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Lesley Parry @lesleyparrybooks.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

A 🚩 for me are stories with antagonists who have no 🟩 flags! Silas is: 🟩 kind 🟩 brilliant 🟩 values-driven (though his values are skewed) 🟩 recognizes the intelligence of the women who work with him 🟩 stands up to oppression (unless he’s the oppressor) #MemeMay #WritingCommunity

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RJ Webb 🦇🏳️‍🌈 @authorrjwebb.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

This still feels surreal, but my book is officially on GoodReads! The entire month of June, I’ll be offering the ebook download for free on my site to celebrate Pride! 🖤✨🦇 #writingcommunity #queerwriters #queerbooks #booksky #writerscommuntiy

Book promo for A Vampire’s Lament that is a dark purple background and says does your love belong to a ghost? With a dark purple book cover with a violin surrounded by roses, moonflowers, and bats. The promo says releases June 1st 2026, free ebook for Pride month, and add on GoodReads.

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Lesley Parry @lesleyparrybooks.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Healing is illegal. Watching people suffer is worse. In a world where even touching the sick is forbidden, Mira heals in secret, until a public act of healing marks her for death. Now she has to decide: bury her power…or become exactly what they fear. ANDOR x NAUSICAÄ #IndiePit #A #F #SPF #SSP

Heirs of Balance by Lesley Parry - Adult Science Fantasy, 90,000 words. ANDOR meets NAUSICAÄ where healing is heresy and compassion sparks rebellion. @lesleyparrybooks #SSP #A #SF #F #SPF

What if medicine was illegal...and you had the power to heal? Includes images of a girl in an eco-futurist laboratory, two people silhouetted in a field, a village surrounded by forest and wind turbines, a utilitarian metal modular house in a field of wheat, a pair of glowing hands, and an eco-futuristic castle with a giant tree and white towers.

In a post-collapse world where medicine is illegal and even touching the sick is forbidden, Mira Elders risks her life every time she secretly treats the ill with contraband herbs. But when she lays hands on a dying boy in public and magically heals him, secrecy is no longer possible. Her gift should be a miracle. Instead, it marks her for execution.

To survive, Mira flees her village and enlists in the very regime that hunts people like her. As the Median regime tightens its grip through a project that harvests health from prisoners to extend the lives of the elite, a new crackdown on healers looms. But when Mira learns that medicine played a role in causing the Collapse, even rebellion stops looking simple. To join the fight, she will have to wield the very power her world was built to fear—and risk proving the regime right.

If you liked THE SURVIVING SKY by Kritika H. Rao (eco-magic + rebellion), THE GRACE YEAR by Kim Liggett (oppression + survival stakes), SOME DESPERATE GLORY by Emily Tesh (authoritarian control + messy awakening)

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Lesley Parry @lesleyparrybooks.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Hi, my name is Lesley and I write about my work in the past but I’m not really a big artist so I’m just gonna be posting this. Should I be worried that my imposter syndrome is this entrenched? 😭😂 Seriously tho, I’m ND and write science-informed fantasy:) #MemeMay #writingcommunity

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Lesley Parry @lesleyparrybooks.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

I got feedback from my son's teacher today. "Could you please tell Cole, that while his love of reading is fabulous, hiding a book in his desk while we're doing math is not acceptable." I'M SO PROUD. #writingcommunity

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Dawn Berkoski @dawnberkoski.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

PITCH: In a world controlled by corporate vampires, two men struggle for autonomy. Will a chance meeting lead them to freedom~or a web of subterfuge, where every thread brings a monster offering death or permanent confinement? #YouDeservepIt 📖 💙📚 #Q #R Power Hungry CEO x Abandoned Puppy Bartender

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I Am Chosen by Dawn Berkoski

PITCH: In a world controlled by corporate vampires, two men struggle for autonomy. Will a chance meeting lead them to freedom, or a web of subterfuge, where every thread brings a monster offering death or permanent confinement?

