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Kim Wolters @kimwolters-author.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

"Light and shadow are opposite sides of the same coin. We can illuminate our paths or darken our way. It is a matter of choice." ~ Maya Angelou

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Kim Wolters @kimwolters-author.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

That’s definitely the wing-off between Gabriella and Rayne, where she realises he has a remarkable wingspan…👀 #WIPPIT #WIPPITStickyNoteQuestions #BookSky #fantasy #youngadultbooks

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Kim Wolters @kimwolters-author.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Going to do my yoga practice in the garden tonight 🥰 and then working on my new story Project Demon! #blueskywriters

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B. van Bodegom 📃is AGENTED @bvbodegom.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

TREASURE PLANET×THE EXPANSE A bookworm dreams of escape from a pirate-run space station. With his friend, a tech genius, he finds an ancient wrist computer tied to his family and a legendary lost starship. As they seek answers, so does a notorious captain. #LuckyPit #PopUpPit #PopUpPitA #YA #SF #M

ink drawing of Jak Sterzand, a teenage boy, crawling towards the viewer in a ventilation or maintenance shaft type tunnel. His name and title of the book JAK STERZAND above him, and underneath in smaller letters, the subtitle: ESCAPE FROM FREEPORT

All in black and white

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Zia Einhorn @zeinhorn.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

THE LOVE HYPOTHESIS X10 THINGS I HATE ABOUT YOU Zelda doesn't believe in ❤️- she just pretends to for TV. A viral interview-> #fakedating hopeless romantic actor Henry. Chemistry & #forcedproximity-> 🎆🌶️ Is it real? Is it fake? Can Zelda overcome her fears and open her ❤️? #LuckyPit #PopUpPitA #R

The image features a man and a woman seated at a small square table in a dollar slice joint in NYC. The man on the left has neatly styled dark hair and a short beard. He leans back casually in his chair with one arm resting on the chair's back. He wears a tan cardigan with a geometric pattern over a cream-colored shirt, paired with dark green trousers.
On the right, the woman sits upright, with her legs crossed. She has long, straight blonde hair, styled neatly. She is dressed in a pale pink button-up blouse that is slightly loose and tucked into a lime-green skirt. Her expression is playful, as she holds a slice of pizza near her mouth as if about to take a bite.
The table between them holds two small, branded pizza boxes, a red condiment bottle, and a drink cup with a straw. The backdrop consists of a dark wood-paneled wall.
The title text above them reads “Dollar Slice Date” in large, bold, and colorful lettering. The word "Date" is particularly prominent, written in red with a heart integrated into the "D." Above their heads, their names—Henry Alden and Zelda Zadrozny—are written in a clean, minimal font. The composition is bright, vibrant, and playful.

The inevitable text from Lucia arrived around two hours later.
L: excuse me??? did we forget to share something???
Z: hey lulu
L: oma DO NOT
L: do NOT hey lulu me rn. I will call a car right now and come over and kick your ass
Z: jesus ok sorry for saying hi g
L: i'll be there in 10. istg you had better have AT LEAST ONE bottle of wine ready when I get there
When Lucia arrived, roughly 25 minutes later, it was without knocking, using her key and then sweeping into the studio holding her phone in the air ahead of her, screen facing out like a talisman.
"What the actual fuck am I looking at here?"
Zelda barely glanced up from the book she was not actually reading. Lucia was more fun when you played with her a little. "Hey babe dunno, what are you looking at?"
Lucia tossed her hair over her shoulder in a huff, pushing the phone between Zelda and the book. "This, you horrible creature, this! Were you ever planning on telling me that you interviewed Henry Alden last night?!"

Okay, any more teasing and Lucia was going to hit the part of her vocal register where she sounded like a hysterical tea kettle. Zelda closed the book and glanced at the phone.
It was open to the clip of her conversation with Henry paused at the halfway mark, was frozen right around the part of the interview where Henry had started to get the upper hand, the tiny video version of Zelda pink-cheeked and open-mouthed as the tiny video version of Henry beamed at her, almost adoringly.
Regular sized Zelda felt her cheeks begin to flush in sympathy with her miniature double.
"Ohhhhhh okay, okay, I can literally see you blushing, what the fuck, Zelle?"
Zelda shook her head. "No, it's just-he's-it's just an interview, he's good at interviews, he's been doing these asinine step and repeat Q&As since he was what, like 10? When did the first Wyldmere movie come out, like late '90s? He's a professional at this, and he's an actor--it was just part of the bit."
"Urrrrrgh," Lucia grabbed a throw pillow and buried her face in it, groaning dramatically.
Zelda patted her sarcastically on the back until she resurfaced, tousled and maybe sincerely furious this time?

