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Hannah Zhang @hannahhzhangg.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

OMG yes!! my short story, "the last atlas," is featured in this beautiful issue! check out the free ebook if you'd like to read about old giants and new beginnings 🌄 (AND six other amazing stories!) thank you so much Hearth Stories for having me 🥹💕💕

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Hannah Zhang @hannahhzhangg.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

oops it's been a while bsky 😭😭 BUT, my short story "Letters from Sir Lassa" has been published in the IN THE NAME OF LOVE anthology! this cozy "aromantasy" has always meant so much to me, and im so honored and happy that it found its home in a book about love 🥹💕

a moodboard with nine square images set on a green background. clockwise from top left corner: close up of princely green garb with golden buttons, ornamentation, a red belt, and white pants; rainy glass windowpanes with orange-flowering greenery inside; a golden pheasant in greenery facing left; oranges on an orange tree; close up of a tarnished golden chestplate; white and pink apple blossoms; a raven against a background of red plants, facing right; and roses on a rosebush. in the center, the hands of a brown-haired woman writing with a quill on scattered papers. along the left margin of the board, "letters from sir lassa" is written in all caps. on the right margin, "cozy fantasy" is written in all caps. in the margin between the top two rows of images is this quote: "do you think he'll write back?" in the margin between the bottom two rows of images is this quote: "i hope so. i have got to know how this ends."

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Hannah Zhang @hannahhzhangg.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

crawling briefly out of school jail to say monstrous angels is out now!! find my doomed yaoi and other amazing religious horror stories inside 🩸🪽(link below!)

screenshot of the goodreads page for monstrous angels: an anthology of religious horror, edited by arwyn sherman. the cover is a red eye with white wings against a teal galaxy background.

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E.M. Anderson | author & schism enthusiast too hot for Bluesky @elizmanderson.com · 14/10/2025

and here's a static cover reveal post for people who want to skip the book trailer and/or hate videos! cover art by Lucy Rose THE LORD OF THE WOOD releases in July 2026, from @hanoversquarepress.bsky.social! #author preorder now: gatheringvolumes.com/item/44euZQq...

the cover of E.M. Anderson's The Lord of the Wood, framed in gold with gold flowers against a dark teal background around the edges. The cover is teal with a stag of flowers and foliage growing from a twisted tree with flowers growing around it and black ooze dripping from a branch overhead. the title "The Lord of the Wood" is in large white serif text to the left, with foliage growing through the letters closest to the tree, and the author "E.M. Anderson" is in all-caps yellow text at the bottom. the tagline, in smaller yellow text, reads, "Even a beastly woodland protector needs saving..."

"When lonely clockmaker Arthur Throckmorton loses his way in an enchanted forest, he meets the hero of his childhood bedtime stories: the Lord of the Wood. But instead of the mythical figure of his dreams, the Lord of the Wood is a grim man turning into a beast and losing power over a dying forest. If they can’t save the forest before he becomes a beast completely, Arthur will lose the man he's falling for—and never see his family again." Text is in a textbox against a murky image of a forest, with the cover of E.M. Anderson's The Lord of the Wood below the text, all against a dark teal background with gold curlicues in the corners.

The cover of E.M. Anderson's The Lord of the Wood on a dark teal background with golden leaves overhead, surrounded by yellow text reading: plant magic; sentient forest trying to oops! murder people; intensely homoerotic shaving scene; the one who heard the stories and the one who was in the stories; hopeless romantic who's clueless about his own sexuality; Beauty & the Beast inspired by not a retelling; dual-POV brother/sister; love interest turning slowly into a beast; wound-tending.

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Damian is ✨️drafting✨️ @damian-santos.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

HELL FOLLOWED WITH US X THE WOODS ALL BLACK As the lies of his religious order begin to unravel, Thay must rely on the stranger Elio to find a cure to the curse that will turn him into a Beast. 🐑Trans MC 🫀Cannibalism 🐑Poly monster romance 🫀Trans rage #DvPit #TV #OWN #A #H

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Hannah Zhang @hannahhzhangg.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

the We The People fundraiser has begun!! I donated a first chapter critique, and there are so many more amazing items to bid on for a great cause! www.32auctions.com/WeThePeopleS...

