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JASAD HEIRxHURRICANE WARS 🗡️ A prince turned mercenary 🩸 The rogue saint bound to him ⛓️ A conspiracy to turn desperate people into mindless conduits for magic To stop it, they must set aside their bad blood, but their feelings may become more than they bargained for. #DVpit #A #F #LGBT

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Leon T. @leont.bsky.social · 6h

What if I’d sworn to kill you for murdering my parents, but we shared a powerful magical bond and had to work together to prevent the rise of a militaristic empire turning disenfranchised people into mindless magical soldiers (and we are both gay)? OMELASxCAPTIVE PRINCE #DVpit #A #F #LGBT #TV #ND

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Perfect Garbage 🌾🪦🔪 wishlist Grave Seasons @perfectgarbage.bsky.social · 8h

Grave Seasons launches March 9, 2027! 🪦🌾 Mark your calendars and prepare for the horrors - coming to Steam (PC), Xbox Series X|S, PS5 & Nintendo Switch 1 Read more about our new official launch date and see how far Ashenridge has come in this devlog! store.steampowered.com/news/app/325...

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Leon T. @leont.bsky.social · 7h

BONE SHARD DAUGHTERxOMELAS As a kid, Prince Marin unwittingly aided his parents' murder; now, he wants to avenge them. But his old home was built on injustice, and he must decide: claim his birthright or do what's right—even if it means allying with the man he’s sworn to kill. #DVpit #A #F #LGBT

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ceej @ceej.online · 29/09/2026

emulsions… very “enemies-to-lovers”

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Leon T. @leont.bsky.social · 8h

UNBROKENxGODKILLER Immortal saints are dying. The culprit: Caelius, the rebel saint who slew his masters–Marin's parents. But when Marin joins the war to stop Caelius, he finds the saint is being framed, and the man leading the offence wants to use Marin to his own ends. #DVpit #A #F #LGBT #TV #ND

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Leon T. @leont.bsky.social · 10h

JASAD HEIRxCAPTIVE PRINCE When runaway prince Marin journeys home to avenge his family, he's faced with the unspeakable: Caelius, the rogue saint who killed them, may actually kind of have a point? Worse still, he's the only one who can help Marin thwart a megalomaniac archon. #DVpit #A #F #LGBT

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Susie Esse @susieesse.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Can I interest you in some #hopecore

An illustration by Susie Esse featuring a tabby cat loaf on a table with a smiling sun above it and the lettering “what if it all works out?”

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#DVpit - Diverse Voices Pitch @dvpit.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

#Giveaway Time to prepare for #DVpit! Enter from July 13-18, 2026 to win query and/or first pages critiques from agents! TO ENTER: • repost this post • AND reply with your category & genre! (e.g. YA Fantasy) • Entries must be for completed, unpublished work. Full rules: dvpit.carrd.co#giveaway

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Cloudy🐈 @hellocloudy.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

tide pools 🦀🐚🪸⭐

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Leon T. @leont.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Mediterranean OMELASxJASMINE THRONE 👑 A dispossessed prince 🗡️ The vengeful saint still bound to him ⛓️ A conspiracy to turn desperate people into mindless conduits for magic The only way to stop it is to set aside their enmity, but trusting each other may destroy them both. #QueerPit #F #FR #A

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Leon T. @leont.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

BONE SHARD DAUGHTERxUNBROKEN As a kid, Prince Marin unwittingly aided his parents' murder; now he wants to avenge them. However, his old home rests on injustice, and he must decide: claim his birthright or do what's right—even if that means allying with the man who took it away. #QueerPit #F #FR #A

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Leon T. @leont.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

DISHONOREDxJASMINE THRONE 20 years ago, a saint—an unwilling vessel for magic—usurped the throne he was bound to. Now, the rightful heir wants vengeance—and has to face the rot at the core of their power. To fix it, they must join forces with the man who murdered their family. #QueerPit #F #FR #A

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C.J. Subko @cjsubko.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

KNIGHT & THE MOTH x GODKILLER x Renn "Italy" Dante, witchkiller with baggage, has one chance to cure his soulrot--team up with witch Drina, kill 7 angels, slay the evil gods who oppress the kingdom. The final spell will make him immortal. But he didn't count on falling in love. #A #F #EF #QueerPit

[[a postcard with bloody marks on it that says be my beautiful enemy, from dante to drina. the second postcard has a picture of two stone angels embracing. the background is a medieval Italian city in black and white]]

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PJ (he/him) is querying... @pjwrites.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

THE EVERWINTER KING Desperate to find his missing sun god, a former holy king returns home to compete in trials meant to bring the god back, and stop the onslaught of an endless winter. 🏳️‍🌈 Queer norm world ☀️ Light-based magic 🏳️‍⚧️ Trans love interest 👑 Hidden royalty #QueerPit #F #A #amquerying

Title page for an agent's guide to THE EVERWINTER KING. The title is placed over a moodboard featuring a Mediterranean inspired setting and royalty imagery. In addition to the title the page reads "Adult Fantasy Standalone. Queer normative world. MM romance subplot. 99,000 words."

