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Vicky Weber - Agent, Author, Educator 📚 @vickyweberbooks.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

I have only been agenting about 3 years and much of my brand prior to agenting was publicly built around kidlit. But I do SO much more! 😊 buff.ly/UvV6FHc

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Tori- 5 star Author and Editor of Bunker Squirrel Magazine @tcwestminster.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

The moment we've all been waiting for... Best in Volume for Volume 2 goes to.... @kgrose.bsky.social Karen Grose for: Best Not Repeat What I'm Telling You www.patreon.com/posts/best-i... Big thanks to David Gwyn @davidgwyn.bsky.social for tackling this incredible task.

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davidgwyn.bsky.social @davidgwyn.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Tomorrow's Thriller 101 Newsletter has... 💡 Insights on your opening pages 🚨 An update on the Storyteller's Society ❓ A question about what we should build next (have your voice heard!) 🔦 An agent spotlight Sign up now so you don't miss it! thriller101.kit.com/05bd16627e

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davidgwyn.bsky.social @davidgwyn.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

"You should never write your first page first... the first page you write on your first draft will not be the first page that ends up in your book." Latest episode breaks down writing coach April Davila's formula for first pages that hook agents & readers 👇 www.buzzsprout.com/1841589/epis...

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First Page Formula: Author and Writing Coach April Davila on What Agents & Readers Want to See in Your Thriller Manuscript Opening - Thriller 101

Writing coach April Davila reveals the non-negotiable elements that make first pages irresistible to readers and agents. Learn why most manuscripts fail in the opening paragraph, discover the str...

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davidgwyn.bsky.social @davidgwyn.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

You know how your brain asks you to check your email for query responses as soon as you sit down to write? It can be distracting and slow your creative process! Check out this Silos method in the Thriller 101 episode today www.buzzsprout.com/1841589/epis...

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Creative Silos: A Unique Strategy for Your Writer Brain with Cindy Cisneros - Thriller 101

Storyteller's Society Sneak Peek: This Creative Silos method can make you way more efficient in your writing practice.Creativity coach Cindy Cisneros reveals why traditional productivity advice fails ...

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Tommy Dean is open to queries @tommydeanwriter.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

My query inbox is open for all my desired genres, plus I'd love to see a literary mystery in the vein of Tana French, Megan Miranda, or something gritty like David Joy and Michael Farris Smith!

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davidgwyn.bsky.social @davidgwyn.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

From what I can tell, the average writer sends close to 100 queries before finding an agent (if they find one at all) Don't waste your time pitching to agents who don't represent your genre. It's an absolute waste of time Find agents that are actually looking for YOUR BOOK

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davidgwyn.bsky.social @davidgwyn.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

I’m looking for an author & their agent to be interviewed on Thriller 101! Ideally published or soon to be published… Would love to ask: - what the agent liked about the submission - how “the call” went - why the author signed w/ the agent - what the process has been like since signing DM me!

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davidgwyn.bsky.social @davidgwyn.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Storyteller's Society Book Club Meeting #1 is in the books! Author: @lizalterman.bsky.social @katieisenhuth.bsky.social @wininoid.bsky.social @leslieconner13.bsky.social @megauchenbach.bsky.social We talked about... - opening chapters - reading vs. audiobook - character development And more!

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Tori- 5 star Author and Editor of Bunker Squirrel Magazine @tcwestminster.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

You've waited long enough. How about we announce #BunkerSquirrel Magazine's Volume 1 #BestInVolume? Drumroll please..... Congratulations @writernatswift.bsky.social Nat Swift !🥳🥂 Read Yield Ahead: www.bunkersquirrel.com/yield-ahead.... Thank you @clgslr.bsky.social for judging!

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Tommy Dean is open to queries @tommydeanwriter.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

I'm finally on Query Tracker! If you've been waiting for this, send me your pitches! #MSWL Crime/Mystery/Thriller/Suspense/Upmarket novels. querytracker.net/query/TDRL

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Query Tommy Dean at Rosecliff Literary

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Heather Levy 🌈 @heatherlevy.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Come see @blacktopkid.bsky.social, @itsmarkyall.bsky.social, and me next Saturday at Magic City Books! It’s going to be a fantastic time you don’t want to miss!

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Tori- 5 star Author and Editor of Bunker Squirrel Magazine @tcwestminster.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Keith Roysdon @keithroysdon.bsky.social shines in this layered piece, taking us on a fantastic journey in only 300 words. Now That's a Deep Subject www.bunkersquirrel.com/deep-subject... We're open for vol 2: #Prompt You think you're ready for the truth? www.bunkersquirrel.com/submissions....

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Alex Kenna @alexkenna.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Going to Left Coast Crime? I’ll be on the “Writing About Difficult Subjects” panel Thursday at 3:45 with @pegbrantley.bsky.social, @amyriversauthor.bsky.social, George Cramer, moderated by Sandra Murphy. Come say hi and find out why they put me on the ‘let’s get depressing’ panel two years in a row!

