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🫀Christi R. Suzanne 🧠 @christirsuzanne.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I have a post about getting a publishing deal from a small press after querying a speculative genre blend last year & getting a lot of nice comments from agents (& my beta readers!). I hope your #writing or #querying is going well! Don't despair! ! christirsuzanne.substack.com/p/my-specula...

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My speculative genre-blend novel found a home

Perseverance pays off

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Tenebrous Press @tenebrouspress.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

It's a Tenebrous Warehouse Sale! (i.e. Matt's rearranging his office🖤☠️) More & more books gotta fit in the same space, so it's time to trim the stock a bit. 1 recent book! 1 backlist book! 33% off! 💀@ashesandmochi.bsky.social's eco-horror DEHISCENT 💀BRAVE NEW WEIRD Vol. 4 store.tenebrouspress.com

cover art by ivyteas featuring a girl's silhouette falling across a vividly colored cabinet and wall;
Blurbs by Ai Jiang, Kelsea Yu and Wendy Wagner

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🫀Christi R. Suzanne 🧠 @christirsuzanne.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Going to my writing business meeting with a couple of friend today. We just get to gather and have coffee and talk about how are writing is going and what next steps we should/could take! It’s always helpful. #writinglife #indieauthor #writingcommunity

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🫀Christi R. Suzanne 🧠 @christirsuzanne.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I have my first meeting with my editor tomorrow. I am excited to learn more about the process and timeline for my book. Eeeee! Hoping to keep my title so that will be an important question for me to ask. #indieauthor #writinglife #momswritersclib

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🫀Christi R. Suzanne 🧠 @christirsuzanne.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I have an announcement! After querying my previous novel, The Peculiar Craft of Shadow Repair, I have found an awesome indie press to publish it. Sign up for my newsletter or follow my Substack for updates throughout the year(s) before publication! I'm thrilled!

Announcement for a publishing agreement with orange and off white stripes. For the novel The Peculiar Craft of Shadow Repair.

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🫀Christi R. Suzanne 🧠 @christirsuzanne.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Fall vibes are coming in strong today in the Pacific NW!

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🫀Christi R. Suzanne 🧠 @christirsuzanne.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I also *might* have some publishing related news on a different project coming soon! Sign up for my newsletter if you want to get the full story! mailchi.mp/5d9bbe613833...

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Writing updates

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🫀Christi R. Suzanne 🧠 @christirsuzanne.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Got my first partial request! I generally keep quiet about this stuff, but I had to let it out. I have about 14 rejections and am in 2 maybe piles and have another 17 or so queries out. Sending everyone query love today! ✨✨✨🧡💛 #writingcommunity #momswritersclub

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🫀Christi R. Suzanne 🧠 @christirsuzanne.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

The state of query inboxes is making me switch up my strategy. This time around I will likely limit my lit agent queries and add in more small presses after those rounds are done. Sending good luck to everyone this week!

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🫀Christi R. Suzanne 🧠 @christirsuzanne.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I made an agent/editor guide! It was fun. Check out The Last Portnova (80k). I've soft launched my querying. #horror #modern #ghoststory #agentguide #writingcommunity

The Last Portnova by Christi R. Suzanne Agent Guide, first graphic with tropes and mysterious history.

The Last Portnova by Christi R. Suzanne Agent Guide, the pitch graphic.

The Last Portnova by Christi R. Suzanne Agent Guide, levels of tone and content.

The Last Portnova by Christi R. Suzanne Agent Guide, comps graphic.

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Jeni Chappelle @jenichappelle.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

While there are many factors that contribute to getting past the slush pile, your first chapter is arguably the most important. Your first chapter, in many ways, represents your whole book. So what makes an amazing first chapter? www.jenichappelleeditorial.com/post/what-ma...

notebooks and a laptop with the line: What Gets Your Story Past the Slush Pile?

