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IvyBee 🐝 @ivybeewrites.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

When demon-bound assassin Nym is betrayed by his order, he joins a ragtag group to escape the city. But as a demonic wasteland threatens the swallow the world, he must choose between his revenge and protecting his new-found family. Even if the latter means unleashing hell. Literally. #DVPit #A #F

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IvyBee 🐝 @ivybeewrites.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

Finally went to an in-person writing group for the first time in years, and it was amazing! Why am I not doing this more often? (Because of timing, that’s why.)

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S.M. Levine @smlevine.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Available now!! I’m so thrilled to share the audiobook of Less than Perfect with you today. You can listen now on Spotify, and all audiobook platforms! open.spotify.com/show/1yhs3TE...

Now available Less than Perfect audiobook.

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Arumi Writes @arumiwrites.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

The #NaNoWriMo org may have died under a mountain of scandals, but the drive to create lives on. You don't need an org to write a book. Happy creating to all those who are writing this month. ❤️ #WritingCommunity

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Millie Abecassis @millieabecassis.com · 21/10/2025

Today is the day! My Gothic & sapphic historical fantasy novel is available everywhere ebooks are sold! #Fantasy #Booksky

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IvyBee 🐝 @ivybeewrites.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Have I secretly (not so secretly) started plotting the sequel to my very gay adventure fantasy, Blackblade, while I’m revising the first book? Maybe.

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IvyBee 🐝 @ivybeewrites.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

I absolutely shouldn’t be putting together my own “75 hard for authors” challenge, but after seeing it floating around on Youtube, I’m very tempted.

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IvyBee 🐝 @ivybeewrites.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

MS Word on the iPad is very reliable. It does exactly what I want it to do exactly 40% of the time.

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IvyBee 🐝 @ivybeewrites.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

I’m rereading my high fantasy adventure novel that I haven’t touched in a year, because I want to revise it. I’m surprised to discover that this book is actually very good.

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IvyBee 🐝 @ivybeewrites.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

Dear grammar checker, When I say “not even”, I do not mean lopsided, and I do not want you to replace it with this “more appropriate” word. Ever. Best, Your frustrated writer friend

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IvyBee 🐝 @ivybeewrites.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

To win the meds he’ll die without, Avery joins the world’s most competitive job interview: 🌏 return to the dead Earth 🚀 build a spaceship from scraps 💫 fly it back to Titan 💔 team up with his rival ex 🗡️ kill him before landing 🖤 I said kill, not kiss… #DVPit #A #SF #LGBT

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IvyBee 🐝 @ivybeewrites.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Adult THE DARKNESS OUTSIDE US x WINTER’S ORBIT Avery Clark is dying of radiation poisoning because of a mistake. Of his ex. Now his only way to get life-saving meds is to repeat the journey that gave him his terminal diagnosis. With his ex. If they don’t kill each other first. #DVPit #A #SF #LGBT

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IvyBee 🐝 @ivybeewrites.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

The only way for off-the-books engineer Avery to win the meds he’ll die without is to enter a dangerous job contest. He must return to a desolate Earth, build a spaceship and fly it back to Titan. Should be easy, if not for his vengeful ex who's the best pilot in the competition. #DVPit #A #SF #LGBT

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IvyBee 🐝 @ivybeewrites.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

When a terminally ill engineer applies for a deadly job interview, he not only faces a desolate planet, but also his bitter ex. His one chance to win the meds he needs rests on them working together to escape Earth. But only one can win, & it means betraying each other. Again. #DVPit #A #SF #LGBT

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IvyBee 🐝 @ivybeewrites.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

MOONRISING x 4 ALL MANKIND A terminally ill engineer enters the world’s most cut-throat job interview that can save his life. When they're sent back to a barren Earth & the competitors start dying, he must set aside past grievances & team up with his rival ex to survive. #DVPit #A #SF #LGBT

