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Hutchison Adams

@hutchadams.bsky.social
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Writing. Industrial, gothic, historical, dark, fantastical, magickal, lyrical, speculative, literary writing. Specifically, industrial-age Pittsburgh. Generally? Um ... wherever the ol' brain takes me. hutchisonadams.com

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DJ "Jo" NoneYa 🟧 @djnoneya.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
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Aliquem | Rizumu @aliquem.vrc.dj · 18/05/2026
I cast "you realizing you are old if you remember this book" and makes your bones turn to dust.
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Count Duckula 🧛‍♂️🦆 @justducky.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Nine years ago tonight, we lost one of the greatest voices in rock n roll history. RIP Chris, you’ll never be forgotten. 🤘🏻
The late great Chris Cornell, lead singer of Soundgarden and Audioslave
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Hutchison Adams @hutchadams.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
@spookty.bsky.social I’m keeping this so I recognize you.
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✨ Joy Shaw | Author ✨ @joyshaw.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Come check out my #Writer pit pitch on Instagram ✨ Would love the support from my fellow writers and readers 🫶 #WritingCommunity www.instagram.com/p/DYUsUzxkYu...
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Jean Ibosh @fedup90611.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Good night 💤 “No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.” Robin Williams
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Hutchison Adams @hutchadams.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
How come when an agent requests pages I am plagued by the stomach-churning dread that I have unforgivably botched something in my submission? Come on, self-doubt. At least let me expect rejection because my writing comes up short. #writingcommunity #amquerying #amwriting
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✨ Joy Shaw | Author ✨ @joyshaw.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Writing a novel is basically: “I am a genius.” followed 11 minutes later by: “I have created the worst sentence in the English language.” 😅 #writersofX #amwriting
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Hutchison Adams @hutchadams.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
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Pride Month in US Libraries: How to Prepare and Help Track Targeted Attacks in 2026, Book Censorship News, May 8, 2026
With less than one month until Pride begins, here's how libraries can prepare and how library users can support LGBTQ+ library services.
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Cassie Wallin Author @cassiewallinwrites.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
To query as an author is to yeet your book baby at strangers hoping one of them wants to help you raise it.
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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
What are some novel titles that strike you as powerful? I'll go first: my question is inspired by Hannah Kaner's upcoming novel, A Snake Among Swans. A love when a title alone stirs up the imagination.
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The Whimsical Muse @whimsicalmuse.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Surround yourself with the kind of people who find the Oxford comma to be illuminative, beautiful, and necessary.
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Hutchison Adams @hutchadams.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Saw #hokum today. Personally I thought it was really well done! Good scares, good story. I love Adam Scott, and I’m a sucker for ANYTHING Irish, especially if it’s spooky. AND there’s a side character who’s a struggling writer working two day jobs! Rooting for him!
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Cassie Wallin Author @cassiewallinwrites.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
For lurking #LiteraryAgents SEVERANCE x SILO She erased memories, until memory remembered her. THE UNMAKING 🚫 Emotion as system error 👾 The haunting is digital 📋Corporate ritual menace 🧪 Complicit Protagonist 🧨 Creeping dread to visceral action RevPit Shortlist PosterPitAward 2nd #AgentsGuide
"Such a highlight in my subs!"
