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Chelsie Derman @chelsiewrites.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

I just started a writing TikTok account :) It’s just a chill account where I’ll be talking about relatable writing stuff, showcase my adorable maltipoo when I bring her home after Labor Day, and just post videos with good vibes 😅😅 #writing #YA #fantasy www.tiktok.com/@chelsiederm...

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PosterPit @posterpitevent.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Hey all! This is going to be the Bsky account for PosterPit! Our socials are under construction, but we appreciate your interest in this event <3

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Taylor Renee @taylorrenee.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Would you choose immortality? Of course you would. But let me tell you: It’s a lie. A cruel, promise. Because the hunger you live with—No, the hunger that you are—is worse. House of Valentine - 98k words a gothic fantasy w/ a b-plot romance. #PopUpPit #PopUpPitA #Q #F #G #R #booksky #LuckyPit

'House of Valentine' by Taylor Renee. The background features a vintage, textured design with faded text, overlaid with watercolor illustrations of a skull roses, daisies, and pine trees. The title 'HOUSE OF VALENTINE' is prominently displayed in large, elegant white letters. Below the title, the text reads: 'TAYLOR RENEE | 98,000 | ITSTAYLORRENEE1@GMAIL.COM' and 'AGENT & EDITOR GUIDE' in smaller white font. The overall aesthetic is moody and romantic, with a gothic fantasy vibe.

The background features a vintage, textured design with faded text, adorned with watercolor illustrations of roses and pine branches. The word 'EXCERPT' is displayed at the top in large, elegant white letters. Below, the text reads: 'TAYLOR RENEE | 98,000 | ITSTAYLORRENEE1@GMAIL.COM' followed by a poetic passage: 'If you could live for centuries—through famine and plague, through wars that razed cities and left ash in their wake, that not even a bomb crashing through your home could destroy you—would you choose immortality? Wouldn't you dream of such a gift? To remain as you were as the world crumbles around you, and rebuilds itself, endlessly? Of course you would. That’s the allure, isn’t it? The whispered fantasy of endless time, of infinite existence. But let me tell you: it’s a lie. A cruel promise. Because after enough centuries, you begin to wish for the plague to ravage your body, to tear through your flesh and wring you dry of life. You begin to long for the bomb to shatter you, burn away your skin until you’re nothing but bone and ash. You’d pray for the famine to hollow you out, for hunger to gnaw at your insides so violently that you might finally collapse under the weight of mortality. Because the hunger you live with—No, the hunger that you are—is worse.' The bottom is decorated with a border of watercolor roses in shades of red and purple.

The background features a vintage, textured design with faded text, embellished with watercolor illustrations of roses and pine branches. The word 'BLURB' is displayed at the top in large, elegant white letters. Below, the text reads: 'TAYLOR RENEE | 98,000 | ITSTAYLORRENEE1@GMAIL.COM' followed by the blurb: 'When anthropology student Hazel Adler travels to a remote Swiss village for her thesis, she expects folklore and forgotten traditions—not a hidden world of vampires, deadly politics, and a centennial festival that’s more nightmare than celebration. She was never meant to survive it. Her only lifeline? Soren Valentine—a vampire with a past as blood-soaked as his fangs. As the lines between myth and reality blur, Hazel must fight to survive in more ways than one. Trusting Soren may be her only chance—but the monster who saved her life hides dangerous secrets of his own. Survival means risking everything. House of Valentine is a gothic fantasy filled with sharp fangs, fragile alliances, and a slow-burn b-plot romance that will leave you breathless.' The bottom is decorated with a border of watercolor roses in shades of red and purple.

'House of Valentine' by Taylor Renee, focusing on tropes, themes, and comps. The background features a vintage, textured design with faded text, adorned with watercolor illustrations of roses and pine branches. The text 'TROPES & THEMES & COMPS' is displayed at the top in large, elegant white letters. Below, the text reads: 'TAYLOR RENEE | 98,000 | ITSTAYLORRENEE1@GMAIL.COM' followed by a list of tropes and themes: 'ROMEO & JULIET, BEAUTY & THE BEAST, ALLIES TO LOVERS, MORALLY GRAY CHARACTERS, VAMPIRE SOCIETY, SLOW BURN.' The image includes three book cover comps: 'Interview with the Vampire' by Anne Rice, 'The Beautiful' by Renée Ahdieh, and 'A Discovery of Witches' by Deborah Harkness, each framed with a pink border. The bottom is decorated with a border of watercolor roses in shades of red and purple.