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IvyBee 🐝 @ivybeewrites.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Name: Ivy Current Read: Atmosphere Last Show: Wednesday Last Film: K-Pop Demon Hunters Fav Book This Year: The Tainted Cup Fav Watch This Year: K-Pop Demon Hunters (sorry, not sorry) + something spooky 🖤

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a dark forest with trees and leaves in the dark

Alt: a dark forest with trees and leaves in the dark

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IvyBee 🐝 @ivybeewrites.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

#DVParty My next project has: 🤖 AI coming to life 🎲 D&D shenanigans ✨ Weird science-based magic 🔪 Criminal underworld 🏳️‍🌈 Queer cast

A moodboard with images of a person typing, code projected over a person’s siluette, a spell book, a twenty-sided die, and people in distorted shapes, with the neon sign: “Is this just fantasy”

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Florence Chien 🗡️ REVENANT OF SUROLIFIA (07.07.26) @florencechien.com · 01/10/2025

✨COVER REVEAL! ✨ The Revenant of Surolifia is coming out July 7, 2026, you can add it on Goodreads now! #2026debuts #comingsoon #fantasy #WritingCommunity #amwriting #amreading #BookSky 🪐📚

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IvyBee 🐝 @ivybeewrites.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Did I just collect 300+ questions to revise the character profile of the MC of the spec thriller I’m drafting? Absolutely. Will I ever respond 300+ questions about my character? Very unlikely. 🫣

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May Zullino @mayzullinowrites.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

One more! (with slight spoilers 🤫) #DVparty

The "kill god" meme chart using characters from The Liminal Knight
Could kill god but thinks they can't: Toast (with a picrew image of a blond man with green eyes)
Couldn't kill god but thinks they can: LG (with a picrew image very similar to the first, only with orange eyes and a chin strip beard)
Knows they could kill god but wouldn't: Dzi (with a picrew image of a person with dark, curly hair, gray eyes, and a flushed face)
Accidentally killed god in a Wedny's parking lot at 3am: Jos (with a picrew image of a dark-skinned girl with black curls and purple eyes)

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OTHERSIDE @othersidespec.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

We're $301 from our reprints stretch goal! If we hit that, every issue will include a reprint of a queer story no longer available online. Help us archive queer stories and support queer creators in a time of censorship! Learn more about our plans here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/hyb...

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OTHERSIDE 2026: A New Magazine of Queer SFF!

A new queer-led literary magazine devoted to speculative fiction, poetry, and art by 2SLGBTQIA+ authors and artists.

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IvyBee 🐝 @ivybeewrites.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

I shared the character art yesterday, but here it is again today: Meet Avery, 29yo space engineer picking up illegal jobs while hiding on the lowest level of the last crumbling city on Titan. Smart, talented, and a dreamer constantly crushing his own dreams. Definitely Pisces. #DVParty

Drawing of a young man with blond hair, blue eyes, hunched over a little, wearing a dark coat.

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Millie Abecassis @millieabecassis.com · 03/10/2025

Help my book make it to the top 100 in LGBTQ+ Fantasy and get free stuff (art prints, bookmarks, stickers!) by preordering A LEGACY OF BLOOD AND BONE on Amazon! (Or anywhere else selling ebooks) #BlueSky #Fantasy #Sapphic Preorder then fill out the form at millieabecassis.com/preorder/

A screenshot showing the ranking of A LEGACY OF BLOOD AND BONE as #259 in LGBTQ+ Fantasy Fiction

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Charisma | Romance Author | Nigerian Characters @charismawilliams.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

#DVparty Hi everyone. Welcome to day 1 of the DVParty. Sharing my mood board:

A moody, romantic collage of nine photos:
1. a woman sitting outdoors in a chic black top and cardigan,
2. a film director’s clapperboard,
3. a young man in a suit holding a notebook,
4. an old typewriter with paper,
5. a close-up of a couple about to kiss,
6. a candlelit desk with a computer screen,
7. an intimate shot of a man and woman in bed with artistic doodles,
8. an open handwritten journal with a dried flower, and
9. a beach scene with two people sitting close together, one resting their hand on the other.

