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Leigh Samuels @leighsamuels.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Dear Mom and Dad, Camp sucks! Why did you send me here? My counselor hates me if I breathe the wrong way. My roommate wakes me up at 6! It feels like I can't stop messing up. And something feels off about the returning campers.... GET ME OUT OF HERE! Some Love, Hannah #BluePit #MG #amquerying #MG

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Annie Parker @annieparker.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Terrier puppy doing terrier puppy things #TinyPup #Spudlet

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Leigh Samuels @leighsamuels.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

My parents sent me to Camp Morningstar to help me get "better" (their words). With perpetually energetic (and annoying) girls here, I can't wait to come home much, much worse. 👿 Camp Morningstar has: Humor and heart Jewish rep ADHD rep An all-female cast And more! #DVPit #MG #MR #MH #JV #ND

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Leigh Samuels @leighsamuels.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

WHEN YOU REACH ME X CAMPSYLVANIA After causing trouble at school, Hannah gets sent to Camp Morningstar for Girls and immediately hates it. When Hannah realizes something's supernaturally wrong with camp, she’ll work with spoiled Sabrina to escape- or be trapped for good. #DVPit #MG #MR #MH #JV #ND

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Leigh Samuels @leighsamuels.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

🏫 So I may have caused some trouble at school. 🏕️ My parents overacted and sent me to the worst place: Camp Morningstar for Girls. 😕 Everyone here is weird. They’re snotty or think Elvis is alive. 😨 I need to figure out how to escape before I'm stuck here... HELP! #DVPit #MG #MR #MH #JV #ND

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Leigh Samuels @leighsamuels.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

#DVParty day 6! WIP 1: JOHN TUCKER MUST DIE X TO ALL THE BOYS I'VE LOVED BEFORE. Three girls from entirely different social groups get love letters. When they realize that they are the victims of a cruel prank, they work together to find out who did it.

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Leigh Samuels @leighsamuels.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

#dvparty 3: opening line for Morningstar The curtains opened and the sun hit my face, rudely waking me up that morning. I flipped over in bed to check the time on the clock by my nightstand and saw that it was only 6:30 in the morning. In June. Meaning that I didn’t have school. #MG #JV #MR #MH #ND

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Leigh Samuels @leighsamuels.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

#DVparty Here is my moodboard for Morningstar, my contemporary magical realism middle grade!

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Leigh Samuels @leighsamuels.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Dear Mom and Dad, Camp sucks! Why did you send me here? My counselor hates me if I breathe the wrong way. My roommate always has way too much energy at 6 am. It feels like I keep screwing everything up. And something weird is happening GET ME OUT OF HERE! Love, Hannah #PreDV #MG #MR #MH #JV #ND

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Leigh Samuels @leighsamuels.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

🏫 So I may have caused some trouble at school 🏕️ My parents overacted and sent me to the worst place: Camp Morningstar for Girls. 😕 Everyone here is weird. They’re snotty or think Elvis is alive. 😨 I need to figure out how to get out before something bad happens. HELP! #PreDV #MG #MR #MH #JV #ND

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Leigh Samuels @leighsamuels.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

WHEN YOU REACH ME X CAMPSYLVANIA After causing trouble at school, Hannah gets sent to Camp Morningstar for Girls. She immediately hates it, especially spoiled Sabrina. When Hannah realizes that something is wrong with camp, she’ll have to work with Sabrina to escape. #PreDV #MG #MR #MH #JV #ND

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Tamara 🌽👻🍁🎃🧛‍♀️ @tamaratoday.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

🌊 THE BAD ONES X DREDGE 🌊 After an ancient curse is unleashed on their sleepy seaside town, six teens must find a way to break it. This YA Fantasy Horror features: 👥Dual POV 📜A Deadly Deal 😈Ravenous Monsters 🤫Secrets With Severe Consequences 💔Exes to Allies to [redacted] #QuestPit #Q #YA #F #H

Left to right. Top row: hands reaching out of the water. A doll head. Human hands with sharpened nails. Middle row: A lighthouse shining through fog. “Are you afraid?” An eerie figure standing beside a tree with a noose. Bottom row: Hands reaching towards each other in the water. A sea creature with glowing eyes and sharp teeth. Multiple hands reaching out of the forest brush.