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Tobie Carter @tobiecarter.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Hey everyone! This week is the monthly #ThrillsandChills chat w/ me & @kellymalacko.bsky.social on Thursday at 8pm CST! #writingcommunity #horror #mystery #suspense #thriller #amwriting #amediting

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Flublishing Pod @flublishing.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

An all-new episode drops this Wednesday! All about vetting agents... and we chat about some of the shady stuff that you sometimes see. 👀

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Amy Nielsen @amynielsen.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

I always love chatting with @davidgwyn.bsky.social about anything publishing! If you are are Thriller writer this is a must-listen podcast! #writingcommunity #amquerying

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davidgwyn.bsky.social @davidgwyn.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

"The query is basically the resume for your book, not the jacket copy." Literary agent @amynielsen.bsky.social breaks down EXACTLY what writers need in their queries to stand out Learn the structure agents actually want to see! #AmQuerying #literaryagent #MSWL www.buzzsprout.com/1841589/epis...

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K.A. Hela ✨ Finally Querying✨ @jundlife.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

THE INSTITUTE X SUCH SHARP TEETH X STRANGER THINGS To Shasha the war with the Tenocks was ancient history until she finds a boy hiding in the desert. They say he can read minds, move objects with his mind, and burn skin to ash with just a touch. All he wants is a friend... #WSPitQ #F #A #SFF

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Mikala is ✨ Querying ✨ @mikalanoe.com · 26/02/2025

Murder was just a story, until one of them became the plot. Five women create an investigative murder podcast to escape their boring lives, until a murder at a true crime convention forces them to investigate one of their own. #WIPit #WIPitw #A #T

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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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Vicky Weber - Agent, Author, Educator 📚 @vickyweberbooks.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Welp, I’m (unexpectedly) back in the query trenches! Agents—if you’re looking for a picture book writer with strong sales, a passion for music + STEAM-themed humor and heartfelt stories inspired by my Puerto Rican heritage, let’s connect! #AmQuerying #PictureBooks

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Sidney Quinn - Author @sidneyquinn.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

CALIFORNIA NOIR x QUEER ROMANCE Felix chases a lifelong dream of owning a tour boat to a seaside town. There he meets a secret crime boss named Jay. They form an instant and powerful connection. But the town has dark secrets that threaten to tear them apart. #WSPit #WSPitQ #A #C #R #M #LGBT

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Beth “B.R” Smith @brsmithbooks.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

🌊Everyone fears for the souls of the drowned.🌊 In this gothic mystery, a horror writer investigates her lighthouse keeper father’s mysterious drowning, only to face a revenant called the Mariner in a decommissioned lighthouse off the coast of Washington State. #WSPit #WSPitS #A #M #H #editorsguide

In a dark and moody photograph, a red headed woman throws back her hair. Text over the image reads: The Mariner. Gothic Mystery. Inspired by The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.

The novel opening: Everyone fears for the souls of the drowned.
I can see it everywhere on this island. It’s in the small white crosses on the hill above town. In the red beads and whale teeth hung in every window. The way the very trees rear back from the sea.
It’s like they’re all saying: we know you’re out there, somewhere. But don’t come back to us. Don’t come back.
(Please come back.)
Skana Island is salt in the eye, lemon rind on the tongue, lips pulled back from teeth. And it’s the place my father came at least once a year to stare at the sea, until one day it took him and didn’t give him back.

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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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Lia @lia-ash.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Lord Henry Wotton, Basil Hallward, and Sybil Vane have all been important characters in Dorian Gray's life. But what if their true accounts reveal that they were not just who they always seemed to be? What was the truth behind Dorian Gray's glamorous life? #WSPitQ #YA #Hi #T #LGBT

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Kaylee May Author RELEASED UPTOWN SUN🌻 @kayleemayauthor.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

#WSPit #WSPitW #A #H #T Mermaids With An S #WIPSnips readers will be familiar with my nautical-themed, conspiracy body horror #WIP. Wanting to learn more about his girlfriend's hobby, an unfortunate typo leads Will to a website... Maybe the town population isn't dwindling "naturally" after all.

A concrete aquarium. A major setting in Mermaids With An S.

Rough sea with rocks showing. Rockfloor Bay is built over flat rocks, that was once lava that cooled in the ocean.

An abandoned house with a sparse lawn and an old car out the front. The windows of the house are boarded up and there are a few trees. All the lawns in Rockfloor Bay are dead due to the Australian heat and most houses are abandoned.

A plain bedroom that has not been updated since the 80s. William's parents weren't really into home decor, so the house they left him in their will was not very stylish.

