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lydia🐯 @lydia97.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Cobbled my final thoughts together for the excellent The River and The Star by @gromerolacruz.bsky.social !! I'm so lucky to have gotten an arc so I can yap about how much I love Gabby's debut series ❤️ You can check out my full review on my substack

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Lily Wzy is drafting a mysterious new wip @lilywzy.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

As WHEN INK SWALLOWS THE SUN begins hitting agent inboxes, here's an updated #agentsguide, ft. 🪭An eldritch craving belonging 🏹A failing chosen one 🪭A pampered heir losing it all 🏹A saboteur of her own rebellion ❤️ this post or DM if interested! #agentguide #F #A #writingcommunity

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Dani & Ash are 🏴‍☠️ editing 🏴‍☠️ @creatingryunsei.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

While Ashlea and I are working on our major rewrite of our story, I'd like to present our updated #AgentGuide This is our adult/crossover romantic fantasy with a true slow burn romance, and series potential! #WritingCommunity 📖🦋

An agent guide for The Siren's Call by Danielle Bradbury and Ashlea P Screaton. A new adult slowburn romantic fantasy.

Pitch: Delphine’s always wished for a life as romantic and adventurous as her stories. With any brief escape punished by her employer, she’s desperate to flee, if not for Otto; her best friend, and the only family she’s known. So when he is sent with pirates after a mythical map, she refuses to be left behind.

At sea, a budding romance with the Captain reveals he’s tailed by a dark past, one he’d sabotage the mission to escape. But the pirates claimed Otto’s life if anything goes wrong, and Delphine will do anything—even use the Captain’s past against him—to get the map and save Otto.

Comp Titles:

Once Upon A Broken Heart (Stephanie Garber)
- Cocky but hopelessly romantic love interest
- Selfless heroine sacrificing all for love
- Magic and myths
- Betrayal
- True slow burn romance

Dark Water Daughter (H. M. Long)
- Love interest with a scarring secret
- High stakes survival and adventure
- Looming villain
- Pirates
- Sea myths & magical creatures

Howl's Moving Castle
- Impact of societal expectations
- Power of romantic and self-love
- Steampunk elements
- Chosen family
- Taking responsibility

Summers spent in a bordello ought to have prepared Delphine better.

Though Hunter and his girls had always ensured Delphine did not see anything vulgar or unsightly, it was difficult to be ignorant when sitting around a dinner table amongst chattering girls. They told tales of their clients, giggling or rolling their eyes at wild requests from sailors. Hunter would shush them and send a pointed look in her direction, only goading them to spin even more dramatic and rather gruesome tales.

Delphine would blush, but she took the joy in their teasing gratefully; summers spent in Hunter's Bordello were only full of fond memories. But they should have prepared her better for the view she had walked in on.

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lydia🐯 @lydia97.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

loveeeee this aesthetic!!!! <3

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lydia🐯 @lydia97.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

As promised, my review for TSATV in anticipation of it's sequel coming out in October this year! So grateful to be on this street team and able to yap about one of my fave duologies of all time ✨@gromerolacruz.bsky.social is an incredible author and I can't wait for the sequel to storm the world <3

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lydia🐯 @lydia97.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

(These gorgeous illustrations are by @gromerolacruz.bsky.social herself depicting Reina, Eva and Maior, girls I would die to protect) #thesunandthevoid #theriverandthestar #thewarringgods #pridemonthreads

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lydia🐯 @lydia97.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

Did you know The River and The Star is out on Oct 7th? The first book is one of my all time faves and i am so lucky to have gotten an arc for the sequel! If you're looking for a pride month read then I'd 100% recommend The Sun and The Void, and then preordering the River and The Star 🤭🤭🌟

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lydia🐯 @lydia97.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

simple as: if you don't write your own words, from brain to page, you're not a writer. If you're using AI you don't understand what it means to be a writer. A hill I'll die on.

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Eric Smith @ericsmithrocks.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Not sure what the kid-lit community did to deserve @heykellyjensen.bsky.social but I’m glad she’s here. Just wow, what a resource. 👇🏽

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lydia🐯 @lydia97.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

omg this was so unsettling, i love it!

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Melanie is querying @melanielocke.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

#Agents I started querying my gothic Sapphic fantasy! Shadow sorceress Evelyn has been having nightmares of a monster seeking to use her powers. Together with witch Lydia she must find out what the monster wants from her, before she loses herself to it.

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lydia🐯 @lydia97.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Wait i didn't realise you only started this morning!! That's even more insane go youuu!