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May Zullino @mayzullinowrites.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Happy #DVparty! The Liminal Knight is a very queer, very trans story about: - liminal feels and the need to be "enough" - love & acceptance from within & without - Big Gender Feels - autonomy - having 0 social skills but making a move on your crush anyway bc a sentient world wants your body so YOLO

A collage shows a background, in yellow and green duotone, of a giant hand reaching out of the ether toward a lone figure standing in a dark tunnel. Smaller inset images include: an extreme close-up of someone looking down, and a similar close-up of someone looking back up at them; a line of horned monster silhouettes against a foggy mountain; a person brandishing a sword; a hand turning into smoke; and a person clutching their head in agony and fear as a smoke-like entity fights its way inside. The top right corner says "The Liminal Knight, May Zullino." Text across the rest of the moodboard says "I know who I am; what I don't know is if I'm worth saving if I can't save you." And the response "Then let's save each other."

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IvyBee 🐝 @ivybeewrites.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Character art for The Gravity of Hope, my LGBT sci-fi romance I’ll be pitching this year. Meet my nerdy engineer MC, Avery and his pilot ex, Silas. #DVparty

Picture of a young blond man with blue eyes wearing a dark coat

Drawing of a ma with dark hair and brown eyes wearing a shirt

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Rowan Prose Publishing @rowanprosepub.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

One touch was all it took to change everything. books2read.com/u/4Eaxr0 #YAbooks #YAreads #YAbooksky #YAthriller #booksky #readersky #newreleasebooks #rowanprosepub

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Erin @erinaries.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

It's officially release day for my novel! Please feel free to buy, review, and above all, ENJOY.

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Millie Abecassis @millieabecassis.com · 16/08/2025

Forthcoming 10.21.2025 at Brick & Bloom, a spellbinding debut brimming with intrigue and dangerous magic ✨ 🌹 Historical fantasy 🇫🇷 Belle Époque 🔥 Slow-burn sapphic romance 🩸 Body-based magic system 🗡️ Family feuds 🗝️ Gothic vibes #PosterPit #P #A #F #HF Request an ARC here: forms.gle/N6awtckRwFGy...

A poster, featuring an illustrated portrait of Aubeline de Sterraux from A LEGACY OF BLOOD AND BONE. She is a white woman with brown hair tied in an intricate hairstyle. She wears a black dress with puffed sleeves and white earings. Aubeline is shown kneeling and praying, her head looking up.

The top of the poster is colored, and the bottom part is black and white, the two part being separated by a red stain reminiscent of blood.

The title of the book is in the center. Underneath is more text reading "A novel by Millie Abecassis," then a quote by April Yates reading "A gothic gem, rich with dread, desire, and a magic system as haunting as it is original."

Under the quote are the names of several characters, listed as if they were actors: Aubeline de Sterraux, Vinnie Anneton, Damarisse de Sterraux, and "unhinged dudes."

At the top are Cannes festival-style quotes reading "dangerous body-based magic" and "slow-burn sapphic romance."

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IvyBee 🐝 @ivybeewrites.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

🌔RISINGx4ALL MANKIND In a contest for a job on the next coloniser, a dying engineer & his space pilot ex are sent back from Titan to the dead planet Earth. As the competition turns deadly, they must set aside past grievances (& unresolved feelings) to get back to Titan alive. #PosterPit #A #SF #lgbt

Two man holding hands in a desert landscape, overlaid with the title “The Gravity of Hope” in a movie poster style.