-RevPit Editor
An Agent's Guide to
THE UNMAKING
By Cassie Wallin
95k words
Adult Upmarket Speculative
Shortlist Revpit 2026
PosterPit
Award
2nd PlaceTHE UNMAKING By Cassie Wallin
The Pitch
Nova feels too much, and in this future, it could get her mind wiped clean.
She's a state memory technician who erases people's most emotionally volatile memories, until her grief unleashes a phantom who remembers everything she's erased. And he won't let her forget.THE UNMAKING By Cassie Wallin
Severance
•tv+
SILO
Comp Titles
The Corporate Ritual Menace of Severance on Apple TV+
The Creeping
Surveillance of The Dream Hotel
The Complicit
Institutional Unraveling of Silo on Apple TV+
The Visceral Action of Chain-Gang All-Stars
DREAM
HOTEL
LAILA LALAMI
NANA KWAME ADJEI-BRENYAH
AEY MARE DRESSEST-SELLE ASTHE SF FRUT BLICE
CHAIN
* HANG
ALL-STARSTHE UNMAKING By Cossie Wallin
The Characters
Nova
- A complicit memory eraser who feels too much
"Why I count. Because I feel it each time I rip part of them away... and they matter.
The Stranger
- The digital phantom unleashed by her grief
"No. You cracked, but you never broke. You've held it all together with rage and silence.'
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Kade
-A devoted state enforcer sent to hunt her
"I've ended more than I want to remember.
They said it was necessary. They lied."
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Hutchison Adams @hutchadams.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Nerves… virtual pitch meetings next weekend @writingdaywksp.bsky.social Pittsburgh! I thought I was ready to #amquerying but my dev edit was so amazing that I’m mid-rewrite now, so I’ll be pitching a WIP. Still, I’m excited! So much prep to do … pittsburghwritingworkshop.com
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The 2026 Online Pittsburgh Writing Workshop
Get Your Writing Published: May 8-9, 2026
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Kat Devitt @katdevittwrites.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
THE MONSTER OF BLACKSTONE, 95k gothic coming-of-age story with a dual POV My Darling Dreadful Thing X The London Séance Society 🖤An heir 🖤A monster 🖤An ancient curse 🖤Scottish Highlands 🖤Familial exploitation 🖤Emotional & physical isolation 🖤 Gay male lead #Q #A #Gothic #HF #PR #QuestPit
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Writing Day Workshops @writingdaywksp.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
The 2026 Online Pittsburgh Writing Workshop is an online “How to Get Published” writing event on May 8-9, 2026. Writers are welcome to attend virtually from anywhere! Info & Registration: pittsburghwritingworkshop.com #amwriting #amquerying #literaryagent #writingcommunity #writing
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Susie Lindau @susielindau.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
WE USED TO LIVE HERE x MISERY When a sentient house attacks a naive author and his stalker orchestrates an invasion, his badass sister and her disobedient dog race against an impending storm to save him, but they must face both monsters to survive the night. #QuestPit #H #LGBTQ #agentsguide #Q #A
An agent and editor's guide for The Deadline, an 82,000-word Psychological horror Images from PexelsThe Pitch
An adventure-adverse novelist with a deadline and a peculiar type of imposter syndrome hikes to his isolated mountain estate.
When he suffers the sentient house's attack and an invasion orchestrated by his pissed-off stalker, his underestimated sister doesn't hear from him. So, she and her disobedient dog race against time and an impending snowstorm to save him. 
But they must face both monsters to survive the night.COMPS Psychological Horror - We Used to Live Here, The Revenant - survival, Gothic LGBTQ - The Writing Retreat, None of this is True - Stalker obsessionBIG 5 Interest
Dual POV
LGBTQ
Family Secrets
Siblings
Coming-Of-Age
Book Club
Elevated Horror
Pro-Edited
David Lynch Vibes
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Amy Dehaas @amywrites.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
A glimpse from the pages of The Night of the Fire: “And somewhere in the tangle of murder is always the thread of inconsistency. The pebble in the shoe. The scab I can’t help but lift. Because underneath is where the truth festers.” #QuestPit #Q #A #T #MY
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EvelynHail, PhD @evelynhail.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
