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Stephanie Binx 😈 HELLBOUND @stephwrites.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

It’s official! @alcovepress.bsky.social is bringing HELLBOUND to a bookstore near you in Fall 2026!

A publisher’s marketplace deal announces HELLBOUND has been acquired by Alcove Press for publication in Fall 2026. The background depicts a man and a woman facing away from each other.

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Sammy Holden @holdencreates.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

WARCROSS x ONE OF US IS LYING DEADLY ARCHETYPES is a fast paced, grounded YA sci-fi that features: - a high-tech, high stakes VR competition game - an unlikely group of allies - the ticking clock of a mind control glitch - hero x villain archetypes #PosterPit #AG #SF #YA

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Darelle @darellecowley.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

Something wicked is waiting in the woods... ...and she's hungry. #PosterPit #A #AG #F #WIP

A poster mock up with a forest background, howling wolf in shadows with text.

Text reads:
Political Intrigue
One Horse
Fairytale Retelling
Found Family
Stolen Magic

Something wicked is waiting in the woods

Best Howl, Riveting Spell Casting, Worst Timing

Project Fairytale

90% Outlined

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Cailin Barrett-Bressack @cailinwrites.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

Aimee Bender X Eternal Sunshine (+ humor and goats 🐐) THE MAGIC OF NOW is the story of: ✨a 62-year-old farmer, ✨the goat her sister may be reincarnated into, ✨and the new age cult that could be behind it. #PosterPit #AG #SPF

A novel by Cailin Barrett-Bressack
The Magic of Now
woman-led Cult
Goat Tension™
explorations of grief
neuroscience
Rep: Alex Land, Mad Woman Literary Agency
The story of a 62-year-old woman, the goat her sister is reincarnated into, and the new age cult that might be behind it.
“It’s like a new life-lens is forming for me as I read it.”
“I sat down intending to read fifty pages and ended up reading the whole ding-dang book.”
“I’m not crying, you’re crying”
Best supporting Goat 2025

Meet the dream cast of The Magic of Now
Frances McDormand As Gyla Skeptical farmer, will do anything for answers about her sister Tina–including join a cult
Kathy Bates as Tina Deceased, but maybe reincarnated as a goat (?)
Kathryn Hahn as Karana Neuroscientist turned new-age cult leader

Guest Featuring: A Goat as The goat

Rep: Alex Land, Mad Woman Literary Agency
A novel
by Cailin Barrett-Bressack

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Chezza Lee📚 @chezza.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

Demon queen Zhao Yao wants revenge on her mother's murderer, rival queen Gui Jing. But Jing's icy beauty and poisonous magic are too alluring, and soon Zhao Yao can't decide between stabbing the woman she's always hated...or seducing her. Art by hisurii💙♥️ #PosterPit #AG #F

Poster for Blooms in Poison by Chezza Lee, an enemies-to-lovers romantic fantasy with xianxia cdrama vibes. The line between love and hate is drawn in blood.

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Chezza Lee📚 @chezza.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

DAUGHTER OF MOON GODDESS x SONG TO DROWN RIVERS Falling in love shouldn't be this difficult. When family and fate are trying to keep them apart, how far will Shizhi and Mingniu go to defend their love? To the stars above...or hell itself? Art by hisurii❤️ #PosterPit #AG #F

Movie poster for A Fate Woven in Starlight by Chezza Lee. A feminist take on an epic Chinese love story about fate, sacrifice, and women reclaiming their place in their own stories.

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Katy Lapierre 🖤 ✨ @katylapierre.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

THE OTHERWOODS x creepy Candy Land To win her wish come true and fix her ruined life, a 13yo plays the ultimate Game, leaping into a candy world laced with poison and riddles. But the Game is rigged, treats are torture, and she’s one wrong bite from being trapped forever. #posterpit #mg #h #ag

A noose made of candy hangs over a dark forest background. White text reads: Twisted Treats. Deadly candy, even deadlier games.