Power Hungry CEO x Abandoned Puppy, Bartender

COMP TITLES
Interview With The Vampire
A Blue Bloods Novel
Yakuza

I Am Chosen
By Dawn Berkoski
77,000 M/M Paranormal Romance
Dark and a little spicy meets silly-sweet

Think:
Blue Bloods (minus the angels and school) x Interview With The Vampire (add more humor) x Japanese Yakuza (cracking skulls in London)

Tropes
* Forbidden Love
* Fish Out of Water
* Forced Proximity
* Dark Secrets
* Unequal Power Structure
* High Action Chase Scenes
* Emotional Growth Arcs + Satisfying End

Quotes

"He was leaving. He was leaving New York for good. But instead of freedom, he wondered if he was headed toward greater danger."
~Jason Allard (Protagonist)

"Now that he has chosen you, Alexander has all but forsaken our protection!"
~Tristan De La Salle (Thwarted Lover)

"Alexander and I have unfinished business."
-Shigekazu (Japanese Business Rival)

MAIN CHARACTERS
Alexander Grant Jason Allard
CEO of M-Corp Bartender
Control Issues Anxiety/Clingy
Likes: Likes:
Power + Money. Video Games +Pizza

Several photos are shown in this Moodboard for I Am Chosen, a paranormal romance written by Dawn Berkoski. From the top left, a glass of aged scotch surrounded by butterscotch candies, a CEO standing in a high rise office, staring out a window, a giant hotel clock surrounded by Christmas decor, a photo of art depicting demons rising from hell, a sunset with black, billowy clouds hovering over an orange stripe, a dirty cement staircase near a darkened entrance, and the city of London as viewed from the river. Photography, except the man, by Dawn Berkoski

Photo by Dawn Berkoski of a car speeding past a cemetery.View is from the driver’s perspective, looking out the side window.

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❄️ ⓐ. ⓡ. ⓛⓔⓔ ❄️ is querying @itsamabee.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Hello firefly✨ Welcome to An Artistic Deception🏰✨🪄 Complete at 108k words, a new adult romantasy six of crows x a deadly education 😘 Welcome to our #LiteraryAgentGuide for #QuestPit All design is by @aeipathea & character art by @h4mm.iee #Q #R #F #A #QuestPit2026

hello firefly a photo of a the author literary agent guide

When the six kingdoms prestigious magic school announces a formidable trial promising freedom and noble status, Tehtte’s most notorious assassin Agni enters an uneasy alliance with her second worst nightmare: her childhood bane and the city’s Lionheart Knight—Fala.

Now, surviving her penultimate year is the least of her worries. Agni is still drowning in her failure of an ancient prophecy, running from the monsters her people became, and trying to hide from a king hell bent on finding her. As the realms brace for the perilous trials, Agni is confronted with a haunting question: is her prophecy’s fulfillment still yet to come, and is her heart truly hers to lose?

agni ain’t no war like the class war

fala women want me fish fear me showing character art

romantasy - arcana academy
ensemble cast - six of crows
deadly magic school - a deadly education
visual world inspiration - witch hat atelier
right person wrong time - frown
reimagined fantasy races - dungeon meshi

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Cassie Wallin Author @cassiewallinwrites.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Apple TV’s SEVERANCE meets SILO 🚫 Emotion as system error 👾 The haunting is digital 📋Corporate ritual menace 🧪 Complicit Protagonist 🧨 Creeping dread to visceral action #QuestPit #Q #A #SF #S #SFF #U

The pitch nova feels too much much and in this future it could get her mind wiped clean

Comps: severance, silo, the dram hotel, chaingang all stars

The characters. Nova the stranger and Kade

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Vanessa Stefaniuk 🍂 @quietsnooze.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

RADIO SILENCE is a queer coming-of-age drama about a British rock band’s rise to fame. Forbidden romance between band members, rival rock bands, terrible people coming back from their pasts - so much drama for one tour bus! radiosilencecomic.com #WIP #YA #R #LGBT #Dis #questpit #webcomics

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Harper ✨️DVpit pinned @harperkinsley.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

🌟HEARTBREAK BOYS x MY FAIR BRADY🌟 #QuestPit #Q #YA AITA: I broke up with my cheating boyfriend (again), but we were just cast as romantic leads in the high school musical and I'm not over him! So...I asked this aroace kid on tech to teach me to "fall out of love" since shes obviously an expert

ALT: Text message chat overlay on a music studio background. Title: "Forget About The Boy" by Harper Kinsley.