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Jeni Chappelle @jenichappelle.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Some perfectionist misconceptions: Queries must be perfect to send to an agent. FALSE. Polished? Yes. Comps should be exactly like your book. NOPE! Show where your book fits. An agent gave a form response on your last book, so they’re not going to want this one. INCORRECT. #writing

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🫀Christi R. Suzanne 🧠 @christirsuzanne.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

So much trouble concentrating today! Writing group tonight though and only one more day this work week. Who else is looking forward to the weekend??

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Raquel ⟡ Fiction Editor @raqueledits.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

📣 Tomorrow is the start of the BIPOC Author Summit! It’s a FREE 3-day, virtual summit to help you plan, write, and publish your book! It runs August 13–15 📅 I'm super excited to be a part of this! Hope to see you there ✨ #WritingCommunity #AmQuerying www.bipocauthorsummit.com

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BIPOC Author Summit

A free virtual event to help BIPOC authors plan, write, and publish their books. With an all-BIPOC speaker lineup, this summit will provide both quality writing education and community for writers of ...

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🫀Christi R. Suzanne 🧠 @christirsuzanne.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Finished Save the Cat Writes Horror a couple weeks ago! I love his advice about not worrying about the results and becoming the writer you want to be and focusing on what skills you need to learn to become that person/writer. Any other recommendations for podcasts or books?

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🫀Christi R. Suzanne 🧠 @christirsuzanne.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

My writing updates newsletter is coming out in a couple of weeks. Some exciting things are brewing. Sign up if you are interested! tr.ee/QoqHi0x4dK

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Writer, orchid lover, and curious human being.

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🫀Christi R. Suzanne 🧠 @christirsuzanne.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Checkout my Substack where my friend Robyn answered a few questions about her memoirella and how she grew up working at her family junkyard business. #memoir #junkyard christirsuzanne.substack.com/p/junkyard-p...

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Junkyard Princess by Robyn Saunders Wilson Bonus: Q & A

How a dream about writing a memoir over two decades ago in graduate school came to life

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Benjamin Gorman @benjamingorman.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

I should mention this more often: I write books! You can get them, read them, and talk with me about them. I love communicating with readers, and I’ll always sign your copies. You can find all my books at @notapipe.bsky.social’s notapipestore.com

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Kath Rothschild Author @kathrothschild.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

#questpit In DON'T GHOST ME (Spec Rom. 82K) rival haunted tour guides—a feminist historian and a Bayou storyteller—compete to guide the first New Orleans above ground cemetery and fall in love—until one realizes the other can actually hear ghosts.

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🌿✨beth✨🌿 @elizanane.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

🥀🪱THE SHAPE OF WATER (QUEERPLATONIC) x JENNIFER’S BODY🪱🥀 1 heart-eating, genderfluid monster desperate to become human 1 vengeful, vision-tormented hunter hellbent on killing the monster 1 doomed queerplatonic dependency where one MUST DIE 🩸 #questpit #a #df #f #q

This background features 10 images and one quote. The background images consist of: a figure in all black, a bottle of vodka, small white flowers, a cracked mirror, a knife with a pink bow, outstretched fangs, roses, smashed strawberry cake, raw meat, and a blue eye with white eyelashes. The quote reads: draw a monster. why is it a monster?

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This consists of 9 images and one quote. The images consist of: a computer showing surveillance of multiple rooms, a dark eye, crutches against the wall, apples in water, a gun in the grass, a foot in a cast, raw meat, a ton of used cigarettes, a masculine figure in all black, and the quote reads kutabare, which means f*ck you in Japanese.

All image credit belongs to Pinterest.