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Ange | Author A. M. Shilling @gunsmile.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

JOHN WICK x THE COLOR OUT OF SPACE Professional hitman Jason seeks revenge for the murder of his brother, but his wife Ayana suspects a more sinister conspiracy at play. 🩸 cosmic horror 🩸 criminal underworld 🩸 married MCs 🩸 villain protagonist #WSPit #WSPitW #A #H #T

A page from an old book showing a skull drawing and the word MORTEM, a well-dressed couple in shadow staring at you with glowing eyes, two skyscrapers looming overhead in the fog, several pistols lying in a cushioned case, a black hole, two doctors performing surgery, a man with his back turned and a woman's hand cradling his head, a cork board of documents and string, six figures cloaked in black and gathered in a semi-circle.

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Sophia is ✨drafting ✨ @sophbriar.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Introducing my new adult thriller DAUGHTER OF ZEPHYR: ⛈️ An isolated island covered in mist 🙏 A leader who demands unwavering loyalty 🗡️ A community where loyalty is a fragile shield 🔥 A young woman whose faith won't protect her from the darkness #QuestPit #T #WIP #Agentsguide

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Sophia is ✨drafting ✨ @sophbriar.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

On Zephyr Isle, loyalty to the Father is law. When Ivy finds a body hung on holy ground she must choose: rule, or die. #WSPit #WSPitW #T #A

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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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Viola Grace @viola-grace.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

In Chicago, 1929, a math genius living in a crime syndicate’s luxury hotel allies with an investigative duo to solve a series of murders, while secretly pursuing her own revenge. 🏳️‍🌈 #ownvoices ☠️campy & dark 🃏found family, violent women, speakeasies & more #wspit #wspitq #NA #A #M #T #Hi #C

Picture collage includes a man walking away from a burning building, a girl doing math in a chalkboard, a red glowing neon sign that says “hotel”, a table with playing cards and an alcohol bottle, text that reads the title of the book: “What Are The Chances”, red dice, a grand hotel lobby staircase, an old fashioned bar with green walls and velvet red chairs, and an ace of spades pinned to a table with a knife.

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Tommy Dean is open to queries @tommydeanwriter.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

No more secrets! I'm so excited to announce that I'm a literary agent with @roseclifflit.bsky.social and I'm open to queries on Friday! Huge thanks to @jessicaberg.bsky.social for the encouragement and mentorship! MSWL below!

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davidgwyn.bsky.social @davidgwyn.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

You know that feeling you get when an agent requests your full? Want more of that? Writers in The Storyteller’s Society are already landing full manuscript requests from agents! One writer’s request rate skyrocketed after feedback on her query Do you want to be next? ⏳ Only 3 days left to join

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davidgwyn.bsky.social @davidgwyn.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

The cost of NOT joining The Storyteller’s Society? ❌ Feeling stuck ❌ Not knowing if your WIP is ready ❌ Wasting years trying to figure it out alone ~$1.50 a day could change your writing career forever What's your literary legacy worth? thriller-101-storytelling-society.mn.co/landing?spac...

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davidgwyn.bsky.social @davidgwyn.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

🚨 LAST CHANCE 🚨 The Storyteller’s Society closes in 5 days! This isn’t just another writing group... It’s a traditional publishing accelerator for thriller, mystery, and suspense writers. 📝 Get feedback 🎤 Pitch directly to agents 🔥 Join a dedicated writing community Check bio

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Alex Kenna @alexkenna.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Tomorrow, I'll be signing copies of my book Burn This Night at the B&N at the Glendale Americana from 3 to 5 PM. Stop by and say hi! Glendale Americana The Americana at Brand 210 Americana Way Glendale, CA

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davidgwyn.bsky.social @davidgwyn.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

What makes the Storyteller's Society different? Come see for yourself... Sign up to receive more information (check bio) and I'll answer all your questions.

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davidgwyn.bsky.social @davidgwyn.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Love this! Can’t wait to have @jennaschmenna.bsky.social share in the Storyteller’s Society

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davidgwyn.bsky.social @davidgwyn.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

What does $1.50 per day get you? Not much. But it can get you access to... ✅ a dedicated writing community ✅ feedback sessions ✅ guest experts ✅ author events ✅ polls ✅ top resources ✅ writing sprints ✅ and more It's time to get serious about your writing Check Storyteller's Society in bio

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Flublishing Pod @flublishing.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Episode 4—all about the "elusive" maybe pile—is up now!!

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Timothy Hedden @heddenwrites.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

WRITING MY OWN REALITY Here we go again. Now querying my second novel a dark and funny #realitytvmurdermystery #writer #amquerying #secondnovel #gaywriter #gaybear

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A.D. Glasswell @adglasswell.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

I’m listening to the audiobook of MADE FOR YOU by @jennaschmenna.bsky.social for the Storyteller's Society Book Club and LOVING IT!! Can’t wait to discuss this one.😁 @davidgwyn.bsky.social #BookSky #WritingCommunity

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Kati Eisenhuth @katieisenhuth.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

I’m part of the first cohort of writers in @davidgwyn.bsky.social Storyteller’s Society. For any mystery/thriller/suspense writers out there: I highly recommend checking it out.

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