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Iris Andersi | POTIONS UNINCORPORATED @goodwords.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Cover reveal day 🎉 I'm thrilled to share my cover for my debut novel POTIONS UNINCORPORATED 📚 This cozy fantasy includes chronic illness rep and a bi-for-bi romance 💙 Available to pre-order wherever you buy books! 🎉 Pub Date: May 18, 2027 Alcove Press, Distributed by Penguin Random House

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kj is ✨writing✨ @kjsilver.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Look at this beautiful cover for @goodwords.bsky.social debut novel coming out 18th May from @alcovepress.bsky.social PREORDER link below! You really dont want to miss this one ✨️Chronic Illness Rep 🌷Plant Magic 👀Bi-for-Bi Romance 🫠Evil Pharmaceutical-Potion Monopoly Cover by littlestpersimmon

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K.A. Hela ✨ Finally Querying✨ @jundlife.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

So privileged to reveal the cover art of @goodwords.bsky.social 's DEBUT novel from @alcovepress.bsky.social. Who doesn't want to see our little witch take on "Big Potion." It's the cozy underdog story we all need right now. #Books #Booksky #Debut #Writingcommunity #Fantasy #Cozy #Authorlife

I’m so excited to help reveal the gorgeous cover of Potions Unincorporated by Iris Andersi (@irisandersi), coming May 18th from @alcovepress

Potions Unincorporated is a standalone cozy fantasy following a chronically ill witch who sells her excess pain management potions to a greedy company, but when the company pushes her too far, she’ll have to team up with a disgruntled customer to take down the manipulative potion monopoly.

Featuring:

-Chronic Illness Rep

-Plant Magic

-Bi-for-Bi Romance

-Grumpy x Sunshine

-Foraging and Potion Making

-Found Family

-A Snarky Black Cat Familiar

-An Evil Pharmaceutical-Potion Monopoly

-Cozy Witch Vibes

Cover Illustration: littlestpersimmon

You can pre-0rder your copy now at the link below!

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/854243/potions-unincorporated-by-iris-andersi/

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Dierdre Cieran @dmcieran.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

My newest post is live! dmcieran.substack.com/p/writing-jo... #amwriting #amquerying #blueskywrites #writingcommunity #revspirations #WriteSky #WriterSky #Writers

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kj is ✨writing✨ @kjsilver.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I got so excited I didn't read the TWO BOOK DEAL part now I'm screaming again 🥹😭

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kj is ✨writing✨ @kjsilver.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Listen, if this was good already (I read it in less than 2 days), it's about to become ✨️exquisite✨️ I would keep an eye on this one if I were you 👀 #BookSky #WritingCommunity #WriteSky

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Kate McKean @katemckean.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

WRITERS!: Bookmark this for when you need it. www.agentsandbooks.com/how-to-ask-f...

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K.A. Hela ✨ Finally Querying✨ @jundlife.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Got to hold in my hand my story "The Servant of Brass" from @crookedspinepress.com Reading was surreal and I immediately wanted to edit...but it's beyond that now. Be free little horror story! crookedspinepress.com/store?issue=6 #Writingcommunity #Writing #books #horror #booksky #writesky

A copy of Crooked Pine Last Exit on a post with bushes in the background. The cover features four skeletons driving a car down route 666

Picture of the inside of the Zine featuring the story "The Servant of Brass" by K.A. Hela

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kj is ✨writing✨ @kjsilver.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Somehow I've managed to edit 3 whole chapters this week and is not even the weekend. Going to take it as a sign that I'm on the other side of burn out or at least heading that way !! ☁️🌷✨️ #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #BookSky #YA #CozyFantasy #WIP

Tracker I've drawn up for Draft 3 of Project Clouds (YA cozy fantasy book) - 33 roses to colour in as I complete each chapter

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kj is ✨writing✨ @kjsilver.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

guess who is trying to come back to socials after a very chaotic summer?? ❣️ Warning: there is lots of yapping, but also some pretty views of the UK countryside ~ youtu.be/dvPU9oDSd_I #WritingCommunity #BookSky #WriteSky #YA #Cozy #Fantasy #WIP #QueryingPrep

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Pushing through burn out so I can find my sparkle again | writing diaries 🌷☁️

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kj is ✨writing✨ @kjsilver.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Oooooh nice!! I have written some short stories, but I always want to expand it lol I have 0 self control

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kj is ✨writing✨ @kjsilver.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

as it turns out, i had a serious case of burn out (& some health stuff i'm trying to sort out) BUT trying to slowly come out of my hermit cave... no smoochpit for me since i don't *really* have any romance in teh YA cozy so it wouldn't fit, what about you??? 👀

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Jumanji: What Year Is It?