HEARTLESS HUNTER X SLAVIC FOURTH WING 🎭 She, a humble servant posing as Duchess, is his executioner-to-be. 🐉 He, the arrogant Dragon Prince, must save a kingdom from the encroaching Ever-Dark. 🖤 Neither anticipated falling for the one destined to be their undoing. #questpit #NA #R #F #DF #Q
A gothic-style book cover titled "Root and Ruin." Centered is a glowing, cyan-blue dragon coiled into a circle, its scales etched with faint, runic symbols. Golden, gnarled roots extend downward from the dragon like branching veins against the pitch-black background. Text at the top reads "Enemies to Lovers," "Fated Mates," and "Fake Identity," with "An Agent’s Guide" in the top right. Subtitle reads "80k • NA Slavic Romantasy," and the bottom logline says, "She is sent to kill the dragon. Instead, she might become his only salvation."A graphic titled "The Comps" in golden lettering. It displays four book covers arranged in a grid: "Heartless Hunter" by Kristen Ciccarelli, "Fourth Wing" by Rebecca Yarros, "Shadow and Bone" by Leigh Bardugo, and "The Witcher: The Last Wish" by Andrzej Sapkowski.A self-made fantasy illustration showing a halfway transformed, dark-haired man, Prince Konstantin Veliki, with a silver crown and dragon wings. He is carrying a woman, a humble servant Iva, masquerading as a Duchess Zora, in a long, flowing cream-colored gown as they fly through the air. She is his guest but unbeknownst to him, she is plotting to poison him. In the background, a sprawling forest surrounds a magic academy, Kolegium with colorful, traditional Slavic-style onion domes—gold, silver, bronze and green. Each of the domes represents air, water, fire and earth magic respectively. Snippet text at the bottom reads: "Do you always sequester your guests and take flight with them?"A self-made illustration set in the catacombs under the magic academy, Kolegium, featuring classical-style statues on the walls. Iva, in dark armor, rides a bright, light blue-scaled dragon; it is Prince Konstantin Veliki in his dragon form.
They face off against a monstrous, ethereal shadow dragon composed of wispy, black smoke and glowing eyes — this is Konstantin’s fallen father Tibor Veliki. A brilliant golden sphere of light, relic of the Slavic god of light, Belobog, called Spark of Creation, floats on a pedestal between them. Text at the bottom of the snippet reads: "Let us dance, little one," the Shadow Dragon hisses in a dry whisper of the fallen. "A worthy foe," Konstantin responds. We take to the air to meet the darkness. Two gargantuan winged silhouettes hover in the abyss, suspended in a precarious balance. They mirror one another; two sides of the same coin, champions of Belobog and Chernobog.
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Cassie Wallin Author @cassiewallinwrites.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Apple TV’s SEVERANCE meets SILO 🚫 Emotion as system error 👾 The haunting is digital 📋Corporate ritual menace 🧪 Complicit Protagonist 🧨 Creeping dread to visceral action #QuestPit #Q #A #SF #S #SFF #U
The unmaking agents guideThe pitch nova feels too much much and in this future it could get her mind wiped cleanComps: severance, silo, the dram hotel, chaingang all starsThe characters. Nova the stranger and Kade
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Hutchison Adams @hutchadams.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Josephine’s been dead for 100 years, the sole guardian keeping hell’s lid shut. If Howard can solve the ritual that’s breaking it open, he will take her place, but erase her from existence. Unfortunately, he’s falling in love with her. Awkward. #QuestPit #A #DF #IndustrialAcademia #W
A fiery image with a smoky industrial factory setting, where ancient leather-bound books transform into smokestacks and faint archaic writing is scribbled against a smoky background. As "an agent's guide to..." the bold title reads, "HELL WITH THE LID TAKEN OFF" with the tagline, "Pittsburgh, 1906. The Infernal Revolution begins." Across the bottom, it reads, "an Industrial Dark Academia Fantasy of 100K Words by Hutchison Adams"Against a gritty, smoky background, industrial equipment belches fire into the air. The bold image title reads, "the PITCH." The text reads, "In 1906 Pittsburgh, fifteen-year-old Howard Grosick, spoiled heir to a steel fortune, hides his love of macabre fiction from his stern parents. His ambitious Uncle Albert doesn’t just indulge it ... he turns it into ritual.Against a smoky background, an industrial steel crucible pours molten iron into a flaming cauldron. The bold title reads, "the EXCERPT." The text reads, "My name is Howard Grosick.

