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Lindsay Allison

@lindsayallisonbks.bsky.social
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🩵 writer of stories in which people fall in love with the life they’ve had all along 🩷 library enthusiast 💛 Rep: Natalie Sun | HG Literary 💚 Follow along on Substack and IG @lindsayallisonbooks

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Lindsay Allison @lindsayallisonbks.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Shouting into the writing void (because I'm never here -- usually on IG!) that #camprevpit '25 is where I found the writing community I talk to the most, & of our cabin who have stuck around, 5 of us now have agents and many others have had promising times in the trenches. So you should participate!
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Revise & Resub @reviseresub.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
WELCOME TO PREVIEW WEEK! While we're waiting for our winners, let's go over what you need for camp. 1st- What is #CampRevPit? #CampRevPit came out of the 2020 Annual Contest when mental health was suffering and was an idea for how to help writers cope with rejection after winners were announced.
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Nicole Frail, Book Editor @nicolefrailedits.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Who's ready?! Or... Almost ready?? Kinda ready? Still flailing? #revpit
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Lindsay Allison @lindsayallisonbks.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Thrilled to share today that I’ve signed with Natalie Sun at HG Literary to represent me and HANNAH MCCOY TAKES A STAND!
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T. Rutherford @trutherford.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
ANTI-CHARTER CAMPAIGN: Speculative Fiction A group of elementary teachers fight a charter takeover by playing a D&D game with real-life corollaries For fans of The Grimoire Grammar School PTA, D20, and Roll for Romance Vibes and scenes in this mood board Querying Soon #BluePit #BluePit📖 #A #W
Images: apple in classroom, elementary school, man in tie with "evil corp" as nametag, hand holding money, basket of butterscotch, four friends cheersing beers, happy kids with backpacks in hallway, magic book, dice on D&D character sheets, map of PA, ants
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Dana Ripley @danaripleywrites.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
WHIP IT x PEOPLE WE MEET ON VACATION A wild child roller derby skater crashes into a situationship with a man whose determination to save his family business puts him on a collision course with her beloved animal shelter. Will she risk her heart to save what she loves? #BluePit 📖 #W #A #R
Title Page (cartoon legs in the air, wearing pale blue roller skates with pink wheels)

Agent's Guide to: Love Hits Big by Dana Ripley
Adult/Contemporary Rom-ComJaney Pfeiffer, better known as Daisy Chainsaw, cares about two things in life—roller derby and running the Little Paws animal rescue. After meeting the straight-laced Alan Monroe at a Fireball-fueled roller derby after party, she invites him for a one-night stand.

Their encounter turns into a full-blown situationship, and Janey falls harder for Alan than from a brutal hip check on the derby track. When Alan’s determination to save his family business puts him on a collision course with the struggling Little Paws, Janey must decide whether to sacrifice her heart as she races to save the animals she loves.Tropes/Vibes

Banging into love

Bisexual FMC 

MMC falls first (and fast)

Opposites attract (Dive Bar vibes vs Country Club vibes)