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IvyBee 🐝 @ivybeewrites.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

To win the meds he’ll die without, Avery must win the world’s most competitive job interview: 🌏 return to the dead planet, Earth 🚀 build a spaceship from scraps 💫 fly it back to Titan 💔 team up with his rival ex 🗡️ kill him before landing 🖤 I said kill, not kiss… #QueerPit #A #SF #LGBT

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Sam Peil 🧟😈🤡 @sampeil.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

WALKING DEAD x LAST OF US🏳️‍🌈 Vivvi: locked alone in the library perfecting her headshots 🩸🔪 Stetson: running from far-right preppers turned zombies 🇺🇸 Dove: waking up after a medicated nap 🦷 The Dentist: roaming around town 🧟‍♀️ 🏳️‍🌈 They all want each other—but not in the same way. #queerpit #h #a

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IvyBee 🐝 @ivybeewrites.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

A small army of villains arrive to the Library of All Things Never Written in the latest episode of my serial. If you’d enjoy a cosy queer fantasy with a softie villain MC and a healthy dose of humour, give it a try. 😈 open.substack.com/pub/ivybee/p...

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Let Me Be Your Villain - Chapter 12

A gathering of villains

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Sam Peil 🧟😈🤡 @sampeil.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

DON'T NAME THE DEAD in which three bi disasters navigate the zombie apocalypse. #horror, headshots & hookups 🏳️‍🌈🧟‍♂️🥼 #H #na #a #q #agentsguide #sf #questpit #lgbt

yellowed background with red blood splatter and top of zombie head in lower corner. George Washington head faintly visible (Mount Rushmore) along left. Text says: AN AGENT'S GUIDE TO DON'T NAME THE DEAD By Sami Peil 90 words Adult/NA HORROR

yellow background with light red blood splatter. Torn out page from a journal, along bottom of screen you can see rocks from mount rushmore

text says: Reader Comments
“Obsessed”
“I'm hooked. so hooked on this book. I need it on my shelf.“
“Love this description. Impeccable delivery,
so cinematic”
“OMINOUS”
“VICERAL”
“I literally cackled”
“I was not prepared”
“Sharp, shocking, love it”
“Seriously this is so fucking cinematic wth”
“I love him”
“IF YOU EVER CHANGE THIS FIRST LINE I WILL FIGHT YOU”
Sami Peil @sampeil
FROM THE JOURNAL OF STETSON JOHN MATTHEWS

April 27, 2025 Donner party @ Black Hills bunkers, current population 280ish.
don’t name the dead

yellow background with red blood splatter, along top right is a zombie with open mouth teeth growling

3 images of book covers: sister maiden monster has tentacles, orange, knife; the z word has an image of a brain, two femmes kissing, teal hands reaching up, a piece of pizza, an axe; the last of us has a man and a girl turned toward the camera as they walk toward ruins; along the right, text reads: If three queer 20-somethings manage to not get eaten by the pandemic zombies, they’ll still have to dodge a preacher bent on building his post-apocalyptic flock.
Love triangle
Survival shenanigans
Headshots
Hookups
Busted bunker

close up of mount rushmore presidents with light red splatter across the image. text reads: Sami Peil @sampeil
don’t name the dead
Vivvi was getting wasted for her 21st until she woke up in a drunk tank, which was the only protection from the cop zombies trying to eat her brains.

Stetson was painting his nails and avoiding his family's far right extremist bunker party, unaware that the virus they all ignored would mutate, and he’d have to fight his way out.

Dove was home alone in a post-wisdom tooth coma, still dreaming about her hot dentist, while infected people turned and began to eat immune survivors.

The Dentist was doing an after-hours call, where a patient bite transformed him into a flesh craving monster.

They all want each other—but not in the same way.
And they really need to stay the hell away from the Preacher.

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Erin @erinaries.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

The World of No: A little bit of Dark Matter and a soupcon of The Midnight Library, complete at 97k words. It features: 🟢 coming of age (even for adults) ⚫️ second chance love 🟢 twisted realities ⚫️ Life is messy; jump the hell in already. #QuestPit #A #SPEC #Querying

Title of my novel; blurred images of faces behind a veil

The pitch for my novel, with a moodboard featuring doors, a dark forest, an empty factory, and shadow figures lurking in doorways.

