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Jenny Lane @authorjennylane.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

ROMAN HOLIDAY but GAY A jet setting photographer snaps his dream shot. Too bad it contains an Italian heartthrob in hiding. Now they have one week to get a better photo and not fall in love. #WIPPIT #A #R #MMRomance

Eight images of two men falling in love on the coast of Amalfi

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Jenny Lane @authorjennylane.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

EDITORS GUIDE for EXTRA INNINGS ABBOTT ELEMENTARY meets TED LASSO (but make it gay) when an English teacher Owen must mentor a new teacher/coach...who is also his ex-BFF and situationship. #QuestPit #A #R #OS (soon)

Editor’s Guide to Extra Innings
Queer, Second Chance Romance
Going on submission soon!
85,000 Words

An anxious high school English teacher is forced to mentor the new teacher/varsity baseball coach, who just happens to be his ex-best friend and first love.Old feelings resurface fast, blurring the lines between classroom, dugout, and a second chance neither of them is sure they deserve.

Owen Hart copes with anxiety through rules, routines, and the predictable rhythm of his life as a high school English teacher in the small town he grew up. So when his former best friend—and first love—Matt Beckett comes back to town after a career-ending baseball injury, Owen has no interest in reopening old wounds.

Matt was the golden boy with MLB dreams. Now he’s back home, stepping into the role as the varsity baseball coach and long term substitute teacher. When the principal assigns Owen as his instructional mentor, Matt has no choice but to accept help from the one person he never truly got over.

What starts as classroom support quickly spills onto the field. Owen starts helping with the team, until their lives are tangled together from first period to the final inning. And being around each other again makes one thing impossible to ignore: whatever they had ten years ago never faded. A rushed and heady locker room hook up turns into an off campus high heat situationship they aren’t ready to label.

But Owen can’t risk loving someone who might leave again, and Matt doesn’t think he deserves a second chance. Still, no matter how hard they try to keep their distance, they keep getting pulled back in—on the field, in the classroom, and everywhere in between.

To have a future, Owen must confront his fear of abandonment, while Matt has to decide if coming home is just a detour—or the place he’s finally ready to stay.
The Pitch

Welcome to Rollins, CA
A small northern California town held together by local businesses, nosy neighbors, and a shift toward acceptance.

Where Extra Innings fits in the Market
The "High-Stakes" Sports Romance

See You at the Finish Line (Zac Hammett): Fans of Hammett’s sharp, teammate-to-lovers tension will find that same magnetic pull between Matt and Owen as they navigate a shared past that won't stay buried.

Diamond Ring (K.D. Casey): Appeals to readers who crave the authentic, gritty reality of post-professional sports and the long, high-stakes road to reconciliation.
The "Deep-Heart" Small Town Romance

Honey Bee Mine (Sarah T. Dubb): Captures the "everybody knows your business" atmosphere of Rollins, appealing to readers who love a setting that acts as both a safe harbor and an antagonist.

Teacher of the Year (M.A. Wardell): Matches the warm, earnest, and deeply human voice of the English teacher protagonist, grounding the romance in the complexities of professional life and public perception.

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Rue Brixton @ruebrixton.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

HIGH STRUNG, a steamy contemporary romance. 📚 Not Another Love Song x The Rom-Commers. 🏡She needs him to save her home. 🎶He needs her to salvage his career. ❤️‍🔥What nobody needs is to fall in love. #QuestPit #Q #A #R #AmQuerying #PosterPit

A movie poster. The top text reads now! Querying the first photo is wine country in reds and oranges. The second box is pink with a silhouette of a couple touching heads with laurels that read exasperation at first sight and he falls so hard, he seeks medical attention. The third image is a lot of plastic bride and grooms falling off a cake. The text reads Rue Brixton's HIGH STRUNG. One hot summer, two desperate musicians, 63 fucking weddings

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EJTwriter | Emi T @ejtwriter.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

My 7yo came home from sleepaway camp Infected by K Pop Demon Hunters. I like to call it K Funk Demon Poppers and then wait for her head to explode. Highly recommend.