ALT: Jumanji: What Year Is It?

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Iris Andersi | POTIONS UNINCORPORATED @goodwords.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Want to help share exciting news about Potions Unincorporated, my cozy fantasy debut novel? Street team signs ups are live!

Text: Meet Toad
Linatta's Familiar - NOT a cat
Hates Hats
Snarky, Grumpy, Big-Hearted
Meet Linatta Mosset:
Curmudgeon . . . with a Secret Sense of Humor
Green Witch
Chronically Ill
Plant Lover
Artwork by @stephydrawsart_ on Instagram. Image is of a woman with dark blonde hair holding a potion vial. She is sitting on a rocking chair next to a cat on a shelf who has just knocked over a different potion vial.

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kj is ✨writing✨ @kjsilver.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

omg Iris!!!!! i've missed so much, congratulations!! 🥹🎉 (the art is stunning btw!!)

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Jessica Fisher Riches - is Querying and Drafting @prahajess.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

It's here! I'm thrilled to be part of the two-volume Gorgon's Gaze Press anthology: Witches Save the World. (Note: I'm in Covens, Cauldrons and Curses)! Find all the links here: eternalhauntedsummer.com/gorgons-gaze... Direct Amazon link here: www.amazon.com/Witches-Save...

Covens and Curses, Hags and Harridans; two book covers called Witches Save the World (two editions); Witches who speak, who act, who do what must be done -- because someone has to save the world

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Iris Andersi | POTIONS UNINCORPORATED @goodwords.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

My summer newsletter is coming soon! Subscribe to get it in your inbox 💙 What to expect: 📚 The Reading Nook = book recs ✍️ The Writer's Block = writing tips and publishing updates 🥄 Just One Spoon = chronic illness and disability reflections irisandersi.substack.com/subscribe #writingcommunity

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Made-up awards for my favorite recently read books, writing and publishing updates, and chronic illness reflections. Click to read Iris's Substack, by Iris Andersi, a Substack publication. Launched 6 ...

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kj is ✨writing✨ @kjsilver.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Life lately (because I have been a bit mia)~ ☁️ Finished reading draft 2.5 of my YA cozy fantasy & started draft 3 this week (going SLOW) ☀️enjoyed many a sunny day (& lots of ice cream) 🌷 Went on a little family trip to Norwich 🥹 Celebrating my brother graduating Uni #WritingCommunity #WriteSky

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Gert Ramm 🦋 @rammwriter.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

A celebrity author teases his upcoming novel by building a Stonehenge replica - raising the ghosts of an English town’s Roman past. As violent pagan cults clash, a father races to save his estranged son; before the Winter Solstice unleashes madness, mayhem and blood sacrifice. #QuestPit #W #A #H

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kj is ✨writing✨ @kjsilver.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

This reminds me of Phantom in the Twilight somehow I love it 😍

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kj is ✨writing✨ @kjsilver.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

YESS OMG light magic is SO underrated!! This sounds amazing 🔥

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Catherine Winters @catherinewinters.com · 24/07/2026

Nia Moredi just wants to look out for her little brother. Miss Laval needs to attend a governess-teacher meeting. Baarsin Dorvierre's being watched. Pickpocket Wren needs to recharge her misdirection charm. If only Nia could remember which of them she's supposed to be today. #QuestPit #YA #F #LGBT

A Pickpocket's Guide to High Society
(And Higher Mathematics)

YA Fantasy 80K words
Catherine Winters dot com

Against a subtly textured background of mathematical formulae and a hexagonal summoning grid feature a collection of intriguing objects:

The outstretched hand of some mechanical clockwork automaton made of white porcelain.
A purple and gold masquerade mask.
A set of brass architect's tools: a compass, a protractor, calipers.
A set of gears laid out, pulled from some kind of mechanism.