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We The People Summer Fundraiser

Silent auction 'We The People Summer Fundraiser' hosted online at 32auctions.

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Hannah Zhang @hannahhzhangg.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

MY MISERABLE DIVINE BODY HORROR NOVELLA FREAKS!! thank u so much lin for taking my comm!! 😭💕💕

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Hannah Zhang @hannahhzhangg.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

a lot of technological "progress" is just thinly disguised neo-colonialism. the desire to discover a new thing aka conquer new territory, the desire to create and harness "artificial intelligence" aka enslave captive bodies. it is so insanely obvious im at a loss for words. lol.

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Hannah Zhang @hannahhzhangg.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Thought I should share my #editorsguide for VIVARIUM, in which a bioengineer is lured out of his haven city by a smiling glass automaton. Now under revision! 🌳 utopian ecohorror 🤖 plant-bellied robots 🏙️ generation ship city ⏳ #OWN asian/ND/aspec rep

Each of the four images in this post have the same background, a dark greenhouse with a brown path leading forward into a wall of windows. The text reads, "An editor's guide to VIVARIUM, NA ecohorror novel, written by Hannah K. Zhang, represented by Keir Alekseii." There are faint succulent designs in the background.

Two textboxes on the greenhouse background. On the left: "PITCH —

Nathan Hui is a bioengineer, working with his mentor to raise trees strong enough to grow in the desolate world beyond the glass-domed Metropolis. One day, a mysterious glass automaton appears in Nathan’s dreams and lures him out of the dome. In the red wasteland of the Old World, Nathan learns that the Metropolis is no longer a temporary laboratory for saving the earth, but a giant VIVARIUM—tended to by glass automata who have lost their original code." The textbox on the right reads: "SNIPPET —

Its voice sounded like chiptune, that genre of music derived entirely from electronic noise. Each of its four monosyllabic words crackled with the metallic edge of outmoded technology, yet possessed almost human intention. The glass automaton spoke to me through dream-code, binary becoming breath:
“Come to the edge.”
I could hear the crescent sound of an unseen smile, a “love you bye” over the phone."

The text at the top of the page reads, "FOR FANS OF:" with two book covers. The first is Monk and Robot (2025) by Becky Chambers, with the following text below: "the solarpunk, rewilded world and human-robot bonds of monk and robot (2025)." The second book cover is of the terraformers (2023) by Annalee Newitz, with the following text below: "the intergenerational environmentalism and anti-capitalist future of the terraformers (2023)." On the right side of the screen, a series of bullet points: "hashtag ownvoices neurodivergent, aspec, asian representation." "cli-fi with a hopeful end." "roko's basilisk." "weird automata." "breaking generational curses, chasing ancestral dreams." "finding the strength to go on in the darkest hour."

on the left, a green and beige moodboard featuring a robot, greenhouses, nature, binary code, and a firefly in the center. on the right, several tumblr text posts arranged around lineart of a robotic hand reaching down to a human hand reaching up. the text posts, in order from top to bottom: "Hope has two beautiful daughters; their names are Anger and Courage. Anger at the way things are, and Courage to see that they do not remain as they are." next post: "never, ever, ever let the the stress of this bitch of an earth and its torment nexus stop you from making time for yaoi." next post: "you ever know someone and you think "god i love you. i wish we could've known eachother when we were carefree and 11. i wish we could've played together as kids" next post: "our fates are entwined whether you like it or not you stupid bastard"

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Hannah Zhang @hannahhzhangg.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

does anyone know how i can pitch a resident evil game idea to capcom because oh my god

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Soumi Roy🏳️‍🌈🇮🇳 in 🇰🇷 @soumiroy1.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

The auction is LIVE! We have incredible items up for grabs—from signed copies of rare and fabulous books to agent critiques and more. Please check it out, boost, share, and participate if you can. Every bit helps! www.32auctions.com/HelpSoumiReb...