THE EVERWINTER KING's pitch.

PITCH
A former holy king does the one thing he swore he’d never do in search of his missing god. He goes home.

Malachi was born with God’s voice in his head. When God vanishes in the midst of a decade-long winter, Mal breaks the oath he made to himself and returns to the home he abandoned—the city where he was raised to be king. There, he’s marked to compete in trials meant to select God’s new emissary. His replacement.

After succeeding in the first trial, Mal demands entry to the royal temple, where he learns the skies are empty. God has stopped speaking to his priests and Mal alike. With no other avenue for answers, Mal must win the competition for God’s favor and assume the throne he never wanted, or risk losing his oldest friend for good and damning the world to a worsening everwinter.

An excerpt from THE EVERWINTER KING. Next to the excerpt is character art of the main character. He has light bright skin, dark brown hair, facial hair, and a simple jerkin over white shirt. His eye is glowing like the sun.

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“My head hurts,” Malachi mumbled into his drink.

“They say King Ridaris’ eye glowed like this.”

Did they? Malachi shuffled through his memories for any mention of that from his mothers, or the history books, and found nothing.

“I think it means God knows who you are.” Sen lowered her voice, eyes shifting toward the surrounding priests. Kinder to pretend she did it out of concern for his headache. “You need to be careful.”

“Aye.”

“It hasn’t stopped glowing. Everyone else’s did.”

He raised a hand to cover his eye, pausing to marvel at the light pouring over his fingers and palm. It spilled into every crack, crevice, and scar his hand had to offer, like liquid pooled against his skin. Malachi closed his fist around the cold light and pressed it to his face. “Hurts.”

“Close your eyes,” Samara offered. “Rest. We’ll handle it from here.”

For once, he did just that.

A page listing comp titles.

Comp titles for THE EVERWINTER KING include: "The Raven Scholar" by Antonia Hodgson, "The Raven Tower" by Ann Leckie, "WITCH KING" by Martha Wells, and "The Red Winter" by Cameron Sullivan.

Similarities include: godly shenanigans, political trials, queer-norm worlds, queer male leads, messy homecomings, and a second chance subplot.

Bonus comp! Dragon Age 2.

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zaynab | romance + fiction writer @withlovezeex.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

EVELYN HUGO x THE HENNA ARTIST 🎞️bi4bi 🎞️mr darcy level yearning 🎞️high profile celebrity craziness 🎞️humorous literary(ish) fiction 🎞️deep introspection of race, class, gender, & immigration 🎞️"have audacity just because you can" #QueerPit #HF #WF #OWN #A

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Leon T. @leont.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

OMELASxCAPTIVE PRINCE 🗡️ A prince-turned-mercenary seeking revenge 🥀 A rogue saint with no allies 💫 Sentient magic that can remake reality 🐯 An emotional support giant cat 💓 The enemy of my enemy is... also my enemy? #QueerPit #F #FR #A

A moodboard of several images in gold and warm colours. A hand gripping another's arm by the wrist, streaks of gold on white, a distorted image of a round stained-glass window, torn old paper, hands reaching for the moon, chipping discoloured paint on wood, ornate, gilded details on a painted ceiling, a marble statue with a white line across the eyes. Text at the bottom says: "I'll eat the world whole."

A moodboard of several images in shades of gold and dark blue. In the middle, a hand reaching for a crescent moon; beneath it, a set of ornate blades; a female lion sprawled in the sand; the tied hands of a marble statue; a golden gate opening to a starry sky; the sea at sunrise; the naked back of a light-skinned person streaked with gold. Text at the bottom says, “I won’t stop until you’re gone.”

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Leon T. @leont.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Want to celebrate Pride Month by reading excellent queer stories and supporting queer writers? Treat yourself to a wonderful and wonderfully weird novel by pledging to Oleander's Kickstarter!

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Oleander Craw @oleandercraw.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

The campaign is LIVE! Come get your special early release edition of DEVOURING FORTUNE, a book about a doomed fortune weaver and a priestess who makes a cursed bargain that threatens the downfall of the woman she loves. www.kickstarter.com/projects/ole...

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Devouring Fortune: Queer Science Fantasy Special Edition

A world decaying into salt, a doomed fortune weaver, and a priestess whose cursed bargain threatens the downfall of the woman she loves

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🩸 morteraphan 🗝️ @morteraphan.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

MerMay is almost over, and I haven't drawn anything new, but I have an old picture of mer-Lucian. 🫧 "This new lighthouse keeper is so cute..."