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Chelsie Derman @chelsiewrites.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

🧠Rare neurological disorder? ❌ Nope. 👥Split identity? ❌ Not quite. 🚨The truth? He’s sharing his body with a stubborn lost human soul ⏳3 weeks until one of them is erased. Good luck evicting a tenant who doesn’t even know they’re living here. #YA #SciFi #LuckyPit #PopUpPit

$Moldboard features: fall foliage (top left), brain scans (bottom left), hourglass (top middle), young couple embracing (center), fractured face of a teen boy (bottom middle), guy playing guitar (top right), psychic tarot cards (bottom right)$

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Chelsie Derman @chelsiewrites.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Ooh interesting!! I love this pitch of yours too

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Chelsie Derman @chelsiewrites.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

I’m obsessed with this. I need to read this story!! I love time travel stories and this sounds so heartfelt and different from time travel stories I’ve read

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L. D. Rex is Querying @ldrexauthor.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

A boy falls through a hole while ice fishing and is saved by his fourteen-year-old Granddad in 1963. A stranger from the present confronts him at a county fair, but he wants to stay to have adventures with his healthy granddad, because the one at home is sick. #WSPit #WSPitQ #MG #CON #F

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a ferris wheel at a carnival with people riding it

Alt: a ferris wheel at a carnival with people riding it

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Caitlin @awritingcaitlin.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

🎻Two women, each with different deals to the same god. Both on the same mission to steal a legendary violin out of a museum. But while one recognizes the price of failure, the other does not understand consequences. Can they sort out their differences before midsummer's end? #WSPit #WSPitQ #A #F #ND

Moodboard featuring four photos:
Bottom left: view of a museum second floor. museum has columns and arches in the architecture.
Left: closeup of a violin as someone plays it.
Top right: Violin sitting on a dark surface.
Bottom right: artistic music staff with notes.
On the right is a color palette in browns ranging from dark to light.
A sticky note in the bottom right says: Finn's Fiddle

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Chelsie Derman @chelsiewrites.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

I absolutely love this premise. Also love how you used he’s cinnamon roll in this post 😭 makes me think of the TikTok trend

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Chelsie Derman @chelsiewrites.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Okay I love how it’s set in the late 90s and early 2000s. And it’s about a writer

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krista is writing like a maniac ❦ @kristaskrooked.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

#WSPit #WSPitW #A #F #M #Hu #R #blackbooksky THE WOLF AMONG US ❦ ONCE UPON A TIME 📖set in the late 90s-early 00s 📖red riding hood x big bad wolf 📖black mc who is struggling to write her next book 📖morally grey sheriff "protecting" the city 📖realm hopping to solve mysteries and save fairy tales

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Kelly Esparza Is Agented Again! @kellyesparza.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

GLASS ONION but w/ ❄️+👻 When Abby attends a party in a snowy cabin in the mountains, she doesn't expect to: ⭐ face her sister during a year-long feud ⭐ run into her ex-boyfriend ⭐ get murdered at the party, become a ghost, & solve her own murder before other guests die. #WSPit #WSPitW #T #A #M

mood board: snowy woods, woods, ghost, snowy cabin, blood, footprints in snow, eerie moon

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Michelle Ogilvy @michelleogilvy.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

The job had 1 rule: don’t open the car’s trunk. Should have been a 2nd rule: don’t give your friend a lift or she will absolutely break the one rule. Now, an interdimensional smoke monster is free and hungry for souls. Who has our disaster bi been working for? #WSPitQ #A #F #LGBT #WSPit

Bright coloured moodboard with words One rule: Don't open the trunk.