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Carly is ✨AGENTED✨ @cjvickwrites.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

SOUTHERN BOOK CLUBS GUIDE TO SLAYING VAMPIRES x HYSTERIA 💋middle-aged feminist rage 🛼campy 80s setting 💋body horror 🛼the darkest of deals 💋satanic panic backdrop 🛼dark humor 💋bubblegum horror #PosterPitA #A #H #PosterPit #WIP

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Sammy Holden @holdencreates.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

SIX OF CROWS X A DARK & DROWNING TIDE A flirty rogue & a haughty noble on a deadly quest must trust each other to gain power they desperately need—if only they’d stop lying to each other. -Sapphic yearning/bickering -Vicious gods -Eye-centered magic system #QuestPit #AG #F #A

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Sammy Holden @holdencreates.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

GIDEON THE NINTH X THE FOXGLOVE KING A sapphic political intrigue fantasy that features: - a twisty murder mystery - sentient, decaying magic with a price - magical history lost to corruption - childhood friends-to-enemies-to-???? - women’s wrongs #QuestPit #AG #A #F

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Carly is ✨AGENTED✨ @cjvickwrites.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

When a cult-driven murder-spree hits an 80s midwest PTA, Janet puts her true crime obsession to work. Alongside her misfit mom friends—a writer, a goth, & a sickly sweet PTA matriarch—Janet must uncover the real monster in town, before it claims them all. #QuestPit #AG #A #H #WIP

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Carly is ✨AGENTED✨ @cjvickwrites.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

SOUTHERN BOOK CLUBS GUIDE TO SLAYING VAMPIRES x HYSTERIA 💋middle-aged feminist rage 🛼campy 80s setting 💋body horror 🛼satanic panic backdrop 💋dark humor 🛼the darkest of deals 💋bubblegum horror #QuestPit #AG #A #H #W #WIP #editorguide

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Sammy Holden @holdencreates.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

WARCROSS x ONE OF US IS LYING A group of rivals get stuck inside a glitching VR competition and must overcome their longstanding grudges to break themselves out—or they'll lose their minds to the simulation before they figure out who’s trapped them inside. #QuestPit #AG #YA #SF

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Cailin Barrett-Bressack @cailinwrites.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Gyla's sister's soul has returned as a goat, and her only lead to why is a new-age cult that vividly relives memories. As Gyla goes from skeptic to inner circle, she must choose: an illusion of the past where her sister is alive (and human), or acceptance of her sister's new form 🐐 #questpit #AG #A

The Magic of Now
The story of a 62-year-old-farmer, the goat her sister may be reincarnated into, and the new age cult that could be behind it.
Unique manifestations of grief
woman-led cult
offbeat humor
central sister relationship
older female protagonist
neuroscience meets "woo" pseudoscience
By: Cailin Barrett Bressack
Rep: Alex Land, Mad woman literary agency

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Katy Lapierre 🖤 ✨ @katylapierre.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

THE OTHERWOODS x creepy Candy Land To wish her wish come true and fix her ruined life, 13yo Nora plays the ultimate Game, leaping into a candy world laced with poison and riddles. But the Game's rigged, treats are torture, and she’s one wrong bite from being trapped forever. #questpit #mg #h #ag

Collage of candy canes, a muddy bog, a watch, a lollipop, a girl lost in the woods, an image of a snake biting a hand with text that
reads: trust no one; a noose shaped from candy, dark chocolate, a red necklace, a dark castle draped in fog. Text over a dark candy patterned background reads: spells gone wrong, "ah trust issues," magic watch, time to get questing, torture by lollipop, deadly candy even deadlier games, inconvenient crushes, sugar transformation body horror, bewitched necklace.

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Katy Lapierre 🖤 ✨ @katylapierre.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

UNDEAD GIRL GANG x BRING HER BACK When Parker's family ink magic predicts her best friend's death, there's only one option—cast a forbidden spell to resurrect her. But an ink demon lurks and one wrong step in the spell will damn both their souls to an inky hell forever. #questpit #ya #h #ag

A image of the dunes at night behind a photo collage showing: the beach, tattoos, moonlight behind dark trees, a couple holding hands, a spell book, two friends covering each other's eyes, an inky hand over a pale throat, a hand sinking into the ocean

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Cailin Barrett-Bressack @cailinwrites.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

