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Cynthia Lamb @cynthialamb.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

HELLO BEAUTIFUL + THE GREAT BELIEVERS Separated at birth. Haunted by silence. Jac risks her voice, her family, and her heart to find the sister she always sensed was missing. A story of birth and found family, and healing. Intimate, warm, witty, and sapphic #UP #WF #LGBTQ #A #DVPit

THE SISTER I NEVER FORGOT, book club fiction. Toddler who lost her sister searches for her as an adult. Travels from San Francisco, possible cult in Mt. Shasta, finds love and found family and more.

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Cynthia Lamb @cynthialamb.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

A queer hospice caregiver searches for the sister she never knew—only to sustain a throat injury that steals her voice. But when she accepts that her persistent mutism is psychological, she realizes that to reclaim her sibling, she must speak up, no matter the cost. #UP #WF #A #DVPit #LGBTQ

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Cynthia Lamb @cynthialamb.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

THE SISTER I NEVER FORGOT. Toddler who lost her sister searches for her as an adult. Travels from San Francisco, possible cult in Mt. Shasta, finds love and found family and more.

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Cynthia Lamb @cynthialamb.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

When a queer hospice caregiver searches for the little sister she never knew, she finds unexpected love, a possible cult, and memories she’s spent a lifetime avoiding. Grief. Secrets. Forgiveness. Intimate, warm, witty, and sapphic HELLO BEAUTIFUL + THE GREAT BELIEVERS #UP #WF #A #DVPit #LGBTQ

THE SISTER I NEVER FORGOT. Picture of a toddler who lost her sister, and a young woman who searches for her as an adult.

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#DVpit - Diverse Voices Pitch @dvpit.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

It's #DVpit month! #DVpit is a bluesky pitch event for unagented creators from marginalized communities to pitch their projects to literary agents and editors! And we've prepared a month of pre-events to help you prepare for the main event on Sept 30, 2026! Go to dvpit.carrd.co for more info!

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#DVpit - Diverse Voices Pitch @dvpit.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

#Giveaway Time to prepare for #DVpit! Enter from July 13-18, 2026 to win query and/or first pages critiques from agents! TO ENTER: • repost this post • AND reply with your category & genre! (e.g. YA Fantasy) • Entries must be for completed, unpublished work. Full rules: dvpit.carrd.co#giveaway

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Vera Drew @veradrew22.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

the cat's outta the bag. i'm making a new movie. it's a found footage horror film called TRANDEMIC. thanks TFC, Mark Duplass, and Patrick Brice for the support!!!! deadline.com/2026/07/vera...

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Vera Drew’s ‘Trandemic’ Inaugural Transgender Film Center Fund Winner

Drew will receive a $25,000 cash grant to support production of 'Trandemic.'

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PilotingSRN @pilotingsrn.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

My #agentsguide for #literaryagents #litagents seeking: A high stakes tournament in the Underworld among the living & the dead featuring: Mythical gods & heroes colliding The arena disguising a grander scheme No greater tragedy than her promise Curse lifting therapy sessions Multi POV #amquerying

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Cynthia Lamb @cynthialamb.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

When a queer woman searches for the sister she never knew, she finds unexpected love, a possible cult, and memories she’s spent a lifetime avoiding. Secrets. Healing. Found family. Intimate, warm, witty, and sapphic HELLO BEAUTIFUL + THE GREAT BELIEVERS #UP #WF #HF #A #QueerPit

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Brian Rhymer @rhymeswithfry.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

When his gf dumps him for not being queer-enough, transguy Collin makes a bet he can land a date with the hot new (assumed-straight) barista across the street—only to realize he might be falling for her for real. #QueerPit #YA #NA #RC #UP #Transgender

Cover mock-up for "All That and a Bag of Chips" is displayed on both a book jacket and an iphone. The mockup shows two college-aged white kids, one male presenting, and one female presenting. Five arrows point from the mockups to descriptors of the story. The text reads: Twist on the 90's Romcom, Trans Protagonist, Bromance, College Life, and Hot Barista. The background is organge. Around the border are doodles of a trans flag, a smoothie blender, a college building, and a coffee cup.