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Ivy Lin | Querying Author @ivy-lin.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Selectively mute 16yo Lena Mei wants to read a Chinese poem to honour her late mother, but she can’t read it. A charming autistic polyglot offers to help—not only with her speech but also in discovering her own autism. #YA #R #QuestPit #W

Quote from The Love In Your Words:
“If this year has taught me anything besides how deeply one can feel heartache and pain, it’s that time spent nurturing love can heal sorrow.”
Top row, left to right: the Liverpool Chinatown arch, floating red Chinese lanterns, the Royal Liver Building lit up in red in front of the night sky
Middle row, left to right: The Royal Albert Dock, the quote from The Love In Your Words, cranes on a shipping dock lit up at night
Bottom row, left to right: candles and flowers on gravestones at night, a couple standing underneath an umbrella on a rainy night, fairy lights shaped like stars and moons hanging from trees

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Leigh Samuels @leighsamuels.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

“You’ll be swell, you’ll be great, gonna have the whole world on a plate,” My brother Tommy screamed. 🎭 I always loved musicals so I joined my school's production of Legally Blonde. 👩🏻‍🏫 Except the director is a nightmare 👧🏻 Who loves to degrade me Find out in Undesired Spotlight! #1stLinePit #YA #Con

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Leigh Samuels @leighsamuels.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

High School Musical X Matilda X Today Tonight Tomorrow For Olivia Goldblatt performing in her school Seattle Prep's version of Legally Blonde, we are, in fact, not all in this together. #YA #C #LuckyPit #PopUpPitA #PopUpPit

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Leigh Samuels @leighsamuels.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

WHEN YOU GET THE CHANCE X MATILDA X TODAY TONIGHT TOMORROW 🎭 I always loved musicals so I joined my school's production of Legally Blonde. 👩🏻‍🏫 Except the director is a nightmare 👧🏻 Who loves to degrade me 😭 Is it worth giving up my dream? Find out in Undesired Spotlight! #LuckyPit #YA #Con #PopUpPitA

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Leigh Samuels @leighsamuels.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

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Abigail is Agented @abigailwadlington.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

An agent’s guide to my YA Tangled x Anastasia cozy fantasy, THE FORGOTTEN REALM, feat: 🪻Disability and LGBTQ rep 🧚Swiss folklore ✨Found family 🎊Whimsical festivities 🐶A really cute dog Querying in March! #litagents #YA #F #2025Pit #agentsguide

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Alexis ☕ is querying @abookishchai.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

A Crossroad of Lilies #WIP #YA #Spec #R #YouDeservepIt 🌻A retired childhood actor, now sixteen, invites a secretly poor scholarship student on a luxury weekend train ride to discover why mushrooms grow up their bodies and fall in love along the way.

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Jaysen @ezeekat.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Okay let’s see how videos do on Bluesky. I’m curious, and also this is one of my favorite bookish videos to share. 😊 #booksky

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amberellington.bsky.social @amberellington.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

If you die in a dream, you die in real life, so when the tech gets made to let everyone experience them lucidly and connect everyone’s dreams to everyone else’s, Charlie Ounce becomes a detective to catch killers that try to take advantage of the opportunity. #P2Ppit #YA #Q

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Angie is ✨querying✨ @angie3tomatoes.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Percy Jackson x Gossip Girl In a world where gods can die and mortals ascend a self-destructive teen becomes Apollo reborn. His shot at redemption? Stop vengeful Hera from reforging an ancient god-killing weapon while protecting the girl of his dreams & confronting his toxic past #P2Ppit #YA #Q

Couple kissing
And after I spent what felt like eternity drowning, you taught me how to breathe

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Leigh Samuels @leighsamuels.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL X MATILDA Olivia Goldblatt must grapple with a Trunchbull like high school theater director as she questions if the cruelty is worth giving up her dream of being in the spotlight. #YA #Q #C #P2Ppit

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Ivy Lin | Querying Author @ivy-lin.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

SOMETHING MORE x TOMORROW (x3) When 16yo Mia Pan learns her mom can't afford rent, she must win a $100k coding competition to stay in NYC—her childhood home—while navigating feelings for her autistic teammate and wondering if she's autistic herself. #YA #C #R #UW #Q #P2Ppit

An illustration of Mia, the female lead, and Owen, the male lead, sitting together on a desk. Owen is typing on a keyboard and focused on his work. Mia is looking towards Owen and twirling her hair with her index finger.
Artwork by Joy Ling.

