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Frances Hope @franceshope.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Took a little social media break and came back to realize someone added me to the "Writers Who Are Nice" starter pack, which I hadn't realized existed. I'm touched! (And I just followed the heck out of everyone else there.)

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Frances Hope @franceshope.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

My husband just asked whether a hot dog is a taco, and I think I'm done for the day.

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Frances Hope @franceshope.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Watching verified real humans doing amazing things is the best part of the Olympics. I will never marvel at something a hunk of code can do. But pair skaters sticking the landing in perfect unison because they've trained their whole lives for this very moment? Now THAT brings a tear to my eye.

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Frances Hope @franceshope.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Just boosting the #questpit pitch for my dual-timeline, multi-POV novel about love, commitment, and outsourced coervice control ...

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Gert Ramm 🦋 @rammwriter.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Posting again for the later crew. #QuestPit #W #A #MY #PR #T

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Colleen Sparks Moidu @seemoido.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Seven bodies. One sealed room. When a detective investigates deaths at the abandoned Harrow Institute, nothing adds up—especially one detail she can’t explain. The partner synths tied to the victims should have decommissioned within 96 minutes. They didn’t. #QUESTPIT #Q #A #S #SF #MY

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Sara Duran ✨is AGENTED✨ @saraduran.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Coming soon to agent inboxes! • • • ANNIHILATION x BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN 💫two exiled men (and their secrets) 💫one lunar prison (and its horrors) 💫a cosmic entity that wants them dead 💫the love they’ll lose if they don’t survive #SF #H #R #LGBT #amquerying #QuestPit

$BABEL ON CALLISTO Querying February 2025 @saraduranauthor sara.duran@bsky.social COMPS The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler, labeled “isolated research station” and “philosophical alien threat.” The Salt Grows Heavy by Cassandra Khaw, labeled “queer, visceral horror” and “love as a consuming force.” The Deep Sky by Yume Kitasei, labeled “psychological unraveling” and “fracture under mission pressure.” PITCH “On a lunar prison outpost, two exiled men uncover a cosmic presence waking beneath the ice. As their uneasy alliance against it twists into something tender and terrifying, they are confronted with the one thing they never expected to find on a dead moon: a reason to live. But the ice is thinning.” TASTE “Neither spoke as Elias bypassed the security protocol on the keypad. The metal hatch shuddered as it unlocked, slinking back to hidden panels in the wall. They cleared the first few floors with carrion precision, methodical as Dermestidae stripping a carcass to bone. In Elias’s imagination, the gore thinned into something vaster—the time-lapse unraveling the ruin from above. Wordlessly, corridors were scoured to nothing as he and Jack moved like insects beneath an overhead lens. As the hours dissolved, their work became abstracted into a cold anatomy, intimacy pared away as cleanly as flesh from the frame until only the architecture of survival remained. When Jack hacked into the collapsed doorway to the next stairwell, Elias marveled at the contradiction: how those same brutal hands had, only that morning, traced him with the delicacy of a scalpel.”$

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🌱 El(iza)beth 🌬️ K 🔥 T 🌊 @elizabethtitus.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

When marauders menace her village, an empath-scholar leads an odyssey across the climate-ravaged former US to retrieve a rumored key to peace, before her people are obliterated. Clan of the Cave Bear x A Psalm for the Wild-Built 🔮 #EarthMagic #tarot 🌪️ #CliFi 🌷 #Hopepunk #S #Q #Questpit #booksky

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Christina Adrian @christiemadrian.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Chess is a reaper-in-training. Her boyfriend is possessed by death itself. One impossible choice: save the world or save the boy she loves. As ghosts rise and rogue reapers hunt her, Chess must embrace her powers or lose everything. #questpit #YA #Q #F #PR #Disability

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Frances Hope @franceshope.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