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TV-MA @tv-ma.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Between the fires and these protests, I hope this year teaches everyone that most of the shit talking you hear about California and more specifically, LA, comes from racists and gentrifying transplants. Most people love living here and would do anything to protect it.

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EJTwriter | Emi T @ejtwriter.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Oh goodness. Look at the riots. Guurrlll, this town knows how to riot and this ain’t it.

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EJTwriter | Emi T @ejtwriter.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

People are acting like LA has never seen riots before. Look, this city knows how to riot. Even LAPD is saying this ain’t it. If you aren’t in LA, don’t believe this admins hype.

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EJTwriter | Emi T @ejtwriter.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Everyone warned me that three under three would be hard but HOLY CRAP, why didn’t anyone warn me about three between 9-12??? I think I might die of the sass. #parenting #motherhood

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EJTwriter | Emi T @ejtwriter.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Shout out to the woman at my yoga class drinking an iced coffee out of a glass pint glass. It was 3/4 full, which means she not only brought a glass open container to an exercise class but also walked or drove with it from her home. Wild choice.

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EJTwriter | Emi T @ejtwriter.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Teach your kids to cook, they said. They’ll learn valuable life skills and you get to spend quality time with them, they said. All true, until Someone spills and entire cup of lemon juice and olive oil all over your newly cleaned wood floors.

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EJTwriter | Emi T @ejtwriter.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

I wanted to write, but didn’t know how in my chaotic life until I read something Diana Gabaldon said: she wrote in “lost minutes of the day” or something like that. Waiting for kid pick up, lunch break at work, ten minutes in the car when early for an appt. Now I’m four novels in. #revpitwaiting

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EJTwriter | Emi T @ejtwriter.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

A real life photo of me when we arrive for an 8am soccer game.

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EJTwriter | Emi T @ejtwriter.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Me: son, look at this nice fleece vest for cool days. Son : I will never wear that. You might as well burn it. Me, over 18 months: gently suggests the nice fashionable warm vest only to be met with withering looks Son, yesterday: Hey mom, check out the super cool spy vest I found in my drawer. 🤷🏽‍♀️

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EJTwriter | Emi T @ejtwriter.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Just had to bring 4 children to the dentist for back to back appointments. Apologies to everyone else in the waiting room who now never ever wants to have children. They’re a blessing. Truly.

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EJTwriter | Emi T @ejtwriter.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Wondering if we still have a USGS to tell us how big and where that earthquake was?

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EJTwriter | Emi T @ejtwriter.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Nothing like a Sunday night earthquake directly under us. I don’t think I’ve ever been so close to an epicenter before…and glad it was only 3.9.

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EJTwriter | Emi T @ejtwriter.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Someone explain to me why in the year of our lord 2025 when we can send people to space for months at a time and talk to them via video, we are still reporting STIs via paper form via fax only.

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EJTwriter | Emi T @ejtwriter.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

There is an email is my querying inbox but I can’t bring myself to look at it. It is a rejection but also maybe a request. It is Schrödinger’s email.

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EJTwriter | Emi T @ejtwriter.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

My 6yo is discovering that live TV (nikelodeon) kinda sucks. We’re in this tiny hotel room and she’s asked 5 times how to skip the commercials (and also the scary and kissing parts of the movie)

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EJTwriter | Emi T @ejtwriter.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Remembering the time at Berkeley when my professor said he and Ted Kaczynski both started as grad students at the same time, but my professor got the better teaching evaluations which is why he was a tenured professor and TK was not. And now many years later I can’t tell if he was serious or not.

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EJTwriter | Emi T @ejtwriter.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Hubs is going over math with oldest daughter and explaining to her that she has to show her work and OH MY IF it isn’t his own chickens coming home to roost.