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Help Soumi Rebuild Her Life Auction

Silent auction 'Help Soumi Rebuild Her Life Auction' hosted online at 32auctions.

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Keir Alekseii @keiralekseii.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

If the bid for my item comes in over $250 I'll make it query, synopsis, and first 50 pages instead of 10 and the call can be 45min instead of 30!

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Hannah Zhang @hannahhzhangg.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

haven't been on bsky for a while oops but. BOOK!

the word end in black text on white background in all caps

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Lorian Merriman @lorian.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

LESS THAN 24 HOURS LEFT to back the first volume of my illustrated gay novel on KS!! 🐎✨🐎 We've unlocked two extra bonus prints for all physical backers! If we hit that super elusive stretchiest of goals then everyone gets a digital audiobook for FREE!!

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Roanne Lau @roannelau.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

🎉 I AM OFFICIALLY A PUBLISHED AUTHOR!!! 🎉 My book The Serpent Called Mercy has officially hit shelves in North America (UK/Commonwealth tomorrow)! This is a dream come true for me, and I’m so grateful. Here’s my very last unboxing video to celebrate:

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Hannah Zhang @hannahhzhangg.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

honestly something wholesome that i think abt was when i was deep in my zelda phase in middle school, and i was in the elevator up to the children's hospital carrying one of the manga volumes under my arm. there was another boy there who saw it, and he whistled the zelda theme 😭 i was so happy

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Hannah Zhang @hannahhzhangg.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

gotta remember to crosspost here too 😭 i wrote the Hardest Part of vivarium and now everything is gonna come so naturally and be so devastating im gonna cry out of joy RAHHHHH I LOVE WRITIIIING

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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Blast this out to every PTA in America

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Gwend💫lyn Vines @gwenvines.academics.blue · 12/02/2025

ARCANE x DON'T LET THE FOREST IN 🧑‍🎓cut-throat postgrad academia w/ ⚛️engineering magic 🤌obsessive yearning 🚨unreliable narrator 📻corrupted magic tech 🩺ethical dilemmas 🩻body horror 🏆dangerous magic duels 🛠️blacksmith biceps 🌿strange plants 👤...& the strange man who ❤️s them #questpit #Q #A #F #SF #H

A moodboard in dark tones, featuring a painting of a blond man with chin length hair in a green shirt at the center, with an X drawn across his face through which an xray of his skull can be seen. The images around him are of a university campus with gothic architecture, dark flowers and ferns, chemistry glassware, a ring of sparks, a river delta, machinery, anatomical images, and a smithy.

Text on it reads "THE BODY ABHORS A STRAIGHT LINE. FATE DOES NOT STRIKE IN A STRAIGHT LINE."

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Jacob Foster (Querying) @fosterja8.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

IDLE OF A PSYCHOPOMP A retired explorer, torn between the fear of losing his wife and a desire to return to the wild, fixates on a towering, imprisoned forest. Driven by an esoteric rumour, he heads for the forest. And he will regret every choice from then on... #questpit #W #SF #T #agentsguide

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Hannah Zhang @hannahhzhangg.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

MONK & ROBOT x UNTO LEVIATHAN Nathan learns that the Metropolis--a glass-domed haven city--is actually a giant VIVARIUM, nurtured by automata who have lost their original code. #QuestPit #SF #NA #W 🌿 woodland utopia horror 🏙️ generation ship city 🤖 sentient glass robots 🧬 bioengineering hope

a square moodboard bordered on the left by a desolate red landscape, and on the right by a bright cityscape with trees in the foreground. six rectangular boxes in the center, clockwise from top left: the title VIVARIUM and the subtitle "sci-fi/ecohorror novella by hannah zhang" on top of an outlined succulent pot on a white background; a white lineart sun over a photograph of large leaves from below; a white text box with text reading "the anthem of the gardens was old world music: booming power ballads for the still-living earth" over a green-outlined globe; several sprouting plants drawn by one continuous white line over dark dewy leaves; a white text box with text reading "the automaton spoke to me through dream-code, binary becoming breath" over faint green binary numbers; a robotic and a human hand drawn with continuous lines meeting over shy leaf plants. the corners of the border sections have some hexagonal patterns.