“Love Is Blind” x THE STEPFORD WIVES Alyssa attends a singles retreat where, unbeknownst to her, a wealthy man pays a hefty sum to make her fall in love. When she returns home after two years abroad with him, her friends are shocked at just how much she's changed. #QuestPit #Q #A #S #T

Mood board with: two interlocking wedding bands; a pendant with a heart that looks like a computer chip; a push-button computer chip; a gloved hand holding a flaming tube of red lipstick; a "New Messages" notification envelope symbol; a false eyelash; a broken mirror with pieces being picked up by a woman's hands; a woman's head and torso covered with billowing, sheer red fabric; a control room with a high-backed chair and several red computer screens; a woman in a long, close-fitting black dress with several dangling cords around her; a staircase with a woman in a formal black dress at the top and a man in a suit at the bottom, both people with their backs to the camera; fingers holding a broken mirror in which one eye is reflected; and a cocktail glass with cherries in and around it as well as a lipstick- and other red substance-smeared napkin, and a woman's hand (with long red nails, two silver rings, and sheer black fabric covering part of her hand/wrist) holding the glass.

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Frances Hope @franceshope.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

#questpit this Friday will be my first pitch even in over a year! If I remember correctly, keeping a list was the only way I stayed sane the last time, so please comment with your genre and I'll check out your stuff! #writingcommunity

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Frances Hope @franceshope.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Ooh! Five whole hours of time to myself! Quick, how can I squander it?

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Frances Hope @franceshope.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

So pleased to share that my speculative microfiction piece "Come Home" has found *its* home at Crepuscular Magazine!

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Crepuscular Magazine @crepuscularmag.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

"Pan's Gaze" by Chris Clemens is free to read today! www.patreon.com/post...

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Frances Hope @franceshope.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Today in "Why Do I Do This to Myself?": making the murder victim in my new book a "fiancée," which means I have to use the $^#&@%& accent symbol the whole time or be driven editorially insane! #writingcommunity #formercopyeditor #why

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Frances Hope @franceshope.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

When thoughts turn to Spring and also to writing a book that is intensely unsettling but in a good way

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Frances Hope @franceshope.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Being a writer and a parent is just continually being Robin Williams in the big restaurant scene from Mrs. Doubtfire.

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Frances Hope @franceshope.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

At that phase of my "writing journey" where I want publishing podcasts on an IV drip . . . #WritingCommunity

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Frances Hope @franceshope.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Fine, I'll admit it! I love beta reading because it makes me feel fancy and important. There, I said it!

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Frances Hope @franceshope.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

It looks like I've gotten lots of new followers lately, so I'll (re)introduce myself! I'm an agented thriller/horror author who writes "science gone wrong" stories with messy relationships at their core. 🧵 (1/3?)

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Frances Hope @franceshope.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

I keep meaning to post writing stuff on here because, uh, "building my brand" or something. . . . But now all I can think about is Cory Booker.

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Cory Booker @corybooker.com · 02/04/2025

I may be tired and a little hoarse, but as I said again and again on the Senate floor, this is a moment where we cannot afford to be silent, when we must speak up.

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MS NOW @ms.now · 02/04/2025

BREAKING: Sen. Booker breaks record for longest Senate speech in history. WATCH LIVE NOW: www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5Nf...

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Frances Hope @franceshope.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Anyone who spends time with me in person knows that 50% of my casual wardrobe is band T-shirts (Mountain Goats, Indigo Girls . . .). Conveniently, just as these tired, years-old threads are starting to fall apart in the wash, both bands are going on tour near me this summer. Thanks, merch gods!

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Stephen King @stephenking.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Voted for Trump, now have buyer’s remorse? The Trump philosophy seems to be his version of FAFO. Don’t buy anything on the 28th unless you absolutely have to. #Resist

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Sam Peil 🧟😈🤡 @sampeil.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

STATION ELEVEN x post-covid WALKING DEAD Far-right extremist zombies, a hot dentist, and a love triangle take on the end of the world in the Black Hills. Bites, bisexuals, and a busted bunker, oh my! 🧟 🏳️‍🌈 🔪 🩸 🔥 🫶🏻 #questpit #NA #horror

Background of Mount Rushmore. Third President has been replaced with zombie head. Semi-transparent red Blood splatter across the entire image

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Frances Hope @franceshope.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Sometimes I think about Stephen King's "The Jaunt" just to upset myself, before promptly suppressing the memory of it again. What's *your* emotional masochism literature?

