni Grace @dgracewrites.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

“Clustered in the chest of Kit Clearwood, there lived a beast.” Howl’s Moving Castle meets Brave in a steampunk setting. 💕 #1stLinePit #WIP #YA #F

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Samantha is AGENTED 🖤🕯️ @samcrouchbooks.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

“As the Mistress of Ceremonies glided through the sea of performers, Thalia Rathmore could do nothing but silently beg her to suspend tonight’s show.” 🎪☠️🖤✨🏰 #1stLinePit #YA #WIP #F

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Max is ✨querying✨ @mtaylorauthor.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

It was only quiet in the Thornewood on execution days. HEARTLESS HUNTER x WHERE THE DARK STANDS STILL #Q #YA #F #UF #1stLinePit #writingcommunity

To save her realm and her people from extinction, lone Dryad, Eryna, must hide amongst human high society and play their twisted party games to take back the magic that was stolen from her land.

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Crissie (C.T. Wood) @crissthecreative.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

I didn’t run from the ballroom. I walked quickly. The laughter & chatter of the gala danced across the hotel, chasing me as I escaped the festivities. I settled into the sun that shined through the full windowed doors of the hotel lobby. #1stlinepit #WIP #R #F #P #ROMCOM Art by ThereseU3U

AN image of the Greek god Apollo in modern clothing with text in the top right corner that says "PERCY JACKSON x TWILIGHT but for adults.... because immortals dating teens is kind of weird if you actually think about it." Then the title across the center is A Greek God Got Me Pregnant. Then in the center at the bottom text that reads "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."

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𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐫 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐠 🍃 @charscrawls.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

🎸 daisy jones x knives out 🗡️ “it begins with a murmur drifting upon the wind.” seven suspects. one the killer of renowned rock star sam corvi. but who? only they can tell you #1stLinePit #A #LF #M (almost) #Q

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

the first pages of ALL THE DEVILS:

prelude
21st august 2016

it begins with a murmur drifting upon the wind.
at first, it’s small—unnoticeable, but soon that murmur, that slick sliver of sound that could one day change the world reaches humankind and becomes a hurricane—an untamed clamour among the silence. it ripples. it taunts. It waltzes upon the breeze like the destructive force it is and, in the end, is unstoppable. It cannot be contained. It’s there forever, a permanent echo in a vacuum, a scratch on a record, a soundbite of time. today, the murmur begins its devastating dance outside a block of flats overlooking the river thames. a white flurry of forlorn forensics leave the building with disbelief carved onto their weary faces. an unsettling stillness suffuses the space as the murmur passes from person to person.
it’s him, rumbles the murmur. it’s sam corvi. he’s dead.

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Angelique Russell - 💫 @angie-r03.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

#1stLinePit Never trust a golden tongue. #YA #F #Q

An agent's guide to a curse of blood and darkness. 66K Young adult fantasy

Pitch: The seelie court calls her their spy. The unseelie call her their weapon. Alethea walks a knife's edge between both. But power is never given, it's taken. If she wants to claim it she'll have to decide whether she wants to become a queen or a monster.
Comparative titles:
The cruel prince
The shadows between us
These hollow vows
Ruthless vows

Tropes:
friends to enemies
Enemies to lovers
Myth becomes reality
Anti-hero heroine
'burn it all down'
Thief to warrior

Note: book includes diverse characters and bi-representation

A piece from the novel:

“Time to step out of the cage,” he replied. Her brows furrowed. “You remind me of a little bird,” Silas continued, his tone shifting slightly, as though the words had a deeper meaning than he was letting on.
“A little bird?” Alethea scoffed, her chin tilting up in defiance. “And what’s that supposed to mean?”
He shifted on his feet, his voice lower than before, “Yes. The cage is open, and yet you still don’t fly.”
Alethea’s lips parted, the words cutting into her like a sharp blade. “Birds with clipped wings fall. They don’t fly,” she retorted, her voice tinged with bitterness.
Silas’s lips curved into a sly smile, his eyes gleaming with something dark and knowing. “Oh, you’ll fly… trust me.”

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Katie Collan @kancollan.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

LEGENDBORN X AVATAR: THE LAST AIRBENDER The wind has only spoken to me once in my life. #Q #YA #F #Jewish #1stLinePit

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 eight panels with a corresponding color palette in the center, as well as the caption, "Believe in the wind and you'll prevail." From left to right, top to bottom: fire burning down a building; ocean water; the sky above the clouds; a cracked, rocky ground; a red-haired girl in a red cloak with glowing white eyes, holding a dagger hilt with a transparent blade made of air; a skyline view of nighttime Manhattan; a NYC subway track; a boxing ring that depicts two people practicing punches beyond the ropes.

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Meghan is ✨querying✨ @loppinradical.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

✨SERPENT & DOVE X WITCHER✨ The guard died still on his feet. The witch’s blade flung a spray of blood against the stone wall as the soldier fell, and she stepped over the body, the man’s head rolling with a wet slap under a table. #1stlinepit #A #F #R #amquerying

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Michelle Sanchez @sanchezmm.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

"Edgar Quarles is an insufferable and selfish old man." This is the first line from handsome and mysterious Duke Lugo in my dual POV Gothic horror novel, HOUSE OF HUNGER. #1stlinepit #agented #gothic #ya #horror

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