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Priscilla Maytree @prismaytreewrites.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

✨🌷🪞CROWNS & MIRRORLIGHT 🪞🌷✨ A bisexual love triangle // Meet the cast // 🪞Evran 🗡️🌸🐎 🪞Saille 🌷🫦✨ 🪞Yvaine 🔮🪷🌙 #questpit #W #A #RF

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authorlauraditieri.bsky.social @authorlauraditieri.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Falling in love was never part of the plan. But magic has a way of complicating even the simplest ingredients, and the heart rarely follows a recipe. ☀️He falls first 🍂Small-town romance ❤️‍🔥Slow burn 💕Found family 👥Light dual POV 🌤️Light grumpy/sunshine 🥧Dough-lightfully punny #questpit #Q #A #R #S

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Chantal Danieli — is querying MSU! 🕯️ @chantaldanieli.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

JANE EYRE x THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA 🕯️forbidden gothic romance 🕯️slow burn 🕯️yearning à la anthony bridgerton 🕯️black swan-esque awakening 🕯️2000's setting 🕯️devouring obsession but make it consensual 🕯️secret lake meetings — coming to agent inboxes September 2026 🍂 #questpit #W #A #NA #R

My Sweet Unbecoming
A forbidden gothic romance
Coming to agent inboxes September 2026

Comps & Pitch
The Phantom of the Opera
Jane Eyre
Bridgerton — The Viscount Who Loved Me

When a scandal exiles her to Lucerne, disgraced Olivia Rooney falls for the one man she’s forbidden to love—Théodore Chair-Beaumont, the brooding aristocrat sworn to matrimony with another.
But beneath his restraint lies a wound that mirrors her own. And falling for him could not only repeat the tragedy that broke him before. It could ruin her reputation, once and for all.

Tropes
Forbidden Romance
High Society Match Making
European Setting
Slow Burn
Love VS Duty
Black Swan-esque Awakening
Masquerade Ball
2000’s Setting
Obsessive yearning
Secret Lake Meetings

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Joanna @annaojibs.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

PROMISE ME SUNSHINE x THE HEARTBREAK HOTEL Years after a tragic loss, three old friends attempt reconciliation on a summer trip to Maine. There they’ll have to relearn how to be around each other as well kept secrets threaten their fragile reconciliation. #questpit #A #R #Q

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✨💜 king 💜✨ @king-reinhardt.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

THE RIVER HAS TEETH BUT IT'S CALIFORNIA IN 1988 Ash and Tawny met once upon a dream. That dream is a gift from a proto-whale-shaped ocean deity and prophesizes a flood of apocalyptic proportions. #questpit #W

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Kat is querying! @katgoestoshows.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

ETERNALLY DEAD explores how an injured musician gets a second shot at stardom--only it's by joining an all-vampire rock band in the dangerous Vampire Realm. When blood shortages hit the Realm, she's forced to confront if living out her rockstar dream is worth dying for🩸🧛‍♂️🎸 #questpit #a #f #pr #rf #q

Background of concert audience with giant vampire fangs floating above alongside the words "An agent's guide to: Eternally Dead, Adult Paranormal Romantic Fantasy, 103k words, by @katgoestoshows." A one sentence pitch is featured on bottom that reads: An injured musician gets a second shot at stardom -- only its by joining an all-vampire rock band in the blood-thirsty vampire realm. A red splatter of blood is splashed is corner.

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Hannah Baller @thewritingsofhan.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

MASKED AT MIDNIGHT: Friends-to-lovers gets complicated when Stefanie falls for a masked biker online, unaware he is Peter, her librarian best friend and flatmate. Every message and lie draws them closer and makes his secret harder to confess. #QuestPit #Q #A #R

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🫀Christi R. Suzanne 🧠 @christirsuzanne.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

THE LAST PORTNOVA (79k) #H #PR #A close to #Q. Iona pricks her finger on a bewitched painting, unleashing the power to speak to the dead triggering severe weather/accidents her loved ones are involved in. She must break the spell, say goodbye to her parents X2, or become a ghost haunting the living.

Aesthetic for The Last Portnova, a horror novel, Christi R. Suzanne is querying now! It includes foggy coastal scenes and a lighthouse.

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🫀Christi R. Suzanne 🧠 @christirsuzanne.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

THE LAST PORTNOVA (79k) #PR #H #A close to #Q. When Iona Portnova pricks her finger on a bewitched painting, she unleashes the power to speak to the dead + chaos & the curiosity to uncover her hidden family history and the spell's origins, rules, & how to reverse it. Ghosts👻 Magic born from grief✨

Aesthetic including a lighthouse and foggy scenes for a horror novel with a romantic subplot by Christi R. Suzanne.