"Don't change the topic, you always do this, you're very clever, we're all aware, but please, just this once, humor me and tell me what happened!"
So Zelda did. Not that there was really anything to talk about that wasn't recorded in full stereo and color in the video itself. Lucia, to no one's surprise, was left absolutely unappeased by this.
*Wait so that was it? You didn't meet him before? You didn't find him after? That was it?"
Zelda shrugged. "Dunno what you want me to tell you, hon--it was just an interview. He's seen the show. he probably just figured I'd be up for a little fake flirting because of that?"
Lucia goggled at her. Zelda raised her eyebrows defiantly back at her in response. Lucia groaned again.
"See, this is why I keep trying to get you to go on actual dates, it's like your women's intuition for attraction or chemistry or something is broken or I don't know, fucking rusted over from lack of use? That? That is not fake.
Absolutely not."
God, those fucking murderous butterflies were back again, wings flapping relentlessly and making her stomach churn.

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Vee Haacke 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ is querying! @goddessvicky.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

💫 CROWNED IN LIGHT 💫 NICK AND NORAH'S INFINITE PLAYLIST X RAVEN CYCLE SERIES 🌹Romance/Romantasy 👨‍👨‍👧Polyamory ❤️‍🔥Slow Burn 👨‍👨‍👦‍👦Found Family ⚖️Gods & Goddesses 🎵Music! ♿Diversity 🏳️‍🌈LGBTQIA+ 💖Soul Mates ✨Magical Realism Agent's guide included 📖 #WSPit #WSPitQ #WSPitS #A #F #R #bipoc #spec #magicalrealism

A photo collage that features a woman wearing a crown, a college campus, a hand playing the guitar, piano keys, and a pair of bloody knuckles

A photo that reads:
Crowned In Light
A literary agent's guide to the first book in the Crowned Series
As 85k word Urban Speculative Romance/Romantasy
First three books are finished, edited, and ready to query!
This one has it all!
- Magical Realism
- Slow Burn
- Found Family
- Gods and Goddesses
- Music Heavy
- Soul Mates / Past Lives
- Strong Female Friendships
- Disability/BIPOC representation
- DAVID BOWIE?!?!

A photo that reads:
The Pitch!
It’s the end of a hot Iowan summer, and twenty-four-year-old Matilda West is gearing up for her sophomore year of college at Oak Ridge University. A scholarship student, she is swayed by the suggestion of her favorite professor to join a study group he’s created for his Classical Mythology course. The students in the group adopt her quickly, but Matilda’s past has made her wary and anxious of new people and their intentions.
When she finds herself drawn toward two of the people in the group, including an unexplainable feeling like she’s met one of them before, Matilda is thrown in the middle of a situation she couldn’t have seen coming. Weird dreams and the fact that her life might not be what she thought it was force Matilda to question whether her fate was already decided, or if someone else is pulling the strings… How does one juggle school work, healing trauma, finding love, and supporting a diverse community, while also fighting for their fate and the rest of the world?

A photo that reads:
For Fans of:
Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist
Maggie Stiefvater
Richelle Mead
Laurell K Hamilton

Adults over the age of 18 whp enjoy a world sprinkled with mythology and More, and fantasy rooted in reality.
Reader who enjoy diverse, complex characters, especially LGBTQIA+ characters, those with disabilities, and those deailing with PTSD and trauma in an honest and real way.
Romance Readers who enjoy things like friends to loves, enemies to friends, slow burn, found family, angst with a happy ending, and polyamory.