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Oleander Craw @oleandercraw.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Character art reveal day!! One month until the DEVOURING FORTUNE campaign launches, so I'll be sharing the incredible character art illustrated by @exaltxix.bsky.social for the next 3 weeks. Today I'll introduce you to REED, my transmasc disaster who is too impulsive for his own good.

Character art of REED. he's light skinned with blue eyed and light hair that is pulled back

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Lee Dart Verrall (they/them) @ldverrall.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Would you like to read MILK TEETH, my story about unfortunate council workers investigating some fucked up roadkill and stumbling onto something zoonotic and terrifying involving cows? 🐄🐄🐄🐄🐄🐄 Obviously you would! And good news, it'll in the @dreampunkpress.bsky.social anthology, TEETH, in October!

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Patrick Ness @patricknessbooks.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

My new book PIPER AT THE GATES OF DUSK is out today! A new Chaos Walking trilogy begins!

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Solaris Books @solarisbooks.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

👻🚢🚨COVER REVEAL!🚨🚢👻 Feast your eyes on @mkhardywrites.com's forthcoming supernatural Victorian mystery - THE HAUNTING OF AVIS LOVELOCK - revealed by The Nerd Daily! Setting sail in August 2026. Preorder now geni.us/avisl Cover by Black Sheep Design.

Against a red velvet curtain background, the front cover for THE HAUNTING OF AVIS LOVELOCK by MK Hardy.

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Leon T. @leont.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Y’all check out this STUNNING cover!! I was fortunate enough (pun not intended) to beta read DF and trust me when I say you need to read this!

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Oleander Craw @oleandercraw.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

I'm happy to say today is the day for the book cover reveal of DEVOURING FORTUNE! @jeleynai.bsky.social did an incredible job on the illustration, I'm in awe. For fans of Tanith Lee and A.K. Larkwood, about bargains gone wrong. Follow the prelaunch page! www.kickstarter.com/projects/ole...

Devouring Fortune book cover. Features a woman with folded arms on the cover. Her arms are crossed. She has straight black hair and her skin is light brown. She has a haunted expression. She is dressed in a white priestess outfit with wrapped bandages up her arms. Behind her lurks a monstrous skeleton whispering in her ear. They are surrounded by red flowers.

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meyo 🌸 @meyoco.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

celestial familiar 🌟

Digital artwork of a cat with fur made of clouds and stars

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Remedy Entertainment @remedygames.com · 12/12/2025

Explore a warped Manhattan on the brink of paranatural annihilation in CONTROL Resonant, a thrilling action-adventure RPG. Watch the announcement trailer: youtu.be/WhQm-ExRz60 CONTROL Resonant is out in 2026 on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, PC, and Mac. #CONTROLResonant

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CONTROL Resonant – Announcement Trailer | The Game Awards 2025

Explore a warped Manhattan on the brink of paranatural annihilation in this thrilling action-adventure RPG. Unleash the extraordinary powers of Dylan Faden as he fights for his humanity and survival…

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Clarkesworld @clarkesworldmagazine.com · 17/11/2025

In light of the astronomical increases for my health insurance next year, I thought it would be a good time to encourage people to subscribe. (A few hundred should cover it. Sigh.) clarkesworldmagazine.com/subscribe/

Text reads:
Fed up with your world? Visit ours. Clarkesworldmagazine.com
The Clarkesworld robot (center) looks to the right at the cover of Clarkesworld #230, which is in yellow, orange, and brown and features a futuristic cityscape with a small craft approaching. Cover art is "Neo Mars" by Guy Warley.

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Leon T. @leont.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

On this pub anniversary I would like to wrap Lucky and Gabriel up in a blanket and give them hot cocoa

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Rose Black @wordsofrablack.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

One year ago, this little book hit the shelves in the UK. It didn't have much in the way of fanfare, no one will nominate it for awards, but despite everything, it's sold so much better than I expected and has made some solid fans, which, at the end of the day, is what matters.

Cover of fated winds and promising seas, and it says happy publication anniversary

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Rose Black @wordsofrablack.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

In a week, it will be the anniversary of my second book coming out, and my second anniversary as an author, so I'm going to count down the days by trying to convince you to read it, starting with the cover - designed by Lydia Blagden and art by Mia Carnevale. 1/

Cover of Fated Winds and Promising Seas. Text around the outside reads convincing you to read my book with the cover

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Lorraine Wilson @rainewilson.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

✨It's Double Publication Day!✨ If you like science fantasy, folklore with a twist, digital ghosts, nature having opinions, and ghost cats/orcas living their best lives please do give these books a go? geni.us/weallghostsPB geni.us/saltorac @solarisbooks.bsky.social

Photo of the paperback of We Are All Ghosts In The Forest and hardback of The Salt Oracle with a lamp, some flower stems & blue glass buoys

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Patrick Ness @patricknessbooks.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

And here’s the cover itself! Piper at the Gates of Dusk, the first book in a new Chaos Walking trilogy, out 7 April 2026 worldwide. Something is coming…

Tagline “Something is coming” over the hardcover image of the cover of Piper at the Gates of Dusk. “From the iconic world of Chaos Walking”. And release date 7 April 2026.