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Athena Kane @athenakane.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Here's my agent's guide to THIS FAITH YOU BLEED FOR, an adult gothic fan(g)tasy, complete at 104k. #amquerying

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Tom Usher @tomusher.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Hate to be millennial about it all but it is just mental that my whole working life has just been a series of recessions and “economic shocks”, underpinned by stagnant wages

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Tzeyi Koay || Fantasy Author @tzeyikoay.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

A CURSE CARVED IN INK by Tzeyi Koay, coming 2027 with @simonschusteruk and @atriabooksaus @simonschusterau ✨️

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lydia🐯 @lydia97.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

hope you're okay pal!!! but also yes direct this energy into your FMCs hehehe <3

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lydia🐯 @lydia97.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

I edited around 10,000 words of my novel yesterday and then made two (2) sheperd's pie afterwards, counting that as a solid win ☺️

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James A Lyons @jalwrites.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

So today was the official release day for my first traditionally published book. Out in Greenwood is an LGBTQ+ teen novel with humour, mixed with the emotions of realising you are gay at 15 but having to hide those feelings. Please retweet to help me get the word out.

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lydia🐯 @lydia97.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

that sounds so tough, sending love <3

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kay @kswrites.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

my pitch card for my #amquerying adult urban fantasy, FOR THE DAYS WE NEVER HAD, ft. a discontented college kid and a hopeless romantic grappling with vampires, lost gods, gangs, and shady detectives leave a ❤️/reply if interested! #writingcommunity

On the top half of the image, text on a background of an urban nightscape that reads "For The Days We Never Had", followed by text against a translucent reddish background that reads, "After Kai Le and Ai Yu encounter a mysterious entity at a bus-stand, they find themselves getting what they wanted - and more. Thrown into the world of urban legends, they have to grapple with the monsters they have unleashed, both figurative and real. Are their dreams worth losing themselves over?"; "Adult Urban Fantasy - 94k words".

On the second half of the image is a 7-Eleven at dusk, with a row of pictures over it: the book cover for Velvet was the Night; the book cover for The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue; and the anime poster for Durarara!

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a.j. parker ✨ is writing ✨ @authorajparker.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

first draft vs. last draft: “I paid a dollar for a vial of love off a woman on seventh street.” “Finn paid a pound for a vial of love off a woman on Seventh Street.”

Image: published print literary magazine

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Natalie is ✨ writing a new thing✨ @natalielouise83.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Orkney, 1909: Twenty-five years ago, men made history. Now, one woman will change it… 🔥 Feminine rage 🪢 Twisty plot 🌊 Atmospheric setting 🧜‍♀️ Fading folklore ❤️‍🔥 Vengeance and redemption 💫 Chronic illness rep (own voices) #PopUpPit #LuckyPit #A #H

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James A Lyons @jalwrites.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Here We Go Again x It's a Sin Whilst honouring his uncle's dying wish to reunite six drag queen activists, a young gay man hears the truth about his adoptive mother. With her past about to impact his future, he must choose—his uncle’s legacy or the woman who raised him. #PopUpPitA #LuckyPit

On the left, the title THE DRAGNIFICENT SEVEN is written, with the text angled vertically. To the right is a 9 square moodboard. In the four corners are images of drag queens. Top middle is an image of an LGBTQ+ rights protest in black and white. Bottom middle is a picture of a piece of colourful modern art. Middle left is a road map with a magnifying glass and set of car keys resting on top. Middle right is an image of a young man with medium length hair walking through a city at night. In the centre is a pile of newspaper cuttings with the words 'are the dragnificent seven back?" written over the top in a fake headline style. On the right hand side and acting as a background image, is a drag queen waiting in the wings.
If you use a screen reader or rely on alt text, I always aim to make picture posts as inclusive as possible. If I can improve in any way to make my posts more accessible to you, please do reach out and I will take your feedback on board for future posts.

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Katie Bailey @katiebaileybook.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

When exorcising ghosts, it helps to have a medium with a cool head and sympathetic heart. Instead, we get unlikable, snarky Constance. In a blend of horror/comedy that gets darker as it goes, traveling ghost hunters get in too deep when the dead won’t RIP. #LuckyPit #PopUpPitA #a #uf #h #spec

Cute sparkly purple background with adorable cartoon ghosts. Over it, it says “testimonials for CENTRAL AVALON” and, in speech bubbles, “SCOOBY DOO ASS FOUND FAMILY VIBES HELL YEAH -reader,” “this is a bit dark for my tastes. -literary agent,” “I didn’t entirely hate the protagonist by the end. -reader,” and “a subjective industry -literary agent”

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Victoria Lilly @victorialilly.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

My new pitch card for the sapphic gothic horror novel I #amquerying With the economy crumbling and inequality skyrocketing, what can be more pertinent than a story about proverbially eating the rich 😁❤️ #PopUpPitA #LuckyPit #adult #horror #gothic

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Luna 💫 @lunacwriting.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

THIS IS REAL, ISABEL BENES ready for #PopUpPit! (+Big 5 editor interest!) 💗Two gifted kids, now adults, falling apart… and in love? 🏠 Forced proximity 🔥 Rivals to Lovers & Slowburn 🌞 Small-town charm & summer vibes 🌸 OwnVoices Latinx, anxiety, vitiligo, & celiac disease #LuckyPit #PopUpPitA #A

A pitch card for my manuscript: This is real, Isabel Benes. It features an illustrated cover (art by me LunaCWriting) with a young woman and a young man facing each other, set against a bus window.
Below the illustration, the pitch card includes key information about the book and coms.