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Hugh Blackthorne @hughblackthorne.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

SHUGGIE BAIN x BILLY ELLIOT 17 yr old genderfluid Eamon dreams of designing dresses in London, far away from his abusive da. When he runs away for his fashion dreams, he meets a strange girl on the run herself. Is this a fresh start or a set of new problems? #QueerPit #A #COA #Con #LF #UP

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H :) @itsbeensnowing.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

#QueerPit decades-spanning #SF past: world's digital data disappears present: girl dreams of space and navigates young queerness future: unconscious astronaut relives childhood memories as her damaged ship burns fuel/oxygen comp Meet Me in Another Life x Light From Other Stars #A #UP #SPF #COA #MR

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Hugh Blackthorne @hughblackthorne.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

A relationship between a gay ballet dancer and art curator is ancient history—until mysterious letters arrive. Is it a second chance at love—or a threat from the man who had affairs with them both? #QueerPit #A #COA #Con #LF #UP #R

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Frankie | Querying & Drafting @byfrankiejoy.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

WEDDING PEOPLE x MARGOS GOT MONEY TRBLS A librarian moonlights as a camgirl, but when someone from her past finds her and threatens to expose her, she’s at risk of more than being known; she could be labeled like the banned books kept from the shelves. Disclaimer: slut. #QueerPit #Con #Up #WF #A

Image: pink background with a couple in the bottom right corner. The man is wearing a black hoodie and sweatpants. He has dark hair and is of Indian descent. He is holding a burger while chewing a dry. Woman is wearing a yellow sweater and jeans. She is white with brown hair. She is holding a cup. Doodle of hearts and a bumble bee beside them. (Art by Croverfield)

Text: Shamelessly Wanting
Upmarket Contemporary with Romantic Arc (85k) by Frankie Joy

Image: pink background with pink text. Top right corner has a piece of white paper with pink paper clips. On the paper is a pink kiss imprint and a blue bee doodle.

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PITCH

Beatrice Dorsey shelves books at the Meadow Park Library-and runs a spicy content site as TemptressB. But that's none of her coworker's businses. Or her family's. Or Miles Noor, her steady and irritatingly attractive boss.

When someone from her past finds her, and threatens to expose her, Bea tells him the one thing she couldn't before: "no". If anyone found out, she'd be more than known. She'd be labeled like the banned books in the library. Disclaimer: unfit for public service.

Bea arms herself with humor, lipgloss, and sour gummy bears. It works. Mostly. Until the exposure leaks into the library and she's left lying on the floor wondering who she is beneath the labels, and if she's too shameful to ever be wanted. Bea must decide whether to disappear, or risk being fully known and stand her ground to save her job, her growing relationships, and any chance with Miles.

Image: pink background with pink text. Blue doodle of asterisk stars in the top right corner. Three book covers: Wedding People, Eleanor Oliphant, Margo’s Got Money Troubles. TV show: Fleabag.

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COMPS

Wedding People and Eleanor Oliphant—funny, guarded heroine learning to let people in—and making mistakes along the way.

Margo’s Got Money Troubles—intimate look at sex work

Fleabag—Exploration of shame without moralizing

Image: pink background with pink text. Right hand side has three Polaroid photos. The first is a library book cart with books, the second is a camera on a tripod in a pink light, and the third is a phone screen with notifications.

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OPENING

Mondays went best with a morning dose of public indecency. At least, for Bea. She was naked, arms stretched in the sunlight. Three floors below her apartment window, a bus hissed and commuters lined up with briefcases and lunch totes. Oblivious to the peep show above them. Anyone could look up-she bent at the waist and blew a kiss. Lucky them.

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Mel Waverly @melwaverly.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

The First Lesbian Book Club asks "What happens if Ann Bannon got fed up with industry publishing standards of the time, got her friends together, and started vandalizing books to give them happy endings?" #QueerPit #HF #HR #HA #UP #WF #A #FLBC #QueerWriters 🌈✒️ #sapphicwriteres #writingcommunity