The Pitch
When she picks the wrong pocket, sixteen-year-old Nia unlocks a magical talent she didn’t know she had and catches the attention of people she doesn't want to know. Blackmailed into stealing a mysterious box, Nia accidentally awakens a living clockwork doll—that promptly runs away.

Accused of betraying the blackmailers, Nia and her band of would-be thieves go on the run, pursued by magehunters, street gangs, and the secret police.

When the doll returns to make a deal, Nia turns to the man whose lucky coin unlocked her magic, only to find him missing. Caught in a lie, Nia’s soon posing as an heiress, in the clutches of the man’s elderly landlady—who's intent on introducing the girl she knows as “Baarsin” to high society.

As Nia finds herself disappearing into the role, she and her friends must race against time to track down the people behind it all: a secret society of mathematicians whose influence reaches all the way to the governor herself.

Excerpt
Caz tensed. “There’s someone following us,” she hissed.
“I know,” Nia said. The man had been tailing them through the crowd for almost six blocks now. “He won’t be the only one.” She tugged Caz into the empty foyer of a boarding house and pulled out her misdirection charm. “Take my hand and stay quiet!”
“That won’t work on me,” Caz protested.
“No,” Nia said, willing herself to believe. “I can do this.” With all her strength, she pushed more of herself into the charm, the equation unfolding in her mind’s eye. She reached out, and as the world darkened around them, turned the doorknob, Caz clutching her arm. Nia pulled the taller girl close as the man pushed past them, failing to notice the door was already opening.
On the busy sidewalk, Caz let out a breath. A small boy leaning against a nearby lamppost glanced in their direction, an uncertain expression on his young face.
Caz cringed. “Sorry!” she mouthed.

Comps & Tropes
Includes the covers of four books:

Never Ever After by Sue Lynn Tan
Den of Liars by Jessica S. Olsen
Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo's
Beyond the Black Door by A.M. Strickland

"Tropes" is loosely used here and includes:
Stealing is magical (literally)
Fish out of water (you probably guessed)
Working for the wrong people
Ancient magic (in over their heads)
The MacGuffin is blackmailing us
"Aren't you a little young to be a criminal?"
Metaphorically dyslexic LI (she's also dyslexic)
Creepy clockwork doll that complains all the time
Good at magic, as long as she has a compass & protractor
Grifter vs. con artist
Sword lesbian (in training)
Lying (a lot)
Found family of scoundrels
Ace protagonist (who hasn't had time to think about that)
One big job and then we can retire (oh no, somehow everything went wrong)
Let's break into a data centre!
No chosen ones, no choosing ceremonies, just hard work and practice.

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kj is ✨writing✨ @kjsilver.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

I LOVE everything about this omg 😍😍

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Gert Ramm 🦋 @rammwriter.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

The UK government frames intelligence agent Eddie Fletcher for its role in a temporal disaster, putting him in the crosshairs of ruthless state assassins. To save his skin he must seal a lethal time rift - or a Russian spy will use it to start a war that destroys the future. #BluePit #Q #A #SF #📖

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B. R. Fontenot is querying 📚☀️🌷🦊 @brfontenotwrites.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

WOLF WORM x DON'T LET THE FOREST IN THE TREES HAVE TEETH - An Appalachian Folkhorror "Olive is eight the first time Death comes for her." 🌲 Nature and rot 💀 Death as an entity 🍄 Botanical Horror ⛰️ Set in the mountains 🐇 Eerie folklore 🍂 Isolated setting #BluePit #📖 #A #H #W #DIS #OWN #ND

PITCH

Olive is eight the first time Death comes for her. She’s nineteen the second time. And Olive knows Death always comes in threes.

In the heart of the Appalachian mountains, something wicked lingers in the woods. Olive grew up running barefoot through the trees without fear of what might be lurking. But when the woods begin to devour anything that encroaches with ruthless hunger, and a mysterious man who claims to know both the cause and the cure appears at Olive’s door, she may have to face Death for the third (and final) time. If she doesn’t, the town and the boy she loves will be eaten whole.

Knock. Knock. Knock.