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Liz Davis I Querying Author @lizdaviswrites.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

The Cruel Prince X The Bone Season Call to the Wind 🚫 Forbidden Love 👩‍❤️‍👨 Friends to Lovers ⚔️ Harrowing Heists 🤴 Fighting for Freedom 🏔️ Grounded Fantasy 🪄 Elemental Magic #PopUpPitA #LuckyPit #PopUpPit #A #R #F

When her conman father threatens everything she holds dear, twenty-year-old Ellora will have to choose between saving her loyal best friend or her forbidden elvish love, in the midst of a dangerous scheme that could be the end for them all.

Fantasy vibes: Misty woods, Crown, Sword, Mountain, Cards scattering

Snapshot: hidden worlds; friends to lovers; romantic fantasy; forbidden love; against all odds

Book Playlist: Meet Me in the Woods - Lord Huron; My Silver Lining - First Aid Kit; I Followed Fires - Matthew and the Atlas

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Gwend💫lyn Vines @gwenvines.academics.blue · 17/03/2025

ARCANE x DON'T LET THE FOREST IN 🧑‍🎓A cut-throat postgrad academia w/ ⚛️engineer magic 🤌obsessive yearning 🚨unreliable narrator 📻corrupted magic tech 🩺medical ethics & consent 🩻body horror 🏆dangerous magic duels 🛠️blacksmith biceps 🌿strange plants 👤& the strange man who ❤️s 'em #PopUpPitA #LuckyPit #A #F

Pitch card for SEE IN ME THE WOLF by Gwendolyn Vines. Background top image is an anatomical diagram of a torso with left arm outstretched, bottom image is of dark nested ferns. Atop the image is a digital painting of a man with curly dark hair and medium skin tone, wearing dark green clothing and a gold hoop earring in his right ear, looking away from the camera. His hand rests atop a text box reading "When Institute graduate student Jim invents a device that could revolutionize medicine, his intoxicating suitemate Bash warns him it could be weaponized—and stops at nothing to prove his point. Are Jim's degree & the lives he could save worth staining his conscience?"

Also in the text box is the author's name and "Adult dark academic fantasy, 107k words." Below the textbox are cover images of the Netflix show Arcane (with Viktor's face), BLOOD OVER BRIGHT HAVEN by M.L. Wang, THE TWO DOCTORS GORSKI by Isaac Fellman, DON'T LET THE FOREST IN, by C. G. Drews, and RIPE by Sarah Rose Etter.

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kay @kswrites.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

ADDIE LARUE x TVD - vampires hiding their fangs - a lost god searching for identity - power-hungry gangs and dubious detectives - morally grey protagonist - regretting (?) what you wished for - realising what you truly are - in the speculative underbelly of Taipei #PopUpPitA #LuckyPit #A #F

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Ivy Lin | Querying Author @ivy-lin.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

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 #LuckyPit #PopUpPitA

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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lydia🐯 @lydia97.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

COVER OF ALL TIME!!!!!! BOOK OF ALL TIME!!!! so excited for this 🦋

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lydia🐯 @lydia97.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

THIS SOUNDS SO COOL!!! grabby hands

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lydia🐯 @lydia97.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

SCREAMING ABOUT THIS FOREVER!!!! SO PROUD OF U FRIEND!!!!! <3 <3

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lydia🐯 @lydia97.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

thanks for all the pitch love yesterday!!! <3 <3 I'm sorry if I missed yours, but i was hyping u up in spirit :)

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Gwend💫lyn Vines @gwenvines.academics.blue · 12/02/2025

BABEL x RIPE x ARCANE Desperate to study at the Institute, graduate student Jim pitches rising star Professor Tanner a device that could revolutionize—or weaponize—medicine. Tanner wants to put it in everyone's pocket...and she doesn't care who it might hurt. #questpit #A #Q #F #SF #H #SFF

Moodboard for an #amquerying manuscript featuring images of chemistry glassware; equations on a chalkboard; anatomical, botanical and medical diagrams; dark, lush foliage, and stars streaking through a night sky with long exposure astrophotography.

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Gwend💫lyn Vines @gwenvines.academics.blue · 12/02/2025

ARCANE x DON'T LET THE FOREST IN 🧑‍🎓cut-throat postgrad academia w/ ⚛️engineering magic 🤌obsessive yearning 🚨unreliable narrator 📻corrupted magic tech 🩺ethical dilemmas 🩻body horror 🏆dangerous magic duels 🛠️blacksmith biceps 🌿strange plants 👤...& the strange man who ❤️s them #questpit #Q #A #F #SF #H

A moodboard in dark tones, featuring a painting of a blond man with chin length hair in a green shirt at the center, with an X drawn across his face through which an xray of his skull can be seen. The images around him are of a university campus with gothic architecture, dark flowers and ferns, chemistry glassware, a ring of sparks, a river delta, machinery, anatomical images, and a smithy.

Text on it reads "THE BODY ABHORS A STRAIGHT LINE. FATE DOES NOT STRIKE IN A STRAIGHT LINE."

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