overly intricate moodboard with nine squares set on a white background. the leftmost row is green and brown themed, centering around a young desi woman summarized as "PETRA NOOR, metropolitan institute of medicine: med student who sleeps well, black cat, matcha latte." the middle row is blue and white themed, centering around a young east asian man summarized as "NATHAN HUI, metropolitan institute of bioengineering: nepo baby slash god pawn bio major, white cat, chamomile tea." the rightmost row is yellow and brown themed, centering around a young caucasian man summarized as "LEO MORGAN, metropolitan institute of mathematical sciences: blonde himbo compsci major, golden retriever, lemon soda." the bottommost box in petra's row is a green-themed studying aesthetic, nathan's is a blue-themed cozy bedroom aesthetic, and leo's is two lemon slushie drinks on a summery garden shelf. there is truly not enough space to describe everything else, i'm so sorry.

two rows of text in translucent green text boxes. left box is titled "serious snippets," with the following snippets: "it was just a dream. this city of ours was still breathing." "if we didn't save it in time, i was to inherit a dead earth--and after all his toil, dr. morgan deserved better than to pass that on to me." "i felt the hollow presence of the glass vials in my pocket, weightless like cicada shells. i was searching for tumors." the right box is titled "unserious snippets," with the followingn snippets: "we hadn't expected to be found by the milkmen, and we definitely hadn't expected one of them to invite us to lunch." "why am i always naked in these freaky dreams?" "if i ran there and back fast enough, my friends would just think i'd shit myself breathless." "what are you, my dad?" there are six images behind the text boxes. clockwise from top left: inside a greenhouse, a set of yellow stairs, a forest, blue glass, a country road, and a city reflected over a body of water.

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questpit || next event: NOV 4th @questpit.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

We’re prepping for #questpit on the 12th!! come join us later today (12:30 est) for a q&a to meet some other pitchers!

a light blue background with white silhouettes of pine trees and snow. in the top right corner there are christmas lights and in the middle is a puppy in a mug and below that is black writing that reads: “#questpit Q&A Join us today at 12:30 EST to introduce your wips to the community and prepare for Feb. 12th!”

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Hannah Zhang @hannahhzhangg.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

does anyone know any fantasy lit mags/little presses that take like 22-23k word novelettes/novellas...asking for me

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Hannah Zhang @hannahhzhangg.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

finished a novelette..will surely make a moodboard to celebrate 😭

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Fred Wellman @fpwellman.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

A group of uncleared, unvetted, civilians have gained access to all of my federal records including military personnel, retirement and disability. They are reportedly feeding them into AI. I want them arrested and charged with federal crimes. Right fucking now! How is this even a discussion?

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Alexandra Hidalgo @the-alex-hidalgo.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

When her marriage hits the rocks, an Ivy League professor, her playwright husband, and her Broadway legend mother-in-law/best friend set out to rescue their imploding family by trying to make a hit musical despite the spectacular failure of their latest collaboration. #YouDeservepIt #Q #S #WF #A

A postcard for Alexandra Hidalgo's novel "GRAND GESTURES" with red, green, and blue rectangles. The top left red rectangle has white text that reads "UPMARKET WOMEN'S FICTION" with a black silhouette of a stack of books. The top right green rectangle reads " Drama runs in the family, but can they stage their own happy ending?” The middle left blue rectangle has a black silhouette of comedy and tragedy masks. The middle right red rectangle reads "GRAND GESTURES." The bottom left green rectangle reads "COMPS" with photos of the covers for Romantic Comedy by Curtis Sittenfeld, the show Gilmore Girls, and Book Lovers by Emily Henry. The bottom right blue rectangle reads " Broadway Dynasties, Cozy Academia, Family Saga, Second Chances, Latina Protagonist, Multiple Love Stories, Empathic Friendships, Three POVs" with black silhouettes of man and a woman dancing and of a woman singing on stage.