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Hannah Bee Author @hannahbeeauthor.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

When heartbroken Giselle—a magically gifted carpenter—wakes after her death as a supposedly vengeful ghost fairy, she must balance the pressure to avenge her death with the fact that she’s still, sort of, totally in love with the man who betrayed her. #BluePit #A #R #F

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Karsyn @karsynwrites.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

KD CASEY X 🏐 Steph needs to prove she’s left her mean girl rep behind to get a coaching job. Laurel wants to reconnect with her little sister. When they both volunteer to coach youth vb they discover rivals to lovers makes for a pretty good comeback story. #bluepit #a #r #lgbt #q

A moodboard with the following images: three white women laughing and looking at each other, a white woman braiding a blonde woman's hair, a succulent, a white tween playing volleyball, a close-up of puzzle pieces, a snowy street outside of a bar, color blocks (yellow, red, green, gray, blue), two women's feet in wool socks by a fireplace, homemade soap, hands reaching toward rainbow light, a youth volleyball, rainbow-painted steps, a white woman holding fall leaves, a brick building with "how are you, really?" written on the side, a blonde and brunette white woman holding hands and laughing in an almost kiss, a white woman touching a cactus spine, a table with a trivia sheet on it. There is text in the middle that reads Bump, Set, Like.

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Jenny Adams @jadamswrites.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

ONE DARK WINDOW x FOR THE WOLF Hannelore knows witchcraft is a sin. But when she uncovers her new husband's dark secret, she'll have to use her magic to save him from his curse...or burn alongside of him. 🌹flower magic 🐺 werewolves 🏰 marriage of convenience #bluepit #A #F #R #agented #wip #Tr 📖

Collage of nine images: woman in white dress, ivy-covered wall, two arched windows, silhouettes of people, full moon, skulls and bones, rose, sparking fire, and a close-up of an animal eye.

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A.M. Weald @amweald.com · 13/01/2025

FIMBULVINTER'S FIRES Stranded after crash-landing on an unknown frozen planet, a fugitive must survive the elements and the land's starving inhabitants while navigating precarious relationships with human-like aliens whose language and customs he can't understand. #W #A #LGBT #SF #H #R 📖 #BluePit

a 9-square moodboard for fimbulvinter's fires by a m weald, with largely black and white low-contrast images. the center column of images have color. images include a lone figure walking along a flat snowscape, a drip of blood against a black background, a cloudy sky above a rocky mountain, a bearded man in a fur parka looking up at the snowy sky, a hearth of embers and coals with a gentle flame, a beardless figure with pale braids leaning their forehead against the trunk of a tree, wolves in the fog in front of a snowy pine forest, a bloody fist over snow, and a vast snowscape

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Noreen @noreenmughees.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

#bluepit #wf #r Cyrano x Unfortunately Yours When penniless Jibran starts an epistolary affair with a spoilt heiress, little does he know he's actaully falling for his best friend, younger sister. 💍 Arrngd marriage 🥰 Best friends-lovers 💌 letters 🧘‍♀️anxiety rep 🕌 Muslim rep. 🧑‍🧑‍🧒‍🧒 complicated family

A woman in traditional Indian clothing with a head wrap with half her face concealed, a
Pakistani man, someone writing a letter and a woman displaying her Indian jewelry

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Art Candee 🍿🥤 @artcandee.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

This was a fantastic water drop in the Hollywood Hills Sunset Fire from one of the aerial firefighting planes. 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

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Elizabeth Strater @elizabethstrater.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

On LA winds and the fires they birth: “The winds shows us how close to the edge we are.” read it: www.murrieta.k12.ca.us/cms/lib5/CA0...

"The Santa Anas"
Joan Didion
There is something uneasy in the Los Angeles air this afternoon, some unnatural stillness, some tension. What it means is that tonight a Santa Ana will begin to blow, a hot wind from the northeast whining down through the Cajon and San Gorgonio Passes, blowing up sand storms out along Route 66, drying hills and nerves to flash point. For a few days now we will see smoke back in the canyons, and hear sirens in the night.
I have neither heard nor read that a Santa Ana is due, but I know it, and almost everyone I have seen today knows it too. We know it because we feel it. The baby frets. The maid sulks. I rekindle a waning argument with the telephone company, then cut my losses and lie down, given over to whatever it is in the air. To live with the Santa Ana is to accept, consciously or unconsciously, a deeply mechanistic view of human behavior.
I recall being told, when I first moved to LA and was living on an isolated beach, that the Indians would throw themselves into the sea when the bad wind blew. I could see why. The Pacific turned ominously glossy during a Santa Ana period, and one woke in the night troubled not only by the peacocks screaming in the olive trees but by the eerie absence of surf. The heat was surreal.
The sky had a yellow cast, the kind of light sometimes called "earthquake weather". My only neighbor would not come out of her house for days, and there were no lights at night, and her husband roamed the place with a machete. One day he would tell me that he had heard a trespasser, the next a rattlesnake.
"On nights like that," Raymond Chandler once wrote about the Santa Ana, "every booze party ends in a fight. Meek little wives feel the edge of the carving knife and study their husbands' necks. Anything can happen." That was the kind of wind it was. I did not know then that there was any basis for the effect it had on all of us, but it turns out to be another of those cases in which science bears out folk wisdom.