If you like grounded, speculative novels featuring woman-led cults, unique depictions of grief, off-beat humor, sister relationships, and neuroscience, then BOY do I have the book for you! 🐐 #Questpit #AG #A #S

Guide to: The Magic of Now
The story of a 62-year-old farmer, the goat her sister may be reincarnated into, and the new age cult that could be behind it.
By: Cailin Barrett-Bressack
Rep: Alex Land, Mad Woman Literary Agency

The Pitch
Gyla, 62-year old in mourning, encounters a mysterious goat on her farm that she suspects contains the consciousness of her recently deceased sister, Tina. Her quest for answers eventually leads to ReNewAll, a reclusive new-age community fixated on death and grieving– and with a goat on their brochures.
In addition to nonsensical classes like Stargazing with Your Eyes Closed and Untangling the Truth through Macrame, ReNewAll and its neuroscientist leader teach The Magic of Now, a practice that allows members to vividly revisit memories of their deceased loved ones.
As Gyla grows from skeptic and unlikely cult infiltrator to a willing member of ReNewAll’s inner circle, she must ultimately choose between immersing herself in an illusion of the past where Tina is still alive (and human), or dedicating herself to the imperfect (but tangible) version of her sister that is trapped inside the body of a goat.

The Comps
How to Age Disgracefully: quirky humor and warmly acerbic wit
Aimee Bender: surrealism used to highlight life’s bittersweet beauty
Catherine House: speculative exploration of insular communities
Eternal Sunshine: themes of memory and identity
comp cults: Teal Swan, Mother God, Elizabeth Holmes

A Snippet:
The Milky Way painted across the bowl of sky is technicolor and dizzying. The stars seem close enough that if she were to reach out and run her hands across the pricks of them, they’d snag splinters in her fingertips.
The wind grows louder. Gyla walks towards her pond, the forest pressing into the shore on three sides. Later in the spring, the pond's surface will be laced with pale green algae, but this early in the season the water is smooth glass, reflecting the night sky and also—the goat.
Gyla sees its reflection first, then draws her eyes up to where it stands motionless across the water. It’s hard to make out every detail in the muted blues of night, but she can tell who it is the moment she sees it.
“Tina?” Gyla whispers. The goat cocks its head to one side in response.
Gyla is not sure why she says her sister’s name aloud. It’s a physical knowing, the same way she senses weather changes in the marrow of her right knee. When she sees the goat, she feels her sister with her for the first time in months.
The goat approaches her cautiously. Its ear is pierced where an identification tag had been, but the tag is gone, and Gyla can see the stars reflecting on the surface of the pond through the small empty window in the cartilage.
Gyla knows she should be wondering if her mind is playing tricks on her. But she doesn’t waver in her conviction. Somehow, she can tell–this is her sister.
It’s Tina.

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Cailin Barrett-Bressack @cailinwrites.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

If you're an editor who likes grounded, speculative novels featuring women-led cults, unique depictions of grief, humor, sister relationships, and neuroscience, this is the book for you! 🐐 Aimee Bender X Catherine House X Eternal Sunshine #PopUpPitE #LuckyPit #PopUpPit

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Bookishbabeiswriting @bookbabewriting.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Jennifer's Body x Together We Rot friends to lovers cult town Canadian Prairies cannibalism as metaphor for love Touch her and die #ownvoices Queer and Indigenous rep #posterpita #posterpit #YA #H #R

A string of missing people and animal attacks two best friends one... Killer Summer written by H.D. Pine represented by Alex Brown at MWLA coming soon to editors. Girl with lighter, field, and girl licking red off hands.

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Alyssa 🌊 is QUERYING! @amcknightwrites.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

“I succumbed to the darkness that was already festering within me.” 🌊ethos vs vengeance 🖤you fear me? good. 🌊setting as character #PosterPitQ #A #F #H

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Darelle @darellecowley.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Handmaid's Tale x Godkiller Steal Magic. Kill Gods. Get Revenge. A human and a demigod reluctantly unite to put an end to the predatory age of gods, but tyrants aren’t so easily usurped and their lives aren’t the only ones hanging in the balance. #PosterPitA #A #F

A mock-up movie poster with a lightning storm/storm clouds of pinks and purples with lightning strikes through them.