In the mid-winter of 1906, when I was fifteen years of age, I was drowned and buriedby my beloved Uncle Albert. It would be perfectly natural for you to assume that, since I am here recounting this tale, I must have survived more or less intact. But there is nothing you would call natural in the events which came about as the result of my uncle’s betrayal ...

Let me assure you now before we go any further:

Survive, I did not.

Yet, I live. Not as a phantom, nor a ghoul. Not as a ghost. Blood courses through my veins as it does yours. I am a living human being. But ... not as you are. Unnatural, yet of nature.

I find I cannot simply explain without properly telling the tale from its outset. At least, from the point where my fifteen-year-old self became inextricably involved. 

It began as I lay sleeping ...Against a grainy, smoky historical photo background the city of Pittsburgh and one of its rivers, the bold title reads, "the COMPS." Three book covers are shown, with corresponding descriptions, comparing "Hell With the Lid Taken Off" to themes found in published works: "The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, by V.E. Schwab—Mythic, Emotional Fantasy; Identity, Memory, Sacrifice; Lyrical, Stylized Voice; What it means to give up your life for something larger" ... "Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo—Secret Societies & Occult Systems; Structured, Morally Compromised Magic; Insitutional Corruption; Hidden system beneath reality that the people in charge don't understand any more" ... "Perdido Street Station, by China Miéville—Dense, Atmospheric Worldbuilding; Industrial, Urban Fantasy; Unsettling creatures & systems; Willing to get weird & dark; This world has texture, weight, and strangeness"
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B. van Bodegom 📃is AGENTED @bvbodegom.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
CABIN IN THE WOODS × JOHN DIES AT THE END × JUMANJI When one of them is murdered at their annual gaming retreat, 5 dads must rely on years of #TTRPG experience—& ball-busting puns—to solve the crime before they're all butchered like NPCs in a badly written supernatural campaign. #QuestPit #A #H #Q
Poster-style graphic with a black background and heavy red blood splatter. Large distressed white and red text reads “DAD BODIES.” A dagger runs horizontally through the letters, and a 20-sided die showing low numbers appears on the right. Along the bottom are black silhouettes of heads with X-shaped eyes. Beneath, smaller text reads “ROLL FOR FUCKERY,” and at the bottom: “A co(s)mic horror novel by B. van Bodegom.”
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Hutchison Adams @hutchadams.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
@questpit.bsky.social A ritual begins. Five stories. Each releases a demon. In 1906 Pittsburgh, a steel heir is pulled into his uncle’s infernal “Book Club,” where five dark tales will begin to tear the lid off hell itself. Everything burns EXCEPT the books. #QuestPit #A #DF #IndustrialAcademia #W
A fiery image with a smoky industrial factory setting, where ancient leather-bound books transform into smokestacks and faint archaic writing is scribbled against a smoky background. As "an agent's guide to..." the bold title reads, "HELL WITH ThE LID TAKEN OFF" with the tagline, "Pittsburgh, 1906. The Infernal Revolution begins." Across the bottom, it reads, "an Industrial Dark Academia Fantasy of 100K Words by Hutchison Adams"Against a gritty, smoky background, industrial equipment belches fire into the air. The bold image title reads, "the PITCH." The text reads, "In 1906 Pittsburgh, fifteen-year-old Howard Grosick, spoiled heir to a steel fortune, hides his love of macabre fiction from his stern parents. His ambitious Uncle Albert doesn’t just indulge it ... he turns it into ritual.

Each story Howard reads releases a demon.

Five stories will unlock an ancient prison and begin tearing the lid off hell itself.

Deep beneath the iron city, the Hellgrate ... barrier between hell and earth ... has begun to fail. Its lone guardian, Josephine Donegal, is a girl murdered a century ago and bound to stand watch in death.

As Howard is drawn into his uncle’s infernal design, he becomes entangled with the same cosmic force that binds her.

Now, racing to stop the ritual before the gate breaks open, Howard finds himself pulled between a corrupt Order, a collapsing system, and the impossible chance to bring Jo back.

All he really wants is to save the dead girl he’s fallen in love with.

He’s going to fail catastrophically."Against a smoky background, an industrial steel crucible pours molten iron into a flaming cauldron. The bold title reads, "the EXCERPT." The text reads, "My name is Howard Grosick.