The covers for my comp titles: The Midnight Library, Under the Whispering Door, The Hollow Places, and Dark Matter

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Kristin @stuffbykristin.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Art school was tough before the vampire tried to kill Edie. Now? It sucks. Armed only with a makeshift vampire hunting kit, Edie must try to survive freshman year. Oh, and… figure out if she can trust the hot Vampire Barista that got her into this mess. #QuestPit #YA #GN #WIP

comic page where vampire contemplates feeding on compelled girl

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Carrie Stewart @carriejay.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Silo x Squid Game Two sisters take very different paths when they’re sent to prison at the end of the world. #questpit #YA #Dystopian #W

Black and white moodboard for my book, The Wasteland. Multiple images on black background, mountain top, cracked earth, a knife on a tree stump, two little girls walking hand in hand, shot from behind, barren tree, stair case.

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M is queer-ying MG @notonlyicarus.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

LORD OF THE FLIESxTHE WRONG WAY HOME 🍇scared girls fight back 🪞sibling opposites 🎹what does a haunting hide? 🐊summer is an antagonist ♟️if I save him he might look at me 🧨surviving a puppetmaster when you’re his marionette ✨RevPit ‘25 winner & big 5 editor interest✨ #QuestPit #Q #MG

green-themed moodboard. From left to right and up to down: a hand reaching through tree bark and foliage; painting of Icarus as he falls by Gowy; a hand reaching to grasp some berries; a lightbulb attracting butterflies; a green-lit tree grove; a piano in a greenhouse below a chandelier; Houasse painting of Daphne’s hand growing foliage; stylised painting of many crows on a colourful branch; hands reaching through lily pads in pond water.

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IvyBee 🐝 @ivybeewrites.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

🌙 RISINGx4ALL MANKIND In a contest for a job on the next coloniser, a dying engineer & his space pilot ex are sent back from Titan to the dead planet, Earth. As the competition turns deadly, they must set aside past grievances (& unresolved feelings) to get back to Titan alive. #QuestPit #Q #A #SF

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IvyBee 🐝 @ivybeewrites.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

When Draven—the deleted villain of a fantasy book—finds himself in a library of forgotten stories, he teams up with the reluctant ghost librarian to travel to the real world, find his author, and convince them to rewrite his story before he fades out of existence. #QuestPit #P #A #F #onlineserial

A book cover of “Let Me Be Your Villain” with the tropes around it: grumpy ghost librarian, MM romance, asshole hero antagonist, sunshine villain protagonist, cozy fantasy, magic library, book characters escaping to the real world.

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Gemma Smith @gemma-smith.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

When their luxury liner sinks, Edith is rescued by a passing ship. But one by one, the other survivors disappear...people the crew insist were never on board. Terrified & unable to escape, Edith must hurry to unearth the ship's sinister secrets or become its latest victim… #A #H #HF #QuestPit #W

A photo collage of early 1900s images (all black and white) - a luxury liner, a mirror with a hand and face trapped inside, a woman in a straitjacket, a sitting room on a luxury liner, a woman reading a book, a ghostly ship

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Florence Chien 🗡️ REVENANT OF SUROLIFIA (07.07.26) @florencechien.com · 06/08/2025

✨ THE REVENANT OF SUROLIFIA ✨ belle époque vibes | so many schemes 🗡️ an imperial officer bent on revenge 🪽 a thief plotting scandals & revolution 🩸 they aim to kill each other 🔥 but must cooperate to stop another war 📅 07.07.26 #questpit #P #A #F

When the Empire of Colours slaughters 17,000 of his silver-eyed kin, Lucas Rhine buries his hatred, hides his eyes behind coloured lenses, and vows to liberate his country through a diplomatic secession.

Usurped prince Faye Phlorik escapes from prison and joins the revolutionaries. They need a silver-eyed champion to rally the people, and Faye needs their resources to reclaim his crown.

Lucas and Faye must eliminate each other to achieve their goals. But when the empire's warships come again, they must unite their forces or there will be nothing left of the people they're both trying to liberate.

The Revenant of Surolifia
A political fantasy
Florence Chien

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