Playlist:
Have I Found My Home by Paden
What A Good Woman Does by Joy Williams
Dear Happy by Gabrielle Aplin
Breathe Me by Sia
Stuck In My Head by Blue Eyes
Silence by Marshmello & Khalid
The World We Made by Ruelle
Like That by JP Saxe
Safe Place by RuthAnne
Hurts Like Hell by Fleurie & Tommee Profitt
Somebody Loved by The Weepies
For You by Angus & Julia Stone
Past Life by Morgan St Jean
Atlas: Heart by Sleeping At Last

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🍂 Michelle 🕯️ @mdkerkhoven.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

My sapphic YA dark fantasy with horror elements and crossover potential, 𝐖𝐇𝐄𝐑𝐄 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐖𝐈𝐂𝐊𝐄𝐃 𝐋𝐈𝐄, has: 🫀 • Chronic illness rep 🧹 • Witches ⚓️ • A ghost ship 🍂 • Sleuthing lesbians 🌊 • Coastal town w/ sinister secrets #PopUpPitE #LuckyPit

THE PITCH

(Cover images of Where the Dark Stands Still, Midnight Mass, What Wakes the Bells, and The Wicked Deep)

A suspected witch makes a pact with the captain of the ghost ship terrorizing her pious coastal town to break the ship’s curse and clear her name—only the town’s cryptic pastor will stop at nothing to keep the curse unbroken.

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Aaliyah🌸 @alpaolucci.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Fourth Wing X Priory of the Orange Tree A dragon has bonded with a healer, and if she refuses the partnership, it’ll kill her To survive, she’ll need to rely on the dragon prodigy’s mentorship and stay away from the students who want to sabotage her #PopUpPitE #LuckyPit #NA #RF #OS

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Ruth Cantu is querying 🦄 @ruth-cantu-writes.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

DAWN OF ONYX x DISCOVERY OF WITCHES Adult High Romantic Fantasy ✨high (accessible) fantasy ✨witch realms at war ✨tyrants + compulsion magic ✨spells+runes+elements ✨angsty forbidden romance ✨erasure of history ✨fate but make it big on choice and consequences #PopUpPitA #PopUpPit #LuckyPit #F

An agent's guide to Eleutheria: 133k Adult High Romantic Fantasy

Pitch: Alys Sathos has no interest in liberating the enemy Night Realm of their mind-controlling queen and not even destiny will change her mind. When she’s captured and forced before the queen, her enemies’ fight becomes her own and her growing feelings for the mind-bound prince might be more deadly than the queen herself.
Tropes: captive to forbidden lovers, mob mentality, freewill themes, chosen group, non western FMC thrust into western fantasy world, queer normative world, power of history and books, swords and epic battles, dueling witch realms, neurodivergence in high fantasy

Comp: THE HURRICAN WARS- enemy realms at odds, A DAWN OF ONYX- captice to lovers, A DISCOVERY OF WITCHES- creature history and lore
Sample: Gritting my teeth until my jaw ached, I held her stare; a pathetic bit of defiance against power I couldn’t match. She rose and loomed over me on the dais, never blinking. The hairs on the back of my neck prickled one by one as her dark sapphire eyes glowed silver.
Compulsion.
Icy fingers sank into my mind, ripping through my will. Ko’s pale green face replaced any other thought. A desire to run a sword through him overtook everything; my hopes, my dreams, my very will that had formed an airwitch captain from an orphaned street rat.

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Eliwood S(pooky) Ghost @eliwoodsgheist.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

CAMP DAMASCUS x NETTLE & BONE Girl meets boy. Girl meets monsters. Girl has to save the town. Sometimes what you don't know can kill you in BLUDEYE BEACH. 🤷‍♀️Character driven ❤️Slow-burn romance 👻Monster menagerie 🫂Found family #LuckyPit #PopUpPitA #Q #F #H #A

A picrew portrait of a young woman wearing glasses overlaid on a beach. The name Edie Grayson is on top, with a block of text to the right reading:

She hated gym class, scary stories, green beans, and movies where the female love interest never got any of the good lines. She didn’t have a lot of friends, but sometimes, in group settings, she had the satisfaction of saying something really funny, usually on purpose.

A picrew image of a young man over a beach with text reading Milo Vance at the top. To the right is a block of text that reads:

“If you’re scared, I’ll do it with you,” Milo said. He said it as though it were the most natural thing in the world. When Edie looked at him, he was holding out his hand, and watching her with a sincerity she didn’t think she’d ever seen on anyone’s face. If it had been anyone else, at any other time, she would have thought they were making fun of her; but not Milo.

A picrew image of a young woman over the ocean with text reading Catarina Novikov at the top. To the right is a block of text that reads:

“I don’t know. We didn’t know any better. But maybe we do now. Maybe Edie’s wrong, I don’t know. But I sincerely hope that I never get to a point in my life where I can’t admit when I’m wrong. And if I am, I can’t change anything I've done, but maybe I can stop myself from repeating the same mistakes. Isn’t that worth at least considering?”