COMPS
Wolf Worm, Don't Let the Forest In, Hazelthorn, Morsel, Hollow

Botanical Horror, Appalachian Mountain Setting, Nature & Rot, Isolated Setting, Eerie Folklore

moodboard featuring mountains, eerie woods, and trees

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K.A. Hela ✨ Finally Querying✨ @jundlife.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

THE EXORCIST X DONNIE DARKO Chris is plagued with seeing shadow people, but an encounter with a powerful Eldritch being known as The Hatman, leaves him possessed and desperate to exorcise the entity attached to him before he loses control and becomes a demon himself. #BluePit #H #Q #📖

'Hat' - 81K, Cosmic Horror Querying Soon.
Pitch: Chris is obsessed with light and nature's patterns after a Shadow Person nearly killed him as a child. He tries to focus on important things, like finding a way to get his goth girl crush Mel to share a joint or two. Until the Hatman. He imbues Chris with his essence, bonding them. If Chris was haunted by Shadows before, now he is possessed.
Tropes: 2000's set
Spooky New ENgland
Amature Witchcraft
Nature, moon stuff, Stoner Goths
nu-Metal Playlist
Comps - The Possession of Alba Diaz. Slewfoot. Backrooms

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Allen Kline @allenkline.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

❝When seventeen-year-old Sammy starts seeing his mother’s ghost, he’s convinced she’s determined to drag him into the afterlife with her.❞ #BluePit #YA #H #Q

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Catherine Winters @catherinewinters.com · 13/07/2026

When she picks the wrong pocket, Nia unlocks a magical talent she didn’t know she had. Now she’s posing as an heiress, a con man’s gone missing, and Nia and her band of would-be thieves are on the run from magehunters, mathematicians, and the governor herself. #BluePit #YA #F #LGBT #W #BluePit📖

A mood board of eight tiles and a centre square with lockpicking tools and ancient writing:
1. Always have an escape plan.
2. A swindler never lets herself feel like a fraud.
3. Don't look for the easy grab, look for the easy mark.
4. Never get involved with golems.

The pictures depict, clockwise from upper right:
A) A city of canals and towering footbridges. There are minarets and steeples and red-tiled roofs.
B) A market selling elaborate lanterns, all aglow.
C) A porcelain and gold hand, reaching upwards.
D) Two figures leaping across rooftops against the coming dawn.
E) A pocketwatch--or is it? Constellations and continents cover the front, the body of the watch engraved with runes. It's sitting on ancient parchment.
F) A wax stamp with removable chits that function as coins in a card game.
G) The lords of the city overlooking grand canals and issuing edicts. They are dressed in fine red robes and silks.
H) Assorted bones and shells used for divination and more.

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Allen Kline @allenkline.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

After his presumed-dead best friend turns up at his bedside, a reclusive teen must uncover the town’s dark history or risk his friend becoming the next offering to the bloodthirsty forest. Hazelthorn x Leviticus x The Summer Hikaru Died #BluePit #YA #H #W

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Jessica Fisher Riches - is Querying and Drafting @prahajess.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

The Best Kisser in Prague Amid the gritty optimism of 1990s Prague, a party girl determined to be emotionally unbreakable and a disillusioned artist share a single night of connection that derails their kiss-and-run game plans. #BluePit📖 #W #A #R #BluePit #WriteSky

polaroid pics: beer, casette, couple kissing, Prague; text: The Best Kisser in Prague

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Gert Ramm 🦋 @rammwriter.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

A celebrity author teases his novel by building a replica of Stonehenge, raising ghosts of an English town’s Roman past. As pagan cults clash, a father races to save his estranged son, a victim of the madness, before the Winter Solstice unleashes mayhem and blood sacrifice. #BluePit #W #A #H #📖

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Gert Ramm 🦋 @rammwriter.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Slow Horses x Life on Mars 🔫 High-stakes thriller 🔫 Time travel twist 🔫 Stale beer espionage 🔫 Weird Science 🔫 Cold War subterfuge 🔫 Working class hero 🔫 Hunter to hunted 🔫 Antagonist from the future 🔫 Enemy turned ally 🔫 Proles vs privilege #BluePit #Q #A #SF #📖 #agentguide #litagents

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Jessica Fisher Riches - is Querying and Drafting @prahajess.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Four Keys First published in The Write Launch. 🇨🇿 👹 🗝️ 🌹 #shortstory #BluePit #📖 #A #R #P #Fairytale #WriteSky thewritelaunch.com/2026/06/four...