The Lightning Wives, Steal magic. Kill gods. Get revenge. Featuring a reluctant hero, dual-pot, sapphic subplot, feminine rage

Coming soon to submission inboxes

Represented by Alex Brown, MWLA

Image sourced from Unsplash, credit to Atturi Jali.

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Darelle @darellecowley.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Guess who had a coffee at 7pm to help finish out her work day and is now absolutely wired after being exhausted all afternoon. Whoops 😅

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Darelle @darellecowley.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

When your car inspection turns into your brakes getting replaced (😓), you spend the wait making graphics for #PosterPit, right? That's how that works? #writesky #writingcommunity

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Darelle @darellecowley.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

I'm easily swayed by peer pressure apparently and have had a wonderful procrastinating with Canva today 😂😅

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Darelle @darellecowley.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

#PosterPit *feels* like the right time to reveal revengewip's title, but is it really?

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Wild Hunt Books @wildhuntbooks.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Pretty sickened by UK's Supreme Court 🤮 So I'm opening my submission inbox to unagented trans authors in the UK until the END OF APRIL. I'm not currently open to general subs BUT if you're a trans author writing folk horror, weird, experimental, mystery, literary/upmkt fiction, take a look below 👇

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Darelle @darellecowley.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

My next WIP is feeling less like a vague thought and more like a (still very) blurry figure. The vibes and setting and characters are really coming together in my head. Another week or two and I might dip my toes back into drafting ✨️ #writesky #writingcommunity #amdaydreaming #amplotting #amwriting

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Amanda Rutter @alrutter.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Here are some brilliant Harry Potter alternatives, for reasons: Diane Duane's So You Want to be a Wizard series; Rainbow Rowell's Carry On trilogy; Rachel Caine's Great Library series; Naomi Novik's The Scholomance trilogy. There are so many. I am BEGGING you, stop giving JKR money.

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Darelle @darellecowley.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Friends with dogs, please please please put some form of ID on them so they can be reunited with you if they're lost or get out.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

This is terrifying in America. ICE agents are showing up masked—these abductions must stop. If you’re going to detain someone, show your face, present a warrant, and proper ID. Disappearing people from their families without evidence or accountability isn’t law enforcement—it’s state-sponsored fear.

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Darelle @darellecowley.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

I've been building my playlist and Pinterest board for the next project I want to start working on and the ✨️vibes✨️ of this one are *chef's kiss* #writesky #writingcommunity #amdaydreaming #amplotting #amwriting

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Darelle @darellecowley.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

I've now been awake for 30+ hours. It's 8:30pm local time and definitely an appropriate "early to bed, early to rise" timing.

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ACLU @aclu.org · 04/04/2025

If you're protesting this weekend, know your rights when interacting with law enforcement, including immigration agents.

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Darelle @darellecowley.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Walked the dog while listening to the playlist I'm creating for a new project and had so many delightful ideas #ambrainstorming #amdaydreaming #amplotting #writesky #writingcommunity

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zilla @zillawrites.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Where are my horror writers doing #RevPit?? Can someone adopt me please??

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Darelle @darellecowley.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Finally worked up the courage to watch this past week's episode of The Pitt and I am not okay

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Was putting up a Ramadan display at my library and realized we don't have any YA fiction by and about Black American Muslims. A quickie google search didn't turn anything up either. Given that Black Americans make up nearly 20% of the US Muslim population, this seems like a big gap. Any recs?

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

If you think what happened to Rumeysa Ozturk can't happen to you because you're a citizen and she's not, you are sorely mistaken. Ozturk was snatched off the street not for being a national security threat but for having a wrong opinion. If we don't put a stop to this, it's coming for all of us.

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Darelle @darellecowley.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

I told myself I'd wait 48 hours before diving into my third and final readthrough/tweaking of revengewip before sending it back to my agent and why is the waiting so hard? #amrevising #writesky #writingcommunity

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ACLU @aclu.org · 26/03/2025

ICE detention facilities have a track record of abuse — and this facility is no different. No one should be treated like this.

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Immigrant women describe 'hell on earth' in ICE detention

No shower for days, cameras trained on the toilet, women crammed into cells 'like sardines,' among the allegations.

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