A picrew portrait of a young man wearing sunglasses overlaid on a beach. The name Manny Torres is on top, with a block of text to the right reading:

“You’re right about that. Grief just…becomes this thing inside of you. Like every time you want to see them, or talk to them, it just goes into this hard, black lump, somewhere deep down in your guts. Because those thoughts can’t go anywhere else. They just collect there, stuck inside of you. I think they say grief makes a hole inside of you because we’re all too scared to see what’s inside of it.”

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Kim Wolters @kimwolters-author.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

THE SHADOW OF LIGHT YA paranormal fantasy standalone at 98K words 💫 Found family 💫 Friends-to-lovers slowburn romance (w/ complications and yearning) 💫 Grump x Sunshine 💫 International setting 💫 FMC can manipulate soundwaves 💫 Upbeat with serious themes #PopUpPitA #LuckyPit #F #YA

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austin (🛤️ is querying 🛤️) @austinsgrace.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

(re)introducing HOW TO COME HOME: ⛓️ PEAKY BLINDERS x CAT SEBASTIAN 🏳️‍🌈 upmarket queer historical romance 🛤️ an ex-con w/a head for numbers 🎼 a former musical prodigy dealing w/disability 📚 small-town troubles & big-city ghosts #LuckyPit #PopUpPit #PopUpPitA

Pitch card for HOW TO COME HOME, pitched as PEAKY BLINDERS X WE COULD BE SO GOOD.
Ten years ago, Nathan Gilliard stole $100,000 from his family’s safe and turned informant on his family’s Prohibition contraband empire, damning his brothers to life in prison in exchange for a ten-year sentence of his own. Stepping out as a free man in 1937, he’s set on spending his life alone and penitent, never forgetting what he did to his family—or why.
Taking a job in a small-town general store is the perfect stopgap, even if Nathan uses a false name to hide his identity...and even if his new boss, handsome, bespectacled single father Lawrence Freburg, is as earnest and kindhearted as Nathan’s upbringing and time in prison weren’t.
Pitch text is set against an image of a cornfield and full moon at dusk, with gold decorative borders in the top left and bottom right corners

Trope/theme map for HOW TO COME HOME, with a digital painting of Nathan and Lawrence at the center. Lawrence, sitting to the left, is a white blond man playing piano and smiling, with glasses hanging from his neck. Nathan, right, is a dark-haired white man watching him play.

Tropes/themes read:
Upmarket historical romance
107,000 words
Dual POV with flashbacks
Running from the past, returning to the past
Crime family/criminal brothers
Unconventional family structures
Queerness & homemaking
Disability =/= disabling

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Sarah Rowlands @sarahauthor27.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

🫐BELLADONNA x OUTLANDER☘️ 🖤1912 Gothic Romantasy 🌿BodyHorror plant monsters 🌸CottageGore When Estella discovers an enchanted glen with old Irish curse, she must hide her monstrous symptoms (and her interest in the Irish) from her husband before they become his medical experiment #PopUpPitA #LuckyPit

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Heather Carter @hlcarterauthor.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

LAKESEDGE X HILL HOUSE A shadow demon has marked Chloe as the future bride of the ruthless Underworld prince, trapping her in a haunted house. She has 3 weeks to break the bond or forever live in darkness. A handsome ghost may hold the key. #LuckyPit #PopUpPitE #A #F #R

A dark staircase background. White text reads: A DEATH WITHOUT YOU, HEATHER CARTER, CAN TRUE LOVE TRANSCEND THE CHASM BETWEEN LIFE AND DEATH? ON SUBMISSION NOW. Three images- one book cover of Lakesedge by Lyndall Clipstone, a movie posted for Netflix's The Haunting of Hill House, and a movie poster for The Phantom of the Opera

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amarie is ✨ON SUB✨ @amariewrites.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

When Isadora struggles to keep her aunt’s magic shop open, she’s given the chance to grumpy demon, Gio, in order to secure his inheritance. If she can make it a year, he’ll give her the funds needed to get the shop out of debt. #LuckyPit #PopUpPitE

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Rowan Brighton Brown @rowanbrightonbrown.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