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Frances Hope @franceshope.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

You know that thing where it's winter and you have lots of little cuts on your hands because of exposure to cold outside and dry radiator heat inside, but the act of opening Band-Aid wrappers actually makes the cuts worse so you need more Band-Aids? Didn't Robert Frost write a poem about that?

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Rachel Kitch @rachelkitch.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

booking update: i have one last website and branding design spot for the first half of 2025 available!

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Frances Hope @franceshope.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

I don't really follow sports. I get my exhilaration from finding out my writer friends got full requests.

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Frances Hope @franceshope.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Definitely an interesting listen, especially for those of us in the #writingcommunity who want to sell books but aren't loving the social media landscape!

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Tami Wicinas @tamiwicinas.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Here’s a recent personal illustration of mine - a young witch doing some cozy spell casting before bed. #witchart

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💀Chris💀 @cotexican.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Same pitch, revised MS! I queried too early. So if you've seen this before, agents, why not take another look? She's sweet, spooky, and telenovela style dramatic. 😘 #P2Ppit #a #q #secondchances

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Rowan Brighton Brown @rowanbrightonbrown.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

A southern inheritance is always dark—whether it's a penchant for pills, a blood-soaked family farm, or an ancient magic. Sierra spurns them all, but when her dad disappears, she must choose which monsters to slay, and which to become. #P2Ppit #Q #YA #H #T #LGBT

A moodboard collage of green and grey images with an earthy, spooky vibe. There's a white woman with moths on her face, a deer skull emerging from the bushes, a black fist strangled with vines, white pills in a pile, images from trailer parks, a copperhead, and a sign saying "No More Overdose Deaths"

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Sam Peil 🧟😈🤡 @sampeil.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

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Frances Hope @franceshope.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

I'm so beyond excited to share that I've signed with Claire Friedman at InkWell Management! She totally gets what I'm trying to do with my freaky thriller, and I can't wait to dive into all the hard work that comes next!

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Frances Hope @franceshope.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Um, why isn't this on my shelf right now!?!?

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Frances Hope @franceshope.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

If I ever write a parenting memoir, it's going to be called UNSPECIFIED LIQUIDS.

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Frances Hope @franceshope.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

(1) Had an idea for a freaky novel. (2) Got impatient and wrote it as 10k-word short fiction. (3) Got positive beta feedback but was told I crammed too much into the story. (4) Realized there's a reason I haven't submitted it anywhere. (5) Decided it has to be a freaky novel after all. THE END.

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Frances Hope @franceshope.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

Wishing you a (pick one): -Better New Year -Surprisingly Good New Year -Happy New Year! -Other

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Gabino Iglesias @gabino.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

Need to briefly interview a psychiatrist or psychologist. Any of you do either for a living? Happy to send a signed book or a box of books for your help! Hah.

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Frances Hope @franceshope.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

I finally started actually reading, as opposed to watching, SLOW HORSES by Mick Herron. So far, excellent!

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Frances Hope @franceshope.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

Ahh, that magical time of year when I remember I'm terrible at drawing Christmas trees!

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Frances Hope @franceshope.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

Anyone else super-excited that another season of SEVERANCE is almost upon us? (And if you didn't know, consider this a PSA!)

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💀Chris💀 @cotexican.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

1914 Mexico: A revolutionary soldadera with a vendetta infiltrates a camp of Federales. But when a suspicious captain gets too close and supernatural forces align, she must decide: protect her heart or her mission? #WIPPIT #WIP #speculativeromance

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