Friends-with-benefits with a splash of fake dating

Fighting to save what they love 

Chosen familyMood board for Love Hits Big
Clockwise, starting with upper left: Roller derby bout; roller derby jammer's booty while skating; large white dog; couple killing; Bojangles logo; couple in bed, clasping hands; wild party
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Diane Billas (she/her) queer YA author @dianebillas.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
QUEER NANCY DREW 17-yr-old Emmie is suspect #1 of a murder during her mom's book event. She needs to get her life back and not get killed in the process. 💖 Sapphic crush 🕵️ Amateur investigation 🎃 Halloween vibes 📚Indie bookstore 🐈 Store cat 🌈Queer cast #BluePit📖 #Q #YA #M #LGBT #OV
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amberjollyauthor.bsky.social @amberjollyauthor.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
When a dead woman resurfaces with the magic of Jack Frost, she’ll have to decide if revenge is worth the process of losing love and ultimately herself. 🤍❄️🥶🩸💀 -Dual timeline -Witty banter -Revenge -Love triangle with suspected killers #BluePit📖 #W #R #PN #SP #A
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Guendalina Cilli @guendalina.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
READY OR NOT X VARIATION Struggling with unplanned motherhood, ballerina Theodora won’t waste her chance as the lead of a new production. But juggling a baby, unforgiving rehearsals and the cute lawyer crashing into her life risk crushing her way before opening night #bluepit 📖 #R #A #W
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C.W. Rose @cwroseauthor.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
OUTLANDER x KPOP DEMON HUNTERS When asthmatic PT Briella’s brother vanishes, she’ll risk her last breath to find him—only to find he’s trapped in a world of sinister Chinese spirits. Her only lead? A dangerously alluring yaoguai assassin whose help can cost her life. #BluePit📖 #F #A #R #OV #POC
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Katie L. Carroll @katielcarroll.com · 13/01/2026
Cozy dystopian romance Mel may be the last person on earth, but she's got her crows and chickens, her garden, and her trips to the library. When a stranger suddenly shows up at her mountain cabin, it turns her lonely world upside-down. SUNFLOWERS AT THE END OF THE WORLD #BluePit 📖 #A #R
Work-in-progress cover for the cozy dystopian romance Sunflowers at the End of the World by Katie L. Carroll. The cover depicts a large sunflower in a painted style with a green background. The text of the title goes in a circle in the sunflower's petals.
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Jessica Fisher Riches - is Querying and Drafting @prahajess.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
The Best Kisser in Prague 🇨🇿 Expats in Prague 🇨🇿 Early-90s nostalgia 🇨🇿 A crossroads in history They're trying so hard to lose themselves; can they find each other? #BluePit📖 #W #A #R #WF
Images: young woman, old car on a Prague street, records in a store, a young man, Prague spires, a couple embracing in the snow, a tape cassette with text: The Best Kisser in Prague: Come for the beer, stay for the collision, by Jessica Fisher Riches
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Kate Cooper @authorkatecooper.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
✨Updated Agent Guide✨ She’s afraid of flying, he’s afraid of falling. When they discover a hitman for hire scheme posing as an airline, they must face their fears together. #BluePit📖 #Q #A #R
Background: top view of a table with 2 sets of hands, a map, a laptop, a camera, notebooks, and pens
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An agent's guide to Overcoming
An 89,000 word adult contemporary romance by Kate CooperBackground: top view of a table with 2 sets of hands, a map, a laptop, a camera, notebooks, and pens
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Pitch
Journalist Rowan Adams refuses to let the death of her parents define her. Charlie Shaw, a brooding photojournalist, swore off women forever after being left at the altar. Together, they interview the sole survivor of a plane crash and unintentionally uncover the airline's secret purpose as hitmen and a surprising connection to Rowan's parents. Just as they give in to the attraction they've tried to ignore, a threatening email forces Charlie to betray Rowan and destroy her chance at justice for her parents.Excerpt
Angela releases him, and I get my first look at the photojournalist every woman swoons over. His tan skin contrasts with the light blue of his button-up, the sleeves of which are rolled up to his elbows. His curly black hair and dark stubble give him a rugged look that would make me a little weak in the knees if I wasn’t already sitting.
“I’m so pleased you agreed to join us for this story! This is your partner, Rowan Adams.”
“Pleasure to meet you.” I stand and hold out my hand, forgetting it’s wet from the condensation on the iced latte I set on Angela’s desk.
“Likewise." he gives me the shortest handshake known to man before pulling back and glaring down at his wet palm.
“Sorry! I promise it’s nothing gross. Just water.” I grab my coffee and hold it up to show that I’m not a liar, but it slips out of my hand. 
Time slows as the cup tips through the air and the lid pops off. The liquid douses his bag and my favorite flats, and I clap a hand over my mouth, horrified. His expression is less than amused.Background: top view of a table with 2 sets of hands, a map, a laptop, a camera, notebooks, and pens
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Comps and tropes
Enemies to lovers, forced proximity, workplace romance, second chance at love, fear of loving again, mental health representation
Book covers at bottom of image (from left to right):
Great Big Beautiful Life by Emily Henry
The Right Move by Liz Tomforde
Marlowe Banks, Redesigned by Jacqueline Firkins