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Leon T. @leont.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

EVERYONE GO READ OLEANDER’S BOOK

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Oleander Craw @oleandercraw.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

THE WARDS WILL FALL release day! (M/M dark fantasy) Come read the first chapter. New chapters release for free on Mondays. www.oleandercraw.com/chapter-one/ 👁️ Expedition to a rotting magic city 👁️ Possessed and becoming Something Else 👁️ Ancient magic is returning Cover by @sorenhaxan.bsky.social

Book cover for the wards will fall. It features a man with dark curly hair and olive times skin on the front. He is looking concerned with a hand raised. Golden wards are tattooed on the side of his head and back of his hands. He is wearing an elaborate coat covered in silver rocs. A shadow is behind him with many horns and a golden eye. The title says the wards will fall. Underneath it says oleander craw.

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Leon T. @leont.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

I miss writing short stories, but I barely have enough time/energy to work on my novel these days 😴

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Altorina @altorina.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

"Without me, all existence would be a curse. I am the necessary end." #Hades

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Bona Books 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🤘🏼 @bonabooks.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

ANNOUNCEMENT🎺🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Introducing our bona new quarterly literary magazine: FANTABULOSA! Pushing the boundaries of bold, authentic, QUEER storytelling. Bringing you stories of the uncanny, the dangerous and the fantastical. & thanks to our brilliant #WrathMonth backers, we're fully funded for 2026 🤘

Bona Books Presents

A new queer literary magazine

FANTABULOSA!

Tales of the uncanny, the dangerous and the fantastical, from radical and unapologetic queer voices.

Science fiction, fantasy and horror
Short fiction & poetry

Submissions open now

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Leon T. @leont.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

OMELASxCAPTIVE PRINCE 🗡️ A prince-turned-mercenary seeking revenge 🥀 A rogue saint with no allies 💫 Sentient magic that can remake reality 🐯 An emotional support giant cat ❤️‍🩹 The enemy of my enemy is... also my enemy? #DVpit #A #F #LGBT #DF #TV

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Leon T. @leont.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

OMELASxJASMINE THRONE 👑 A dispossessed prince 🗡️ The vengeful saint still bound to him ⛓️ A conspiracy to turn desperate people into mindless conduits for magic The only way to stop it is to set aside their enmity, but trust doesn't come easy—and it may destroy them both. #DVpit #A #F #LGBT

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Leon T. @leont.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

BONE SHARD DAUGHTERxUNBROKEN As a kid, Prince Marin unwittingly aided his parents' murder; now, he wants to avenge them. However, his old home rests on injustice, and he must decide: claim his birthright or do what's right—even if that means allying with the man who took it away. #DVpit #A #F #LGBT

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ばったん @battan8.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

❤️‍🔥memento mori❤️‍🔥

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Leon T. @leont.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

OMELASxJASMINE THRONE 20 years ago, a saint—an unwilling vessel for magic—usurped the throne he was bound to. Now, the rightful heir wants vengeance—and has to face the rot at the core of their power. To fix it, they must join forces with the man who murdered their family. #DVpit #F #A #LGBT #TV

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Courtney Floyd @courtney-floyd.com · 07/10/2025

It’s book day!!! HIGHER MAGIC is out in the US today! UK readers, it’s coming your way November 20th. I’m so excited for you all to meet Bartleby, Anne, and the rest of the gang. ✨

Higher Magic propped up against a white gnarly pumpkin and a big orange pumpkin on a bed of fall leaves.

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Leon T. @leont.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

#DVparty day 3! Here are the opening lines of my dark fantasy about revenge, sentient magic, and the realisation that the world you idealised is founded on injustice (and also, messy gays falling in love). #A #F #DF #LGBT

Excerpt from the beginning of a prologue:

The door to Caelius’ prison inched open. Fresh air he couldn’t taste gusted through, sweeping the flames of the candles lining the room into a frenzied dance. None of them went out, as none of them could—they were the constant watchers over the dusk of his confinement, kept alight by the same power that trapped him.
His power.

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Leon T. @leont.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

#DVparty day 1: A moodboard for my dark adult fantasy project, trying to capture the Mediterranean/Byzantine aesthetics. #A #F #DF #LGBT

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Flora 🏺 Ancient History Art @flaroh.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Hermes Psychpompos 💀🔮🪽🏺

Art by flaroh illustration. Hermes Psychopompos leading the souls of the dead to the underworld in a purple and green palette

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