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Hannah Zhang @hannahhzhangg.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Medieval Comedy PHANTOM Three PhD students decide to translate and stage a lost medieval play. But the finale is a summoning ritual--and the hero-playwright? A demon. If the curtains don't rise on the DEMON PLAY, the consequences won't just be academic. #YouDeservepIt #WIP #NA

a red and brown and gold themed moodboard, with a square in the middle with the text "DEMON PLAY, NA dark academia horror-comedy eventually by Hannah K. Zhang." on the left, atop the devil tarot is the following: "THE CAST: medievalist phia (translator), classical theologian camden (analyst), dramatic artist evan (stage adapter), a pagan demon who’s been trapped in the ruins of a medieval theater for centuries, and the hero of the play, who yearns for sunlight, and for someone to see him—even if by force. atop the reversed heirophant tarot is the following: "featuring: novel prose and script format intertwined, #ownvoices chinese- american classicist rep, and demon possession situationship. INSPIRED BY: watching PHANTOM OF THE OPERA while studying classics and medieval english at oxford (changed my brain chemistry 4ever)." in the top row, roman ruins and a church in a dusky golden field. in the bottom row, some medieval art of people in red and some medieval latin text

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Liza Libes @pensandpoison.org · 24/01/2025

SUCCESSION X THE BELL JAR Following the suicide of her sales agent Rebecca Solomon, New York CEO Cassandra Feuerbach becomes entangled in the hypocrisies of the New York elite as she uncovers a controversial social experiment that took Rebecca's life. #UA #Q #A #YouDeservepIt

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mar is querying ☁️🏜️ @margreyfield.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

#AgentsGuide AN EMBER IN THE ASHESx4TH WING FMC must marry into power during a martial tournament but decides to compete & fight for her people. Seducing & battling, her plans unravel when she's paired with the vexing future King, falls in love, & joins the Duke's hitlist #Q #F #R #RF #YouDeservepIt

A Guide to
To Cage a Shadow
A 90K Word YA/Adult
Crossover romantasy
By Marceline Greyfield

Pitch
Ferne, a shadow-wielding spy, infiltrates the annual magical martial tournament to manipulate and marry one of the three powerful men. When she finds out that the tournament winner receives anything they want, she enters the competition to fight for her people’s survival.
In doing so, Ferne falls in love with her loathsome, irritating tournament partner and endangers herself and everyone around her when the Duke grows suspicious of Ferne and stalks her every move.

Themes and tropes
Sarcastic FMC
Morally grey FMC
Ensemble cast
Overcoming grief
Trauma as a lingering ghost
Supporting women's rights and wrongs
Power or family?
Angsty slow burn
Forced proximity
Obsessive love
Secret identity
Criticism of capitalism
She saves him
BETRAYAL

Comps
An Ember in the Ashes: FMC operating as spies in a hostile environment with political intrigue
From Blood and Ash: Hidden magical identity and a FMC discovering her true power.
Fourth Wing: Competition-based plot structure and battery enemies to lovers
Red Queen: Magical hierarchy and political manipulation.
These Violent Delights: Forbidden romance and complex family loyalties.

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Jax Devora (is writing) @jaxdevora.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

GIDEON THE NINTH x FFXIV When luckless, magicless Mick agrees to be his crush Eleanor's adventuring partner, the last thing either of them expects is for him to be stuck as a dragon with a mission to fight the gods (yet here we are). #YouDeservepIt #WIP #A #F #R

Moodboard of five images:
Top: A wireframe of a dragon against a stark, orange background.
Center left: A stained glass window depiction of a saint gazing upwards in exasperation. In one of their hands is a quill; in the other, a pair of wire cutters.
Center: A man stands against a black background. His head is on fire.
Center right: Stained glass version of Alphonse Mucha's Emerald. A woman reclines against the head of a snarling serpent. She gazes at the viewer with an intense smirk.
Bottom: A total eclipse.