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🍄 Rowan Alexander... is writing @writerofrowan.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
John Hughes X Say Anything X Heartstopper Like the Movies is a 90s style queer love story. It has all your favorites: The New Kid The Town Punk High School Bullies Friendly Pot Dealers An old lady obsessed with John Travolta & Many More #bluepit📖 #YA #R #W #LGBTQIA #ND
Like the Movies - First row First image A blonde boy with pierced ears, looking down. He is sunlit. Wearing a white shirt. In his mouth is a cigarette. Second image is a boy wearing stripped pajamas sitting on a bench. He has dark curly hair and a cigarette in his mouth.
Second row first image a chain link fence, the background behind it is black and says Come As You Are. Second image is two joints, light and illuminated by moonlight.
Third row first image is two hands held up, flipping the bird. Second image is a pair of converse with stars scribbled on the toe.Pale blue background, with a combination of lime green hollow triangles and solid hot pink triangles, each green triangle has a slanted yellow line accenting one side. In the center there is the outline of a rectangle in pink, with quotation marks on either side. Top center is the word Snippet in lime green. In the center of the pink rectangle is a solid orange rectangle with text. The text reads 'Travis's eyes were intense as he inspected each ring. "You always wear this one," He brushed is thumb over Dustin's, before he moved to linger over a large turquoise stone. "This one is new." It didn't matter that the room smelled like burnt pizza rolls. It didn't matter that Dustin had a butter stain on his shirt, all he could focus on was this connection. He just nodded caressing a finger across the callused palm of the other boy as each ring was examined in agonizing slowness.
-Like the Movies
author tag writerofrowan.bsky.socialDark blue background. There are swathes of color on both sides, a mixture of teal, dark purple and dark pink. In the top center purple letters read The Pitch. Under those letters are words in lime green John Hughes x Say Anything x Heartstopper.
The next line states in yellow letters Content Warning: This Pitch has not been approved by the FDA. This book contains alt boys, queer awakenings, quirky side characters, and too much 90's nostalgia.
Under the content warning are words in white which read: When new relationships risk exposing his secret a small town punk must make an impossible decision -- does he keep the golden boy or risk both their lives being destroyed?
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Veronica @littlecornerreads.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
FRANKLY IN LOVE x CHRISTMAS CLASH 🥡 a restaurant kid who can only date Asians ⚔️ the boy whose family's trying destroy her parents‘ noodle shop 🧁 a cinnamon roll who bakes 🎬 fake dating ❤️‍🩹 complicated immigrant parent-child relationships 🌪️ a chaotic AAPI found family #Bluepit📖 #POC #DIS #R #YA
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Erin Burd @erinburd.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
#BluePit📖. #mh. #ya. #f. #r. Alex will do anything to protect her baby brother, include train as a knight in the guise of a boy, venture on deadly quests for the sword in the stone, and not fall for the prince. Well, maybe 2 out of 3. She’s the Man X Knight’s Tale
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Jessica BOOOOlin: Preorder Getting Hairy, out October 31! @olinj.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
THE UGLIEST MAN IN HOLLYWOOD: I (50f) was hired to ghostwrite a memoir for a former NFL player turned action movie star (56m). We kind of slept together & now he wants a relationship, but we’re too different. Also, he lives in CA & I live in MA. So I ran. AITA? #BluePit 📖 #Q #A #LGBT #R #OV
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a woman is dancing in a hallway with the words i 'm a hollywood star written below her
Alt: a woman is dancing in a hallway with the words i 'm a hollywood star written below her
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Emory Brock @emorybrock-author.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
An injured university QB and his classmate with endometriosis set out on a mission to find joy despite their body’s limitations: ✅️ List of hobbies they are interested in ✅️Try video games ✅️ Realize they are both awful at video games ✅️Do something else 🚫Stay as friends… #bluepit #A #R #OV #W 📖
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John Zeleznik @johnzeleznikauthor.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
HALLMARK by Kevin Smith x NEVER EVERS: Framed as a mix tape & set in a 90s ski town, two teens from rival schools fall in love amid their friends’ shenanigans all while working to fulfill their dreams: he as a writer, she as an Olympic skier. Male fat positive. #YA #R #bluepit #bluepit📖 #Q
Clockwise from upper left: a Jeep Wrangler, skier doing a trick, skiers, skiers relaxing, an indigo prom dress and a ski slope.
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✨Meagan Essary swears she's querying✨ @thecrumpet.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
HELLO BEAUTIFUL x SANDWICH THIS ENDS NOW: Lainey can orchestrate perfect days but can't stay put in a marriage, no matter how good the man. Only one way to quit bolting: face the cunning ex who taught her love is a disappearing trick—and who still has his hooks in her. #A #UP #Q #WF #BluePit 📖
A collage of photos: row 1 (l-r):  the interior of Yale University’s Sterling Memorial Library, showing a Gothic cathedral-like entrance;  a classic red Vermont farmhouse in winter, covered in snow, nestled among bare trees; a woman silhouetted against a frosted window, while sunlight spills through the window; row 2 (l-r): two hands reaching for each other in low lighting against a black background; a dark-haired woman floating face upwards in water, surrounded by white flowers, her eyes open; Spilled glass candle with wax still aflame, flickering against a black backdrop; row 3 (l-r): Sunlight streaming through a quiet pine forest, illuminating a narrow dirt path; black and white photo of a person gripping the back of another person’s head from behind ; a man’s hand clasping a woman’s hand showing her wedding ring, with a snow-covered fir tree in the background; row 4 (l-r): three antique keys on twine; dark green leaves, covered in dew; the title of the novel, “This Ends Now” written on a scrap of spiral-bound lined notepaper.