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🫀Christi R. Suzanne 🧠 @christirsuzanne.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

I scheduled a couple of pitches for #QuestPit for tomorrow! Who else is doing it?

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🫀Christi R. Suzanne 🧠 @christirsuzanne.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

I have been reading Save the Cat Writes Horror and it has been helpful! I can see where I am getting things right and where I may need to “enhance” the mystery etc. I love the distinction between slow burn s relentless horror.

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questpit || next event: NOV 4th @questpit.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

We’re officially a month out from 2026’s summer #questpit!! Here’s a refresh on some rules! We hope to see you there :)

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K.A. Doore @kadoore.com · 04/06/2026

📢 Hey friends and fiends! 📢 I'm (finally) working on the 2026 Queer SFF Book list and I want to make sure I don't miss YOUR book! So if you have a adult SFF book coming out this year (2026) that has a queer MC, please take this opportunity to SHOUT IT OUT in the comments or QTs!! 📚❤️🧡💛💚💙💜📚

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🫀Christi R. Suzanne 🧠 @christirsuzanne.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

My ghost coaster! Pattern from Stitch By Fay! Fall crochet fun.

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🫀Christi R. Suzanne 🧠 @christirsuzanne.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

My novel: upmarket paranormal horror (79k). When Iona pricks her finger on a cursed painting, she unleashes the power to speak to the dead and the curiosity to uncover her family history. She must decide if she is strong enough to let go of her parents a second time or become one of the dead.

Aesthetic for an upmarket paranormal horror novel by Christi R. Suzanne.

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🫀Christi R. Suzanne 🧠 @christirsuzanne.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Feeling like fall! Making some fall leaf coasters. Next are ghost coasters! Crochet all day!

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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

African fish eagle

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🫀Christi R. Suzanne 🧠 @christirsuzanne.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Started watching Widow’s Bay last night! My kind of quirky and ghosty!

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🫀Christi R. Suzanne 🧠 @christirsuzanne.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

A/B testing query packages starting soon! This is very exciting because I get to pick the agents I will query! #amquerying #writingcommunity

Coffee cup with a jasmine vine behind it.

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🫀Christi R. Suzanne 🧠 @christirsuzanne.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

I'm almost done with searching filler and filter words in the last half of my ms (doing it by first half and last). However, "about" had over 300 uses! Then I just searched for "absolutely" and I only had 1! Very proud of that, but ugh to "about." #writing #amrevising

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🫀Christi R. Suzanne 🧠 @christirsuzanne.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Love this! It’s so true. You are doing the work and wherever you are is FANTASTIC!

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🫀Christi R. Suzanne 🧠 @christirsuzanne.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

At what point in the querying process would you want to see a family tree for a novel, literary agents or editors? Also, if it is only 3 generations is it necessary?

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🫀Christi R. Suzanne 🧠 @christirsuzanne.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Still revising, but it’s feeling so close to being in exceptional shape! Pacific Northwest Ghost Story, let’s go! #writingcommunity

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Victoria Strauss @victoriastrauss.com · 17/05/2026

Trouble signs at 2 small publishers, per recent reports rec'd by Writer Beware: Rising Action Publishing (ongoing royalty payment delays) Balance of Seven Press (publication delays, royalty payment delays, lack of communication) Authors can contact me (in confidence): beware@sfwa.org

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Cursed Morsels @cursedmorsels.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Orders for our next zine bundle will go live on Monday! Cursed Concerts, Cunty Horrors, Batshit LinkedIn Posts, Monstrous Dating Profiles and Nightmare Grifters coming your way. 😈

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🫀Christi R. Suzanne 🧠 @christirsuzanne.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Just ordered some craft books online and 3 middle grade books for my kiddo! Gift cards to book stores are the BEST!

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🫀Christi R. Suzanne 🧠 @christirsuzanne.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

We got into swim lessons! I forgot to update here. I know many of you were at the edge of your seats wondering!

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