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MechaniChris @chrisakins.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

EARTHLINGS! BODY SNATCHERS x THE RUNAWAYS When a 2nd generation alien sleeper cell is ordered to abduct her human friend, she saves her and goes rogue instead. Now her fellow operatives must track her down, but will the help her to sabotage the coming invasion instead? #questpit #W #YA #SF

A group of second generation aliens sleeper cells have spent their entire lives assimilating to human culture and gathering intelligence for the home world. To them, the eventual overthrow of farth has always been a distant goal meant for future generations.
Mow, when ordered to abduct and replace a human girl they have befriended, one of the alien operatives realizes that they have grown to care more for their found home and family than they do for their own people. She sabotages the abduction and goes on the run with the human girl.
Her friends are ordered to track her down, but now questioning their own mission, they find themselves wondering if the entire invasion is a mistake and if they have more in common with these Earthlings than they ever thought...

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Lesley Parry @lesleyparrybooks.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

What if medicine was illegal and you learned you had the power to heal? HEIRS OF BALANCE ANDOR x NAUSICAÄ 🌱Post-apocalypse hopepunk 🤐 Family secrets 🧬 Science-based magic ❤️‍🔥 Slow-burn romance 🥹 Found family REP: 🧠 ND 🤎 BIPOC and 🌈 LGBTQ+ characters #QuestPit #Q #SFF #RF #WritingCommunity

What if medicine was illegal...and you had the power to heal? Includes images of a group of houses in a meadow, surrounded by forest and wind turbines, a mortar and pestle with ground herbs, a pair of glowing hands, and an eco-futuristic castle with glass dome towers.

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Lesley Parry @lesleyparrybooks.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

My kids asked me what the point of is if AI is going to replace jobs. My answer? Creativity, love, and art. We aren’t alive to work. We have to support arts and culture so our children have outlets and preparation to contribute in an imagination economy. #WritingCommunity

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Lesley Parry @lesleyparrybooks.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Ever wondered what people mean when they talk about a writer's voice? I think about it as what your narrator notices. Two people can be in the same room and will show you completely different stories in the details and words they choose. How did you find your voice? #WritingCommunity #AmQuerying

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Lesley Parry @lesleyparrybooks.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

I feel like we need a little pregame #questpit where authors share pitches for feedback on the design/effectiveness. I hate the idea that someone's knowledge of marketing could outcompete incredible concepts/writing. #PracticePit anyone? #WritingCommunity #AmQuerying

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Lesley Parry @lesleyparrybooks.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

For readers who loved THE NATURE OF WITCHES, THE GRACE YEAR, and THE SCARLET ALCHEMIST: 🌿 post-collapse hopepunk 🧬 science that feels like magic ❤️‍🔥 slow-burn romance 🥹 found family HEIRS OF BALANCE REP: 🧠 ND 🤎 BIPOC 🌈 LGBTQ+ #QuestPit #Q #SFF #RF #WritingCommunity #AmQuerying

Split promotional slide on a dark navy background. Left side shows a book-cover style illustration: a silhouetted girl inside two cupped hands, standing in golden-green fields under a starry sky with swirling light. The title reads “HEIRS OF BALANCE” and the author name “LESLEY PARRY.” Right side text reads: “YA Science-Fantasy, 90,000 words. STUDIO GHIBLI meets ANDOR where healing is heresy and compassion sparks rebellion.” Handle “@lesleyparrybooks” and hashtags appear beneath.