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Taylor Renee @taylorrenee.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Would you choose immortality? Of course you would. But let me tell you: It’s a lie. A cruel, promise. Because the hunger you live with—No, the hunger that you are—is worse. House of Valentine, complete at 98k words a thrilling gothic fantasy. #WSPit #A #F #P #R #WSPitQ

A moodboard with a cozy, vintage aesthetic labeled ‘House of Valentine Moodboard’ at the center in elegant cursive text. Surrounding it are nine sections:
1. Open books with text in a serif font, layered on each other.
2. A picturesque village nestled in a lush green valley surrounded by mountains.
3. A minimalistic green wall with a framed painting, books, and candles arranged neatly on a table.
4. A wooden bookshelf filled with old, worn books in dim lighting.
5. Close-up of antique books with leather-bound covers in shades of green and brown, with visible gold detailing on the spines.
6. A café setting with small wooden tables, coffee, pastries, and an open book resting on one of the tables.
7. Handwritten text on sepia-toned paper, evoking a sense of nostalgia.
8. A person wearing red knit fingerless gloves and a cream sweater, touching a tree trunk with an attached piece of text.

The centersquare says house of valentine mood board

A dark, moody moodboard labeled ‘House of Valentine Moodboard’ at the center in elegant cursive text. Surrounding it are nine sections:
1. A hand with clawed nails dragging across wooden floorboards, leaving deep scratches.
2. Text on a textured background that reads, ‘When Night Comes’ in a serif font.
3. A close-up of a golden, cat-like eye with a vertical slit pupil, surrounded by shadowed skin.
4. A wide-open mouth with sharp, pointed fangs
5. A grand ballroom scene filled with people in elegant historical attire, dancing beneath ornate chandeliers.
6. A hand with long, deep red nails holding a glass of dark red wine
7. The word ‘Run’ written in bold serif font on a completely black background
8. A dagger with intricate designs on the hilt resting next to a single stemmed rose and a torn piece of paper with faded text.

"If you could live for centuries—through famine and plague, through wars that razed cities and left ash in their wake, that not even a bomb crashing through your home could destroy you—would you choose immortality?
Wouldn’t you dream of such a gift? To remain as you were as the world crumbles around you, and rebuilds itself, endlessly?
Of course you would.
That’s the allure, isn’t it? The whispered fantasy of endless time, of infinite existence.
But let me tell you:
it’s a lie. A cruel, promise.
Because after enough centuries, you begin to wish for the plague to ravage your body, to tear through your flesh and wring you dry of life. You begin to long for the bomb to shatter you, burn away your skin until you’re nothing but bone and ash. You’d pray for the famine to hollow you out, for hunger to gnaw at your insides so violently that you might finally collapse under the weight of mortality.
Because the hunger you live with—
No, the hunger that you are—is worse."
-- Excerpt From Soren Valentine's Journal

When anthropology student Hazel Adler travels to a remote Swiss village for her thesis, she expects folklore and forgotten traditions—not a hidden world of vampires, deadly politics, and a centennial festival that’s more nightmare than celebration. She was never meant to survive it.

Her only lifeline? Soren Valentine—a vampire with a past as blood-soaked as his fangs.

As the lines between myth and reality blur, Hazel must fight to survive in more ways than one. Trusting Soren may be her only chance—but the monster who saved her life hides dangerous secrets of his own. Survival means risking everything.

House of Valentine is a romantic gothic fantasy filled with sharp fangs, fragile alliances, and a slow-burn romance that will leave you breathless.
When anthropology student Hazel Adler travels to a remote Swiss village for her thesis, she expects folklore and forgotten traditions—not a hidden world of vampires, deadly politics, and a centennial festival that’s more nightmare than celebration. She was never meant to survive it.

Her only lifeline? Soren Valentine—a vampire with a past as blood-soaked as his fangs.

As the lines between myth and reality blur, Hazel must fight to survive in more ways than one. Trusting Soren may be her only chance—but the monster who saved her life hides dangerous secrets of his own. Survival means risking everything.

House of Valentine is a romantic gothic fantasy filled with sharp fangs, fragile alliances, and a slow-burn romance that will leave you breathless.