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Ceci Li @writerceci.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

It’s Only Me, a YA contemporary romance: Raised by her strict Tiger Mom, Maggie Wang fake-dates the hockey team grump to make her crush jealous, only to fall for the wrong guy and risk breaking all her mom’s rules. #P2Ppit #UW #Q #YA #R #C #ComingOfAge #bipoc #writingcommunity #amquerying

Nathan listening to music with eyes closed. Kindness rocks. Maggie falling asleep studying. Nathan playing hockey. Nathan kissing Maggie’s hair. Rose bouquet. Nathan cooking. Bunny hugging teddy bear. Thanksgiving feast. Blue Monster ice cream. Nathan and Maggie hugging. Maggie playing keyboard. Preschool. Nathan and Maggie skating.

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Leigh Samuels @leighsamuels.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

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Diane Billas (she/her) queer YA author @dianebillas.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Emmie has the best job in town, working at an indie bookstore with her crush Mads. Things sour when she fights with a patron who collapses during her mom's author event. Emmie and her friends need to solve the case before she's accused or the killer strikes again. #bluepit #W #YA #M #LGBT #OV

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Louis Lafair @louislafair.com · 13/01/2025

12yo Adeline is split between: ⏰ Mom in CLOCKWORK CITY 📚 Dad in STORYVILLE When Dad disappears, she must combine 📊 data + ✏️ stories to find him before more people vanish. 🔢 THE SHERLOCK SOCIETY + 📗 THE SWIFTS = THE ART & SCIENCE OF ADELINE #MG #Q #BluePit 📖

Mood board for THE ART AND SCIENCE OF ADELINE.

A wall divides two cities. On the left is imagery for CLOCKWORK CITY: chemistry vials, gears, a watch, a lightbulb, a graph, and a gizmobile.

On the right is imagery for STORYVILLE: a fountain pen, paintbrushes, books, newspapers, a horse-drawn carriage, and bins of spices at a market.

Source: images are from Unsplash, and the wall illustration was created with Excalidraw.

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Ivy Lin | Querying Author @ivy-lin.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

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Bibiana Ossai @bibianaossai.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Ava-Amaka wakes in a hospital with no memory of her parents’ murder. Haunted by nightmares and resurfacing fragments, she uncovers a cult, her supernatural heritage, and forbidden love with her enemy’s son. Can she navigate love, vengeance, and fate? #Bluepit #BluePit #YA #MagicalRealism #R #M

A mood board containing a shadowy picture, starry night sky, forbidden romance, blue rose, girl wearing hoodie with blue eyes, and classroom for my YA pitch.

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Tamara 🌽👻🍁🎃🧛‍♀️ @tamaratoday.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

✨Introducing my YA Fantasy Horror✨ After an ancient curse is unleashed on their sleepy seaside town, six teens must find a way to break it. This story features: 🌊Dual POV 🌊A Deadly Deal 🌊Ravenous Monsters 🌊Secrets With Severe Consequences 🌊Exes to Allies to [redacted] #BluePit #YA #F #H 📖

Left to right. Top row: Hands wrapped around trees. Lightning over the ocean. Hand reaching out of a grave. Middle row: Stone statue of children holding hands. "Be careful what you wish for." Inside spiral of a decrepit lighthouse. Bottom row: Hands of a drowning man. A cave. Dirty hands bound with rope.

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Leigh Samuels @leighsamuels.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

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Leila @leilaammartin.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

High-school first-year Emmeline Harper has 13 weeks to fulfill a bargain w/ a death goddess or lose her soul forever, all while balancing life, school, family & friends with the demands of a boyfriend who goes from charming & sexy to controlling & coercive. #BluePit 📖 #Q #F #D #YA

9-photo grid in mostly shades of gray and pink, with photos of things like a school hallway, a redheaded girl's closed eye, a foofy black dress, half of a claddagh ring, a stone angel, a shadowy figure and a crow.