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EJTwriter | Emi T @ejtwriter.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Just had to drive home from a work shift (ER) and a pine tree fell right onto the 5 across 2-3 lanes of traffic right in front of me. I had to swerve out of my lane to avoid it. Home safe now and hope we all stay this way. I’ve never seen winds like this before.

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EJTwriter | Emi T @ejtwriter.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

I’m prepping for my 8am summer camping reservation attempt like I’m going into battle. Reading glasses ✅ Coffee ✅ Fast Internet ✅ Strategy ✅ Bad attitude ✅

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EJTwriter | Emi T @ejtwriter.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

What kind of middle aged bullshit is sleeping wrong and waking up with tendonitis in the elbow? We need a whole new system.

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EJTwriter | Emi T @ejtwriter.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Our love language is sending each other photos of coyotes we see strolling down our neighborhood streets…

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EJTwriter | Emi T @ejtwriter.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Last night, out of nowhere, my 10yo told us he memorized the Dewey Decimal System and proceeded to tell us the basic rules and categories while my husband, in his fifth decade of life stood there dumbfounded because “i never knew there was a system just numbers.” 🤷🏽‍♀️

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EJTwriter | Emi T @ejtwriter.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Did I get 40 uninterrupted minutes of writing time tonight? Yes. Did I spend 37 of those minutes researching historically accurate blue prints of houses I could turn into my almost haunted house for a book? Also yes.

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EJTwriter | Emi T @ejtwriter.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Once again, I am here to complain that the OG Anne of green gables with Megan Fellowes is only available in limited formats like weird streaming subscriptions or DVD. Why are we being gatekept?

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 06/12/2024

This whole thread. One of the drums I consistently bang on is the idea that the majority of “civility” requirements is code for “the way we hurt you is polite and therefore allowed and you may not complain; the way you hurt us is rude and boorish and therefore you do not matter.”

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EJTwriter | Emi T @ejtwriter.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

My youngest kid’s bff has lice. Apparently it’s going around the schools in town. Just braided her hair and sprayed it with so much tea free oil she smells like a hippie. 🤞🏽🤞🏽🤞🏽this works.

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EJTwriter | Emi T @ejtwriter.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

I am finding myself in the middle of secular vs religious Christmas tree discourse and as a kid who grew up in a church where Christmas Trees were inappropriate in church because they were secular and took away from the true reason for the season, it’s weird to be here

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EJTwriter | Emi T @ejtwriter.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

This will interest probably no one else, but I just discovered the greatest kids album of all time Big Bird Discovers The Orchestra is on Spotify.

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EJTwriter | Emi T @ejtwriter.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Me: what a nice, relaxing, cozy Sunday morning, pancakes and snuggling on the couch and playing some Zelda. Tween daughter: what if I practiced clarinet really loudly in the same room?

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EJTwriter | Emi T @ejtwriter.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

If I’d known 20 years ago that I’d be showing photos of me with The Axe to my kids, I would have tried to look a little less disheveled in all those photos. (At least I looked cute in the ones with the goal post).

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EJTwriter | Emi T @ejtwriter.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

“He said it with a peculiar nuance, a slight roll of the r so it fell off his tongue and sucked me into his orbit. God, it sounded so much better when it was a plea on his lips.” 👄 Jazz WIP #romance #writingprompt

A man hugs a woman in a towel from behind while she is sitting at a piano.

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