A five-panel moodboard framed by black borders. Top-left shows two small figures standing on a hill under a dramatic night sky with the text: “What if medicine was illegal… and you had the power to heal?” Center panel shows shows glowing hands in a forest. Top-right shows an overgrown, glass-domed eco-building rising from a misty valley. Bottom-left a bright green rural settlement with wind turbines in the background. Bottom-right shows a cozy tabletop scene with a mortar and pestle, herbs, and jars, suggesting herbal remedies or healing craft.

“The Story” slide on a dark navy background with a buff watercolor brush stroke across the top. Large serif headline reads “The Story.” Body text summarizes the plot: in a post-apocalyptic world where medicine and touching the sick are forbidden, nineteen-year-old Mira Elders discovers she can heal after saving a dying child; she poses as a Watcher, finds love, is betrayed and taken to the Citadel, and learns a long-buried truth that healing caused the world’s collapse; she must choose to bury her power or use it to spark an empathy revolution.

“If you liked…” slide on a dark navy background with a buff textured brush stroke across the diagonal. Three book covers are centered across the slide: The Nature of Witches (left), The Grace Year (middle), and The Scarlet Alchemist (right). Captions beneath each read: “eco-magic + atmosphere” (left), “oppression + survival stakes” (middle), and “illegal craft + moral cost” (right).

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Lesley Parry @lesleyparrybooks.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

I love the vibes on this one. ❤️

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Crystal Lorons @crystallorons.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

AMARI x LOKI Kori, 12, finds herself stuck in a cryfest & painful menty b's after her mom dies When a meteor opens a portal, doppelgängers chase her. Kori learns their fates are bound & her grief transcends the multiverse Now, Kori must save herself — from herself! #QuestPit #MG #S #SF #Q #POC

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Author Jennifer Safrey wants an agent! @jensafrey.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

#questpit THE EXECUTIONER’S WIDOW: When the kingdom’s executioner dies, his teen son must inherit the blade. To save him, his widow disguises herself as her son and takes the post—risking death if exposed, while uncovering secrets that could destroy the crown. I’m a trad-published author. #w #rf #a

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GinaDobsonBAB @ginadobson.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

I asked for protection from my abuser & was told I had no proof. He made false claim about my miscarriage & I was arrested--also without proof. True story of being silenced by justice. #Questpit #Q #NF #M #OWN

Woman with black eye and tape over her mouth that says SPEAK

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🌱 El(iza)beth 🌬️ K 🔥 T 🌊 @elizabethtitus.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

When marauders menace her village, an empath-scholar leads an odyssey across the climate-ravaged former US to retrieve a rumored key to peace, before her people are obliterated. Clan of the Cave Bear x A Psalm for the Wild-Built 🔮 #EarthMagic #tarot 🌪️ #CliFi 🌷 #Hopepunk #S #Q #Questpit #booksky

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Gert Ramm 🦋 @rammwriter.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Ministry of Time x Life on Mars An intelligence agent from 2023 and a Russian spy from 1997 travel back in time to steal Britain’s temporal secrets. Their collision with a cynical MI5 officer from 1972 precipitates a devastating event that heats up the Cold War. #QuestPit #Q #A #T #SP #SF #HF 🦋

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Jordan McCaffrie | Author @jordanmccaffrie.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

PERCY JACKSON X GIRL, INTERRUPTED X THE NOTEBOOK (except Noah’s an incubus 😈😵❤️) Can Ava unlock her past to save the ones she loves? ✍️82K #A #F #DF 🧠Mental Health 🤬Angry girls & gods 💋Slow-burn 🐶Found family Self❤️ 🐉Retelling myths & monsters Readers say…📸👇 #questpit #Q elements of #RF #PR #H

Conversations with Readers #1;
Reader: “I am very emotionally invested in the Ava/Cole relationship already (insert crying emoji) Ima need them to work things out or I might actually cry” insert three crying emojis.
Me: “Maybe they do, maybe they don’t?” insert girl shrugging emoji.
Reader: “I will be reading tonight until I have to go to sleep,” insert nervous emoji.