1954. Toronto, Canada loves its pulp fiction—as long as the lesbians don’t get a happy ending.

Cèilidh Reid, a journalist by day and a lesbian pulp writer by night, is frustrated. Censorship laws and social conventions demand her books end unhappily, and she has a pile of rejection notices to prove it.
Beverly Hendricks, an avid reader turned hobby writer, is equally fed up with the absence of H.E.As in books. Neither woman has found a happily-ever-after on the page—or in real life.
And since they cannot stand each other, they definitely won’t find it with each other.
When Cèilidh catches Beverly—armed with a utility knife, glue, and a stack of typewritten papers—tampering with one of her books in a local bookstore, it sparks an uneasy alliance and an audacious plan: rewrite the endings. Not just one book, but all of them.
With the help of a handful of not-quite authors they befriend along the way, Cèilidh and Beverly embark on a spree of literary sabotage. What follows is an adventure filled with road trips, hijinks, one truly terrible misuse of a thesaurus, and the very real possibility of a happily-ever-after for everyone.

“So, this one time,” a woman with a thick Norwegian accent said, “my brother and I found a little dynamitt in an old bunker left by tyskere—”
There was another shout from behind the door. A man’s voice, low and growling, reverberated through the bar and into the storage room.
“Tyskere?” Cèilidh interrupted.
The Norwegian looked at her. “Ja, Germans. Dynamitt left by Nazi in Norway.”
“Oh.” Cèilidh nodded as if she understood, though her rapid blinking betrayed that she was just as confused as everyone else.
“That seemed like fun, so we took the båt out to a scarry and put it in the cracks.”
Beverly, Cèilidh, and a third woman merely blinked at the Norwegian as she went on. Beverly stifled a sneeze. Their perfumes collided in the confined space—old flowers warring for dominance—entangled with panic-induced sweat and the tang of drinks whose effects were wearing off. It smelled like a tropical forest decomposing in a storage closet expressly for the torment of a hyperosmic flower hater. The pungency stung the backs of Beverly’s eyes, bringing with it the certainty of a headache later.
Just wonderful.
The Norwegian continued, unaware or unbothered by their confusion. “My brother thought we should just light it on fire.”
“The scarry?”
“Nei da, the dynamitt,” the Norwegian corrected, shaking her head. “But I knew better. We used the battery from the båt, ja?”
Beverly stared at the Norwegian. “Bo-ah-t?”
“I think it means boat,” the fourth woman said quietly.
“Ja, båt. B-oa-t,” the Norwegian said, overpronouncing the word in her best Canadian English accent. “I used the battery to connect to the dynamitt. Click, click”—her hands acted out connecting the positive and negative parts of the battery to something.
“And?” Beverly asked, impatience and amusement equal in her tone.
“Boom!” The Norwegian laughed.
Cèilidh cleared her throat quietly. “What did you say your name was?”
“I’m Liv,” she replied plainly.
Cèilidh nodded. “Well, Liv, have you gone mad?”

The First Lesbian Book Club. What happens if Ann Bannon got fed up with industry publishing standards of the time, got her friends together, and started vandalizing books to give them happy endings?

Spice level 🌶️🌶️🌶️ sloth burn, low angst, comedy, multi POV, friends to lovers & found family, queer women doing crime, certified H.E.A, forced proximity

A queer romance. Draft one completed 123 000

Collage photo of seven actors for the First Lesbian Book Club fan casting.
Gillian Anderson as Stella
Hannah Einbinder as Liv
Alice Braga as Margaret
Kate McKinnon as Cèilidh
Tatiana Maslany as Beverly
Lucille Ball as Lucy
Janelle Monae as Clara

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M. Leigh Author ✨NOW QUERYING✨ @mleighauthor.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Ya know that feeling when your mysterious roommate may be having a bisexual crisis since he moved in with your short-king, rock-climbing, widower ass ... and he gets along with your chaotic found family ... and you want him to stay forever? SOUNDS LIKE A PLAN (73K, adult #LGBTQ) #queerpit #A

Sounds Like A Plan (73k completed LGBTQ+ fiction) now querying

The characters and vibes for Sounds Like A Plan

The comps and lines from Sounds Like A Plan

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Neira @neirawrites.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

🇧🇦 Mexican Gothic Even if Aida, an 🇺🇸 influencer wanna-be, doesn't believe in supernatural, that doesn't make the bookworm ghost in the house she inherited any less real. As family secrets surface and the village turns on her, Aida learns the living can be worse than the dead. #Queerpit #A #F #P

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Gabriel Morgan is querying @gabrielmorgan00.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