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Keygan S. S. McClellan @keyganssmcclellan.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

FF7’s Avalanche x GIDEON THE NINTH Civilization, bloated with oligarchs and corrupt mages, runs on blood. The biggest flaw in the system? Cirrus: blood mage, outlaw, wielder of bad jokes, healer of the powerless, and now—maybe—new recruit to the workers’ revolution. #WSPitQ #A #F #SF #LGBT #WSPit

Mood-board for a novel, featuring images suggestive of decaying luxury, eldritch energies, and dripping blood

list of tropes in novel: "what to expect: found family, biopunk, queer, hidden identity, spies, weird nature, tortured hero, eldritch horror"

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Suzy A. Win @suzyawin.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

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B. van Bodegom 📃is AGENTED @bvbodegom.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

TREASURE PLANET🪐 X THE EXPANSE🌌 Bookworm Jak dreams of escape from a pirate-run space station. With his friend Eris, a tech genius, he finds an ancient wrist computer tied to his family and a legendary lost starship. As they seek answers, so does a notorious captain. #WSPit #YA #SF #M #WSPitQ #Dis

ink drawing of Jak Sterzand, a teenage boy, crawling towards the viewer in a ventilation or maintenance shaft type tunnel. His name and title of the book JAK STERZAND above him, and underneath in smaller letters, the subtitle: ESCAPE FROM FREEPORT

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Jacob Foster (Querying) @fosterja8.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

IDLE OF A PSYCHOPOMP A retired explorer, torn between the fear of losing his wife and a desire to return to the wild, fixates on a towering, imprisoned forest. Driven by an esoteric rumour, he heads for the forest. And he will regret every choice from then on... #WSPit #WSPitW #A #T #SF

IDLE OF A PSYCHOPOMP AGENTS GUIDE - TITLE

IDLE OF A PSYCHOPOMP AGENTS GUIDE - PITCH

IDLE OF A PSYCHOPOMP AGENTS GUIDE - BOOK COMPS

IDLE OF A PSYCHOPOMP AGENTS GUIDE - MOOD BOARD

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Chelsie Derman @chelsiewrites.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

I like the part of the pitch where you write manor with a mind :)

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Mike Mizov @mikemizov.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

🖤 Manor With a Mind 📖 Cryptic Diary 💀 Generational Blood Curse 🕯 Gaslight, Gatekeep, Ghosts 🏚 Slow-burn 🖋 Arranged? Lovers? Ghostly Trauma Bonding? 🔥 If the House Doesn’t Kill You, Love Might 🕰 1919 but Make It Haunted ⚰ Who Needs a Dowry When You Have a Death Curse? #WSPit #WSPitQ #A #H #P #Hi #M

A moodboard for The Last Heir of Bradbury Manor. It shows a spooky staircase, a decayed living room, a girl climbing out of a well, a book on fire, a lovely Victorian garden party, and a gothic dinner. There is the phrase "Breaking the curse means losing him forever. Embracing it may damn her soul"

The comps for The Last Heir of Bradbury Manor

The House at Watch Hill with its dark inheritance and family secrets

The Hacienda with its unresolved grief, psychological unraveling, an supernatural dread

Crimson Peak with its decaying grandeur, gothic vibes, and betrayed love

The pitch for The Last Heir of Bradbury Manor:

This 96,000-word story set in 1919 blends the psychological unraveling and creeping dread of THE HACIENDA with the sentient, menacing estate of STARLING HOUSE. Perfect for readers who love haunted legacies, doomed romance, and houses that refuse to let go.

A dying estate. A bankrupt legacy. A suitor offering salvation or a love that could destroy her. A mother’s death shrouded in mystery. A father she can’t trust. A blood curse feeding the manor’s hunger.

Lottie Bradbury must face it all.

Summoned home after a decade at boarding school, Lottie is given an ultimatum: marry the man her father has chosen or face ruin. But when the gardener is found dead on the manor steps, she is drawn into a web of long-buried secrets. His son, Arthur, insists the estate itself is to blame—and that her mother’s sudden death was no accident.

Guided by her mother’s chilling diary, Lottie and Arthur uncover an ancient curse that doomed generations of Bradbury patriarchs to die after the birth of their heir. All except her father. The deeper they dig, the more the curse retaliates, twisting reality, conjuring the dead, and unraveling Lottie’s sanity.