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Jen DiArenzo - 🧜🏼‍♀️ Fantasy Author @jendiarenzo.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

A DISCOVERY OF WITCHES X JOHN TUCKER MUST DIE w/ 🧜🏼‍♀️ A scorned marine biologist turned mermaid queen must return to Bermuda as a human siren and seek revenge on men, guarding her heart from a mystifying man on the beach, doing whatever it takes not to become a monster. #YouDeservepIt #Q #A #F #R

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M is queer-ying MG @notonlyicarus.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

LORD OF THE FLIESxTHE ASH HOUSE contains: 🎹 haunted piano playing 🫐 suspicious berries 🐊 crocodiles that shouldn’t be there 🔥 burning portraits ⚖️ unwise use of a scalpel ⏳ an endless summer 👁️ a 14yo puppet master 🤲🏼 8 children who don’t yet know they’re his to play with #YouDeservepIt #MG #Q

3x3 moodboard, green themed. from left to right and top to bottom: a photo of a lake with trailing weeping willows; a hand bursting from a gnarled tree; a lake lit from above; three coloured circles diagonally placed, ochre green and deep red; a quote “Fancy thinking the Beast was something you could kill! You knew, didn’t you? I’m part of you” Lord of the Flies by William Golding; a porch with greenery; a lake surrounded by trees; the shadow of a reaching hand; someone running just out of sight in a hedge maze

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Z. T. Fairfax @ztfairfax.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

✨ DON'T LET THE FORREST IN x THE MUPPETS ✨ Dear #litagents & #Editors, My 64,000-word YA horror with surreal, subversive, and slightly grotesque elements, THE HUGGLEBEEZ, is a cross between The Muppets and fandom mascot horror (FNAF, Amazing Digital Circus, DHMIS) #YouDeservepIt #Q #YA #H #Spec #T

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Rowan Brighton Brown @rowanbrightonbrown.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

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. #YouDeservePit #Q #YA #H #T

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raghad ☀️🍊 @raghadjibril.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

AHS: Freakshow x The Night Circus A schizophrenic maghrebi acrobat A diverse ragtag troupe of disabled freakshow performers A show-woman with many enemies A competition of traveling circuses & a grisly slew of political assassinations in Victorian Britain #YouDeservePit #WIP #Adult #His

Moodboard for my book featuring
A circus tent strewn with fairy lights
The silhouette of a carriage and coachman in fog
A ringmaster’s uniform
A victorian woman’s dress
Multicoloured balloons
The silhouette of Victorian men on the streets
A woman with melting clown makeup
A scene from The Greatest Showman: an acrobat up in the air with a man singing below
A brown man’s hazel eyes

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Liv Wrightes || QUERYING @livwrightes.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Magic awakens best under pressure. A reluctant heroine. A dragon's ultimatum. Yellowstone's tremors are just the beginning. SECRET EMBERS = CRESCENT CITY x MERCY THOMPSON (X DRESDEN FILES) 📖97k Adult Urban Fantasy ✨Unique Magic System ⚔️High-stakes 🔥Secrets Unbound #YouDeservepIt #A #F #Q

A book pitch slide titled 'An Agent's Guide to: Secret Embers' by Olivia Wrightes.
It describes the genre as Contemporary/Urban Fantasy, for adults, with a completed manuscript at 97,000 words.
The background features glowing embers in a dark setting.

A slide presenting the tagline and premise of Secret Embers:
'What if one impulsive choice shattered your world and revealed something extraordinary?'
It introduces Cassandra Jones, a 30-year-old who discovers magic, monsters, and that her boss is a dragon, amidst Yellowstone’s stirring super-volcano.
Background features fiery embers.

A mood board and themes slide for Secret Embers.
Includes images of forests, Yellowstone hot springs, red glowing architecture, and hands manipulating strings.
Themes listed include self-discovery, subverted chosen one, found family, LGBTQ+ representation, unique magic system, cost of power.

A comparative titles slide featuring three book covers:
House of Earth and Blood by Sarah J. Maas, Moon Called by Patricia Briggs, and Magic Bites by Ilona Andrews.
These comps highlight the urban fantasy genre of Secret Embers.