In the mid-winter of 1906, when I was fifteen years of age, I was drowned and buriedby my beloved Uncle Albert. It would be perfectly natural for you to assume that, since I am here recounting this tale, I must have survived more or less intact. But there is nothing you would call natural in the events which came about as the result of my uncle’s betrayal ...

Let me assure you now before we go any further:

Survive, I did not.

Yet, I live. Not as a phantom, nor a ghoul. Not as a ghost. Blood courses through my veins as it does yours. I am a living human being. But ... not as you are. Unnatural, yet of nature.

I find I cannot simply explain without properly telling the tale from its outset. At least, from the point where my fifteen-year-old self became inextricably involved. 

It began as I lay sleeping ...Against a grainy, smoky historical photo background the city of Pittsburgh and one of its rivers, the bold title reads, "the COMPS." Three book covers are shown, with corresponding descriptions, comparing "Hell With the Lid Taken Off" to themes found in published works: "The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, by V.E. Schwab—Mythic, Emotional Fantasy; Identity, Memory, Sacrifice; Lyrical, Stylized Voice; What it means to give up your life for something larger" ... "Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo—Secret Societies & Occult Systems; Structured, Morally Compromised Magic; Insitutional Corruption; Hidden system beneath reality that the people in charge don't understand any more" ... "Perdido Street Station, by China Miéville—Dense, Atmospheric Worldbuilding; Industrial, Urban Fantasy; Unsettling creatures & systems; Willing to get weird & dark; This world has texture, weight, and strangeness"
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Rowan Brighton Brown @rowanbrightonbrown.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
So excited to share that my first published book will be coming to shelves Fall of 2027!
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Ashton J. Thomas @ashtonjthomas.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
#agentsguide to MALUS, an adult dark academia fantasy. Currently #amquerying
A London building sits against a cloudy sky. White text reads: An Introduction to MALUS, An Adult Dark Academia Fantasy, 90K WordsA London building with white text overlayed, reading: Pitch - Devon March has spent the last decade in exile, hiding at a small American museum and keeping the monster in her head a secret. Her anonymity ends when she witnesses the first magical breach in centuries, forcing the University of Velum to send Alastair—her former rival, now a Host already breaking under the strain—to drag her back to London. All Hosts end the same way: deteriorated, disabled, and dead before thirty-five. All except Devon.

Ten years ago, she fled Velum after the night her best friend Clementine died. At Velum, students are bound to maluses, sentient parasites drawn from the realm where the creatures humans once called fairy tales still kill and breed. On Earth, their remnants are bottled and displayed: unicorn horns under glass, fairy wings pinned like insects. Clementine was chosen to guard the Veil between worlds. Shortly after, she died. And Devon awoke with a malus in her head and Clementine’s severed finger in her throat.