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Elise (they/them)🇦🇺 🏳️‍⚧️ @eliseswords.eurosky.social · 13/01/2025

Stuck w. an abusive dad on the wrong side of town, Rarkin's escape plan: work for Monster Containment Training stirs childhood trauma &he begins to understand; his toxically masculine crutch for survival is a one-way road to self-destruction THE OUTSIDERS X FINAL FANTASY #BluePit 📖 #Q #YA #F #Dis

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Jeannette Lane is querying @cjtruwriter.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

NINTH HOUSE x THE ATLAS SIX Aster would do anything to be the best writer the world has seen— even if it means spilling her blood to commune with the greats that came before her and potentially lose the ones she loves the most. #Q #A #F #H #BluePit #LGBTQ #dis #darkacademia 📖

From left to right- a Victorian style house, a dark wood, a woman with a mirror for a face, a fawn, moths with flowers, a gate in front of a university, words on a page, a university library

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Angie is ✨querying✨ @angie3tomatoes.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Divine Rivals x The Games Gods Play After his mom’s death drives him to self-destruction, 18yo Nate becomes Apollo’s reincarnation from a freak lightning strike. Now he must learn to heal himself while stopping a vengeful Hera from enslaving humanity and destroying the world #bluepit 📖 #ya #q #f

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And after I spent what felt like eternity drowning, you taught me how to breathe

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Sarah Dorko @sarahdorko.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

📚College #R 💜Aro-ace rep 💢Twin rivalry Mia & Liya have never dated, so when Liya gets her 1st gf, Mia won’t be left out, enlisting perfectionist classmate Jolene in a fake dating scheme. If Mia can’t loosen her grip on her sister, she’ll lose Liya & Jolene. #BluePit #Q #NA #YA #LGBT #CR 📖

A pink themed moodboard that features prominent color circles. In the left corner, the largest image is a neon sign that says, “You’re not in love, you’re just drunk.” Below it is a picture of two girls nose to nose smiling. Other images include silhouettes standing around a bonfire, a college lane lined with fall-colored trees, a closeup of a bright red car and its headlight, two girls laying on their backs with their arms around each other, each with one arm raised. Other images include red solo cups at a party, a crowd at a party silhouetted by pink light, a girl walking away with pink hair, and a girl with dark hair eyes closed with his chin raised as her hair is blown into her face. She’s backlit by lights out of focus.

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🟣S.L. PrayersforPeace🙏🏼🌻 @stpolishook.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

JEWISH BLUEBEARD + FEMINIST TWIST Contracted to a witch before birth, Talia’s life is upended on her 15th Bday when her parent’s debt comes due. But might be her pending marriage where the real danger lies. Coming of age is hard enough without demonic in-laws! #BluePit 📖 #W #YA #F

Dark Jewish Folktale retelling Moodboard

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Jason L. @jasonlangford.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

DONT LET THE FOREST IN x Over the Garden Wall 🏳️‍⚧️ boy Owen was obsessed with the monster of the woods before he killed him to come home again. When Owen finds out whoever kills the monster must replace it, he needs to fight to remain human. But does he want to? 📖 #W #YA #H #BluePit

A dark, woodsy moodboard with nine images: a stag skull, a boy with his face blurred out, a wolf snarling, a note that reads “this is gay” , a boy being beckoned to a forest, a crow, hands in dirt, hands clasping, and feet hanging over a ledge

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𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐫 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐠 🍃 @charscrawls.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

🎸 daisy jones x knives out 🗡️ the songstress, the high-flyer, the gambler, the sweetheart, the watcher, the matriarch and the rogue. seven suspects. one the killer of renowned rockstar sam corvi. but who? only they can tell you #BluePit #W #A #LF #M 📖

a moodboard detailing nine images related to my work in progress devilswip, they are: big ben (london), a board of evidence, a street cornered off by crime scene tape, someone playing the guitar, the silhouette of a rockstar, musical notes, a crowd of music goers, evidence on the floor and someone punching a mirror.

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