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. #PopUpPitE #LuckyPit

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Kim Wolters @kimwolters-author.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

#PopUpPitA #LuckyPit When Gabriella finds out her leaders have been lying to her and try to kill her, she’s forced to leave everything behind. Incl her best friend Amaros. Will she ever see him again? Will he believe her? And will he return her feelings? 🪽Angels x Fae 💚found family 💔unrequieted

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Ruth Cantu is querying 🦄 @ruth-cantu-writes.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

DAWN OF ONYX x DISCOVERY OF WITCHES Divine fate must be broken if it thinks Alys Sathos is supposed to help free the enemy witch realm of their compulsion wielding Queen and not even the brooding Prince who captured her is going to change her mind. #LuckyPit #PopUpPitA #F #A

An Agent’s Guide to Eleutheria. 133k Adult high Romantic fantasy. Image of woman in a glass dome holding a moon in one hand and in other.

Comps: THE HURRICANE WARS- enemy realms at odds. A DAWN OF ONYX- captive to lovers. A DISCOVERY OF WITCHES- creature history and lore
Chapter One Sample: Gritting my teeth until my jaw ached, I held her stare; a pathetic bit of defiance against power I couldn’t match. She rose and loomed over me on the dais, never blinking. The hairs on the back of my neck prickled one by one as her dark sapphire eyes glowed silver.
Compulsion.
Icy fingers sank into my mind, ripping through my will. Ko’s pale green face replaced any other thought. A desire to run a sword through him overtook everything; my hopes, my dreams, my very will that had formed an airwitch captain from an orphaned street rat.

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🍂 Michelle 🕯️ @mdkerkhoven.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

#PopUpPitE #LuckyPit 🫀 • Chronic illness rep 🧹 • Witches ⚓️ • A ghost ship 🍂 • Sleuthing lesbians 🌊 • Coastal town w/ sinister secrets ‘𝐃𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐡 arrived by neither steed nor raven, but as it did every solstice—aboard a coal-black galleon with charred sails.’

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Kim Wolters @kimwolters-author.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

#PopUpPitA #LuckyPit 🪽YA paranormal fantasy 🪽Standalone 🪽Angels vs Fae 🪽Slowburn friends to enemies to lovers She sensed him stopping, looking up at her as he beheld her silhouette against the rising sun. She smirked. There was nothing better than the smell of fear to wake her up in the morning.

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Kim Wolters @kimwolters-author.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

“He is the monster they don’t know how to write stories about.” - Golden Son by Pierce Brown #booksky #redrising

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Kim Wolters @kimwolters-author.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

What’s your least favourite trope? Mine’s instalove. Instalust, sure I get that. But instalove? Nope nope nope #booksky

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Kim Wolters @kimwolters-author.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Currently reading Golden Son and WOW the writing is so so good. Have any of you read it? (Or Red Rising) #booksky #redrising #bookstagram

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Kim Wolters @kimwolters-author.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Introducing my #wip The Shadow of Light, a YA standalone fantasy novel: When Gabriella discovers the Angelic Council is secretly experimenting on Fae - their arch enemies- she decides to investigate, despite risking being cast out of the Heavens, and worse; losing her best friend, Amaros.

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Kim Wolters @kimwolters-author.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Past the 50% mark with my structural edits for TSoL! Looking for betas soon! #amwriting #writersky #booksky #fantasy #amediting #yafantasynovel

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Kim Wolters @kimwolters-author.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Why does choosing yourself over others feel like failure when actually it’s a victory? #selfcare #standupforyourself #mentalhealth

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Kim Wolters @kimwolters-author.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

The little one wants to stay at grandma’s this afternoon…oh no what am I going to do with all this time 😂 #writermom

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Kim Wolters @kimwolters-author.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

I’m reading book 2 in a regency mystery series. It also has a slow burn side plot which is 🥰 What are you currently reading? #booksky #bookstagram #booktok #supportindieauthors #historicalromance

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Kim Wolters @kimwolters-author.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Tell me what you’re reading without telling me what you’re reading. I’ll go first: a Regency novel with an OCD FMC, a dead body, and a hot Scot #bookish #amreading #romancenovel #supportindieauthors #bookstagram #mysterybooks #historicalromance

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Kim Wolters @kimwolters-author.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Hi! Where are the #bookish and #writer people on this app? Looking to connect and make friends with fellow booknerds! ☺️

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