Now breaches multiply and Velum rots from the inside. Alastair suspects Devon knows more about Clementine’s death than she admits. And the deeper Devon digs, the more she questions whether the echoes of Clementine are memory, madness, or the parasite whispering through her veins. To survive, Devon must expose Velum’s secrets before the Veil collapses—or before her malus convinces her Clementine might still be alive. She insists she wants to save the world. But she’s lied before. Especially to herself.
A London building against a cloudy sky, overlayed with images of the show Fleabag and the books Ninth House and Katabasis. White text details: For fans of - Fleabag (arrows pointing to text reading fourth wall breaks, unreliable narrator, and messy grief), Ninth House (arrows pointing to text reading outsider in elite spaces, magic is real and studied in our world), and Katabasis (arrows pointing to text reading UK based dark academia, magic is real and studied in our world)Statue in London, white text overlayed reads: Excerpt - It was easy to tell when the university grew close, its extended outer wings of Victorian ashen stone slowly becoming more imposing. To me, the students at Velum looked more like pastiches of students in glossy catalogues than actual fully formed complex individuals. Wool sweaters, argyle, and leather satchels tripled in occurrence as the taxi approached the iron gates. There are articles written on the subject I’m sure you could read, something about how an “appreciation for the past” the students possessed reflected in their garb. But when I was a student it was simply that we were all pretentious assholes who liked that we were distinguished from the corporate office workers on the streets of the city.
  The city itself thought of us a peculiar sight, a den of monks in the midst of a forest of glass trees. Uniquely devoted, largely ignorant of all outside our boundaries. In the center of cosmopolitan life and yet inextricably venerating the beyond, the unknowable. There was nothing for us outside Velum’s walls, not in the skyscrapers or the old bombed-out churches long ago turned into gardens. We were placeless people who had found our place, a decaying monument to mystery. We studied dead languages, and dead bodies, and the dust of dead artifacts. Mortician school was the slang term in the UK for Velum, as we studied the already dead and decaying. A study of rot.
        But I was an optimist of a sort. I saw Hosts and maluses and saw proof of the ethereal, magic made manifest. They were living, they were passed down, they were immortal. A way to cement yourself in history. In a field of decaying dreams, of history dying, what do you do when you see the living, see the heartbeat of it all carrying on? If you were me, you wanted to be a part of it, a cog in the living thing that ceaselessly ran onwards.
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Hutchison Adams @hutchadams.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
I would be humbled to ask for your vote for my poster in the "Most Eye Catching" category. If the armies of hell *are* on their way ... couldn't hurt, right? #PosterPit #PosterPitAwards
An industrial-looking graphic in the style of a promotional movie poster for my novel, Hell With the Lid Taken Off, featuring smoke pouring heavily out of steel mill smoke stacks over a fiery field with the book's title rising out of charred ground, and the tagline, Pittsburgh, 1906. The infernal revolution begins.
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K.M. Carlson @wanderingbutton.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Wrote all the words. Now re-writing all the words but trying to use fewer of them. COOL COOL COOL COOL COOL.
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Hutchison Adams @hutchadams.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Thanks #posterpit organizers, for a great event, and all your hard work! This was a ton of fun, and it was awesome to spot some kindred literary spirits in the wild.
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Hutchison Adams @hutchadams.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
One naive bird and his sarcastic reflection in an enchanted puddle somehow share the only magick that can save two realms from an ancient evil. If they could only agree… about anything. A dark fantasy in progress. #PosterPit #W #Q #DarkF #Gothic #SPF #A
Dark, moody poster set against a distressed background. At center, a ghostly, stylized crow-like bird stands on wet stone. Its feathers are iridescent in shades of violet, teal, and blue, with a single bright yellow eye. Its faint reflection shimmers beneath it.

Above, the title “GRACKLEDOOM” appears in large serif letters shifting from green to blue. A small gold tagline reads, “Some magick decides for itself.” At the top, three descriptors read: “Dry Wit, Devastating Emotional Stakes,” “Lyrical Gothic Fairy-tale Atmosphere,” and “Mythic Scope, Immersive Worldbuilding.” Subtext identifies it as a work-in-progress dark fantasy novel by Hutchison Adams.
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Hutchison Adams @hutchadams.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
The gate of hell isn’t just opening. It is being trampled under. The ancient Order meant to hold it has already failed. And what is coming through will not stop at simply breaking free. (Currently in rewrite following developmental edit) #PosterPit #W #Q #DarkF #Gothic #SPF #A
A fiery, industrial-themed fantasy poster dominated by orange and black tones. In the background, a steel mill with towering smokestacks billows thick smoke into the sky, surrounded by flames and haze, evoking a hellish landscape.

Across the top are thematic elements in white text: “Identity, Memory, Sacrifice,” “Secret Societies, Occult Systems, Institutional Rot,” and “Industrial Gothic Atmosphere.”

Centered in large, bold lettering is the title: “HELL WITH THE LID TAKEN OFF,” with “HELL” looming large above the rest. Below, white text reads: “Pittsburgh, 1906. The infernal revolution begins.”

At the bottom, in small script, it says: “a dark fantasy novel by hutchison adams.”
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Hutchison Adams @hutchadams.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
The city of Pittsburgh at the turn of the century. Deep below, something ghastly is breaking through an ancient barrier. A girl, dead for a hundred years, stands guard at the gate. The steel baron’s spoiled heir who thinks he can save her? He’s dead wrong. #PosterPit #W #Q #DarkF #Gothic #SPF #A
Dark Fantasy Novel by Hutchison Adams.” The background shows a dim steel mill interior, where a large tilted ladle pours a stream of glowing molten metal into darkness, casting warm orange light and sparks.