🏳️‍🌈👻🌑COVENANT🔮✨️🕯 When a being from beyond the grave heralds the apocalypse, there are only two witnesses: Rowan and Darshil, bitter ex-lovers who must brave London’s occult underbelly and save the world from eternal darkness, all while grappling with their unresolved feelings. #QueerPit #FR #A

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lily is querying!📖🎭🎀 @lilyshadbolt.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

ABOVE THE SEA AND SKY; GODKILLER x THE GRISHAVERSE x PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN 🏴‍☠️ lesbian pirates; ❤️ slow burn; 🔥 elemental magic; 🫂 found (and lost) family; 👩🏻 female focused and character driven; “No place for mortals. So, I said, ‘I will no longer be mortal.’” #QueerPit #EF #F #A #AmQuerying

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Cynthia Lamb @cynthialamb.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Two sisters. One given up for adoption at birth. The other goes in search of her. From urban coast to rural heartland and back, she finds sweet new love, bitter loss, and that rare kind of healing that sticks. HELLO BEAUTIFUL + THE GREAT BELIEVERS #UP #WF #LGBTQ #A #QueerPit

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Cynthia Lamb @cynthialamb.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

HELLO BEAUTIFUL + THE GREAT BELIEVERS Separated at birth. Haunted by silence. Jac risks her voice, her family, and her heart to find the sister she always sensed was missing. A story of chosen and found family, and healing.  #UP #WF #HF #LGBTQ #A #QueerPit

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Cynthia Lamb @cynthialamb.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Loved meeting up with Courtney Maum at Book Passage in Corte Madera. Bought her new book, ALAN OPTS OUT, and can't wait to read it. #amreading

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QueerPit @queerpit.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

📣 Mark your calendars!!!📣 #QueerPit returns for its 4th pitch event on JULY 1ST, 2026 We are extending Pride Month 🌈 by one more day 🙌 to platform 2SLGBTQIA+ authors Check out our website to learn more ⬇️ Follow us for additional updates soon ✨️ share.google/XLm7u0jgjeyy...

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Cynthia Lamb @cynthialamb.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

#QueerWriters Write Chapter 18 of third novel. Investigate self-promo opps. Enjoy T'giving, as it's also our anniversary. 👭

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Cynthia Lamb @cynthialamb.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

HELLO BEAUTIFUL + THE MISSING SISTER Separated at birth. Haunted by silence. In 1996, Jac risks her voice, her family, and her heart to find the sister she always sensed was missing. A story of loss, chosen family, and healing.  #A #UpM #WF #LGBT #OWN #DVpit

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Cynthia Lamb @cynthialamb.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Up at 5 a.m. to participate tomorrow. See you there!

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Cynthia Lamb @cynthialamb.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

THE RIVER KNOWS YOUR NAME + THE MISSING SISTER Two sisters One given up for adoption at birth The other searches for her From urban coast to rural heartland and back, she finds sweet new love, bitter loss, and that rare kind of healing that sticks. #BluePit📖 #Q #A #F #WF #OV #LGBTQIA+ #BluePit

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Cynthia Lamb @cynthialamb.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

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Cynthia Lamb @cynthialamb.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

Just arrived and looking for my writing community from other platforms. ☺️

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Cynthia Lamb @cynthialamb.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

Many takeaways today today about breadcrumbing (or seeding) clues in your mystery. Thanks to the amazing panel: @historyneverwas.bsky.social @alverneball.bsky.social @bobbynashwrites.bsky.social & @writehive.bsky.social #WritingCommunity #Booksky #Fictionwriters&authors #Writerly #Queerwriters

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Cynthia Lamb @cynthialamb.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

So grateful for the timely presentation about writing comps at WriteHive. Thank you, @ltdavila.bsky.social for your expertise and generosity! @booksky.club #writingcommunity #fictionwritersandauthors #writerslife

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Lauren T. Davila @ltdavila.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Here is where you can find me this weekend at the @writehive.bsky.social conference! I'm so excited to be joining for my 5th year in a row!!! See you all soon! #writehive #conference #author

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Cynthia Lamb @cynthialamb.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Looking forward to checking this out this weekend! #writingcommunity #fictionwritersandauthors bsky.app/profile/writ...

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