But Arthur has secrets of his own. The closer Lottie gets to him, the stronger the curse’s grip tightens. Because Arthur isn’t just tied to Bradbury Manor. He’s bound to it.

Breaking the curse means losing him forever. Embracing it may damn her soul.

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🌱 El(iza)beth 🌬️ K 🔥 T 🌊 @arachnereid.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Long after the dust settles, what will grow from the rubble? An informative adventure guide to thriving the apocalypse A young empath takes a #tarot themed heroine's journey across the former US, using #neoprimitive living skills, #permaculture, and #meditation powers #WSPitQ #A #CliFi #WSPit

a Fool tarot card with a hand drawn figure blithely stepping off a gorge cliff in VT

a Priestess Tarot card with a figure meditating on a large stone in the woods

a Hermit tarot card of an illuminated figure holding up a lantern in a colorful swamp

a hand drawn map of a route across a sea-risen US, superimposed over a background of hopeful leaves sprouting from trees in a sunset sky over the Earth

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Gert Ramm 🦋 @rammwriter.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Slow Horses x Dark Matter When an MI5 agent is framed for the UK's role in a temporal disaster, he must clear his name, seal a lethal time rift, and locate a desperate Russian spy from the future - a spy whose time weapon can kill anyone. #A #T #SF #WSPitQ #agentguide #litagents #amquerying 🦋

There is a green background with lines of code running down it. A man's head and shoulders are in silhouette against the lines of code. The text is in courier font and all capitalised. It reads:

An agent's guide to:
Out of Time
By Gert Ramm
Espionage/time travel thriller

Images from Pixabay.

There is a green background with lines of code running down it. A man's head and shoulders are in silhouette against the lines of code. The text is all capitalised and in courier font.

The text to the left of the man's head reads:

Comps:
Slough House Series (Mick Herron)
Here and Now and Then (Mike Chen)
Dark Matter (Blake Crouch)
The Anubis Gates (Tim Powers)

The text to the right of the man's head reads:

TV Comps:
The Ipress File
Day of the Jackal
Life on Mars
Callan

In the bottom right-hand corner is an image of a semi-automatic pistol with seven rounds of ammunition beside it.

Images from Pixabay.

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m 🌸 @maggiesbooks.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

All summers end, but one did terribly... Teenage lust or the one that got away? Two exes reunite for a wedding ten years after family drama and a fatal accident tore them apart. She broke his heart & wants him back. He doesn't trust her, but maybe she shouldn't trust him either. #WSPitQ #A #R #wspit

An Agent’s Guide to
None of This Was Real
Adult Contemporary Romance
83,000 words

The Pitch
Was he the one who got away or was it just teenage lust? Two exes reunite for a wedding ten years after family drama and a fatal accident tore them apart.

She broke his heart. She wants him back. He doesn't trust her. Maybe she shouldn't trust him either.

Comps
Every Summer After
Seven Summers
How to Hide in Plain Sight
Happy Place

trope board
Set in Quebec
Second-chance
romance
Open-door romance (3/5 heat level)
Flawed characters who learn from their pasts
2010s nostalgia
Summer and winter romance
Dual timelines
Complex family drama
Will they, won’t they?
Characters who communicate

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Will Elm @willelm.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

ARCANE x THE BLADE ITSELF Shadow of the Elders: Three people cast apart by fate. Each step they take drives them further apart and plunges the world into chaos. Can they find each other before they perish or will evil forces use them to break the world forever? 🗡️ 🩸 🌲 #WSPit #WSPitW #F #A

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Chelsie Derman @chelsiewrites.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

The beginning part of your pitch hooked me in! A doll-like vessel made me very curious

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Deanna Winters is Querying @deannaunwritten.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

ONE DARK WINDOW X FRANKENSTEIN Stitched into a doll-like vessel, Ginevra was created to root out a rising cult—but as her past unravels and the magic in her veins grows wild, she must choose between being the kingdom’s blade or blooming into something new. #WSPitQ #F #A #LGBT

Windows with vines creeping in, hands reaching up, bottle with black liquid, spider web, Veins of Calris, black and white ballroom, sword stuck in stone, apothecary shelves, moonflower

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