White text on the left reads: “Pittsburgh, 1906. Beneath the iron city, hell’s lid is breaking open. A girl, dead for a hundred years, stands guard at the gate. A steel baron’s spoiled heir must help her seal it.” Below, in orange: “He will fail.”

At the bottom, the title appears large and bold: “HELL with the lid TAKEN OFF,” with stylized typography layered over drifting smoke and flame. Along the bottom edge are thematic phrases in orange: “Identity, Memory, Sacrifice,” “Secret Societies, Occult Systems, Institutional Rot,” and “Industrial Gothic Atmosphere.”
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Hutchison Adams @hutchadams.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Oh, thesaurus! How do I love thee! Let me list the ways… uh. Um. A lot. I love the thesaurus a lot. #mostimportantwritingtool
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The 70s Guy @stevenw888.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Born 30th March 1930, actor John Astin. Sadly, the majority of the original cast of "The Addams Family" are no longer with us, but, happily John is still around. John Astin played Gomez Addams in the show from 1964 to 1966. He is 96 today. #JohnAstin #Gomez
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PosterPit @posterpitevent.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Happy New Year, #PosterPit people! We hope your 2026 is a grand one, and we hope to see you premiere during this year's pitch event! As always, #PosterPit will occur on the 3rd Saturday in April, and the full schedule for our 2026 event is listed below. More news to come 👀🍿
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Hutchison Adams @hutchadams.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Current WIP—pulled from the query trenches in a death-defying act of literary heroism, it’s becoming what it was always meant to be… #darkfantasy #gothic
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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
You have been weighed, you have been measured, and you have been found wanting. Photo from my collection, no date/info.
Black and white photo of two short haired cats on a bench. A tabby looks disapprovingly at the camera while a black and white cat looks disinterestedly off to the right.
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Cine Updates @updates4cinema.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Gillian Anderson praises the pilot script for Ryan Coogler’s The X-Files, calling it “really good” and encouraging fans to keep an open mind. “Have an open mind and give it a chance because it’s going to be fucking cool.” (Source: dory_jackson/TikTok) #XFiles #RyanCoogler #GillianAnderson
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Hutchison Adams @hutchadams.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
youtu.be/ubU9hampPIc?...
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RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE - Wake Up (Lyrics)
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Hutchison Adams @hutchadams.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Annnnd, that’s a draft! Celebrating the 76,846th word with a gift to meself. I’m just bummed I missed @maggiestiefvater.bsky.social at Posman Books in PGH to get a signed copy!
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Hutchison Adams @hutchadams.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Did a virtual ShutUpAndWrite get-together this morning... kinda cool. Gonna hit the in-person meetup soon. Good stuff, and neat to start making connections in the writing community! Highly recommend. www.shutupwrite.com
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Shut Up & Write! | Free Global Writing Community & Events
Join Shut Up & Write! – a free global community helping writers build sustainable writing habits through online & in-person events every week.
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Hutchison Adams @hutchadams.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Curious visitor last night.
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Hutchison Adams @hutchadams.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
While Christmas shopping at 1/2 Price Books, I realized that I NEVER READ FAHRENHEIT 451. And I call myself a Bradbury fan. Oversight currently being corrected.
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Dia VanGunten / Writer @pinkzombierose.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
Being an author is both magical and strange because your book means THE WORLD to someone you've never met. Like you could have changed someone's life, written the book they love more than anything. You'll never know. It's a shy sort of magic and I love it. Books go so far.
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Bookshelfie ⭐️ @bookshelfie.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
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Hutchison Adams @hutchadams.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
The letdown after finishing a manuscript. The hopeless feeling that it's not good enough, and never will be. Starting a rewrite, knowing it will need professional editing. Spending significant sums to fix it just so I can fail anyway? Why bother. Back at it tomorrow, regardless. Need dopamine.
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