Four Keys, A Modern Fairytale; images: an old key, foggy Prague spires; a grotesque

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Jessica Fisher Riches - is Querying and Drafting @prahajess.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

The night her mentor died, Gabina lost control. She reached something the world had buried...and it reached back. ❤️‍🔥 Slow Burn 👹 Daemons 🧹 Covens 🇨🇿 Prague ☁️ Dark #BluePit #📖 #A #R #D #W #WriteSky #AmWriting #Writers

The Vltava Pact; images: statue on Charles Bridge, ink well and pen, young man

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Allen Kline @allenkline.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

A grieving teen finds solace from his mother’s vengeful ghost in the form of an enigmatic stranger, only to realize their toxic codependency is drawing him further from his remaining family and his grip on reality. When Haru Was Here x Don’t Let The Forest In #BluePit #📖 #YA #H #Q #ND #LGBT

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Jessica Fisher Riches - is Querying and Drafting @prahajess.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

The Vltava Pact; images: Charles Bridge Statue, young woman, ink well, gargoyle, young man

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Jessica Fisher Riches - is Querying and Drafting @prahajess.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

🧹 EARLY MAGIC🧹 After a daemon steals her magic, a cocky teen witch reluctantly teams up with a grieving coven initiate she intends to double-cross, only to discover they're the only ones standing between a power-hungry druidess and the hidden birthplace of magic. #BluePit #📖 #YA #F #Q

A central pink circle labeled "early magic" surrounded by photos: a woman holding a glowing book, portraits of moody young women, apothecary jars, a barren shoreline and forest

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Kris Jarden @krisjarden.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Sapphic HOWL'S MOVING CASTLE x LIES OF LOCKE LAMORA In a floating land of birds and bicycles, an ex-con bike mechanic collides with an amnesiac running from nobles who want her divine magic. Their kind kingdom may be a lie, but her freedom means the realm falling. #F #FR #A #QueerPit

A large drawing of colourful birds, surrounded by (top right corners) heart-shaped lockets, (bottom right corners) chains over forest, (top and bottom) a vintage yellow bicycle, (sides) a spinning wheel.

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kj is ✨writing✨ @kjsilver.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Happy Sunday! had to take a little break because of a Costochondritis flare up (funt imes) BUT I had the loveliest reset weekend, celebrating Litha and getting my life in order before we go into the 2nd half of the year ☀️ youtu.be/34w3t0VZ3FE #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #BookSky #authortube

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A WEEKEND OF GETTING MY LIFE TOGETHER ☀️ author reset and summer solstice celebrations

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kj is ✨writing✨ @kjsilver.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Not going to lie, this week was ROUGH but at least I made some progress. It was a good reminder that as long as we show up the best we can, progress can me made, even if it's small and things go sideways 💕 youtu.be/MejGI1czCoo?... #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #BookSky #CozyFantasy #WIP

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a chatty writing vlog ☁️ reading through draft 2, cozy books & query fears

YouTube video by KJ's POV

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L.M. du Plessis 📚💙 ‪✨Writing TLC Sequel✨ @smoking-gnu.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

I've neglected this a few days, but... This is your bi-weekly reminder of the upcoming WWAD #Anthology release, with one new detail... ✨🎉✨🎉✨ COVER REVEAL!!! ✨🎉✨🎉✨ Just look at this beaut, made by one of our own! Coming 30th of June, remember! #Writingcommunity #Writesky

Cover reveal for the WWAD First Anthology (theme: defiance)
Close-view background of a green, mossy and leafy surface. On it lays the hilt of a sword, showing the first part of the blade. The hilt is black with gold metal working and a single red gem set into it. A hand lays across the hilt, half-gripping it, as if ready to spring into action at a moments notice.

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Fay Irwin (pen name) @fantasyscience.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

If Ali Hazelwood and Andy Weir wrote a book, it would be CHEMICAL SOLUTIONS FOR LONELY HEARTS, a sci-fi romcom with real chemistry. Two awkward scientists must overcome their mutual dislike to save the world. But their experiments - and their growing feelings - threaten to explode.

Poster with a blue, pink, and orange ombre background. Title: Chemical Solutions for Lonely Hearts.
Below that is written "F. Irwin" and below that is an award wreath with "2026 RevPit winner" inside. At the very bottom it says, "a sci-fi rom-com with real chemistry".
The image is of a silhouetted man and women facing away from each other (arguing) and an Erlenmeyer flask in the background spilling liquid that turns into a heart.

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