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Fay Irwin (pen name) @fantasyscience.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
If Andy Weir and Ali Hazelwood cowrote a novel, it would be CHEMPORTAL. In this sci-fi romcom with real chemistry, two awkward scientists living in an alternate Toronto must overcome their mutual dislike to save the world from starvation. #Q #A #SF #R #BluePit #BluePit📖
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Literate Lawyer @therealsec.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
SHEET MUSIC: When an artist manager finds herself in an unlikely romance with a decade-younger client, hilarity, heartbreak and beautiful music ensue. #bluepit📖 #A #Q #upmarket #HS #WF #SheetMusic
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Lindsay Allison @lindsayallisonbks.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Howdy! I’m Lindsay and I’m currently querying my romcom! I grew up reading The Babysitters Club, Nancy Drew, and Sarah Dessen and now I hope to be the next Emily Henry or Katherine Center. I excited to meet some other romance writers! #bluepithype #bluepit
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Lindsay Allison @lindsayallisonbks.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Feels like a good day to repost this… #sexiestmanalive
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Lindsay Allison @lindsayallisonbks.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
My silly working shorthand...
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a man with glasses and a pen in his pocket is standing in front of two ghosts
ALT: a man with glasses and a pen in his pocket is standing in front of two ghosts
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Lindsay Allison @lindsayallisonbks.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
ready for some prompts!!
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Lindsay Allison @lindsayallisonbks.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Congrats to @jademasonwrites.bsky.social! Hoping her talent and luck rubs off on the rest of us!
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Lindsay Allison @lindsayallisonbks.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
The great #10queries feedback I got is the result of lots of hard work and revision over the last year. Here are my other query critiques from March. Since then I completely wrote my whole book and rewrote my query multiple times. Keep going and thank you for your help, @reviseresub.bsky.social!
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Lindsay Allison @lindsayallisonbks.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
All that to say -- writers, get involved with @reviseresub.bsky.social! It's FREE and everyone is NICE and HELPFUL!
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Lindsay Allison @lindsayallisonbks.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
I hoped this was mine, and it was. 🥲 After 26 form rejections, I was losing confidence in my query package, but my gut was telling me I just haven't put it in front of the right person yet. THANK YOU @mariatureaud.bsky.social for confirming that hope! #10queries #revpit
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Lindsay Allison @lindsayallisonbks.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Soooo many #10queries fantasy works! Where are my romance pals?! 😅
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Lindsay Allison @lindsayallisonbks.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Woohoo excited to check in throughout today for all the querying tips! (And to try to find HMTAS's critique 👀)
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Lindsay Allison @lindsayallisonbks.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
The URGE I have to send some more queries even though I'm gonna get #10queries feedback in three days. Be strong. Hold out! You can do it, Linds!
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Lindsay Allison @lindsayallisonbks.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
It me 😉 Classical musicians 🤝 figure skaters
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Lindsay Allison @lindsayallisonbks.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
Ahh! I had bad WiFi when I checked my email earlier and assumed I didn’t win the drawing, but it turns out I did! Super fun surprise!
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Lindsay Allison @lindsayallisonbks.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
I just entered #RevPit #10Queries. Enter now for a chance to win free feedback on your query and 1st 5 pages! RevPit has been such a great resource and has introduced me to so many great writing friends! Hope I get picked for this! 🤞
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Lindsay Allison @lindsayallisonbks.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Such a fun premise!
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Lindsay Allison @lindsayallisonbks.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
You know I love a love triangle with a second chance!
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Lindsay Allison @lindsayallisonbks.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
If you wanted THE COMPOUND to be more romantic, here you go! 😘
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Lindsay Allison @lindsayallisonbks.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
😍 this art captures them perfectly!
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