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Sara Duran ✨is AGENTED✨ @saraduran.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

A 🐚 is the perfect gift for a crush, but stealing from the sea has consequences. As it stirs, John is swept into danger—and a truth he’s always avoided: maybe he doesn’t really *want* to be a boyfriend. Maybe he doesn’t want to be a boy at all. #YouDeservePit #YA #F #W #LGBT

A moodboard for John, showing hands gathering flowers from the sand, glittering abalone shells, a silhouette of a young man swimming and staring at a moonlight beach, iridescent scales, a sun halo through the water, a silhouette of a mermaid swimming, lightning striking near a lighthouse, and a mermaid tail on a rocky shore. The trans pride flag is subtly depicted as a gradient across the board, with baby blue, rosy pink, and white.

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Brandon Love @blovewrites.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Giver x Scythe 17y Orion is destined for leadership in a "perfect" future society rebuilt after the Final War. But when dark truths surface, he must choose: uphold peace built on lies or bring war to the world he was born to lead. Love, betrayal, & revolution await #YouDeservepIt #YA #SF #Q #LGBTQ

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E. H. Kell is Querying @ehkell.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

✨EMILY WILDE x MAMMA MIA🇬🇷 🌊 "Sunny" fantasy 🌊 High stakes & Magic 🌊 Greek folklore & magical creatures 💙♥️ Bi4Bi romance 🌊 Reluctant partners to Lovers 🌊 Complex female friendships 🌊 Grandmother/Granddaughter bond #YouDeservepIT #Q #YA #NA #SF #RF #LGBTIAQ+ #AmQuerying #WriteSky #writingcommunity

A moodboard showing pictures of the Mediterranean, Greek islands, a woman facing the sun, hands in a shower of sparkles.

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Zed Prospero @zprospero.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

GOOD OMENS X THE OFFICE Virgil Mora, Hell's Consultant, has 3 months to turn the business around to save Lucifer, the angel he's fallen for, getting a celestial pink slip. But his old job, and mistakes, come back to haunt him. Literally. #YouDeservePit #WIP #A #F #LGBT

A grid of 5 images, at the top the words "I DIDN'T EXPECT 'GO TO HELL' TO BE CAREER ADVICE" and at the bottom "HELL IS WORK"

The images are, in order:
1 - A black pawn topples a white king on a chessboard
2 - 8 - A businessman stares at his shadow which has horns and a tail.
3 - The central image is a customized pentagram sigil with the name VIRGIL MORA around it in a circle
4 - A lit lighter being held in a man's hand.
5 - A man in a white suit is back-to-back with a man in a black suit. They are holding hands.

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Hannah Zhang @hannahhzhangg.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

sorry yall pitching is like a drug to me

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Hannah Zhang @hannahhzhangg.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

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Morgan Wodring 🦑 NEW WEIRD NATION @morkalmarrh.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

PERDIDO STREET STATION x ANNIHILATION Rescued at sea with no memory, Trigger’s body is changing into an unknown species. When a sunken lab's forbidden prayer protocol promises him answers, he risks tearing a hole in his head to find out who, or what, he is. #YouDeservePit #SF #A #Q #LGBT #ND

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#BluePit - A Storytelling Hype & Pitch Event @bluepit.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Welcome to the final day of #BluePitHype! BlueSky's lists work like a custom feed, so if you build a support list, you can pin it next to the Discover tab and see only posts from people on that list! Don't forget to add the #BluePit feeds (Links in comments)!

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#BluePitHype
Q & A
January 12th

Build Your List

#BluePit is tomorrow! Post with #BluePitHype and build a support list!

BlueSky’s Lists work similar to Feeds, you can even pin them like the Discover feed, so you don’t miss your friend’s posts!

1 DAY To #BLUEPIT ON Mon, Jan 13th!

@BLUEPIT.BSKY.SOCIAL

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Ann Leckie @annleckie.com · 12/01/2025

I've told this story before, but when I was Assistant Editor at Podcastle (translation-slushreader) I was also a writer at the beginning of my career sending things out to editors. I knew the "editors judge you in the first paragraphs" thing and

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