Conversations with Readers #2;
Reader: “Also sorry it’s taken me a minute, today I’ve been able to sit down and actually read read and I cannot put it down!”

Conversation with Readers #3;
Reader: “Not you booping the goddess of memories” insert laughing emoji, crying emoji, laughing emoji, “I may or may not have laughed out loud in a very quiet room when I read that part” insert three laughing emojis

Conversation with Readers #4;
Reader: “I’ve been resisting the urge to text you so many times because I didn’t want to blow up your phone,” insert laughing emoji, “I’ve been out here laughing, crying, all the things.”

Conversation with Readers #5;
Reader: “The consequences were so perfect considering the (expletive) they did to get themselves there in the first place” insert OK gesture, “And I really did love it so much for real,” insert crying emoji x3 and 3 heart emojis, “I couldn’t put it down, I had to know what was happening!”

Conversation with Readers #6;
Reader: “I love Waffles so much,” insert crying emoji x3, “I just picture Oakley with two heads, growing fifteen feet tall with spikes and scary teeth,” nervous emoji, crying emoji.
Me: “Rawr” insert laughing emoji
Reader: Also (expletive) Katarina and creepy (expletive) Jeff. And Demeter for that matter.”
Me: insert laughing emojis, “Yeah they’re awful.”
Reader: “I have so many things to talk to you about, so many emotions,” (insert crying and nervous emojis).

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Kathy Ravyn // (Still) Drafting @kathyravyn.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

🌌📖 Meet Project.Booknotes, a slow-burn romance! ~ Explores fate, the universe, and soulmates ~ Stand-alone, short but sweet (40k words planned) ~ Status? Brainstorming! ~ Cozy, sweet, focus on emotional connection #QuestPit #W #R #LGBT #Writing #AmWriting #Writesky #WritingCommunity

A moodboard featuring nine photos in a 3x3 grid shape. From left to right, top to bottom:
1. A blue book with what appears to be the moon with lots of little starts on the cover. The title reads, “The Observer’s Book of Astronomy.”
2. A shot from above of folded up legs sitting down, with two feet wearing converse shoes nearby. Books lay between the two feet, and there’s a bookshelf covered in books nearby.
3. An opened book with a note in it that has a scribbled on heart.
4. Two boys, one putting his arm around the other, stare off into the starry night sky.
5. Two hands reaching for each other in between a bookshelf.
6. Blue background with lots of little white specks and text that reads, “YOU + ME FOREVER.”
7. A vast room of bookshelves covered in books. A person crouches over to pick out a book.
8. Two hands pointing at a little white dot in the blue sky.

(Pictures from Pinterest)

Short Pitch:

One fateful night at the library Oliver finds a small, worn blue book about the stars and soulmates — with a little note sticking out of it, wishing the reader a good day. Hesitantly, he decides to leave a second note.

What follows is a chain of notes between two boys talking about everything from the stars, the vastness of the universe, and fate.

Over the course of several months, Oliver finds himself wondering if soulmates are real and if his happens to be hiding in the notes between pages.

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Lesley Parry @lesleyparrybooks.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

If healing was heresy, what would you risk to save a life? In HEIRS OF BALANCE, Mira can heal with her touch and searches for answers as she runs from the law. Betrayal drags her to the Citadel… and the painful truth behind the world’s collapse. GHIBLI x ANDOR 🌱🧬❤️‍🔥 #QuestPit #Q #SFF #RF

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Sara Duran ✨is AGENTED✨ @saraduran.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Coming soon to agent inboxes! • • • ANNIHILATION x BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN 💫two exiled men (and their secrets) 💫one lunar prison (and its horrors) 💫a cosmic entity that wants them dead 💫the love they’ll lose if they don’t survive #SF #H #R #LGBT #amquerying #QuestPit

