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Joey Polino (Querying)

@jpolino.bsky.social

Ex-Pinterest, writing gay novels in Buffalo, New York. Currently seeking literary representation. www.jpolino.com

Joey Polino (Querying) @jpolino.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

RATHMORE essentials 🖼️ Torn masterpieces 🏛️ Empty museums 👨🏻‍❤️‍👨🏼 Tender workplace romance 👀 Rumors of forgery and theft 👔 Vintage Ralph Lauren 🌱 Creeping ivy on red brick 🔊 The Psychedelic Furs on vinyl 🥃 Negronis and roast chicken 🎨 Vermeer, van Dyck 🪡 Phantom Thread x The Secret History #QueerPit #A #LF

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Joey Polino (Querying) @jpolino.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

RATHMORE is a campus-set novel exploring the love affair between a professor of art conservation and his promising young assistant as the men embark on a restoration of Baroque-period art that erupts with accusations of forgery and theft. PHANTOM THREAD x THE ARTIST AND THE FEAST #QueerPit #A #LF

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Joey Polino (Querying) @jpolino.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

PRIVATE MYTHOLOGY essentials • Seaside terraces • Gay yearning • Tennis in formal black tie • Bare ankles above penny loafers • David Bowie records • Remembered intimacies • Long held secrets • A dangerous game of gossip #questpit #querying #litfic #lgbtq

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Joey Polino (Querying) @jpolino.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Patricia Highsmith meets Sally Rooney in PRIVATE MYTHOLOGY, a gay literary novel with strong elements of mystery and romance set in the South of France in the early 1990s. #questpit #querying

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