$BABEL ON CALLISTO Querying February 2025 @saraduranauthor sara.duran@bsky.social COMPS The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler, labeled “isolated research station” and “philosophical alien threat.” The Salt Grows Heavy by Cassandra Khaw, labeled “queer, visceral horror” and “love as a consuming force.” The Deep Sky by Yume Kitasei, labeled “psychological unraveling” and “fracture under mission pressure.” PITCH “On a lunar prison outpost, two exiled men uncover a cosmic presence waking beneath the ice. As their uneasy alliance against it twists into something tender and terrifying, they are confronted with the one thing they never expected to find on a dead moon: a reason to live. But the ice is thinning.” TASTE “Neither spoke as Elias bypassed the security protocol on the keypad. The metal hatch shuddered as it unlocked, slinking back to hidden panels in the wall. They cleared the first few floors with carrion precision, methodical as Dermestidae stripping a carcass to bone. In Elias’s imagination, the gore thinned into something vaster—the time-lapse unraveling the ruin from above. Wordlessly, corridors were scoured to nothing as he and Jack moved like insects beneath an overhead lens. As the hours dissolved, their work became abstracted into a cold anatomy, intimacy pared away as cleanly as flesh from the frame until only the architecture of survival remained. When Jack hacked into the collapsed doorway to the next stairwell, Elias marveled at the contradiction: how those same brutal hands had, only that morning, traced him with the delicacy of a scalpel.”$

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Lesley Parry @lesleyparrybooks.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

What if medicine was illegal and you learned you had the power to heal? HEIRS OF BALANCE GHIBLI x ANDOR 🌱 Post-apocalypse hopepunk 🤐 Family secrets 🧬 Science-based magic ❤️‍🔥 Slow-burn romance 🥹 Found family REP: 🧠 ND 🤎 BIPOC and 🌈 LGBTQ+ characters #QuestPit #Q #SFF #RF #WritingCommunity

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Lesley Parry @lesleyparrybooks.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Working on my #questpit pitch and I finally got my collage to feel like my book, "Heirs of Balance". Excited/nervous for Friday. Anyone want to exchange support? #AmQuerying #SFF #Q

The question "What if medicine was illegal... and you had the power to heal?" sits above a collage of Ghibli-esque images showing a pair of glowing hands, an eco-futuristic tower of greenhouses and stone arches, a meadow in the woods with small houses and wind turbines in the background, a mortar and pestle with herbs being ground, and a stormy sky with silhouettes of two people on a hillside.

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Lesley Parry @lesleyparrybooks.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

My next #WIP might be a fantasy retelling of The Devil Wears Prada. But without the annoying boyfriend. Ever write stories that “fix” ones you wish were different? #writingcommunity #AmQuerying #authorsofbsky

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Lesley Parry @lesleyparrybooks.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Betrayal and intrigue. Some parts are more fun to write than others, aren't they? #writingcommunity #AmQuerying #WIPSnips

The journey began in silence, and Mira’s senses focused on the sound of clopping of horse hooves and the swaying sensation of the carriage. It was over. She was going to the Citadel to who knows what fate. She thought of her Gran and her mother who had sacrificed so much for her and how she had wasted everything they had given to her. She didn’t even feel the tears streaming down her cheeks as she rested her head on the carriage.
And Raelan. I’m so stupid. She couldn’t believe she had misjudged him so completely. That she had been about to volunteer her secrets because she somehow thought he would stand by her no matter what they faced. Well, when someone shows you who they are, you should believe them, she thought. Her face crumpled and she finally released the keening wail that she’d locked inside since they’d taken her. There was no point in hiding anything anymore.

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Lesley Parry @lesleyparrybooks.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Finished my debut fiction manuscript in February this year and did my first ever round of querying. It was so demoralizing. Took a break, overhauled chapters 1 and 2 and now I'm back at it. Any advice is appreciated!! #AmQuerying #writingcommunity

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Lesley Parry @lesleyparrybooks.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

This really puts everything into perspective. #JWST

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